Tea cups and gin

This weekend was yet another opportunity for me to don me 20s get up and party like it's 1929.

New dress on (a beautiful duck egg blue drop waist number) and hair set with many pic curls, my friends and I set off for The Victoria Tunnels in London for this months Prohibition party.

As always, I knew it would be a totally spiffing evening, especially as we had consumed large amounts of booze on the minibus enroute! But the acts of the evening made it a real night to remember!

Tricity Vogue was the star event of the evening in my eyes. Performing real old tunes and new tunes with a 20s sound, there wasn't a lot you couldn't like about Tricity Vogue.

Singing along to Video Killed the Radio Star whilst supping Gin and Elderflower from a very pretty teacup was a real highlight of the evening.

If you've never heard of Tricity Vogue then I'd strongly advise you check her out!

An evening or Sea Chanties and wine

Jazz music is always going to be where my main musical passion lies. But I also love folk music and sea chanties.

There is just something about the sound of a fiddle that makes me want to jump up and jig around- although I usually just keep it to a lively foot tap!

Maybe it's my love of, and the fact that i live near the sea that makes me appricate this music. But i think in the main, it's the melancholy tunes and words that have me hooked. Sailors singing of their love on dry lands, it's so heartfelt how can you not be moved?!

Being an old romantic, melancoly tunes are very much on my radar, so an evening of sea chanties and wine in a little hide away in Limehouse, is my idea of an evening well spent.

Retro Sunday

In sunny Southend on the second Sunday of every month Jiveswing hold a social swing dance night. It's always a great night but after The Essex All Dayer the day before on Saturday I was really quite excited to go dancing again and show off my new moves. Despite my aches from the 12 hours of dancing the day before!

Yesterday however, was a very special Retro Sunday. Myself and three other friends had been working on a Charleston routine for a while and yesterday we performed it for the first time as The Charleston Chicks!

Here it is in video form for you to enjoy, but come along to a Jiveswing event and see us perform it for real! Check out the Facebook page or follow on twitter!

It's only Tuesday and i'm pooped!

Yesterday was probably one of the busiest days I've had in ages!

As well as doing my usual work I was also calling various people trying to get some bands to play at Southend's swing dance night, Retro Sunday.

I had my phone glued to my head pretty much the whole day, but hopefully it will pay off! We now have one band booked, and two other bands interested! All in a days work, yes, I am the queen of organisation!!

It looks like Retro Sunday could really be very exciting. So keep the second Sunday of every month free!