#source: bbc radio 1

[tayfabe75]

"And then we kind of went into this baroque kind of… I'm actually in that photo, you can't really see, but I'm on the right-hand side texting as a little homage to A Brief Inquiry, oh… they're coming. The phones are coming. Little easter eggs. But it's because when I was a kid and I was playing video games, I'd be playing like, Ecco the Dolphin, and then the thousandth time I'd play it, I'd jump at a particular time and press a button or something… and I'd go into a different world where programmers would do that, they would put little easter eggs, and I felt like it was talking to me. It's more like a natural conclusion that, in the way that our records sound mental or whatever, it's only 'cause we don't want to be bored. And we make music all the time. So they have to sound mental to not be bored. I make artwork all the time. I don't want to be bored. So I make it fun."

August 28, 2019: Matty describes the intent behind his early typewritten notes on Instagram. (source)

#year: 2019 #august 2019 #quote: matty healy #song: by your side #foreshadowing #topic: easter eggs #overlap: easter eggs #source: bbc radio 1

[phoenixyfriend]

Calls for Action, Call Your Reps: 2/13/24

This is USA-specific, as that is the place I live and know.

Find your elected officials.

Today, much of my information is coming from Democracy Now!, which I generally listen to as a podcast (functionally, it is a radio news broadcast, like NPR or BBC), and I am quoting from the text versions on their website.

The Senate passed a $95 billion military funding package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in the pre-dawn hours this morning. But the bill’s fate remains unclear after House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed the measure over its failure to include hard-line immigration restrictions. This comes after Johnson and other Republicans rejected an earlier version of the bill which did contain the border crackdown they had demanded. Johnson has told Republican congressmembers he will call a House vote on a stand-alone funding bill for Israel.

From the same page, we are hearing that President Biden is urging Israel to refrain from invading Rafah, where a million or so Palestinians are currently sheltering, but is not actually threatening any kind of repercussions for said invasion. Reports from both official sources (e.g. the Hamas-run health ministry) and less official (e.g. American doctors returning from relief services in Palestine) indicate that over half of the deaths in Palestine are children.

I am not going to pretend that I know what is going through Biden's head.

Both House and Senate:

Reinstate funding for UNRWA. While the claims made by Israel that employees of the relief agency were involved in Oct. 7th are troubling, THEY are not well supported, and western officials did not do their duty in investigating the claims before cutting funding. This arm of the UN is currently providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to the 2.3 million displaced peoples of Gaza. It is especially disturbing and concerning that the many children of Gaza, who are already suffering due to this conflict, are now having this support revoked. Many sources are also claiming that the evidence is flimsy at best.

Urge both Senate and House to refrain from funding Israel, or to at least put some strings on it. The IDF cannot be given funding without some regulations on what they can do with it. They have proven that they are unwilling to take steps to protect civilians.

FOR THE SENATE: Urge your senator to put their support behind Bernie Sanders and his motion to restrict funding to Israel until a humanitarian review of the IDF’s actions in Gaza has been completed. Cite it as Senate Resolution 504 if your Senator is right-wing enough to react negatively to the mention of Sanders by name. NOTE: This resolution was TABLED by the Senate on 1/16, but it is being brought back in as conditions continue to escalate.

FOR THE HOUSE: Urge your representative to put their support behind Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s petition for the US government to recognize the IDF’s actions in Gaza as ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, and put a stop to it. ALTERNATELY: recommend that they support House Resolution 786, introduced by Rep. Cori Bush, Calling for an immediate deescalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.

On the House Floor this week, to call your rep about:

H.Res. 994: Married persons tax break. Vote nay. Loses billions in tax revenue and explicitly targets green energy.

H.R. 2766 and H.R. 4039: Condemnation of China's actions against the Uyghurs. Can't tell you which way to talk on this. Seems good on the surface, but given who's presenting it, I worry there's something worse tucked into the text. Hopefully someone can provide a better take.

H.R. 3016: IGO Anti-Boycott Act. Vote Nay. This appears to be intended to force US companies to do business with US allies instead of participating in boycotts. This appears, to me, to be an attack on movements like BDS. To Dem Reps, argue that this refuses the right of peaceful protest to US citizens. To Republican Reps, argue that this is a dangerous government overreach and that it is not the right of the government to force US citizens to purchase products and materials from specific foreign partners.

H.Res. 966: Condemnation of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israel on Oct. 7. Vote Nay. We know sexual violence is bad. Hamas has already been condemned for their actions. This is, at best, lip service. It is a waste of time. There are much bigger, more impactful things to work on, and this is going to waste time and resources in the Senate if it passes.

If you wish to support my political blogging, I am accepting donations on ko-fi.

