Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin brand owners Keiran Wyatt-Nicolle and Peter Silvester with Ollie Locke (Made in Chelsea)

The official ‘Girl Talk’ cocktails were made by Light Bar using Imperial Collection Vodka, classic G&Ts were made with Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin™, beer was from WJ King, cupcakes were by Cakehole, flowers were by Laura Kuy Flowers, the hoola hoop performance by the majorettes from Marawa The Amazing, and the DJ lineup included The Broken Hearts and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney. Guests also received a signed copy of ‘Girl Talk’.‘Girl Talk’ is now available for purchase globally at all fine record stores and online via iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/girl-talk/id596590304. Kate’s global tour starts on the 12th of March. For a full list of tour dates, visit: www.myignorantyouth.com/tour
Follow Kate on Twitter: @katenash

The celebrity-packed event ushered in the platinum selling, multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter’s highly anticipated third album. Written on the bass guitar, lending Kate’s new sound a more raw punk feel, she says, “It’s definitely a pop record, but has a new sound and feel to it. I played bass in a punk band called The Receeders for a couple of years and I love how powerful playing bass and using my voice like that made me feel. ʻGirl Talkʼ is full of colour, pop harmonies and melodies, and I feel like my voice has matured and that I can do more with it. Music is my escapism and vice, and my life is in every song. I’m happy to share the next chapter.”

Kate Nash at the album launch of 'Girl Talk'

Kate looked stunning in a floor length red Alberta Ferretti gown, a Piaget ring, Terry de Havilland shoes and an Angel Jackson handbag.

Attendees included Gemma Cairney, VV Brown, Chris O’Dowd, Dawn Porter, Gizzi Erskine, Sheridan Smith, Ollie Locke, Adam Burridge, Noelle Reno, Emmy the Great, Russell Tovey, Damian Jones, Percy Parker from PPQ, Daniela and Annette Felder of Felder Felder and William Tempest.Kate’s friends, industry insiders and some of Kate’s most avid followers celebrated the new album with a party at London’s exclusive St Martins Lane hotel.

Chris O’Dowd enjoying an Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin and Tonic

Dawn Porter (prenter/writer) and Gemma Cairney (Radio 1)

Guests enjoyed drinks from Light Bar and canapés from Asia de Cuba, including Mini Fish & Chips, Vegetable Tartlets with goat’s cheese and the restaurant’s infamous Mini Mexican Doughnuts.
The British style icon and musical powerhouse was celebrated in 2008 with the highest accolade in British music, taking home a Brit Award, famed for her pop song, ʻFoundationsʼ, which highlighted Kateʼs unparalleled knack for songwriting and genius lyricism.

A bold and passionate album, ‘Girl Talk’ serves as a mission statement about what it’s like to be a girl. “Working with an all-girl band is incredibly liberating as well as being brilliant fun. I really believe in women being able to be whatever they want to be.”

The accompanying videos for ʻGirl Talkʼ echo the strength of females found in Tarantino films, namely the video for ʻDeath Proofʼ, which was inspired by the same named Tarantino film. “I greatly admire how Tarantino empowers women.”

The 15-track record will delight Kate’s fans and invite a host of new music lovers to the British indie pop rocker. The full album was recorded and mastered in LA with the Grammy Award winning producer Tom Biller.

The Light Bar serving Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin™

The team at Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin would like to thank Kate Nash and her PR Company Forward PR for inviting us to be a part of this prestigious event.

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One great place which stood out from the crowd and ultimately for its uniqueness was a
great club called Labamba. The entrance was small but once inside what an atmosphere.
Labamba has great snacks, lovely people and lovers of football. The actual counter at
Labamba has the background all lit up in a light shade of blue which would be fitting for our
Gin as the bottle of Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin has a lovely shade of blue which
allows for the spirit glow in the dark.

As a Gin lover I did try their best Tequila and had it mixed with one of their Gins, crushed
ice, mint leaf, fresh lemon juice (no lime available at that moment) and insisted on heated
Tonic which allowed the flavours to flow. Great!!!

I did mention that there is a great London Distilled Gin called Oliver Twist which is making
a noise in the City of London but did avoid mentioning our connection. I’m sure that
once there is an appointed distributor for China the Labamba club will go for it without
hesitation. Once Oliver Twist London Distilled Dry Gin hits Beijing people will notice that
Oliver Twist will shine through from the crowd with its explosive flavours of Mediterranean
botanicals, Dry summer Cypress and Green mandarin peep from Bodrum, masterfully
prepared by our Master Distiller in London.

The colour theme selected for the Oliver Twist packaging, is fitting for a Bar in the evening
where its colours will shine through, in particular, the various tones of blue throughout the
package delivers an appreciative appeal to a wider global audience and that is exactly what
our packaging designers carried out in detail.

Sit back and enjoy Oliver Twist Gin when next in London or travel to the Channel Islands
where there will be Oliver Twist Parties throughout spring 2013.

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After a frantic rush in November 2012 to launch Oliver Twist ™ at The Star at Night, in London’s SOHO we were invited by The British Film Institute to attend a birthday party for dear old Charles Dickens.

