"Wanna take suppositories and listen to The Cure?" - My episode in online comedy series'The Chaos'

Last year I shot a scene for  'The Chaos', a  new online comedy from mobile network Giff Gaff. It stars comedian Jeff Leach and 'Shooting Stars' star Dan Skinner and follows a dodgy Camden based prog-rock group over 5 parts. It incorporates all the usual hipster cliches of sex, drugs and Rock 'n' Roll, but also throws in the perhaps lesser used plot point of 'Death by Kindle'.

Here is my 1 line in my 1 scene (blink and you'll miss me mind you) where I'm playing one of Leach's gothy fellow musicians in band 'Perineum'. Yes, that's perineum as in "...the portion of the body in the pelvis occupied by urogenital passages and the rectum". It's hardly the RSC but it's a start!

I'm really hoping to do more acting work in the future, so if you're a casting director who thinks I have a face for the screen (not a face for radio) then get in touch innit?  

Holly x 

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Shrooms on Regents Canal

Jacket: Primark

Jumper: Thrifted

Bum Bag: Irregular Choice

Leggings: Primark

Jewellery: H&M

Shoes: Office

I love living in the middle of this city. Apart from the black-bogey inducing traffic, the beige-suites office workers and the perpetually failing tube lines, I adore being in the thick of it all. 

But when I want to shun the hustle and bustle for a while, my girlfriend and I love a nice stroll along Regents Canal. It attracts a real melting pot of different people: hipsters on their Boris bikes, the occasional rough sleepers pitching up tents, skin 'eads walking back from Camden Town and on a sunny day boat owners sit atop their amazingly adorned floating houses with a beer as I ooze jealousy from every pore. One day I shall acquire my own water home and be the baddest-assed pirate North of the river!  

There is also some really quirky graffiti to be found on route and the Mrs and I turn into right goofballs as we interact with the artwork such as theses giant shrooms in order to bring them to 'life'!  It's such a shame that some fuckers in suits are in the middle of gentrifying the area, with their clinical shiny buildings, posh piazzas and chain coffee shops springing up at every turn. Stick your redevelopment plans up your slimy, corporate bum-holes and leave our canal as we like it please! Here are some piccies from our most recent outing:

What are your favourite hidden gems for when you want to get away from the city? Let me know some good suggestions!

Holly x 

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Suckin' on my titties: Peaches at IndigO2

Amidst the millions of softly-spoken-plinky-plonky-acoustic-guitar-yielding- singer-songwriters that are two a penny these days, there are luckily still a few women performers that aren't afraid to get their cocks out in public and give it some large ting on stage! And last night the wife and I headed over to The Sundance Film Festival at the IndigO2 to see one such tour de force: the uber-amazingly-talented-hugely-inspirational-piss-your-pants-good Peaches. I will try and eloquently describe how frickin talented this woman is without resorting to expletives  that would make even your dad cry, but I can't guarantee it.

Doing part DJ set, part live performance, Peaches owned the stage as usual, rocking a multitude of kick-ass outfits including multi-breasted-nipple-adorned shoulder piece, inflatable sumo costume, werewolf mask and hairy tribal skull ensemble. Joining her for our viewing pleasure were two of her incredibly talented lady friends who aided in the entertainment through donning various subversive guises - picture randy, bum licking unicorns, dildo sporting ponies, a bible burning bishops and some slutty, Victorian prostitutes. Fuck yes.

I always think of Peaches as being a performance artist, but last night we discovered how much of an incredibly good singer she actually is too; her cover of Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' was spine-tinglingly brilliant. Support came from the incredible Feral is Kinky who blew my mind with her mix of lickle ragamuffin rhymes and political poetry. Can't wait to hear more from her. Charlie le Mindu and DJ Matrona also did sets to please the ear holes. 

Peaches

Charlie Le Mindu

Feral is Kinky

All together a fucking brilliant night. We caught the tube back awash with inspiration and Peaches' dirty lyrics still on our tongues.  £1.60 for a portion of dirty cheesy chips on the way home was the perfect way to end a classy evening. 

Trousers: Ed Chickentits

Jumper: Thrifted

Jacket: Red Mutha

Socks: Primark

Shoes: Hand Customised

Bag: Lazy Oaf

Badge: Hand Made

Headband: H&M

Necklace: H&M

Pics by: Fred Silver

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Outfit Post: ""It's Wacaday, no school today...."

Jacket: Red Mutha @The Happy Shack

Shirt: Thrifted

Tie: Thrifted

Trousers: Gift (thank you friend of Angela!)

Cap: Urban Outfitters

Socks: Primark

Shoes: Dr Martens

Bag: Lazy Oaf

Badges: Paperchase and Handmade

Pics: Fred Silver

I somehow manage to look more and more like a retro kids TV presenter every day. I grew up singing along to the Wacaday theme tune, desperate to be bonked on the head by a bespeckled, middle aged man yielding a soft pink mallet. A 'Bleugh' from Mr. Mallet was enough to brighten any breakfast! Yes, the 80's was the golden era for kids telly hands down!