#Phoenix Politics #current events #united states #are you guys interested in me continuing to do this? should I start including my ko-fi link? #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Masterpost

(a radio drama adaptation is a dramatization of the source material, with voice actors, music, and sound effects. It differs from a full cast audiobook in that it is an adaptation of the book and not just a reading. For this reason, then tend to be much shorter than an audiobook)

Northanger Abbey

2005: starring Amanda Root (Persuasion 1995, Jane Eyre 1996) and Julia Mackenzie (Agatha Christie's Marple, Cranford 2007). 3 1 hour episodes.

This one is part of a release the BBC did titled "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection", which includes one adaptation of each novel. You can find it for purchase or stream at the usual places (audible, Kobo, Hive, Libro.fm, Apple Books, Google Play, Xigxag), and there's a version on the Internet Archive.

2016: starring Georgia Groome and Luke Thompson. 10 15 minute episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Sense and Sensibility

1991: (BBC radio 7) starring Jean Leonard and Abigail McKern. 4 1 hour episodes. Available on the Internet Archive.

2010: (BBC radio 4 extra): starring Amanda Hale (Persuasion 2007) and Blake Ritson (Mansfield Park 2007, Emma 2009). 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Pride and Prejudice

2014: starring Pippa Nixon and Jamie Parker. 3 1 hour episodes. You can find a stream-only version of an untrimmed radio recording on the Internet Archive (1,2,3) Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Mansfield Park

1997: (Radio 4) starring Amanda Root and Robert Glenister. 3 1 hour episodes.

2003: (Radio 4 extra) starring Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey 2007), David Tennant, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

2022: (Radio 4) starring Lydia Wilson and Bryan Dick. 2 1 hour episodes. Available for free on BBC Sounds.

Emma

2000: (Radio 4) Starring David Bamber (Pride and Prejudice 1995), Robert Bathurst (Emma 2009) and Tom Hollander (Pride and Prejudice 2005). Available for free on BBC Sounds. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

Persuasion

1986: starring Juliet Stevenson and Sorcha Cusack (Jane Eyre 1973). 3 1 hour episodes. Included in "Jane Austen: the BBC radio drama collection"

#jane austen #radio dramas #bbc radio dramas #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #persuasion #northanger abbey #mansfield park #emma

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

03/19/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; Cryptid Factor; World Exclusive; Rosie; Kristian; Vico; SaveOFMDCrew billboard results; Watch Parties; Newark Newark; Wrecked; Adopt Our Crew Rhys Radness; Fan Spotlight; Podcasts; Radio; Cast Cards; Trends; Articles; Uproar; Love Notes + 1; Daily Darby Tonight's Taika

= Rhys Darby =

Cryptid factor - World Exclusive

So Rhys, Dan, and Buttons revealed never before seen footage by Tchie Kellys from back in 2018 of the Lochness Cryptid!

You can see footage on their Patreon (the full 2hr+ episode)

Edited version of the podcast on Spotify

Short version on Youtube

And of course Rosie's gotta pop in with some snark, I love that woman.

= Kristian Nairn =

Episode 065 of Kristian's music show Spektrum is up on Mixcloud! Mixcloud Link

= Vico Ortiz =

Lots of footage of Vico posted today! I couldnt get the videos to download for some reason-- find them here on their instagram.

Source: Vico Ortiz Instagram

== Stretch Goal Billboard Survey Results ==

The Final Stretch Goal Survey is in...

Hey, crew! The results from the survey on the final stage of our London Ads campaign are in. 🗳️ Almost 94% voted to split the remaining funds between the three billboard fundraiser charities: Mermaids UK, RainbowYOUTH (AoNZ), and Point Foundation (US). 🧜‍♂️🌈

Read the rest here

== Watch Parties ==

= Newark, Newark =

When: Saturday 23rd March @ 7 pm GMT / 3pm EST / 12 pm PST Where: BBC iPlayer, Now TV

Hosted by @lamentus1

Extra Note: The Rhys Darby Faction Discord will be streaming it as well at 5pm GMT / 1 pm EST / 12 pm PST

​Watch Party Hashtags:

#NewarkThePlank

#OurFlagMeansDeath

== Wrecked ==

Season 3 watch from March 18th to March 22nd. 

Times will be 10pm GMT / 5pm EST / 4pm CST / 2pm PST. Watch two episodes per day. Episodes are 21-22 minutes each. Use the following Saturday for the tags/watch if interested but not able to make this time.

Hashtags: 

#WreckedPirates

#SaveOFMD

#RhysDarbyFaction

== Adopt Our Crew Rhys Radness ==

Another day of the Rhys Radness brackets by @adoptourcrew on twitter! Some tough decisions to be made.

Yesterday Jemaine decided to share the Steve vs Murray vote! Sorry Jemaine! Steve won out.

