Photos: Andrew Bird at Union Chapel

What a delight to see the wonderfully talented Mr Bird at the beautiful Union Chapel. Here are a few photos:

You can see the rest here.

Photo: The Allotment and Friends

I have been supremely busy these past couple of days, and alas, no time for blogging. But fear not! I am about to do a giant catch up. In the mean time, here is a photo my wonderful, amazing friend Bobbles took at The Allotment yesterday:

So many amazing, wonderful, sweet people there! In the photo you can see Lynn and I, our friend Alan who runs the brilliant Wears The Trousers, Adam- our door custodian, Helen- our cake maker and merch lady extraordinaire, Alessi- our amazing, talented, sweet and wonderful friend, Chris  who is a gem in the London music world and runs Broken Sound Music, home to Forest Fire, and a bunch of our brilliant, kind and supportive friends. What a whole load of win squished into one frame!

Photo: Sleeping States

Here is a nice big photo of Markland (Sleeping States) today:

The leaves were too pretty not to have them in a portrait photo. I asked Markland after the busk and he was lovely and kicked some leaves around and let me take his photo.

I like to take portrait photos. If you are a band or a random person and would like me to take your photo then that would be fun. Or if you ever would like me to photo a show or something, that would be fun too. 

Send emails to: anikainlondon@gmail.com please and thank you.

Photos: St.Vincent + Grizzly Bear at the Barbican

Enjoyable show. Two photos here, the rest here.

Will review the show soon. I like Barbican (apart from that shows there are ’spensive).

Photos: Oxjam Kilburn | Take The High Road

Hurray! A giant massive well done to Lynden, Tim, Tash and all the other kind hearts who put time and effort into putting on a lovely little festival for a truly good cause.

I took some photos, all are here and some are here:

Visit Oxjam Kilburn here. Sometimes (mostly when it’s dark and/or red) I forget that it’s really fun to take photos.

Photos: Soap&Skin at the Purcell Room

She was absolutely incredible: breath-taking. One of those shows that goes by in a flash, without a single lull. BRILLIANT. Here are some photos for now, look forward to writing a gushing review tomorrow:

Would absolutely 100% recommend her show. Stunning.

Photos: Anika In Watermelon

Sometimes the things I do don’t even make any sense to me:

I don’t even like watermelon.

Photos: The Allotment

The Allotment

I was too busy swanning about at The Allotment to take photos, but lucky for us we have a talented friend on hand to take photos. Bobbles kindly came along and took some pictures, you can see his Allotment photos on The Allotment blog. Stay tuned to the blog anyway, we might want to post interesting stuff there (!).

Photos: The Allotment

Are you SUPER DUPER EXCITED for the Allotment? I am. It’s just two sleeps away! Tickets are £5 and the doors are at 7.30, at the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Come on time and look at all the cool stuff we’ll have, and eat your free cake. It’s just the beginning of bigger things, providing Lynn and I don’t fall out (I don’t like Pride and Prejudice and she does, and thinks I am less good because I don’t…. pfffft). But really, Lynn is brilliant and you should go read For Folk’s Sake for a while.

Here is our poster:

Here is some stuff being made:

Here is a bag you could buy at The Allotment, if you fancy:

Another bag you could buy:

Here is a creepy painting I did:

Here is when I made a mess in my room:

You can be our friend on Twitter. OR, in REAL LIFE (!!!) if you come along. Two sleeps! Two sleeps! If you want to play at a future Allotment show, get in touch: anikainlondon@gmail.com and lynn@forfolkssake.com. Hope to see you soon.

Photos: Bandstand Busking: October

October edition of Bandstand Busking upon us already. Here are a few photos:

A ton more are here.