New Website, and new name!

Having a company can be a bit of a learning curve at times. The latest lesson we've learnt, and not a moment too soon, is that apparently you have to trademark your name! We had always assumed Love Da Pop was too weird a name to exist anywhere else but we found out last week another company in the US are using Love Pop.

Annoying right?

We will of course be hiring very expensive Popcorn lawyers to take them down, but then again they appear to be quite large so we may leave that David and Goliath battle for the moment.

RIP Love Da Pop.

We are certainly not over though. We are relaunching with a slightly longer name, big plans for the future and our very own trademark lawyer. She is called Rowena.

Long Live Love Da Popcorn (which you may shorten to Pop as you wish...).

Rough Da Pop?

There may be no good pun on Rough Trade and Love Da Popcorn (apologies for the attempt in the title), but that hasn't deterred us!

Coming soon Rough Trade Brick Lane will be holding film nights every month, as if introducing us to amazing new music wasn't enough, and Love Da Popcorn will be there.

Even better than that (for you...), your popcorn comes free with your ticket. There will also be more to buy on the night, because cunningly we know a small bag of white chocolate will be nowhere near large enough once you have tried it. mwahaha.

The Nomad Partnership is here!

We are super excited to reveal our latest collaboration, with The Nomad.

Run by the incredible Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise (the UK’s first social enterprise boutique cinema don't you know) and The Screen on the Green, Nomad are bringing popup films to London and the South East.

And though we can't reveal what films will be showing yet, it is a fantastic list of ones we love and those we have always wanted to see. Love Da Popcorn will be there, plying our usual blend of popcorn selling, and equally enthusiastic hat wearing.

Look at our events section for more info on where the next Nomad will be and check out their website for tickets. They will be happening thorughout the summer.

The only way we can illustrate how happy we are is through this picture of Christian.

Glade Festival- A muddy delight

The Love Da Popcorn boys have a history of getting ourselves into sticky situations, and Glade Festival was one of the stickiest yet.

A list of things which went wrong at Glade:
- Our Marquee blew away on on the final day and we had to chase after it
- We forgot all our vintage wallpaper we going to use to cover the marquee
- It rained almost non-stop
- We lost the van keys 5 times in total (but found them each time)

That said we think it was still a success. We succeeded in building a comfy living room in the middle of a field, complete with leather Chesterfield Sofa, vintage china cups, a 50s radio and of course, delicious popcorn served from our suitcases. We succeeded in getting a man to stick a lot of wooden pegs on his face. And we also sold (and consumed) a lot of tea and toast from our big comfy sofa.

Have a look at the photos and look out for us at more festivals in the future (by which point we will have bought more sturdy tent pegs).

How Bazaar?

This week Harper's Bazaar featured Love Da Popcorn as one of its "Sophisticate Sweets". Thanks for the mention guys and we're glad you enjoyed your popcorn.
A bigger thanks though for comparing us to Monty Python. Insulting to Micheal Palin et al, but it has made us exceedingly happy.

The Battle Of Algiers

Image courtesy of Future Cinema

Our second Secret Cinema event is now well and truly finished. In a spectacle to rival the film itself, viewers were transported to French Algiers to experience the incredible "Battle of Algiers". There was music, there was French riviera culture, there was intrigue and explosions.

Love Da Popcorn as always supplied delicious white chocolate, caramel and salt and black pepper popcorn to the masses. It was also the debut for our newest flavour- Whoopsie Daisies. Just like Penicillin and the printing press, Whoopsie Daisies came about by accident, when Christian mixed some white choc and some salty together. What could have been a disaster turned out to create an incredible new flavour (though Tom still disagrees). A popcorn revelation- Check it out at our next event.

There's also pictures galore for you to gaze at, in our photos section.

Bring on the next one.

The Talk of the Town

We have been featured in Fitzrovia News this month by the lovely Sally Beerworth. Glad you enjoyed the popcorn and packaging Sally- we will send you some more.

And if there are flavours you want us try then get in touch.

Secret Cinema- photos and video

We have completed our first Secret Cinema event and are happy to say it went swimmingly. The event was a huge success, with over 160,000 people attending over 18 days. There was dancing, performance, art, and of course popcorn. Have a look at the video above for a flavour of the event, and have a look at the photo section for some great photos from us and the fantastic Cara Dowd.

Catch us at the next Secret Cinema event but until the get in touch with us on the Facebook page to tell us if you tried our popcorn or have any suggestions.

Raffles: Better than OK

Images courtesy of OK Magazine and Piers Allardyce

We have recently worked with Raffles members club on the King's Road. The event, which was in aid of the Alexander Rose Charities, was a screening of the original Brighton Rock movie. Great cause and a great evening. You can read more about it in OK! Magazine. There's even a mention of Love Da Popcorn- see if you can spot our smiling faces.

Da Love is Spreading

It's been a busy start to the year, and Love Da Popcorn are delighted to hear that the teams at both Topshop and Liquid Gold Baby have been enjoying our little lovelies. In fact, they liked them so much they decided to shout about it here.....and here :)

Thanks for the shout out guys, and happy popping!