Today Luke Higginson (Writer, Director, and Editor of 'Relax I'm From The Future' ) also tried to campaign for Casper!!

Then even @bluefox_enterainment (the distributor of Relax I'm From The Future and Uproar!) also campaigned for Casper! We'll see what happens tonight!

== Fan Spotlight ==

Never Left - Podcast

Another episode of Never Left - an Our Flag Means Death Podcast is out! -- featuring one of our lovely #RhysDarbyFaction members, @TazManiaZania! Part 2 to Beautiful Princess Disorder.

Our Flag Means Fanfiction - Podcast

Our lovely friends over at @OurFlagMeansFanficion have another episode out! 'For this week’s episode, LoopyDangerFrog, also known as Katie, has granted us permission to share her narration of The Thoroughly and Entirely (Im)Proper Cuddling of Edward Teach by queenbee42. Katie’s narration is just SO GOOD. The emotion. The feeling… This is why she’s one of the best narrators out there.' - @OurFlagMeansFanfiction

= Amanda Beezer =

Tomorrow, our crewmate Amanda (Beezer Bee) will be chatting about #OurFlagMeansDeath on a local radio station 88.9 FM WMCX (March 20) at 2:30pm EST/6pm GMT! Check out Her Twitter for more info! You can listen here: https://www.radio.net/s/wmcx

= Cast Cards =

Our crewmate @melvisik is really hitting all the cast members! Today is Tim Heidecker aka Doug!

== Trends ==

Thank you @indarltonitrust on twitter for catching this!

== Articles ==

Really wonderful article that actually talks a bit about being on set with OFMD. Please give it a read!

= Uproar =

Your requests are working (maybe? Idk if they were gonna do this anyway, but I'm claiming it as us, whatever)! Sounds like there are some additional locations coming soon 👀

== YouWear50Well ==

Early reminder! The 21st is Rhys' Birthday! Since it'll be the 21st for some crew members earlier than others, @yronnia was kind enough to give us information early regarding the 50th birthday news!Please be sure to Post your birthday wishes to Rhys and show him your appreciation! Send your fanart and other creations using #YouWear50Well. Please Note: Please do not tag Rhys repeatedly! He's going to be getting a lot of notifications. Even just having notifications under #YouWear50Well will help keep everything visible :)

== Kudoboards closing soon =

Last chance! Thank you to @sharpenyersword on Twitter for setting up ALL THE KUDOBOARDS! Rhys' birthday kudoboard will close on the 20th, the rest will close on the 22nd. 

Go send the cast and crew some love folks!

Rhys Darby's Birthday

David Jenkins

Nathan Foad

Con O'Neill

Ruibo Qian

Leslie F*cking Jones!

Matthew Maher

Vico Ortiz

Samson Kayo

Alex "Ass Tonight" Sherman!

David Fane

Kristian "Wee John Wednesdays" Nairn!

Samba "BTS and Baking King" Schutte!

Fellow OFMD Fan Crew!

= Love Notes =

Hey Lovelies. Been a lot of excitement today, certainly a lot going on! Rhys' birthday week, actual footage of something in Lochness, podcasts, billboards and movies, oh my! I know some of us are struggling a bit with some personal stuff, it's a hard time out there. It hits harder too when you get all this fun dopamine from the internet, then you turn around and look back at normal life and things are tough. Remember to be kind to yourself lovelies. Things aren't always going to go the way you plan or want. It's okay if you can't get out of bed today. It's okay if you scroll on your phone and get your dopamine from goofy ass pictures of celebrities. It's okay if you get up and you brush your teeth, but just can't make your breakfast. Eat something simple. Drink some water, lay down for a while. Little things build to big things. If you can't do laundry today because you don't have the spoons/motivation, then don't do laundry today. Just remember to change your underwear if you have some clean ones cause you don't wanna get a UTI. If all you can do today is exist, you're doing great. You're doing better than great, you're fantastic. Tomorrow you can do a little bit more, or a little less, depending on what you need. Just be kind to yourself and give yourself grace; the world is hard enough as it is, you don't need to beat yourself up for struggling with very real issues. Thank you all for making the past few weeks tolerable, I appreciate that so much. It's keeping my brain chemistry in a spot that's healthier than is used to be. I hope you all know just how wonderful you truly are, and that me and the rest of the crew are rooting for you every day. We're here, we love you <3 Stay well.

= Love Notes Cont'd =

= Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika =

Tonight's theme is these two being goofy MFs.

Darby Courtesy of @kiwistede

Taika Courtesy of I don't actually know I'm sorry (I found it in my taika folder and normally I name them but this didnt have one)! Please claim it!

