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UK vegan music festival

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Is this a UK first?

The organisers of Vegstock reached out to me in order to ask me to share this information with you:

There are many fabulous vegan festivals around the UK but very few vegan music festivals, so Vegstock was born! The first Vegstock will take place Sunday 16th September, 2018 at the fab music venue The Piano Works in Farringdon, London. We have a full afternoon and evening of vegan bands lined up, alongside some great vegan food and clothing vendors. The event is in aid of Open Cages who are an organisation trying to make this a better and happier world for factory farmed animals.

I really haven’t seen many all-vegan band line ups in the UK, so this is great news.

Band scheduled to perform on the day include:

  • Rudy Warman & The Heavy Weather
  • Queen V
  • RIIVER
  • Tokyo Taboo
  • Platypus
  • Juha
  • Harry Munk
  • spyplane
  • Tally Spear
  • Eden & The Aftermath
  • The Fleas
  • Amorie

Food vendors will include Vegan Sweet Tooth London, Shakey Shakey Vegan, Sheila’s Kitchen, and more to be announced.

Early bird tickets for just £5 plus booking fee are available by clicking here now and you can RSVP and invite friends over on the Facebook event page.

New album from awesome London band

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If you hang around these parts much, you will know that I adore Colour Me Wednesday.

Colour Me Wednesday is an indie punk band from west London and they are awesome.

The band is fronted by sisters Jen and Harriet Doveton, while the current line up is rounded out by Jaca Freer and Laura Ankles.

Everything the band releases is fabulous, so it should go without saying that you should instantly listen to/buy/stream the new Colour Me Wednesday album called Counting Pennies in the Afterlife.

If I was a musician, I reckon it would piss me off royally if critics said I sound like another band or I was the new so-and-so. So you get no sort of comparisons from me to try and convince you to listen to Colour Me Wednesday.

All I’m going to say is that this music makes me happy when I listen to it and I think you will get a buzz from it, too.

Stream the album on Spotify if your personal politics permit.

Take a more ethical approach and buy the album via Bandcamp. There are bundles!

Head over to YouTube to watch the music video for the first single from the album, Sunriser. The band can be seen doing a bit of vegan grocery shopping in this video!

To speed up your eventual infatuation with Colour Me Wednesday, be sure to follow the band on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

New music from Colour Me Wednesday

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One of my favourite bands out of London is the fabulous Colour Me Wednesday.

This band releases some of the best music you will hear out of London and in even better news they also champion vegan causes.

Because I think it is a great idea to support independent artists (especially if they are vegan), I am sharing the link where you can pre-order the soon-to-be-released new album by Colour Me Wednesday.

Click here to order and help keep the arts alive… and hear some fucking fantastic music.

Queer vegan music

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If you sniff around these parts of the Internet often, you will know that I adore a band from West London known as Colour Me Wednesday.

Colour Me Wednesday is a super awesome feminist queer DIY music situation with the catchiest songs this side of the Hangar Lane gyratory.

As an added bonus, the band members are vegan. I just can’t get enough of them.

If you are keen to experience one of my favourite bands, you should grab a ticket for this very special preview show taking place in South London.

To celebrate the new album set to be released soon, Colour Me Wednesday is playing a one-night-only show at DIY SPACE for London on Sunday November 19, 2017.

You can buy your tickets online here.

You can follow Colour Me Wednesday on Instagram.

Yay for music!

Superstar vegan restaurant in new music video

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There is a new band releasing music in 2017 called Dreamcar and I adore what I have heard so far.

Actually, I adored this band before I had even heard a beat or bar. Dreamcar is made up of Tony Kanal, Adrian Young and Tom Dumont of No Doubt, plus Davey Havok of AFI.

No Doubt has been one of my favourite bands on the planet for a very long time and I’ve written about Tony’s veganism in the past.

Now the latest music video from this new supergroup features veganism heavily, with the band heading into a venue called ‘Vegan Club’ to play a gig and even convening in a superstar vegan restaurant in Hollywood!

Check it out above!

Dreamcar is hanging out at Crossroads vegan restaurant on Melrose in Hollywood.

This is a lovely full-circle moent for the band as Crossroads was the location for their first meeting to discuss whether they wanted to move forward with the project.

Kill For Candy is a fabulous song made even better by the vegan-centric music video.

You can watch the music video by clicking here.

Follow Dreamcar on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Vegan band has new EP & it’s FABULOUS

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If you hang around my blog with any regularity, you will instantly recognise Colour Me Wednesday.

Colour Me Wednesday create some of the most irresistible music you will hear right now and they put on an absolutely killer live show. If you were fortunate enough to be at the final night of my Vegan Roadshow last summer, you will know exactly why I sing the praises of this band. They raised the roof.

