Orange, together with Gotwind, have designed thermoelectric wellingtons that charge your mobile phone using heat from your feet!

From their press release:
Twelve hours of stomping through the Glastonbury Festival in your Orange Power Wellies will give you enough power to charge a mobile phone for one hour. To increase the length of time you can charge your phone for, simply hot step it to the dance tent because the hotter your feet get, the more energy you produce.

Although still just a prototype and unavailable to buy, the Orange Power Wellies will be showcased by Orange at Glastonbury Festival later this month. So visit their “Chill n’ Charge” tent – you may see other cool eco-friendly charging things like the Foot Power Pump, as well as contests to win side-of-stage tickets…. and charge your phone, of course!

Hot chick not included

I found and old ticket in a pile of rubble in a suitcase. Glade was happy times! This year, it was cancelled due to policy restrictions and too much police involvment.

A Facebook group tells more about closed down festivals and how to protect your other favourite festivals, and I urge you to join and continue the discussions:

“Last year saw the closure of the Big Green and Thimbleberry Festival. This year, so far, Strawberry Fair and now the Glade……….. How many more are facing similar problems?

The aim of this group will be to bring together all those who are saying ‘enough is enough’. Stop closing down our festivals. Excessive charges for policing and over the top Health and Safety are killing a lot of the small, independent festivals.
This has to stop…”

Visit Save Our Festivals here.

Take a look at how fun we had at Glade last year!

Folks – It’s Friday and the weather in Stockholm is rainy and gloomy. God can make it rain on us, but we know what time it is so let’s go out there and have shitloads of fun!

Tomorrow I might do my first single (in as 50% of the original TrendGiveAfuck duo) event, so that’s gonna be interesting. At least I’ll have my lovely Lab 5 divas to back me up.

It’s Li’l Saturday again! Let’s practice some breakdance moves before going out tonight, shall we!?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH35Lde8nWk

Shunt is a gigantic cellar themed pub, it’s entrance through a small door right in London Bridge underground station. Three bars, many chairs sofas and tables, fresh and damp air (it used to be a wine storage), short film cinema, experimental music, still image and object art standing or hanging here and there.

I went there without much expectation, except for the tempo to rise after twelve or something, which, unfortunately, didn’t happen before I got too tired and went home. The club seOne, a really captain club under London Bridge, had similar huge cellar vaults but is now closed

I did enjoy the very cozy place of Shunt and spent a couple of hours there, enjoying the magnificent atmosphere and mixed-form art, and look forward to going there again, now without expectation for tempo. Perhaps they will surprise with some lounge music next time

View some photographs of the interior below:

A small room bringing you back 80 years, old radio shows playing in the background

Door to 30s room

One of many rooms of Shunt Vaults. Very high ceiling and calming lighting

The bars were small but still had lots to drink, a little pricey, though

Left: one of several doorways. RIght: creepy doll

A pub with slightly more lighting you were unsure if they were actors or visitors

Small market selling prints

Large band playing experimental music with kinds of instruments and song. Sometimes a little too complex.

A doll or a dead girl? Later she stood up, rising 8 feet in the air and very talkative

Eerie chair and a sulking box...

People moving like robotic dools, making loud noise when stomping on the floor. Pretty kewl.

I was convinced that doll was going to start moving and shouting random latin quotes.

Left: weird corner with animated projections. Right: hanging, mezmerising, mirrors

Since BLOC a couple of weeks back I’ve been pretty hooked on dubstep. It’s not very enjoyable to play at home, but it’s definitely the best dance music there is on the club scene. Luckily for me Sweden’s got its very own dubstep crew, All Out Dubstep, that gives us food four body and soul on a monthly basis.

Yesterday Coki (UK) of Digital Mystikz played at Fabriken, and though I arrived pretty late it was two intense and fantastic hours of dancing.

On the first day, God created BLOC Weekend.
On the second day, God created BLOC Weekend After Party! YEAH!

For now in a secret location, Eastern Electrics will feature Disco Bloodbath, Mulletover and BLOC fully charged giving you the latest in electronica. May the 2nd before a bank holiday. Click here to read more.

We were there last New Year and it was captain! This year, however, we will be half the core TrendGiveAfuck, as The Licious is out and about in Sweden. Adorian will be there with a delicious stand-in, camera fully loaded ready to shoot all cool outfits. And ourselves, as usual.

I was out and about viewing a temp room to stay in the next coming weeks, so I kinda missed “little Saturday”. I was careless enough to tell you about this really cool club in Brixton, London – Plan B – where you can get old school hiphop, r&b and house.

And, best of all – their website is really slick!

http://www.plan-brixton.co.uk

It’s Monday evening and we just came home from bus rides, planes and hangovers (actually, we’re still hungover). BLOC 2010 was a blast! – I haven’t had this fun a party since last BLOC, and I’m pretty sure The Licious can’t disagree. We had a real captain time, seeing Salt n’ Pepa (!!!), Roots Manuva, Autechre, Anti, Derrick May, and many others – dacing our asses off, partying with our very good Briton (and New Zeelandish) friends, talking with all of you really captain BLOCers, and taking loads of photographs! Thanks for everything!

Oh yeah, ya wanna see the photos? Stay in line and behave – here’s the status:

BLOC Weekend – Friday 13th
BLOC Weekend – Saturday 14th
BLOC Weekend – Sunday 15th

Ta ta for now – I’m off to the jacuzzi for a rest and to reflect upon the past weekend

This weekend I’m joining Adorian in England for some major mayhem at BLOC Weekend. Electro festival at its best! So expect a big update in the events section sometime next week. While waiting for that, have a look at last year’s BLOC photos.

The flight is hours away so I better get some sleep.

PS. Apparently, Adorian is already at full power at BLOC! DS.