Essential Retail will be attending the UK Blog Awards tonight, hoping to win in the Digital and Tech category, and also the Fashion and Retail category.

We’ve been writing about innovation in retail and technology since late 2013, so this is a great way for us to get together and celebrate with other bloggers, do some heavy drinking networking and hopefully uncover some hidden gems from the rest of the blogosphere.

We are also particularly looking forward to finding out more about what the ‘Wonderland’ is that we’ve been hearing little snippets about from the organisers over the last few weeks.

We’ll be live-tweeting over at @EssRetail as much as we possibly can / our iPhone battery allows, so if you’re not going to be there you can still keep up with the evening’s events.  Check back in with us on Monday to read our round up of the evening.