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Now that you know you should be paying attention to this band, here is some homework for you:

Get over to Upset Magazine by clicking here to listen to the brand new Colour Me Wednesday EP. The website also has a fab interview with Jennifer and Harriet from the band in which Harriet boldly states, “Go vegan. It seriously rules and I’m in permanent food heaven.”

Homework part 2?

Get along to one of these upcoming Colour Me Wednesday live shows. All the dates contain links with details, so there is no saying that FGV didn’t give you enough info. Support live music made and performed by vegans.

MARCH
31 JT Soar, Nottingham

APRIL
01 Wharf Chambers, Leeds
02 Opium, Edinburgh
03 Fulford Arms, York
04 Retro Bar, Manchester
05 DIY Space for London, London
08 Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton

Homework the 3rd:

Get over to the Colour Me Wednesday Facebook page to like it and the Twitter page for a spot of following.

Homework part 4 (I used to be a school teacher):

Go to the Colour Me Wednesday Bandcamp page right now to order the new EP, Anyone and Everyone, and to listen to some of their older tracks.

Extra note:

I love Colour Me Wednesday so thoroughly, I even asked the band if I could use one of their tracks as the theme song for the cooking videos I make with my friend Julio. There is nothing as cool as having a song about being vegan that is written and performed by a kick ass vegan band as the theme song to a series of vegan Mexican cooking videos.

Salsa verde recipe with Sean y JulioSimple recipe for salsa verde! Get recipe here: http://tinyurl.com/VeganSalsaVerdeRecipe and support the making of these videos here: https://www.patreon.com/FatGayVegan’Sean y Julio: comida vegana’ theme song ‘(I’m Not Coming To Your) BBQ’ used with special permission of Colour Me Wednesday. Listen to and buy their music at https://colourmewednesday.bandcamp.com/ follow the band on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColourMeWed and like on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/colourmewednesday

Posted by Fat Gay Vegan on Saturday, March 12, 2016

Pico de Gallo recipe by Sean y JulioSimple recipe for Pico de Gallo! Get recipe here: http://tinyurl.com/PicodeGalloVegano and support the making of these videos here: https://www.patreon.com/FatGayVegan’Sean y Julio: comida vegana’ theme song ‘(I’m Not Coming To Your) BBQ’ used with special permission of Colour Me Wednesday. Listen to and buy their music at https://colourmewednesday.bandcamp.com/ follow the band on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColourMeWed and like on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/colourmewednesday

Posted by Fat Gay Vegan on Monday, February 29, 2016

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It’s all over

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After 10 shows in 9 cities, my first ever Vegan Roadshow is all over.

I want to give a massive thank you to all the people who supported our Indiegogo campaign, helping us to cover some of the costs associated with taking a band, a blogger and an activist group on the road.

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Lots of love and appreciation goes out to the venues that hosted our event. Thank you for taking a chance on our unique tour and I hope it was worthwhile for you. Your support was invaluable in helping us spread our message of compassion.

We wouldn’t have had a tour without the attendees. The people who came to the shows were full of enthusiasm and made all of us feel welcome in each city. Thank you for showing up and spending your money on merchandise. We are thankful.

Thank you to the bands and performers who helped us entertain people along the way including the wonderful Chrissy Barnacle and the irrepressible Colour Me Wednesday.

Superstar food providers kept us fed and happy during the tour. Thank you to the wonderful chefs and cooks who came out to each stop of Vegan Roadshow to impress us with their culinary skills.

HUGE appreciation goes to Connor Jackson who not only managed the Animal Equality merch stand at every stop of the tour, but also stepped up to perform at most of the gigs. Connor is an incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist who works hard to spread the vegan message. Thanks, Connor.

Josh Leuner is my partner and he certainly got more than he bargained for with Vegan Roadshow. Josh drove the van all on his own for the entire tour and performed an acoustic set at most of the stops. His unwavering support of my outlandish pursuits is the stuff that makes life bearable. I love you, Josh.

Final thanks to the Vegan Roadshow resident band, Love Like Hate. Sonja and Heather are two of the most passionate, authentic and compassionate people on the planet and I’m extremely fortunate to have shared this experience with them. Their unwavering love of music and doing the right thing pushed them into agreeing to fly all the way from Brisbane, Australia at great personal expense to help me bring Vegan Roadshow to life. I am forever humbled by their musical talent and kindness. Saying goodbye to them as they prepared to return to Australia filled me with a definite sadness. Thank you. Lots of love, always.

Back of the van… Connor, Heather & Sonja

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