The Clubbing Years : Goodbye Cruel World

It started out as a regular Monday night, I ran the kids around, took part in #commschat and then fell into a regular Skype with Claire and Ryan. Our conversations are often random but always entertaining and tonights theme of 90's clubbing anthems sent Claire and I into a frenzy and Ryan off to bed...

What can we say? She didn't live in England in the 90's but we did and we were clubbers!

We banded tracks back and forth for a while before deciding we needed an ultimate playlist. We fought over a few and ended up sharing more than we should but that cements our friendship even more. It's all about the music...

Make the world go round - Sandy B

Take Me Away - True Faith

Move Your Body - Xpansions

Shine On - Degrees of Motion

Don't You Want Me? - Felix

Take Me Away - True Faith

Made in Two Minutes - Bug Kann and the Plastic Jam

Temperature Rising - PKA

Professional Widow - Tori Amos (Van Heldon Mix)

This post is to my 90's crew. You know who you are.... Julie, Robin, Beckley, Mav, Fi, Ali, Kaim, Ann, Naomi... to long weekends... Goodbye Cruel World, Vague, Back to Basics, Gift from the Gods & whatever John's club in Derby was called!

Happy days!

Claire has a linky over on Bad Fiction. Indulge yourself!

I know that there are many more tracks that I should have included here. Keeping it to 10 is tough but I leave you with a 'Quality Josh Wink Moment' that will always remind me of a certain lady who I met at the best 90's club round these parts... Goodbye Cruel World.

Higher State of Consciousness - Josh Wink

If you have any suggestions of track I should have included please do comment and I'll add it to our Spotify playlist.

English National Ballet & Flawless

I've had a wonderful day today. A little out of the ordinary for a Sunday but totally awesome...

By 9am I was standing outside the stage door at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham where Biba, along with other Dance Activate pupils was taking part in a workshop with the English National Ballet cast of Against Time.

If you haven't heard about it, Against Time is an innovative English National Ballet collaboration  with the street crew Flawless, that is simply amazing.

So our day began with a workshop led by some of the company dancers.

Leicestershire Dance Activate at the ENB workshop

Biba in the ENB workshop

The workshop was a great experience for all of the children. I used to love these company workshops when I was a teenager. There's nothing more exciting for an aspiring dancer to see how the professionals roll and following the workshop we got to sit in company class. I'll let my photographs do the talking...

Then it was time to meet the guys from Flawless and I have to say that they were exactly that. They signed autographs for all 35 of our children, posed for photos and were just fab.

But what about Against Time?

It's breathtaking in it's innovation. A simple fusion of modern and traditional styles come together to produce something that's actually so far out of a traditional ballet realm that it should crash and burn, but it doesn't. Instead it results in something spectacular, exciting, thrilling and modern. The whole cast steps up to the mark, the ENB girls get low down and dirty and respect to the Flawless guys for their partnering skills.

I do have a slight niggle to an otherwise perfect show though and that comes in the form of one of my fave all time tracks, House of Pain's Jump Around... 

I really do think that in a show that's going to be seen by a LOT of underage kids then the radio edit of a track with the F word in it really should be used.

A small niggle because English National Ballet's collaboration with Flawless really is exactly that... Flawless.

Go see it.

For information on Leicestershire Dance Activate classes see here.

Thanks to @FlawlessUK for giving me a RT on the above pic. It made my day!

Awesome new Dr Martens Boots from Cloggs

I was over the moon when I was approached by Cloggs to ask if I would like to write a review of their store and as I regular to their site I was eager to oblige. 

My shoe of choice? A pair of Dr Martens obviously but not just any old Dr Martens, no the beautiful new super soft chalky colours that I blogged about a couple of months ago... in Blackcurrant...

I've bought many pairs of shoes from Cloggs over the years and I subscribe to their newsletter so that I can take advantage of their great offers. 

Now that the girls feet are getting big they are my favourite choice for school shoes (Dr Martens of course) and their service is swift, efficient and you can even pay by Paypal. It doesn't really get any better.

Now to my beautiful Blackcurrant Cartegena Boots... what can I say?

I LOVE them...

Pictured, me left : Blackcurrant Dr Martens Pascal boots : £84.99 from Cloggs.co.uk

Betty, top : 3/4 length Dr Martens boots (a hand me down!)

Biba, bottom right : Pink patent Dr Martens boots as worn at Cybher £72.99 from Cloggs.co.uk

*Disclosure* I was sent the Blackcurrant Dr Martens boots by Cloggs. I bought the patent pink boots with my own cash:)

Cybher : Silent Sunday

For Silent Sunday!

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