#Spotify #daily ofmd recap #daily ofmd recaps #ofmd daily recap #ofmd daily recaps #save ofmd #adopt our crew #renew our flag means death #kristian nairn #vico ortiz #rosie carnahan darby #the cryptid factor #podcasts #never left #our flag means fanfiction #be a billboard #saveofmdcrewmates #save our flag means death #finish our stories #long live ofmd #avenge ofmd

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

📸 #tbt to #November 2016 When Eddie visited BBC Radio 1 Breakfast with Nick Grimshaw to talk about Fantastic Beasts & answer YouTube comments. Photos source: Official BBC Radio 1 site. Full Video

#eddie redmayne #eddieredmayne #redmayne #fantastic beasts and where to find them #nick grimshaw #bbc radio 1 #newt scamander #doctor who #old interviews #november 2016

[wiiildflowerrr]

BBC: 6 degrees of 5 Seconds of Summer

Published 3rd November 2015

'The success of 5 Seconds of Summer - most recently with their second album, Sounds Good Feels Good, which went to No.1 - has been the result of a fair amount of inspiration and support from some very unexpected sources along the way.

So, to mark their appearance at the Radio 1 Teen Awards on 8 November - and in the spirit of the game six degrees of separation - here are just a few of the artists who are connected to the band by the loan of a song, a helping hand or just an encouraging tweet.'

FULL ARTICLE

#this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #michael clifford #bbc #2015 #3 november #adele #scouting for girls #blink 182 #katy perry #kaiser chiefs #one direction #1direction #songwriting #bonnie mckee #bring me the horizon #sum 41 #good charlotte

[wingsoverlagos]

Lewisohn vs. Peebles (Update/Correction)

I've been going back through my early work and found an issue with this post: in my original post, I incorrectly assumed that Lewisohn had made up the middle part of a quote. On re-examining the footnote, I found it was actually a FrankenQuote, with two sources cited in the footnote. It's still not an actual quote, but it's a lesser degree of academic dishonesty. The corrected version of the post follows:

Continuing my comparison of Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In against its sources, we come to Andy Peebles’ 1980 interview of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The interview, conducted on December 6, 1980, was aired on the BBC Radio 1.

Lewisohn quotes this interview three times, and two of them are properly done (endnotes P-14 and 5-38). The final citation from the Peebles interview is a FrankenQuote, combining a quote from Peebles with

though, because Lewisohn thought John Lennon should go into greater detail on…Elvis’s balls.

Peebles 1981 p.73-74 vs Tune In 25-18

Yellow piece from Peebles, pink piece from interview by Jean-François Vallée (1975). I still haven't found the Vallée interview, so we will have to take Lewisohn at his word for now. I'm not sure why Lewisohn decided to combine these two quotes rather than cutting the full quote from Peebles - I guess the final FrankenQuote is more colorful?

For my previous posts on Lewisohn's citation problems, click here. Even more Lewisohn fact-checking goodness @mythserene's blog.

Source: Peebles A. 1981. The Lennon Tapes: John Lennon and Yoko Ono In Conversation With Andy Peebles, 6 December 1980. London: BBC Publications. 95p.

#mark lewisohn #tune in #the beatles #john lennon #lewi-sins #andy peebles

[erasure-picnic]

You may have thought the PSB vs. Erasure series was over - but there’s more! I collected some tidbits that either couldn’t fit in the original series, or that I’d found after the last post. So here’s part 5!

After Erasure released their debut album, Clarke was asked in an interview if he thought the radio wouldn't play Erasure because their genre (synthpop) wasn't in fashion anymore. He disagreed, citing PSB as an example of a synthpop band who were doing well. Source: Melody Maker, May 31, 1986.

In August 1991, PSB did a stint as radio DJs on BBC Radio One, playing a surprisingly wide variety of artists. There were only two artists they wouldn’t play: Deacon Blue…and Erasure. (However, one of the songs they played–a 20-minute megamix by 808 State–sampled “Just Can’t Get Enough”, a song written by Vince Clarke!) Source: Literally, Nov. 1991.

Speaking to Outrage in 1992, Bell called PSB “snooty” and said they censored their interviews in the UK. Source: Outrage [Australia], Jan. 1992.

In 1994, Neil Tennant claimed that PSB weren't a 'perv' pop duo– “that’s more like Erasure.” (A decade earlier, in his career at Smash Hits, Tennant had coined the term ‘pervy synth duo’ to refer to Eurythmics.) Source: Vox, Jan. 1, 1994.

Bell described PSB as "swishy and camp" in a 1995 interview. Source: ICON, Dec. 1995.

