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scotianostra · 4 years

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Happy 65th birthday Scottish actor Jimmy Yuill, born March 6th 1956 in Golspie, Sutherland.

James Evander Munro Yuill is another of those Scottish actors that has been in an abundance of shows, but not come to mind as a household name. Fans of the Crime drama series Wycliffe will know him best as DI Doug Kersey, in almost every episode, I will come back to that later.

Known mainly as an actor on the stage Jimmy began in 1976 in The Jesuit at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. After, as he put it "some joyous years" working on new plays and classics countrywide he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1983, as Snug in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ended his time there, in 1987, as Young Wackford Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway.

In 1988 he joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company for Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Hamlet directed by Judi Dench, Geraldine McEwan and Derek Jacobi, respectively. Also for RTC, Sicinius (Coriolanus); Telygin (Uncle Vanya) and Kent in Richard Brier’s ‘King Lear’.

Other roles include Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and as Henry IV parts1&2 at the Bristol Old Vic; In 2013 Jimmy played Banquo in ‘Macbeth’ at the Manchester International Festival and the following year at the Park Avenue Armory, New York. Most recently Jimmy played the Old Shepherd in The Winters Tale at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End – both productions directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.

Jimmy Yuill, while always being busy treading the boards, has also found plenty time to appear in many TV shows, they include, in the 70's The Mackinnons, The Omega Factor and the TV film A Sense of Freedom. in the 1980's Eurocops and Boon and the 90's mainly in Hamish Macbeth as Lachlan McCrae and the aforementioned Wycliffe. Into the new millennium he is a s busy as ever in the mini-series Monsignor Renard, A Touch of Frost and a recurring role in 14 episodes of Eastenders as Victor Brown an old friend of Ian Beales. Jimmy also appeared in several episodes of The Bill as D.S. Cottrell.

Yuill has had a longstanding friendship with Kenneth Branagh and has appeared in some of the Irish actor/directors films, including, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstien and As You Like It, this friendship still endures, Jimmy turned up in Branagh's film, Artemis Fowl, where a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.

I said I would return to Wycliffe, where Jimmy starred in all but two episodes. The series was cancelled after that because Jack Shepherd, who played Wycliffe, refused to continue in the title role when the producers had sacked Yuill "for insurance reasons" after he contracted life-threatening meningitis during filming, and then would not reinstate him even though he made a full recovery. He says he owes his life to Shepherd with whom he was sharing a house while on location, and who rushed him to hospital in the middle of the night. Shepherd and the rest of the cast and crew felt so betrayed that they decided not to make any more episodes once filming of the current series had finished.

Along with Richard Briers he is one of only two actors other than Branagh himself, to appear in all five Shakespearean films that Branagh has directed. We will next see Jimmy in a film, The Kindred, with fellow Scot, James Cosmo. But in the meantime Jimmy made a tourist video for the North Highland Initiative (NHI) encouraging tourist to return to the North Highlands. Sadly this was before we were all thrown back into another lockdown following the second wave. As the new face and voice of NHI’s new Highland Time campaign, he will celebrate the North Highlands and encourage visitors to enjoy the benefits of slow, responsible and sustainable tourism.

This will both help extend the time visitors spend in the area, and respect the fragile landscape and local communities.

“In this period of uncertainty and unprecedented change to the way we all live our lives, finding the time and space to appreciate a slower pace of life with family and friends has never been so important," he said.

NHI’s Highland Time promotional film features Jimmy in his home town of Golspie and showcases the north Highlands’ 10,000 square miles of wild, wide open countryside and rugged coastlines as a place of tranquillity to slow down, take stock and refresh after lockdown.

#Scotland #scottish #actor #happy birhtday

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krayfishthetypelessblob · 4 years

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🎶 put your playlist on shuffle and expose your first 10 songs! 🎵

Tagged by @caramellcables

1) Ne Me Quitte Pas - Jaques Brel

2) Two Seconds To Midnight - Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra

3) ひかりのふるさと - Hikarino Furusato

4) Broken Bones - Kaleo

5) Cosmo - Soprano

6) Song For a Siren - The Jane Austen Argument

7) Good For Goodness - Brittain Ashford

8) Konnano Okashikunai? - Domico

9) Alps - Novo Amor

10) HIgh Hopes - Frank Sinatra

I tag... You because I’ve seen most of the people I’ve known do this already : )

#music #tagged things

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jewish-philosophy · 7 years

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The Number 42

- 42 is Pronic number - a number that is the product of two consecutive integers X + (X+1).

- 42 is a Størmer # a positive integer "n" for which the greatest prime factor of n^2 + 1 meets or exceeds 2n.

- 42 isn't 2A in EBCIDIC; 2A is the hex for 42 decimal.

