Classic 'Hurts'

As the Hurts are on their European tour, and I am graduating I found it fitting to have a Hurts blog post as my readers may remember back last summer, I listened to Hurts on repeat for 3 months- It got me through my last year of my degree! Not forgetting that I love their music and I absolutely love their look.

A while back now, I remember reading a magazine article where the guys spoke of their fashion choices and how they came about dressing and having the certain style that they do. It's really interesting to know that the guys used to buy their clothes from older high street stores such as BHS and good old trusty Marks and Spencers. They also however, bought from charity shops- buying cheap suits and putting their personality into each outfit with small styling choices. This is just fab! It really proves that no matter how much money you have or not, if you have an eye for style you can look, in the Hurt's case, as dapper as you want and although my primary occupation is styling, it's nice to know that Theo and Adam choose this look and style before any stylist could get a hold of the guys.

Interestingly, yesterday I was reading an article about Keith Lemon (a character created, based on a northern guy) and in that interview Leigh Francis, that plays Keith, mentioned that when he is out for the evening he dress's up well and he thought that this was a very Northern thing, which brought me back to the Hurts- both the guys are from Manchester and I think this idea can be seen in their band. They are both very dapper, their style is timeless and very classic. I know some people may think that wearing a suit is safe, but I don't see this as the case with the Hurts, and I know it may sound funny to say, but you can see when looking at how they wear there clothes, you are able to see a northern influence.

Global Cool: Fancy having a Traincation?

If your a reader of my blog you might remember back to my post I wrote, after a fab evening out at the Global Cool: Turn up the style, turn down the heat, event held in Leeds back in January. That event was simply amazing, not only did we refashion clothing, eat yummy cupcakes and meet new faces, we were also blissfully being taught how to keep green. Global Cool's ethic and campaign of one that encourages people to think differently about greener lifestyles is a real trend at the minute within consumer thinking, yet Global Cool is a company that doesn't want to keep this as a trend alone, but is one that wants to make this idea become a real lifestyle.

Head to there website to see some fab articles looking at fashion, sport, entertainment, travel and some extra greenery. Oh and don't forget to check out their fab competitions too!

At the minute Global Cool is running such a great competition where you can win two tickets for a Traincation to Bern, in Switzerland, to the Gurten Music Festival from July 13-18th where you could see bands such as Kasabian, Plan B, Arctic Monkeys and plenty more. For an entry all you have to do is (via facebook) tell Global Cool which artist and song you would love to listen to on the Traincation (personally mine would have to be James Blake, 'Limit to your Love' or maybe Zero 7 'In the Waiting Line') then get all your friends to vote for your suggestion…simple.

Get yourself over to facebook.com now to get involved! Good luck everyone.

'The Housekeeping Society'

Last night I went to a great album launch for a three man band: 'The Housekeeping Society'.

Before I went to see the launch I had an idea as to how the night was going to go when regarding an album launch, but I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised.

When thinking about music, specifically nowadays, people don't give time to think about the work and credit that goes into producing a song, let alone an album, so i just loved the fact that the guys had made a 10 minute film clip together for us to watch before the actual gig, it was really great to see what concept the band focused on, the idea behind their reasoning and to also see the band producing the songs and the album. You understand the amazing support that the band has from family and friends, but you also understand the passion and drive for each member from the band when producing this album.

The idea behind the album is one that looks at the lives and times of a community in a North England Mill Town, back in the 1880's. If you want to read further about the inspiration for the album, from the band yourself, visit here. You can also see a more personal side for each band member at their blog.

The gig was a great success, each song is fab, my favourite song has to be 'Little Boy Lost' it's just beautiful. I find the album a great easy listen: the band has a very folksy feel and is really right for the time.

In terms of fashion-wise each guy wore shirt, jeans and some sort of cover up-I noticed one waistcoat and a long coat, because of the concept of the album I would love to style the guys up in 1880's attire. Their look would be very dapper, very traditionally 1880's dress-top hat, lapels, cravat. Each guy did have his own style, I would keep this in mind, but by styling them as a whole band, I think there look would become more exclusive and complete.

I had such a great night last night and I'm really glad I have a new album to add to my music collection.

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So good, it's HURTS

In my email today, the newsletter from DazedDigital appeared in my bursting inbox and in that email there was a feature on The Hurts, the band I did a small post about recently.

The interview, shown through film, presents the stylish duo talking of their simplistic, minimal looks hailing from Debenhams, M&S and B.H.S: stating that 'there's no need to go to the expensive shops, those shops cater for every man and every man wants to look smart' The dapper guys discuss the idea of their clothing choices, is firstly as mentioned to look smart but to also let the music be 'the colour, the life, the imagination'.

To check out the interview and read the article see here.

Hurts: The Stylish duo.

In this weeks LOOK magazine, there was a small feature on the northern band 'Hurts'. Yes they have had Kylie Minogue feature on their album, but the thing that really struck me was their look.

Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson are the band members of this classy, electronic duo. After I saw the image in LOOK I had to check out their webpage to find some more yummy images.

In 09 Hurts was featured band of the day on the Gaurdian's webpage and they finished 4th place in 2010 on the BBC Sound of 2010. However, their first album is released this september: I am excited for the music itself but I cannot wait to check out the CD sleeve. Previously, their style and music has been compared to

'A moody and exceedingly stylish duo from Manchester, Hurts inhabit an enigmatic, cinematic black & white world where they construct melancholic 1980s-inspired electro-pop'.

At this time, images really will speak louder than words....

'The Like'- The Look of the 60's

With the fact that the fall season has a heavy 1950's influence with a hint of 1960's Brigitte Bardot, the band 'The Like' at the minute are right on trend.

I saw an article in the ELLE preview feature, in the music hot list discussing their new album, out september, named 'Release Me'. The feature had images of the four girl band (originally a trio): the images were really fun and personal, the girls had their photographs simply taken on a passport photo strip. I think this way of photographing is brilliant, the small space to see the character is great because we only see such a small space the subject has to do other things to show us their personality.

The bands look I really like, as mentioned they have a 60's influenced look, Elizabeth 'Z' berg (guitar and vocals) wearing beautifully heavy eyeliner in said image. Their music is brilliant too....can't wait to get their album and flick through the album sleeve whilst listening to 'He's Not a Boy'.