Magnetic Fields reverberated its way on to my radar back when I was in India last year as a load of people I met through working on GOAT festival had been and come back to Goa raving about it… A weekend music festival set not just in a palace,…
Whilst I lived in Arambol last time, the Saturday Night Market in Arpora, Goa was one of the main weekly social events I went to. The first time I went I couldn’t believe the scale of it and how well it was organised… I was expecting some kind of…
I’ve had hot Christmases before, once when I was tiny and living in Cyprus and once when I was 9 in Australia, but they have always with my mum & dad so last Christmas when I was in Goa was my first ever proper orphan Christmas as it…
A state wide booze ban for election week, no wifi, a broken foot, licensing issues, resizing of venue two weeks before the festival, drastic downsizing, cutting artists, haggling, delhi belly, another change of venue 1 week before the festival, a case of typhoid, language barriers, power cuts and…
On Saturday (incidentally, Small Business Saturday!) I popped round the corner to check my friend Beth’s new venture, The Bzzaar Christmas Maker’s Market – a treasure trove of carefully curated makers, artists and designers. The wares on sale include, amongst other things, handmade ceramics, screen prints, original artwork,…
I planned to come to Goa straight after Mumbai to acclimatise bit and chiiiiill out on a beach for a while. After the most horrendous 13 hour bus from Mumbai (…seriously that’s another story), getting off at the wrong stop and then having the most wonderful and ridiculous good…
Think of all the visual treats you’re greeted with whilst walking through a festival… the stage design, the murals, the installations, the signage, the things hanging in the trees! Festivals wouldn’t be the same without them. If you’ve ever wondered who the designers and fabricators working all hours…
Halloween doesn’t have to be all blood, gore and peeling skin… I’ve compiled this selection of my favourite sparkly Halloween glitter make-up inspiration into four different amazing looks. Perfect if you wanna look freaky (cause it’s halloween!) but also not re-create this Mean Girls moment… Credits and links…
A mainstay in my festival calendar, Love Saves the Day is a two day festival in my adopted hometown of Bristol that has heralded the start of my festival season for the past 5 years now (wuuuut!)
I’m back in Bristol picking the very last bits of mud and glitter out of my clothes, wondering when it suddenly became Autumn and finishing the mammoth task of approximately a billion blog posts that haven’t made it past the draft folder because i was too busy frolicking…
