DON'T CARE IF THEY'RE BEING SUED - I WANT IT

Get it while you can, 'cos Chanel have thrown a hissy fit over this Ghostbusters sweat. I want it. 

What About Yves sweater, $82

BAGS FOR PEOPLE WHOSE DAYS GET RUINED BY SQUASHED SANDWICHES

Now, I love food. I love food so much. It's what takes up 99% of my brain space and if I'm not eating a meal, I'm planning a meal. Or fishing some sort of snack out of the depths of my bag. Fluff-covered honey cashews? Yummmmmeh!

So when I've gone to the effort of making a badass sandwich ('cos no offence Pret but I ain't paying £4 on the reg for your dry baguette no matter how artisan it is) and find it either squashed due to the fragile caress of tinfoil or fallen apart thanks to ill-fitting plastic containers then I get sad. Real sad. But it looks like those days are numbered because LOOK AT THIS!

The Compleat sandwich bag rolls down to keep any size sarnie snug and then rolls away when you're done so you don't have that annoying thing of transporting empty containers across London. Plus it's BPA free (so you don't get all poisoned and that) and dishwasher safe (which won't affect you 'cos no-one I know has a dishwasher).

Only thing - not sure about the colours. Colour can really mess with your food and wreak havoc with your eyeball/tastebud relationship. (Just think about that cup of tea you got served up in a black mug. Tasted like shit didn't it?) I think I'd err towards the blue but would it make my avo sandwich look a little ill? Would my sriracha stain it? Would I have instant regretsy and wish I'd got the mustard? I JUST DON'T KNOW. GIVE ME THEM ALL.

If, like me, this shit has made your day then you can get your very own here. The makers also claim it makes a great make-up bag but don't do that 'cos that's fucking weird. 

SPLINTER

JOSEF SALVAT - IN YOUR PRIME (EP)

Now, this man can normally do no wrong in my eyes ears. And for the most part, his debut EP In Your Prime continues along this theme. Open Season, This Life and Shoot and Run have their usual effect (let's call it Salvat Syndrome) of making me feel happy and sad in equal parts, with a sprinkling of hope.

It's the type of music that you need to play when you're at a turning point in your life. It's travelling music. Ever woken up alone on an aeroplane to find everyone else is asleep? A plane that you're not convinced you should have stepped on? It's the loneliest feeling in the world. And the perfect time to whack on something like opening track, Open Season. Salvat's voice is perma-gloomy enough for a catharsis of misery, yet the chorus kicks in with enough bounce to give a glimmer of euphoria and lift you into the realms of hopefulness. (Hopeful that you made the right decision getting on the plane, which it always is - nothing good came from sticking to your comfort zones, or so an inspirational quote on Instagram once told me).




However, after three such tracks, the EP takes a sinister turn. A Rihanna cover. Yup. Rihanna. Diamonds. Nothing wrong with Rihanna but to go from three soulfully euphoric pop nuggets to something that would be more at home on a Radio 1 Live Lounge album is a little deflating. Then you're left with that burst balloon feeling as this is the last track on the EP. And the only one I don't sing along to. (My housemates will be able to verify this. They'll probably also tell you that Shoot and Run gets the best performance but that I need to work on my vibrato.)

I'm not saying it's a bad cover - he makes it his own with a stripped back piano-led performance - it's just not my bag. Explaining the choice, he said, "The song itself is such a beautiful moment, finding refuge in another person and submitting together. It's something I've experienced a lot in my life and I try to write about it often." Which makes me understand the track more, but still doesn't give me stirrings in my heart for it. I guess he should just take that as more of a compliment for his original work. If a cover of a Sia-penned pop song is a letdown to your own material, you're doing pretty good.

In Your Prime is out now. A full album is expected early 2015.

GAMES FOR GIRLS

Daniel Radcliffe talks to me

‘HEY! Nice to meet you, I hope my breath doesn’t smell, let’s get in bed.’

LONG STORY but back in 2012 I was flown over to Dublin for BLISS mag to do a set visit on What If which is out today. It was my first time in Ireland and it rained. I was very cold. But I got to watch Rafe Spall pretend to punch Daniel Radcliffe over and over (and over and over). This bit's in the trailer - how exciting! BLISS is now dead so the film's publicist asked me to get this placed somewhere. Sadly he gave me very little notice at a time where I was working 8 days out of 7 (work it out). Mission: failed.

However, I went to the bother of transcribing it so it's being placed....ON MY BLOG. I've taken out all the boring questions and left the important ones. I hope I don't get in trouble for this ABSOLUTELY STONKING GREAT WORLD EXCLUSIVE ON MY BLOG WHICH HAS NO READERS. 

Hi Daniel. This is a very important question. Onset catering – nice or nasty?

