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250 Hollywood Celebrities Sign Letter Demanding Big Tech Censor Anyone Who Opposes Trans Surgeries On Kids

Here are the names of every celebrity who wants to mutilate children. Remember them & for Gods sake, stop supporting their products, movies, shows etc.

Abby Wambach

Adam Eli

Aitch Alberto

AJ Shively

Alan Cumming

Alejandra Caraballo

Alejandra Ghersi

Alex Clark

Alexandra Gutierrez

Alisa Ramirez

Allie Leonard

Allison Goldfrapp

ALOK Vaid-Menon

Alyssa May Gold

Alyssa Milano

Amber Ruffin

Amber Tamblyn

Amy Schumer

Amy Landecker

Andrew Polk

Angelica Ross

Annaleigh Ashford

Antoni Porowski

Aparna Brielle

Arden Myrin

Ariana Grande

Arisce Wanzer

Avan Jogia

Barbie Ferreira

Bebe Rexha

Bella Ramsey

Ben Barnes

Benito Skinner

Benj Pasek

Bethany Cosentino

Bethany Leavel

Billy Eichner

Billy Porter

Bob the Drag Queen

Bobby Berk

Bonnie Milligan

Brad Oscar

Bradley Whitford

Brandon Matthews

Brendan Hines

Bretman Rock

Brian Smith

Brigette Lundy-Paine

Brittany Tomlinson

Busy Philipps

Caesar Samoya

Camila Cabello

Camille A Brown

Cara Delevingne

Chani Nicholas

Chella Man

Chelsea Handler

Cheyenne Jackson

Chris Perfetti

Christa Miller

Cleo Wade

Colton Haynes

Corey Jantzen

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia McWilliams

Cynthia Nixon

Cyrus Veyssi

D’Arcy Carden

Dakota Fanning

Dan Levy

Darren Criss

David Shatraw

David Oulton

Debra Messing

Deepica Mutyala

Demi Lovato

Des McAnuff

Devery Jacobs

Diana Maria Riva

Diane Guerrero

Dylan Mulvaney

Ed Droste

Eddie Ndopu

EJ Marcus

Elegance Bratton

Eliot Rahal

Elle Fanning

Elliot Page

Emily Hampshire

Emily V. Gordon

Emma Hunton

Erin Reed

Estefania Pessoa

FLETCHER

Freddy Thomas

Gabrielle Union-Wade

Gigi Gorgeous

Glennon Doyle

Gottmik

Grace Kuhlenschmidt

Griffin Dunne

Haley Baldwin Bieber

Hannah Gadsby

Harry Lambert

Hayley Kiyoko

Hilary Montez

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

Isaac Mizrahi

Jackie Bazan

Jacob Tierney

Jai Rodriguez

Jameela Jamil

James Blake

James Scully

Jaymes Vaughan

Jamie Lee Curtis

Janaya Khan

Janelle Monáe

Janet Hubert

Jazz Jennings

Jenna Lyons

Jennifer Kerr

Jeremy Fall

Jessica Betts

Jillian Mercado

Jinkx Monsoon

Joe DiPietro

Jonathan Van Ness

Jonathan Bennett

Jonny Pierce

Jordan Stenmark

Jordan Firstman

Jordan Roth

JP Saxe

Judd Apatow

Justin Baldoni

Justin Tranter

Kal Penn

Kamar de los Reyes

Karamo Brown

Kate Reinders

Katherine LaNasa

Kathryn Grody

Kellie Overbey

Kelly Devine

Kendrick Sampson

Kevin Harrington

Kevin Cahoon

Ki Griffin

Kimber Elayne Sprawl

Kimberly Drew

Kristin Chenoweth

Lachlan Watson

Laith De La Cruz

Laura Terruso

Lauren Jauregui

Laverne Cox

Lena Dunham

Lena Waithe

Lena Hall

Lilly Singh

Lily Rabe

Liv Hewson

Liza Koshy

Lola Tung

Lorin Latarro

Lovell Adams-Gray

Lucky Bromhead

Mae Martin

Mae Whitman

Maggie Boccella

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

Mandy Patinkin

Marc Jacobs

Marc Kudisch

Marieme Diop

Martha Plimpton

Matt Bernstein

Matt McGorry

Matt Walton

Medalion Rahimi

Meena Harris

Megan Crabbe

Michael D. Cohen

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez

Michelle Buteau

Midori Francis

Miriam Silverman

Moj Mahdara

Mona Chalabi

Montego Glover

Munroe Bergdorf

Nate Wonder

Nats Getty

Neila Karassik

Nicholas Ferroni

Nico Carney

Nico Santos

Nico Tortorella

Nicole Maines

Niecy Nash-Betts

Nik Dodani

Ocean Vuong

Olly Alexander

Our Lady J

Padma Lakshmi

Patrick Stewart

Patti LuPone

Peppermint

Phillip Picardi

Phoebe Robinson

Poorna Jagannathan

Rachel Cargle

Rafael Silva

Ramy Youssef

Randy Shulman

Raquel Willis

Richa Moorjani

Rob Holysz

Robert Horn

Rory Dahl

Rosario Dawson

Rupi Kaur

Sam Smith

Sander Jennings

Sandy Rustin

Sara Bareilles

Sara Ramirez

Sarah Ramos

Sasha Velour

Scott Turner Schofield

Shawn Mendes

Shea Couleé

Shea Diamond

Sherri Saum

Sinead Burke