- 42 is a "Primary pseudoperfect number" which means that if you take the prime factors of 42 (2, 3, and 7) and you put them on denominators under 1 (1/2 + 1/3 + 1/7) and then add 1/42, you get 1. Besides 2 and 6, this is only 2 digit number that can do this.

PPNs: 2, 6, 42, 1806, 47,058, 2,214,502,422, 52,495,396,602

-42 is a Harshad # a given number base, is an integer that is divisible by the sum of its digits when written in that base.

42 is a Catalan number. Consequently; 42 is the number of noncrossing partitions of a set of five elements, the number of triangulations of aheptagon, the number of rooted ordered binary trees with six leaves, the number of ways in which five pairs of nested parentheses can be arranged, etc.

M (13th letter of the English alphabet) A (1st) T (20th) H (8th) = 42

- 42 is the angle rounded to whole degrees for which a rainbow appears (the critical angle).

-In the reiser4 file system, 42 is the inode number of the root directory.

-42 occurs infinitely many times in then number PI. --------- >Doctor Who:

- Season 1 of Classic Doctor Who has 42 indivudal episodes. Tehcnically, it's not 42 since they were all part within 4-part sets.

- "Fury From The Deep" is the 42nd collection which the first episode introducing the the Sonic Screwdriver. This episode is actually one of the "missing" episodes since it's impossible to find the whole thing.

- "42" is the name of a Doctor Who episode where The Doctor and Martha have 42 minutes to survive a spaceship crashing into a star. -- - In the X-Files, Fox Mulder's apartment number is 42

>In Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy, the meaning of life is answered with the number "42". In Japanese culture, the number 42 is considered unlucky because the numerals when pronounced separately "shi ni" (four two) sound like the phrase, "to death". Does this mean that the meaning of life is death?

- The Main Road numbering system of Great Britain, there has never been an A42 - every other two-digit number being utilised. living on the A41, some years before The Guide first appeared.

On page 42 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry discovers he’s a wizard.

Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear’s spaceship is numbered 42.

"42" is one of the tracks on Coldplay's 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. -This song talks about death.

Elvis lived to be 42 years old.

The three best-selling music albums – Michael Jackson's Thriller, AC/DC's Back in Black and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon – last 42 minutes.

Using the encoding A=1, B=2, C=3, etc., the sum of the codes of the letters in the words “BIG BANG” is 42.

>>The Jews, in Kabbalisitic tradition, believe 42 as number in which the universe was created.

-42 Letter Name of G-d

-42 days, from Crossing of Red Sea to Recieving the Torah.

- G-d sends Bears to maul 42 boys of the teenage boys who mocked Elisha for his baldness (2 Kings 2:23).

-Jewish people first settled in Yemen 42 years before the destruction of the First Temple.

-There were forty-two camping places, or stages, to our journey in the wilderness, as detailed in Bamidbar (Numbers) chapter 33.

-There are 42 places a Jewish person music visit in his lifetime (Baal Shem Tov).

-In the first verse after the Sh'ma, there are six words, and in the paragraph of Ve’ahavta (You shall love) till uvisharecha (and upon your gates) there are a total of forty-two words.

-The total sum of the area covered by the city of Jerusalem measures 42 square miles. ---- In China, both the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching discuss the creation of the Universe in their 42nd chapters.

The Mongols raided Austria in 1242.

In Daoist philosophy, dark and light, yin and yang, arrive in the Tao Te Ching at chapter 42.

The Sutra of Forty-two Chapters is the first Indian Buddhist Sutra translated into Chinese.

There were 42 Tibetan Emporers in Tibet.

In ancient Egypt, 42 was the number linked to the Goddess Ma'at (Wisdom) who was the personification of the idea of balance and harmony the Egyptians upheld the Cosmos. There are 42 principles of Ma'at.

In the Book of Revelation, it is prophesised that The Beast will hold dominion over the earth for 42 months.

42 is the natural vibration frequency of the human DNA

Light takes 10^-42 seconds to cross the diameter of a proton!

There are 42 US gallons in a barrel of oil.

The atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, contained the destructive power of 42 million sticks of dynamite.

Prince Albert died at age 42.

The sport, Cricket has 42 laws.

The first person that Light Yagami killed was 42

The type 42 vacuum tube was one of the most popular audio output amplifiers of the 1930s.

+42 is the historic Country calling code for the former country of Czechoslovakia a country that NO LONGER exists.

"Faces of Death" - Live tapes of people getting murdered. Decapitation, surgeries and executions is banned in 42 countries.

42 is the age of the "elderly" Mr. Salteena of "The Young Visiters", the classic Victorian bodice-ripper by Daisy Ashford.

The Shinigami phone # from Soul Eater 42-42-564 (shini-shini-koroshi), which literally means die-die-kill in Japanese.

