Why yesterday was a sad day

Myself and Lu are pretty massive Robert Pattinson fans. The beautiful man that is the star of the Twighlight films is fondly known in the Who’s Jack office as R.Patz aka the love of Lu’s life and aka fast becoming the love of mine. So when we found out he was in London yesterday imagine how excited we were… pretty excited I can tell you. We tried every trick in the book to get an invite to the Twighlight fan party which went on last night in Battersea but to no avail and sadly we went home R.Patzless. Sads.

And to make matters worse yesterday we brought the winning lottery ticket and came into work looking forward to seeing millions of pounds in our bank accounts just to find out the people over at the national lottery pulled out the wrong numbers e.g. ones that weren’t ours. So now we have to spend today trying to contact them to make sure they ammend they’re mistake. Drinks are on us when they do.

Pick and mix, mince pies and a freezing warehouse

Yesterday five models, two hair and make up artists, a photographer, three members of the Who’s Jack staff and two little helpers all gathered in what can only be described as THE coldest place in Britain (an abandoned warehouse in Camden) to create a beautiful Christmas fashion photo shoot.

The day began with myself and Lu running around like two massively mental women trying to get last minute clothes and props while Mark ran off to get our delicious Christmas banquet which was provided by Cook And Butler. It was then onwards with assembling a table and some chairs before we called ‘Action.’

 Check out the results in Decembers issue of Who’s Jack.

It’ll be Christmas if only for one day this month

Tomorrow is Christmas. Well at least for myself, Lu and six models, for tomorrow is going to be our Christmas photo shoot. Without giving too much away it’s going to involved myself and Lu and any male models we can drag into helping us, assembling flatpack furniture (we’re getting pretty good at it) and freezing ourselves to near death in a warehouse in Camden. All to bring you lovely readers one of the most beautiful, glamourous and sparkling Christmas fashion shoot you have ever seen. Unlike actual Christmas we probably wont be getting presents however we will with any luck be stuffing our faces with festive foods.

For the rest of today however, hereby known as the Who’s Jack Christmas Eve myself and Lu (sans John as he’s off having fun in Berlin, Happy Birthday John!x) will be trying to call in the last bits for the shoot tomorrow, tracking down a video camera and also trying to track down a Christmas feast for the shoot and for us to dine upon. Anyone with any ideas/great cookery skills get in touch!

Merry Christmas one and all xo

 

Nails, merkins and Friday afternoons

This afternoon as been an eventful one in the Who’s Jack office. Earlier on myself and Leila went down to NailGirls in Islington and had a lovely manicure which you’ll be able to see up on This Is Jack TV in the coming weeks.

Also this afternoon the whole Who’s Jack massive have been making merkins. If you don’t know what one of those is, google it. We’ve made festive merkins, nautical merkins, glittery merkins and ones with russian dolls on. To see is to believe so make sure you pick up the next issue of Who’s Jack to see more. And in the mean time if  you want to buy your very own special, one of a kind, Who’s Jack merkin then feel free to drop by. We’ll do you a good deal promise.

An eventful day!

 

We have a big day in the office today. After sitting on a pretty plush jet half of the day yesterday today is all about nails and merkins.

Laura has gone off to Nail Girls to meet Leila who will be going through a step by step nail guide for This is Jack TV and getting some beautiful nails herself for review in our extensions section in the Dec issue. After this little excursion the girls will be back in the office to partake in a merkin making master class, the only problem being that we don’t currently have a model, or the body stocking that we were planning on finding which will most likely result in Leila modeling for us. We have been assured that if she can wear at least heels with it she will do it….. updates soon and suggestions on materials to use welcome.

Happy Friday.

Get high like planes

Yesterday myself and Lu took 4 lovely guys known professionally as Gaoler’s Daughter to a private jet at Stanstead airport to do a photo shoot for our Decemeber issue. After going through a rigourous security check and putting on our high vis vests it was off to the tarmac to work our magic. Kriss took pictures of the band who were true pros working their inner indie boys with pouts galore.

After we took them to a local pub to do the interview and have a drink or two leaving poor John behind in the office working hard. See the fruits of our wine induced labour in the next issue out at the beginning of Decemeber.

