It’s taken me aages to remember how to publish a music file to this website (not hard, I know, but time consuming!) but nonetheless, I’ve done it and you can check it out here:
April playlist. Happy Easter!

Tracklist
1. Harmonic 313 (feat Steve Spacek) ‘Falling Away’
2. Bullion ‘Young Heartache’
3. Ladyhawke ‘Morning Dreams’
4. Animal Collective ‘My Girls’
5. Hudson Mohawke ‘Overnight’
6. Carrie Cleveland ‘Make Love To Me’
7. Raphael Saadiq (feat. Joss Stone) ‘Just One Kiss’
8. Flying Lotus ‘Tea Leaf Dancers’
9. Wallias Band ‘Musiquai Silt’
10. Starkey ‘Gutter Music’
11. La Roux (Skream remix) ‘In For The Kill’
12. Oh No ‘Gitback’
13. Madlib ‘Remixtroduction’
14. Arthur Verocai ‘Cabolco’
15. secret song only Matt from Lambchop can tell you….
16. Myma Hague ‘Reaching Out For Your Love’
17. Feist ‘The Limit To Your Love’
18. Nina Simone ‘Baltimore’

Quite a few years ago my mate Rae Begley and I used to put on a party, named The Party (yes, the Peter Sellers movie… it’s in my all time Top 5) at a little bar in Melbourne, Loop. We wore vintage dresses, played 80s pop alongside new indie-electro-rock and then always some soul/disco/beats. I always got really drunk and never mixed the records! We also did the graveyard shift at RRR once in a while and generally had a great time about town. Good Times! Then Rae moved to London. Then I moved to L.A.. Then Rae moved to Sydney. Then I moved to London!

These days Rae still calls Sydney home and she is headmistress extraordinaire at the lovely little PR Agency, Little Hero. They’re the home to many a great fashion label, do pop up shops with brands like Cheap Monday and her blog is cooler than Kanyes’! Such deserved success for a truly talented lady. Checkit!

Spring has truly sprung in London. There are daffodils everywhere. It’s still light when I finish work. I’ve walked through Regents Park to work and I’m sweating when I get there. I’m starting to regret all those dark chocolate digestives I’ve been eating lately… not going to look good if I rock the short-shorts this summer! Spring also means a whole new outlook on food, after all those months of soup!

Last weekend I tried out a recipe from my Ottolenghi cookbook, the cherry tomato and fennel gratin. It was delicious and so so easy to make. The vine cherry tomatoes go on top about 15 minutes before you finish baking, so when you eat them they’re these little red bombs of warm tomato pulp… I had to change my blouse after squirting tomato all over! I’m cooking for a dinner party next week and have picked two new recipes from the same book- the turkey meatballs and asparagus, artichoke and haloumi salad. Can’t wait, yum! I highly recommend it for super easy fresh recipes.

I have also had the pleasure of visiting the Baigel Bake hot salt beef bagel place in Brick Lane. It was Saturday night, quite late, and for under a quid you can get a freshly baked bagel with cream cheese.. delicious! I know this place is an institution, but it’s worth the mention nonetheless.. bagels are a gift from god, whichever one you choose to believe in.