Reynolds Cafe

If you are anything like us, 2011 has been a struggle so far. The working day seems a lot longer than it used to be, we are no longer in the Naughties but in a decade with no name, and we are inexplicably fatter than last year.

But there is good news! Our popcorn is now stocked in a cafe! Not only is it healthy, so a great January snack, it is also impossible to feel unhappy when eating Love Da Popcorn. Fact.

We are delighted to be stocked in Reynolds cafe on Charlotte Street and Eastcastle Street in London. So pop down and tuck in.

Surely you can't be serious?

We are now proud sponsors of the London Comedy Film Festival. On the 9th of December Airplane! fans gathered at the (excellent) Prince Charles Cinema to mark the 30th anniversary and pay tribute to the late Leslie Nielsen.

It was an amazing evening and we will be working with the LOCO festival again in the future.

The Secret Cinema Partnership is here!

Love Da Popcorn promised big news and here it is. We are proud, and more than a bit excited, to announce a partnership with Secret Cinema!!

Secret Cinema, and Future Shorts create live cinema experiences like no other. They are the principle forces behind a new resurgence in film culture (we believe) and creators of some of the most amazing film experiences of the last few years. They have been described as the saviour of cinema, the best movie night out in Britain and the true spirit of underground cinema. And we agree! Love Da Pop are big fans of creating a new and revitalized cinema, and making people smile through a bit of surprise and mystery. So we hope it is the perfect match.

We will be supplying them with our trademark white chocolate, salt and pepper and caramel Kiss flavours. But we are also planning night and day in Love Da Popcorn Towers (sometimes even sleeping there) to create some amazing new flavours. "Merry Popcorn everyone", which includes cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves is my favourite, but we are also experimenting with chili, candy floss, and peanut butter.

So look out for us at the next Secret Cinema event. And remember, tell no-one.

Aubin Cinema, Selfridges AND Silent Cinema. Crikey.

And the previous post reminds us- this is our second Selfridges event and we failed to upload the first.

For Halloween we worked with the incredible Silent Cinema, the fantastic Aubin Cinema (go and try the couches if you haven't already) and of course our favourite department store, Selfridges- for a special Halloween screening of... wait for it... Halloween. The terrifying spectre of Michael Myers (not that one) was accompanied by the full popcorn set up with two machines ('Meghan' and 'Fox'), our vintage suitcases and ourselves.

Get in touch for more information. Tom@lovedapop.com

Selfridges and Tate Britain

It has been a big week for Love da Popcorn and we have loved every minute of it. On Thursday we were honoured and very excited to be in the amazing Tate Britain, at an event held for Advent International. It was a beautiful space and our black and white bags perfectly matched the marble floor. We hope to be working with them again very soon.

On Sunday we appeared at the Really Really Great Garage Sale at Selfridges. It was all for the FRODO Charity, and loads of money was raised. Highlights for us included selling to Melanie Blatt and Louise Rednapp, though they weren't the biggest stars, as you can see below. If anyone knows where we can get some costumes like that for our next event, get in touch!

The Observer Food Awards

In what has been perhaps our most intimidating event yet, we supplied popcorn to the Observer Food Monthly awards. We were not winning a prize unfortunately, but were supplying 3 flavours to be included in the goody bags, going to all the winners and critics. As always the popcorn was handmade and flavoured, and we used blue and purple bags. We are awaiting an email from Heston.

Our congratulations to all the winners. We hope to be working with the Observer again soon.

The Saatchi & Saatchi 40th anniversary

On Thursday we supplied popcorn to the Saatchi & Saatchi 40th Anniversary. The event attracted a lot of media attention from the Guardian, Telegraph, This is London and Channel 4. The event was held in the Saatchi Gallery to celebrate 40 years since the brothers started the now world famous agency. There were over 1000 guests, including the likes of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Alistair Campbell and Bob Geldof.

The event was a huge success, and one we were honoured to be a part of. Bob Geldof was seen eating some of our delicious popcorn and though we can't be sure, he seemed to be enjoying it. You can find more images of the event in the photos section.

If you would like more information on our event catering contact us at Tom@lovedapop.com.

Ford Galaxy Summer Cinema

Love da Popcorn are proud to be supplying the Ford Summer Cinema series. To launch their new Galaxy, Ford are sponsoring a series of live film events all over the UK, from Edinburgh to Bristol. There will be 11 events and all will be held at stately homes. Votes will be held for what films will be shown at each event.

There is more information on the events from Ford here, where you can also have the chance to win tickets. Check out our Tweets and Foursquare to see when we are popping up in your area.

Starlite Drive-in

Starlite Drive-in Cinema have successfully completed their first event, in East London's Truman Brewery.

Love Da Popcorn supplied popcorn for the press screening, and the two sold-out film nights (Grease and Dirty Dancing). We had positive comments throughout, and by all accounts it was a great success. We hope to be working with the Starlite team again in the future. Watch this space.