Each UV ray that graces our sunshine-deprived faces is fuelling us for one thing only. Festival season. We spoke about it the other day, but Christ, it’s exciting. The thoughts of stomping about in a scorched (or soaked) field are now constantly on our minds. Festival season is on the horizon. We can taste it.
The seasoned ones amongst you will know that the festival excitement starts long before the event itself, and one of the most exciting moments of all lies within the prepping…
Ramming all sorts of stuff that you may or may not need into a comically small bag ahead of the big fixture is thrilling – toilet roll, sunglasses, lip balm, chewing gum, rolling papers, & more toilet roll.
A vital ingredient we’ve missed off that festival-survival-cocktail is a portable charger. In our view, they’re one of the most important parts of having fun at a festival. Going brain-dead on Instagram Reels is a certified hangover cure, and you can’t do that with a phone on 0% battery.
One brand that understands the importance of the humble portable charger is West London’s TDR, who have recently teamed up with Brighton-born sustainable tech company, gomi, to produce a capsule of battle-ready battery packs…
The pair have cooked up three colourways for these life-savers, all riffing off TDR’s waterproof suede Festival Bag – and they’re sized to tuck in perfectly. Releasing in Brown, Turquoise, and Dark Navy, each gomi charger sports a marbled case that mirrors the bag it’s paired with.
These aren’t just good-looking, festival-ready lumps of plastic, though – they’ve been juiced up with repurposed e-bike batteries and pack a hefty 10,000 mAh – enough to charge your phone three times over. That’s an entire weekend of questionable photos, unintelligible voicenotes and countless WhatsApp live locations.
The icing on the cake is that each charger clocks in with over 50% fewer CO2 emissions compared to the usual battery bricks, comes armed with dual charging ports and backs you up with a two-year warranty.
Good looks, solid performance, and doing their bit for the planet – bucket hats off to TDR & gomi for this one.
The TDR x gomi collaboration is available to purchase now from The Garbstore.
