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Get Involved is officially a Kate Moss fan

Was looking through the vast portfolio site of fashion guru and photographer Hedi Slimane (www.hedislimane.com) last week and stumbled across this image of Kate Moss shaking a tambourine. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, the ol’ perv is looking at her tits.” Well, you’d be half right, but there’s another reason why this image appeals, besides it being a rather fantastic shot of one of the hottest models of all time… It was actually a tambourine just like the one pictured that planted the seed for Get Involved. Yes, our good chum and much esteemed DJ colleague, Cutmaster Max brought a similar star-shaped tambourine to It’s Bigger Than (a night we used to run in 93 Feet East for a few years) one night and somehow it added a certain special something to the musical shenanigans that got us thinking… What joy a tambourine can bring!

btw Kate, you’re welcome at Get Involved any time. Wear your “tambourine outfit”, though, yeah?

I was just perusing the world wide web and stumbled across the blog of an illustrator called Linzie Hunter. As well as showing off her wonderfully jolly illustrations and hand-lettering, Linzie’s blog also shows off cool things she’s found in second hand stores and at jumble sales. She found the above record and bought it (rightly so) due to the fact she loved the illustration on the sleeve. Ah, what a wonderful world we live in! And what a wonderfully appropriate record to find in such a sleeve: Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World from 1967. Obviously the record is on HMV label and the sleeve is a Philips one - but who cares? A lovely find indeed. Linzie also links through to the site of another illustrator who also has an eye for lovely old record sleeves – to the extent that she has a site dedicated to showcasing her extensive collection of 45 label sleeves…

Check out Kavel Rafferty’s Record Envelope blog.

Meet Hobson. Hobson is a trumpet-nosed dino-monster that’s mad for as much musical mayhem as he can muster. He ALWAYS carries at least one maraca and can sometimes be seen brandishing a tambourine. His favourite club is Get Involved!

And friends of Get Involved may well recognise Hobson – because he was originally conceived to adorn the Get Involved poster that monster-loving design duo Peskimo created back in 2006.

Hobson is one of a series of 16 ultra-cute, 3-inch vinyl toys – many with articulated grabby parts and friends like bunnies, blobs or pieces of toast – all designed by Peskimo that form the BambooZoo series of mini toys – just unleashed by Kidrobot.

The crazy menagerie of strange beasts all come individually packaged in exactly the same box - meaning you don’t have a clue which beasty you’ll find inside. BUT we can reveal that Hobson is one of the most popular – cropping up in three out of every 25 boxes of Peskimo’s BambooZoo series.

Peskimo very kindly sent us our very own Hobson, who posed for the photo at the top of this post - and who will thrive henceforth on a diet of tambourine-soaked, maraca-fueled rock’n'roll and soul sessions. THANK YOU PESKIMO!

If you’re looking for Hobson and pals in London, you’ll find ‘em at Playlounge in Soho.