The Breaking Benjamin album "Dark Before Dawn" is 42:42.

Khan Bonfils, who played Saesee Tiin in Star Wars Episode 1, died at age 42.

>William Grunthos the Flatulent by Shakespeare - Sonnet 42:

That thou hast her, it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief, A loss in love that touches me more nearly. Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye: Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her; And for my sake even so doth she abuse me, Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her. If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain, And losing her, my friend hath found that loss; Both find each other, and I lose both twain, And both for my sake lay on me this cross: But here's the joy; my friend and I are one; Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone.

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kingofreason · 5 years

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This week's feature: KYA FRENCH Astro-Numerologist. She will be in NYC on June 22nd go to kingsimonproductions.eventbrite.com for tickets and info. Kia French Bio I am Kya French, born and nurtured in Detroit, MI under the Sun sign of Capricorn, with a life path number of 7, born on the 7th and 7 as my second life cycle. I am a professional Numerical Analyst holding a BA in Organizational Management from the Forbes School of Business at Ashford University in 2014. Since elementary school, math,and creative writing were my favorite subjects of interest. I have always been intrigued and drawn to numbers of the Zodiac and Astrology along with the energy relationship connecting the Cosmos and people. After graduating college, and leaving the academic system, although rewarding, it lacked the Spiritual connection to help people that I desired. Passionately, I now tap into my creative imagination and write Numerical DNA Patterns and Sequences for people and businesses. Coming into this world with intuitive knowledge and gifts of numerology, in my youth I had the amazing ability of remembering and associating people by their birthday, license plate numbers, street address, and favorite colors. However, my most favored are the patterns and sequences of numbers associated with geometry and lottery systems. I have provided services and lectures locally, nationally, and internationally including, making appearances on various national radio broadcast shows such as: The “Bev Smith show” with host, Bev Smith, “The Voice of Reason” with host, Zo Williams, “The Joel Benjamin 528 Show” on YouTube, with host Joel Benjamin, and The Breaking Dawn morning TV show in Trinidad and Tobago I locally lectured at Solar Powered Sundays in Detroit Mi and internationally in Trinidad. I have studied and mastered my craft under the personal tutelage of world renowned Astro-Numerologist and author, Lloyd Strayhorn, receiving a certification in Astro-Numerology. I consult with others who want to help themselves through the universal language of numbers. I love and breathe numbers 24-7, one is guaranteed to get the very best from my metaphysical talents. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByDQMRJjdJ_/?igshid=p3sjqitgfbdf

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danibelleink · 7 years

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Delicate flowers for delicate feets ☺ thank you @ajw37 @14arrowstattoo #dogrose #rose #cosmo #blossoms #spring #summer #autumn #delicate #linework #feet #foottattoo #nails #pretty #dainty #girlswithtattoos #kent #eastsussex #tattooart #tattoos #tattooshop #surrey #croydon #ashford #illustration #vintage #botanicalprint #tattooblog #bloggers #instagood (at Tunbridge Wells)

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oblivi-ace97 · 7 years

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Fancast for Singin In The Rain and a playlist for "Katie" :D

Don Lockwood: Andy Karl

Cosmo Brown: Aaron Tveit

Kathy Selden: Phillipa Soo or Karen David

Lina Lamont: Annaleigh Ashford or Lesli Margherita

Kiss the Girl - The Little Mermaid

All of London is Here Tonight - Finding Neverland

Take Me or Leave Me - Rent

I Will Prevail - Wonderland

Edelweiss - Sound of Music

sleepover sunday

#asks #starladyqvill

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queens-hope-proj · 1 year

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˗ˏˋ ★ QHP Character Masterlist ★ ˎˊ˗

A (mostly) extensive list of QHP characters.

Key: 🐏 Ace, 🌌 Ky, 🌸 Hanabi, 🌫️ on loan (other collaborators & friends)

✩ Main Gang ✩

🐏 Allegra Tagetes

🌸 Dio Laurier

🌌 Trevor Gray

🌫️ Marcus Yeo

🌫️ Joe Hames

✩ Side Characters ✩

🐏 Beatrice Whitlocke

🐏 Silvien Barlowe

🌌 Aida Addiman

🌌 Cosmo Ashford (& family)

🌌 Grayson Trick

🌌 Travis Gray

🌌 Wren Miller

🌸 Avis Rodriguez

🌸 Sierra (Empress) Phthalos

🌸 Yume

🌸 Yuri Kanaya

🌫️ Kenny Kowalski

🌫️ Retrium

✩ Adults ✩

🐏 Alistair Spade-Tagetes

🐏 Einnys Tagetes

🌌 Tommas Oskar

dividers by @/saradika

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mastcomm · 5 years

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Love Saves the Day Turns 50: Hear 12 of the Loft’s Essential Songs

On Valentine’s Day in 1970, David Mancuso hosted a private party called Love Saves the Day in his loft at 647 Broadway in New York, a few blocks north of Houston Street. He was an audio obsessive with a voracious appetite for spiritual sounds and a profound sense of community, and the event was an opportunity to bring together friends in a setting unfettered by commercial demands, or the restrictions of their outside lives.

