#oldplays

[aobashi]

AOBASHI HOUR 20250621 24:00- #AOBASHI

Tommy february6 - Lonely in Gorgeous (instrumental)

GLX-E feat. 宮舞モカ - バキバキBEAT

Valdok - The Power Of The Tao (Homma Honganji Remix)

Mark Broom, Gene Richards Jr - Ride This D (Mark Broom Remix)

Cobblestone Jazz - Generations  (Edit)

Axwell - Feel The Vibe (Original Mix)

Fragma - Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Mix)

Oldplay, (Frank, Vintage Culture - Oldplay -Remix- LOST (Frank Ocean & Vintage Culture)

talk & select : hide shino

[marciellapoetry]

BEE

I remember when I was first stung by a bee I was 5 years oldPlaying under a tree Looking at the flowers Wanting one to pick me I saw the prettiest flower Agreeing with the beePlucked it up And out of anger It stung me MAP

[agentdatsunford]

Jonny in Coldplay's 2003 Tour Diary Documentary ♡

[twoheadedrep]

Meet the Designers: Cate McCrea, Set

We are so excited to be producing in a non-theatrical venue for the very first time! Our amazing design team is hard at work planning the transformation of this big white room from a blank gallery space into the (very distinct) worlds of the two plays we’re producing later this month!

Today we wanted to introduce you to our set designer, Cate McCrea. Cate has designed the sets for all of our previous shows...clearly we are huge fans, and for good reason. Here’s what she has to say about designing the sets for this rep. 

Does your process change when you set out to design two shows in rep as opposed to a single show? How? Yes and no: really, the process itself doesn't change, but the central concerns and questions employed in designing a set become amplified. In any scenic world-building process, you want to establish a certain vocabulary and set of reference points that add up to transform a room into a theatrical space. When working with pairs of plays in rep, you're building in multiple transformations -- one space is created, and then it becomes another --  and two intersecting networks of references. There's a duality or even a two-facedness to the final product, because neither set stands alone; everything is to be taken in the context of the other. 

Is there something in the relationship between Restaurant in D Major and Lysistrata that has influenced your approach to designing this set of plays? The point of intersection between these two plays, for me, is the venue they'll be performed in: each of them relates to the charismatic gallery space differently, and I think those relationships end up commenting on or even just underlining the play-ness of the plays, the way that each exists as a theatrical enterprise and the quality or texture of space that it carves out of the room. I like to start with the architectural reality (where will we, the audience, be?) and then work from there to find a thematic or visual dialogue between the two pieces (how or in what way will we be there?)

Here are some of Cate’s drawings. Join us in Bushwick from April 29 - May 7 to see her ideas realized!

[lexxaxx]

time is so short & im sure

there must be something more

[mandiexyloto]

Old photos of Coldplay

[iamveronica]

In the driveway, he asked a favour. He wanted to modify a few of the things he said. "Please don't have me say anything unpleasant about Coldplay and Radiohead," he said. "There's no point to it, it just looks silly and mean. They're perfectly good bands, they're just not to my taste." You called them Oldplay and Radiodead. "I know. But I say a lot of things I don't mean."

- Morrissey, Word – June 2003

[jonnylovers-in-neverland]

Coldplay for NME: “This is our period of having no fear”

Inspired by space, hard rock and, erm, emojis, Chris and co.’s ninth album ‘Music Of The Spheres’ is the sound of a band fearlessly entering a whole new orbit.

You can be Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, the 21st century’s biggest band, and still be keen to learn a thing or two. You can walk into any stadium or arena on this planet, light the place up with multi-coloured wristbands while thrilling hundreds of thousands of people, and still think you’ve not quite nailed the move as a frontman. That, it seems, is about to change.

“I’ve always wanted to do a move called the ‘Till Hammer’, he tells NME, referring to Rammstein’s frontman Till Lindermann’s trademark trick, usually reserved for their punishing performance of ‘Du Hast’. “It’s where you go like this…” he says, leaping up from the bench we’re sat on in a central London park into a surf stance, slightly side-on; his feet rock back and forth, the head starts swinging and the hammer – a clenched fist – comes down against his right thigh in time to an imaginary guitar riff. Consider this ‘Martin’s Mallet’.

