Festival Trekking? Trekstock and vinspired Lake of Stars make a date in Malawi

It’s not every day that the thought of trekking to a festival seems like a sensible idea. Certainly not if you’re the type who stumbles through the turnstiles at 2am with a wheelbarrow full of instant noodles and crates of beer, but it’s what Trekstock’s Sophie Epstone does and it’s what she does it for that’s important.

Sophie has trekked to Everest, the Andes and the Costa Rican jungle in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, and this year is trekking for 10 days to the 3rd highest mountain in Africa – Mount Mulanje, reaching 10,000ft, in Malawi. Her final destination is Lake Malawi, to which she’ll be making her way with fellow trekkers to get involved with this year’s vinspired Lake of Stars Festival.

Sophie says; ‘I’m going to head to the vinspired Lake of Stars festival on the 15th of October and help out, the idea is to take Trekstock to Malawi and hopefully get some new supporters on board too. It will be great to be able to speak to current supporter Radio 1’s Nihal over there and maybe get some of the UK bands on board for future gigs in London….’

‘The festival is a really exciting opportunity for Trekstock also in future and talks are underway about how we can merge the trek/festival experience possibly for 2010, so that music lovers can experience the festival yet also undertake a challenge and give back to charity on both sides of the globe at the same time. ‘

The trekkers will be meeting up with artists playing at vinspired Lake of Stars including The Maccabees, SWAY, Nihal, Hot Chip, Tayo, Radioclit and African artists The Black Missionaries, DJ Mo Laudi, Dominant 1 & Third Eye and Ben Mankhamba amongst others.

For more information please contact amy@sentricdigital.co.uk / 0207 1003254
www.lakeofstars.org / www.trekstock.com

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Ever go to a wild party, thinking you look a million dollars, find the photos on Facebook the next day to discover you were not the glam diva you thought and just a sweaty (but happy) mess? Well, then you’re going be rather jealous of the pictures that follow.

Trekstock Loves (a collaborative project with designers like Henry Holland and Ksubi supporting charity Teenage Cancer Trust, launching in Browns Focus in February 2010) threw a shindig at Bungalow 8 resulting in some seriously cool pics of all the names to know right now in our little U of K.

Richard Nicoll struck a pose, as did Ben Grimes (who saved the party at the last minute when a naughty rumour spread that the party was shifting to Mahiki where Jeremy Scott was hosting a bash as well and steered everyone back in the right direction), Amy and Percy of PPQ, Julia Restoin Roitfeld and Jaquetta Wheeler amongst many others found time to duck out of partying along to the Friendly Fires DJ set to get snapped wearing their Trekstock badges too.
So, if you’re planning a night out sometime this week, take note…

http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2009/09/28/party-beat–trekstock-loves.htm

On their blog…

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Trekstock Loves’ launches this evening at Bungalow 8 during London Fashion Week!

News of the collection & stockists to come soon… please note the guest list is now closed.

Trekstock, Haynes PR, Bungalow 8 and Browns Focus are proud to be at London Fashion Week to launch the “Trekstock Loves” SS10 collection. A collaborative effort between House of Holland, James Long, Ksubi, LPBG, MariaFrancescaPepe, PPQ, Richard Nicoll and Trekstock. Special thanks to all the designers involved.

Join us this eve for an exclusive evening with Trekstock ‘giving back to charity through music and fashion’ we’ve got amazing DJ sets from Friendly Fires, Henry Holland, PPQ, Ronnie Joice, Starsmith, live sets from Vices and The Mannequins plus many more and special guests!

Tuesday 22nd September 2009 @ Bungalow 8 - 45 St. Martin’s Lane WC2N 4HX.

With very special thanks to Bungalow 8 and Browns Focus. Trekstock would like to personally say a big thank you to Kerry & Michelle Haynes @ Haynes HQ, Jaime Perlman, Rori Thompson, Matt Irwin, Francesca Burns, Ash Stymest, Anna Brewster, Ghazwan@Maek for his wonderful work and all involved in the campaign.

Over at Trekstock Towers we’re drinking some yummy Alibi pretox drinks in preparation and eating TREK bars before we put them in the goody bags!

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Trekstock ♥’s

At ‘Trekstock Towers’ we’re all very excited! News to follow…

Now what to wear for this year’s space theme?

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Here’s what Jordan had to say about what fun he had and who he met…

‘With a main stage line up strong enough to embarrass rival other festival’s entire line up’s - Reading 09 was a festival cake everyone wanted a slice of!

As Trekstock has had a presence at every major festival this summer, it was only right Reading was on their list of things to do. 

Gaining some new celebrity friends & rekindling some old friendships, the people of Reading 09 saw Trekstock take the festival by storm. 

After hanging out with old Trekstock friends, the lovely Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshaw, we bumped into half the cast of everybody’s favourite film, Harry Potter, and Daniel and the gang were more than happy to show their support. 

Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead headlined this year’s sold out summer event, with the likes of Florence and the Machine, Jamie T, Bombay Bicycle Club and Friendly Fires also playing unforgettable sets with only a little bit of rain!