Mancuso, who died in November 2016 at 72, didn’t produce music on his own and didn’t think of himself as a D.J., preferring the term “musical host.” Yet the mix of unorthodox records played at what became known as the Loft, and the inclusive ethos that he and his devotees espoused, became cornerstones for dance music. And as one of the founders of the New York Record Pool — an organization that helped distribute promotional vinyl to D.J.s — in 1975, Mancuso was at the forefront of asserting the D.J.’s role as commercial and critical clairvoyant. The responses of the dancers at the Loft could reverberate throughout the city and beyond, reshaping the American pop charts.

Parties at the Loft were structured according to three “bardos,” a reference to the phases of an LSD trip — note the first party’s initials — which Timothy Leary took from “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.” First came “the calm,” giving way to “the circus” and finally “the re-entry.” Mancuso didn’t blend or beat match songs together, instead presenting them in their unadulterated form. But the Loft was still experienced as a succession of intertwined stories, each chapter crackling with an improvisatory energy and emotional heft. A single night might include jazz fusion, Broadway musicals, searing Latin funk, sumptuous disco, eerie psychedelia, exploratory African rhythms, shrieking post-punk and much more.

The eclectic selection of music wasn’t the only diversity embraced at the Loft. Riding the momentum of the 1960s’ progressive politics — and with the Stonewall uprising fresh in the minds of many attendees — the parties were far more mixed than most New York night life, and Mancuso’s dance floor became a comforting, transformative space that aspired to erase the racial or sexual oppression experienced elsewhere. Free to dance however and with whomever they wanted, the Loft was where many people found their chosen families.

The Loft has moved locations several times, but is still going strong with three parties a year in New York. To mark the 50th anniversary of that first Love Saves the Day event, here are 12 classics and comparatively unheralded gems that were heard at different periods on the Loft dance floor over the party’s lifetime.

Chuck Mangione featuring Esther Satterfield, ‘Land of Make Believe’ (A&M, 1973)

Many songs have lyrical messages that can be taken as mission statements for the Loft, but few match the impact of this live recording. Accompanied by the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Chuck Mangione’s luscious arrangement surges beneath Esther Satterfield’s soaring vocals, as she references “The Wizard of Oz” and Martin Luther King Jr. The lyric “Where everything is fun, forever” reflected “the spirit everyone wanted to tap into” when entering the Loft, said Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy in an interview. (Murphy, one of the party’s current musical hosts and a longtime collaborator with Mancuso, helped release two compilations of music from the Loft via the London label Nuphonic in 1999 and 2000.) “You were entering the safe land of make believe — you could be a child, be free.”

Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, ‘Missa Luba’ (Philips, 1958)

This recording — of a Latin Mass in Congolese musical styles featuring a children’s choir under the helm of a Franciscan friar named Guido Haazen — wasn’t released in the United States until 1963. Mancuso had been hosting unofficial parties as early as 1966, and this album appealed to his affection both for music with an explicit spiritual message and for African percussion.

Andwella, ‘Hold On to Your Mind’ (Reflection, 1970)

Although the Loft is typically associated with disco, its audiences’ tastes were omnivorous, extending to throbbing, piano-inflected jams such as this one by the Northern Irish trio Andwella. With a sinuous guitar and a ringing, short-lived break, it’s one of several harder-edge slices of psych-rock that Mancuso played in the party’s early days, alongside less sinister outings like Brian Auger and the Trinity’s “Listen Here.”

Nina Simone, ‘Here Comes the Sun’ (RCA/Victor, 1971)

A stark, sibilant cover with abundant harp and tape hiss, Nina Simone’s take on the Beatles was a mainstay of early mornings (and afternoons) at Loft parties. Some attendees remember it always being the last song of the night during the years at 647 Broadway, the Loft’s first location, and it’s easy to imagine the regulars floating comfortably back to their lives on the strength of the hopeful outro.

War, ‘City, Country, City’ (United Artists, 1972)

The twangy harmonica on “City, Country, City,” the track that closes out the first side of War’s 1972 album “The World Is a Ghetto,” might seem an unlikely candidate for dance floor impact. But the spiraling intensity of the saxophone, percussion and organ build toward a powerful climax. “Everybody downstairs knew it from the first chord and was running upstairs to it,” the New York D.J. and Body & Soul co-founder Danny Krivit said in a 2018 oral history of the Loft on Red Bull Music Academy Daily. “When I went upstairs and I saw this explosion as it got to this busy part of the song, it was something I had never experienced in a club before that.”

