Hello Trekstock Friends,

Who better to give you a run down of Field Day and Underage than our favourite Junior Ambassador Jordan Joice!

As the long awaited Saturday morning of July 31st finally arrived, everyone in the Trekstock office woke up with the biggest of smiles, but after drawing the curtains and seeing the rain, they quickly turned upside down…

Along with everyone in the EYOE office as well, who well and truly must of thought a year of work had been literally washed away, we packed our things and headed to the Victoria Park site to set up. Whilst in the taxi, either someone said a quick prayer or maybe it was just a stroke of luck, the whole site was dry as a bone and everyone was back in the mind frame of having one of the best weekends of the summer!

With the Trekstock tent now fully dressed, complete with our limited edition tee’s and a wonderful white Les Paul donated by Gibson, we were ready for the gates to open and take Field Day by storm!

The day ran as smoothly as a baby’s bottom - sorry Pampers, with the only thing absent being… rain! The weather was so glorious, at times you almost felt like asking the powers that be for a little tipple to cool you down, but with something going on in every corner of your eye, from the sports day tug of war and sack race events in the Village Green Area to the awesome line up of musical talent across all 6 stages of the over 18’s festival, everyone appreciated the scorching weather. Although our tent was as busy as Marks and Spencer during their 1p sale, it was still nothing in contrast to what Field Day’s sister festival Underage had us doing.

With a quick change in site location after a good nights sleep, now next to the wonder guys at the Artrocker signing tent and right in front of the Tango endorsed main stage, everyone in the Trekstock team was ready to take on day two at ‘Vicky park.’ Even arriving at 9:30 there was already a queue, by 11am the pitter patter of under 18’s feet stormed the festival, filing into every crack and hole on our favourite festivals sunny site. Soon enough the music crazed teens found our tent. With some of the punters remembering Trekstock from our presence at last years festival and others having been to our pop-up shop on Carnaby Street, it almost felt like a family reunion.

Our t-shirts were flying off the stall like hot cakes and our now signed guitar (from the previous days artists) was getting as much attention as opening act Ellie Goulding. We grabbed her quickly after her set and she became our first Underage performer on the guitar, having becoming a firm Trekstock follower - she was more than happy to know that we were at the festival and that her t-shirts were selling so well! (They even later sold out, and had such a high demand we done a quick trip back to the office to get some more!)

Underage also ran perfectly, with new found Trekstock friends; Is Tropical playing a storming set on the Youth Music Stage, Lightspeed Champion playing a obviously championing set on the Tango stage followed shortly after by a even-better-than-last-year set by Hadouken! We also caught up with new friends The Courteeners and Darwin Deez…

As the day crawled to an end and we started to pack away, we got a chance to catch headliners MIA. Although her set started with a bit of a diva attitude, she soon snapped into the pop-sensation she rightly is. What a weekend and lets hope we will be back next year!

Check HERE for pictures…

Jordan for TS x

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This year at Lovebox festival Trekstock was the official charity partner for the Friday & Saturday so we headed down with Trekstock badges in hand to try and recruit new supporters, listen to some amazing bands and get some interviews with some top musicians and celebs!

The incredible talent that is Jeff Leach, armed with his very own and handmade ‘love box’ kindly hosted our backstage interviews, getting up close and personal with some amazing talent including Paloma Faith, Yeasayer, Ellie Goulding, The Maccabees, Noisettes, our good friend Rox and our Patron Mark Ronson! Check out all the action here.

WATCH OUR INTERVIEW VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE!

Kitted out in volunteer t-shirts specially designed by our friend Henry Holland we managed to attract loads of interest from new Trekstock supporters so thank you to everyone for your much appreciated donations and interest! Showcasing the new limited edition band tees evoked loads of interest from the Lovebox crowd and if you’re interested in purchasing one of our amazing tees then please pop by our website to take a sneaky peak.

Backstage a Peavey guitar was being signed by the likes of Roxy Music, Mark Ronson, Ellie Goulding and many more and there is soon to be an exciting competition where the winner will get this super cool guitar all for themselves!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated and joined us in our first round of festival fun.

TS x

ps. We’ll be holding a special auction on Ebay soon including prints signed and donated by artists including Eine, Eelus, Ronzo, Motorboy and Mysterious Al, keep checking the website for updates!

TS x

Friday 2nd July sees the launch of the Trekstock ‘10,000 Hearts’ pop-up store just off Carnaby Street in London.

Some very special friends of Trekstock kindly modeled The Maccabees design as below so we couldn’t resist given you a sneak peak! All 11 amazing designs will be unveiled the shop on Friday so head down to 65-67 Broadwick Street to come and say hello to us in store!

Thank you to Jude & Sienna…

For more info on the project please click the image of the shop below!

TS x

Thank you to the pupils of Bloxham School in Banbury, Oxfordshire who kindly raised money for Trekstock by holding a sale at the school!

We would like to send a huge thank you for supporting Trekstock and wish you all the best!

TS x

We had a great time this weekend, helping celebrate Carnaby Street’s 50th anniversary!

‘Carnaby is proud to be working with music and fashion charity Trekstock - raising awareness and support for young people with cancer. This year Trekstock announced its new partnership with Cancer Research UK and first patron Mark Ronson.’

Bands performing on the Carnaby stage throughout the weekend included Connett, RedTrack, The Small Fakers, The Last Grand, The Universal and solo artist Eliza Doolittle who was there specially to support Trekstock, not only that she was amazing and a perfect end to the sunny Saturday!

Check lovely Eliza out here and on Twitter!

News from Carnaby can be found here, keep checking back for a very special Trekstock ‘pop-up shop’ coming July 2010…!

TS x

On May 9th the courageous Zoe Peel headed up a Trekstock team with Lucy Shine and Bethany Lindfield to run the GDF SUEZ Leeds Half Marathon 2010 on behalf of the Trekstock charity!

The race started at 9.30am in Millennium Square, Leeds City Centre and not only did the girls raise over £700, they did it in an amazing time whilst wearing their Will Broome limited edition Trekstock t-shirts!

Trekstock sends a big thank you!

If any of you out there would like to run, swim, hold an event or support us in any way… please see ways to support here.

TS x

The Charities Campaign at the oldest University in Scotland has voted in Trekstock as one of it’s six official charities for the next academic year 2010-11!

Our favourite St. Andrews attendee and Trekstock Ambassador Freddie Fforde tells us;

“Each year the Campaign raises in excess of £65,000 for it’s nominated causes to be split between them equally. It also gives the charity a solid foothold amongst the students and Trekstock are delighted to kick off its presence in Scotland in this way.”

Freddie, a 2nd year student, will be busy over the next 16 months to make sure that the message gets through. “It’s a great way to kick things off up here.

It’s a small town and not hard to get people talking, and we’ve also got lots in the way of fashion and music up here. We will be forming a committee up here over the coming months and be looking at ways we can use the Trekstock brand in the best possible environment - a student town.”

We’re hoping to have our first gig in Scotland at St Andrews at some point next year to thank the students for their support, so keep an eye out if you’re in the area!

TS x

We love Who’s Jack - a multi media platform that encompasses a monthly London centric magazine, both online and in print (you can read the latest issue here)

Not only are Who’s Jack always at the coolest events, parties, launches… the magazine offers a unique connection to young and creative tastemakers in our capital, featuring the best of emerging and established music, fashion, art, film, personalities and products - alongside real issues and comment.

Our friends at Who’s Jack have written an amazing piece about our launch party with zavvi.com in their new issue, have a sneak peak below by clicking the heart and check Who’s Jack on Twitter for news of where you can buy/download…

TS x