summer breeeeeeze!

Writing this with the door open, a gentle breeze wafting my washing on the line....I know it's sign that I should get out more but few things make me happier than being able to hang out the washing....actually forget I said that, makes me sound tres tres tragique, non?

Slightly subdued though today as Liza and Ima went back to Canada for probably quite a few months; the boys will miss them LOADS and so will I, they're like family now...Ima has a new skin-tone costume in rubber that makes her look like a five foot real life doll (prolly 5'8 in heels!!) and I really hope customs don't find it/DO find it! cos it's going to be such a funny story.....after the event!!

Went to see Patrick Wolf at the Astoria the other night which was incredible! I love him, and have known him since he was about 12 years old (jonathan and I were talking about him and Bishi the other day at one of our coffee mornings and how we met her at Pig Lingo, I met Patrick out and about at gigs....and we thought how we weren't doing ANYTHING cool at 12!!! How fabulously precocious they were!!). Anyhoo, the crowd went MENTAL and adore him, and it's so well deserved, he was always going to be huge, it was just a case of when....My favourite moment was when he and Bishi did the Marianne Faithful/Patrick track "Magpie" which is on the new album - go out and buy it IMMEDIATELY!!!!!

Mark Eley swung by on Thursday in his g-wizz which is printed all over in the "flash" print which has become a modern classic and seems to work on any scale - and they're environmentally friendly too!!! And you can buy one!!!!!!!!!

This next week I start rehearsing with my band again after Daren's back from holiday, and in a shameless act of self-promotion I can announce that we've just had our cds pressed, available of course from Shop at Maison Bertaux!

See you soon, Jessica Ogden's summer APC collection arrives this week so hope to see you for some crisp cotton threads!
madame xxx

Whoopee, it's nearly my birthday......!

Well, i'm actually writing this on my birthday but last night on the eve of my special day i had such a great night out with the girls.....we went to the Whoopee new members club in Mayfair - get me! - to see our friend Ima Doll dance. It was such a great venue, it's a gorgeous old house which has kinda subsided in places so you go between the bar on the ground floor up the rickety stairs to another floor where Ima's pole was set up....Stevie Stewart made her an amaaaazing satin cape which she swished with dramatic aplomb then took her stockings off like a pro and then worked her magic on the pole. This is her in her cape and then twirling in the rafters....


Alex came and picked me up and we had a really good catch-up before the shows started, here's alex and liza, who was stressing a bit with the logistics for ima's show, of course it all went like a dream.....


...and here's me with liza, i look like i've had a few......which i had!
Anyway, as coincidence would have it Bishi and Paloma were also performing that night, Bishi was doing her human jukebox which is soooo fantastic, she did Make it Easy on Yourself for me and alex which is quite a tall order, thos Bacarach ones are deceivingly simple til you come to sing them but she did it GORGEOUS!!!!!!!

What a bevvy of beauties!!!!! Here's a divine photo of Paloma, she's a cracker and her show was great.....more tomorrow i've just realised if i don't go now i'll miss duke and joe's nativity ...i'm so excited!!!!! More tomorrow i'm sure.....pippa xxx