#rotterdam or anywhere

[kraftwerk113]

Life´s too short for weird music - Tagesempfehlung 23.02.2023

The Beautiful South / Rotherdam (or anywhere)

Ein must be – einmal durch Rotterdam mit dem Auto fahren und sich von The Beautiful South mit Rotterdam (or anywhere) beschallen zu lassen. Und plötzlich ist alles gut, bekommt einen Sinn. Wenn Sie dann noch die Gelegenheit nutzen während Iher Fahrt akustisch durch die unglaublich vielen guten Popsongs von The Beautiful South zu düsen, werden Sie feststellen, welch beeindruckende Relevanz – ja fast Dominanz die Nachfolge-Band der fantastischen The Housemartins auf die britische Popmusik in den Nienties hatte.

[itwoodbeprefect]

twice in two days now i was somewhat absently listening to a song i didn't personally pick and the lyrics suddenly said amsterdam and i went ?! like a startled pokémon

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: September 23, 1996

Lyrics:

And the women tug their hair

Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out

And all the men are gargoyles

Dipped long in Irish stout

The whole place is pickled

The people are pickles for sure

And no one knows if they've done more here

Than they ever would do in a jar

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Liverpool or Rome

'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone

And everyone is blonde

And everyone is beautiful

And when blondes and beautiful are multiple

They become so dull and dutiful

And when faced with dull and dutiful

They fire red warning flares

Battle khaki personality

With red underwear

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Liverpool or Rome

'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone

The whole place is pickled

The people are pickles for sure

And no one knows if they've done more here

Than they ever would do in a jar

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Liverpool or Rome

'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere

Anywhere alone

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Liverpool or Rome

'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone

Anywhere alone, alone, alone

Songwriter:

Ooh this could be Rotterdam or anywhere

Liverpool or Rome

'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere alone

Alone, alone

Paul Heaton / Dave Rotheray

SongFacts:

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[haveyouheardthisband]

[tveitertotwrites]

an opinion to be rated, alts in places other than the UK should be allowed to wear alt costumes too.

STRONGLY AGREE!

Look, I get that at least in the US that alts wearing different costumes than the principals is prohibited (as it is against union rules, along with filming the megasix) but there are so many queens in the US that I wish got a SwAlt Costume (Specifically Cassie Silva in Silver, Aryn Bohannon in Teal, Marilyn Caserta in Black, etc.).

If they were to bring them back it would probably be most likely only for the tours (as they did have them in the pre broadway tour but it is still unlikely as at that time you could also film the megasix but you're not supposed to now).

Since Six made its move to Broadway, the alt costumes have only been shown twice (Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert wore her pre-broadway tour teal costume as Parr on Broadway once and Hana Stewart who stepped in as Alt Aragon/Seymour/Parr for a little bit wore her orange alt costume for Parr once as well, making it the first time the US has seen the Orange costume as in the Pre Broadway tour there were only two alts who had alt costumes, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert with Teal and Mallory Maedke in Black). Meaning that both Silver and Pink haven't been anywhere past the UK and Ireland (except for the few international stops made by the UK and Ireland tour: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Munich, Zurich, and Trieste) and Australia (who has swings instead of alts and has them wear those costumes for all 6 with variations).

Like you're going to tell me you wouldn't want to see these beautiful costumes (and the other variations of these costumes). Like I get that it could be confusing for newer fans/casual watchers of the show but Six didn't give us these costumes to be discontinued/unused.

And there isn't even much use of them in the Uk as Alts didn't get them until recently (and they're costumes from other queens as Six does that both with former alt and principal costumes, especially for their alts and swings).

I also get that there is limited fabric for the costumes (both principal and alt, and with it looking like Starlight Express also using the same material) but still.

[sugdenlovesdingle]

I missed the last train home, and then everybody and their grandmother wanted to get on the night train and it was full before I got anywhere near the doors...

So now it's almost 2am,the next night train leaves in 10 minutes, I'm already on it... But it won't get to Rotterdam until about 4.30am... And then I have to wait for the first train to my city - at about 5.15am

And then the train home from the Central Station

And then when I'm home I'm going to crash and not do anything the rest of the day

[ceevee5]

Has anyone been to Rotterdam? Or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome … but mainly Rotterdam. I’m off there for four nights in January. I’ve already taken a look at the Schaatsbaan (outdoor ice skating) and the Het Nieuwe Instituut, their museum for “Architecture, Design and Digital Culture.”

