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Camp Bestival Vibes: What goes down in 12 Hours at CB

Hotel Camp Bestival ..

On Friday the 27th July we headed down to Dorset for Camp Bestival. Bestival has been on our long list of “MUST DO” festivals. We figured that Camp Bestival would be a good starting point, being the UK’s most well known family festival. Although its been in our diary for a while we only booked tickets 2 weeks before. We decided that we would head down on the Friday and stay in a nearby hotel rather than camp. The Springfield Country Hotel was booked for 2 nights, which seemed to be a hit with other Camp Bestival goers. We even mingled with some roadies and bands over the corn flakes at breakfast. read more

Motherhood Vibes : First Time Parent Expectations Vs The Reality

Parenthood blog post on Expectations vs reality of being a first time parent

21 Months Deep in Parenthood

We’re 21 months deep in this neck of the woods they call parenthood. Supposedly, well clear of that first year parent fog. So, with that now new found clarity (joke), we thought it’s about time to enlighten you on our Reality Vs Those First Time Parent Expectations. read more

Giveaway Vibes: FUN DMC Family ticket to the Half Term Hip Hop Special + Interview with Spin Doctor

It’s February, Half Term is round the corner and it’s Giveaway time! For this months Giveaway, FUN DMC have kindly given us a family ticket for their Half Term Hip Hop Special on the 18th February. If you haven’t been to a FUN DMC event, have a read of our previous blog post FUN DMC Vibes.

February is notoriously cold and wet! If you’re at a loss on what to do with the kids next week, then Spin Doctor and the Fun DMC crew have got your back! In addition to their Half Term Hip Hop event in Hoxton, on the 18th, they are also running a Free event on the 13th.

The Half Term Special will take place in the Royal Festival Hall, for the Southbank’s Imagine Festival. We were lucky enough to get to interview the guy who has your Half Term kids entertainment on lock. Find out about the origins of FUN DMC, and the beginnings of Spin Doctors Love with Hip Hop, vinyl, and a dream about Barry White.

Details of the giveaway are below.

An Interview with Spin Doctor – Fun DMC founder and Promoter read more

Fun DMC Vibes – 10 Reasons why Midday is the new Midnight

You’ve probably seen from our previous post Big Fish Little Fish Vibes, that we love a baby rave. We’re in the midst of that first year baby haze, so still working up to that “Im back” drinking sesh. As our willpower is non existent, we need Emerson to escort us when raving to alleviate the urge to get totally annihilated.

That said it’s New Years Eve, and we have to do something !! HAVE TO! In the 16 New Years’ we have spent together, we have never stayed in just the 2 of us. Other than that 1 year when we got a bit carried away dancing in the kitchen to 1Xtra. We got too happy, mixing champs with VSOP and then spent the run up to midnight over the toilet! Rather than at the Garage event we had tickets to in East London. Even last year 5 months pregnant we somehow made it to Shoreditch.

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New Years Eve planning is notoriously hard, its that feeling of necessity that you should be out celebrating, coupled with the logistics aggro that comes with actually going out on NYE. So this year deciding what to do with a baby was always going to be a toughie. Our decision was made when we saw that The Doctors Orders were putting on a New Years Eve event. ‘Fun DMC-A New Years Eve Party where Midday is the new midnight’ even had a countdown to 12pm!! We were sold!! Having been to The Doctors Orders events before we knew the tunes were going to be right up our street. Fun DMC have been putting on daytime block parties, for the whole family since 2014 and the tunes played range from Hip Hop, Funk & Disco, definitely a bit of us.

Pete, and I have quite an eclectic taste in music. We met at a DnB rave, fell in love over our obsession with Eminem, and spent subsequent years chasing Arctic Monkeys around the world. We want to pass our AMAZING (well we think so) taste in music on to Emerson. As a family we’ve raved to hardcore and DnB at BFLF, and listened to a bit of rock and Indie at Meraki Festival. Up until now Emerson has only got down to hip hop in the back of the car. Now its time for Emerson to gain hip hop stripes, hopefully he will be able to breakdance better than his dad. What better place for him to do it than at a block party on New Years Eve.

Here’s our countdown on why Fun DMC’s Midday is the new Midnight:

10. Fun DMC Merch

Emersons wardrobe is insane, he has more clothes than us put together, Im obsessed with buying the little guy fresh garms. We’re also very unorganised, so when it comes to putting his clothes away, the changing table makes a good closet. Meaning a lot of clothes get lost. When we purchased Fun DMC tickets, it was a good time to find that Run DMC TShirt that had been buried. This wasn’t necessary though, as there is a Merchandise stall, where you can buy ‘Fun DMC’ shirts. Theres even matching Tee’s for Mum and Dad (we’re all about that Twinning life). Our favourite Tee was Notorious KID, with that baby with the fro off of Biggies Ready to Die album. Unfortunately its not available in Emerson’s size, soon though soon. In addition to Tshirts, there were giant Gold Chains that Flava Flav would be envious of, and ghetto colouring books. read more

Interview Vibes : an Interview with Big Fish Little Fish Founder Hannah Saunders.

Happy New Year to you all! You will probably have read our review of the amazing family event Big Fish Little Fish, that we posted last month. If you haven’t then you should heres the link Big Fish Little Fish Vibes

The crew over at BFLF were kind enough to let us interview Hannah, but they have also given us a family pass to their upcoming launch event of BFLF x Camp Bestival “Around the World in 18 Raves Tour” at the Fire & Lightbox club in Vauxhall, London with 2 Bad Mice headlining on the 27th January 2018. Giveaway details to win tickets to board HMS BFLF, and sail the 7 seas are at the bottom of this post, but for now let’s find out the answers to those all important questions that we asked Hannah about the origins of BFLF, and her raving career.