 Although Friday and Saturday’s main stage was hit with sound difficulties, Sunday made everyone forget about the previous night’s flaws and focus on the main band of the weekend - the almighty Radiohead!! Thom Yorke and friends played for 2 hours solid blasting song after  song, echoed each time by the audience singing along.

Overall a very enjoyable weekend & a pleasure to be apart of.

Jx’

The time is upon us… every end to Summer means only one thing (not counting the epic Bestival which will follow shortly)

…READING & LEEDS Festivals! 

We’re sending Trekstock’s most awesome Jordan out to Reading Festival armed with a camera and tons of badges to get some new supporters, so find him in the crowd, get your badge  (he’ll prob give you lots of hot music tip off’s and tell you a joke or two also…)

There are too many favourite bands to mention so if you’ll be joining us this weekend, check out the line up, the ‘alternative ’stage packed full of comedians, poets, films and much more has just been announced too!

We’ll see you there and check back for post festival competitions and exclusives!

Thank you to our friends at Festival Republic…

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Firstly let’s give a big CONGRATULATIONS to Becky who entered the competition to win the signed Epiphone Flamekat guitar signed by Esser, The Mystery Jets, The Pigeon Detectives & Patrick Wolf!

The guitar is winging its way to you plus we’re throwing in a special Class-A Windsor™ Studio amp from our friends at Peavey so you can use your exclusive prize!

We had such an amazing time at Underage, not only did we get the Trekstock guitars signed, we got lots of new badge supporters and made lots of new friends who sported their I ♥ Trekstock badges…

Click here for full list of supporters!

Check out this for a Trekstock badge picture!

Thank you to Matt Richardson

Thank you to artists such as Kissy Sell Out and Danimal Kingdom, Patrick Wolf, (our new favourite band) The Temper Trap, Ladyhawke, Esser, Mystery Jets, Hadouken, Lo-Fi Culture Scene, Lion Club, The Ruskins, Good Shoes, Little Boots, Metronomy, The Horrors and The Pigeon Detectives who all showed their support…
Special thanks to Matt from The Pigeon Detectives and Danimal Kingdom from Kissy Sell Out’s band even wore their Trekstock t’s on stage!!

Not only that, we had a fantastic Trekstock stand next to our friends at the Artrocker signing tent, where we sold our limited edition t-shirts and bags, gave away some badges and told lots of people about the fantastic work that Trekstock does to help Teenage Cancer Trust.

We’d run a comp with Underage and Will Hazell won the chance to come and be on hand to take some incredible pictures for us at the fest as ‘Official Trekstock Photographer!’
He didn’t just take some incredible shots, together Freddie who’s doing an internship at CRUK and our star reviewer Jordan Joice, they ran around the sunny Victoria Park site, got guitars signed, handed out badges, spread the word and put Trekstock firmly on the Underage map, so big thanks boys!

A little note from Jordan and a little birdy tells me he might have a review in NME too…

‘Underage was a pleasure to be at this year. With glorious weather and a line up that would make any festival promoter run for their money, it was a guaranteed great day out.. And it didn’t disappoint.

With a bag full of badges, my sisters camera and a cheeky smile, my task was to spread the word about Trekstock and maybe even gain a few celebrity followers to add to the, always growing, friends list.

Along with Freddie, Max, Sophie and Lucy we stormed the festival and by the end we had everyone wearing either a Trekstock badge, bag or T-Shirt.

A few of my favorite shots I took were off Matt Bowman of The Pigeon Detectives, Patrick Wolf and James Smith of Hadouken! all modeling the famous ‘I ♥ Trekstock’ badges.

A big thanks goes out to everyone who was kind enough to take the time to have a badge picture, or even wear one on stage!

Oh, and thanks to Trekstock for inviting me

Jx’

Pictures thanks to the wonderful Will Hazell

Thank you to the awesome

and the wonderful

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We’re at Underage tomorrow in Victoria Park with some of the coolest 14-18 year olds around!

You can find us in the signing tent packed full of limited edition merchandise and ‘I ♥ Trekstock’ badges. We’ll be surrounded by some incredible kit from the generous folks at Peavey and Epiphone and we’ll be offering you the chance to win it!*

Our exclusive Epiphone Flamekat and special Class-A Windsor™ Studio amp will be signed by Trekstock friends The Horrors, Mystery Jets, Patrick Wolf, Pigeon Detectives and many more!

So come down to say hello to us and join our special friends jamming on a very special Peavey Rockingham™ guitar! (who knows we might get some special guests in there too…)

Plus we’re sending Trekstock’s most awesome Jordan out with a camera and tons of badges, so find him in the crowd, get your badge and head over to find us in the signing tent! (he’ll prob give you lots of hot music tip off’s and tell you a joke or two also…)

Finally congrats to the very talented young Will Hazell who won the chance to be the official Trekstock photographer at Underage!
Check out his awesome live music shots here and keep and eye out in case you get papped!

Thank you to our friends at…

See you there!

TS x