Beards and dresses, feathers and mud... our festival adventure so far

Puckoo HQ is in full festival swing right now, at the fancy dress mecca that is Shambala, which sold out in record time this year. The organisers have had us drooling (stylish drool of course), promising their best ever site. We can't wait for all the colours and sounds from the likes of Crazy P's sweet disco house, Jazzsteppa, the gorgeous Andreya Triana and then some!

What makes it extra exciting is that we will be there with the rest of the Fash Pack, 'a glitterati hullabaloo of inventive creative rebellion'. This year our fellow festival fun makers (largely made up of Bristol lovelies) are Dutty, Merrimaking, Working Clasp,  Magpie Chique, Elsie Belle, Check My Box,  Daisy Thomas and Jessica May. 

We're still milling over which Shambala flash mob dress theme we will be representing.... Pirate Couture or Puckoo Gangster Crew? It's a tough decision, both of them are badass, both can incorporate big hair and shiny stuff! 

Our penchant for men in drag will be satisfied, when Shambarber's drag queen competition takes place at 10pm on Sunday! Beards+dresses=heaven!

Anyways, the road trip to the festie had us looking back over what other festival treats we'd experienced this season...

We've stretched our stretchy lycras to the max crowd surfing and rave yoga-ing at Eastern Electric's Electric City...

metallic leopard leggings and black couture catsuit warm up 

Crying out to the sun in a Puckoo bikini

                                    

      Spot the Puckoo?                                              photos by GT

We even managed to get a snug with Electric City mumma Helen.

Two of our unitards looking hawt!

Jenny and Dionne were ready to take the night at Glastonbury

Charm bras and feathers FTW!

and finally, we've partied on down with the mega lush alcoholic dream vessle, the Cocktail Caravan at Boomtown! xxxxx

Dressage and Cult Mountain, all in a weekend's work.

                                Images in this post by shotaway.com

Last Saturday night saw us dancing till we dropped at Lakota for Dressage, Horseplay's homo disco extravaganza, with a playful equestrian theme. We saw thousands of my little ponies filling every nook and er... tranny... and a large amount of fabulous people trotting around donning reigns, bits, whips, tails and brush mohawks. As well as the amazing decor, which also featured horse themed visuals in the form of a video installation (by the mega talented Jak Flash) we spent most of the night gawping at in wonder (especially at the 2 piece patterned crop top and legging outfit worn by a contortionist crawling through My Little Ponies and at the lady in blue, one of our fave models, Aiyla- Beau. ), there were cutting edge performances on the stage, including the best male pole dancer we have ever seen (ok he may have been the first male pole dancer I have ever seen, but he rocked it). 

Music ( house and disco, of course darlings) was supplied by the likes of Pardon my French, Shambarber, and the Horseplay guys themselves.

             Our head designer Dionne (centre) and me (just! on the left) dancing the night away

We were sad to have narrowly missed dressing the dancers for the main stage, due to be being too busy with our Fuze fashion show, but hey you win some, you lose some. 

The cherry on the top of our night was when we found ourselves dancing with two of the walkabout performers, who teased us, got down low for us, then had a hilarious interpretive dance style argument. They also had on two hella fabulous outfits! We would love to meet them again for some style tips. 

 The walk about performers

We also loved these three outfits

The night taught us that gays really do have the best fun! Well gays and us, of course!

The next morning we dragged our hungover asses on to the coach to head for London, for the opening of new artist emporium, Cult Mountain, in our capital city's vibrant Bethnal Green. 

Read our next blog for more on that, including an interview with wicked and bad performers, My Bad Sister. 

Jenny (for more by me see jennyelleggit.wordpress.com) xx