We’re discussing ‘People Of The Pride’, one of the highlights of Coldplay’s ninth album ‘Music Of The Spheres’, out today (October 15). The song opens with a bone-crunching guitar riff – the band collectively cite Muse, Depeche Mode and Rammstein as inspirations – as it segues between serene, spacey chords and plenty of opportunities to let the hammer drop. “That’s our Rammstein cover that isn’t actually a cover,” Martin laughs.

For years, that song had been their Moby Dick. The opening verse, which references a man “who swears he’s God” and “walks around like he owns the fucking lot”, was written in the ‘Viva La Vida’-era back in 2008, and until now only existed as a brooding piano-led demo. They struggled for years to nail it, but they were inspired last year to finish the song and speak of the people “sewing up of rags into revolution flags” who want “to be free to fall in love with who we want”.

“A lot of it came from the Black Lives Matter and Gay Pride marches where people using their voice to say ‘this situation is ridiculous’, so I think it’s our ‘This situation is ridiculous’ song,” Martin says. “We’re quite polite about it, though, as opposed to saying, ‘You fucking arseholes!’ But this is about human politics. This is the politics that believes that everyone on the planet has a right to be themselves. And I think whether you’re an old soft-rock superstar, or a young whippersnapper, you’re allowed to believe that.”

A few days later, we see the move in action at Coldplay’s intimate show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire as blows rain down during the song’s monstrous opening. It’s typical of the experience of listening to their buoyant record ‘Music Of The Spheres’, where playful pop magic meets earnest human politics; after two decades together, few bands, if any, are able to combine the two and do it with such ease and joy.

“This album is our period of having no rules or fear about what people think or say about us,” Martin says. “We’ve already had all the good and bad reviews in the world and if we worry about the response, it makes you a little more cautious. There’s a part of you that has to accept that we’re an older band, we were never the new ‘cool young thing’… but in a strange way it’s quite liberating. There’s no pressure on us, we just get to do what we love.”

Martin’s response to those questioning the use of emojis for song titles (three of the tracks are ‘🪐’, ‘✨’ and ‘❤️’) is fitting for this era: “Well, why not? That’s our whole attitude to everything.”

We last found the band at a delightfully experimental juncture. 2019’s ‘Everyday Life’ served as a subtle riposte – though the band don’t seem to give a shit – to those who miss ‘Oldplay’ and the turn-of-the-century indie-rock they brought to ‘Parachutes’ (2000) and ‘A Rush Of Blood Of The Head’ (2002). Instead, there were sprawling compositions and collaborations with Femi and Made Kuti (son and grandson of Afrobeats pioneer, Fela) and Palestinian oud group, Le Trio Joubran. The NME review proclaimed it proof that “Coldplay are more adventurous than they’re often given credit for”, and described its stunning performance at the Citadel in Amman, Jordan as an “audacious undertaking”.The project was bolstered by the pattern they’ve slipped into: for every day-glo pop bonanza record, there’s been a mellower response album. Following their sparkling fifth album ‘Mylo Xyloto’ (2011), came the gloomy ‘Ghost Stories’ (2014); after ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ (2016), they burrowed down for ‘Everyday Life’. Guitarist Jonny Buckland explains: “Knowing that the big one is coming allows us to go a lot smaller and to not worry about that; we can be much more insular about what music we make sense.”

This album – the big one – is one they had an inkling would be next for years; in fact, as bassist Guy Berryman mentions on Zoom the day prior, the band often have a title and concept in mind before the music arrives. “It’s just a device to provide a framework into which we can work thematically,” he says. “The name ‘Music Of The Spheres’ has been something we’ve been talking about for many years now.”

So, for the uninitiated, what is ‘Music Of The Spheres’, then?

