Tatty Devine Tunes | 25 Years of Tatty Devine

As we get ready to ‘Party Like It’s 1999’ and kick off our 25th-year extravaganza, we’ve got just the thing to get you in the mood to celebrate our silver anniversary. With Team Tatty-certified bangers to bops that inspired our music jewellery designs, we’ve curated a playlist that’s the soundtrack to the last quarter of a century… 

Press play and hear the stories behind some of our Co-Founder, Rosie and Harriet’s favourite songs:

“Lots of these bands we saw at All Tomorrow’s Parties! A festival at Butlins in Camber Sands where we met a lot of the people that went on to be friends and were integral to the invention of Tatty Devine” - Harriet Vine MBE, Creative Director

Rosie and Harriet at ATP in Camber Sands, 2000

Glamour Girl- Chicks on Speed

In late 1999, we found ourselves at Notting Hill Arts Club seeing three girls sing and dance on stage - they were Chicks on Speed! They sang Glamour Girl and Mind Your Own Business: they were wearing paper dresses they’d made and tore them off throwing them into the crowd. Rosie was lucky enough to catch one!

We went on to meet them at a dinner party in Camberwell and struck up a plan to make them jewellery to take on a tour around Japan and the States. This was our first proper collaboration right at the start of it all!

AAXXX - Peaches

We saw Peaches at 93 Feet East in the early noughties and the set completely blew us away. She invited all the ladies up on stage and we danced until we could dance no more! Teaches of Peaches was always on the turntable after that. 

We went on to make merch for Peaches soon after and she modelled the Giant Zip Necklace for a lookbook. 

Cut Your Hair - Pavement

We’ve got two tales from this one! One time we transformed our shop into a hair salon with Charlie Le Mindu, it was incredible and this song soundtracked the moment Harriet cut all of Rosie’s hair off - snip, snip!

Anything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Karen O was our herO - we don’t need to say anything else!

Liebe Zu Dritt - Stereo Total

Good friends of ours made artwork and pop videos for the band - Harriet helped style the duo in Liebe Zu Dritt which involved desperately seeking knee-high red socks all over London. We loved hanging out with Françoise Cactus, she was very cool! When they supported the Strokes, we all had dinner together - iconic!

My Metro Card - Le Tigre

In 2001, we received a grant to go on a research trip! As we ran around the metro exploring NYC we would always sing this song - it was on this visit to The Big Apple that we discovered Canal Plastics and laser cut acrylic for the first time. Gamechanger!

Cult Boyfriend- Jeff Lewis 

In 2013 on another trip to New York, we got invited to a drawing club - we didn’t realise it would be IN Jeff Lewis’ flat!

Big Business - Budget Girls

Teri from Budget Girls was (and is) very much part of ‘the scene’ and is still one of our close friends now! She makes fabulous shoes, check out Ops and Ops and definitely listen to Budget Girls' genius track, Tea Bagging.

Cybeles Reverie - Stereolab

Stereolab is absolutely one of our favourite bands. We first properly saw them live at ATP alongside Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo. Last year, Lætitia Sadier DJ’d at the grand opening of our Neal Street store!

We became close with Mary from the band, who had planned to become a Saturday girl at Tatty Devine not long before her tragic death. We still think of her often.

Judy and Her Dream of Horses - Belle and Sebastian

It’s impossible to pick a favourite track by Belle and Sebastian, so we’ve popped two in this list! We used to play the recorder part of Judy… and sing all the time. We helped our friend Joe Egg put on a Belle and Sebastian night at the Paradise bar in New Cross in the early days of Tatty Devine.

Dog on Wheels - Belle and Sebastian

We couldn’t believe it when we got to make merch for one of our most favourite bands:, it was the birth of our longest and most popular designs, our Dog on Wheels Necklace.

La Vie en Rose - Grace Jones

I’m a Tiger - Lulu

In 2002, we collaborated with Bernstock Speirs on an off-schedule fashion show, we had the press breakfast at Soho’s Stockpots. The models were dressed in Bernstock Speirs clothes, our first acrylic jewellery collection, Fuzzy Felts and these songs were on the soundtrack.

Sex Laws - Beck

When we worked from Harriet’s bedroom on Brick Lane, picking up picks from flatmate's bedroom floors and transforming them into necklaces, this track was played on repeat.

Un Homme et Une Femme - Francis Lai

We had a surreal moment in 2000 when we received a voicemail on our fax machine from creative fashion consultant, Robert Forest who wanted to discuss designing jewellery for the French fashion house, Ungaro. When the big day came, Robert Forest came to meet us, we played this record and he told us all about how the actress from the film had been a muse to Ungaro. 

We didn’t end up designing for Ungaro but still listen to this song.

Good morning world - Kahimi Karie

Kahimi Karie is our lovely friend Ruth’s sister, she’s a goddess! We were big fans of Momus who she sang a lot with, he features on this track.

A Little Girl From Little Rock - Marilyn Monroe

Our friends ran a karaoke night called Hotbreath, this was Rosie’s go-to song. Mike from Hotbreath made bracelets from toothbrushes that we sold in our Brick Lane store and they made a video all about our Volume Knob which goes all the way up to 11!

Spooky - Dusty Springfield

We love Dusty. This was always played at a club night we used to always go to. 

I Wanna Wanna Wanna - Gravy Train!!!!

Hunx from Gravy Train!!!! wrote to us saying how much he loved what we did. In 2007, we went to San Francisco to meet him - he introduced us to his hairdressers where they only gave Ramones-inspired haircuts.

Hunx and his punx still play now and they are still super cool!

Lola - Raincoats

We saw the Raincoats play at our friend's shop Prick Your Finger in Bethnal Green. They were Kurt Cobains favourite band and ours too!

Mis-shapes - Pulp

Always a favourite, so much so that we called our Crafts Council exhibition Misshapes in its honour. We asked Jarvis Cocker’s permission obviously, who when asked said he’d nicked it from a Japanese nightclub!

Don’t forget to check our our dreamy Pulp jewellery collaboration!

Sexy Eiffel Tower - Bow Wow Wow

A throwback to DJ sets at the George and Dragon on Hackney Road, Rosie would always play this.

This trip down memory lane has come to an end but we're not hanging up our disco shoes just yet! Keep your eyes peeled for our 25th Birthday collection, Party Like It's 1999, launching online and in-store on Friday, 25th October 2024 at 12pm BST. 

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