Solomon Hughes

Stephen Kunken

Susie Park

T. Oliver Reid

Taika Waititi

Tan France

Tatiana Maslany

Tess Holliday

Tiffany Namtu

Tommy Dorfman

Tracee Ellis Ross

Travis Alabanza

Tunde Adebimpe

Vivek Shraya

Wanda Sykes

Warren Carlyle

Wayne Cilento

Wilson Cruz

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Zoë Chao

Zooey Deschanel

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bookaddict24-7 · 1 year

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New Young Adult Releases! (May 2nd, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

I Like Me Better by Robby Weber

We Don’t Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

The Unstoppable Bridget Bloom by Allison L. Bitz

Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

Liar’s Beach by Katie Cotugno

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum

Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley by Melissa Marr

Lion’s Legacy by Lev A.C. Rosen

The Isles of the Gods by Amie Kaufman

Solitaire by Alice Oseman (This is a new cover reprint)

Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams

The Weight of Everything by Marcia Argueta Mickelson

Time Out by Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner & Carlyn Greenwald

When Death is Coming by Jen Woodrum

Stranger Danger by Maren Stoffels

New Sequels:

Path of Vengeance (Star Wars: The High Republic) by Cavan Scott

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Happy reading!

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type1diabetesinfandom · 2 years

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Hey, how many canon T1 diabetic characters do you know about?

I kinda wanted to challenge myself to make a character in art everyday with visual equitment, symbols maybe, and anything else I can think of.

That sounds like a great idea! Let me know how it goes please :D

So here are the ones I know from media I have personally read/watched:

Alec Holland from Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater, a DC comic book. Specified as T1D.

Blue Broen from The Truth According to Blue by Eve Yohalem, a middle grade adventure novel. (I'm only a few pages in but T1D seems well done.)

Brian (and Rufus) from Rufus Comes Home by Kim Gosselin, a children's book featuring Rufus the Diabetic Bear! (I still have mine on a shelf--along with Ruby! Although I renamed her Rosetta :P put pods on 'em and everything.)

Cassie Salazar from Purple Hearts, a 2022 Netflix Original AND a romance novel by Tess Wakefield (which I have NOT read). Specified as T1D.

Hansel (played by Jeremy Renner) from the movie Hansel & Gretel: Witchhunters. He has an inaccurate, anachronistic form of diabetes referred to as ‘sugar sickness’ but it’s one of my favorite movies. Besides, the movie also has an automatic machine arrow-gun. Realistic it is not. Fun monster movie, it is. I want to write a medical fix-it fic SO bad but I don't know when.

Mackenzie Nolan from Let Me List the Ways by Sarah White, a YA contemporary romance. Specified as T1D.

Sal Vidon from Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez, a Rick Riordan presents novel. Specified as T1D.

Stevie Hart from Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee, a YA contemporary novel. Specified as T1D (but not until over 100 pages in :/ sorry I got personal beef with the book's rep but I saw a few people who liked it so... GREAT homeschooling rep tho)

Ones I have been reliably informed have T1D (or, you know, as close as we get) but have not personally read/watched:

Ezekiel from Agnes at the End of the World, a YA cult/post-apoc novel by Kelly McWilliams. Not sure if it's specified.

Captain Lantus from The Adventures of Captain Lantus, a children's book. Specified as T1D.

Kyle Broflovski and Scott Malkinson from the show South Park. I don't believe it's specified, and from what I've heard, SP makes fun of literally everything, but I know they've got a lot of fanfic in the ao3 diabetes tag!

