Here we are on the last day of the tour and I’m going to share with you a Q&A sent to me by the author. Presumably the interview comes from his efforts to collect information for the book…
First, some details about the book and author
The Bespokist Society Guide to…London
“sparse… some glaring omissions” FoodPorn London
“only page 23 is of mild interest” http://www.londonpetlover.com
“Wow!!! A genuinely bespoke city guide!!!” Tommy Sponge, Chairman, The Bespokist Society
You have in your hands one of the most curated city guides ever created. As the first travel book produced by the hugely influential Bespokist Society, this handy guide takes you to a London you’ve never seen: a London of challenging Etruscan restaurants, edgy branding parlours, emoji hotels and hidden Icelandic communities; a London where 8-ply toilet paper is a thing.
On the way, meet an eclectic band of inspiring Londoners – from scriveners to socialites via urban wordsmiths and coffee preachers – and see why London is now the global epicentre of Bespokist consciousness, community and culture.
Purchase Link – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bespokist-Society-Guide-London/dp/1912615142/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523828780&sr=8-1&keywords=bespokist
Author Bio – The Bespokist Society Guide to London is a work of fiction written by born and bred Londoner, Jeremy Liebster. Somewhat surprisingly, Jeremy is also a city lawyer – formerly at DLA Piper and now a General Counsel within a large private equity group. Jeremy is utterly obsessed with travel books and although he might poke fun at urban fads, hipster fried chicken is his guilty pleasure. He also has an unusual interest in clothes hangers.
Social Media Links – @TheBespokist www.bespokistsociety.com
And now, that interview
Interview with Chaos Tibbs from Flamin’ Irons branding parlour, Shoreditch
As sponsored by The Bespokist Society
Q : Is Chaos your real name?
A : Yes. My parents were radical liberals from Wimbledon and didn’t believe in traditional appendages.
Q : When did you first brand someone?
A : My little sister Fury was pestering me for years to get a little branded dragon on her ankle. When she was 14 we borrowed my mother’s branding iron that she’d picked up from a car boot sale in St. Ives and the rest is history.
Q : Tell me about being sent to prison when you were at Cambridge?
A : It’s not something I’m able to talk about. Netflix are making a documentary about it entitled The Branding Man. The first season has sixteen episodes and it will explore the relationship between the London branding culture in the early Noughties and the heavy use of heroin in British universities.
Q : The European Branding Festival has just been held in East Putney and branding seems to hold more appeal than ever before. What is the future of branding in London?
A : I think we need to take a step back and literally breathe. Five years ago branding was very much taboo. Me being locked up for branding a drunk student is like Oscar Wilde being locked up for being gay. Now you’ve got Meghan Merkel and Prince Harry getting branded before their wedding!
What branding gives us is a primeval sense of who we are and why we’re here. Tattoos are just needles with some ink. By contrast, being branded is probably humanity’s last meaningful connection between our unborn selves and the Sun God that nourishes us to adulthood. Branding is an incredibly spiritual experience which is probably the reason so many people cry when the iron is searing their skin.
Well, that was…bizarre.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 