VIDEO - PixieHoopSound Hula Hoop Party Workshop @ GLADE 2011

Glade 2011

cat in a hoop

Well well Glade Festival! You were an absolute stunner for PixieHoopSound & Wanda the Wonder Cart. We had a ton of fun ... and so did everyone around us! We literally couldn't move for festivalites clamouring for hooping joy...



It was our first public festie this year and it was the first outing for Wanda with her brand new set of wheels and super colourful paint job :) we even made her some colourful mini bunting :) Just in case you didn't know, Wanda the Wondercart is entirely made from reclaimed and recycled materials, isn't that just eco and lovely lush?

Wanda with her new colours and fantastic new wheels

We started chilled out on the Friday, a good bit of hoop performance to Ott and Atomic Drop on the Origin Stage, then we got the cart out.... we stayed by Origin for a good few hours whilst the psytrance rolled around us and the hooping was high! We popped over to the Glade Stage with the cart later to check out the vibes but then the rain came and stole our fun! It's just no fun hooping in the drizzle no matter what your shizzle... so we shimmyed on back to the homestead (our fattie van :) and waited it out til Saturday....

And weren't we glad we did! Saturday was a festival of gorgeous sunshine and booming basslines.... we had it fat by Origin for a few hours and then even fatter by the Glade Stage - the hoop party hooped on and on and on..... it was a great sight to see, Glade, you hooped it hard! We loved it!

And then, just when we thought it couldn't get any better... the Engine Earz Experiment came on and we all died and went hoop heaven. For those not in the know, hooping to dubstep - especially when it is the best dubstep you've ever heard with live drums, incredible vocals, live effects and a breaks revolution edge... Holy Mackerel! Its amazing! Ask Sharna! We lost a hoop, we think it went in the Glade stage... but every time we tried to retrieve it the music just flattened all our sense of responsibility for our property and we just stomped it out! It was worth losing a hoop to! So anyone out there who is now the proud owner of an orange and yellow mini hoop, treat our baby well!

a happy hoop customer

We were also well chuffed to bump into the winner of Hoop Idol, Nick Broyd, who let us have a go on his lovely polypro hoop.... for anyone who doesn't know, the guy hoops like a male Sharna Rose :) good skills Nick!

Sunday it rained and it poured! We didn'ta hve an inside area to hoop in so we couldn't do the party. We were *gutted*..... but Saturday more than made up for it :))

the brightest hooper all weekend?!

pig in a hoop

she was *awesome*

he asked for it...

having it to engine earz

happy hoop customer! (pink and teal oh yeh~!)

boyz in the hoop

the wheels on the pig go round and round....

"roll up, roll up!"

zen hoop

please, sir, can we have a hoop?!

just add crazy sunglasses 

Glade 2012? Watch this space! 

Trinity Centre PayItForward & Beltane Buzz - hoop parties are go!!

Over the Bank Holiday weekend we went out on the road to two hooping events! The season has well and truly begun for Pixiehoopsound!

First we went to the Trinity Centre in Bristol to do a free hoop party for their pay it forward event, check it out here http://www.3ca.org.uk/projects/pay-it-forward/news-events/free-alternative-royal-wedding-party.It was a really fun event and loads of people got involved with the hoops :) there were loads of people doing all kinds of things including puzzles, toy making, scrabble, tug of war.. it was excellent and the weather was really good so it was even better!

Two of the organisers started a tug of war and then people kept flocking in to help the losing side, including the pig!. Eventually our side lost :( but it was a good laugh anyway!

the organisers get right involved with the hoops!

pig brains fights a losing battle with the rope!

practically the whole field got involved

The next event of the weekend was the Beltane Buzz near St Davids in Wales. We travelled straight down after leaving the Trinity Centre on Friday afternoon. We were there primarily to provide the hula hoops but we also provided our felt workshop as Innerspiral Studio (our sister company, you can find our blog for that at innerspiral.blogspot.com). It was lots of fun and there were some serious hoop offs - at one point we were collecting festivalgoers as they walked past, everyone ended up in a massive hoop off showdown! Excellent!

our lovely workshop tent

The felting workshop went really well too, check out innerspiralblogspot.com for the lowdown on that :)

hoop off!

everyone started to get involved...

cat in the hoop

"how many hoops can you do at once?!"

The Fabulous Travelling Bag Folk!: Exciting Times at the Bag Folk camp

The Fabulous Travelling Bag Folk!: Exciting Times at the Bag Folk camp: "It's a marvellous occasion indeed when you collect a box filled with 3,000 of the most gorgeous flyers for a really exciting new event, huh!..."

Beltane Buzzing it right up :)

Well well, there's a lot going on in Pixiehoopsound land right now at the Innerspiral camp... we are busy bees! We are preparing for our mammoth festival tour this summer... taking in everything from the tiny to the giant, we are kicking off with a friendly mini fest called the Beltane Buzz this weekend, straight after our hoop party at Trinity Centre! It's in what looks like the most heavenly place, right near the beach, on the west coats of Wales, round the corner from St Davids. How lucky are we to get to celebrate Beltane in such style! So we'll be having Wanda the Wonder Cart out of course, with all the hoops and all the toys, and we'll also be having our felt making workshop and even our stall for a triple whammy dose of fun! check out http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154311137952287 for more details - tickets are only £35 if you fancy going....

So we've been hooping like crazy the last few weeks, trying to get in shape for the festival season.... We had our first hoop party of the season at Felix Road Adventure Playground which was wicked fun as usual. Then we had a fun private party on Good Friday, with hoops and psytrance and a trampoline! Good skills :) We've got our party on friday at the Trinity Centre for the Alternative Royal Wedding Day, its gonna be hilarious, you should come and check it out, they're even having a wedding of mass distraction... After that, our first spot is at Glastonbury Festival with our felt making workshop as Innerspiral Studio, followed in direct succession by Blissfields, Priddy Folk Fayre and Larmer Tree... then its our anti stag and hen do (which will be a hoop party in itself) and then straight back on the circuit with Green Gathering, Big Chill, Endorset, One Love, Shambala.... then we get married... then its Waveform! Which will be part of our honeymoon... and then, methinks, we collapse... before getting right back on it again for all our Christmas market season!!! PHEW and CRIKEY! Its going to be interesting.... especially considering our veg garden and greenhouse will be in full swing! We'll be making mad dashed home between festivals to do some mega watering, bakinga nd bathing and then straight off again! Good job the fattie van is our comfy and friendly mini home from home!!
All we need now is for Glade Festival to get back to us and our lives will be complete...
Until then - bring on the Beltane Buzz!xx

FREE! Hula hoop party at the Trinity Centre for the Alternative Wedding Day

This year's line up.... drum roll, please

We are so excited and happy! This year we will be attending the following festivals with our hoop cart (in no particular order)

Blissfields
Waveform
Endorset in Dorset
One Love
Larmer Tree
and lovely Priddy Folk Fayre

Superb! Lots more going on besides at the Innerspiral camp, not least of which, is getting ready for our wedding... Everything is marvellous. Now for a good summer of fat sunshine and little rain, please, masters of the weather....

Let us know if you're gonna be at any of these festies - we'll keep our eyes peeled for you!
Love & ra ships that sail in the light
xxx