We’ve got some cool kids clothes for Spring-Summer 2021. Denim jackets, T-shirts, pants. shorts and more. Here’s what Angel has in stock from the Summer kids collection – now on sale 30% off:







We’ve got some cool kids clothes for Spring-Summer 2021. Denim jackets, T-shirts, pants. shorts and more. Here’s what Angel has in stock from the Summer kids collection – now on sale 30% off:
Here is the Desigual collection for men for Summer 2021, now on sale 25% off at Angel. Here are some ideas for Father’s Day on Sunday June 20:
I just finished watching a French series, Call My Agent, on Netflix. One episode featured Charolette Gainsbourg, the daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, who fell in love while making a film, Slogan. They also recorded this song together, a huge hit in 1969:
The late Doctor John (born Mac Rebennac –November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019) – was the master of this song. He’s joined here by members of the Grateful Dead and musicians from around the world:
Desigual unveiled a new capsule collection by Columbian designer Esteban Cortázar, whose designs are rooted in the style of South Beach, Miami, in the 1990s, where Cortázar grew up. Angel doesn’t have any of this Summer 2021 collection, but I thought the video was cool:
After a cold winter, we’re looking forward to the rebirth of Spring with warmer weather and more time spent outdoors. The Desigual Spring-Summer 2021 styles just arrived – Angel is offering 25% off the summer collection.
Below are some of the pieces we have in stock at our Gastown store – Vancouver’s only Desigual Wow Shop boutique with the latest styles of the Barcelona brand for women, men & kids. We’ve got lots of women’s styles still to show you, and the latest Desigual for men & kids.
Meanwhile, our Desigual Winter 2020 collection is on sale up to 50% off. Angel is open 11-6 daily, noon-6 Sundays.
We also offer private shopping by appointment. Call 604-681-0947. We ship worldwide.
Desigual has been upcycling denim since 1984. That’s Desigual’s roots. At the time, the company owner, Thomas Meyer, started out on the island of Ibiza in Spain, taking apart old denim jeans and making jackets out of them. A signature is the belt loops at the bottom of Desigual denim jackets.
Here are the new Desigual styles from the Spring-Summer 2021 collection for women now in stock at Angel – Vancouver’s only Desigual Wow Shop boutique. Now on sale 30% to 50% off:
Today’s music is Justin Bieber doing a Tiny Desk concert “at home” starting with his new song Holy, followed by Justin on piano singing Peaches:
One of my favourite Foo Fighters songs is Everlong. Dave Grohl explains how he wrote it in 1996, followed by an acoustic version, released last week:
My all-time favourite version of Everlong was this 1998 live outdoor performance in Vancouver:
Mary Wilson, a founding member of The Supremes, died last month at the age of 76. Here is an early hit by the trio, Stop In The Name of Love. Listen closely to the song’s opening and you’ll hear a Hammond B-3 organ intro played by a Vancouver musician named Robbie King, who was in Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers – the only local band ever signed to Motown. The band was discovered in 1965 by Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard while the trio was playing in Vancouver. While touring the U.S. with the Vancouvers, Bobby Taylor was blown away by an opening act — an Indiana group of brothers called the Jackson 5. Taylor called Motown owner Berry Gordy, urging him to sign the band. Taylor went on to produce the first singles released by the Jackson Five. Another member of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, Tommy Chong, later went on to form the popular stoner comedy duo Cheech and Chong.
This is the first 1968 Motown hit by Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, co-written by Tommy Chong; it’s about a young Black man dating a white girl:
This was the flip side of the single, aka as the B side, of the above Gordy Records song. Malinda:
But wait, it doesn’t stop there: Two members of the band, Robbie King and drummer Duris Maxwell (at one time called Ted Lewis), later joined a Vancouver band, Skylark, that released this single. Wildflower:
The keyboardist was David Foster. This was his first hit in 1972, He went on to be nominated for 47 Grammy Awards, winning 16. It was co-written by Skylark guitarist Doug Edwards and a Victoria cop named Dave Richardson, who explained the inspiration for the song: “In 1970 I was dating a nurse, whom I would eventually marry in 1971 ….. One night I went to pick her up at her apartment, as we had planned on going out. When she opened the door I saw that she was upset to the point of tears. She still had a housecoat on and had her hair wrapped in a towel after a shower. She told me that two elderly ladies she had been caring for in the hospital had died that day at work, and she felt terribly sad about it, as she had come to know them fairly well over a period of time. Anyway, she more or less vented her feelings and I just listened. After she was finished, she thanked me for listening, and said she would get ready for our date. She went into the bedroom and closed the door, and I sat and watched TV waiting for her to come out. When she didn’t return, I knocked on the door but she didn’t answer, so I went in to find her fast asleep on the bed, still in her housecoat and with the towel still wrapped around her head. I guess she was just exhausted after her emotional day. So, I put a blanket over her, being careful not to wake her, and went home and wrote the song in about fifteen minutes or so. It was absolutely inspired. I have always felt that all I did was hold the pen in my hand, and that God did the writing. The ‘Be careful how you touch her, for she’ll awaken” part, refers to when I put the blanket over her. “The way she’s always paying, for a debt she never owes…” – It wasn’t her fault that the two ladies had died, and yet she felt so badly for them that she was crying.”
The song was later sampled by Tupac Shakur, Kanye West and Drake.
