Grace Chatto from Clean Bandit and Rae Morris at the Grey Goose VX Launch

On 14th May, London’s elite came together to celebrate the launch of something extraordinary – Grey Goose VX – the new ultra-premium vodka to feature a hint of cognac. To honour the spark when centuries of French craftsmanship collide, the creative minds at Grey Goose and Brand Revolution were tasked to create a moment that would reflect the vision of Henri Thibeault.

Brand Revolution curated the entertainment to create a ‘spark’ with the help of Rae Morris and Clean Bandit. With Rae Morris’ sweet voice and beautiful lyrics and Clean Bandit’s electronic sound, the two came together to create a special moment for the audience with a performance that will leave a lasting imprint on Grey Goose fans. 

Chris Geddes & Richard Coleman of Belle & Sebastian

To celebrate another successful year at Coachella, Grey Goose partnered with Soho House to create the 'Desert House' pop up. Brand Revolution was retained to maximise the 'cool factor' of the Soho Desert House brunch and Grey Goose's role in it by attaching influencers from the industry to perform and attend. 

Brand Revolution secured one of the key headliners of this years festival - Belle & Sebastian - to perform at the Soho Desert House brunch which increased the kudos of the event and increased interest from other talent to attend. Key attendee's which Brand Revolution secured included Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard from super group Muse, Daniel Kessler of Interpol, Lucy Griffiths and Laura Whitmore. 

Brand Revolution were thrilled to be retained to programme the music for the world's largest music and philosophy festival - HowTheLightGetsIn festival.

Now in its third year, the festival, which is held in Hay-on-Wye, brings together some of the best musicians, philosophers and speakers to take guests thought provoking debates and a programme of exquisite and eclectic music. 

Brand Revolution also hosted the launch of the event programme at London’s Mondrian Hotel in the Rumpus Room.  

Brand Revolution were pleased to launch Irvine Welsh (the man behind iconic novel and film Trainspotting)  new book - A Decent Ride. Irvine's latest book brings the readers to Scotland in one of his funniest and filthiest books yet! Brand Revolution were pleased to host guests for Irvine’s reading at The Box - a befitting venue for a debauched book and a very entertaining first reading by Irvine.

Brand Revolution developed, executed and activated this highly successful strategy that saw the demand for the hampers outstrip supply, creating a true “must have” product that the difficult-to-please Ultra High Net-Worth's were demanding throughout the season. 

Lianne La Havas' treated guests to an intimate performance in Paris 

Brand Revolution created one of the best attended private events of the season with celebrated actors, musicians and fashion icons that represented Grey Gooses passion for craft. Guests included Christian Louboutin, Noomi Rapace and Clemence Poesy with a performance by Prince's muse, Lianne La Havas. The end result was an event that was talked about from London to Paris and featured in titles such as Sunday Times Style with strong Social Media imprints.

Clémence Poèsy, Christian Louboutin & Noomi Rapace

With a history of supporting creatives in the film industry, Grey Goose contracted Brand Revolution to engage in influencer activations at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Brand Revolution paired Grey Goose with A-list film premieres including the highly anticipated films Mr. -Holmes, starring Ian McKellen & Laura Linney, Knight of Cups, starring Christian Bale & Natalie Portman and Life, starring Robert Pattinson & Dane Dehaan. Brand revolution developed the strategy, signed the partnerships and executed the event production and asset creation for each film and event. 

Dran x Lights of Soho

The one and only Lights of Soho has dimmed the lights to welcome the one and only Dran! With a similar style to Banksy, Dran has found a way to express issues of contemporary culture through his art. Dran took over Lights of Soho for a limited time, to slowly change the venue from a literal blank canvas into a series of paintings which were auctioned off! What will Lights of Soho do next? Just wait and see…

Housekeeping x One Embankment

Our favourite DJ group Housekeeping kicked off their first gig of 2015 at the iconic One Embankment! DJs Taylor McWilliams, Carl Waxberg, Sebastian Macdonald-Hall and Jacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe entertained guests with an array of sounds, lights and excitement as they premiered their new single ”Police n Helicopter,” while guests were treated to Grey Goose on ice. Look out for Housekeeping as they will be unleashing new singles in time for summer of 2015! 

January saw the last few weeks of our partnership with God’s Own Junkyard and Lights of Soho. Our favourite neon-haven had turned the lights off for good on 18th January. During our last couple of weeks we were lucky enough to have Raury, an American R&B singer-songwriter, stop by with the BBC to kick off BBC Music’s Sound of 2015. Bright lights and a bright young star – well done, Raury!

