Dot to Dot Festival X PINS

Alongside our Competition to win tickets for you and a friend to attend the Dot to Dot Festival this month we are talking to some of our favourite bands that we look forward to watching there! Today we got hold of the babes from PINS and chat about what they're working on, who they are excited about seeing at Dot To Dot Festival, the best and worst thing they have ever bought at a festival and more!

HIYA LADIES! X

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GOING FOR NOW?

Faith - "The current formation of PINS has been since January this year. We got a new drummer, Sophie. Before that I can't remember."

WHAT ARE THE PINS GIRLS WORKING ON AT THE MINUTE?

Faith - "Singing, dancing, pretending to be film stars and we've just finished recording an LP, it'll be out later in the year."

WHAT'S THE BEST GIG YOU'VE EVER PLAYED?

Faith - "We played a Christmas show at the Bunker in Manchester last December, that was special. I have a good time wherever we play but the ones we curate ourselves stand out more to me. Saying that, we opened for British Sea Power a couple of weeks ago, it was Sophie's second show with us and we played a bunch of new songs to hundreds of strangers, it was really fun!"

Lois - " Yeah I think the Christmas one for me too. All the Bunker shows have been amazing, it was cool to be able to put our own."

HOW DO FEEL ABOUT PLAYING DOT TO DOT? HAVE YOU PLAYED BEFORE?

Faith - "This is our first time, we're playing all three cities so I'm looking forward to it."

Anna - " I've been a couple of times. If I think back to the first time I went and I was dreaming of being in a band... I guess things have gone pretty well since then to be playing all three festivals days this year!"

WHAT OTHER BANDS ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCH AT D2D?

Faith - "Swim Deep come up in our conversations a lot for one reason or another so I'd like to see them in real life. Other than that, I don't know. I like Best Friends so I'll try and catch them."

Lois - "Yeah excited, hoping to see Deap Vally and Wolf Alice."

Anna - "Hoping to catch Deap Vally, Lucy Rose and The 1975. I went to school with those boys and haven't seen them since the Drive like I do/ Big Sleep Days."

WHAT'S PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE AND WHERE WILL PINS BE AFTER THE FESTIVAL?

Faith - "We have a couple more shows in the UK and EU left after Dot to Dot then a few festivals in the Summer, come and see us!"

Lois - "End of the Road at the end of August should be cool."

WHAT IS YOUR FESTIVAL FASHION MUST HAVE?

Faith - "Sunglasses"

Lois - "Hotpants"

Anna - "A kigu"

WHAT IS THE BEST AND WORST THING YOU EVER BOUGHT AT A FESTIVAL?

Faith - "Best and worst thing would be mushroom chocolate"

Lois - "Vintage shirt for £5 best and worst is Fosters"

Anna - "The best and worst thing I considered buying at a festival was a 'Nobody knows I'm a Lesbian t-shirt."

WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU'VE FOUND IN A VINTAGE STORE?

Faith - "I got some really cute shoes from COW last year, I wore them until they fell off my feet. Apart from that I tend to collect boys t-shirts."

Lois - "Loads of things.. Gonna go with my fringed shirt though."

Anna - "My huge black fur coat from Ryan Vintage in Manchester. I lived in it, it kept me toasty on two visits to Iceland in Winter. Also I like that people nuzzle into me like a cat. Cute."

TWITTER - @WEAREPINS

WEBSITE - www.wearepins.co.uk

All Images from Google Search. 

Dot To Dot Festival X Best Friends

As you know we are running a competition to be in for a chance to win a pair of tickets to DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL! See how you can win yours here...

In line with this mega competition we are going to be talking to some of the bands who are playing over the 3 days of fun spread across Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester. We want to find out who they are excited about watching at Dot To Dot, where we can see them after the Festival and obvs what they will be wearing!

So to kick off all the excitement we spoke to the lads from the BEST FRIENDS. You may or may not of heard of this band but they are working to hard to make sure their catchy surf/ pop/ rock/ garage style tunes never leave your head. And with track titles like 'If You Think Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out', 'Surf Bitches' and 'Throwing Up' you can see straight away they aren't taking it too seriously but enjoying every minute and with this attitude they are becoming quite appealing to all music lovers.

HIYA JACK, LEWIS, EDAND TOM aka BEST FRIENDS!
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GOING NOW?