[good-old-lover-girl]

🎵🍪

Last song you listened to? - Rotterdam (or Anywhere) by The Beautiful South

If you were a cookie, what kind would you be? - I would be a cinnamon and ginger chocolate chip cookie (with paprika of course)

Thanks for the ask my weird little lovely <3

[pleasuresoftheharbor]

song of tha day 😁

[hacash]

back in the dawns of time when dinosaurs still ruled the earth @arboreals tagged me to put my repeat on shuffle and the first 10 songs are:

what if you - joshua radin

if i never see your face again - maroon 5 & rihanna

albera - eric clapton

nothing ever hurt like you - james morrison

music is the victim - scissor sisters

woman's world - cher

rotterdam (or anywhere) - the beautiful south

it can't come quickly enough - scissor sisters

the power of love - huey lewis and the news

all cried out - alison moyet

@lonnson, @boasamishipper and @hippity-hoppity-brigade your turn!

[consanguinitatum]

Did He or Didn't He? - David Tennant and 'One-Eyed Jacques'

Today my David Tennant exploration thread goes a new direction - instead of his theatre or audio work, today I've chosen to feature one of his oddest performances on film. It's an odd duck, because you can barely see him in it (and only if you REALLY LOOK) because he isn't credited!

This eccentric short film is called "One Eyed Jacques." It's mentioned a number of places on the Net and has been attributed to David, but his name's never mentioned in the credits.

So did he do it? I think so, yes. We'll get to that. But let's first take a look at the film in a lot more detail.

"One-Eyed Jacques" was written by Jonathan Romney, and directed by Romney and Richard Clark, the director of the Doctor Who episodes 'The Lazarus Experiment' and 'Gridlock.' It was produced by Lisa-Marie Russo of Jump Monk Films. Made in 2001, it was one of seven short films which aired on 26 Sep 2002, as a part of Channel 4’s six-part series called “Shooting Gallery.” Hosted by Mark Kermode, the show focused on works of talented new UK filmmakers. 'One-Eyed Jacques' was featured in the episode “World Stories” alongside six other short films: 'Bullet in the Brain', 'Copyshop', 'Bus 44', 'Pourquoi...Pass Keu?', 'Palindrome', & 'Shifting Units'. 'One-Eyed Jacques' was also screened at two film festivals in 2001: the Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden on 24 Oct 2001, and at the Brief Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol on 14 Nov 2001. It was also screened in 2002 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). As far as I know, it has never been screened or shown anywhere else. The short is about Veronique and Jacques, a couple seated in a fancy restaurant enjoying dinner. When Jacques gets food splashed in his eye, we see his eye is made of glass. When he removes it to clean it, it rolls onto the floor! As it rolls around, we see the world from its perspective. That's...odd, right? It really is. The short used to be on You Tube, but it's been gone for years. I grabbed it when it was still available, so I'm happy to say I've got a copy! Here are some screenshots to prep us for our chat about whether we think DT was ever in this at all:

So: the argument against?

He's NOT CREDITED.

Here are all of the film's credits. The short is subtitled and has a runtime of 3:04. As you see, the listed cast is Nathalie Paris as Veronique, Alain Bourgouin as Jacques, and James Olivier as the Voice.

No David listed.

The argument for?

He IS credited, just not in the film!

In an industry publication by Thomas Riggs called Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television, 'One-Eyed Jacques' IS listed among David's credits. It's noted (red arrow) in the Jan 2007 edition in Vol 75, p. 319.

Now in case you're wondering why there would be confusion about whether he was or was not in the film because you could surely just see his face and there you have it. Well, that's the whole problem. You never SEE his face! So we need to put on our detective hats. You call yourself a DT fan? Let's test that, shall we?

At the very beginning of the short, Veronique is served by a waiter in black pants and a black shirt who's wearing what appears to be a white waiter's apron. Only the waiter’s hands and fingers are visible to Veronique’s right as she hands the waiter her menu. Here are a few screen shots from that moment.

Study the waiter's hand and thumb carefully. At the risk of sounding nutty, we DT fans are familiar with his hands and fingers and the ways they're distinctly shaped from other works he's been in. What I mean is, his thumb...bends...a certain way. Right? And so does this particular thumb! So it's MY belief this is his hand, and he is indeed the uncredited waiter. But what say you?

Really, I think the ONLY WAY we'll ever know for sure is if we go to the source. And that source, my friends, is Richard Clark himself. He could tell us if David Tennant is the uncredited waiter in the short film 'One-Eyed Jacques'. I've tagged him in the Twitter thread this post originally came from, just in case he felt like answering. I'd love it if he would!

[beardedmrbean]

ROTTERDAM — Migrants bused from New York City arrived at a Super 8 motel where residents of the Carman Road business were kicked out Tuesday.

The sudden displacement of the motel guests, some of them indigent, caused a stir Wednesday among local officials outraged that people confronting poverty were seemingly left without living quarters to make way for the new arrivals.

