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Saturday 28 May 2016

The Glyndebourne Experience: With an Anthropologie Garden Party

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I have lived in the UK now for nearly 14 years and I had pretty much thought I had seen it all when it comes to the social scene in this part of the world. However, earlier this week I had a true "pinch me" moment in being exposed to what has officially become my favourite social event of the summer. Picture this: a country house, men in tuxedos, women in gowns, picnic tables spread out across lush green lawns surrounded by fields of frolicking sheep, champagne flowing freely and an opera house waiting to provide you with stellar entertainment for the evening. Such is the way of life for those who frequent The Glyndebourne Festival Opera

We made our way out to Glyndebourne on a Thursday afternoon. I was invited by Anthropologie, to take part in the night to remember and we were to have a few surprises from the brand along the way. Our train departed London Victoria at just after two and we arrived at Lewes station at just after three. It's about a 5-10 minute cab ride to the actual house, so our feet officially set onto the grounds at around 3:30. While the opera doesn't actually start until 5:30, guests arrive early to set up elaborate picnics with friends and family on the surrounding lawns of Glyndebourne. 

Our picnic, we learned, had been set up for us already. Upon arriving, we were led through the beautiful countryside to our table and chairs, which had been set up with a view of the beautiful lake on the grounds. We were most certainly spoiled with a table set by Anthropologie for the occasion. Glyndebourne's own champagne was being poured upon arrival and we sat and took in the beauty of our surroundings as we sipped and marveled at how 14 years had passed and somehow never before had this been a part of FFG's official summer event calendar. 

To start with, it should be said that The Glyndebourne Festival Opera is not an event people take lightly. This is a serious night out, from planning one's attire to inventing the perfect three course meal to accompany your pre-opera, intermission and post-opera socialising. I, as you might expect, wore all Anthropologie (all details of outfit and table settings below). Compliments were passed back and forth between the women in attendance on their ensembles. My choice of a bold yellow seemed to go down a treat with the regulars. And, as one would expect, our table setting received a great deal of attention. I think we were most definitely classified as "women in the know" with a set up that was on par with the finest of diners in the area. The only thing I wished we had brought was a set of candles. Yes, there were dozens of diners that took the opportunity to make this a romantic evening, complete with a dining experience by candlelight. I can't possibly put across in words how very Jane Austen this whole experience is. It truly does feel as if you have stepped back in time in one of the most romantic centuries in existence. I could have stayed there forever. Alas, the night's true entertainment was just ahead.

At 5:30pm, the bells rang to alert guests that the Opera was about to begin. We left our table and picnic basket and made our way over to the concert hall. Naturally, we stopped for one glass of champagne with friends on the grounds before making our way to our seats, just in the nick of time. The opera of the night was Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and let me just tell you that we had been forewarned that we would be seduced by Figaro's swaying hips. Hips aside, I was completely seduced by the whole experience itself. The opera is truly a beautiful form of art that I do believe everyone should experience at least once in their lives. This emotional rollercoaster ride, all shared through song on the stage, is beautifully set to live music from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and saw much laughter, many tears and more than one moment of true and complete adoration for the talent displayed on stage. Before we knew it, however, the production had come to a halt to allow us all to rejoin our picnic parties and indulge in the beautiful picnics that had been provided by Glyndebourne for the evening. 

Awaiting us at our Anthropologie picnic table was a surf and turf setup. Didn't I tell you this wasn't your ordinary picnic? My guest and I shared plates of lobster and beef, with sides of fresh tomatoes with mozzarella and new potatoes. Dessert was a very typical english setup - strawberries and cream, as well as an elaborate cheese plate. And of course all of this was being washed down with more decadence - champagne. See where I'm going here with the "pinch me" moment. With the British sun setting over the patchwork hills of England and the sounds of lambs roaming around the fields, this just couldn't possibly have been a more incredible moment to remember. 

As 8:30 came around we were once again summoned into the Opera House to see how this epic romance would end. Now, it must be said that there is a reason why Glyndebourne itself seems so hopelessly romantic from the start. It's foundation is actually found in a love story. In the early 1900's,  John Christie, owner of the manor since 1913, was holding regular amateur opera nights in the organ room on the estate. This is a room you can still enter today on the grounds. In 1931, soprano Audrey Mildmay attended one of the evenings and left with the owner's heart. Christie and Mildmay were married that June and during their honeymoon they attended several opera festivals in Europe, which gave them the idea to start one of their own at Glyndebourne. 80 years later, here we stand. 