Manu Dibango, ‘Soul Makossa’ (Fiesta/Atlantic, 1972)

The inescapable refrain “mamako-mamasa-mako makossa” may never have infiltrated American popular music without the Loft. Mancuso originally uncovered this track in the racks of a record store in Brooklyn, and its addictive, memorable chorus and bleating saxophone earned a passionate response at Loft parties. In 1972, Atlantic licensed and rereleased the original version in America, where it reached No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and gave the Cameroonian Dibango one of the first mainstream disco hits. A number of citations and interpolations, legal and covert, have kept it in the bloodstream of American music ever since.

MFSB, ‘Love Is the Message’ (Philadelphia International, 1973)

This passionate fanfare and call to action has likely been heard at every Loft party since its initial release. It’s arguably Gamble & Huff’s most direct songwriting statement, and undoubtedly what many Loft devotees would play strangers to try to communicate the party’s philosophies, musical or otherwise.

Blackbyrds, ‘Walking in Rhythm’ (Fantasy, 1975)

The Blackbyrds’ plaintive, twinkling lament for a distant lover, with its repetitions of “walking in rhythm/moving in sound,” captured the essence of the freedom found at the Loft. “The music would not stay at one level all evening long,” Ernesto Green, who has attended the Loft since 1975 and now helps organize the parties, said in an interview. “This was one of the ones played as the music started getting more intense, to start you up on the climb.”

Ashford & Simpson, ‘Stay Free’ (Warner Bros., 1979)

The ecstatic interplay of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson was a regular presence on the New York club circuit from the time they first made their name as songwriters, and their own recorded music had a seismic impact, too. “Stay Free” is a slinky tour de force, with orchestral accents bouncing toward an instrumental peak. There are few sneakier and sadder kiss-offs than the duo’s melisma on the word “lonely,” which threatens to spin the song out of control before the rubber-band bass snaps back.

Steve Miller Band, ‘Macho City (Long Version)’ (Capitol, 1981)

“David never cut records or stopped them in the middle,” Green said. “He always felt the musician took their time to create this music, and they should be credited by hearing the entire recording played.” This was the case even with the 16-plus-minute version of “Macho City,” a slow-burning parody of American military intervention set in a psychedelic key. A riot of alien effects, dub affectations, skronking synths and an irresistibly funky bass line, it’s a laugh-out-loud indictment of a political establishment whose work could feel anathema to the Loft’s message of love and unity.

Code 718, ‘Equinox (Heavenly Club Mix)’ (Strictly Rhythm, 1992)

Released on an iconic house label, executive produced by the undersung Gladys Pizarro, written by the New York club mainstay Danny Tenaglia, and featuring piano by the future Hillary Clinton political adviser Peter Daou, “Equinox” samples the circular burble of Manuel Göttsching’s prog-ambient classic “E2-E4” and a terse Grace Jones vocal. It was a hit at the time when the Loft was operating in the East Village, on East 3rd Street between Avenues B and C, and is one of the many songs that reflects the party’s engagement with contemporary sounds.

Karma, ‘High Priestess’ (Groove Attack Productions, 1995)

“High Priestess,” a bit of Latin-inflected soulful house with ballooning bass, was the first-ever attempt by Lars Dorsch, the store manager of Groove Attack record shop in Cologne, Germany, to make music. But he wasn’t aware that the song had been getting play at the Loft — as well as other New York parties like Body & Soul — until 1998, when the licensing request came in for the song to be included on Nuphonic’s indelible compilation of Loft classics. “I was quite familiar with David’s legacy at that point already, and was totally blown away by the fact that he played it,” Dorsch said in an interview. “I’m still floored thinking that we shared a track list with music of that caliber.”

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elfdragon12 · 1 year

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Of the list of your current ocs, which ones would you personally smash or pass?

I'm going with the humanformers? Since I haven't talked about any of my other projects for some time. XD Focusing on the ones that actually have human names and are more developed as characters.

