#hatfield and the north

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[zralokx]

Phil Miller ✨

[julio-viernes]

"The Rotters´ Club", el club de los putrefactos o de los sinvergüenzas. Bette Davis anota el título en la foto que ilustra la contraportada del álbum Virgin 1975, segundo de Hatfield and The North, justo sobre un niño que muestra el trasero. Arte de la funda, obra de Laurie Lewis.

Ligereza, precisión, fluidez, contundencia, experimentación y, por qué no, diversión, otra diversión. Un continuo, una serie de temas sin interrupción para uno de los mejores discos de la historia del Canterbury Sound y del jazz rock UK. Jonathan Coe publicó en 2001 la novela "The Rotters´ Club" inspirado en el disco de H&TN.

[probably-not-mig]

Following the adventures of Dave and Richard Sinclair...

[torson]

Albums I’ve been listening to this October:

Focus, Moving Waves ~ 1971

Pete Sinfield, Still ~ 1973

McDonald and Giles, McDonald and Giles ~ 1970

Hatfield and the North, Hatfield and the North ~ 1973

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12:24 AM EDT April 30, 2024:

Hatfield and the North - "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" From the album Hatfield and the North (February 1974)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Canterbury Prog with somewhat scatological lyrics     

[bungitonthen]

17/6/25

the pothead pixies - gong

just a second (starts like that) - faust

fol de rol - hatfield and the north

marlene - kevin coyne

teenbeat - henry cow

wring out the ground (loosely now) - egg

stratosphere - tangerine dream

electrick gypsies - steve hillage

(prog rocks! : virgin label)

[prog-elitist]

i'm bored so

licks for the ladies by hatfield and the north

hotel splendour by earthworks

radio by rammstein

shaving is boring by hatfield and the north

save yourself by soft machine

oh len's nature by hatfield and the north(seeing a pattern here...hm i wonder what it is)

red(2024 elemental mix) by king crimson and yeah it was that exact one

priscilla by soft machine

herzeleid by rammstein

contrasong by egg

so guys if u didn't know canterbury bands are amazing

shuffle my "on repeat" playlist and post the first 10 songs and tag 10 people

Tagged by @nightfuryqueen thx <3

Honey I’m Home - Ghost and Pals

コノユビトマレ - JUNNA

The Arctic Ocean - Chihei Hatakeyama

Secret of Life - Lord Huron

When the Night is Over - Lord Huron

Tomorrow at Dawn - zakè, from overseas

All My Own Stunts - Arctic Monkeys

Go - Michelle Gurevich

Black Swallow I - Chihei Hatakeyama

Moonbeam - Lord Huron

Tagging uhhhhh @umbralundertaker @schleyer @imgoingtoputscorpionsinyourmouth @meme-ento-morii

[go-go-devil]

Nothing like going to a record convention to kick off the new year, and holy hell did I have a successful hunt! In fact, this may very well be the BEST haul I've ever taken home in my history of vinyl hunting!

So many records that I'd been waiting literal years to find out in the wild were all found during my first 20 minutes at the place: Acquiring the Taste, Pawn Hearts, In Camera, Spirit of Eden, and even a reasonably priced copy of Wish You Were Here! About damn time too, it was painful going so long without the LAST Pink Floyd album I needed in my collection T_T

I even stumbled upon some rare, unexpected finds. I've known about Sally Oldfield's Water Bearer for close to a decade yet this is the first time I've ever seen anyone carry her. Same with the Gong and Steve Hillage record and especially Art Bears. As for the Stevie Wonder album, I grabbed it because it has "Higher Ground" which is one of my favorite songs of his, but I'm actually not familiar with the full record and am excited to check it out!

[letterboxd-loggd]

The Unsuspected (1947) Michael Curtiz

October 24th 2024

[jt1674]

[zralokx]

some canterbury fellas and pete bardens✨

[whencyclopedia]

Hilda of Whitby

Hilda of Whitby (also known as Saint Hilda of Whitby, l. 614-680 CE) was the founder and abbess of the monastery at Whitby, Kingdom of Northumbria, Britain. She was a Northumbrian princess who converted to Christianity with the rest of the court of her great-uncle, King Edwin of Deira (r. 616-633 CE), when she was 13. She was raised at Edwin's court in the tradition of Roman Catholicism, but at the age of 33 became an adherent of Celtic Christianity, tutored in the faith by Aidan of the monastery of Lindisfarne, and was abbess at Hartlepool Abbey before founding the monastery at Whitby.