In 2000, the unofficial Erasure site erasure.org reported that the “official” Erasure website, erasure.co.uk, was redirecting to the PSB website. However, it wasn’t the official site. The domain owner for erasure.co.uk had failed to sell the domain to the Erasure Information Service (EIS) for £10,000. After being rejected, he stole the designs and content from the EIS and reproduced them on his own site. When the EIS asked him to properly source his content, he decided to redirect his page to PSB’s site instead.

Ian “H” Watkins from the band Steps once told Neil Tennant that his brother had seen one of their gigs in Wales. Eventually, he realized it was Erasure. Tennant was “not impressed”. Source: NME, Nov. 2020.

In 2019, Bell went back on his word–he told journalist Steve Pafford that Erasure and PSB WERE rivals! Source: Stevepafford.com, Jun. 5, 2020.

#erasure #erasure band #vince clarke #andy bell #pet shop boys #pet shop boys vs erasure #neil tennant #chris lowe

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

Old-style Paedoing, Before It Got Such A Bad Name

Epistemic status: understanding the recent past, which I wasn’t around for, mainly through the lens of comedies, rumour, and scuttlebutt

The story goes that it was an open secret for many years that Sir Jimmy Savile, knight of the realm, was a horrible sex pervert before it all came to light and he was declared a posthumous monster. And this is true - but the specifics are rather vague.

A lot of sources (or, as they are now, brave prescient voices) were bang-on certain he was into some kind of sex crime, but weren’t sure exactly what. Viz simply painted him as a man whose (unspecified) confessional was worth hearing. An early Mitchell and Webb bit came in on some shocking report midway through, leaving the actual deeds as a noodle incident but quite clear they were appalling: ‘you think you know a guy, and then he goes and does something like that.’ Even Johnny Rotten, back in ‘78, went no further than charging him with ‘seediness’ and saying ‘I know some rumours’ in an edgy-kid stream-of-consciousness about all the people he’d like to kill, where he displays a bit too much knowledge about what does and doesn’t constitute libel.

The general charge, if any, seemed to be necrophilia. Lee and Herring’s bit where they dressed as Savile ended with the punchline ‘bagsy I take him to the morgue’. One of Irvine Welsh’s earlier novellas has a Cornish Savile-alike wantonly indulging in any corpse he had access to - Welsh’s version is a more general TV personality rather than specifically a children’s entertainer, probably for fear of litigation. This was no idle fear, Savile was well-known for taking such insinuations courtside, and of course he did sue when Chris Morris falsely announced his death on Radio 1, with the coda ‘the patients [at Savile hunting ground Stoke-Mandeville Hospital] are far from mourning...The majority, if not all of them, are extremely relieved that he’s now dead, although I suspect that some of them will be sorry that he didn't suffer a great deal more’.

Interestingly, Lee and Herring - as they’ve stated publicly - weren’t brave prescient voices. Hanging around Television Centre in their mid-twenties, they’d become aware of this - to them, absurd - rumour that Savile troubled the corpses. They decided that if nothing else it was game for a laugh, presumably with a BBC lawyer standing nervously in the wings and demanding they not get too specific.

Until Savile’s death, this remained a rather murky Soviet truth, and Savile himself remained a respected public figure. Within the third millennium, even as Chris Morris was being castigated for the Paedogeddon special of Brass Eye, BBC brightly-coloured-blobs children’s show The Tweenies had one of its blobs dress up as Savile as a bit of lighthearted fun - in an edition of the show which was, unwisely, repeated in 2013.

(Side note: the same tabloids which threw an ape over the obviously satirical Paedogeddon regularly ran pictures of topless 16-year-olds, until a change in the law in 2003 forced them to stop.)

It’s all out now, of course, but like the sun is one of those things people are wary of looking at directly for fear of the damage it could do. Savile made full abuse of his position as a public figure, to the point that he himself admitted to the necrophilia in idle conversation. Even by the loose standards of the British constabulary they admit there were over 200 actionable complaints made against Savile over the years.

The crux is this - Savile having committed all these beyond-the-pale acts becomes a very convenient way to paper over the point at which, in the broader consciousness, paedophilia went from ‘crime’ to ‘unforgivable, lowest-circle-of-hell crime’ in the vein of necrophilia. Because it was far more acceptable not too long ago, as many legendary musicians can attest. Gary Glitter generally just seemed shocked people were suddenly taking it so seriously - as did Jeffrey Epstein. 

Louis Theroux’s rather regretful pair of documentaries about Savile has the man himself being quite blase about his attitude to underage girls - as were the girls themselves, some of whom, while young at the time, were by their own account quite aware what might be on the cards. Does this make them culpable? Of course not, they were children. But there are those who would disagree. At the time, many would have and did disagree - including, quite likely, serving police constables. The Rotherham grooming gang, so beloved a talking point of those who just want to have a go at Pakistanis in general, were enabled top to bottom by a police force who considered their victims to be ‘slags’.