Nike x Carmelo Anthony Influencers Dinner

While the lights were dimming in Soho, the Brand Revolution team headed over to Black Swan Yard to warmly welcome NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony and the team at Nike to unveil the brand new Jordan Melo M-11 shoes. Carmelo and his teammates of the NY Knicks took London by storm for the NBA Global Games to compete against the Milwaukee Bucks at The 02. With his trip to London, Carmelo joined London influencers to discuss his collaboration with Nike, his thoughts on fashion and growing up in Baltimore. The chat with the 2 time Gold Medal Olympian was hosted by Reggie Yates and featured Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, known as The Ox, from Arsenal Football Club.

Sony x The Box x Kodaline Album Release Party 

Ending our month off with a bang, we headed over to celebrity hot-spot The Box for an intimate evening with Sony and Kodaline to celebrate the release of their album Coming Up for Air. Kodaline, an office favourite, hit the stage to showcase their newest songs while including a couple of oldies. The night was spent sipping on bottles of Staritsky & Levitsky reserve vodka, whom sponsored the evening, in line with their #YouAreTheArtist campaign promoting creativity in the way you drink.

Now it’s back to work for the Brand team as we gear up for an exciting February! Be sure to follow along on Twitter and Instagram to see all our updates! 

British Fashion Awards x Grey Goose

The British Fashion Awards is a very special event in our calendar. This year we hosted a celebration of legendary W stylist Edward Enninful alongside Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell at Hotel Café Royal’s Oscar Wilde Bar with Grey Goose in tow. Our MD Dudley even snuck in a photobombing opportunity with Cara Delevigne and Mario Testino.

Brand Revolution are pleased to announce our very own gallery, Soho’s newest and London’s first dedicated light art space, Lights of Soho! Cultural lights including the don himself, Sir Michael Caine, were out in full force to celebrate the opening of our first exhibit, launching the space was the very rock’n’roll Adam Bricusse.

Senturion x GQ

Master of cool, British GQ Editor Dylan Jones hosted a lavish private dinner for Senturion at London’s most exclusive member’s space Loulou’s.

Lights of Soho x God’s Own Junkyard

To help us launch Lights of Soho, we couldn’t have asked for a better exhibit than the late, great Chris Bracey’s God’s Own Junkyard – it was such a special evening for everyone involved. 

Jamie Laing and his team popped into the Candy Kittens van to trick or treat their way across the UK.

Opera Gallery x Miro-Calder-Dubuffet

Opera Gallery London launched their latest exhibition with a slew of names including Pandemoia, Nancy Dell’Olio and fashion photographer Frederic Aranda were taking in the amazing opening evening of the Miro-Calder-Dubuffet exhibit.

FLAUNT Magazine x Hoston Gin

FLAUNT Magazine threw the best part in town with a little help from Hoxton Gin. Brand Revolution’s very own director Dudley Nevill-Spencer enjoyed the night with Flaunt Founder Luis Barajas and Editorial Director Matthew Bedard.

Senturion x Opera Gallery

Brand are proud to present Senturion – the latest in luxury wearable technology – with a VIP launch. Peter Crouch joined us at Opera Gallery for the evening hosted by Jonathan Margolis from How To Spend It, Financial Times.

Staritsky & Levitsky x Q Magazine XpereiaQAwards

Stars, vodka and rock’n’roll! Staritsky & Levitsky sponsored this year’s formidable Q Magazine XperiaQAwards, the Brand team got mingling with some of our favourite musicians from the rock and indie scene including Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Kasabian and Johnny Marr – what a night!

Nick Gentry x Ozwald Boateng

Brand Revolution popped open the champagne to celebrate Nick Gentry’s pop-up exhibition at the Ozwald Boateng gallery on Savile Row – quite a power-paring. 

Vogue Fashion’s Night Out x All Saints

Brand was on hand to help celebrate Vogue Fashion’s Night Out with all fashionistas at All Saints’ flagship Regent Street store. Mary Charteris was on deck for shoppers alongside an A-list crowd that included Laura Whitmore, Amber Le Bon, Zara Martin, Natt Weller, Gemma Chan and Neelam Gill.

Housekeeping x Blenheim Palace

Carl Waxberg from our favourite DJ group Housekeeping visited Blenheim Palace to play at the opening of Ai Wei Wei’s latest exhibit.

Jean-David Malat x Bernard Buffet

Curator and Director extraordinaire, Opera Gallery’s own Jean-David Malat brought the work of Bernard Buffet to the Heydar Aliyev Center. Known as the master of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract group “L’homme Témoin,” the evening celebrating Bernard was one to remember. 

In order to celebrate the opening of Café Kaizen in Mayfair, the boys at Housekeeping hosted a small showcase in honour of the soft launch of this East London style place.

Crystal Head Vodka X Nick Gentry

Crystal Head Vodka put their iconic skull shaped bottle into the hands of Opera Gallery’s world renowned artists for the “Use Your Head” project to create incredibly unique pieces of art. Nick Gentry has been compiling pieces from all over the world to create a unique Crystal Head Vodka bottle that will surely blow away all art overs.

