#strap originals

[dreamings-free]

I don't understand the lthq announcement, could you explain it?

well as I wrote in tags it doesn’t really say what 'partnered' means but I think it makes most sense to read it as louis has put some money into the project : album release

Strap Originals is Pete Doherty’s (of the Libertines and his own solo projects of course) record label but it’s a tiny indie label and so probably doesn’t have the means financially to do a big album launch.

It’s really cool because louis has talked before about wanting to help small indie artist release music (remember the girlband?) and now he get to do that together with some true uk indie heavyweights like.. pete is indie royalty! Louis’ big brain man.. he’s gonna do big things this is only the beginning

[louisupdates]

Louis has followed the music label Strap Originals on Instagram.

Strap Originals is a standalone Independent label owned by Peter Doherty and his manager Jai Stanley. It is independently financed and is committed to signing new original artists.

- Musicweek, 22 Nov 2022

[sunshineandlyrics]

Andrew's management company Songbird Music Management tweeted this, 4 August 2023 x

[dustedmagazine]

Real Farmer — Compare What’s There (Strap Originals)

Real Farmer, from Groningen in the Netherlands, plays scrappy, stripped down, anthemic punk, blitz-speed strumming clamoring over eruptive blots of bass. The band shares a member with Lewsberg (that’s bass player Marrit Meinema) but none of that outfit’s tamped down, VU-ish surreality. These are straight up bangers, ripped and bashed and shouted. They’re tuneful in the way that Cock Sparrer anthems can be, the songs glittering under a pile of clash and racket.

“Perry Boys,” for instance, puts a stirring hook under battering ram sonics—furiously slashed guitars blurring into one sound, drums bunching into rapid fire fills that sound like a line of bottle rockets going off one by one. Jeroen Klootsema delivers hoarse, impassioned spates of words, the sand in his sung-spoke voice akin to Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten or Royal Headache’s Shogun Wall. Meinema makes an impact as well, through blurts of clarifying bass and surprisingly breezy intervals of melody. That’s her crooning “ah-ah-ah” at the beginning of “Inner City,” like Alicia Jeanine, though in this case, there’s a freight train coming. You might flash onto the great Prolapse in this and other Meinema-forward cuts, the cool solace of female vocals over a sucking black hole of madness.

And then there’s “I Can’t Run,” a blunt force swagger that’s full of drama and doomed heroism. Klootsema growls and barks and entices, his rough voice carving out large gestures and doomed romantic theatrics. The bass bounces along right at the bottom of the clef, part dance, part bludgeoning, and the guitars rain down hard but not as fast, in a cut that beats like a dying heart. See if you don’t think about Iggy Pop and “Lust for Life” when the video plays.

There’s more variation in this disc’s 13 songs than you might expect, with some tracks led by Klootsema and others by Meinema, some brash and unyielding, others embellished with flourishes of melody. What there isn’t is a single bad song. Punk’s still thriving in all kinds of places. Add Groningen to the list.

Jennifer Kelly

[ryuko]

トロテム

[fruit00]

☀️🫶🏾😁

[camplease]

almost didn’t add pyrrha and offered to make a follow up poll to pit the winner against her because i already knew it was gonna be a pyrrha sweep. but you know what maybe i’m wrong let’s see

also some of these feel like obviously wrong answers to me but my curiosity usually wins out over reason

[digoload]

Part 2 of drawing bedrock bros as kakashi-naruto screenshots!

(part 1, part 3, part 4, part 5)

[namarikonda]

⚔️ Hekate Valerius, bloodhunter of the Profane Soul

My human vampire hunter (she/they) in a modern DnD campaign!

[fishfingersandscarves]

big drow small wizard (norena and gale!)

[unpretty]

i was looking at this album cover like "why does this look like some lofi beats shit when it's clearly not" before remembering that i. replaced the album cover in the id3 tags for hana vu's 'public storage' because i didn't like seeing the actual cover show up in my now playing.

[dreamings-free]

Pete Doherty instagram stories 4/8/23

[louisupdates]

DORK

LOUIS TOMLINSON AND PETER DOHERTY’S LABEL STRAP ORIGINALS HAVE JOINED FORCES TO RELEASE NEW MUSIC FROM UP-AND-COMING ARTIST ANDREW CUSHIN

Andrew's debut album 'Waiting For The Rain' will arrive via the collaboration on 29th September.