[bestadaptationtournament]

The following are shortlisted for Prelims:

Nimona, movie

Invincible (Show)

Durarara! (Anime Season 1)

Monogatari anime series

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), anime

Mob Psycho 100 (Anime)

Ouran High School Host Club (anime)

Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (anime series)

Beetlejuice (Musical)

Legally Blonde The Musical

Catching Fire

Game of thrones (seasons 1-4 at least); TV

Good Omens, TV show

Holes movie

Jurassic Park, Movie

Les Misérables, stage musical

The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical)

The Last Unicorn (animated movie)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Movie

The Princess Bride (movie)

How The Grinch Stole Christmas, animated TV special

The Great Gatsby (2013) - movie

The Lighting Thief (musical)

Brideshead Revisited (1981) TV mini series

Little Women (2019), movie

Coraline - Movie

A Series of Unfortunate Events (netflix live-action series)

His Dark Materials tv show

The Muppets Christmas Carol

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (vlog)

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice 1995 (TV miniseries)

Bride and Prejudice, movie

Fire Island, movie

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - BBC Radio drama

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (movie)

Stardust (movie)

Little Shop of Horrors (Musical)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986 movie)

The Princess Diaries - first movie

Papers, Please - The Short movie

The Last of Us (TV)

The Untamed - live action tv show

Interview with the Vampire (TV)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Lestat (Musical)

This makes a total of 47 works. The ones with the same source material will be grouped together, and the bolded works will be directly into the bracket due to the high number of entries. So... in total there'd be 35 prelims.

The full list of entries can be found here, if you'd like some recommendations:

#organization

[laforzadelvoila]

Jamala presents an album dedicated to Crimea together with BBC Orchestra

Ukrainian Crimean Tatar singer Jamala presents her new album QIRIM ("Crimea") together with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The live performance will take place on May 11 in Liverpool as part of the British-Ukrainian EuroFestival at Eurovision 2023.

QIRIM includes 14 ancient songs, each of which represents a certain area of ​​the Crimean Peninsula and presents the local culture and language. More than 80 musicians joined the work on the album.

"Today, the language in which the compositions are written is on the verge of death, according to UNESCO. The people who created these records have been under threat of extinction for centuries. But is it possible to erase the memory of the monumental beauty of music, which was passed down from generation to generation?" — Jamala said.

EuroFestival is a Ukrainian-British festival at Eurovision 2023 dedicated to Ukrainian culture. It will take place from May 1 to 14 and will present 24 projects, 19 of which were created in collaboration between British and Ukrainian artists.

As part of the program, you will be able to see several installations of Soloveiko Songbirds, where nightingale figures will be presented in honor of each Ukrainian region. There will also be theatrical performances with the participation of Ukrainian artists, the project-unification of Liverpool and Kyiv ravers Rave UKraine and much more.

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is the national British symphony orchestra. It is the main radio ensemble of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and one of the leading symphony orchestras in Great Britain. The orchestra was founded in 1930.

• Source: Slukh | Translation from Google •

#eurovision #jamala #news #text #my post

[tayfabe75]

"By the time I'd finished Somebody Else, you know, it was really confusing me, and I think that I just wanted something really confusing and intense at the beginning, and I needed a scene from the last video to the next one, so I come in from the Change of Heart video, as a clown, so I kind of… 'cause I like, get wet in the last video, then I come in wet and get changed and leave. Yeah. Again, with the whole… tying it in, meta kind of thing. Clowns are a bit of a motif. I think it's about, like, performance, and I think it's about like, safety. Like, I have not felt more comfortable in my life than making the Change of Heart video, when I was like, in a costume, because you lose that self-awareness, 'cause you don't feel like yourself, you know? So I get a real freedom in kind of, the idea of character. I try to be so sincere in my work. I can't do that and then go out and kind of have that removed sense of things. So, I only get to play characters at certain times, so music videos is where it happens. So, I really actually enjoy them."

August 28, 2019: Matty describes the connection between 'Somebody Else' as the continuation of 'A Change of Heart', and how he finds freedom in playing characters. (source)

#year: 2019 #august 2019 #quote: matty healy #song: somebody else #song: a change of heart #topic: music videos #topic: motifs #overlap: characters #overlap: meta #source: bbc radio 1

[carrymelikeimcute]

do you have an update on the con-tent of how to have a perfect marriage? x

Sorry it took so long! Had to wait for audible credit day :P

Right - the breakdown.

Background on the show:

'How to Have a Perfect Marriage' is a radio drama, 4 series, each 5 episodes around 13mins each. The whole thing is available as an omnibus on audible - I couldn't find a free source as it's no longer on the BBC Radio 4 website.

