New website, new projects, all happening!

At last my new annabelstaff.com website has been launched and I am really happy with it.  There are a few little tweaks that need to be ironed out but overall it's making me very happy every time i look at it!

So today's agenda on such a miserable, wet, cold dreary London day involves a lot of catch up work that has sadly been neglected due to my workload of late.

That's a good thing I guess but it also means that there's a lot to be getting on with and promises to be kept.  The biggest one being getting the latest photos I took of the lovely Smatka, which I took on a whirlwind 24 hour road trip to Manchester last month, done and dusted.  What a day (and night) that was, it was like hitting the road as a 16 year old again (mmm, yeah come to think of it one of Smatka's lovely band members is 16.. swear that didn't make me feel old).

Lots of frolicking around Manchester ensued and an extremely drunken van ride back, taking a little stop off at a massive 24 hour Asda (class) to pick up some junk food and vodka and hitting the road again to fall asleep singing to the worst music blasting out of the stereo - thanks to Stars purchasing the cheesiest CD she could possibly find.  Good times.

It was all for Smatka's triumphant gig as part of "In The City" this year, which got some great press - and deservedly so since Smatka blew everyone away, with such a unique talent you can do nothing but stop and be sucked into to her crazy fantasy world.  She has been described as a cross between Siouxsie Sioux and (strangely) Paloma Faith - I can only imagine the latter is solely due to the theatrical element of Smatka's shows.  Good thing then that Siouxsie happens to be my favourite musician ever.

So there's a lot of images to get through, I am really happy with them and it's hard to narrow them down when it all conjures up good memories.  I will post some when they are done, looking forward to getting the out there.