With only a few days until the Australian V Festival kicks off, and with me, Eleanor Conway, your trusty Global VPass winner already en route, thought it might be time to whet your appetite with my first tour diary. London to Hong Kong to Sydney… all in a day’s work!
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2008 has been a crazy year and has seen the conclusion of two world defying political campaigns. First we had Obama vying for the best seat in the world, and second we had Eleanor Conway on her campaign to become Virgin’s global reporter in 2009. While Barack started his campaign by going door to door through the United States of America, Eleanor took to the streets and fields of the UK to tout for your votes. Features Justice, Sam Sparro, The Presets, Glasvegas, Elbow.
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What happens on tour, stays on tour - until now.
I’ve got 3 signed copies of Justice’s Across The Universe (Live CD + Tour footage) to giveaway - See Trailer.
TO ENTER:
Bribe a mate to leave a comment about you on my fanpage wall. Remember you both have to be fans and the comment must include your name and the word ‘Justice’.
I will choose the 3 most original wall scrawlings and get the boys to sign your swag on the next episode of Eleanor Conway Presents:
Enter before 00.00 GMT 4th DEC
Also congratulations on the three winners of the signed Goldfrapp Seventh Tree competition —- you know who you are! They’re on their way to yoooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu………
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Fan of Goldfrapp? Fancy winning yourself one of three signed Limited Edition CD + bonus DVD copies of Seventh Tree? Then read on.
Fresh from their dates at the marvellous Carling Academy this weekend - a show where Narnia meets Pagan folklore, Eleanor Conway Presents: 3 signed LE copies of Seventh Tree to giveaway.
The DVD contains tracks filmed live on the Summer Solstice at the magnificent De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea earlier this year plus backstage footage from the show. The DVD also features the fantastic videos for hit singles ‘A&E’, ‘Happiness’ (which has just been nominated for a Q Award) and ‘Caravan Girl’ as well as live performances of ‘Clowns’ and ‘Road to Somewhere’ from a TV special on Goldfrapp.
All you have to do to win is join the Eleanor Conway Presents: Facebook Fan Page before midnight (GMT) 23rd November 2008.
Also fancy a warm fuzzy feeling and the chance to win a pair of V Festival Tickets to your local festival in 2009?
Well I’m through to the last leg of the Global VPass Competition and could do with your vote to secure a 2009 reporting gig around the globe for V.
Just cast your vote here:
http://music.virgin.com/vpass-voting/?voteuser=Eleanor%20Conway
Voting closes 30th November, so please take the time if you can, cheers… xxxx
Okay, on the cusp of going off to watch my fringed up sista’ Ladeee hawk this Saturday at the marvellous Koko’s in olde Camden Tawn (of which I will talk more of on Monday) I though I would regail you of my top five gym accompanying toons (in no particular order) of the week.
5. Pin Me Down ‘Cryptic’= dancefloor meets indie wannabees……. If you like Justice’s vs Simian ‘We are your friends’, you’ll like the ‘Phones materialization remix.
4. The Black Ghosts (Anyway you choose to give it)
A song to get down and dirty to.
3. The Tender Box ‘Mister Sister’– Hot off their well received tour of the UK last year, these LA favourites display annoyingly catchy wordsmith ………….. ‘whooooooooo’.
The Tender on Last Call with Carson Daly
2. Imani Coppola ‘I’m A Tree’. Early promo single from ‘Little Jackie’s’ feisty frontwoman Imani Coppola.
1. Ladyhawke - Fabulously fringed frontwoman’s debut ‘Paris is Burning’ written after a bender gone wrong, in Paris. Funnily enough.
New single from said fringe sporter ‘Dusk Til Dawn‘ available Sept 15th. It’s not as good.
Check out Christoph!’s Flickr photostream for more Ladywhawke pics
If ever there was an event awash with ropey media perceptions, surely it’s the spiffy festival we call V.
Last weekend played host to my first ever V, arriving to Chelmsford expecting to dodge cartoon-sized hampers, happy-go-lucky families, tee-total teenagers, and a sickly plethora of pop, all thanks to an indie rag’s festival guide.
However, within minutes of kicking off a tent-pitching session I discovered the V crowd were a leery, cheery, beery bunch not a million miles away from some of my beloved festival crowds.
From then on it was a sure-footed leap into the arena for a live line-up apropos of today’s top notch music offerings. Next year’s diary will undoubtedly have mid-August marked with a big, red, tick-shaped V.
The weekend’s stories and encounters were appropriately caught on film, but the upcoming Reading Festival throws a proverbial spanner in the editorial works. In the meantime nurse the painful wait with this video postcard, which also delineates my V discoveries.
Do check back soon for more of this sort of thing.
“Probably the most contrived way to organise a duty free booze run ever” ELEANOR CONWAY
Ok, so V Festival was full of celebs and stars of which I’m sure my fellow VPass peeps will confirm in a global manner. But what about the real stars of the show?
Yep. The dooods paying the cash. To pay the organisers. To pay the stars.
Bring it on crowd stylee.
Please enjoy the first video installment of VPass Ambassador Campaign: ‘Eleanor Conway needs to go global… V Festival Video’. Where topics such as what would you do if provoked by a rampant Wino in it’s natural habitat?
Forget the celebs, we meet Lord Chop A Lot, Barbara Streisand, The Elephant Head Of Doom and many, many more……
If you like my style, PLEASE vote my posts http://music.virgin.com/author/EleanorConway/
Cheers
Elle x
Red is the colour of blood, danger and stopping. Neither of which was on show at this weekend’s V Festival extravaganza. After being touched by death by a certain reality star (the thought of which sends shivers through my puritanical soul) and touched by several boughts of musical genius throughout the two day trip through popular culture, I just wanted to let you know that a video of the first round of my Global VPass political campaign will be up soon. A masseev big up to all the people that promised me their votes and chipped in with insightful nuggets of the weekend. The tabloids maybe full of the Coleens and Hardings of this world but essentially the event was totally made up of you guys and would not have been the same without you…… elle x
Keep voting for me and checking music.virgin.com for my updates, as well as my myspace.com/elleuk. Word.
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