“It’s a set of songs located in a distant galaxy… that we made up,” Martin says, with a glint in his eye, clearly aware at how daft the whole thing can be if you take it too seriously. “It’s where we can be totally free from any pressure of what we’ve done before and how we should sound. That freedom of location allows us to speak about what it means to be human. It seems a bit sci-fi and everything, but really it’s a bunch of love songs. It’s not even really set in space. It could all be set in Margate too; it just depends what the music videos and artworks look like – we could have dancing fish and chips salesmen instead…”

It’s typical of the high-concept, sweeping visions that Martin and the rest of the band are prone to: ‘Mylo Xyloto’, after all, was a rock opera in which an ‘Orwellian’ dictatorship waged a war on sound and colour. But once you’ve conquered planet Earth the way Coldplay have – including four Glastonbury Festival headline sets and bagged eight consecutive UK Number One albums – then dreaming big, or at least appearing to do so, is par for the course.

And ‘Music Of The Spheres’ provides a palette for some moments of sheer brilliance; there’s the tubthumping ‘People Of The Pride’, ’80s excess on charming ‘Humankind’ and the album’s sublime, 10-minute closer ‘Coloratura’, their biggest musical flex in years. Contributions come from pop heavyweight Selena Gomez (‘Let Somebody Go’), as well as US R&B duo We Are King and Jacob Collier (‘Human Heart’), alongside scene-setting instrumentals and interludes.

The record’s clear vision, the band say, was realised by producer Max Martin (who’s worked with The Weeknd and Taylor Swift), who Berryman describes “as such a brilliant captain. I think we knew it’d always be this bigger sound, but when Max agreed to work with us, it was like, ‘Let’s really go for it; let’s have no limitations’.”

This openness led the band to work with pop titans, BTS, who appear on the collaborative single ‘My Universe’, where Martin and the group trade lines and flit between Korean and English for the band’s most charming – and likely soon-to-be – biggest collaboration yet.

“They’ve got such amazing energy,” Berryman says. “We hung out with them recently in New York, and even though there’s a bit of a language barrier, it didn’t feel awkward or uncomfortable at all. When a situation like that arises, the easiest thing can be to say ‘no’ to a collaboration like that because they’re different, or they’re from a different genre or a different country. There’s so many historical situations where that collaboration wouldn’t have happened.

Drummer Will Champion agrees: “This notion that change is a bad thing is crazy – we want to grow and embrace music and culture from all over the world. That’s the spirit of this album, trying to get rid of all those barriers we put up between us and other people.”

Connectivity is the prevailing theme of this album, both emotionally, physically and spiritually. It’s most evident on ‘Higher Power’, where Martin is “down on my knees”, reaching out and upwards on a “heavenly phone”. He recently described himself as having a “really hard time”, and is considering the role his evangelical childhood had on him. Have things improved?

“That was just a questioning time of life that I’m in, but yeah – it’s OK,” he says today. “It turns out I’m a completely normal human being with some stuff to sort out. There are things that when I get older that I can’t keep thinking that anymore or doing that anymore. It’s just about growing up. And lots of people in our job have been able to grow up and ignore dealing with certain stuff because you’re doing OK or you’re famous, and then you get to a certain point and you realise that’s not the answer to every question. I’m just trying to improve my life and where I can improve.”

And was that lockdown-inspired? Martin had previously said that his ego had taken a big check as a result of his being still for once.

“The adrenaline of touring or being all this everyday can be amazing,” Martin says, “but it can sometimes be a distraction; if this was all taken away, who are you? How are you being useful? It’s OK, I think that’s why we’re here on earth to figure out what we need to figure out.”

Next year, the band head out on their first full run of shows in over five years, with three dates slated for London’s Wembley Stadium in August. A return to Glastonbury Festival isn’t a part of it (says Martin: “Glastonbury is our spiritual home, but even your parents say you need to leave home sometimes”) but it’s a seismic event for different reasons. Back in 2019, they said that they wouldn’t be touring ‘Everyday Life’ due to the impact on the environment of large-scale tours like their own. They’ve spent the period taking influence from artists like Massive Attack and Billie Eilish, who’ve been leading the way in making live music safer for the environment.“I think we’ve made a great start at the moment,” explains Berryman. “Whatever we end up doing, will be a Phase One, but there always has to be an improvement and a continual cycle. If you want to pick holes, and I’m sure someone can and will, I think that’s fine: what you have to do is embrace the idea of continued progress. It has to be an ever-evolving situation.”

