MASTER DRAPER: Diggy Simmons

Friday, 4 February 2011

DIONNE BROMFIELD AND DIGGY SIMMONS RECORD 'YEAH RIGHT' VIDEO AT HALL

Dionne and Diggy in the Drawing Room

Followers of this blog will doubtless be excited to know that fifteen year old pop sensation Dionne Bromfield has recorded the video of her new song Yeah Right at the Hall with teen rapster Diggy Simmons. You may have come across Diggy in the MTV reality show Run House where he co-stars with his dad, veteran hip hop pioneer, 'Rev Run' Simmons. Dionne has shot to fame as a protege of Amy Winehouse, who is her godmother.

I am not skillful enough to make a video link but there is a slightly breathless video of Dionne and Diggy making the Yeah Right video in the Hall. Go to www.soulculture.co.uk/blogs/music-blog/musicvids/dionne-bromfield-ft-diggy-simmons and follow links to the 'behind the scenes' video. Charmingly Dionne says the Hall would be the sort of place she would like to live.

Drapers will, I am sure, watch the progress of this new release with interest.

WELCOME TO MASTER DRAPER BLOG

When I began Master Draper blog I thought it was the first time that any master of a London Livery Company has ever tried to blog his/her year.

However I later discovered, as is so often the case with the livery movement, that others had got there before me. Venetia Howes last year's Master Marketor had her own blog. Shortly afterwards I found out that Julian Keevil, last year's Master Tobacco Pipe Maker and Tobacco Blender, had a most successful blog that was started by a previous master. Both their successors, Jim Surguy of the Marketors and Fiona Adler of The Tobacco Piper Makers have continued what now seems to be a tradition. I have also found out about a number of others but they are restricted to members of the Company with access to the relevant website so are not really part of the blogosphere.

The Drapers' Company is one of the older livery companies and because of the importance of the finished wool cloth trade to London, and the wider English economy, five hundred years ago we are ranked as the third company in seniority.

Today there are over a hundred livery companies in London focussed on an extrordinarily wide range of trade related and charitable activities.

Our website http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/ gives a good overview of who we are and what we do across a wide range of activities.

My intention is to produce a blog that will describe a Company year where ancient ceremonial, promoting a wide range of charitable activity and maintaining a great organisation to continue its proud traditions into the future will blend together to create an interesting insight into one of London's great institutions.

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Friday, 4 February 2011

DIONNE BROMFIELD AND DIGGY SIMMONS RECORD 'YEAH RIGHT' VIDEO AT HALL