The launch of a nationwide celebration of all things Dickens was to take place at London’s South Bank.  The invite said “Bring a Bottle” and so we did.  Sixty of them!

For a chap who’s been dead 142 years, this guy sure knows some cool people!  Like very cool!  Imagine going to a party and then realising your child hood heroes have been invited too.  Think for one minute, what is the greatest film adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel EVER? That’s right; The Muppets take on “A Christmas Carol”.  I don’t care what the hacks all say, Gonzo is a stand up chap and knows his way around a good gin almost as well as he knows his way around a canon.

So it was that Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin™ was chosen by the Dickens Foundation and the British Film Institute to be the official drinks sponsor for Charles’ gala Bicentenary birthday party.   The room was packed with Oscar winning directors and actors.  Publishers, academics, journalist and a bar full of Oliver Twist ™ London Distilled Gin.

The evening progressed with speeches and presentations, four world premiers of short films based on Dickens finest work and a good old Happy Birthday sing song accompanied by birthday cake.   We even took part in a world record attempt which involved thousand of people across the globe reading Charles Dickens simultaneously.

Do you remember Fagin?  The dirty purse snatching pick pocketing gang master in Carol Reeds 1968 classic Oliver?  Well I can report that he is still alive and kicking in the real world.   If you are a fan of The Bill or Casualty, you may have recognized Ron Moody popping up over the last few years playing various characters.  But blow me side ways there was the great man himself stood at the bar next to me.  “What do you recommend my dear?”  Ok so I added “my dear” bit.   Well of course I had to stop myself from bursting into song and making a complete fool of myself.  Can you imagine standing there and answering “well here’s a little ditty bout gin in the city”.

As at any birthday party and especially one where the candles out number the guests, there will always a few glasses raised to friends who have passed and it wouldn’t have been right not to honour Ron Moody’s co-star and one time acquaintance of mine, Mr Oliver Reed a.k.a. Bill Sykes.

So as the BFI called a wrap on Dickens 200^th Birthday party, many a celebrity guest under the squinting eye of Ron Moody helped themselves to a free bottle of Oliver Twist ™ London Distilled Gin as he manically rubbed his hands together.

I stood there feeling proud that our unique brand had been chosen to help celebrate one of the greatest literary scholars in British history.  All I had to do was phone a London Black Cab and I would be on my merry wa.

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You will need:

• A number of shot glasses or martini glasses depending on whether you are serving shots or pudding.

• One packet of Hartleys Lime Jelly

• 300ml of Schweppes Tonic Water

• 200 ml Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin

Heat 100ml of Tonic Water and the Jelly in either the Microwave or a sauce pan until the Jelly has dissolved. Add the Gin and remainder of the chilled Tonic Water and stir to ensure the Gin mixes with the Jelly/Tonic mixture.

Divide the liquid into shot glasses or martini glasses and chill until set.

Enjoy …

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16th December 1899 – 26th March 1973

Once suggested that a perfect martini should be made by “filling a glass with Gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy,” implying that the less vermouth added to the Gin, the better the drink.
Noel Pierce Coward was born in the London suburb of Teddington into what he was later to describe as “genteel poverty”. He was the second son of a piano-tuner and a doting but dominant mother.
Making his stage debut at the age of eleven, he went on to write more than 50 plays including, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living and Blithe Spirit.
Coward was also a prolific songwriter, musical theater writer, poet, short story writer and novelist.
His stage and film acting career spanned 6 decades during which he starred in many of his own works.
The outbreak of WWII saw Coward volunteer for war work and serve in Paris running the British propaganda office. He was also involved in the Secret Service, trying to persuade the USA to help Britain. During this time, he was the subject of a lot of media criticism about his foreign travel, but was unable to respond as he was acting for the Secret Service.
His 1943 film drama, “In Which We Serve”, won him an Academy Honorary Award .
He achieved further success in the 1950’s in cabaret with such songs as, “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”, “London Pride”, and, “I Went to a Marvellous Party” at the Café de Paris in London and other venues in Las Vegas.
The theatre critic, Kenneth Tynan wrote;
“To see him whole, in public and private personalities conjoined, you must see him in cabaret….he padded down the celebrated stairs….halted before the microphone on black-suede-clad feet, and, upraising both hands in a gesture of benediction, set about demonstrating how these things should be done. Baring his teeth as if unveiling some grotesque monument and cooing like a baritone dove, he gave us “I’llI See You Again” and the other bat’s-wing melodies of his youth. Nothing he does on these occasions sounds strained or arid, his tanned, leathery face is still an enthusiast’s….If it is possible to romp fastidiously, that is what Coward does. He owes little to earlier wits, such as Wilde or Labouchere. Their best things need to be delivered slowly, even lazily. Coward’s emerge with the staccato, blind impulsiveness of a machine gun.
Later in his career, Coward appeared in several films such as, “Around The World In Eighty Days”[‘56], “Our Man In Havana”[59], “Bunny Lake is Missing” [‘65], and “The Italian Job”[‘69].
By the late 1960’s, he was afflicted with arteriosclerosis and he struggled with repeated bouts of memory loss which affected his work, most noticeably when filming “The Italian Job”.
He passed away at his home in Jamaica on 26th March 1973 from heart failure.
The New Theatre which opened in 1903 in St. Martin’s Lane in London,  was, after extensive refurbishment, re-named  The Noel Coward Theatre in his honour when it re-opened in 2006.
We can only wonder what wondrous lyrics or prose he would have written about Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin had he still been with us to sample it and point it in the general direction of Italy.
For Gin and Country – Sir Noel we salute you.

