Author Archive for Sherwood
Deputy Ed of 69. Renowned for pedancy, controlling electrical equipment by the power of thought and overreacting. Gets genuinely upset about the misuse of an apostrophe. Enjoys scandalous gossip and heavyweight debate in equal measures. Misses Buffy and the West Wing and will cry when David Tennant leaves Dr Who. I am not making this up. To contact Julia email julia@69-247.com
The Decypher Collective at Latitude
Latitude Festival kicks off in Sunny Southwold in just a few weeks time. Local lad Leon Burke will be there, and he had a chat about 5, cos it’s their fifth birthday you know! Birmingham Rep, Leon Burke aka LCB, The Decypher Collective 1. When you think of Latitude what 5 words spring to mind? [...]
Win! £250 of aussieBum goodies!
Oh, aussieBum. What do we love most about you? Is it your beautiful pictures of gorgeous men frolicking in the surf? Quite possibly. But we also love the quality sportswear and underwear you produce. They’re cut in all the right places, quite cocky (in all senses of the word) and just make the boys at [...]
Strictly Come Dancing @ De Montfort Hall
The tv show has taking the nation by storm and the celeb tour has been doing very well on the circuit for a few years now, so it’s about time the Strictly pro dancers had the spotlight focused firmly on them. This tour is what that’s all about. No C list celebs tripping over their own feet, [...]
WIN! Stag & Dagger Tickets!- CLOSED
The ultra cool city boutique festival, Stag & Dagger, is back to celebrate its fourth year in London and Glasgow on 21 May and 22 May. One ticket gives you access to a whole array of venues where you can hear over 100 live music acts and DJs. The line-ups a melting pop of baby [...]
Prêt a Portugal
With the rest of us 69ers confined to Britain in a caravan, packing removal boxes or trying not to think about the looming dark clouds, lucky whatsit Julia Sherwood swanned off to Portugal to make us all very jealous. What’s an enjoyable way to spend the Bank Holiday, or any weekend for that matter? Down [...]
Highcross Fashion Week is Imminent!
Well powder my nose and call me Dolly. 69 Towers is giddy today with the thought of only 7 more sleeps until Leicester gets its own fashion week. I.Know. How exciting. Midlands fashionistas are polishing their elbows as I type. And who do we have to thank for this glimpse of nirvana? Why it’s those lovely [...]
WIN Westfield Derby Gift Card for voting in our Challenge The Stylist Competition. – Closed
1 Trend, 2 Stylists, 3 hours to put together the best look. Westfield Derby invited the fashion team at 69 to take on TV stylist Bradley Taylor, (who has worked with Alexander McQueen and Brit fashion legend Vivienne Westwood no less,) in a special Spring style challenge. The brief? Create an outfit incorporating one of [...]
WIN: Tickets to The 39 Steps at Curve.- closed
Direct from the West End, Broadway and 25 countries around the globe, John Buchan’s classic spy thriller THE 39 STEPS comes to Curve. This blissfully funny production follows the incredible adventures of our handsome hero Richard Hannay, complete with stiff upper lip, British gung-ho and pencil moustache as he encounters dastardly murders, double-crossing secret agents, [...]
Club Geek Chic
We love a good bit of theatrics at 69 Towers (you don’t say) , so imagine our giddy delight when Club Geek Chic burst onto the scene. This slightly alternative social events company that has brought Liverpool a whole host of unique soirees in recent months, including the culturally rich, the fabulously flamboyant and the [...]
The Tooth, The Whole Tooth And Nothing But The Tooth.
It’s the dreaded D word. The dentist. No one surely can actually say they like the dentist? It puts the heebee jeebees up the most macho of fellas and fiercest ladies. One Leicester practice may have a solution that will make the whole experience a bit more erm, if not enjoyable, maybe endurable. Dentique are the [...]
New Firetrap Store In Nottingham
Hurrah and hurray. One of our favourite brands is heading our way. Firetrap will be opening its seventh store in Nottingham this weekend (13-14th March) and the launch is gonna be quite special, with a whole lot of stuff going on instore. The first 50 purchase each day will also bag themselves a limited edition tshirt customised by graffiti artist, [...]
New look Pilot
Perennial 69 fave Pilot, you may recall, opened a new store on the High Street late last year. Well, looky here now because it’s only gone and got bigger and better. The Net @ Pilot Store is moving over from Silver Street into a spanking new basement at the High Street location. The bespoke shopfit [...]
Julia’s Blog-From Muffin Top to Skinny Latte
Prelude Like most women I’ve had my fair share of diets and gym memberships-nothing has ever really worked to the extent where I’ve been happy about it. It’s programmed into women I think, to link their happiness and self worth to how they look. And whilst I know in my head this is utter tosh, that the measure of [...]
Coco Tang
If you’re anything like us you can’t get enough of the darkly chic. Try this on for size: the lovely peeps at The House of Coco Tang in Nottingham are hosting an exclusive fashion show inspired by fairy tales and (Alice in) wonderlands on March 11th. This imaginative show has been styled by Sedge Beswick [...]
Win! A Meal For Two- CLOSED
We’d just like to say a big congrats to Chef Dean Crews for reaching the (deep breath) finals of the British Culinary Federation’s national Chef of the Year 2010 competition. Yay! Dean is the main man at some of our favourite hotels – he’s head chef at the Opulence restaurant in The Cathedral Quarter in [...]
Win! A Pair Of Pilotis – CLOSED
For two decades, Tin Fish of Leicester have pioneered fabulous footwear and none more so than one of this season’s hottest labels, Piloti, of which it is an exclusive stockist. The brand, which was established in the USA in 1999, initially specialised in driving shoes and boots for the likes of Formula One Drivers, but [...]
COULD YOU CUT IT AS A “BUTLER IN THE BUFF”?
Need a new, exciting job?! Are you good looking, charming and a little bit cheeky? Butlers in the Buff, the original bare-bum Butler service are looking to bolster their ranks and are coming to Birmingham, Nottingham and Cambridge to put our region’s hottest men to the test. Experts in etiquette, Butlers in the Buff offers [...]
