Follow Friday 23rd April 2010

Following on from last weeks first Follow Friday post here are this weeks must follows, peeps that make our twitter world just that little bit better...

@iivars - The Latvian Spielberg, a fiend with film and a real good dude. Ivars filmed and edited our "How LadyUmbrella Comes to Life" video (which you can watch below) and has a scholarship to IADT and is in the running to win the Dare2BDrinkAway short film contest - vote for his movie "So What Happened Last Night"

@shibbz - The Couch Surfer who couch surfed because he couldn't afford to pay rent. Happens to be another friend of mine and his Couch Surfing in Dublin blog was just recently noticed by a national newspaper who promptly interviewed him about - well worth checking out..

@sogeshirts - Sogeshirts are a great funny t-shirts company from sunny California. Check out some of their designs and see which ones make you chuckle..

@meabhhannah - is an absolute champ of a fan of ours..she ff's us every Friday and always sends nice tweets our way - thank you Meabh :)

@WhatsWhat_Sian - is a super active and engaging Irish twitterer who has been most supportive of our efforts. Sian and her team have created an Irish Business Directory which is extremely useful for all business in Ireland - get yourself listed ;)

@eleventyfour - is a great singer songwriter from Ireland. Her style is quirky, unique and charming, somewhat like herself..Enjoy the melodies of EleventyFour on MySpace..

@joshuaarnao - hails from California and I've been tweeting with him since I joined twitter pretty much..fun guy to tweet with..also has a blog which is worth visiting..

And thats the #FF for this week - lots of things to see and do for you....Have a great weekend all and if you haven't heard about it check out our sale which started today ;) Ole..

LadyUmbrella T-shirts: Tested on The Stage

Hello all, it turns out I have an inner scientist that I was not aware of and have conducted another demanding test on our LadyUmbrella ladies t-shirts. You might have seen us when we Tested them in the Sunshine but this time we wanted to see how our t-shirts would hold up on stage...a fortunate sequence of events made this possible..

You may recall we ran a competition a while back and one of the winners is an Irish based musician who goes by the name of EleventyFour. Well, she recently got in touch with us letting us know which tees she wanted and we promptly delivered. She also let us know that she was playing a gig on Friday 15th January in Crawdaddy in Dublin and we figured why not go and conduct a test. Check the video below.

The gig itself was really great. I (Rob) really like music and have played in bands and been a band manager so have a little bit of music knowledge and I thoroughly enjoyed the gig. The fact that EleventyFour was wearing our t-shirt made it all the sweeter (and she even plugged us twice - pretty cool and we are most thinkful). Her music is quirky, chirpy, funny, interesting, lyrically rich and engaging. In the video in the background we have an EleventyFour song called "The Friend Song" playing which is a very nice song, asking the question, what kind of friend are you? You can listen to it here and I beg the question, what kind of friend are you? Leave a comment and let me know...

And, without further ado, the video, recorded and edited superbly by Elena and starring yours truly and EleventyFour..enjoy and leave a comment to let me know what other tests you'd like me to put our LadyUmbrella ladies t-shirts through - I'm all for the experiments now..On a final note, watch this space, watch our facebook fanpage and keep your eyes on our site, we are going to launch in the next week - nice!



Ok so, stay happy, leave a comment and let me know what you think of the video, what type of friend you are, any other t-shirt tests you'd like to see or just let us know that you're looking forward to us launching, hehe, we'd like to hear that too..ole..

P.S. We are going to splash out and get a new super dooper camera, the limitations of our one were found out in the dark setting of Crawdaddy - any suggestions?