I have decided to take the plunge & apply for the 2013 London Marathon, 26 miles of gruelling sweat & pain. While searching for smaller runs to do before the big day, I came across several fancy dress runs & walks that looked mighty interesting…for this year or next!

The Sumo Run – London 23rd June 2012

The Sumo Run is an annual 5km charity fun run around Battersea Park, London, in Inflatable Sumo Suits. Money raised goes to the UK-based charity Gemin-i, an educational charity helping children around the world  work together for a brighter future. This event hold the Guinness World record for the largest gathering of sumos! Registration £30.

Great Gorilla Run 22nd September 2012

The Gorilla Organization works with African NGOs (nice good organisations) to help local populations get everything they need outside the forest. A 7k fun run, gorillas will be able to take in the sights & sounds of the City Of London. Apart from helping raise money for a worthwhile charity…..you get to keep your gorilla suit!! Sold it for me! Registration £80.

Star Wars 5k 4th May 2012 £10

**Did you know??**  Some of the parts in the Star Wars movies series were filmed around Watford. To celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Star Wars, a fun run at Woodside Stadium has been organised, all you will need is your trusty light saber or Princess Leia buns & your ready to run. All proceeds go to the Veterans Charity.  Another great reason to go, they also have a 1k kiddies run & a 2k wheelchair/handcycle race. Registration between £1-£10.

The Drag Walk 2012 29th April 2012

This is a walk for the men. 3 miles in fancy dress in Eagles Meadow, Wrexham. All proceeds go to Nightingale House Hospice, who provide specialist care services free of charge  across Wrexham, Flintshire, East Denbighshire, Barmouth, and the borders. In 2012, only 19% of their funding came from the Local Health Board, so the more drag queens running the better!  Registration £10.

The Moon Walk 2012 12th May- London 9th June Edinburgh

This race is organised by Walk the Walk, & involves power walking for 26.2 miles while wearing decorated bras to raise awareness for breast cancer.An average walk is around 3 miles an hour, when power walking the aim is to increase your speed to 4-4.5 miles an hour. Registration £27 & one child free

The Tweed Run 6th May 2012

This event is a group bicycle ride through the centre of London. Cyclists must wear traditional British attire, particularly Tweed plus four suits. Plus Fours = breeched that extend 4inches below the knee (four inches longer than knickerbockers!) Registration closed for 2012. Sign up to their mailing list for 2013.

I found something very interesting in West London this weekend.  I’m sure you will all want to get your eyes on this one. Along one of the roads adjacent to Chiswick Park, is a surprise waiting for you in one of the gardens! See if you can find it too

Its true, just checked out my last blog…omg, has it been that long! So many events, parties & festivals since then, which im sure you all know about, attended & had a blast!!

One of the outdoor events I was able to go to attend was the Wireless festival in Hyde Park. (Chemical Brothers were out of this world!!) & now for the 8th year running they will be gracing us with some awesome music in July 2012.

The Wireless festival features big name artists & rising stars. If its anythig like last year, the park will be jam packed with weird & wonderful  things to do on this weekend! ( I  “Just Danced” on stage to Deee-lites, groove is in the heart )

The line up this year includes: Deadmau5, Calvin Harris, Jessie J, Kaskade, Rizzle Kicks, Pitbull & many more.

Check back soon, for my next blog.

Plans this evening?? Relaxing by the river Thames & enjoying a large glass of white wine

This lovely event held over 3 cities in July & August

London Battersea Park 29, 30 & 31st July

Edinburgh Holyrood Park 12, 13 & 14th August

Oxford South Parks 27, 28 & 29th August

Meet Michelin-Starred & top chefs in the chefs theatre, preparing their favourite dishes live on stage.

Taste, sample & buy

Shop for ingredient from local producers selling fresh seasonal produce and buy spciality food & drink.

Try hands on food & drink masterclasses led by industry experts, with plenty of tastings.

The Scoop summer season of free events is in full swing. The Scoop which is an outdoor sunken amphitheatre located a few meters away from City Hall on the Southbank.

A wonderful place to watch a play, see some music or watch a film under the stars. All for free.

The summer season runs until the 30th September, expereince a truely unique experience.

The king of afrobeat, Seun Kuti is a big name in the Nigerian music scene, having inherited his father Fela Kuti’s band. One of the most influential African musician of our time, Fela Kuti’s music inspired the successful Broadway musical Fela!, now premiering at London’s National Theatre.
This year is the 20th anniversary of Seun performing with his father’s afrobeat band, Egypt 80, at the age of eight. This is his first UK tour as frontman with the band.
Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 will be supported by Donso. Donso are four musicians who bring together a Franco/Malian fusion of traditional Malian music and electronica.

Or how about heading north?

Or for something completely different, a unique way to spend the Royal wedding weekend, we all love the sound of this festival. And what a setting, check out they’re website for full details.

www.knoydartfestival.com

It seems incredible to think of the hot un sticky Notting Hill Carnival only being a few months ago!
But fear not, life goes on evan if the summer has gone south. Yes folks we’re happy to highlight some hip & happening Winter music festivals for you to shake away your winter time blues too….

Winter Wonderland started in 2007 by the now national XFM. Two line ups in 2 cities:

London: Manic Street Preachers, White Lies, The Drums, Two Door Cinema Club & Mona

Manchester: The Wombats, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Futureheads, Mystery Jets, The View & Everything Everything.

