#Havana Club

[usmccigardad]

You don't have to be at the Havana Club to kick back and enjoy a good cigar.

#Cigar #Havana Club #Kick Back

[rjavenuru]

Another Gothic Homemaking inspired piece - The Chaos Chalice. Mainly used for drinking rum (preferably dark spiced like Kraken or Havana Club).

#aurelio voltaire #gothic homemaking #glassware #glass art #chaos chalice #rum #kraken #havana club #gothic homemaking inspired #lair of voltaire #the lair of voltaire

[drinksgeek]

Bacardi Carta Blanca vs Havana Club Rum

The best white rum is often the mixer of choice for cocktails and offers body and depth while adding a hint of freshness to cocktails that make both Bacardi Carta Blanca and Havana Club Rum worthy white rums to be added to your booze trolley.

Bacardi Carta Blanca vs Havana Club Rum

Bacardi Carta Blanca

Havana Club 3 Year

Andrew’s Top Pick: Havana Club 3 Year

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#rum #bacardi #havana club

[ujcdecuba]

Havana Club se extiende por el mundo pese al bloqueo de EE.UU

Alemania, Francia, Italia, España y Reino Unido constituyen los principales mercados del afamado ron cubano Havana Club, que demuestra su resiliencia en el contexto de la crisis económica internacional. Sergio Valdés, director de Havana Club International, expresó en declaraciones exclusivas a la Agencia Cubana de Noticias que en América: Canadá, México y Argentina funcionan como otros mercados…

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#Cuba #EE.UU #Havana Club #rones cubanos

[chiveraccs]

Ron: Havana Club Cuban Smoky

Ron: Havana Club Cuban Smoky

Precisamente por la imposibilidad de Cuba para adquirir barricas exbourbon directamente de su país de origen, es asombroso cómo la industria ha optado por reinventarse constantemente y hacer nuevas combinaciones de barricas usadas. En esta ocasión, la marca Havana Club finaliza su producto en barricas exwhisky escocés, lo cual no es un gran paso, salvo que utiliza específicamente barricas de…

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#Cuba #Havana Club #Ron

[travsd]

The Lillie Tossas Centennial

The Lillie Tossas Centennial

The young lady in question enjoyed perhaps the briefest day in the sun of anyone else on Travalanche, but the fact that she was born 100 years ago today seemed well worth marking. Lillie Tossas (1921-2007), the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, was a headline dancer at the Havana-Madrid Club at 51st and Broadway at the tender age of 18. When the 1939 New York World’s Fair opened in Flushing,…

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#1939 #Copacabana #Cuban Village #dancer #Havana Club #Havana-Madrid Club #Lillie Tossas #Lily Tossas #World&039;s Fair

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

imma fuck you up!

#bottoms 2023 #bottoms movie #isabel bottoms #havana rose liu #my vid #m #SHES SO GORGGGGG #like it's messed up im so in love w her #would have started a fight club for her too!!

[theclassymike]

Josh Hutcherson attending the LA Football Club.

#josh hutcherson #la football club #he's so hot #bridge to terabithia #journey to the centre of the tardis #journey 2 the mysterious island #the hunger games #peeta mellark #detention #paradise lost #7 days in havana #future man #hulu future man #josh futturman #burn #57 seconds #five nights at freddy's #fnaf movie #mike schmidt #the beekeeper #actor #talented #hot guy #gorgeous guy #one of my faves

[henrysbluecardigan]

giggling, kicking my feet, twirling my hair, blushing, squealing

#HERRRRRR #i would start a fight club for her too #bottoms movie #havana rose liu #isabel bottoms

[fangirlfilmclub]

What we watched: Dirty Dancing - Havana Nights.

Who we watched it for: Diego Luna.

What we thought: Even Diego Luna, being the embodiment of sunshine and light could not make this movie remotely watchable.

And while this film is...shockingly bad, it is the first recommendation we've received. So, thank you for the rec, @aimmyarrowshigh! You said it was a tragedy and in that regard, it did not disappoint!

#the fan girl film club #diego luna #dirty dancing havana nights

[livrosdanizz]

O Clube do Pesadelo (v1. finalizada)

"Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” ― Stephen King, It.

#the nightmare club #o clube do pesadelo #v1 is done! #dreamcast #abigail cowen #joseph quinn #Kiana Madeira #havana rose liu #my book

[lovedpoetical-ly]

a tall / intimidating / protective femme partner

with a

shorter / nonchalant / carefree partner

#wlw poetry #wlw shows #wlw characters #wlw film #black wlw #black lesbian #poetry #wlw #sapphic poetry #sapphic shows #sapphic blog #sapphic movies #wlw blog #wlwoc #get even #bottoms movie #dickinson apple tv #ayo edebiri #havana rose liu #ella hunt #hailee steinfeld #mia polanco #emily dickinson #susan gilbert #olivia hayes #sapphic #wlw community #wlw post #the bold type #dive club

[fluentisonus]

bridge theatre guys & dolls sky masterson bisexual real??