Crystal Head Vodka x The X Factor

Brand ensured that Crystal Head Vodka was the drink of choice at The X Factor inimitable launch party – the Canadian vodka brand created two signature drinks for the launch, which took places at London’s stunning Ham Yard Hotel Soho. Guests sipped on two X Factor-themed cocktails, aptly named ‘Star In The Making’ and ‘And The Winner Is’ as part of the evening for setting the tone for TV’s most popular talent contest.

Before I Disappear x Venice Film Festival

A magical evening was had as Fatima Ptacek and Paul Wesley celebrated the premiere of their film Before I Disappear as part of the Venice Film Festival. Stars celebrated Shawn Christensen’s critically acclaimed film in the St. Regis Venice San Clemente Palace. 

July 2014 was filled with x with Housekeeping's collaboration with hip handcrafted Sydney sunnies label, AM Eyewear: 

July also saw our super chic summer garden party hosted by irrepressible Matthew Williamson with cocktails by Staritsky & Levitsky - the perfect excuse for an al fresco brand and influencer mash-up.

It was hotting up over in Ibiza, with Housekeeping's now legendary residency at Blue Marlin over the month of July, head over to Elle to relive the sounds of summer 2014!

July didn't stop with the Ibiza circuit, Brand hooked up with British artist, Nick Gentry who began compiling pieces from people all over the world in an art piece that would go on to be sold at Selfridges, all as part of Crystal Head Vodka’s 'Use Your Head' project.

Crystal Head Vodka also put their iconic skull-shaped bottle into the hands of Opera Gallery's world renowned artists for the 'Use Your Head' project to create incredibly unique collector's items, in another delightfully unexpected collab from the Brand crew!

ghd Pop-up Style Bar at Nikki Beach

Oh did we have a good hair day every day in Cannes, thanks to the stylists at ghd! The beloved hair brand made a star appearance at Cannes with an exclusive pop-up style bar within Nikki Beach which was produced by Brand Revolution. The ghd stylists created red carpet looks for Nikki Beach guests, VIPs and talent with a how-to video released each day.  It proved to be the perfect pit-stop when we needed a style refresh, and their team had us looking red-carpet ready using the iconic ghd eclipse styler.

The Pamela Anderson Foundation Launch at La Gold Plage

Pamela Anderson, Dame Vivienne Westwood and a charity backgammon tournament on the beach. It has to be said it was a bizarre yet ingenious concept that lead to one of the most talked about events at the 67th Cannes Film Festival. The event was of course the official launch of The Pamela Anderson Foundation at which Pamela delivered one of the bravest speeches in her career explaining why she is so passionate to support organisations and individuals on the frontline of human rights, animal rights and environmental protection. 

The intimate event raised in excess of $150,000 for non-profit organization Cool Earth and the forthcoming climate crisis feature documentary THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.

“The Rover” Film Premiere  Pre Screening Cocktail Party at La Gold Plage

Starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, “The Rover” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday 28th May 2014. In celebration, Film Nation with Brand Revolution brought together the cast and crew with industry peers for a luxurious cocktail and dinner reception supported by Chivas Regal 25 and American Express. 

The Film Fraternity

But of course that is not all we were up to.. With our latest venture The Film Fraternity in full swing, we partnered with American Express again to host Deadline Hollywood’s ‘Cocktails on the Croisette’ at the luxurious La Gold Plage. The event drew a star studded crowd including Adrian Grenier, Kit Harrington, Ron Perlman, Ned Benson and Maika Monroe. 

The Film Fraternity also hosted an intimate cocktail party in conjunction with Cargo Entertainment in honour of Mickey Rourke and the filmmakers of “Irish Thunder.”

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But little did anybody know that just three months later there would be another Bailey exhibition to take London by storm.  

  
This time it was 19 year old Sascha Bailey who unveiled “The Route Less Travelled” – an exhibition that explores the idea that education is not limited to the classroom by displaying works from seven artists who have not received a formal degree education. 

The showcasewas a joint effort between Sascha and long-time friends Conor Fitzgerald-Bond and Lily Bloom who have collaborated to form The Something Else Collective. 

The private view,sponsored by Patrón Tequila, was a night of firsts as Connor Hirst débuted his sculptural work entitled “Mac Exposed,”following his father Damien Hirst’s footsteps into the art world. 
 
Proud parents David and Catherine Bailey came to support their two sons, Sascha and Fenton (a successful photographer in his own right), even stopping for a rare family photo on their way in. 

Guests celebrated the success of the night with aptly named cocktails: 
 
•    The Bond – Patrón Tequila Long Cosmo
•    The Bloom – Patrón Tequila Patron Mexican Mule
•    The Bailey – Patrón Tequila Blue Margarita
 
With their first show done and dusted, the group have well and truly begun to pave the way for a new and exciting generation of artists. We can’t wait to see what’s next! 
 