The plotline revolves around Jack and Karen, who have two teenage daughters and are settled into their marriage. However, Jack has been struggling with his sexuality since university, when he had an affair with his professor (Ben) and is now ready to come out as gay. The series follows him as he comes out to Karen and gets a boyfriend (Tom) whilst still trying to make his marriage to Karen work. He remains friends with Ben in the present, who kind of provides a sounding board/gay wisdom.

Con's role:

Con O'neill plays Ben in series 1 ONLY. There was around a 2 year gap between that and s2, during which they re-cast the part to John Sessions (who plays the character older and cattier in my opinion - also I think the writers forgot the name of Ben's boyfriend because it seems to change between Simon/Steven but remains the same character?).

Con is in 3 of the 5 episodes of series 1 and has some great lines in his roughly 5 mins of combined airtime. (If you're familiar with Val in Uncle or Cliff in Cucumber - blend those two together and that's basically his baseline here). Very cheeky. (Special mention for use of the phrase 'rumpy-pumpy' which doesn't get enough press in my opinion).

At first I was like, YAY! a happy queer character! But (SPOILERS) Ben suffers a stroke in the latter part of s1 and is determined to have serious health issues, which he asks Jack to keep from his boyfriend/fiancé - phenomenally acted. But ouch.

Thoughts on the show so far:

I listened to the first 2 series last night because I couldn't sleep. It's really well acted and covers the complex relationships really well.

I will say that I LOATHE Jack with a passion at the moment. He really craps all over Karen, especially when she gets a boyfriend of her own (the hypocrite). I could understand his possessiveness even if it wasn't justified, but (and this is possibly down to the condensed episode lengths) after Ben has a STROKE and is rushed to hospital, Jack shows up to literally dump all his relationship drama on his friend who has only just regained the power of speech. - AH move.

I am invested in it now and will probably finish it, but I really wish Con was in more of it, because his version of Ben was a lot more likeable.

#con o’neill #how to have a perfect marriage #how to have a perfect marriage radio 4 #queer drama

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imagine how many minds will be blown if they truly know about Louis' entire situation 🙂

Here’s the thing. Many people know about it, but they don’t like Louis-> they like Harry. So they don’t care what Louis has been through or what he faces.

That’s understandable coming from Harries and the general public, because they believe what media tells them (since media benefits this way). The GP doesn’t care how the sausage is made; they buy and eat the most popular sausage because it’s right there in front of their faces.

They’ll listen to Niall and think, “Well, BBC Radio 1 has his song on rotation. Someone must’ve sorted it out, and Harry and Niall must be the best ones from that band— what was it called again?”

They don’t ever hear Louis’ music, so their ears will never get used to the sound or seek it out. So they assume it’s not worth listening to.

However, Larries, who are purportedly Louis’ fans, ALSO DO NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT’S BEEN DONE TO HIM.

Whenever someone sends an ask about it, they brush it aside, “Yeah, Louis must have pissed someone off. It’s so very opaque. How does one even sort it out 🤪😝🤔🤔🤔”

When it’s pointed out to then, Larries attack the source of information as ANTI-HARRY.

So that kind of tells you what their priorities are.

#larries #rads

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

What is your take about Louis management BGM commenting on him being boycotted on BBC Radio? There is an article in Mexican tabloids even connecting Rob Stringer to it. Louis spoke about it also in direct and more subtle way. But what my main question about all this is why? What is the point objectively speaking.

So here's the thing anon. BMG is Louis record label, not his management company. Nobody has talked about him being boycotted on BBC radio as a whole, but he's not being playlisted on Radio 1. There's nothing wrong with not knowing things or getting details wrong, but I think to have so many details wrong in once sentence suggests a lack of curiosity. Your questions aren't actually questions.

It's a bit depressing to have to point out that Mexican tabloids are not good sources for Radio 1 playlisting decisions. If you were actually interested in how songs get playlisted or not on Radio 1 - there's heaps of information about it. The station itself has current and historical documents that they've put out about the process. It's a matter of reasonable public interest - so there's also reporting on it.

The point is that Louis' music doesn't meet the criteria for what Radio 1 is playlisting. There isn't a bigger goal or aim or someone nefarious. It's also not unusual - it happens to lots of people - including Madonna. To point out the obvious most music isn't played on radio one.

Part of my problem asking this sort of question is that as someone who listened to radio 1 reasonably regularly while I was in the UK, it doesn't surprise me that Louis' songs don't get playlisted. So I find it difficult to answer these anons who are seeking some grand explanation.

If you read the article I linked to about Madonna - what they say is they want music to be relevant to younger audiences. There are several obstacles to Louis' being seen as relevant to younger audiences. The first is that he doesn't have a major label behind him - the best way to ensure you're relevant is to spend the money to try and make sure something is a hit. Artists who are promising to do that get a long way with radio playlisters, and the fact that BMG can't means that it's an uphill battle.