#HELLO #<- when he takes sarah to havana & they go to the second bar there #he's like let's go somewhere better (paraphrase) & they go to a gay club where he dances with a #scantily clad guy (instead of a lady like the og) until she gets jealous #<- anyways So true bridge theatre I will accept this into my heart #thoughts #Really fun in general but this interpretation has opened my eyes in particular

[the-frog-blog]

I love my friendsssssssssss

#I cooked dinner for my good friend and then we went to the club #the antidote to my Havana syndrome

[mariocki]

Second City Firsts: Club Havana (BBC, 1975)

"When you have just arrived in a dangerous country like Birmingham, you got to examine all about you. You got to secure your rear. And you notice them carrying the bread, in their dirty hands and in the baby carriage!"

"It's a beautiful slum, like Kingston."

"What, sir? No. Kingston is blue and green! This is concrete and dogshit - and drizzle."

#second city firsts #club havana #single play #bbc #classic tv #barry reckord #pamela brighton #don warrington #mona hammond #julie walters #frank singuineau #alfred fagon #tara prem #most often referred to these days in terms of being the screen debut of national treasure julie walters #but that's a disservice to an urgent and challenging play that promotes black voices in an era which rarely did so on mainstream television #where SCF often concentrated (admirably) on emerging talents and new writers‚ Reckord was already a well established figure at this point #albeit with little success in television. as a stage writer‚ however‚ he'd been working since the mid 50s‚ often with his actor director #brother Lloyd. one significant success had been the Royal Court staging of Barry's play You in Your Small Corner‚ which granada had #adapted for tv in 1962 and which was long believed to feature the first interracial kiss on british television (it later emerged that the #earliest had in fact been in 1959 in play Hot Summer Night‚ tho interestingly it was Lloyd Reckord locking lips in both instances) #Reckord had also written a Play for Today in 72 but Club Havana was his third and final attempt at breaking into tv; he returned instead to #play writing and the stage for the rest of his life. as in Small Corner‚ this play concerns (although perhaps less centrally) an #interracial romance; it's tempting to look for elements of autobiography (Reckord was in a long and unconventional relationship with the #white novelist Diana Athill‚ and like his protagonist hailed from Kingston) but there's little to connect Walters' burnt out barmaid with #Athill's vibrant academic‚ nor in Don Warrington's teacherly ambitions (Reckord had been writing full time almost from his student days) #to the difficult relationship between a blinkered mother and naive son i can say less; regardless‚ Hammond gives a powerhouse performance #as she so often did. a challenging play as i said and comes with the caveat that the language used is often shocking to a modern audience #indeed I'm quite surprised at how much Reckord slipped past the bbc censors. but it feels genuine and human and it works #my mother caught some of this as i watched and did not enjoy: 'just a lot of shouting' was her summary. but hey sometimes that's life #and when a play works like real life it works well

[newmusickarl]

Album & EP Recommendations

Fear Fear by Working Men’s Club

“Trapped inside a town, inside my mind” - the self-titled debut from Yorkshire outfit Working Men’s Club will forever remind me of the strangest of times.

When the album was released in late 2020, the world was still tightly locked into some fairly strict COVID restrictions. Here in the UK, although things had opened up somewhat, live music was still a way off returning. This meant any band promoting a new record had to think outside the box for their album launch shows. For example, I went along to the launch event for Working Men’s Club’s first album here in Nottingham and reflecting on it now just seems so strange.

Firstly, the band couldn’t perform live, so basically a projector in the bar played a video of them performing instead. Even though the band themselves were in attendance at the venue! Then everyone in the crowd was sat down at socially distanced tables and once the video performance had finished, frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant begun to play a DJ set. However, before he had even gotten into the swing, everyone was ushered out of the bar because of the 10pm curfew. A fun but quite bizarre night and obviously not the ideal launch conditions for a new band just starting out!

However, despite the restrictive nature of the release, Working Men’s Club came through and their debut was a decent commercial and critical success. Placing 13th in my final Albums of 2020 list, it was also my highest rated debut of that year. Now just two years on, Working Men’s Club get what feels like a second shot at making a first impression, with this their excellent sophomore album - Fear Fear. Not completely rid of the association with the pandemic, Fear Fear arrives packed with songs troubled by loss, panic, isolation and trepidation. However just like their debut, the album’s dark underbelly is glossily sheened over thanks to the neon-soaked drench of pulsating, nostalgia-laced electronica.

Opener 19 is an early highlight, featuring a glitchy instrumental rumble of ominous synths, that slowly build before morphing halfway through into what could easily be mistaken for a dark and gloomy New Order track. After that, the album’s title track interrupts with a cacophonous drone of acid-soaked and quite alarming electronic shakes. As the Caribbean-style drums kick-in, suddenly the track becomes a swirling vortex of buzzy, vibrant sounds. It's one of the album’s more experimental tracks and may put some people off early doors, however addictive lead single Widow then arrives to pull everyone back onside. With a mesmerising central synth groove, Working Men’s Club continue to channel New Order and the spirit of a 90s Madchester rave to maximum effect.