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{ To be continued…….}

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She then opened her cupboard and pulled out a big, traditional looking preserve jar with a red liquid in it.  She said, ‘You have to try this.  I have done it myself a couple of months ago’.

It was a jar of home-made Sloe Gin liqueur which was very uplifting and warming; the perfect remedy for these cold winter nights.

However, I believe that a Sloe Gin made with our favourite Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin would certainly be a delight.

It is a pity that I have to wait until next autumn to collect the sloes to do my own home-made Sloe Oliver Twist Gin, but I will make sure I am ready for when the time comes…

The shopping list is very simple:

* Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin

* Caster Sugar

That’s it!

Then when autumn comes you have to collect the sloes berries; you will need about half a kilo.  Make sure the berries are ripe.

Prick the sloe berries with a clean needle and put them in a large sterilised wide-necked jar.  Pour in about 230g of caster sugar, which is needed so the sloe juices are extracted from the fruit.  Fill up the jar with Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin and seal tightly; turn the jar several times.

Store it in a cool, dark cupboard for a couple of months while the gin is infused with the sloe berries.  Make sure you shake it every other day for the first week and then once a week.

When the winter comes the ‘Sloe Oliver Twist Gin’ will be ready for you! A comforting deep ruby red remedy that will drown all your sorrows…

I can’t wait…!

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Imagine the possibilities.  When the last election was stalling and the nation was dismayed at the thought of a coalition government The Cobra Task Force could have nipped down to the bunker under Downing Street, pressed “thaw” on the cryogenic freezer and brought back our greatest ever leader, Winston Churchill.

A quick debrief of our failing society and Europe’s economic free falling debt crisis, one fresh Cuban cigar and an Oliver Twist Gin and Tonic later its off to meet the press.  Stand aside Mr Cameron, Churchill is back and moral boosting speeches are his game.

Stood on the steps of Number 10 gazing out into the waiting press our hero delivers his greatest speech since D-Day.

“Dear Nation of Britain, I have myself, full confidence, that we shall prove ourselves able to deliver our tiny island from the tyranny of Brussels. 

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of Debt, once again our people are being asked to prop up the economy of Europe.  At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do.

We all know duty must be paid on spirits, we all know that all manner of tax must be paid.   Let us pay it on a traditional English product.  One that we all enjoy, one that we can all share with our friends and fellow Britons throughout the Empire, one that declares our love for our great nation. We shall drink Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin with growing confidence and growing strength in the air; we shall rescue our Island, whatever the cost may be. 

The leaders of France and Germany will once again be in awe of our Bulldog spirit that will help lead England, Scotland and Wales out of the financial doldrums whilst bringing a smile to our dear nations face.

Join with me and raise a toast, for we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, we can stand proud that we all stood together; For Gin and Country!”

The camera flashes erupt amongst a rapturous applause, Union Jack flags can be seen waiving furiously amongst the cheering crowd as Winston Churchill our dear great leader once again stands on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, two fingers raised in a victory salute as he sips on an O.T.T.

The Gin Maestro.

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What better place than England to make acquaintances with this lovely drink, and what better than the fully flavoured dry gin Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin to christen my taste buds?

My first try was OTT (Oliver Twist and Tonic), which must be the most refreshing drink ever!  Then I had a Dry Martini (made with Oliver Twist of course) and it blew my head off… this drink IS heaven.  Make sure you get a good barman to do it for you or even better learn to do it yourself and you could have one at home every day when you return from work!

Being a woman and a bit health conscious (or trying at least…) I am always looking into the health benefits of almost everything, so as the Oliver Twist craze started to creep on me, I decided to do some research on this drink; the results were very encouraging indeed!

I discovered that gin is actually one of the healthiest alcoholic drinks around and distilled spirits like gin don’t contain carbohydrates, fats or cholesterol, which is all great news.  It seems that the OTT o’clock is actually quite good for you!

Another great advantage of drinking gin is that no one would know that you are actually drinking it, or how many units you are going for… just ask the barman to serve your Oliver Twist and Tonic in a normal glass with a slice of lemon, which looks just like a glass of soda water with a slice of lemon!  And you won’t get a foul breath either J

I think my Valentine’s Day present is sorted… a great looking bottle of Oliver Twist London Distilled Gin, presented with a red ribbon around its neck… I can just picture it… Dry Martinis all night!  I am sure my husband will be very happy indeed…

Ramblings brought to you by “Are Gin Tina”

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