Surprise!!

Last night here in Milan a whole load of us expats were busy plotting William's birthday! Our friend Paul was kind enough to lend us his house for the occasion, so like a little army we all set up site at Paul's set out the food, and waiting to surprise our birthday man! When he finally rung the bell we all hid in the living room, and like a ray of light leap out as he opened the doors!!! Surprise!! Happy Birthday William, Libra's RULE! xx

I Love A Party!

Yes, I love a party, and after the day stuck in the backstage of MIKA's dressing room, waiting and waiting, I needed to get out! I was starting to feel green!
LAst night my lovely new friend Claudia celebreated her birthday with a intimate soiree at her house. It was lovely, we had danger cakes, that were delicious and gave me just the buzz, champagne, a platter of cheeses, and a sacher cake, god I love chocolat!! Amelia & I drank our way merily through wine then I moved to vodka, the party got going when Enrico turned up with the Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur Massimo Calestrini, the author of the fashionable “Shiro” trademark, who he works for.
Massimo has worked with such international giants as “Roberto Cavalli”, “The Burani Group”, “Calvin Klein”, and “Donna Karan” endowed him with indispensable experience in fashion owing to his love for beauty and ties with Africa revealed in his each and every work.

No Show MIKA!!!

Looking Thrilled after having waited for MIKA to show up!

Why is it that people who often become super successful or famous often forget they are human like the rest of us mere mortals? Manners go out the window and in come primadonna makeovers with close behaviour resemblances to a 2 yr old who isn't getting his way! Or is it just that they truly believe that they now have super powers, that they no longer need to do the things they had to do to get to where they are now? And just where is that exactly?
In this particular case I am rambling on about the pop world's newest brightest star, Mr. MIKA; oh yes the young lad born in Beirut who when the Gulf War struck was forced to move to London with British father and Syrian born mother, who talks candidly about the hardships of moving school to be enrolled at the exclusive French Lycee in Knightsbrige!! Must have been dreadful! Where by the way he was bullied so babdly that he had to leave and be schooled at home before then moving to yes another private school Westminster..... well as a privately educated lady myself I know all about the hardships of private school life, and it is not as hard as MIKA has liked us to believe...... but he is obviously still scarred and taking his hidden anger out other of us innocent who don't go round with a solo violin soundtrack in the background!

Friday morning I set off for Turin with the My-Tv crew, I have been asked to interview MIKA for a special live webchat for Virgilio & Telecome, Italy's major internet search engine and telephone company, we are scheduled to go online at 16.00 Mika will be asked a series of question from others who are connected to the web and can talk in real time, and absolutely brilliant and innovative idea, as it can literally reach thousands of people in minutes. The interview is to take place at the Mazda Palace in Turin where MIKA is performing that night. It's early, the crew have been working already for 3 days scouting the location, setting up all the technical aspects and working hard to connect us online, finally all is ok, tests are done, I write my intro, and then we are told MIKA will be delayed 30mins, fine, no problem. Another 30mins, we are told that MIKA has decided he needs to sleep, having driven in the bus over from Barcelona the night before, he couldn't get much rest and so wants to pass by the hotel and wants to come at 6 instead, 2 hrs late!!! To the final decision MIKA decides to cancel, MIKA then decides not to cancel, MIKA then asks if we just want a sinple interview, and we don't!!!!

It's such a shame when a young man like MIKA at the age of 25, who happens to write shit songs, thinks he will win or exceed his fan base like that, he needed to give his fans 60mins of his day, and that is too much, too hard, yet he expects and hopes that thay will give him their money, their time and energy......

I wasted a whole day paying my nanny to look after my lovely daughter who I didn't see for hours, just cause one lame pop star who was probably partying all night on his bus, which by the way is probably very comfortable couldn't be bothered to maintain arrangement he had made for what he thinks wont make any difference from his career.

He is no doubt very wrong, and soon people wont even care to ask him the question he so likes to dismiss are you gay or straight? No I'm just a primadonna wanker!