Fortress Maximus (Faolan Maxwell) - SMASH

Brawn (Bautista Rafael Alvarado Navarro) - SMASH

Tracks (Tristan Ashton) - PASS

Warpath (Vera Pavelovna Nikulin) - SMASH

Hoist (Henrik Ian Tolkien) - SMASH

Cerebros (Chrysa Savvas) - SMASH

Huffer (Hendry Roy) - PASS

Lancer (Leila Ramdani) - SMASH

Gears (Guillermo Sulit) - PASS

Beachcomber (Behtiyar Cebrail) - SMASH

Powerglide (Parwaz Ghalib Ejaz) - SMASH

Seaspray (Sébastien Soulier) - PASS

Cosmos (Corinna Meitner) - SMASH

Grapple (Grayson Elwes) - PASS

Pyra Magna (Pratima Mishra) - PASS

Scattershot (Sìne Starrett) - SMASH

Strafe (Sawney Faulkner) - SMASH

Afterburner (Ailean Burns) - PASS

Lightspeed (Luz Salcedo) - PASS

Nosecone (Nye Cadwallader) - SMASH

Thunder Clash (Tejendra Chandra) - SMASH

Road Rage (Rochelle Ashford) - SMASH

Leadfoot (Leslie Teague) - PASS

Manta Ray (Mitchell Teague) - PASS

Sunder (Sterling Rutherford) - PASS

Overlord (Osmund "Ozzie" Lourd) - SMASH

Spyglass (Skyler Ravn) - SMASH

Viewfinder (Viggo Ravn) - SMASH

Spectro (Samson Ravn) - SMASH

Needlenose (Nathaniel Ashton) - PASS

Horri-Bull (Horace Bishop) -PASS

Loudpedal (Logan Parish) - PASS

Exhaust (Erica Thompson) - SMASH

Hardtop (Hoshiko Endo) - SMASH

Onslaught (Orlando Hart) - PASS

Blast-Off (Bernardino Ovídio Ramires da Costa) - SMASH

Swindle (Shigeru Endo) - SMASH

Vortex (Victoria Noknoi) - PASS

Brawl (Bodhan Pavlovych Bondaruk) - SMASH

Megaempress (Magdalene Ellison) - SMASH

Flowspade (Fumie Shimura) - SMASH

Trickdiamond (Tatienne Duerr) - PASS

Thunderblast (Tomomi Busujima) - SMASH

Submarauder (Ricou Gill) - PASS

#ask #anonymous #humanformers #smash or pass

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scotianostra · 5 years

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Happy 64th birthday Scottish actor Jimmy Yuill, born March 6th 1956 in Golspie, Sutherland.

Yuill is another of those Scottish actors that has been in an abundance of shows, and will be known, but not as a household name.Fans of the Crime drama series Wycliffe will know him best as DI Doug Kersey, in almost every episode, I will come back to that later.

Jimmy Yuill, while always being busy treading the boards, has also found plenty time to appear in many TV shows, they include, in the 70's The Mackinnons, The Omega Factor and the TV film A Sense of Freedom. in the 1980's Eurocops and Boon and the 90's mainly in Hamish Macbeth as Lachlan McCrae and the aforementioneed Wycliffe. Into the new millennium he is a s busy as ever in the mini-series Monsignor Renard, A Touch of Frost and a recurring role in 14 episodes of Eastenders as Victor Brown an old frien of Ian Beales. Jimmy also appeared in several episodes of The Bill as D.S. Cottrell.

Yuill has had a longstanding friendship with Kenneth Branagh and has appeared in some of the Irish actor/directors films, including, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstien and As You Like It.

Along with Richard Briers he is one of only two actors other than Branagh himself, to appear in all five Shakespearean films that Branagh has directed:

We will next see Jimmy in a film, The Kindred, with fellow Scot, James Cosmo.

#scotland #scottish #actor

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sounds10thapr1976-blog · 7 years

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Final page of news.

Page 4 SOUNDS April 10, 1976

NEWSDESK

TOUR DATES

NILS LOFGREN A further date has been added to the Nils Lofgren tour: Edinburgh Usher Hall May 13.

DARRYL HALL/JOHN OATES Darryl Hall and John Oates, the blue-eyed soulsters who made their British debut at the New Victoria last autumn, will play nine dates next month.

The full list is: OGWT Special May 18, Bristol Colston Hall 19, Manchester Free Trade Hall 21, Oxford Polytechnic 22, Croydon Fairfield Hall 23, Birmingham Town Hall 24, Brighton Dome 25, London New Victoria 26, Leeds Town Hall 28.

MANHATTAN TRANSFER Manhattan Transfer have added a third night to their stay at the London Palladium so the dates are now April 26-28. Their second Atlantic album, produced by Richard Perry, is set for mid-May release.

HEAVY METAL KIDS Heavy Metal Kids have already started on a short series of gigs which they describe as “a tour of our favourite clubs” before picking up work on their first album with Mickie Most.

The upcoming dates are: Birmingham Barbarellas April 13, Cromer Pavilion 15, Maidenhead Skindles 17, Croydon Greyhound 18.

Their first RAK single, produced by Most, titled ‘She’s No Angel’ b/w ‘You Got What It Takes’ will be released on April 21. They are about to finish mixing the album which has been recorded on the RAK mobile in France and at Morgan Studios in London.