“Generally very very nice but I am also guilty of sometimes skipping the lunch and having KFC or something like that which is the beSt thing in the world. I only had KFC for the first time this year. I have not stopped since discovering it. It’s the best thing in the world. It’s amazing!”

As teens, me and my friends used to go in and be like, ‘Can we just have the skin?”

“Oh yeah! So good. What is it I get? The boneless banquet or something like that?”

Oh yum. I’m vegetarian and I’m still salivating.

“But you’ll only eat the skin though? You’ll only eat the skin of animals. That’s your thing. [laughs]”

‘Skin only please.’

“Just flay it and give it to me.”

Is it weird when you meet your love interest for the film and you’re like, ‘Oh hey, so we’re going to have sex later, um…”

“Well that’s what’s funny because with Zoe it wasn’t awkward because, well, I don’t want to give anything away but there’s really none of that between me and Zoe for the most part of this film. But it was really awkward, there’s a girl called Amanda Crew who plays a character called [thinks] hold on a second, sorry [thinks] oh God, I can’t remember, she plays the girl who works in my office…LISA!”

Good name…

“There you go!! And the first day I met her, the first scene we did together was getting in bed together. It was like, ‘HEY! Nice to meet you, I hope my breath doesn’t smell, let’s get in bed.’ That’s kind of the extent that went to. But she’s really funny. I kept going up to our screenwriters because I…how many girls do I kiss in this film? I kiss like three or four women and they’re all beautiful and I kept going up to our writer and just saying, ‘Thank you, thank you for writing this script – this is awesome!’

So you’re getting paid to kiss hot girls?

“It’s a tough job.”

You could be a binman.

“Yeah.”

I know it’s been a while but do you ever find yourself looking around for your wizards?

“No, not particularly, no. It’s a different job. Even on Potter, I didn’t particularly but yeah I mean, yeah, no. What’s wonderful about having worked on something as big as Potter is that it’s very rare, it might even be impossible to go onto any other film in Britain or Ireland and not know anyone.”

Do you find it annoying that people (like myself) will always be like, ‘Harry Potter! Let’s talk about Harry Potter!”

“No, no! It’s a fact of my life, there’s nothing to be annoyed about. I might run out of interesting things to say one day but people can ask for as long as they like. As I’ve always said, I’m incredibly proud to have been a part of that and none of the opportunities that I’m now getting would exist if it wasn’t for that so it would be rather ungrateful to turn my back on it.”

What’s the worst thing about filming away from home?

 “No cricket on TV. It’s harder to keep in contact with people. It’s harder to see my parents, to see the dogs.”

What dogs have you got?

“Well my mum and dad have got 3 Border Terriers but one of them I grew up with all my life, I miss him. Oh, here it is – baked beans. Baked beans don’t exist outside of England. Not in the same way. Anywhere else you go to get baked beans it looks like something a cowboy spat on and roasted over a fire! The only good baked beans are in England so consequently breakfast is a lot less fun away from home.”

So are you a big fry-up fan?

“I would have it every day if I could.”

What’s in your ultimate fry-up?

“I actually have an answer for this, like I’ve thought about it quite a lot!! [laughs] Um, 2 fried eggs, baked beans, sausages, bacon and chips.”

Chips?

“Yup, gotta have chips, gotta have breakfast chips.”

Oh okay, what like, the American style home fries or actual chips?

“Oh yeah, actual chips.”

Oh wow.

“And toast, obviously. And Lucky Charms! They would be in my ultimate breakfast.”

Do you pick them up whenever you can?

“Yup, I do, I pick them up from around the world because I refuse to pay £10 in Selfridges.”

Yeah that’s ridiculous.

“That’s…yeah it IS ridiculous! [laughs]

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MUFF

Hackney Wick // definitely should have been in bed // iPhone // July 2014

SIR SLY - YOU HAUNT ME

Scrolling through Twitter last night and I see Sir Sly are finally back in action, having been squirrelling away working on an album. GOT SO EXCITED I WET THE BED.*

Photo by Nick Walker

Granted, this track doesn't have the intense magic of their older stuff like Ghost, but it's the perfect pop song for freewheeling in the sun on your bike, and offers a nice precursor for what I can only imagine is an incredible album. 

I don't know what it is about these guys but they make music that makes me feel like everything's going to be okay even when all signs point to the fact that it isn't. On this note, I just found this quote from singer Landon Jacobs who says of the song, "Growing up, there were a few songs that made me feel okay about all the anxiety and self-doubt I had...There were a few songs that taught me that moving on is possible even though forgetting the past isn't. I hope this can be that kind of song for people."

That, my friends, is very powerful. Keep on keeping on. 

Album You Haunt Me is out 16th Sep. (Pre-order and get the title track plus four others. WICK.)

*Definitely didn't