Martin adds: “The reason that we did the BMW commercial [the car manufacturer recently used ‘Higher Power’ for their range of electric vehicles] was because they are giving us these batteries for the show that we can power with left-over restaurant oil and solar power. We also have this kinetic flooring in the front section of the audience, so when they move up and down the audience will create power. It’s a long way to go, but we want to get on with what we can do.”

The band are already considering their next challenge. Champion says that they’ll probably celebrate the release of ‘Music Of The Spheres’ by “working on the new music”; Martin is similarly coy about what Vol.2 in the ‘Music Of The Spheres’ series sounds like, but he’s sure of one thing: “We’re going to make 12 albums. Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them. I love it and it’s amazing, but it’s very intense too. I feel like because I know that challenge is finite, making this music doesn’t feel difficult, it feels like, ‘This is what we’re supposed to be doing’.”

Wait, what? You think it’s three more Coldplay albums and then out?

“I don’t think that’s what we’ll do,” he replies. “I know that’s what we’ll do in terms of studio albums.”

Crikey. Well, what’s left to achieve between now and the end, then? Going to try and squeeze in a Bond theme, perhaps?

“We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but never submitted them,” Martin laughs. “We have Bond themes for about five movies, but they’re not very good, to be honest. Also I don’t know if we’re spiritually on the same trip as James. As much as I like the films, I don’t know if us singing would do it for him. He’d be like, ‘That’s not what I’m into at all, fellas. I like guns and shit. All this hippie stuff just isn’t going to work’.”

They instead love what Billie and her brother, Finneas, did with ‘No Time To Die’, their eponymous theme for the recent 25th Bond movie, and enjoyed a recent collaboration at the Global Citizen concert in New York last month, where the sibling duo nailed ‘Fix You’’s second verse. Finneas enthusiastically told NME that the experience was “surreal”.

“It was equally wonderful singing with them,” says Chris. “I mean, [Finneas and Billie] wrote ‘Ocean Eyes’. I know when a song is great when my body goes into absolute furious jealousy for a minute – when I heard that song, I was like, ‘You fucking bastards’. But then I have to go ‘this is really inspiring’ and it becomes fandom; I love how much of a bond those two have.”

If we are, indeed, hurtling along the final stretch of Coldplay’s recording career, then ‘Music Of The Spheres’ is a fine one to usher it in. They’ve found an ample middle ground of everything that makes the band tick: stadium anthems, pop megahits and space-rock epics are nestled into deeper experimentation, and even some of your favourite emojis. As Martin shrugs: “We’ve got nothing to lose at this point.”

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[frisbs]

A playlist of little known Coldplay songs, mostly early 2000s.

Everyone of us is hurt And everyone of us is scarred Everyone of us is scared Not you

Your eyes closed Your head hurts Your eyes feel so low Everyone of us is scared Everyone of us is hurt Everyone of us has hope For you

[hopeled]

MUSE PLAYLIST .

post   3  -  5   songs   that   remind   you   of   your   muse. rules:        repost,   don’t   reblog.

   01 .   I LIVED ; ONE REPUBLIC .       hope when you take the jump, you don’t fear the fall   /  hope when the water rises, you build a wall   / hope if everybody runs   /   you choose to stay

   02 .  TO BE HUMAN ; SIA FT. LABRINTH.       just ‘cause i predicted this  /   doesn’t make it any easier to live with   / &  what’s the point of knowin’ it   /  if you can’t change it?

   03 .   WALK ME HOME ; P!NK .       there’s something in the way i wanna cry  /  that makes me think we’ll make it out alive   /   so come on and show me how we’re good   /   i think we can do some good, mhm

   04 .   IN MY WORLD [COVER] ; AMALEE.       how did it all end up like this?   /   i see the path i’ve long avoided  /   but now that all my hesitation’s gone  /  fate can screw itself & die

   05 .   SKY FULL OF STARS ; COLDPLAY       'cause you’re a sky  /   ‘cause you’re a sky full of stars   /   i’m gonna give you my heart

[betweenthesinnersandthesaints]

🎶 colin/penelope.