Of course, a lot has changed in 80 years. For starters, Glyndebourne receives 100% of the energy needed for the company from a wind turbine on site. And, what started out as a relatively small gathering of people has evolved into a theatre that now hosts 1200 guests for each performance. Ticket prices, I imagine have increased as well, ranging now from £10-300 now, and selling out regularly. Although that doesn't mean Glyndebourne isn't constantly trying to engage the masses. The opera tours around the country, as well as showcasing performances in 200 cinemas. They even have a special scheme for the under 30s to try and attract and keep a younger audience. They've thought of everything. 

People of the world - this is an experience not to be missed. I must say it now has an official place on my calendar, whenever I can get tickets!

Thank you, Glynebourne and Anthropologie, for a true night of magnificent memories. 

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Friday 6 May 2016

Duncan Mighty shares adorable photos of his son

Duncan Mighty & his wife welcomed their baby boy back in November last year. The Music Star shared some cute new photos of his son via Instagram today. See more photos after the cut...



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Is there anything you are believing God for ?

Prayer is the Master Key' may be cliché, but we are yet to see any key that can open every door, create amazing opportunities or overcome even the most insurmountable challenges, like prayer does. With prayer, all we can do is win!!!

Are you a woman; wounded, reproached, shamed, suffered great loss, pained, in sorrow, disappointed, failed, perplexed and troubled on all sides? Is everything and anything around you falling apart or seem to be falling apart? You may or may not have done anything wrong dear child and daughter of the most High God.
The obvious truth is that a man born of a woman is of few days yet full of trouble ‘WHY’ life is just 'battle personified'.
Come and let us confront every of our confrontations and the devil will be put to shame again and again. The devil hates it when we pray, so too bad for him, we will be taking it all to the Lord in prayer.
We believe that when women come together there is exceptional grace, miracles, Salvation, deliverances, open doors and what have you in every area of our lives.
We all need plenty of help as individuals, families, Nigerians and the World as a whole, whatever affects a woman affects everything and anything.
Women are  just unique and God is very passionate about them and even made no secret of it in His earthly  , they get to every detail, persistent and fearless and will never  take 'No' for an answer.

Why not join a host of other women at The King’s Court, 3, Keystone Bank Crescent, Off Adeyemo Alakija St. Victoria Island, Lagos on Friday May 13th from 5.00pm to 8pm and Saturday May 14th from 10.00am to 3.00pm.

Ministering in music: Nathaniel Bassey, Efe Nathan, Obiwan, Lively Stones, and Sounds of Many Waters.Enquiries: 08076643760; foundationsofsapphires@yahoo.com


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New music - Cyprex - My Time

DG Records is back again. DG records, known for discovering and promoting talents in Nigeria from the likes of Humble Smith, the Osinachi crooner.

DG records presents a new single from her recently signed act, Cyprex. Cyprex debuts his career with this contemporary tune tagged, "My Time".



LISTEN & DOWNLOAD


LINK: CYPREX - MY TIME (http://ift.tt/1rZPaww)

Connect on Twitter:

@dg_records_ent; @cyprex_fans



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Video premiere : ZTM all stars - Your body

Zebes Train Music All Stars artists come together to drop a smashing hit "YOUR BODY" after dropping the audio few months back through popular demand they brought this electrifying video shot by Remote Pictures.
The song was produced by TU2 beats mixed and mastered by Da Kinx.

Enjoy!

VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDVhOl1gciM

FOLLOW ON TWITTER: @alvanbrown | @cheezychi | @rollybaba_ztm

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Thursday 5 May 2016

What did Prince tell Charly Boy before he died?

Read Charly Boy's article below.. 
The past few weeks has really been memorable for those who love and appreciate the musical icon, Prince. He's still mourned by many around the globe. He motivated and shaped many stars into what they have become today. Part of the numerous celebrities and ordinary people whom Prince touched, is our own CharlyBoy The AreaFada. This is what CharlyBoy had to say about the brief encounter he had with Prince.