Lucy Szabo from Sweetblood, a YA novel by Pete Hautman. Not sure if it's specified.

Dare Chase from The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh, a YA horror fantasy novel. Not sure if it's specified.

Stacey Frick and one unnamed girl from Pixar's Turning Red movie. Both wear visible insulin pumps.

Stacey McGill from The Baby-Sitters Club, a middle grade series by Anne M Martin and a Netflix Original show. Specified as T1D.

Scott from Zebrafish by Sharon Emerson, a middle grade book. Not sure if it's specified.

Diabetes in Fiction is definitely worth a look. Their website sorts by both T1D or T2D and also by genre.

There are more lists here, but I haven't been able to verify them in any way yet:

a brief list and review of movies with T1D from DBL-diabetes

a brief list and review of shows with T1D from DBL-diabetes

An article from Healthline talking rep from both movies and shows

a rec list of kids books with T1D from the T1D Living blog

A list of children's books with T1D made by Disney and Lilly

A Goodreads list Romance Novels with Main Characters who have Diabetes

Another Goodreads list Fiction Books with Type 1 Diabetes

Yet another Goodreads list YA Books Featuring Type One Diabetes

Someone's pretty comprehensive Goodreads shelf of books that are supposed to have T1D

And another, smaller Goodreads shelf of T1D in Fiction

This was...probably way more than you need for your project, but I hope you find plenty of inspiration! (And new faves :D) I'm so excited to see what you come up with!

#canon diabetic character #type 1 diabetes #type 1 diabetes in fandom #t1diabetes #t1dawareness #t1d in fiction #characters with type 1 diabetes #they're out there #they're just hard to find #and quality is obviously mixed #this is definitely a feature list not a rec list

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Ultimate New Year's Eve Dublin Guide 2023!

New Year's Eve in Dublin is always like no other! People getting together with their loved ones, drinking pints, singing pop and cultural songs, and finally ringing in the year to end the night off.

Say goodbye to 2023 the correct way and take a look at these music events that Dublin are hosting this year that are going to be unforgettable!

Dublin’s New Year’s Festival is a mixture of free and ticketed events and not only offers a New Year's Eve event but also events on the 29th and 30th of December and January 1st 2024!

29th December 2023:

NYF are kicking it off at the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks. Headlining is The Divine Comedy with The High Kings as the special guests. The other two stages will be hosted by All Tvvins, Lucy McWilliams, Big Sleep, Aonair, and DJ's Ed Smith, Sally Cinnamon and Kelly-Anne Byrne. Gig is set to start at 6pm and end at 11pm. Tickets are €39.90. Start the New Year’s celebrations off with this party, you won’t want to miss out!

30th December 2023:

NYF are back at Collins Barrack for the performances from Chasing Abbey, Ryan Mack and Jen Payne, with DJ sets from Emma Power, Shelly Gray and Dec Pierce's Block Rockin' Beats will be keeping the energy up throughout the evening. Tickets are €29.90.

31st December 2023:

NYF are offering two events on New Year's Eve, one for the early sleepers and one for the night owls!

If you have kids or just want to be home before the bells go off, then this is the event for you. Dublin Castle are hosting Midnight Moment - Matinee at 4pm until 7pm with music from Moncrieff, Lea Hart and Lucy Gaffney before a visual and musical display that will lead the crowd into the countdown to 'midnight'. Sounds like a magical evening that will be ideal for everyone and have you home just in time for bed! Ticket prices start at €7.90

Now for the party goers! The amazing Picture This will be playing from 8pm along with Lea Hart and Moncrieff who will be hanging around for the afternoon. There will be a stunning light up pyrotechnics show to send us all into 2024. This one is not to be missed. Tickets are €49.50.

January 1st 2024:

We all love a free event don't we? Well if you do, Dublin Castle have Jerry Fish, the Dublin Gospel Choir, Code of Behaviour and the New Brass Kings taking to the stage between 1 and 5pm on New Year's Day! No tickets required, you can just show up. Cure yourself with this event after a long weekend of activities, we know we will!

Plenty of events happening in Dublin to keep you busy. Make sure to get in contact with Radar to sort out your Travel, accommodation and friends that are also going to these events. Get the best deals and have a hassle free weekend as we are always just a message away!

