A Fun Evening at Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube Summer Party
Donal Skehan and Jamie Oliver at Foodtube live on Tuesday
I popped along to the filming of Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube Summer Party, his live youtube show filmed in London. Irish food blogger, author & TV bod Donal Skehan was in town to cook on it, and there were some other Youtube characters involved too. I have to announce my ignorance here, I had no idea who any of the others were, save Donal and Crumbs & Doilies (I had a neighbouring food stall to them in Covent Garden some years ago). The Youtube food landscape is completely different to the blogosphere, and I am only beginning to explore it. It was a really fun evening, and also an education.
Filming Food Tube, behind the scenes
I have been talking about starting a Youtube channel for – oh – three years now, so my curiosity spurred me along. I love video. It is lively, engaging, fun and a great way of sharing stories of people and places. With food & travel, and travelling as much as I do, there is so much that I could do here, and I feel sad when I think back to trips to amazing places like Bangkok and Tokyo, and how much I could have done there. My problem is time, and lack of kit and technology. I am working on it and hope to launch soon.
Back to Food Tube. Jamie’s team had an alleyway decked out with bunting and cooking islands. I spotted Donal straight away, and behind him was DJ BBQ, in a superb branded spandex catsuit brandishing tongs near his smoker. Cheerful young twins from London sat nearby, these turned out to be JacksGap, their Youtube channel has over 2 million subscribers. They had quite a few superfans waiting outside for hours for an opportunity to have a photo taken with them after. Gennaro Contaldo was dressed as a pepper (or tomato? not sure!). Also in place were Pixie Woo, and the Chiappa Sisters.
The live video is gone now, but there are lots of videos from some of the above on the Food Tube Youtube channel so be sure to take a look.
Crumbs & Doilies cupcakes. I love the 99 one.
Jamie’s Greek salad
Donal’s lamb kebabs
Donal’s lamb kebabs
Donal & Danny from Food Urchin
DJ BBQ and his supersoaker full of apple juice to spray on the BBQ shoulder to moisten it
Gennaro’s Puttanesca
Some neighbours watch on overhead
Regula, aka Miss Food Wise, samples Gennaro’s pasta
DJ BBQ’s carnitas
JacksGap sample Donal’s lamb kebab
Filming Food Tube
Gennaro, Jamie & DJ BBQ
Donal is feeling it :)
JacksGap & Jamie eating chillies and maybe regretting it
Definitely regretting it!
DJ BBQ
Comments
Great night Niamh, slightly bonkers in fact, wish I kept the moustache and beard now!
Ha! Is it gone already? I liked it. Really fun night :) Thanks for joining me.
Looks like a great way to spend an evening!!!
Not bad at all :)
Oh Niamh, what a fantastic life you lead. It looks like so much fun, and rather delicious!
It was both :))
Great night, slightly chaotic but very entertaining ;-)
I love a bit of chaos :)
looks like a fun night
It was lots of fun! :)
Oooh i do hope you get around to starting a youtube channel, it would be so fun to see you/hear you talk about food. I love Jamie’s videos.
Great write up Niamh! Was such a fun night! :) x
Thanks Donal. Great to see you x
Seems like a fun night – Thanks also for the tip, I’ll definitely go and check the Food Tube…
Sounds and looks like you had loads of fun. The Puttanesca gets my vote.
Love your photos! fun night!
Such fun! Love what you do and your food is delicious.
That was such a fun show ad it was great to see you there and Miss foodwise also .nt to mention all the other contributors. I would love t be a ‘fly on the wall’ as it were and see all the fun first hand it must have been really amazing to be part of it all.
Yes, it was fun, Bee! And interesting to see behind the scenes :)