Thanks MIKA!!! You didn't win any new fans on Fri!

Turn The Music Down! Oh No Way DJ!

Another night another DJ gig, just me in the DJ booth, last night at Death Disco they asked me to turn the music down! Are you crazy! Nobody asks a DJ to keep the music down, and it's happened twice in the same place! For those who don't want it loud, get some ear plugs baby!

So I want to add my new favourite bands this week is A Place To Bury Strangers & Ipso Facto.
A Place to Bury Strangers are from NY, and are inspired by some of the best bands ever, pure Jesus & Mary Chain to The Raveonttes who by the way have their new album Lush Lush Lush out on Fierce Panda Records on 5th Nov, they've also just announced a new UK tour, www.myspace.com/theraveonettes.

Ipso Facto instead are 4 delicious ladies from London way, they are seduction, dark elegant, misfits, a class of medieval lyric poets troubordours of style! What else can I say, they are amazing, and they will be playing at Electric Youth on 15th Dec here in Milan.

Please Pete!

The following is an article taken from nme.com, where Pete Doherty looks as if he is finally coming to terms with his drugs addiction, and if it is true that he wants to say sober, I also have word form the inside that he really does want to kick his habit. There are many that believe drugs aid their creativity and we cannot pretend today that it isn't a lifestyle choice, however it's too easy to fall into it's trap, and there are too many talented people who get lost forever, some never come back.

It won't be easy for Pete, the road to recovery is a hard one for anyone who is on it, but it's better that being out of it, day in day out and letting go of your own ideas, and allowing it to rule you rather than you taking control of your won life, I know Pete will be just as amazing without all that crap!

Taken from NME.

Pete Doherty 'at drugs turning point'

Babyshambles singer reunites with army father
15.Oct.07 9:55am
Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has said he's at "a turning point" in his battle against drug addiction.
The singer said that he has been reconciled with his estranged father after three years apart.
He is now living in Wiltshire after spending time in a rehab centre there.
Doherty told BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' programme: "In the last eight years, I've never been that long without drugs. I'm not going to lie and say it's not a struggle, because it is. But, in a way, I'm quite proud to be able to admit it, particularly for my mum and dad.
"I'm quietly confident, but there's an underdog feeling about it still. These last few months have been a turning point."
Part of his treatment included family therapy which saw him reunited with his father, Army officer Peter Snr.
The singer said: "He came in for some family therapy, which is a miracle in itself. It was an emotional time, to be honest."
Doherty denied a newspaper story that his cat had tested positive for cocaine, and said that access to the media was restricted.
He told BBC News: "The papers are intercepted. Sometimes I'd pick up The Daily Mirror, but there'd be a page missing."

Nike Soiree at La Posteria

Ivan Maria Velé et moi!
Martin & I
Kesh in da house!!!

It's My Birthday!

Friday 12th October I celebrated my 33rd Birthday! That's right, and how happy it makes me to think that since hitting 30 life just got better, goodbye 20's, goodbye insecuity, indecicivess, lonelines, uncertaintly, boredom, should I go on, I will begin to bore you! But truth be said I am 33, and I don't lie about my age! Why! Cause it's swinging just as it is, and I love it!

At 9.30 I hit The Locanda Greca or Greek Tavern as I would prefer to call it, in Ripa Di Porta Ticinese, for an intimate dinner with 15 or so friends, yes that's intimate, it was so good to taste taramasalata, tzatziki, and aubergine dip, as well as bottles and bottles of white wine, the second course kept coming, more food, and more food, greek spinach pie, mousaka, greek salad, I'm so full already.......... We were Ed & his new boy Marco, Sis Daniela, Illaria & Gaz, Giorgia, Amelia, Claudia & Marco, Barry Tulip, Elena, Lorenza, Nana & not forgetting Teresa.