JACK THE LAD Jack The Lad are back at work after their bad road accident in Norway and are recording and preparing to go out on tour again. They plan a single and album with producer Tom Allom who has worked with The Strawbs and Hundson-Ford.

Gigs so far confirmed are: Cambridge Lady Mitchell Hall April 26, Southampton University 30, Bristol Polytechnic May 1, St Ives 2, Colchester North-East Essex Tech 5, Liverpool Polytechnic 7, Leicester University 8, Carlisle Market Hall 12, Lincoln Drill Hall 13, Reading Coatham Bowl 15, London Marquee 20, Ilford Town Hall 21, Sheffield University 22, Alsager College 28, Oxford Polytechnic 29, Aberdeen Music Hall June 3, Edinburgh Herriot Watt University 5.

WIDOWMAKER Widowmaker, the new Ariel Bender/Steve Ellis band, are to support Nazareth on their short UK tour of six dates from April 20-25.

AL GREEN Plans for Al Green’s British tour have been deferred and the previously rumoured May gigs are unlikely to take place.

FROGMORTON Frogmorton play Towcester Cornhill Folk Club April 8, Portsmouth Centre Hotel 11, Slough Rotunda Folk Club 20, Ilford Tiffany’s 27, Chichester Bishop Otter College May 1, Norwich Keswick Hall College 7, Cambridge Bassingbourne Folk Club 8, Birmingham Boggery 10, Wellingborough United Reform Church 21, Grantham Kesteven College 22, Ilford Tiffanys 25, Verewood Homelands Farm College 27, Southampton University 30.

CHOSEN FEW The Chosen Few are at Peckham Bouncing Ball Club April 17, Ilford Tiffany’s 18, Manchester Russell Club 19, London Carnaby Street Colombo’s 23, London All Nations Club 24, High Wycombe Newlands Club 25.

BOTHY BAND Bothy Band play Redcar Coatham Bowl April 14, Kilmarnock 15, Inverness Festival 16, Dingwall’s 21, Cambridge Festival July 30-31.

CARAVAN Caravan go back on the road this month with a tour of major colleges and concert halls. They will be promoting their new album ‘Blind Dog At St Dunstans’ out on April 23 – the title comes from a Noel Coward joke in which he tells a curious young nephew: ‘Well, the dog in front is blind the dog behind is pushing it to St Dunstan’s”.

Support on most dates will be Stars who have their debut singles ‘Crossed Line’ out on RCA this week and an album out later this month.

Full dates are: Maidenhead Skindles April 17, Guildford Civic Hall 18, Dunstable Queensway Hall 22, Lancaster University 23, Nottingham University 24, Canterbury Odeon 25, Brighton Dome 26, Liverpool Polytechnic 28, Lancaster Polytechnic 29, Manchester Free Trade Hall 30, Sheffield University May 1, Croydon Fairfield Hall 2, New Victoria 4, Bristol Colston Hall 7, Birmingham Town Hall 9.

SMOKIE Smokie have been added to the Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel bill at Wembley Empire Pool on April 12. The start will be 10 minutes earlier than advertised, at 7.50, to accomodate Smokie and the full two-hour Rebel set.

This comes in the middle of Smokie’s own nationwide headlining tour the remaining dates of which are: Harrogate Royal Hall April 9, Redcar Coatham Bowl 11, Southport Floral Hall 15, New Brighton Winter Gardens 16, Ashford Stour Centre 17, Southend Cliff Pavilion 19, Scarborough Ocean Ballroom 22, Glasgow Kelvin Hall 23, Carlisle Cosmo 24, Hull New Theatre 25, Bournemouth Winter Gardens 26.

UPP Upp are hitting the road again this month with a new lead guitarist, David Bunce. Their dates are Cheltenham Pavilion April 16, Wigan Casino 17, Norfolk NI Club 22, Scunthorpe Oswald Hotel 23, Dudley JBs Club 24, Chester Quaintways 26, Lancaster University 27, Stafford College Of Art 28, High Wycombe Nags Head 29, Burton-on-Trent 76 Club 30, Birmingham Barbarellas May 1, Twickenham Winning Post 2, Chelmsford Mid Essex Tech 3, East Retford Porter House 5, Torquay 400 Club 6, Portsmouth Poly 7, Nottingham Boat club 8, London Roundhouse 9.

NUTZ Liverpool band Nutz have added keyboards player Kenny Newton to their line-up and a lot of dates to their present tour: Thurrock Technical College 9, Darlington Masonic Hall 10, High Wycombe Town Hall 12, Shrewsbury Music Hall 13, Scunthorpe Priory Hotel 17, London Roundhouse 25, Derby Cleopatras 29, Isleworth Borough Road College May 8, Plymouth Woods 13, Wigan Casino 29.