Another single Ploys then keeps the momentum going with some very welcome early Hot Chip energy before the 80s-tinged, mini-epic Cut takes the listener on a mind-melting sonic adventure. After the trippy clanks of Rapture, recent single Circumference then serves up a colourful rainfall of glowing synths - a must-listen for any Nation of Language fans. The album then finishes strongly thanks to the playful funk bounce of Heart Attack, the jittering robo-dance of Money Is Mine and the climatic, whirring finale of aptly titled track, The Last One.

Working Men’s Club may have set a high standard with their debut, but it’s great to hear them continue to ride their wave of momentum on this very solid second outing. With a dark, moody aura, lots of fun sonic exploration and plenty of replay ability, you’ll struggle to have a bad time listening to this one.

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Hellfire by Black Midi

Elsewhere this week, experimental rockers Black Midi are back at their batshit best with their third album - Hellfire.

Whilst I wasn’t completely taken with their debut Schlagenheim, last year’s sophomore outing Cavalcade did win me over with its frequently fascinating and erratic sonic leaps between jazz, math, prog and art-rock. Hellfire pretty much picks up where that album left off, but with the big difference being that Midi finally start to knit things together to bring some semblance of cohesiveness to their auditory madness. Coming from the opposite end of the spectrum to The Weeknd’s Dawn FM, a polished pop record about the beauty of the afterlife, Hellfire feels almost like its bleak, demented cousin. Also featuring radio transmission interludes, it’s a brutal rock opera focussing in on the horrors of war and humanity.

Its hard to pick out certain tracks as highlights, as this really is a record that demands to be listened as a whole body of work – the bonkers rollercoaster from beginning to end being the real highlight. However, I did see this week second track Sugar/Tzu described as “the soundtrack to a James Bond chase scene, if James Bond was played by a cartoon mouse” which I thought was too perfect a description to not include here. Elsewhere Welcome To Hell with its stuttering riffs and rambunctious orchestration also stands out, as does folky, subdued centrepiece Still and the theatrical, early Wild Beasts-style shades of tracks like The Race Is About To Begin and 27 Questions.

Black Midi will always be a marmite band and if you weren’t a fan before then this is certainly not the album to get you onboard. However, if you enjoyed the over-the-top dramatics and frenzied ridiculousness of their previous two efforts, you might even find this to be their best album yet.

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The Present Is A Foreign Land by Deaf Havana

“Overall, The Present Is A Foreign Land is a magnificent rebirth – a deeply personal record from beginning to end, simply brimming with all the heart and resilience the Veck-Gilodi brothers could muster. Although they probably didn’t realise it at the time, everything they’ve been through seems to have been a blessing in disguise. And whilst not everyone has been through the same battles as them, an album that documents coming through unimaginable lows to ultimately have a more optimistic outlook for the future, couldn’t feel any timelier.”

Read my full review for Gigwise here

Read my full interview with Deaf Havana for Gigwise here

Listen to the album here

Also out, also great: Why You Lacking Energy by Cassia, World Wide Pop by Superorganism, I Exist EP by Vukovi, Beatopia by Beabadoobee, A Kid Name Cudi (Re-release) by Kid Cudi

Tracks of the Week

Guitar Songs (TV / The 30th) by Billie Eilish

On the tracks front this week then and global pop sensation Billie Eilish made a return with her first new music since her history-making headline set at Glastonbury last month. Titled Guitar Songs, this duo of heartfelt acoustic songs see Billie and her brother FINNEAS return to their early roots with some gorgeous, stripped-back, no-fuss songwriting.

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Alright by Sam Fender

Also currently conquering festivals across Europe this summer, Geordie Springsteen Sam Fender has dropped his first new music of 2022. Written during the Seventeen Going Under sessions, it thematically fits the personal and reflective nature of that album, whilst featuring his signature mix of soaring guitars and big bold horns, along with a climatic refrain of “We’re alright, it’s time to put the world to rights.”

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How Will I Know? by The Amazons

Reading rockers The Amazons continue the build towards their third album, this week unveiling the album’s opening and spiritual title track. As with recent singles Bloodrush and Ready For Something, it continues to suggest the band’s songcraft is maturing nicely with How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me looking set to be their most accomplished project to date. As for the track itself, it boasts a huge singalong chorus that will surely go down an absolute storm at their upcoming summer festivals appearances.

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Kill Or Be Killed by Muse

The latest single to be taken from Muse’s upcoming album Will of the People is another welcome return to their early heavier roots. Featuring hard chainsaw-like riffs, pulverizing synths and Bellamy’s signature operatic vocals, it’s easily one of their best songs for a very long time.

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So Far So Good by Gold Tides

And last but certainly not least, Sante Fe outfit Gold Tides have released their first new music since their impressive debut 2021 EP, Fever Water. Featuring a wonderfully hazy and psychedelic central guitar groove with an instantly catchy refrain of “Through the Void I Saw It / Through The Flames I Saw It”, Gold Tides continue to show bags of potential.

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#working men's club #widow #fear fear #album recommendation #song recommendation #black midi #deaf havana #gold tides #muse #the amazons #billie eilish #sam fender #new music #best new music #new music friday