Live Review: Hey Colossus / Teeth Of The Sea at The White Hotel in Salford 20 October 2023
Words: Ben Forrester
It’s been 20 years since the formation of London based alt-rock outfit Hey Colossus and to commemorate the occasion, the sextet have just released their fourteenth (!) album and are playing a bunch of celebratory shows. Tonight we are at The White Hotel in foggy Salford to see the band play a co-headline show with fellow Rocket Recordings alumni Teeth Of the Sea.
As I race…
getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."
Dining in the deep sea can be decidedly difficult when you don’t know when, where, or how big your next meal will be! The animals that live here have special adaptations to find food in the dark (like an alluring anglerfish lure), to make room for large meals (like a rapidly expanding stomach), or to trap unsuspecting prey (like a mouth cage!).
🎥: Deepest thanks to our research partners @mbari-blog for the deep-sea footage!
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It’s kind of amazing just how much different types of presentation can give you radically different ideas about animals. Like you take something like the deep-sea dragonfish and the photos they’re presented in often make them look like a leviathan right out of a horror story:
But then you’ll sometimes see a photo that puts them more to scale and then they’re suddenly just
On my hands and knees SHIVER PLEASE look at her silly little smile, maybe the moment where shiver orders Frye to jump at big man? Idk man I just don't recall her in your style (sorry if this seems rude she just put my brain in the Michael wave and filled my camera roll) if you do draw the beloved blue blahaj, Ty very much
no because she was SO DAMN GORGEOUS...oh how i love her singing LOL. ive drawn her a few times!! yknow i love her alot i love her design but im still a bit wishy-washy on how i stylize her, but heres some doodles for your troubles...
bonus of some outfits ive drawn her in in past works!