Friday 14 September 2012

Bestival 2012. The year of the Sink The Pink takeover!







As we told the Bestival Blog, being at Bestival was one of our original inspirations behind the birth of Sink The Pink.  So to be back this year with our own tent, performing every night until the wee hours was magical for us.

This year our troop of merry men descended upon the Isle of Wight for another year repping Sink The Pink on the island.  Our amazing Sink The Pink set design team made up of members of our scene and led by Luk E Vandenberg decorated an incredible arena called The Grand Palace of Entertainment. 

                                     
The theme for this years Bestival was wildlife, the Sink The Pink crew were the TRANIMALS, and the set reflected this too! Amazing!






In the day it featured acts including Scottee, Let's Get Quizzical and Gay Bingo and every night from 1am was the Sink The Pink takeover. 

Performers included East London legend Jacqui Potato, pop god Bright Light Bright Light, DJs James Phillips, Prince Nelly, Gutterslut and the full Sink The Pink dance and tranny crew.  We also led daily keep fit classes with Mr Motivator, getting seas of crowds lunging and squatting.  Another highlight has to be leading the fancy dress parade on Saturday, we were like the pride float, with jock straps, leather queens and camp tranimals punching the air to Lets Have a Kiki.  We really brought the rainbow to Bestival this year and the crowd loved it.



For anyone new to Sink The Pink who discovered us whilst wandering late at night, welcome to the gang!  We are so happy to bring the fun and love to more people.  We are overjoyed at the amount of love we have received since!






















And a final salute to our tranimals!

WE LOVE YOU ALL TRANIMALS! Thank you for the best weekend ever!  You made dreams come true!!  Every night the Sink The Pink tent had the most welcoming, fun, naughty, happy, perfect vibe, this was down to our girls...

To Jacqui for being the ultimate party soldier!
To Oozing Gloop for his last day looting skills, and friendly neighbourhood campsite relationship building, and pulling a random tran!
To Jonbenet for her cocktail bar and commitment to drag, both 24 hour services!
To Natalie Monroe for waking Amy up with a friendly accidental punch in the nose! LOLZ!
To Adam-marc Kelly, a pom pom head pieced, elephant trunked, non stop dancing festival vision!
Vanessa Abbott, our Dalson princess, gone but never forgotten! A festival fairy non stop dancing, with gold medal worthy festival stamina.
Lucy Fizz, the dance floor queen, serving bum skimming minidress realness 24 hours a day.
Declan, aka Poly, for her pop up hair salon and trantastic lion customisation skills.
Kirsty, our birthday gurl, for the out of this world campsite sing songs, and commitment to cats!
James Phillips, for Sundays mum-about-town, knitted legging realness look and the BANGING tunes.
George, for being such a trooper, last year he watched us on that float and this year he was one of us, welcome!
Jordan - late coming but impactful addition to the tranimal crew - your looks were strong gurl thank you!
Luca - YOU ARE SO CUTE! The knees! The white paint! The tail! The mirrored cod piece! We love you!
Chima - A festival virgin, you took on the tranimals and we happily took your cherry babes, so glad you were there and, even though Belindas African timing held you back now and then, you both served lycra realness and you filmed some key Bestival moments, that we CAN'T WAIT to see!!
David Masters - the DEDICATION to nipple clamps and colour matched miniscule lycra and fur based looks was NEXT LEV!
Fred - The smile! The muscles! The full body directional glitter experience! The festival beauty! Surviving Glyns obsession with you! Pulling, off site! We love you!
Henderson - a commitment to heels - losing a toenail after Mr Motivator and float day, thats dedication - we salute!
Ross - working granny cardiganed, head chef, voguing realness, daily!
Alex Clow - there since monday building the set and STILL serving strong drage on your 7th day - WERK!
Holestar - campfire real talk and choice tunes - we salute you our fave tranny with a fanny!
Prince Nelly - flying visit, a lasting imprint of bearded handsomeness and maje music selections, thank you!
Gaffy - for your directional lycra thrusting music and moves.
Bright Light Bright Light - he is a dish, wore a pink bumbag, played Ace of Bass and can sing on day 3 of a festival - a hero if ever there was one!
Tom Ordway - Babes, you built our set and took a party induced festival foot injury, you are a true STP soldier, love you!
Simon - always perfectly turned out, even after a week of building, we salute your beauty and hard work! Thank you!
Ella - girlfriend, you repped the lady power on the build, THANKS sister, you were brills, positive and got skillz!
Luke Rainey - for taking all the pulling points! And being the poor teenage girls heart throb!!
Peter the picture taking legend - how excited are we to see the pics?! He was always there, not only taking the BEST pics, but in full fabulous drage looks, what a legend!!!
Jim Hanner - driving the STP design crew down and being a festival force of nature!
Anthony - the stage manager of dreams - always fun, always organized, always there, always on it, whilst werking a blue weave and killer lycra - YOU ARE THE MAN/TRAN!
Joan of Dark - our son, our GENIUS choreographer, you made Glyns visions come to life with your incredible, tranny friendly moves, your energy and life force is so inspiring.  You make dancing come to life on stage, and the audiences reponse is proof that you are an INTEGRAL member of STP, we love and respect you darling and I am in awe of what you created for us, thank you thank you thank you, and your LOOKS! OMG, you rule Joan!!!!
Luke, my handsome beauty, up a ladder hanging lovingly handmade glittered creations all week, and designing and planning for months in advance.  What you have created for Sink The Pink is beyond our wildest dreams.  Luke loves and lives our scene so much that he has given up a summer of festivals and paid work to create this labour of love.  Only good things can come from such commitment and love, I can see the ripples of apprecitation and love that will come back to you from such kindness, talent and dedication to what we have created here.  I fucking love you and all that makes you you.

My wife, Glynda Glyne Hot Fuss Foosetta, the best friend that 4 years ago I sat with as we planned our dream club night, look what we've created!  Your utter ridiculousness on the mic is breathtakingly wonderful and your visions for Wembly arena sized stage shows fill me with complete joy, may it always continue!!

It is great because you are all great, I can't thank you all enough, other than to say, keep coming to the club and being a part of making it as great as it is!  Its a community, it works because we're all here for each other, keep it alive, tell your friends, STP is for for everyone!
We freaking love you all tranimals, thank you for everything you gave to this weekend.  May the fun continue!!

(Ooh i got a bit early Destinys Child where they used to pray for each other at the end of the album there, soz!!!)

SO, NEXT THEN.....Oct 6th, BGWMC, our 4th bday, be there!

TRANIMALS 4EVA,
Proud Muma Pink Amy xxxxxxxxxxxx

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