"It was way back in the early eighties as a groupie with a backstage pass. In the same room with Prince? I may have walked away that night with only a handshake, but it was a handshake that changed my life for the better. It awoken a desire to be an entertainer like this Demi god that just shook my hand. From that night, I became an avid fan. I read and followed any news on him, I listened with wrapt attention. The more I researched him the more I fell in love with him, you can take that literally. If I ever had any gay tendencies, he would have been the one I would have given my body to, even though Prince wasn't gay. That's how deep my love is for this beautiful soul. Rumors circled him because he had such a defiantly outlandish persona with a sexuality as ambiguous as it was voracious. Oh my Prince"

In the loving memory of the late Prince, CharlyBoy is out with a tribute song for his late idol, Prince. A highlife rendition of one of Prince's popular songs, "Kiss"  Typical of Charlyboy he has decided to make his version free and available to all, insiders are seeing this gesture as a teaser to CharlyBoys great come back move to his first passion, music. Rumour is agog that The AreaFada is in the process of releasing an EP cd of his current songs where he featured some notable top Naija artiste. Listen and enjoy The AreaFada's version of KISS by the late Prince.


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'Stop using our music during your campaign'- Rolling Stones issues warning to Donald Trump

Legendary British band, the Rolling Stones have issued a statement to US presidential candidate Donald Trump saying that he does not have permission to use the band's music during any of his campaigns or rallies.

Donald Trump has been playing their songs at his rallies for months with their 1969 hit 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' being a particular favourite.

“The Rolling Stones have never given permission to the Trump campaign to use their songs and have requested that they cease all use immediately,” a spokesperson for the legendary British band told TIME Wednesday.
Trump has been known to play at least two other songs by the Rolling Stones at his rallies: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Brown Sugar.” A campaign volunteer told the New Yorker in February that Trump personally curated the playlist, which also includes Elton John and music from “Cats” and “The Phantom of the Opera.”

It's not the first time a popular musician has distanced himself or herself from Donald Trump. In February, Adele released a statement distancing herself from the Billionaire businessman.

The singer issued a statement making it clear she had "not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning," .

Neil Young, Tyler and Aerosmith have also warned Trump to stop using their music.

Trump is now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, after his last Republican rival John Kasich quit the race on Wednesday.

Source: TIME / BBC

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Saturday 20 February 2016

Why dont you blog anymore?






I've been sitting on this question for a while while I get my head around the ins and outs of why I so rarely post on this site anymore. It's not for lack of love or ideas... I just feel so overly focused on my Youtube channel the spare moments between editing and shooting videos leaves very little time for me to do this. It's silly because I could easily knock a post together within a few hours and it be done, but I'd much rather spend that time thinking about my next video or finding a stupid meme to post over on my Twitter.

I do want to start off with saying I do love blogging, It is after all where my whole online journey started. As someone who has been blogging for over 7 years now (full time for 4) I knew near the end of 2015 I needed to challenge myself again. I became complacent with my place in the blogging world and go back to making content I wanted to see.

I've never faked myself online. While I obviously censor a lot of my life, especially a lot of my personal life (purely because I don't feel it's something I want to share with strangers). I've always been that girl with the messy hair, swears like a fishwife and drinks too much at the weekend. Im 25 for gods sake and even though I have those granny days and days where I want to do nothing but cry I think that my life is whatever I want it to be. I have so much freedom as an adult that I don't know why I worried so much about what I looked like online.

7 years on and I've gone back and captured some of that feelings I had as teenager I was when I started. I still love music and art, way more I'll ever love fashion and beauty but that doesn't mean it's not a huge part of whats shaped me as a person in the last couple of years. I never wanted to work in the fashion and beauty industry, I get so many emails asking how to get into the beauty and fashion industry but I dont consider myself part of it at all. Social media, sharing and creating has always been my focus when being a blogger. Not the writing part or the freebs or the money - I've always used being online to share photographs and imagery that reflect me.

I can't recall a catalyst of me deciding that I was fed up with trying to keep up with everyone else and trying to do what they do online. The blogging life doesn't interest me so I decided to move away from London and focus on the part of blogging I enjoyed - the creating part.