She was highly educated and her wisdom was so legendary that her counsel was sought by nobility and commoners alike. Hilda was an able administrator, carefully overseeing the large estate of Whitby while also ministering to the needs of the community. She encouraged the shepherd Caedmon to share the famous hymn which came to him in a vision (Caedmon's Hymn, 7th century CE), the oldest extant poem in Old English, for which she is honored as patron saint of poetry in addition to her honor as patron saint of culture, literacy, and learning.

She hosted and presided over the Synod of Whitby in 664 CE which decided whether the traditions of Celtic or Roman Christianity would be adhered to in Britain and, even when the vote went against her side, stood beside the Church's decision and encouraged unity of vision in adhering to Roman tradition. Her story and Caedmon's Hymn is first recorded by Bede (l. 673-735 CE) in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People (published 731 CE). Hilda's virtuous life, wisdom, and unceasing care for others, no matter their social status, led to her veneration shortly after her death.

Northumbria & Early Life

The Kingdom of Northumbria (c. 604-954 CE) was originally divided between two separate, and hostile, political entities: Bernicia in the north and Deira in the south. These two were in continuous conflict until they were united in 604 CE under the reign of the king Aethelfrith (r. 593-616 CE) of Bernicia.

When Aethelfrith united the kingdoms, he disinherited the ruling house of Deira and drove the Deiran nobility, including Prince Edwin and his nephew Hereric, into exile. Hereric went to the Brittonic kingdom of Elmet (in present-day West Yorkshire) where he and his wife Breguswith had two daughters, Hereswith and Hilda. Hereric was poisoned while at the Elmet court and, after his death, the infant Hilda and her older sister were taken under the care of Edwin who was in exile in East Anglia.

When Aethelfrith died in 616 CE, Edwin returned and claimed the throne, ruling from Deira. Hereswith and Hilda were raised at Edwin's court. The peace established by Aethelfrith was threatened under Edwin by the Kingdom of Mercia at its border and the southern Kingdom of Wessex. In 626 CE, Cwichelm of Wessex (d. 636 CE) sent an assassin to kill Edwin but the plot was foiled and credit was given to the Christian god. Previously, the nobility of Northumbria was pagan but, in gratitude for his life, Edwin – and his entire court including Hilda – converted to Christianity in 627 CE.

Edwin had been victorious over the combined forces of Wessex and Mercia in late 626 CE at the Battle of Win-and-Lose Hill but King Penda of Mercia (r. c. 625-655 CE) turned on his allies, defeated them, and then struck at Northumbria. In 633 CE, Penda defeated the Northumbrians at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in which Edwin and his son Osfrith were both killed. Northumbria's power collapsed and Hilda fled with her mother and sister to Kent. Edwin was succeeded by Oswald (r. 634-642 CE), who devoted himself to turning his people from the religious errors of Roman Catholicism to what he viewed as the self-evident truth of Celtic Christianity.

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In Kenya, Martial Eagles Hunt Lion Cubs For Lunch

Martial eagles, with wingspans that can exceed six feet, can take out young impalas or gazelles. Recently, researchers have seen them targeting another species’ young.

— By Joshua Rapp Learn | October 3, 2024

Martial Eagles (One Shown in Serengeti National Park) Occasionally Hunt Lion Cubs, New Rsearch Shows. Photograph By Klaus Nigge, National Geographic Image Collection

In December 2012, tour guides in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve witnessed a series of killings targeting one of the savannah’s top predators. An adult martial eagle followed a pride of lions for weeks, waiting for the right time to swoop in and kill three cubs in total.

“This is an eagle really looking at these lions and thinking, ‘I’m going to systematically hunt these lions,’” says R. Stratton Hatfield, a Ph.D. candidate at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.