Unlimited amounts of Moet, Dom Perignon and Belvedere, aerial dancers suspended on Miley Cyrus style disco (wrecking) balls, 'housemaids' performing in giant martini glasses and a laser show that would rival most major festivals – to call this party ‘wild’ would be a massive understatement!

The event was the third instalment in the now infamous Seven Deadly Sins parties at Koko in Camden and as per usual it was a sell-out success with over 1500 people walking through the door! Partygoers included BAFTA award winning Will Poulter, E4’s ‘Made in Chelsea’ favourites Jaime Laing, Rosie Fortescue and Natalie Joel, billionaire financier Andy Wong and presenter Pips Taylor. 

For those who missed it, you can catch Jacobi Anstruther-Gough Calthorpe, Sebastian Macdonald-Hall, Taylor McWilliams and Carl Waxberg at Blue Marlin Ibiza on the last Saturday of every month this summer:  
•    Saturday 24th May 2014 
•    Saturday 28th June 2014 
•    Saturday 26th July 2014 
•    Saturday 23rd August 2014 
•    Saturday 27th September 2014 

If that wasn’t exciting enough, Idris Elba surprised guests by joining Mr. Hudson and rapper Giggs on stage to perform the highly anticipated track from the album titled, ‘Pull the Trigger’.

Taking a well-deserved break from filming the new season of 24 in London, Kiefer Sutherland was spotted amongst the crowd enjoying the gig.

Also enjoying the exclusive album preview was artist Nick Gentry, art curator Sascha Bailey, DJs from Housekeeping, fashion designer Patrick Grant, model Olivia Inge, and photographer Rankin along with wife Tuuli Shipster.

Guests were seen dancing away to the newly unveiled tracks as well as enjoying a cheeky Smirnoff ‘Shadow’ cocktail (which Mr Hudson worked with Smirnoff to create himself!).

The London artist received much praise for his latest work which he describes as music written for “hidden and discrete moments” –  perfect for a night of debauchery at The Box.

Having already worked with the likes of Kanye West on ‘Supernova’, Miley Cyrus on ‘Real & True’ and Jay Z on ‘Young Forever’ and now an amazing new album under his belt, we expect to see big things from Mr. Hudson in the future! #WATCHTHISSPACE

We kicked it off with the opening of famed French photographer Rancinan’s solo exhibition at the Opera Gallery London on Tuesday evening. The exhibition, very aptly titled ‘XXL’ featured five of Rancinan’s unique monumental sized that have previously only been displayed separately.

Before being brought together at Opera Gallery London, these epic images  were individually exhibited in museums all over the globe: the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France; the Triennale Museum in Milan, Italy; the Danubiana Contemporary Art Museum in Bratislava, Slovakia; the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, France; etc. After London, their next destination will be the Himalayas Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, China and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, Brazil.

Rancinan orchestrates his photo-shoots to parody fashion, materialism, capitalism and religion by re-creating the scenes of classic masterpieces such as Mantegna and Leonardo da Vinci and subverting them. Each of the photographs is a reflection of modern culture proving that the acclaimed photographer constantly strives to break down barriers as an investigator of our times; deconstructing the great sagas of contemporary life and showcasing them through his portraiture.

The exhibition ‘XXL’ curated by Jean-David Malat, will be at Opera Gallery London from March 18th- 3rd April 2014.

Last night, Thursday 20th then saw us heading to Fouberts Place just off Carnaby Street for another lovely art client, Scream Editions, to launch their Soho Pop Up.

The online platform, which sells original prints from heavyweights such as Tracey Emin, Charming Baker, Pakpoom Silaphan, Lyle Owerko and Remi Rough, is revolutionising the art world by offering people a chance to start their own art collection on an affordable budget and constantly pushes the boundaries of print through exclusive edition releases and exciting exhibitions.

Jamie Wood (son of Rolling Stones legend, Ronnie, and owner of London’s super successful Scream Gallery) is behind the concept which was borne out of a love of prints and desire to make quality, contemporary art accessible and available to everyone.

The evening saw Jamie, his wife Jodie and their young boys welcome guests including Jamie’s mother Jo Wood to the pop up gallery for the evening. Harry Hill, who'd been at the matinee performance of ' I Can’t Sing! - The X-Factor Musical' which is due to open next week, popped by in support of his wife Magda Archer, who’s artwork was on display, saying he loves all of her work but if he had to choose a favourite it would be ‘Sam Cam’s Sugar Candy Kisses’ which David Cameron is rumoured to have gifted a print of to his wife Sam for Valentine's Day.

The evening was a great success and the pop up is sure to be busy over the next few weeks. Make sure to get down there, it’s open 7 days a week from 21st March to 18th April 2014 at 20 Foubert's Pl London W1F 7PL!!