I’ll be going to Manchester, The Wobants & Bombay Bicycle Club in one night – Awsome!!

Or how about the Liverpool Music Week 2010. Yes its a bit more indie, but with a generous splash of Ska and a side order of rock. We love it!

In actual fact it goes on for longer than just a week. Google Liverpool Music Week for full details.

Line up includes: Leftfield, Dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip, !!!chk Chk Chk, Beardyman, Eferklang, The Drums, Chase and Status, Hadouken!, Villages & Warpaint

And now for something a little more gentle, but never the less a great yearly event. The Capital Radio Jingle Bells Ball 2010, offers a weekend of wintery cheer over Saturday & Sunday 4th/5th December.

Saturday line up: The Script, Cee Lo Green, Black Eyed Peas, The Wanted, Nicole Scherzinger, Jason Derulo, Taio Cruz, Alexandra Burke, MoFly & Olly Murs

Sunday line up: Kylie Minogue, JLS, Akon, Tinie Tempah, The Saturdays, The Wanted, Flo Rida, Jay Sean, Example & Labrith

Launched in 1997, The Mayor’s Thames Festival has grown to become London’s largest free open-air arts festival.

Events
Saturday, 11th and Sunday, 12th September, are the dates set aside for the festival which is open from noon until 10pm between Westminster Bridge and Tower Bridge. Many Thames Festival activities are based on public participation. The festival commissions new work, and transforms unusual spaces on and around the River Thames with a mixture of street arts, performance, carnival, pyrotechnics, illuminations, art installations, exhibitions, river events, massed choirs, circus, music and dance, food and feasting. The finale is a magical illuminated Night Procession that winds along the north and south banks of the Thames, followed by a fireworks display fired from the centre of the river itself.

Line-up
Festival Freedom Stage
Saturday: Poppy & Friends, Sam Sallon, Hannah Peel, Tawiah, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Krystle Warren, The Invisible, Ben Westbeech, Saravah Soul
Sunday: Kersha Bailey, Delta Maid, Lail Arad, Son of Dave, Ty, CW Stoneking, Kitty Daisy and Lewis, Speech Debelle, Ska Cubano
Lady Luck – Jive Stage
Saturday: London Swing Dance Society, The Bombshellettes, DJ Tim Jumpin’ Jive, La Belle Vie Band, DJ Lady Kamikaze, Dom James and his Dixie Ticklers, DJ El Nino, The Strumpettes, The Baron and Missy’s Misadventures, Number Nine, DJ El Nino.
Sunday: Maddy’s Jiving School, The Jive Aces, DJ Count Sizzle,The Mule Skinners, DJ Lady Kamikaze, Sugar Ray Ford, Zephyrs of Swing, DJ Lady Kamikaze, The Strumpettes, The Baron and Missy’s Misadventures, James Hunter, and DJ El Nino.

The Magpie’s Nest
Presents A Field Trip in Folk, the line-up of acts on Saturday TBA.

Swamp Rock Stage
Presents A Musical Gumbo on Sunday acts TBA.The event will also host a lot of activities throughout the weekend including Feast on the Bridge on Saturday. Sunday’s Sing For Water with a choir of 1,000 voices lifted in song in support of WaterAid, an exhibition featuring Archaos, aa Festival Market and more.

Night Procession
Every year key London roads are closed to traffic for the Thames Festival’s spectacular finale event, the Night Procession, with over 2,000 musicians, dancers, performers and masqueraders come from across the country and the world with lanterns, illuminated costumes and fantastic structures. The Procession takes place on Sunday 12th September, starting at 7.15pm on Victoria Embankment, travels east crossing the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge, and finishes behind the Royal National Theatre and Southbank Centre.

The event’s river and water-focused activities aim to inspire and excite and its extensive education programme involving some 300 schools hopes to increase interest in and appreciation of the river and its environment.

We love our local Carnival at Tagster, Especially Kaisha (account manager extraordinaire) who gets dressed up and dances on a float each year. You won’t get any sense out of her the week after, so best sort any orders out etc beforehand.

Starting its life as a local festival set up by the West Indian community of the Notting Hill area, it has now become a full-blooded Caribbean carnival, attracting millions of visitors from all over the globe. With many astonishing floats and the sounds of the traditional steel drum bands, scores of massive sound systems plus not forgetting the hundreds of stalls that line the streets of Notting Hill. The Notting Hill Carnival is arguably London’s most exciting annual event.
The Notting Hill Carnival usually gets under way on the Saturday with the steel band competition. Sunday is Kids’ Day, when the costume prizes are awarded. On Bank Holiday Monday, the main parade takes place. It generally begins on Great Western Road, then winds its way along Chepstow Road, on to Westbourne Grove, and then Ladbroke Grove. In the evening, the floats leave the streets in
procession, and people carry continue partying at the many Notting Hill Carnival after parties.
The Notting Hill Carnival dates for 2010 are August 29th and 30th.

22nd August 2010 Sunday

CHANNEL ONE “Carnival Warm Up”

Channel One Sound System present a warm up party for the Notting Hill Carnival! Following their previous hugely successful events at Vibe Bar Mikey Dread and crew build their handbuilt rig inside the bar to give a taste of carnival vibes for 2010.
Channel One bring soundsystem vibes and the word sound power of Rastafari through Mikeys extensive collection of one off acetates and pre-release roots reggae. Strictly vinyl and strictly concious lyrics provided by the mic chanter Ras Kayleb.

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