JALN BAND JALN play Coventry Tiffanys 5, Sheffield Top Rank 6, Brise Norton RAF 7, Hanley The Place 9, Manchester Piccadilly Club 15, Birmingham Barbarellas 16, Margate Dreamland 17, Tottenham Royal 18, Farnborough Burlesque 21, Wolverhampton Lafayette 23, Cheltenham College of Technology 24, Newport The Village 29.

HEDGEHOG PIE Cheadle Threapwood The Highwayman April 11, Ambleside Park Hotel 13, Towcester Cornhill Manor Hotel 29, Lincoln University 30.

HEAD Scottish jazz/rock group Head start an English tour this week. Stockton Dovecote Arts Centre 3, Hull Humberside Theatre 4, London 100 Club 5, London The Phoenix 7, Liverpool Banyan Tree 8, Leicester YMCA Theatre 9, Sheffield Hurlfield Campus 10.

STEVENSON’S ROCKET Dunstable Queensway Hall April 5, Northallerton Sayers 7, Grangetown Rockafellas 8, Cleveland Philmore Disco 9, Cleveland Spa Pavilion 10, Kettering Central Hall 12, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall 15, Coventry Tiffanys 16, Goole Viking Hotel 17, Mexborough Jesters 18, Warley Haden Hill Leisure Centre 19, Sheffield Top Rank 20, Barrow-in-Furness Maxims 21, Doncaster Bailey’s 22, Edinburgh Clouds 24.

JOHN GRIMALDI John Grimaldi, former Argent guitarist, has got his new band together and they will be making their debut at the Marquee on April 13. The line-up apart from Grimaldi, is Mick Parke (keyboards), John Giblin (bass) and Preston Ross Heyman (drums).

REAL THING Real Thing’s dates are Birmingham Barbarellas April 23, Stroud Leisure Centre 24, Barrow Maxim’s Club 29, Andover Country Bumpkin May 1, Manchester Piccadilly 6, Leeds International Club 8, Norwich Crocker’s 20, Wolverhampton Civic Centre 21.

TRIBUTE TO DUSTER BENNETT

ANY BENEFIT concert that Alexis and Co. might organise for the family of Tony “Duster” Bennett would make real sense if Peter Green was there to lead the parade.

For at a time some eight years ago when Duster was reluctant to push his one man band routine it was Green who gave him more encouragement than anyone, urging him to make a career of his music and ultimately bringing him to Mike Vernon’s attention by putting him second on the bill to Fleetwood Mac at the now legendary Blue Horizon Club.

Tony Bennett was almost dogmatic in his beliefs and was not easily persuaded to abandon a career in ceramics and pottery. But with a guitar style similar to Jimmy Reed, a brilliant harmonica technique in the tradition of Slim Harpo and a Heath Robinson rig out which evoked comparisons with Jesse Fuller, Duster quickly made the Surrey club scene all his own just as the Stones and Yardbirds had done five years before.

This quiet, diffident bluesman never really received the acclaim he deserved although down in Surrey – particularly at his ‘home’ club, the famous Gin Mill in Godalming, where he always outdrew Fleetwood Mac, Free, Jethro Tull and so on – he was a legend. His second album “Bright Lights . . .” was recorded live at the Gin Mill and featured his wife Stella, Peter Green (credited as Blue), Top Topham (the old Yardbird) and Tony Mills (his bass player-cum-roadie).

Over this period he became a good friend although he never seemed certain which way his career should be guided. He turned down many tempting offers . . . including a management offer from Peter Grant after touring the States. In fact his overall guardedness probably stems from the days shortly after he quit the Georgia Skin Band and wound up across the national newspapers busking to theatre queues with acoustic guitar, bass drum, hi hat and harmonica. It was something that repulses him.

Coming from Richmond, the sixties home of rhythm and blues, his vista was much wider than that, and his first album “Smiling Like I’m Happy” had every texture of fifties blues from city r&b to loose southern combo music. He would state such diverse influences as Tommy McClennan on the one hand and Bobby ‘Blue’ Band on the other.

When it looked as though Duster’s career was heading into a rut John Mayall asked him to join the band for a British and American tour. But on his return Duster’s career once again fluctuated. He’d built up a huge following in British clubs and in the States, but afer an abortive attempt to get his own band going with American RICK WRIGHT he went into a recession and over the past five years had largely fallen into oblivion, changing his base from Hampton to Dorking and finally to the Midlands. His third album “12DBs” had not been wholely successful and once he quit Mike Vernon’s Blue Horizon label his recording career was at an end.

But despite his relative absence from the music scene over recent years he will be greatly missed, not only for his genuinely self-effacing, philanthopic demeanor but also because he went as far as anyone in proving that white men could indeed sing the blues. – JERRY GILBERT

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