#Leeds UK

[georgefairbrother]

Iconic British actress Diana Dors, ‘the English Marilyn Monroe’, and 'Siren of Swindon’, was born Diana Mary Fluck, on October 23rd, 1931.

She enjoyed great success in British films, her first role in 1947, and later had a limited career under contract to RKO in Hollywood. In her later years she was a favourite on chat shows, and had character roles in a number of British films, including Steptoe and Son Ride Again, as well as guest turns in television programmes such as The Sweeney, The Two Ronnies, and Hammer House of Horror.

She passed away from cancer in 1984, at the age of 52.

This great clip is from her Yorkshire Television sitcom, Queenie's Castle (1970-72) in which, as the family matriarch, she unwisely confronts her son, 'Our Raymond', over having been seen at the pub with a 'right tarty blonde...'

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"…JOHN ENTWISTLE, SURELY THE MOST GIFTED BASS PLAYER OF HIS GENERATION…"

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on THE WHO's John Entwistle (1944-2002), a.k.a., "The Ox," laying down fat bass chords and solid rhythms during the recording of the "Live at Leeds" LP at Leeds University on February 14, 1970. 📸: John Rettie.

"…John Entwistle, surely the most gifted bass player of his generation, held a beat but at the same time played imaginative runs -- or fat chords -- at every notch on his fretboard. With all this going on around him, Pete was allowed the luxury of soloing at will -- knowing that if he missed a note it didn't matter because the sheer din of Moon and The Ox covered everything up -- or doing what he did best, which was to establish a chord riff and ram it home."

-- CHRIS CHARLESWORTH, "Live at Leeds" 1995 CD remaster liner notes

Source: http://rnrchemist.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-who-live-at-leeds.html?m=1.

[filipebaldin]

[davescumbag]

nother - david jmes barton

[richs-pics]

Marsh tit

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

With the release of 2019’s critically applauded full-length debut, Useless Coordinates, Leeds-based experimental outfit Drahla — currently Luciel Brown (vocals, guitar), Ewan Barr (guitar), Rob Riggs (bass) and Mike Ainsley (drums) — exploded into the UK post punk and experimental rock scenes. The British quartet’s long-awaited sophomore album angeltape is slated for an April 5, 2024 release through Captured Tracks. Recorded with Matthew Benn and Jamie Lockhart last year, angeltape is reportedly an avant-garde document oft he events that unfolded over the course of the five-year gap between albums, which saw a variety of changes — both good and bad — that steered their professional and personal lives down unfamiliar territories. Of course, instead of succumbing to adversity, the band’s sophomore album sees the band re-emerging sounding creatively rejuvenated with deeply reflective perspectives. Over the last few years, the band’s members have suffered devastating losses and yet have expanded upon their sound with the addition of their newest member Ewan Barr. Inspired and informed by their recent experiences — collective and individual — the album features a considerably darker, tonally more complex and conceptual sound. The addition of Barr signaled a significant shift in the band’s dynamic and ultimately reshaped the way they approached their angular arrangements, with the band being feeling the freedom to experiment with form more than ever before. Brown, in particular embraced the opportunity to find different ways to inhabit her contemplative lyrics. Naturally, because of the band’s new lineup, there was a readjustment period when they convened to write angeltape — but it helped to kickstart a renewed creative approach. “There was an uncertainty and anxiety in not knowing how to rekindle what we had, and what we did have just didn’t exist in the same format,” Brown explains. “I feel this is apparent in the music; the constant changes, opposing ideas and structures, the overall energy and drive of the songs. I think there’s also the sense of reconnection, encouragement and freedom, too. There’s excitement borne from us finding something together again.” The album also draws some inspiration from the work of experimental rock outfit This Heat, but the band primarily found that their greatest motivation came from listening to and following one another throughout the writing and recording sessions. “I think the process and inspiration for this album has been way more experimental and insular than taking on any external musical references,” says Brown, “This record feels like it was built on a foundation of insular inspiration.” The band’s Rob Riggs adds, “When the four of us are in a room, we each bring separate things to the table. Sometimes, a session would start a little bit disjointed but then we find a way where we could all interlock together for a moment in a song and then disperse again.” Sonically, the album’s material is rooted in the interplay of driving bass riffs and charged drum patterns provide an uneasy yet captivating contrast to Brown’s melody sing-songy spoken delivery. The material is also heightened by searing saxophone contributions from the band’s longtime collaborator Chris Duffin. angeltape‘s third and lates single, the wild and expressionistic freakout “Grief In Phantasia” is a No Wave-inspired take on post punk — or maybe a post-punk-inspired take on No Wave — built around angular and scuzzy guitar lines, primal saxophone skronk and off-kilter yet forceful percussion serving as a tumultuously and uneasy bed for Brown’s melodic sing-songy and punchily melodic delivery. According to the band: “This song was informed by others on the record and those we’d written in the past. It felt like the closing track when we wrote it, as though it summarised the chaos and the calm of the album.” Drahla will also head out on tour across the EU and UK through May and June; their first since their European dates in 202...

[architecture-uk]

Briggate, Leeds

2024/03/06

[sunsetneptune]

Old Times New Feelings.

Cloudy weather makes me appreciate life in a different way.

Beauty is more fragile, therefore, more kept alive.

Live fully on. The moment is everything.

[livenremember]

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[girlactionfigure]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CHRISTMAS IN LEEDS -- STREET PUNK/HARDCORE '81 EDITION.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on vocalist/songwriter Colin Abrahall of English hardcore punk/street punk band CHARGED G.B.H., performing live at Christmas on Earth, Queens Hall, Leeds, UK on December 20, 1981. 📸: Steve Rapport.

Source: https://destroyartinc.com/products/steve-rapport-colin-abrahall-of-gbh-5-1981.

[antifainternational]

November 18, Leeds - Leeds says No! to Posie Parker

[a-lillyan]

Will Ramos of Lorna Shore @ O2 Academy Leeds, UK // 29.11.2023

(feat. Alan Grnja of Distant :) )

📸 by me 😊

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Gotts Street Park Team Up with Olive Jones on a Quiet Storm-like Jam

New Audio: Gotts Street Park Team Up with Olive Jones on a Quiet Storm-like Jam @gottsstreetpark @BlueFlowers

Acclaimed and rapidly rising British neo-soul and hip-hop instrumental outfit Gotts Street Park— Josh Crocker (bass, production), Tom Henry (keys) and Joe Harris (guitar) — will be releasing their highly anticipated full-length debut, On The Inside on October 13, 2023 through Blue Flowers.  The 12-song album is reportedly a window into the band’s inner world, a world that’s been expanding since…