I used to consider myself "good" at blogging. I loved photography and creating imagery and then being able to share my thoughts freely with like minded people. I enjoyed it and in turn the love that I put into my website and then the love I got back made me feel like I was doing well. I've never been a strong writer but I always felt that I was able to visually get my point across. When blogging when commercial I felt like it was something I was never going to keep up with. Call me a little bit anti- establishment but I hate editorial style blogs, they just ooze glossy which while I know some people live like that my like is a teetering mess between being my flat looking like it's been hit by a bomb and wearing matching underwear. I'm a proper hippy at heart who grew up with very little boundaries which I am very thankful for. Fitting in was never my main priority growing up but why as a twenty something was I so hell bent on fitting into a cookie cutter blogger mold.

I was so uninspired by blogging and everything it was offering me I decided to stop focusing on it and do me the best way I could. I actually very rarely read blogs anymore unless I'm looking for information on a product or a bit of light relief. I adore blogs that have a point to them or a story, ones that make me laugh or make me nod along thinking yup, I so agree. The rise of Instagram cut out the what I wore today bridge of outfit posts and now I consume most of my imagery over on Instagram and Twitter means I'm constantly updated with pics of whatever exotic location someone has jetted off to. Theres just so many options out there these days for curating your own content I always ponder if there is even a need for a platform like blogging. I do think it has it's place but I dont know what that is really.

I'm always a firm believer that if you want to do something then you make time to do it. There's no if's and buts, if you want to do something you will no matter how hard it takes.

I switched to making three videos a week early this year and it's been one of the most fulfilling experiences I've had in a long time. I find it a challenge to think and create on the spot within a very short time frame. I love seeing my views go up each month as well as that little sub count growing and growing. Mainly because I feel like I'm earning it again. I feel like I'm creating something I love and in turn people love that. Nothing compares to the buzz of your blog, channel or Instagram growing at a steady consistent rate. To me that's more fulfilling than anything I've experienced in a long time.

I'm so behind on the YT game compared to others, and to be honest I feel like I've only just started out on the platform, despite having 197k subs. I thought I used to care how I was doing in comparison to others but now I'm so happy just focusing on me and my stuff. Making videos that I love and want to watch rather than trying to get praise and love off other bloggers who's videos I probably didn't enjoy in the first place.

I think the point is I stopped finding blogging challenging and in some part as engaging as I used to that's why it's cooled down over on these parts and I've been more active on social media and Youtube.

I find it sad so many people out there don't take the time to learn new skills and improve their videos or blog posts creatively. I know that it's hard learning new things, especially as an adult but no one ever woke up and was a photoshop wizard! Taking a hour or so a day to learn a new editing technique or photography skill can take your creativity from 0 to 100 real quick. Plus is so rewarding knowing how to do something new!

Everyday when I'm editing a video or filming something I learn something new and exciting to further myself creatively and be able to produce content that I think is the absolute best it can be.
I've kinda just word vomited here so I hope it makes sense. The point is I've cooled off blogging a bit because I'm enjoying making videos more than I am blogging. I have a backlog of outfit posts, tons of half written ideas and thoughts that I do want to work on at some point but who knows when I will. I've not stopped blogging I just haven't really figured out what I want to post on here yet and I'd rather post something half decent compared to something quick and half arsed.

Regardless, Like I said, I make videos over on my Youtube three times a week and I focus a lot on curating my twitter feed like a micro blog. I do want to get back into consistently posting on here but when that will be I dont know. Im still working on that area. So if you stick around cool, if not then I'm glad you subbed to this blog in the first place. Youre all awesome no matter what. Peace.






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Thursday 18 February 2016

Spotify is handing out FREE Chromecasts, here's how to get one



MUSIC streaming service Spotify is handing out free Google Chromecast devices to premium subscribers.

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Sunday 14 February 2016

John Suchet, Margherita Taylor and Alan Titchmarsh pick their best-ever TV theme music



WHEN it comes to the best-ever TV theme music, these Classic FM DJs are in the know.

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Thursday 4 February 2016

Apple iTunes not working – music and App Store users facing issues



APPLE'S iTunes and App Store is down causing issues for some customers.

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Monday 1 February 2016

Apple Music search NOT working: Glitch leaves users unable to look-up artists, tracks



APPLE MUSIC subscribers have been left unable to search within the music streaming app, leaving much of the service impossible to use.

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