We’re proud as a pumpkin (hoping that’ll catch on) to present to you our second Lick Session. Maps & Atlases, all the way from Chicago, came over to play some tracks from their magnificent album Beware And Be Grateful out on FatCat Records now. The video above is of Winter, but go to our music page here to see the videos for tracks Fever and Remote And Dark Years.

Once again, our tiny audience found out about the session via our Facebook page and Creamy Jack’s Tweets. Everyone who came along helped themselves to free fro-yo, unlimited toppings, and endless top-ups for the more hard-core Lick regulars.

THANKS to Maps & Atlases, and THANKS to everyone who came to hang out with them/us. Buy the Maps & Atlases album here.

Eyes peeled for the next one, please.

Lick. x

With our new deckchairs working their magic outside the shop, and the sun beating down on our backs, hair and faces, the chill-out factor peaked at about 97%. It could only have been made more comfortable if we provided slippers, but we thought it was a bit too warm for that.

This blog post is basically to say WE HAVE TEN DECKCHAIRS. Please, come and sit in them.

Does anyone else have deckchairs outside their shop? Were we the first ones? (Yes we were, I know we were). Will it become a craze?

I just want to touch on a serious issue - health in the sun. Here’s some things to remember:

1 – fluids – have some

2 – sun-cream as opposed to cooking oil

3 – wear a hat, especially if you’re bald

4 – one fro-yo per afternoon, but only from Lick

Have fun… IT’S THE SUMMER!!!

Lick. x

CONGRATULATIONS to the finders, when you come in to claim your winnings we may ask for a photo of you with your GT’s (Golden Tickets), 4 (for) our Facebook GT Winners photo album.

In other news – we’re hosting a different flavour fro-yo every week. So far this year we’ve served up green apple, blueberry, mango, peanut butter… these guest flavours are swapped every Saturday, we’re happy to give you a free sample so please come in, have a taste, slap us on the back and on with your day.

FINALLY – Lick Music Session happening this week, we’ll send out details ON THE DAY so keep your eyes peeled.

Below, a reminder of what can happen if you discover one of Creamy Jack’s Golden Tickets.

Take it steady. Lick. x

Here is the 2nd installment of the awesome Frightened Rabbit Lick Session we held just before Christmas. This song is called My Backwards Walk and is from the critically acclaimed album Midnight Organ Fight, which came out on FatCat Records.

News of our next session will be posted soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Here are some clues: It isn’t Justin Timberlake, it isn’t Madonna, it might be the Rolling Stones, it isn’t Lady GaGa, it might be the cast of the musical Starlight Express, it isn’t Eddie Murphy, it may or may not be any or all or none of these.

Peeled: your eyes (keep).

Lick. x

We are incredibly excited and pleased to show you our first Lick Session, which was filmed before Christmas at the shop.

Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit kindly came along to play three songs for us, to a tiny audience of our friends and the lucky people who noticed us put clues on our Facebook wall.

This track is The Twist, which appears on the band’s 2nd studio album The Midnight Organ Fight – go to FatCat Records website to learn more about this incredible album and band.

For anybody who wasn’t at this event but wishes they had known about it, well ah haaa… you’ll have to check up on our Facebook and Twitter pages a little more. We have another session IN THE BAG – clues for this will appear soon.

THANKS to Scott for coming down and hanging out with us, and THANKS to our friends Galapagos, who produced the video – I think everyone will agree that it looks and sounds awesome.

Contact thomas (at) lickyogurt.com if you’re a band who want to come and play a Lick session.

IN OTHER NEWS: We re-open on 28th January at 11am. The first 50 people through the door get a FREE FROZEN YOGURT. Spread the word.

Is fifty too many? Ahh who cares.