Send 🎶 for me to make a five song playlist for our muses

Invisible String- T*aylor S*wift

Yellow-C*oldplay

Wonder- L*auren A*quilina

Find My Way Back- E*ric Arjes

Nicest Thing- K*ate Nash

[twoheadedrep]

Big News for Spring 2017

Dearest friends of Two Headed Rep,

Happy New Year, and thanks for your support in our very first year of existence! Because of you, we were able to produce two new adaptations and two world premieres in 2016, all while building a company from the ground up.

We are so excited to announce our next rep festival, which will take place in Spring 2017. As we head into our second year, we are committed to making work that builds community, encourages thoughtfulness, and suggests paths to action.   And so we are thrilled to announce that in April we will be producing Aristophanes' Lysistrata, a play about the power of organization and recognizing the political implications of personal decisions. We are equally excited to announce Jacob Perkins – an alum of Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab and Page 73's Summer Residency, and a current member of Ars Nova's Play Group – as our next playwright. We look forward to keeping our friends and fans in the loop as we put our next festival together. You can follow our progress on our blog, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. All our love, Two Headed Rep

[lexxaxx]

if u love me, won’t u let me know?

[ohwillchampion]

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is it too bad that i really liked these “remixed” songs on keyboard?

[dr-archeville]

RPG Podcasts & Webshows

7 Realms Productions is creating sweet videos about games and movies!  "7 Realms Productions is dedicated to entertaining you with video humor about games, movies, and television.  If you like roleplaying and board games, you'll love our shows Roleplay Roulette, and Oldplay Roulette.  If you love video games, you'll love our Let's Plays, review Vlogs, and live streams that we perform on Twitch!  If you like movies and television, you'll like our entertainment Vlogs, and our review show, Film Inflicted Trauma."

Aaron and Jeff are creating All My Fantasy Children.  "Our goal with AMFC has always been and will always be to create characters that are diverse, inclusive, uplifting, magical, and fun.  The podcast has been a tremendous way to allow us to do that so far, and with your support, we can continue to make AMFC the best, most ridiculous podcast it can be."

Block Party Podcast Network is creating Podcasts.  "The Block Party Podcast Network is dedicated to making quality podcasts, that focus on being entertaining, of great content, and family friendly.  Becoming a patreon member means you will be supporting the continuation of podcasts like, The Dungeon Master's Block, The GM Showcase, and Geek Wars.  Furthermore, your support, helps us to come alongside other podcasters, and to help new podcasters get their feet off the ground."

ExplodingDice is creating RPG talk-shows, dungeon mastering, & community!  "EXPLODING DICE is a livestream channel and Tabletop RPG Community created and run by me, Brian Podell.  Started in early 2016, it has become more than I could have ever imagined, hosting some of the biggest names in both the RPG community and Twitch, as well as putting on dozens of amazing shows amassing hundreds of hours of livestream RPG entertainment, with the best casts!  Not to mention tons of giveaways, charity events, and much more." 

Farronox is creating Experiences. (Closing).

Gamers With Jobs is creating Podcasts & Community.  "Gamers With Jobs -- www.gamerswithjobs.com -- has been community funded and volunteer run for over 13 years now, producing everything from a weekly podcast (nine years without missing a beat!), weekly articles, Let's Play videos, magazines, a radio play and so much more. "

Girls Guts Glory is creating a webseries/gaming experience.

Harsh is creating art, stories, and Harsh Realities game content for 6S.  "The Art of Harsh is owned and operated by Scott Harshbarger, the creator known to many as Harsh, who is an Artist, Designer, Game Designer & Publisher, Illustrator, and Writer.  Patrons are invited to join Harsh as he brings his immense imagination to life for others to enjoy in various forms of entertainment, starting with artwork, roleplaying games, and short stories."

Jorphdan is creating D&D Lore Videos on Youtube.  "I make Lore videos about the Dungeons and Dragons universe.  I started my YouTube channel because I went searching for similar videos and couldn’t find what I was looking for.  I figured if I’m interested in this mythology there must be others."