#new year's eve #new years day #music event #dublin #dublin castle #dublin city #Collins Barracks #NYF Dublin #blogs #events #music #digitalmarketing #RadarDublin

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cyclone-rachel · 6 months

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books read in September 2023:

Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams

Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

Lights by Brenna Thummler

The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

Flip the Script by Lyla Lee

Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow by Toranosuke Shimada

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

#rachel talks about stuff #very belated edition

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hallmark-movie-fanatics · 1 year

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New in April - Hallmark Movies Now

Love to the Rescue (2019) Starring Nikki Deloach and Michael Rady. Hallmark Channel / Spring Fever

Love’s Portrait (2022) Starring Aubrey Reynolds and Richard McWilliams. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Hearts of Spring (2016) Starring Lisa Whelchel, Michael Shanks, and Miranda Frigon. Hallmark Channel / Spring Fling

Flip that Romance (2019) Starring Julie Gonzalo, Tyler Hynes, Cardi Wong. Fiona Vroom, Matthew Kevin-Anderson, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Shannon Chan-Kent, and pauline Egan. Hallmark Channel / Spring Fever

Ride (2023) New Episodes of season 1 will premiere every Thursday. Starring Nancy Travis, Beau Mirchoff, Tiera Skovbye, Jake Foy, Sara Garcia, and Tyler Jacob Moore. Hallmark Channel

April 1

From Friend to Fiancé (2019) Starring Jocelyn Hudon, Ryan Paevey, and Kelly Kruger. Hallmark Channel / Countdown to Summer

Sweet Home Carolina (2017) Starring Heather McComb, Paul Greene, Lexi Giovagnoli, and Kiersten Warren.

Touched by an Angel (1994 - 2003) All 9 seasons available. Starring Roma Downey, Della Reese, John Dye, and Valerie Bertinelli. CBS

April 2

Ride- Season 1, Episode 1 "Legend of the Fall"

April 6

Hidden Gems (2022) Starring Hunter King and Beau Mirchoff. Hallmark Channel / Summer Nights

Moonlight in Vermont (2017) Starring Lacey Chabert, Carlo Marks, Jesse Moss, Fiona Vroom, and Jason Cermak. Hallmark Channel / Spring Fling

Ride - Season 1, Episode 2 "Rodeo and Juliet" Hallmark Channel

April 13

Feeling Butterflies (2022) Starring Kevin McGarry and Kayla Wallace. Hallmark Channel

Ride - Season 1, Episode 3 "The McMurray Curse" Hallmark Channel

April 20

The Presence of Love (2022) Starring Eloise Mumford, Julian Morris, and Samantha Bond. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Ride - Season 1, Episode 4

April 27

Francesca Quinn, PI (2022) Starring Mallory Jansen, Dylan Bruce, Teryl Rothery, and Paul Essiembre. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Ride - Season 1, Episode 5 Hallmark Channel

And so much more. New movies added every Thursday.

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#new on hmn #hallmark movies #hallmark movies now #hallmark channel #hallmark movies & mysteries #hallmark original series #trailers #schedule #Youtube

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starsandsteelandbrokenglass · 2 years

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August 2022 Monthly Reading Wrap-Up

Finally, fall! Now if only the weather would get the memo... But with September comes a new school year and fall semester which will be interesting to say the least. I think it’s going to be a very chaotic start; I’ve got some housing stuff going on, some school stuff going on, some personal travel coming up. That being said, I did more reading than I realized in August--14 books and a little over 5,000 pages. We’ll see if I can keep that up as the semester gets into gear. But here’s a blow-by-blow of my August reads:

Leisure Reading:

Gallant by V.E. Schwab- 4/5 stars

The Last Magician (The Last Magician #1) by Lisa Maxwell- 3/5 stars

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark- 4/5 stars

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers by Marina Warner

Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms #1) by Saladin Ahmed- 3/5 stars

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor- 3.75/5 stars

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass- 3.5/5 stars

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings- 4/5 stars

Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams- 3.75.5 stars

An Unreliable Magic (A Hundred Names for Magic #2) by Rin Chupeco- 4/5 stars

Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater- 3.5/5 stars

Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf- 3.75/5 stars

Academic Reading:

Roman Satire by Michael Coffey

Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal by Kirk Freudenburg

Not too much academic reading this month. (Or at least, not too much cover-to-cover academic reading. Many articles and book chapters though.) My favorite book this month was probably either The Ballad of Perilous Graves or An Unreliable Magic. Definitely different vibes, but both a lot of fun in their own ways. And now, on to September!

Currently Reading: A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee

#reading #mine #august 2022 #monthly reading wrap up #monthly wrap up

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plungermusic · 2 years

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“Indian Summer, It’s On It’s Way, Cool All Night…”

“… And Hot All Day.”