The motel is the latest Capital Region business to offer housing to migrants bused from New York. The town of Colonie went to court after the first group arrived in May at a motel in town. New York City buses then brought migrants to two hotels in Albany. It is estimated that more than 400 migrants have been brought to Albany County, but Tuesday’s development appears to be the first time there were plans to house them in a Schenectady County community. Officials said New York City signed a contract with the Super 8 to allow migrants to live at the motel.

Rotterdam Town Supervisor Mollie Collins said a Schenectady County official told her the migrants arrived from Texas to New York City before going to Rotterdam. She said there were still questions about whether the motel stay was temporary, how long the migrants had been in the U.S. and their immigration status.

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“There are so many questions we have,” Collins said. “Because we haven’t been given any information.

“You have to remember this is a humanitarian effort,” she said later. “It’s human beings and you can’t lose sight of that.”

But officials with New York City Mayor Eric Adams' office late Wednesday afternoon said the guests at the Super 8 Motel who were being displaced had all been offered free “extended stay” lodging at a comparable hotel nearby. They did not immediately clarify the details of that offer or how long an “extended stay” would last.

Motel management has for two days declined to speak with reporters.

On Wednesday, security guards roped off the parking lot to the motel. A couple people drove by offering food or clothing. Others shouted in anger from passing vehicles. That morning, town codes department workers conducted a scheduled fire inspection at the building.

Later in the day, groups of people left the motel to shop at the nearby gas stations. One group said they were from Peru, Venezuela and Colombia. Speaking in Spanish that was later translated, one man said they were there to build a future for their children.

Schenectady County had not expected to receive migrants from New York City. County Manager Rory Fluman said most of the hotels in the county are at capacity, including facilities the county uses in Schenectady to house people in need.

“We’re being told they are all asylum-seekers,” Fluman said Wednesday. For part of the year, the Super 8 houses people who received assistance from the county’s Department of Social Services. Fluman said none of them were living at the motel when the guests were asked to leave Tuesday.

In the spring, New York City began busing migrants to upstate communities after the city’s social service system was overwhelmed by the mass arrival from Southern states.

New York City has promised to pay for migrant housing for anywhere from a month to a year. Fluman said he expected the migrants would eventually seek help from the county’s social services system.

Caught by surprise

The state assemblyman who represents the area decried the secrecy surrounding the situation and displacement of the longtime residents of the motel. The actual number of those forced out was not known.

In a statement released late Tuesday, Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara accused Adams of “thoughtlessly sending buses with migrants to (the) Super 8 Motel in Rotterdam, completely disregarding the fact that many of the individuals already residing there were struggling with poverty themselves and are now displaced. I am absolutely outraged by what has transpired.”

Local officials were caught by surprise by the upheaval at the motel. Schenectady County government officials were silent for hours after guests were told to leave the motel, but released a statement late Tuesday confirming, “a local motel contracted with the city of New York to host a group of asylum-seekers.”

U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko echoed Santabarbara’s sentiment, criticizing Adams' administration for not communicating ahead of the arrival of migrants. “It’s never acceptable to kick families and long-term residents to the curb with mere hours’ notice,” the Amsterdam Democrat said.

Town officials seemed equally surprised no one involved in New York City’s efforts to find housing for migrants informed them of the pending arrivals.

Santabarbara said he and others learned of the arrivals “through the rumor mill. This level of disrespect and blatant lack of concern for our community by forcing this situation on us without notice and zero communication is unforgivable. The federal government must take action to put an end to this chaos.”

A spokesman for the mayor’s office said New York has opened 185 sites to serve the 90,000 migrants and ran out of space, saying in a prepared statement that New York isn’t asking Schenectady County and other governments to manage the migrants or cover the cost of their housing. The statement did not address concerns about the Adams administration’s alleged failure to communicate with local officials nor that the motel kicked out residents to make way for the migrants.

Late Wednesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for Adams' office said the private contractor they are using to relocate migrants had offered guests at the Super 8 Motel alternative lodging arrangements at no cost.

“Guests at that hotel were all offered to be relocated and booked for an extended stay at a comparable hotel in the same area free of charge,” Adams' office said in a statement. “All but one reservation took our contractor up on that offer and instead preferred to be re-booked at the comparable hotel on a daily basis, which we facilitated.”

Offering help 

Mike Saccocio of the City Mission of Schenectady said he was prepared to help with any effort to find emergency housing for the people who have been displaced.

Saccocio said all of the organization’s housing was occupied but they were ready to “put down mats” like they do on frigid nights when people need emergency shelter. 

“We’re prepared to do our part,” he said Wednesday morning.

Guests were told they had to leave Tuesday morning. A sign posted in the lobby said the motel was closing and that longtime guests had 60 days to pick up their cash deposits. Alicia Cartland had lived at the motel with her 17-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son since October due to its affordable rates and proximity to her job at the local Taco Bell. Cartland said she and her children had just hours to pack up their belongings and find a new place to live.  

