Here goes.

1. FESTIVAL HUNT.
Bim are on the look out for festivals to slide around in and play our music at this year. If you know of a particularly awesome festival that we should play, throw it in the comments box and we’ll get on it.

2. & 3. ANIMALS
Remeber that post I did with the guinea-pig hairslide? Reid Peppard, the 23-year-old fine art graduate with an appetite for taxidermy had a proper, good, English, down to earth chat to Vice about making accessories out of stuff her cat brings in.

In other animal news, Topshop have gone all Red Riding Hood for their new collection. Aw, man. I wish I had a fox to put on my head.

4. CHARITY SINGLE. Only, kind of, not annoying and full of chumps.
I’m talking Imogen Heap’s improvised charity single for Great Ormond Street that she credits the audience for creating with her.

I get that tingly feeling about improvised stuff. It’s exciting. Especially so if it’s Imogen Heap who’s pumping extraordinary ethereal sounds. There’s something very special about collaboration, art and chance. Explored very bravely and successfully here. Immi, I salute you. : )
It’s only £1 and it’s beautiful. Buy it!

5. PHOTO !
A snap, courtesy of Trent Mc Minn, at our band’s first gig on 11th Feb with our electro line-up.

That’s all folks.

xxxx

I have just left the studio due to abdomen-toning fit of hiccups. My laptop is bobbing on my stomach. Peep.

Talking of the studio. Tim and I have been in there for the last few horas making sweet sweet bimmusic.com. Been working on a BRAND NEW song, The Sun You Love, and getting over excited about big harmonies (which usually winds up with Tim throwing some variant on Justin-owwww-style falsetto on the track – not tonight unfortch. Will probably happen in tomorrow’s sesh. Vid blog to follow.)

Hiccups! Arg. How do you make them go away?

Anyway, on my general hunts to find fun and quirky beef to wear on stage (not actual beef, obv, unless it was seriously gnarly.) And I found THIS:

OH MY GOD! How good is that?! I also found THIS:

Yes, it really is a guinea pig on a hair comb. With garnets for eyes. No, I don’t think we should go into it either.

ANYWAYYY. They’re by very strange and wonderful designer Reid Peppard and I definitely need some pigeon wings on my head when my birthday party happens in an unknown but extremely rad and happenin’ place full of cooler people than you have ever seen on the 19th September. (MY actual birthday is the same as PRINCE Ginger! Woot! No, not him, HIM!.)

Loves x