Maverick Saturday kept its (nearly) perfect run of perfect festival weather - blue skies, hot sun and light breeze greeted the gathering crowds, particularly on the open air Green Stage. Drew Young Band (below)had the honour of opening on the Green, and despite expressing shock at the early start (“I mean, I knew there was an 11am but the idea of playing music then was a new one!”) Drew and co (Kelly Bayfield second vox/bvs, David Booth drums/bvs, Kilby Mears bass, Andy Trill electric guitar) impressed with a suitably warm-but-breezy set, including a Knopfleresque Clearly with its airy harmonies, the chicken-picking line-dancing chug of It’ll Be Soon, the darker melancholic country of Georgia Line, and Sideways’ bouncy Tex-Mex-spiced stroll. The joker in the pack was the beefy roadhouse rocker Stuck On Believing, with Kelly doing a fine Shaun Murphy gritty counterpoint vocal, great drum and bass work, and gutsy guitar.

Following Drew, Suffolk locals The Joe Keeley band tempted us to stay put with a promising soundcheck for their twin-guitar line-up (particularly Jack Lawson’s cranked-up Les Paul!) Sadly once they got going proper, Jack’s way-down-in-the-mix sound and an opener drawn from the southern rock cliche songbook (name a bunch of states, mention outlaws, badmen and women) lost our interest and we headed for the bar.

Hannah Aldridge (above), another Maverick favourite, was playing as a duo (nominally… as her set progressed she was joined by various ‘friends’ from her UK touring partner Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes). Her honeyed Nicksian tones were perfect for the mix of Cali-country and southern gothic, with some excellent near-a cappella harmonies particularly in a cover of Lachlan’s Dugdemona with added atmospheric fiddle, and her own anthemic Burning Down Birmingham with its customary crowd-participation choir finale.

Blue Highways’ Brucetastic bluster was an ideal match for the Green stage: very much Plunger’s idea of ‘proper festival music’, they took full advantage with the full-on sprawling Bossness of Take Me Away, a barrelling She Moves, Have You Seen My Baby’s bouncy saloon country and the high-octane post-pandemic hedonism of I Wanna Party… and despite the setting they still held the crowd rapt with another emotional and intimate rendition of Tonight.

Canada’s Redhill Valleys (above) were another “Never heard of them… Oh, they’re great!” bonus: Chelsea McWilliams (bass/vocals), Tim Allard (lead guitar/vocals), Danielle Beaudin (guitar/vocals), and Matt Soliveri (drums) lit up the green stage with a mix of slick multi-vox Laurel Canyon country rock, Sunset Strip sleaze and 70s N’awlins funk. Nice to see them making full use of the two guitar line-up on Burn It Down and they also gave us a killer cover of Lucinda Williams’ I Lost It. Right up there with Mickelson as this year’s Maverick surprise discovery.

Evangeline Gentle’s self-titled release was one of Plunger's fave releases of 2020, but ‘events, dear boy’ had conspired against us seeing her live until now. She has a new look (think tycoon’s wayward daughter in a 40s Hollywood noir) but the sublime voice is unchanged, and although the rich production of the record was perforce absent in this duo performance, songs from the album (So It Goes, Long Time Love, Drop My Name) and new ones like Dancing At The Gay Bar, stood on their own right and stripped back highlighted Evangeline’s seductive fragile-but-defiant vibrato-laden vox… it wasn’t just the sun that had Plunger melting like mivvi by the end of her set.

Still a bit Evangeline-dazzled we drifted down to the Green to catch the end of Peter Bruntnell’s set. Shamefully (as he’s a bit of a ‘ledge’) Plunger have no idea what he played or even if it’s typical of his output, but it sounded pretty damn good blasting out across the sun-baked grass: Youngian anthemic progressions with extended wild flaring solos, eastern-drone spacey passages and hallucinatory shambling grooves with harmony guitar. One for further investigation, definitely.

The Sam Chase was a big Plunger favourite on our three viewings of him last year, and he proved just as entertaining here. His folk/rock/roots/kitchen sink-and-anything-else-to-hand set delivered tales of horror, murder, ghosts, drinking and despair with lots of excellent strings from violinist Chandra Johnson and cellist Devon McClive, as well as a generous helping of wry dark humour (like introducing Everyone Is Crazy But Me as “a children’s song - now what they mean is that it’s simple… since kids are generally at the dumber end of the spectrum.”)