Oh and thanks to Gaoler’s Daughter for the mention on your blog too…  When me and Lu win the lottery this weekend you’ll be the first people we invite on our very own private jet maybe we’ll even leave the tarmac and get to open the champagne this time too.

The Only Way is Up

You know that song ‘The Only Way Is Up’? Bollocks, economically-speaking. If you’ve been within a mile of an economist lately (and you’ll know because they’re grinning manically and claiming they foresaw the Credit Crunch, the recession, the Boxing Day tsunami…), they’re all discussing what shape our current recession is going to take: will it be a simple V, down and up again? U, down with a long stagnant period before we recover? Or, and this is hitting the spot at the moment, the wicked W, where we think we’re recovering only to collapse again, and for longer?

You may have noticed, if you attend to such things, that the stock market is back up again, which is usually a good sign: it means people have stopped panicking and have more faith that companies won’t fall over suddenly, as they did this time last year. Woolworths was there one day and not the next, and the Icelandic company that owned Iceland, Karen Millen, Oasis, House of Fraser and Whittards was toppled in a matter of days, taking some of those stores with it. You may also have noticed because you lost your job in the crisis.

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Oust Est Le Swimming Pool

OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL HAVE AT LEAST THREE GOOD THINGS GOING FOR THEM. ONE, THEY HAVE A MOST RIDICULOUS NAME. TWO, THEY MAKE GREAT, DANCY ELECTRO NOISE AND THREE, THEY WERE NICK GRIMSHAW’S RECORD OF THE WEEK. OH WELL, TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD.

Shameless and pretty needless insults aside, I meet up with the band in the exclusive surroundings of Soho House and after burying themselves deep into a sumptuous cream sofa and ordering a healthy lunch of vodka, tonic and chips, they begin to talk.

“They call it Franglais. In the business.” explains Joe Hutchinson, who in his own words, “plays some synthesisers” in Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, the band in grammatical question. I pose it to them that there is also no question mark at the end of their name and lead singer Charlie Haddon agrees, “That’s true actually, we used to have an exclamation mark for some reason.”

“We are not really looking for a swimming pool. It could just be anything, we might change it to a symbol. Create a bit of confusion,” ponders Joe. “There was definitely a point where we were in these meetings and people were like, ‘You can’t keep this name if you want to have any kind of serious career in music. Let’s change it now.’ So we thought of a few alternatives but…” Joe doesn’t need to finish the rest of that sentence, as in time-honoured fashion, history tells the rest of their story. And as Joe points out, they are well justified in keeping their peculiar name, “I think having such a ridiculous name must have helped us a lot. Like, no one ever really forgets us.”

READ THE REST IN THE NOV ISSUE

images by Stuart Leech, words James Lynch

The week thus far

So this is our first proper week in the new Who’s Jack office on Parkway Road in Camden. Last week was a bit of a nightmare what with a lack of internet and poor Lu spending an unpresidented amount of hours on the phone to Vodafone just for our internet dongles to be sent to ‘Nicola’ on a completely different road. Excellent work there Mr Delivery Man.

We’re getting in the Christmas spirit by planning our Christmas shoot, (although it’s still far too early for Christmas adverts and the turning on of Christmas lights on Oxford Street tonight, thanks), which if all goes to plan is going to look fantastic and we’re also lining up some brilliant bands and artists for you crazy kids to enjoy over the next few issues of Who’s Jack.

Tonight we’re off to the launch of Alex Proud’s (who also runs Proud Galleries in Camden) new bar and resturant, Proud Cabaret which is modelled on a 1920’s speakeasy bar which opens officially on Thursday. The new City destination offers fine dining and entertainment all evening. Wednesday hangover? Why not.

Jack’s new buddies

Over here at Who’s Jack we love making new friends and the guys over at Jargon PR are soon becoming our new BFF’s. The lovely Simon who runs Jargon PR has agreed, with some gentle persuasion from Tamlin (thank you xx), to help us out on some pretty exciting projects we’ve got coming up over the next few months at Who’s Jack HQ. So this is a blog to say a big thanks to Tamlin, Simon & everyone over at Jargon for jumping on the good ship Jack and we look forward to working with you.

Big love.

NB : Jargon PR are not currently dealing with press requests (not until the new year) and should not be contacted for media/ad requests – for that please contact john@whos-jack.co.uk