Christmas and Boxing Day 2020 have come and gone, but our post-Christmas Sale continues this week at Angel – save up to 50% off all Desigual.
All Desigual for kids is on sale 50% off this weekend (Sunday Dec. 27 and Monday Dec. 28).
We have lots of great Desigual coats, jackets, sweaters, tops and pants for women, including some designed by Christian Lacroix. and sweaters, jackets, shirts, T-shirt and pants for men.
Angel is Vancouver’s only Desigual boutique with the latest styles of the unique Barcelona brand.
Our store, located at 2 Powell in Gastown, is open noon to 6 on Sunday and 11-6 every week day & Saturday.
We also offer private shopping by appointment. Call 604-681-0947.
We ship worldwide.
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Angel is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. We’re on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The historic photo (left) shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
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One of my favourite corners of the Internet is Tiny Desk, which features musicians performing behind a desk in the Washington-DC headquarters of National Public Radio. Since the pandemic, performances have been from home. Here is Dua Lipa performing from a “home” studio in London, starting off with Levitating:
Twelve years ago, Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock performed a live jazz version of Mitchell’s classic, River:
I’m looking forward to seeing Peter Jackson‘s new film, The Beatles: Get Back, which will be released in 2021. It was supposed to be released in 2020 but was delayed by the pandemic. Jackson explains in this preview that he’s still editing 56 hours of footage from the final Beatles recording sessions in 1969 at Apple Studios:
The Beatles had discussed playing a series of live concerts but the band only performed its final live concert on the rooftop of Apple Studio on Jan. 30, 1969. The Beatles final album was originally titled Get Back but was released May 8, 1970 as Let It Be, one month after the band broke up. Producer George Martin had originally produced the album but the Beatles weren’t happy with the mix and gave it to American producer Phil Spector for final overdubs and remixing. Martin did not get a credit as producer, causing him to say: “I produced the original, and what you should do is have a credit saying ‘Produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector’.”
This is Graham Nash‘s gift to Joni Mitchell on her 75th birthday. He wrote Our House when he was 27 and Joni was 26. A friend of mine was hitchhiking to Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast and was picked up by Joni, who was coming off the Langdale Ferry. She drove them for a while and stopped the car, saying: “I’ve got to stop at this pub and have a beer with a friend. If you’re still on the road when I come out I’ll give you a ride.” Well, they didn’t get another ride and Joni came out of the pub with her friend and picked them up – there was my friend and two others, including a dulcimer maker from the Appalacians. Joni got in the car with her “friend” – Graham Nash, Laurel Canyon lovers at the time – and kept asking questions about the dulcimer in the back seat. She said she had a song that would fit so well with dulcimer, which she played to demonstrate: A Case of You.
You would need 59 minutes to watch this Steely Dan video explaining their LP Aja:
Angel just received a new shipment of Desigual for Men, Fall-Winter 2020 collection. Here are the styles we have in stock – now on sale 35% off the prices listed:
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Angel is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. We’re on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The historic photo (left) shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
The location of my store in Gastown, 1886, at the corner of Powell & Carral Streets in the heart of Maple Tree Square.
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Today’s music: Two new songs by Stevie Wonder, who I first saw in 1965 in Vancouver as the opening act for the Rolling Stones. At the time, he was known as “Little Stevie Wonder” because he was only 14 and his hit then was Uptight (Everything’s All Right). Stevie is 70 now, still producing great music. This first features guitarist Gary Clark Jr.
The second features a number of rap/hip-hop stars:
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Leonard Cohen. He sang “I’m ready my Lord” two months before he died four years ago; This song was released on Leonard’s 82nd birthday. “A million candles burning for the help that never came”:
Angel just received a new shipment of Desigual for women, the final installment of the Fall-Winter 2020 collection.
All Desigual from the Fall collection, for women & men, is on sale 30% off for a limited time. Desigual from the Summer 2020 collection is on sale up to 50% off.
Here are the latest New Arrivals for women for Fall 2020:
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Angel is located at No. 2 Powell Street in the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada. We’re on the corner of Powell & Carrall Street in Maple Tree Square, where Vancouver began. The historic photo (left) shows what the location of my store looked like in 1886.
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Today’s music is by Van Halen, the Los Angeles band whose lead guitarist, Eddie Van Halen, wowed the world with his virtuosity. Eddie died this week.
This is the Van Halen song that exploded across the world in the 1980s.
When Quincy Jones was producing Michael Jackson‘s Thriller album in 1982, he called Eddie Van Halen to ask him to do a guitar solo. Eddie was reluctant, saying he didn’t think he was the right guitarist to play on an R&B song. Quincy told him Beat It was about being tough and Eddie would have free rein. The New York Times wrote: “Van Halen played a virtuosic, expansive solo, during which speakers in the studio control room caught fire. Eddie played on the song for free, and wasn’t billed in the album’s credits. As he told CNN in a 2012 interview, one day when he was shopping at Tower Records, “Beat It” came on and he heard a kid snorting, “Listen to this guy trying to sound like Eddie Van Halen.” (‘That is me!’ Van Halen told the kid.)”
I had never heard of Megan Thee Stallion until I saw this video, which came out last week. I love the beat, but I was hesitant about posting it. When I grew up, radio banned a Rolling Stones song because they sang “Let’s spend the night together.” You couldn’t sing about sex. Don’t Stop is blatantly sexual, but the video has a hallucinogenic 1960s topiary innocence that is so entertaining.