Laughfinder Podcast is creating a Comedy R.P.G. Podcast.  "We are a Premiere, Comedy, Role Playing Game Podcast.  Featuring five of the best Geek comedians in Mobtown, an award winning National Public Radio Personality, and an in studio Audiomancer (Sound Effect Engineer).  Each week, we bring you Moon Berries another hilarious chapter in an ongoing story of our brave adventures filled with action, intrigue, and A LOT of out of character ball busting."

Messed Up Movies are creating Parody Movies & Comedy Videos.  "We film our D&D adventures for our YouTube channel and money from Patreon would help us with equipment, costume and green screen filming.  It would also allow us to keep doing what we love to do!"

Pedro Galicia is creating World Walkers, an Actual Play D&D Podcast.  "My name is Pedro Galicia and I'm the GM for World Walkers, a 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons actual play podcast featuring professional cartoonists."

Questing Beast is creating OSR Reviews and Mapmaking Tutorials.  "I'm Ben from Questing Beast, a Youtube channel about fantasy mapmaking and old-school roleplaying games.  My goal is to get more people into this great hobby, and to give them the tools necessary to run their own fantasy campaigns and create their own worlds.  By picking one of the three tiers of support on the right, you can get all of my PDF products for free, get access to playtest versions of my games, or join me on a monthly private chat just for supporters.  Your support keeps this channel going!"

Rick Kittenhugs is creating D&D streams and homebrew content!  "Who am I?  I'm Rick!  I'm a huge fan of tabletop games and RPGs and I've been streaming them on Twitch since September 2016.  I stream D&D 5e games for the most part and create homebrew content, as well as talk about the latest content releases."

Riverhouse Games is creating RPG Podcasts, Articles, & Games.  "Our main show is Game Closet which focuses on queer & LGBT+ tabletop gaming.  I also run The Leviathan Files, a D20 Mass Effect Actual Play.  In addition to the podcasts, I write micro & nano games as well as work on some larger game projects."

Rudy Basso and James Introcaso are creating Audiodrama Podcasts.  "Have Spellbook, Will Travel is a fully produced Fantasy-Comedy audiodrama about a group of mercenary adventurers trying to make their way in the world.  The stories, characters, and even some of the dialogue are all lifted directly from the Dungeons & Dragons games of the creators and writers, Rudy Basso and James Introcaso."

Tabletop Champions Podcast is creating RPG PODCASTS.  "We are, as you likely already know, a real-play D&D 5e podcast set in the magical land of Irulan.  We have been playing as a group since November of 2014 and we were having so much fun in our game that we decided to share it with the world.  We do this because its a ton of fun and we adore making this podcast."

Taking20 is creating Tabletop Roleplaying Game Videos on YouTube.  "Wow.  I have been very fortunate.  I always wanted to make videos and talk about Tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder; but I never dreamed of how supportive you guys would be.  When you hear me say that I love roleplaying games in my videos, I really mean it."

The Wandering Alchemist is creating an RPG blog and actual play podcast.  "When it comes right down to it, we are just a bunch of geeks doing what we love and sharing it with you.  We play card games, video games, board games, and (most importantly) tabletop role playing games.  Some of us have been doing it for a couple decades and we want to reach out and be a part of the greater community that continues to grow every day.  The main contributors to this effort are John Crowley (The Wandering Alchemist) and Erin Rowan (The Untamed Scribe) and each month we seek to refine our work so that we can make it better and bring more to you."

Total Party Thrill is creating RPG Podcasts.  "Hey there!  We are I-Hsien and Shane, the hosts of Total Party Thrill, a podcast for gamemasters and players where we discuss our campaigns in order to inspire yours."

Web DM is creating Youtube Videos, Podcasts.  "A commoner has to make adventuring their job to become a hero - and that's what it’s time for us to do with Web DM.  We strive to make the highest-quality show possible, in content, production values, and consistent release schedule.  We all have day jobs, and our goal is to give WebDM, and our incredible fans, the time they deserve."

[souce: ENWorld’s RPG News newsletter]

[techdex]

Luke Combs planning weekly online shows

https://echoingwalls.com/blog/luke-combs-planning-weekly-online-shows/

Luke Combs planning weekly online shows

oldplay’s Chris Martin, singer John Legend, and pop star Charli XCX are among the other stars to perform online gigs. …