Latitude, The Dickies, Hookers and Babies

Getting into Latitude was the most fun I've had in a long time, it was all totally amazing, although a lot smaller than I thought it'd be. We managed to get past security, after being sent to a million different places and telling a million different lies. We walked around for a few hours, ate some Thai food and went to this awesome ethnic tent where we brought a gem stone, some brass mirrors and two candle lanterns. It was amazing in there!
None of the main bands that were on were any good, so we went to the stage where my dad had his PA equipment, but it was in total darkness. After stumbling about between the sofas for a bit trying to get across (the whole stage was set out like a front room) we finally spoke to someone and found out there was a power cut across half of the festival.
Once the power had come on again we stayed and watched this really amazing band, they were African blues, which admittedly, the sound of it doesn't appeal to me, but they were seriously talented and sounded amazing.
After that we spent a few hours packing the sound equipment away, falling over and stepping in huge mud piles a lot, but I have to admit it was fun.

Main stage

Ethnic shop tent

Phallic instrument - well you know what they say about black men.

Then a few nights after I set up for The Dickies, they were great and the whole night was awesome, apart from the end. We'd just finished packing the equipment away. I was stood on my own and this guy came up to me, who was clearly at least very drunk, and goes "Alright darlin', alright, darling, alright, want some money darling?" I thought I knew what he meant, but I didn't want to believe it, so I just shook my head and walked away. Then just as I was getting into the van to go, he comes up again and goes "100 quid" and winks at me. Who offers a 16 year old girl money for sex! Dad then asked me what he said to me, and when I told him I had to hold him back from beating him up. Some people are so sick.

And finally, we have a new member to the family! Baby Benjamin! I hate babies but he is so cute! My new little cousin :)

Dealthy Hallows

Unless you've been living under a rock the past week, as you will know the final instalment off the Harry Potter trilogy came out on Friday. Despite being a huge fan, I wasn't able to make it to the midnight showing. However I did see it the morning it came out, and I have to say it was the best yet. It didn't stay true to the books, which was disappointing, though it was still amazing and I can't wait to see it again (Saturday hopefully!)

This week has been a good one so far, Monday I set up for James Spankie and The B.Goodies at The Swan pub, aside from the gig being fantastic (it was a warm up gig for the Latitude Festival this weekend) I saw the most amazing Rat Car outside.

 Sorry for the bad photos, I only had my phone camera on me. It was an old VW Beetle, which are the most beautiful cars in existence, that had been completely destroyed (paint chipped off, massive dents, back seats taken out, and what looked concerningly like bullet holes), and then decorated with all manor of awesome things. I couldn't get a photo off the inside, and that felt a bit too much like invading their privacy, but the whole of the inside was painted purple and covered in millions of band stickers, they'd replaced the gear stick with a frankensteins head, and covered the seats in cushions.

My dad has actually agreed to get me a classic car and let me do this to it for my 17th birthday! So I better start drawing designs.

Anyway, so that gig was awesome, if you haven't heard of James Spankie, go look him up, he's frustratingly talented! Tuesday night I'm helping with the sound for The Dickies, which will be fantastic as they're such a great band. Hopefully I'll remember my camera this time.

Tonight I'm going to try and sneak into Latitude. My dad's got equipment there, so we're going to turn up a few hours early to collect it, and demand to be let in as we are 'with the BBC'. Dad's already managed it once this week, and spent the day there for free. Again, I'll try and get photos, but that might be hard to do whilst being inconspicuous, after all, I'm supposed to just be a techy.

Photography Exam

A few weeks ago I had my photography GCSE exam, it didn't go as well as the mock exam unfortunately, but I'm still please with how things turned out for something so last minute. The theme was similarities and differences, so I chose to do differences between sisters, mixed with a theme of light VS dark, winter VS summer. I displayed this through obvious appearance differences, the colour of our dresses and make up, the styling of our hair and the warm and cold colouring of the photos.

Model: Harriet Ward

Model: Charlie Ward (me)

Final pieces:

5 Months Resolution

I've decided that my half-way-through-the-year-resolution (that's a thing, right?) is to start blogging. I can't promise that I'll be good at it, or that I'll stick at it, but here goes. Once I start college, or 6th form, I guess it'll be a lot easier, as I'll actually be getting dressed nicely every day, and doing something, where as right now study leave consists of PJs, food and revision.

My grandma has started giving me her old clothes. This dress is from the 30's she thinks, which makes it around 80 years old, which I find so amazing. It's very fragile and has marks under the arms from where she's repaired some tearing, but other than that it's in perfect condition. I would love to know more about the history off the dress, if anyone knows anything about the makers I would love to know.

She also gave me this wonderful vintage crop top, it's such an adorable hippy piece (she's a big old hippy my Gran), I think it's perfect for the festival season. It's made from a really thin and soft material, and the detailed floral embroidery is so summery.