Jack - "About two years . I think our first gig was around this time last year."

WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AT THE MINUTE?

Jack - "We're recording a new E.P hopefully to release before we start playing the festivals this summer."

WHAT'S THE BEST GIG YOU'VE EVER DONE?

Jack - "Loads but probably in the house we lived in last year. We used to put on house shows. They were always the most messy but the most fun and the living room made a perfect venue. We did a WWF themed fancy dress show once which was siiiiiiiick!"

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT PLAYING DOT TO DOT?

Ed - "It should be rad!"

WHAT OTHER BANDS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING THERE?

Ed - "Bo Ningen are one of the most insane bands I've ever seen so I'll try and see them at some point that weekend. I'm also looking forward to watching a load of bands I've never seen/heard before, should be a good weekend!"

Lewis - "I'm gonna catch Wolf Alice, we played their single launch recently and they were really good, they're gonna be big."

WHAT'S PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE & WHERE CAN WE SEE YOU AGAIN AFTER THE FESTIVAL?

Lewis - "I'll be looking for a job, are you hiring?"

WHAT IS YOUR FESTIVAL MUST HAVE?

Ed - "A pair of boots"

Lewis - "Hats. Getting sunstroke can make you look like a pussy. Avoid meshbacks too because the sun can still get in and fry your brain."

WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU'VE EVER FOUND FROM A VINTAGE STORE?

Ed - "Festival boots!"

Lewis - "I bought a vest with Snoop on the other day. That's pretty good."

Thanks to Best Friends for answering some questions for us. We look forward to seeing them at Dot To Dot Festival and to listen to more from them follow this link!

DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL COMPETITION

With the sun out, the line ups being confirmed and people diving into their savings for tickets we can safely say it is officially Festival season!
We have been swooning over the sunny, palm trees and sun kissed babes from Coachella last week but since we couldn't be there and realistically have to look towards festivals a bit closer to home we have a  whole list that we want to attend.

One of the festivals that never fails and gets better and better every year is Dot to Dot Festival! This year their line up includes some of our favourites Lucy Rose, The 1975, Bo Ningen, Swim Deep, Best Friends, Findlay, Pins, Skaters, Wild Flowers, and Deap Vally to name a few..

This year COW and Dot to Dot have joined forces to make sure no one misses out and we have TWO PAIRS of tickets to giveaway!!!
That means you and a friend could go and catch up with your favourite bands, singers and DJ's in Nottingham and Manchester! For the chance to win this all you need to do is go to our Facebook Page, like the images we have uploaded (shown below) and share it with all of your friends. The most shares will win a pair of tickets to go to Dot to Dot Festival at either Nottingham or Manchester!!

Whoever can spread the news and photo the most WINS. Easy!!

We will announce the winners on WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY!

GOOD LUCK!

CLUB TROPICANA - Limited Edition T-Shirt Raffle!

So even though we are putting on a spectacular event with an evening full of discounts, free drinks, great music and fun times, we thought this just isn't enough.

Evolving from this thought we bring to you our Limited Edition 1980's style Graphic Print T-Shirt up for grabs on the night of the Club Tropicana Party!! As we may have mentioned before every store has a creative team of staff that love to use COW to really show off those talents. One of those members of staff is the ever talented Allan Buxton who we have definitely mentioned before for his COW Vintage short film which was styled, recorded and edited by himself. Check that our here!

You may also be familiar with his work in stores as he designs and prints t-shirts for his own company Howl At The Sun and we stock those t-shirts in all of our COW stores. This time we asked Allan to come up with a simple and modern version of a 1980's print just for our Club Tropicana event. 

This is the final printed garment and with only 50 printed between 4 stores they are genuinely limited!

Still interested..? Fancy a limited edition 1980's graphic print t-shirt for yourself..? Just follow these easy steps to be in for a chance of winning one..

1- GO TO YOUR NEAREST COW VINTAGE STORE TUESDAY 16TH APRIL.

2- BUY A RAFFLE TICKET FOR £1 FROM THE LOVELY STAFF.

3- EITHER HANG AROUND TILL 9PM OR CHECK THE FACEBOOK PAGE TO SEE IF YOUR TICKET WAS CHOSEN!

4- COLLECT YOUR LIMITED EDITION PRINT T-SHIRT!!

SIMPLE!!

Good Luck and we look forward to seeing you all there! 

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