On top of that there's the perception that Louis' audience is narrow, but very, very passionate. That's an obstacle to being seen as having wider relevance (and its the reason that fan intensity cannot help Louis get playlisted - it just reinforces the existing idea that Louis' music only appeals to a very narrow group of passionate fans). There's also a challenge for Louis to seem current. As he's not making the sort of music that is at the centre of pop music right now - he needs to be current in other ways. Artists like Sam Fender seem more current - even though they're roughly the same age, because Sam Fender's transition from person to popstar is much more recent so he's writing music from the perspective of someone who was just newly became famous - and so can write about what life in the world is like now - in a way Louis can't.

Louis' music would have to really pop with the focus groups that Radio 1 does to overcome all this.

But my question is always - so what? What do people imagine would be different if Louis was playlisted on Radio 1? There would be a cost in being playlisted - a lot of his promo resources would have to go into it and also he'd probably have less freedom about his music. Would it be worth it? Niall was playlisted and he's spent 12 weeks in the chart peaking at number 16. I'm not sure that cost benefit analysis stacks up. What are fans are imagining would be different if Louis' was playlisted on radio 1?

#I can't figure out how much it's lack of knoweldge of the music industry #and what makes a sustainable career #and how much it's desire for validation #a mix of both I imagine #oh fandom

[stillunusual]

Small Axe (issue #1) YEAR: 1978 CREATED BY: Ray Hurford LOCATION: London SIZE: A5 WHAT'S INSIDE.... Small Axe was a zine created by Ray Hurford in 1978 with the aim of promoting reggae music, and the first issue features lengthy articles about Gregory Isaacs and Augustus Pablo, as well as reviews of recent releases by Bob Andy, Enos McCloud, Ken Boothe, The Heptones and The Meditations. The Augustus Pablo article raves about the groundbreaking "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown" album (produced by Pablo and engineered by the legendary King Tubby in Tubby’s own studio), which was released in 1976. I can still remember hearing the title track for the first time on John Peel's evening show on BBC Radio 1 all those years ago, and decades later I still use a sample of it as the ringtone on my mobile phone.... Using very basic equipment, Jamaican dub pioneers like King Tubby, Lee Perry, Errol Thompson and others somehow managed to invent the art of remixing by deconstructing existing reggae tracks - stripping out most of the vocals, boosting the bass and drums, applying echo and reverb, bringing individual instruments in and out of the mix and sometimes adding various sound effects on top. These dub “versions” initially just appeared on the B sides of reggae singles - for example, "King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown" was originally the B side of a single by Jacob Miller (featuring Augustus Pablo’s Rockers Allstars) and is King Tubby’s masterful remix of the song on the A side, which is called "Baby I Love You So". However, dub soon became a vibrant sub-genre of reggae in its own right, and by turning their mixing desks into instruments, King Tubby and his peers also became artists in their own right. Removing most of the vocals meant that DJs could talk and sing over the B sides of popular tracks – adding their own unique take on the song - which led to the rise of what became known as “toasting”.  To say that dub has been a big influence on hip hop, techno, EDM, drum & bass, trip hop, dubstep and other genres of music would be an understatement.... Back in the late 1970s there was also a natural affinity between reggae and punk rock. Bands like The Clash, The Ruts, The Slits and Stiff Little Fingers played reggae covers or incorporated elements of reggae into their sound (with varying success) and when London’s first punk venue, The Roxy, opened in December 1976, house DJ Don Letts mainly played dub and roots reggae records in between band sets. From 1976 onwards, the Rock Against Racism organisation promoted gigs, carnivals and national tours all across the UK that featured punk, post-punk, reggae and ska bands, and brought black and white musicians and fans together with the explicit aim of discouraging young people from embracing racism. Bob Marley even wrote a song called "Punky Reggae Party".... On the other hand, issue #1 of Small Axe also includes some scathing criticism of the BBC for its lack of coverage of reggae. It was very rare to hear reggae - or punk - records during prime time, even though John Peel did play a significant role in popularising both genres. Another source of discontent was that reggae records were mainly sold via specialist shops and often didn't make it into the BBC's official music charts even when they sold more copies than some of the records that did. And as the punk rock explosion inspired the creation of independent record labels, shops and distribution channels, the same became true of many punk, post-punk and indie records. Click on the title above to see scans of all the zine's pages.... Ray kept the zine going until the late 1980s. Issue #11 (which also features a lengthy article about Gregory Isaacs) is in my box of 1980s fanzines. my box of 1970s fanzines flickr

#small axe #fanzine #reggae #roots reggae #dub #ray hurford #1970s #1978