We are Londoners, embrace the Londoness!

For the next Bring Stuff party, we want you to come dressed as a visual interpretation of a tube station - a blacksmith with a large hammer for Hammersmith, a manchester clown for Piccadilly Circus or James Bond for Bond Street etc.

You get the idea, so be as creative as you can, with one exception. NO ANGEL COSTUMES, Angel Islington is off limits as it’s closed for engineering works! Seriously, angel costumes would be super-lame.

It’s the end of January, you’ve had enough time to detox and break those resolutions. Kick those blues and come and get trollied with us whilst dressed as an impeccable vision of a tube station, oh yes there will be dancing in the basement of the bar too if you’re hardcore enough.

Sat 31st January, 7:30pm-2.00am
Zebranos at the Establishment (not the one off carnaby street)
18 Greek Street, Soho, London, W1D 4DS

Free before 10pm, £9 after. Mention Bring Stuff at the door to queue jump.

Come find us at the back of the bar, don’t forget your oyster cards.

Woo, dang it’s a lot easier to upload photo’s to Flickr then it is to wait for Facebook’s bizarro 60 images per-album-only.

You may have already seen these puppies as they appear on the Pictures section as soon as they are uploaded to Flickr. However, if you haven’t been to http://www.bringstuff.com/pictures and seen the 200-odd photo’s I’ve taken at Santacon 2008, you can see the slideshow of them all right here.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Wiggle your mouse over the slideshow for the controls.

I have no idea if there is a Flickr group for 2008 yet, but as soon as there is, I will add them to it.  In a day or so, if you want to tag yourself on the facebook ones, befriend me here http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=611770596

Are you going?

Normally I don’t tell people when something odd and amazing is happing, but this is all about Santa.

Yes, Santa.

People think he is a large smiley fat man in a red suit - what they don’t realise is that there are loads of Santas all across the world. One man made mob by mystery and power supreme. And this weekend is the one day a year they all get together to celebrate their Santaness.

http://www.santacon.co.uk

Details for this weekends shennanigans are all available!  There are two routes that wend their way through this fair city called London, culminating in a large carol singing sing-song in a extremely central location.  The routes take in bars, pubs and other fun activities with an after-party at a secretish location (go check out their website for the details, I aint no squealer!).

The only provision santae make is that you have to come dressed in your santa outfit.

Come and find the Bring Stuff Santa, you can’t miss me.  I’ll be dressed like Santa!

Yet another colour scheme change, this time with a Christmassy feel, so lot’s of Greens, Reds and Golds (just like the crackers).

As the weeks progress, I expect that there will be more and more snowflakes and little christmas presents appearing across the site, so keep those little peepers peeled.  Of course, no prizes for spotting them; only bragging rights.

Are you going to Santacon? We are and will be dressed as Santa.  Come find us!

The winning raffle tickets were drawn at The Red Lion in Crown Passage, Mayfair, in full view of independent witnesses and no trickery, at 8 p.m. on Thursday 13th November 2008.

…and the winners are:

Congratulations!!

Remember those Raffle tickets that were being sold at our last party?  We’ve chosen a date for the main draw and it’s going to be in a nice old London pub.  Maybe Matt and Jeremy will wear a silly hat, who knows.

The Celebrity Murder Party people will be there, so will the Harlots and Bring Stuff.  If these names are still a bit of a mystery to you, the velvet curtain will be ripe for ripping down and you can meet these mysterious people in their normal attire for a change.

We’ll be at The Red Lion, in the upstairs bar.  You can see a few photo’s on this charming website here:
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/65/659/

People will be there from 5.30pm onwards, and it’ll be a fun challange to tell if you can recognise anyone from their costumes!  At this time, we’re not sure if there will be pictures to see from the event or even a sneek preview of the video - but there will be something to talk about; the prize draw!

If you’ve bought a raffle ticket already, you’re in with a chance to win some fabulous prizes.  Just because we’re nice, we’ll even let people buy more tickets on the night too.  No one misses out.

We have a facebook event page too - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=37959055805

I hope we’ll see you then!

If you came to the most awesome Fancy Dress party of Halloween last Saturday - Bring Dreams and Nightmares - you may have seen raffle tickets being sold.

We’re still selling tickets! And the prizes rock so hard, your butt may explode with excitement!

We initally had Jonathan Ross willing to let us explore his green room, but Russell Brand got jealous and instigated a full frontal attack.  Never fear, we have something even better; true story.  Check out these prizes and when we set the draw date you can buy more on the night and even end up going home with some goodies!

The Prizes:

• 2-hour Holistic Time Ritual at the Mandarin Oriental Spa, Hyde Park
• £150 worth of top DVDs and CDs
• Fuller’s Brewery Tour (and free tasting, for 4 people)
• £100 of Bliss Products
• Vinopolis Wine Tasting and Tour

Check back here for details of the draw date and potential to buy more tickets.

This here is a short video all about Camp Cando and how the power of Fancy Dress in London is changing these kids lives, one step at a time.  If you’d like to know more, go and check out their website here:

http://www.campcando.org/

To celebrate the coming All Hallows Eve, we’ve undergone a little change to reflect our love of Pumpkins and very mysterious goblets of red liquid. You see, it’s not just people who love Fancy Dress, so do websites.

We’re all pump’dkined up and ready for the coming party season.  If you’ve heard of a good party happening, that we could come to, why not let us know?

‘Tis the season of the witch…  which reminds me - are you coming to our fabulous Dreams and Nightmares party on the 1st November in a mysterious London location?  Turns out we’ve managed to add to the DJ line up with a Burlesque dance troupe and that information will be added to the event page very soon.

I truly love many things about London - and one of them is the  Londonist weblog.  Those Londonistas, who know a good time when they hear about it, are giving away two pairs of tickets to our next Bring Stuff fancy dress party, Bring Dreams and Nightmares: CMP X.

Go and take a look at the competition and see if you can work out the answer to the question - here’s a hint, you’ll need to come back here to get the answer! The competition runs until Friday 10th October at 5pm all around the world, not just in London.

http://londonist.com/2008/10/win_bring_stuff_tickets_dreams_and.php