Feeling rather tipsy we straddled over to Bond next door, for my Pink Is Punk Birthday Celebrations. Milan's coolest kids were literally sprawled all over the pavement outside Bond, it was a coulourful site, I would be lying if I told you I was altogether there in the head, much white wine can help you loose your balance. So many people came down to celebrate, it was a lot of fun, the music was beating fast inside, we had to have a dance, then we got more sparkling stuff out and another happy birthday ROAR!! Another one bites the dust!

Hey Scensters! Death Disco

Bugger! Francesco & I

Giordano AKA Plastic Toy & DJ Leander


So SOO & Amelia ......Meals





Tuesday night is Death Disco night in Milan. Giorgia & I founded Death Disco after a chance meeting with Alan McGhee during Women's Fashion Week a year ago. This year we decided to move locations from Soir to the infamous Rocket, a place where young hipsters, musicians, artists and anyone too cool for school hangs. Rocket is owned & run by friend Massi, who is a dude, he loves music and always gets any band passing by drunk as a skunk. BRMC say it's their favourite stop when in Milan, but the list of bands that have both boozed or played live at Rocket is as long as I can remember, The Killers, Raveonettes, Rakes, Horrors, Cazals, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand to Maximo Park mouth off a few.

Rocket was rammed as Icelandic quartet Amiina played their very strange ecclectic soundscape, I admit I was a little a jar as to how many fans they had here, however unfortunately their sweet little Icelandic faces begun to annoy me as they took more than 1hr to clear the stage, while bitching that the music was too loud they almost corrupted my DJ set! Oh well!! Diva's hey! Aren't we all.



Death Disco is our night dedicated to the never ending passion and expression for indie, punk, alternative music. I feel so at home behind those decks. It's a time and a place where I can meet up with all of my favourite Milan kids, I love their indie impersonations, for them music is the bible of fashion, rubbing shoulders with the great greats of trend setters, Sid Vicious, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, to Ian Brown, Liam Gallagher, Robert Smith & Paul Weller and never forgetting Ian Curtis, Juliam Casablancas & the good old Jarvis Cocker.....and there are many more today trend setters for tomorrow new sounds and style, think Klaxons to Does It Offend You, Yeah!

i never leave home without my g-string

It's my time to play all those favourite songs, those indie glory stompers, those forgotten moments in time, like a soundtrack of my life, I get to travel down a motorway of time, love, loss & found. Requests keep coming and suddenly everyone roars as 'Behind The Wheel' - Depeche Mode begins, Francesco is a big fan, and I smile as I remember the time I was high in love with AC, the father of my child. I had flewn into LA to be picked up by Dave & Jimmy of LA's Little Radio, direction San Diego, grappa kept company as we just about catched Depeche Mode's the first Cali tour date. The Raveonettes were supoort act, AC looked amazing on stage, it was exciting, Dave Gahn an ethereal God parading the stage, all of us acting hostage, he commands attention and with pleasure everyone submits.....The Raveonettes were amazing, almost a little lost on such a huge stadium......later we headed downtown to see the Dandy Warhols, and in the morning we got the Rave bus driver to stop off as we piled up on breakfast burritos on the road back to LA......ah life, can be so sweet.

The gorgeous Giorgia & I!

Paolo from Trash Milk & Miss Sue London Loves



As a DJ, I get to get all sentimental, but I also have a good dood time 'You Spin Me Round' - Dead or Alive had us all jumping, and the night ended with Lost In A Supermarket - The Clash, we danced, I finally danced, with Meals, Soo, Sascha and Alain Q who then showed us his amazing shoe designs - I was blown away, they were a dream, neons on heels, he has promised us some photo's so check this space soon........

Nico

DJ Margo & Francesco WHO? Haha I love this guy!

The drive home was resurring as once again we listened to The Raveonntes new album Lush Lush Lush loud! The album isn't out until Nov 5th, and it was a present from Sune & Sharin, I treasure it and yes I do have a favourite track - 'Dead Sound', jesus it's everything.

x N

Things Get Dirty....

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