Next up on the sun-drenched green were Treetop Flyers (above): presumably named for the Stephen Stills song they’re often billed as CSNY-ish. While chugging progressions and a splash of Youngian harmonica did hint at ‘Y’ occasionally (and there was indeed a brief snatch of intricate CSN harmonies) mostly this was robust, rollicking 70s roots à la Caravan-era Van Morrison, as epitomised in the soully bustle of Golden Hour - keys, sax and guitar driven by a Chapman-like powerful lead vocal - and several snare-led upbeat Motowny numbers, all ideal to get the Green moving.

Plunger’s first Saturday foray down to the Moonshine was for Tim Gerard: another return visitor and Plunger favourite, Tim proved equally at home in the Greenwich Village coffee shop troubadour narrative of Pretenders, the bluesy boogie of Trouble On The Move or the impassioned western-tinged Savannah. The impressive set also featured the live premiere of new song International Show a somewhat wry look at the ‘jet set’ life of the travelling muso!

Returning to the Green we caught the tail end of The Hanging Stars: despite the presence of the brilliant Joe Harvey Whyte on shimmering pedal steel what we heard leaned more toward indie rock than their professed cosmic country, although the not-entirely-protest song I Don’t Want To Feel So Bad Any More (introduced as being “for anyone who hates the Tories” - which raised a cheer from at least half the assembled crowd!) did combine pedal steel and jangly Rickenbacker to just that effect, so we could be wildly far of the mark…

Fellow Londoners Forty Elephant Gang (above) brought their newly beefed-up presence to the Barn, the addition of drummer and bassist adding a punchier feel to the mando folk-meets-punk field holler of Songs Of Praise (we did say it was perfect festival fare!) and the crowd-pleasing crowd-participation stomp of Hands Out Your Pockets. A particular Plunger favourite was the slow and Squeeze-y Nashville-via -Neasden waltz Young Man’s Game with its tight three-part harmonies.

Nashville native (and previous Maverick attendee… admittedly 12 years ago) Rod Picott drew a reverential crowd to the Barn. However for Plunger’s tastes his solo acoustic set was a bit unremarkable (despite some fine guitar and a nice line in US/UK culture clash gags… “A whole HOUR of radio for women?”) lacking either the variety of a Tim Gerard, the treacly warmth of a Drew Young or the grit of a Mickelson, so it seemed an appropriate time for a meal break …

Plunger often lazily pigeonhole Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes as solely purveyors of outback outlaw ballads, and while there were some of those in their Barn return, particularly Ballad Of A Young Married Man, we tend to forget the Springsteeny lopes, dark tom-led swampy grooves and of course the previously Hannah-covered epic Dugdemona that really is a ready-made classic (and notable post-festival earworm).

With night falling, Plunger took to the Moonshine for another dose of Mickelson, passing on the way the Peacock stage which was rammed solid for the Gram Parsons tribute. With songs from all available acts, covering the alt-country hero’s back catalogue, including Tim Gerard (above) and most notably The Sam Chase who covered the Gram and Emmylou cover of Love Hurts in their own inimitable gruff, threatening manner: you really believed that love would definitely hurt delivered in those tones… Down by the waterside, Mickelson’s smouldering twilit performance was another hugely atmospheric highlight (unchanged set or no) with some fantastic banjo playing, chiming Stillsian guitar and spine-tingling vocal sincerity.

Terra Lightfoot’s headline slot in the Barn (the first of two) was a stunning tour de force (and boy, what force - both vocally and with her cranked Gibson SG)! A trouser-flappingly loud guitar intro heralded Stars Over Dakota, followed by more heavy-riffing-and-doo-wop Stax/metal hybrids Called Out Your Name, It’s Over Now and Hold You with its audience call-and-response. Plunger can’t think of anyone else who can successfully mix light soully pop with rafter-rattling rock to make bobbysox metal (bubblegum rock?) Slightly (only slightly) more relaxed vibes came in new song The Only One Of Your Kind, and the shoutalong Pinball King. Slick Back Kid included showboating solo spots for both bass and drums, and a thrashy Consider The Speed (with Redhill Valleys sitting in) ended a thrilling set. Or almost… to the surprise of everyone (including the crew) Terra did return for a gooseflesh-raising solo encore of Angel From Montgomery, showcasing that phenomenal voice.

Ears still ringing, we stumbled off into the cool of the night, a little thunderstruck and somewhat crisped by the sun. Bring on Sunday!

#Maverick Festival #americana #terra lightfoot #mickelson #tim gerard #forty elephant gang #treetop flyers #drew young band #hannah aldridge #evangeline gentle #redhill valleys #lachlan bryan

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