Lick. x

We are all now stuck between Christmas and New Years – a tricky time of the year. What should we really be doing with this time? Should we leave the tree up? Shall we keep eating the chocolate for breakfast and pistachio nuts for lunch? How long will the turkey last in the fridge? (I actually do want to know the answer to the last one)

All I know is this – if you’re not having the best time possible, you’re an idiot. It’s raining, town’s busy, dad’s drunk, but this young lady in photograph above doesn’t care, and neither should you. Get the brolly out and feed the ducks. 

We’ll be open again from the end of January, so please come by and tell us what you got for Christmas. If your resolution revolves around weight loss, then remember that Lick fro-yo is 100% fat-free – therefore the perfect guilt-free way to keep on treating yourself. And, if you like ‘new‘ stuff and ‘flavours‘ of things, then you’ll be interested to find out more about a ‘new flavour‘ fro-yo we could be introducing when we re-open. More on that soon!

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and that you enjoy celebrating the new year.

Lick. x

These women had baked ten different cakes, from Battenburg to cheese cake to scones to sponges… So we armed ourselves with a Twinings English Breakfast tea and made a start on the judging. We were responsible for naming the ‘Best in Show‘ cake, and the winner would be awarded with a Lick tote bag, t-shirt, £10 voucher, and some CD’s donated by FatCat Records.

It took a good ten minutes of discussions to agree on the winner, but after scoring the short-listed cakes on skill, effort, appearance, taste, and bake-level, we finally decided that the Battenburg was the most superior cake in the room (and probably in Brighton).

You can see the winner in the photo above, and the rest of the WI in the group shot. Lovely girls, beautiful occasion, would love to do that again. Please.

If you think you could bake a better cake, simply bring it in to our shop and we’ll eat it all then tell you if it’s better.

THANKS to the WI for inviting us along.

Lick. x

The ELLE representative was very generous in her compliments of our fro-yo, and said “ELLE models j’adore Lick, it’s delicious, they go crazy over it, they can eat it by the tub because it’s fat-free, they’ve all been tweeting about it too. That’s typical of models… they fall in love with something and then it’s straight on Twitter to tell the world.”

Well, ELLE – you’re welcome to let your models feast on Lick as often as they want. Thanks for the kind words.

If you want to follow Creamy Jack on Twitter, then just click here to see what he’s up to. He’s a fantastic mascot, but can be a little arrogant at times.

Lick. x

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Creamy Jack Golden Ticket.

Starting from today, Creamy Jack will be wondering around town, planting secret Golden Tickets in random places in Brighton like between books in Waterstones, under napkins in cafes, placed in a coat pocket, left on a counter, put inside a paper! Half of the hiding places will be hinted at via clues that will go up on Facebook and Twitter, the other half will be left, cold and alone, waiting… for someone to find them by accident.

Whoever finds the tickets just has to take them into the store and exchange them for whatever prize is written on the back. Prizes can be anything from a Lick tote bag, to a years supply of fro-yo.

Remember to follow us on Facebook and Twitter in order to see the clues.

I remember where I was when Linford Christie took the Olympic gold in Barcelona, I remember the feeling of my first kiss, I remember the weight of my GCSE results envelope… and you will never forget this urge you now feel, the urge to get into town and hunt down these little golden scamps.

Good Luck!

Lick. x

WHAT A RELIEF, then, that we’re going to be at The Haunt this Saturday night, giving away free Licks to the first 200 people ‘in da club’. There are two more things about this night that make it probably the best thing to do in the world this month:

• Halloween. It’s a Halloween night, so everyone’s going to be dressed up all scary n stuff. When people dress up, they go mad… as if this club wasn’t crazy enough, on Saturday night it’ll be kicked into another dimension.
• 80′s music. It’s probably the easiest music to dance to, which for people like me is a help. Also, nobody can look cool dancing to 80′s music, everyone just looks like they’re having the best stupid time they’ve ever had. So, all the idiots are forced out and you’re just left with radical people.

Here’s the link to the Facebook event page

I hope we’ll be handing you a free Lick this Saturday!

Lick. x