But with Rolf Harris et al getting arrested left, right and centre as part of Operation Yewtree, the mutual penchant for 1980's clothing is definitely where the similarities end! Thank god Timmy and Michaela  played good ;-) 

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#nowthatchersdead

Need I say more?

Outfit Post: "Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky"

Cardigan: Dodgy Market Stall in Camden!

Trousers: Ed Chickentits at Cult Mountain

Bum Bag: Irregular Choice

Labyrinth Tote Bag: Forbidden Planet

Leg Warmers: Hand Knitted

Trainers: Converse

Head Band and necklace: H&M

Earring and Pin Badge: V&A David Bowie Exhibit Shop

'Happy Easter Monday' you devout Orthadox Catholic types or 'Happy continual munching of copious amounts of chocolate eggs from your grandma Monday' you e-number laden aetheist types!

This weekend we attempted to visit the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A in London. Unluckily for us all of the tickets had sold out and I had a bit of a diva strop. Instead we tried to soften the blow by taking a look around the gift shop followed by wander on the South Bank.  My girlfriend warbled a lot of Bowie classics as we walked along the river and I paid tribute to the man himself with my 'Labyrinth - You remind me of the babe' tote bag, Aladdin Sane lighting earring and Ashes to Ashes clown pin. We will be more bloody organized and book some tickets for the exhibit before turning up next time and I'll let you know how it is...

"Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know major tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low"

Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a limited edition, screen printed T-shirt here! 

See you soon, 

Holly  x 

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My Interview for Oppa Magazine - "She is Colours"

I was dead chuffed to be interviewed for brand new fashion/travel/art/photography magazine 'Oppa' last month. This is the first proper feature I have done for a print mag so I am now overwhelmed with an obnoxious sense of celebrity and I have already requested my first Evian filled bath and platter of triangle shaped crustless sandwiches! 

Oppa has some lovely editorials and articles to look at and I am super stoked  to be featured right next to the seriously smokin' Audrey Kitching! I can almost touch her!!

Below are some screen shots from the digital copy, but you can find out where the print issues are stocked here. I hope you find my interview to be insightful, informative, witty, humorous, intelligent, brilliant, profound, challenging, meaningful etc etc etc etc..... ;-)

  

  

Thanks for reading friends.

Remember I have a great GIVEAWAY on at the moment so get your butts over to this page to win a limited run, screen printed T-shirt from 'The Factory Above'

Laters Amigos!

Holly x 

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Giveaway! - Limited Edition Screen Printed T-shirt by The Factory Above

 - Who likes free stuff? 
 - Who likes fresh limited edition T-shirts that make you look P-I-M-P? 
 - Who likes supporting new, independent designers? 
 - Who likes ethically made, 100% organic cotton garments designed right here in
   London?  
 - Who likes all of the above mashed up with love and handed to you on an online 
   platter? 
   
You do?! Bloody brilliant! Then you are in luck my friend, as today is giveaway day here at The Holly Rivers Show! 

The Factory Above is a brand spanking new T-shirt brand, based right here in London town. The original illustrations are hand drawn in ink and incorporate line and dot work, as well as photographic collage. They are then screen printed on soft, 100% organic cotton jersey tees that come in a number of cuts for both the men and the ladiez! 
They are certified by the Control Union and Soil Associations which champion ethical trade and justice for workers, so happy chappies all around! 
Each design is limited to a run of only 50, so when it's gone it's gone! New designs will be appearing on a regular basis though.

The designer just happens to be my lovely lady wife and seeing that I have loaned my pretty face to help in the promotion of the brand, I have been given one T-shirt from the first batch of monochromatic prints to give away!

Entering is super simples:

For 1 chance of winning: All you need to do is 'Like' The Factory Above Facebook Page then have a look at the designs. Leave me a comment on this blog with the design, T-shirt cut and size you require along with your Facebook name and email address

For 2 chances of winning: As well as doing the above, just 'Like' The Holly Rivers Show Facebook Page and leave another comment  on this blog with the design, T-shirt cut and size you require along with your Facebook name and email address.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy? Too bloody right it is!

Competition is open to everyone, living anywhere on planet Earth and closes at 13:00 GMT on Monday April 8th 2013. That means you have 2 whole weeks to enter and to tell as many people as possible. A winner will be picked at random from the entries left ON THIS BLOG ONLY, using a random number generator.

Being an independent designer and setting up a new brand is a really difficult endeavour, especially in today's current climate when arts funding is being slashed and multinationals are monopolizing all of our air space! So please, please support The Factory Above and enter this competition. I'll be throwing in a few surprise goodies too, so you'll be receiving a right fat package through the post!


Cheers and good luck! I'll have my fingers, toes and nipples crossed for you all!


Holly x 

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