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

The Beautiful South - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)

[floaty-cat]

★my age regression playlist★

🎶Falling for U - Peachy!, mxmtoon

🌙i do adore - Mindy Gledhill

🎶Alice - Smith & Thell

🌙Ready now - dodie

🎶Homesick - Cavetown

🌙Everything Stays - Olivia Olson

🎶Lollipop - Mika

🌙Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

🎶Kindergarten - Chloe Moriondo

🌙You’ll Play Your Part - My Little Pony

🎶Home - Toby Fox

🌙Meteor Shower - Cavetown

🎶Comet - Steven Universe

🌙Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) The Beautiful South

🎶The Milk Carton - Madilyn Mei

🌙Beautiful Boy - John Lennon

[theladyigraine]

Ten songs + ten people

Rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up, then tag other people.

Tag by @allisonaergents :)

Animal - Neon Trees

Sail - AWOLNATION

Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze

Glass House - KALEO

Carry On - Janne Schra

Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) - The Beautiful South

Whatever We Feel - Sammy Rae & The Friends

Underground - City & Colour

Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me - George Michael + Elton John

Fishing For a Dream - Turin Brakes

I tag: @dirchristophernolan, @voidfavors, @ohjesombre, @variansfry, @collect-ivision, @towardstheair, @combefaerie, @barrowsteeth, @olympain, @weaponizedwit (if you want to join in!)

[dustedmagazine]

Soft Machine — The Dutch Lesson (Cuneiform)

The Dutch Lesson by Soft Machine

Cuneiform has done it again! A more multifaceted and satisfying series of Soft Machine archival recordings is not to be found anywhere, and just when it might seem to be over, Steve Feigenbaum adds another entry into an already large catalog. The Cuneiform releases include concerts, studio and demo recordings, and while there are too many to mention, the 1967 Middle Earth Masters provides one unparalleled glimpse into early Softs as they blaze through a club set caught in surprisingly good sound. The same is true with this 1973 Rotterdam concert, and even before diving into the music, a word of praise is in order for the restoration wizardry of Ian Beabout. His recent work on Baker’s Dozen, the Muffins’ box set also on Cuneiform, set the bar very high, and The Dutch Lesson does not disappoint. The front-row taping is both vivid and extremely powerful, not to mention dynamically varied, and Beabout squeezed every last sonic detail out of it.

Those details are especially important at points of transition, as when the opening “Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album” leads first to “Between” and then into “The Soft Weed Factor.” The quartet lineup, so similar to that on the sixth album, consists of drummer John Marshall, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, winds and keys man Karl Jenkins and bassist Roy Babbington replacing Hugh Hopper. To hear the contrast between the ever-in-sync Marshall and Babbington-driven opener and the intricate and delicate “Between” is to behold a thing of rare and gentle beauty. Ratledge’s organ sound becomes more and more rounded, its distortion slowly fading into polyrhythms of delayed keyboard repetitions and luminescent percussion. Just when it seems that the sound is going to disappear altogether, so near to silence has it strayed, “Factor’s bluesy trudge emerges with perfect timing. It builds, with crushing inexorability, until Marshall and Babbington slam the groove home at 2:15. They kick into similar overdrive on a particularly maniacal rendering of “37 ½” that gives Jenkins a chance to stretch way out on what sounds like oboe. His serpentine solo eventually enters multi-phonic mode, and a more illustrative example of his improvisational chops would be difficult to imagine.

Aymeric Leroy’s notes set the stage and fill in the background, as they always do. He posits, insightfully, that the seventh album’s largely overdubbed textures probably account for the fact that only one track from it, “Down the Road,” appears in this October 1973 concert. What we do hear, an even more tantalizing proposition, is an early version of the now-iconic “Hazard Profile,” emerging headlong, with volcanic import, from “Chloe and the Pirates.” Dig the keyboard arpeggiations as Marshall’s opening roll clears a space for the track’s initial burst of groove-laden activity an astonishing 1:43 in! Yes, the drums are loud throughout, and that’s what Marshall sounds like in performance. He’s one of the most underappreciated drummers still on the scene, every power-packed roll and thud tempered by ornaments of exquisite precision and delivered with unerring timing. Again, the glacial dynamic descent leading into the following improvisation is made all the more poignant by the preceding quarter-hour of mind-stomping riff and distorto-slam.

If all you’ve heard are the album versions of these tracks, this concert will offer up a new perspective, one that hits with immediate viscerality. If the quintet lineup with Alan Holdsworth, added very soon after this concert, raised the stakes, the keys and winds so prominent in this relatively short-lived band certainly makes The Dutch Lesson well worth investigating, but there’s so much more to enjoy! We experience a band in transition as exciting as any connecting their propulsive live sets, but when has Soft Machine been anything other?

Marc Medwin