A Juvenile Martial Eagle snatched this three-week-old lion cub on March 15, 2019, in the Mara North Conservancy, Kenya. No one saw the bird kill the cub. Based on the fledgling eagle's behavior, researchers suspect that an adult female gave the cub to the fledgling. Photograph By Jes Lefcourt

While the supposed kings of the jungle may dominate the land around them, this incident and others like it show that African lions (Panthera leo) may not always sit on top of the food chain when it comes to the skies. In fact, martial eagles (Polemaetus bellicosus) likely prey on lion cubs when the opportunity arises, Hatfield and his colleagues recently reported in Ecology and Evolution.

“It’s really a testament to the predatory nature of martial eagles,” Hatfield says.

Queen of the Skies

Martial eagles’ wingspans can exceed six feet. Adult females weigh more than 10 pounds, while adult males typically weigh around seven pounds. Though comparable in size and ecology to golden eagles, the species often kills larger prey. The birds swoop in and dig their razor-like talons into their prey’s spine at the back of their skull, sometimes taking out young impalas or gazelles far above their weight class. “[Their talons] are just massive killing utensils,” Hatfield says. “From a predator perspective, they are impressive in what they’re able to do.”

Hatfield’s team only recently realized the birds also preyed on other predators. The team collected seven records, including the 2012 incident, that describe martial eagles preying on lion cubs, resulting in the deaths of nine cubs and one near miss. Most of these episodes probably involve larger females, Hatfield suspects, though two records included juveniles preying on cubs.

The earliest case comes from 2008, when a photographer captured an image of an eagle feeding on a freshly killed cub, while the most recent was in 2023, when a safari guide saw a juvenile eagle hunt and kill a cub large enough that the raptor couldn’t fly off with it.

Risk Versus Reward

Despite their aerial antics, martial eagles are typically risk averse. “When they go to take a lion cub, it’s with a lot of recognition of the risks,” Hatfield says. But not all records seem to show this careful calculation.

In the one failed killing, a martial eagle swoops in to snatch a six-week-old cub right next to its mother. The lioness spots the approaching danger, and “literally leaps in the air to try to take the martial out of the sky,” Hatfield describes. “You can just see the lioness’s eyes lock onto something, then she crouches and launches.”

The eagle dodged the counterattack, and didn’t get the cub, but the whole maneuver “was just stupid.” Hatfield speculates that the raptor didn’t see the lioness. Episodes like this are so dangerous for the eagle, “you wonder if they are doing something ever just for fun,” he says.

Amy Dickman, a conservation biologist at Oxford University in the U.K., isn’t surprised that eagles will go after cubs again and again if the strategy proves successful. She also leads Lion Landscapes, a nonprofit focused on coexistence of humans and wildlife in Kenya and Tanzania, and says the conclusions of Hatfield’s team “seem sound.”

As far as the lions are concerned, “it’s just another kind of risk that lions have to deal with,” Dickman says, like predation from hyenas or male lions from competing prides. While she doesn’t think the eagles pose a conservation threat to the big cats, an individual pride in a given area might feel pressure if a martial eagle has honed in on their cubs as a food source. “It shows you how interesting and diverse the natural world is,” Dickman says.

Predators or Prey?

Martial eagles aren’t picky when it comes to big cats. Some have taken cheetah and leopard kittens, as well. Hatfield also notes the risk probably goes both ways—lions could and probably have hunted adult eagles or nests. At least one YouTube video shows a leopard killing a martial eagle.

“The relationships between top predators at the top of the [food] pyramid are complicated,” Hatfield says.

Martial eagles are considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and Hatfield hopes that studies like this bring more attention to their plight. Like other large raptors in Africa, the species faces habitat loss, poaching for parts, electrocution on power lines and persecution.

“We are all so focused on the elephant and lion and rhino,” Hatfield says. “A lot of these big eagles and vultures are going to go extinct right in front of our eyes.”

[prog-elitist]

hello people an intro post because i'm lazy and bored

about me- MINOR !! i'm stuck in the void pls help😔 prog is lord, i'm a drummer(yeah dude we know ..), i go by olias, i love pretty old musicians(NOT IN A WEIRD WAY I SWEAR) and i read too much on linguistics(bro wtf)

pinterest for my maggot losers pronouns page my spacehey spotify if you want..

but you may ask, "why do you post all this shit" - because it's fun and I'm bored👍 also i have nowhere else to say i like groon because kc fans only exist here

take some music

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Hatfield and the North