A DarkAngel compilation…from the best “Dracula” directed by Francis Ford Coppola
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The perfect start to Halloween!
Keep up your guard. London will be teeming with vamps over the next few days 😉
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The purity of the young Sinead’s voice sits so comfortably beside Shane’s gravelly rasp.. I think they work beautifully together ..
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“Bristol, UK hailing R&B star on the rise Tanya Lacey invited us to her studio to deliver a powerful performance for SoulCulture TV’s InspiredBy series…. “..
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Tanya was great @ Station Sessions / St Pancras International a few years back, 2012 to be precise. A charismatic performer.
Catch up with the latest from Tanya Lacey here
http://www.tanyalaceyofficial.com/
(This one’s for Picto. Who thinks I’m a Drama Queen. Part of the time.)
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October, two years ago
Natalie did a brilliant set @ Station Sessions/ King’s Cross last Thursday. It must have been difficult for her to perform with such intensity, with the audience standing only a few feet awa, in a busy train station by daylight, rather than a dedicated, atmospheric music venue …but hey! We really appreciated your stunning performance! The travellers from Paris looked gobsmacked..what a great advert for London for those just arriving @ St Pancras International! Cool. Very cool.
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This recording of Natalie still sounds phenomenal, two years on!
She’s currently on tour and also available for private functions.
November 2012′, MFLL saw her live at Jazz Voice/ The Barbican , alongside Imelda May and some other rousing , unlikely performers of Jazz, including the wonderful Boy George! Must catch her love again soon.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/12/london-festival-jazz-voice-review
To hear Natalie perform in an intimate setting would be so good.
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It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore
The morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
And the knock of sailing boats on the net webbed wall
Myself to set foot
That second
In the still sleeping town and set forth.
My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.
A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill’s shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me.
Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.
It turned away from the blithe country
And down the other air and the blue altered sky
Streamed again a wonder of summer
With apples
Pears and red currants
And I saw in the turning so clearly a child’s
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sun light
And the legends of the green chapels
And the twice told fields of infancy
That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine.
These were the woods the river and sea
Where a boy
In the listening
Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy
To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide.
And the mystery
Sang alive
Still in the water and singingbirds.
And there could I marvel my birthday
Away but the weather turned around. And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon
Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.
O may my heart’s truth
Still be sung
On this high hill in a year’s turning.
Dylan Thomas
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27th October 2014
Happy Hundredth Birthday, Dylan Thomas
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“A short hang drum duo video filmed on an autumnal morning in the beautiful town of Bath Spa. Hang music by Danny Cudd ( hang playing hedge monkeys ). Played by Danny Cudd and Markus Johansson. Hang is a beautiful instrument handmade in Switzerland.”
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It’s Monday! Hang loose! Smile. A lot. It’s sunny here in London Town and it’s good to be alive.
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“Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files is a selection of photographs of Russian prisoners tattoos collected by Arkady Bronnikov between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s. A senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for over thirty years, part of Bronnikov’s duties involved visiting correctional institutions of the Ural and Siberia regions. It was here that he interviewed, gathered information and photographed convicts and their tattoos, building one of the most comprehensive archives of this phenomenon acquired by FUEL in 2013.
The Bronnikov collection, consisting of 918 images, was made for police use only to further the understanding of the language of these tattoos and to act as an aid in the identification and apprehension of criminals in the field. The photographer’s only consideration was the recording of the body for practical purposes. Unimpeded by artistry, these vernacular photographs present a guileless representation of criminal society. The photographs unintentionally betray their human side disclosing evidence of prisoners’ character: aggressiveness, vulnerability, melancholy, and conceit. Their bodies display an unofficial history, told not just through tattoos, but also in scars and missing digits. Closer inspection only confirms our inability to comprehend the unimaginable lives of this previously unacknowledged caste.
A selection of photographs, alongside official police papers authored by Bronnikov from the Soviet period, will be published by FUEL in two volumes, the first to be released in conjuction with the exhbition in October 2014.”
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How to tattoo an eyelid?
http://londonist.com/2014/10/photographs-of-russian-criminal-tattoos.php
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Young Blood From The Motor City Premiere a Kaleidoscopic Video
“Detroit’s dystopian environs are transformed by a psychedelic explosion of color in Jamaican Queens’ new video for “Caitlin.” Local filmmaker Daniel DeMaggio spent the better part of a month adding the swirling, surreal animated visuals to footage shot in one of the city’s many empty spaces. “We created a green screen in a vacant warehouse,” says the group’s vocalist and co-producer Ryan Spencer. “Dan doesn’t have heat at his place, so he stays over at my place when it gets really cold. He’s my favorite artist in the city and when he expressed interest in doing something with us, we jumped on the opportunity.” Spencer wrote “Caitlin” as a ‘secret Santa’ present to comfort his eponymous friend—who also stars in today’s video—after her grandmother was tragically killed. “I think she really liked the gift,” he says. The trio, completed by drummer Ryan Clancy and guitarist, bassist, co-producer and back-up singer Adam Pressley, recently released their debut album Wormfood, which fuses playful indie and “Detroit trap pop,” a synthetic-voiced hybrid of hip-hop, dubstep and other sonic elements currently energizing the city’s fertile underground.”
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great music for the week’s end
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Book your tickets to see The Marriage of Figaro, one of the greatest comic operas ever written – Directed by Fiona Shaw and performed at the ENO.
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If you are in London and you fancy going to this, check out the secret seats. They are a bargain @ £20 or £30 with a glass of decent champagne. London Life tried this out recently and was allocated middle seats in the Dress Circle. Brilliant view. Excellent evening.
Will be returning to the secret seats for Carmen!
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