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Thursday 12 September 2013
Vintage By The Sea
Iconic hotel set to party as
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Vintage Festival line-up is finalized
The
full line-up of activities for Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Vintage by the Sea event has been
finalised as Morecambe’s iconic Midland Hotel continues to
celebrate its 80th anniversary in style.
On
Saturday, September 14 the award winning
Vintage Festival is
having a holiday in Morecambe to help the Grade II listed 1930’s art deco
masterpiece that is the Midland Hotel herald its landmark year.
For
one day only, Vintage by the Sea celebrates the music, fashion, film, art,
dance, food and design from those halcyon days when the Midland Hotel opened in
1933, as well as other classic styles from the 20th Century.
Wayne
Hemingway, co-founder of the Vintage Festival and who was born and grew up in
Morecambe, said: “The Midland is a very
special hotel and it feels right for us to bring a pop-up version of our
Vintage Festival experience to help celebrate this iconic building’s landmark
year.
“We have assembled a
fantastic range of fun and immersive activities and attractions that showcase
the very best in music, fashion, food and design from the last 80 years for
people to come and enjoy. We are looking forward to a great day out by the
seaside and can’t wait to see people coming to join in the vintage fun at The
Midland.”
Highlights
of the event include an unforgettable and glamorous 1930s-themed ‘Torch Club’
evening in The Midland, which includes a themed five-course meal with dancing
and lead instruction to The Palm Court Dance Orchestra.
There
will be two sessions of vintage tea dances, which includes afternoon tea with
authentic Charleston period music and dance lessons delivered by renowned
instructor Anthony Padgett.
The
Midland’s Rotunda Bar will become a 50s Rock and Roll venue with guest DJ appearances from Joseph Kondras and Matthew
Whitehouse of Morecambe band The Heartbreaks.
“The
50’s and 60’s have had such a profound influence on the clothes we wear, the
music we listen to and the music we make,” said Joseph. “To pay homage to it at
an event such as this in our hometown will be a real joy.”
The
five luxurious booths are bookable for parties of eight to enjoy a
menu
and cocktails based on a British diner in the 1950s.
Set
in the most evocative of venues, The Morecambe Winter Gardens, The Soul Casino
recreates the sounds and style of the classic 70s soul club and 80s disco
scenes with DJs Colin Curtis, Snowboy and Wayne & Jack Hemingway. The Winter
Garden dance floor will reverberate to the sound of deep funk to northern, rare
groove to classic soul, disco, authentic R&B mod sounds and early house.
The
Vintage Marketplace takes place with The Midland Hotel as a backdrop and
gathers the finest purveyors of vintage clothes, accessories, mid-century
modern homewares, records, music memorabilia and up-cycled items.
Bringing
together couture labels with prêt a porter and street style from the 1920s
through to the 1980s, the Vintage Marketplace will tempt bargain hunters with
must have items sold for anything between £5 and £500.
Other
highlights include:
Best In Show
Style
hunters roam the Vintage site to snap the most fashion-savvy festival goers.
Watch out for our special ‘fash-mob’ catwalks, where our chosen 'style hunted'
gather for a one-off event.
Workshops
Our
expert Vintage tutors will help people learn a new skill or revive an old one
from sewing vintage style fashion accessories, knitting, up-cycling, quilting,
designing and generally getting creative.
Hair and Beauty
Guys
and Dolls Hair Boutique host The Vintage Salon providing hair and beauty
makeovers which are decade specific, from 1920s to the 1970s. Booking will be
taken on the day. Vintage hair ‘Up-Do’s’ will cost £14.00 and a vintage beauty
makeover will cost £10.00.
Vintage Serendipity
Classic
vehicles, vintage street theatre, classic ice cream vans and vintage street
food, evocative and rare film footage, pop up performances are all part of the
Vintage Festival experience.
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There
will be a food market hosted from classic vehicles
Timings: Vintage Marketplace – 11am – 6pm (The
Midland) - Free
Vintage Salon – 11am – 6pm (The
Midland) – Hair ‘up-dos’ £14, beauty makeovers £10
Vintage Playground – 11am – 6pm (The
Midland car park) - Free
Vintage Tea by the Sea – 12.30pm -
2pm and 2.30pm - 4pm (The Midland) - £16.50 – SOLD OUT
Rock n Roll at the Rotunda
- 11am to 6pm free
Rock n Roll at the Rotunda – 7pm –
Midnight (The Midland) - £35 per person for groups of eight in a booth.
The Torch Club – 7.30pm
– Midnight (The Midland) – SOLD OUT
Soul Casino – 9pm – 2am
(Winter Gardens) - £12.00
Tickets
can be booked for Vintage Tea by the Sea and Rock n Roll at the Rotunda by
calling 01524 428370.
Tickets
for Soul Casino can be booked by calling 08458 501240 or at http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lancaster/Morecambe-Winter-Gardens/Soul-Casino--Vintage-by-the-Sea/11942432/
For
more information on Vintage by the Sea please see http://www.vintagefestival.co.uk/events/vintage-by-the-sea-14th-september-2013
Here
is a short video from the event launch http://blog.englishlakes.co.uk/2013/05/09/video-interview-with-wayne-hemingway-at-the-midland/
And
here is a short video from a previous Vintage Festival event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9KT7Ip8slc&list=UUL1iCBJ2rqZz3Rd9wZKGgEA
For
more information about The Midland and to book rooms visit englishlakes.co.uk
Media
contacts
Ian
Boydon or Karen Gardner on 01524 782086 ian@ospreycommunications.co.uk
or karen@ospreycommunications.co.uk
The
Midland was commissioned in 1932 by The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Company and architect Oliver Hill was selected to create a building “of
international quality in the modern style”.Hill’s holistic approach, where he
insisted the hotel’s interior matched the architecture design, set The Midland
apart from other hotels of the period. He took complete control of colour
schemes, furnishings, decoration and works of art, right down to the detail of
the door handles.
English
Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues are a family owned and run group of
properties based in the Lake District on the shores of Windermere, as well as
The Midland on the north west coast of Lancashire and one hotel close to the
city of Lancaster.
Wednesday 4 September 2013
New Stock
Now that the school holidays are over I have a little time to breath! I found some wonderful items while I was holidaying in France and they are slowly but surely being put into the shop.
Here are a few of the quirky items I found.
Keep checking the shop as they will all appear.
Here are a few of the quirky items I found.
Keep checking the shop as they will all appear.
As you can see I went a little bit deer crazy...and this is just a little selection of them!
And kitsch crazy
All of the above are already in the shop, just click on the pictures to take you through to the listings.
The pictures below are all waiting to go in.
It was so much fun finding all these goodies.
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