So excited! In just over a months time a Terry de Havilland pop up shop will be opening just off Carnaby Street in Newburgh Quarter. Shoes glorious shoes!!! Total High Heel Heaven!! The interior is being created by Graham Erickson and is inspired by the silver décor of Andy Warhol’s Factory. A Rock & Roll shoe paradise!! With classic Terry designs, plus limited editions too, and more!! The shop runs until July… More info at VOGUE. Stay tuned… oxo gd
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I am truly getting bored with making these announcements, but sadly, Grande Dame’s Gig Headlining Weirdsville May 25th is CANCELED!! UGH! The gig is still on!! Just not with us!! It’s been a difficult few months… Back in Nov I had to cancel cos I decided to move house & I couldn’t do both. Then Feb 2nd The Pub we were sched to play, had their music license revoked. Now a few of my guys got other band bookings that pay much better than I do and that is why we had to pull out… With my old band Crazy Girl, I had a revolving door of musicians, in fact some people called me the female Mark E Smith cos I had so many different players… But I didn’t want to do that with this project. I want to stick with my core group, as I know it will always be top notch… But it’s difficult when you have a band of working musicians to be able to get them all together at the same time!! I guess for now I just have to concentrate on becoming a famous artist, so that one day I can compete with the salaries their other bands pay… I’m sure Weirdsville is gonna be awesome. I am going to see the Barbicans down here on the 21st, I have heard smashing things about them. So go see them!! Grande Dame will be back one day…. Or will we??? Here’s a smashing track by the Barbicans!! oxo gd
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A few months back I did a post about my new FAVE BAND – Fat White Family. They had their album streaming on sound cloud for a bit & it totally blew me away!! Like Velvets/ Stooges/ Beefhart/ Weird War/ Black Lips… just KILLER basically! They’ve since taken it down as it comes out March 18th on Trashmouth Records. I have been jonezin to hear it bad too… Luckily they gotta new vid out for one of their tracks – Cream of The Young… And just like their sound, the vid is heavy & mental!! Love it!! And totally crushing on the boy missing a front tooth! Hot! Check it out!! You will love them!! oxo gd
My dear, lovely friend – the wonderfully talented John Lee Bird – has a new show opening this thurs Feb 28th running until May 9th – Exclusively on show at the Paul Smith Globe Gallery, Heathrow Terminal 5! “PSALM is a new body of work based on an image — selected by Sir Paul Smith — from John Lee Bird’s previous exhibition ‘BIRDS’, which used anatomical studies of an ex-lover’s body as a metaphor for searching for a deeper understanding of the lovers’ union: literally ‘getting under the skin’ of the one once loved… helping us move on. PSALM is a colour exploration of the ‘PALM’ portrait. It is a lesson in transformation: through revisiting and re-modelling past work we can use our reflections to unravel new possibilities.” So, if you are travelling around the globe and passing through Heathrow, or you just want to see some fab paintings, GO CHECK OUT PSALM!!! John is such a talented man and an angel of a friend! Love him to bits!! More work & info on him here. Also check out this cool vid of the paintings on show!! More soon! oxo gd
Ok, let’s try this again shall we!! Very pleased to announce Grande Dame are booked to headline Weirdsville Sat May 25th at The Fiddlers Elbow in Camden!! Might even be doing an audio/ visual set! Woo Hoo! So mark your date & prepare to be entertained!! And if this gig falls thru I shall retire from the stage and drift into oblivion like Greta Garbo!! It’s not going to though! So click the pic for more info on the event!! Stay tuned for more.. oxo gd
The other day my friend PJ from Dirty Water Records posted this quirky little doc on legendary 60′s pop music producer – Joe Meek. I am sure I had seen it before, but it was a perfect Sunday after noon watch. With archive sound recordings and footage, plus interviews with friends and family, it was complied together nicely with humour. Esp love the vintage footage of Screamin Lord Sutch!! OMG! He was so dreamy when he was young!! I love Joe Meeks music! And hum Telstar at least 5 times a day (along with Enoch Lights version of Caravan!!). I even have a Joe Meek vocal compressor which I bought 18 years ago and have done all my vocal recordings through it! What a waste and sad story. If he had been allowed to live his life openly as a gay man, and if he had received his royalties on all his hit records, I wonder if he would have still snapped?? Who knows… But what a brilliant mind! Anyhoo, enjoy this cute doc!! oxo gd
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Terry de Havilland spoke with Dazed Digital about the Spring/ Summer 2013 shoe collection and I gotta mention! Woop Woop! ” I also finally got the chance to work with my great friend Tiff McGinnis [aka Grande Dame] on oriental prints. We’ve had a mutual appreciation thing going on for a while and the timing was suddenly perfect for a collaboration. I love her sense of colour and the anarchy of her music and animations. Digital printing has come on in leaps and bounds since I first experimented with it, so I called her up and we went to work. I love the results. The shoes glow in UV light.
Aww! I’m so honored!! Thanks Tel!! Read more here!! oxo gd
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Super blogger, friend and mother to the most adorable baby ever – Amelia Gregory of Amelia’s Magazine - interviewed me about my 2013 shoe collaboration with Terry de Havilland. I discussed how it came about, the process, inspirations and more! Read all about it here! oxo gd
Well, it’s a week & one day exactly until our live show!! Our first in over a year! Wow! I must say, I am very excited and quite relaxed about it!! Of course you know we are playing the Lux Interior Memorial Party at the Royal Sovereign Sat Feb 2nd! And I can confirm, that we will be doing a few Cramps songs on the night! Yay! This will be a super fun show indeed!! I have always loved The Cramps, I had a massive Date With Elvis poster on my bedroom wall as a teenager. And I was very lucky to see them live in 1989, in New Orleans, at the legendary club – Tipitina’s. Some of you die hard Cramps fans will already be familiar with this footage. Shot in 1978 at The Napa State Mental Hospital in California. They were on tour with The Mutants, promoting their Gravest Hits album. I love this so much! Everybody is having a brilliant time. And what a cool thing to do! This is my fave track from the set – The Way I Walk. You can see a longer edit of their show here. And don’t forget to come see us next Sat in Hackney! It’s totally free! oxo gd
Hi All! Hope your lucky 13 is rolling along splendidly! As I mentioned in the previous post – so far so good on this end! I wanted to post a reminder – as well as my new poster – ha ha – of our upcoming gig! A rare chance to see Grande Dame live at the Lux Interior Memorial Night, Feb 2nd at The Royal Sovereign in London – 64 Northwold Rd E5 8RL. We are not a Cramps cover band, but I can attest that we will be doing a track or two by them. It is an honor to be asked to play this night and pay tribute to Sir Lux of The Interior! Hope to see you there! Click the pic for more info! oxo gd
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