BY STEPHEN ACKROYD | FRI 4TH AUGUST, 2023

Louis Tomlinson and Peter Doherty‘s label Strap Originals have joined forces to release new music from up-and-coming artist Andrew Cushin.

Andrew’s debut album ‘Waiting For The Rain’ will arrive via the collaboration on 29th September.

Louis and Andrew first met last year, after Louis caught an appearance from Andrew on Soccer AM. Offering him a support slot in London, this then led to supports in the US and Europe in 2023.

“As somebody who has been interested in up-and-coming acts, working with Andrew was a no brainer,” Louis explains. “With his incredible voice partnered with his honesty in lyric, I’m really excited to work alongside Peter and the Strap Originals team to help Andrew reach as many people as possible.”

We should probably just give Louis his own new music column at this point, shouldn’t we? Louis, drop us a line if you’re interested, yeah, lad?

“It’s amazing to have someone as established as Louis fighting in my corner,” Andrew adds. “It’s been a pleasure getting to know him on and off the stage and I’m learning a great deal from him and his team. I’m looking forward to what I know will be an enjoyable and hugely beneficial collaboration together.”

Signed to Doherty’s Strap Originals label, Peter comments: “Here at Strap Originals, we always put the artist first, and it’s amazing that Louis Tomilinson and 78 productions are offering their support to the uber-talented Andrew Cushin”

[canary3d-obsessed]

Bo Ya Costume Appreciation 1 of ? (The Ying Yang Master: Dream of Eternity)

(masterpost)

[whatwouldsylwrite]

I feel like you guys need to know this

That's a blurb about Ellie teasing you and being cringy after she sees your hickeys, because Ellie is a little shit.

Your hickeys still didn't faint when you had to go to your practice: you survived classes with turtlenecks and dresses with high collar, but you couldn't wear it to your practice. So you have to make peace with the idea that entire dance studio would know you had sex. When your girlfriend would sit on the couch as usual and hear all of it.

You knew girls would tease you, but what you actually feared was Ellie Williams teasing you, because this little shit would be the worst about it, especially since she knew Abby too. And if Abby's teammates were scared of her, Ellie wasn't scared of anything.

So you sighed and entered the studio, bracing yourself. You just hoped they'd stop their teasing before Abby's practice would finish.

"What the fuck, (y/n)?" Gabi, one of your backups, looked surprised and terrified.

"Um." You turned red at the thought of explaining your bruises.

"Your girlfriend is a beast." Alba agreed.

You shrugged and tried to avoid any further discussion of your sex life. Girls still giggled at you and made jokes, but they were harmless and left you alone pretty quickly.

And then Ellie came.

You swallowed, getting ready for her shit. Ellie spotted you and you saw how her eyes flicked from your face to your neck and back. She smirked and walked to you, her smirk getting bigger and bigger.

"Fucking hell, Anderson tried to eat you, didn't she?" Ellie turned your head with her hand, evalueting your hickeys. "Oh my god. She is good." Ellie nodded approvingly. "How many times?"

"How many times what?" You asked, getting suspicious.

"How many times did you cum?"

"Ohmygod fuck off." You shrieked, red as a beetroot.

"Come on, I'm curious. I mean, I'll feel sorry for you if you only came once." Ellie shrugged.

Oh you knew she was baiting you, but the Abby slander was not something you could accept.

"Five." You admitted and Ellie whistled. "Can't fucking believe I told you that, ohmygod." You cringed, covering your face in embarrassment.

"What did she do?"

"Why are you so curious?" You asked, suspicious again.

"Because she finally fucked you, duh. Not everyday the shyest girl I know gets railed so good. What color is her strap?"

You playfully shoved Ellie away and she laughed.

"Is it black? She looks like she is a black strap kind of girl." Ellie said thoughtfully. You kept your mouth shut, not giving Ellie any information. "Blue? Pink?"

"Leave her alone." Dina laughed and hugged you from behind, putting her head on your shoulder. "Unless you want one angry hockey player to gut you with her skate."

You perked up and looked at the door. Abby was there, and she was frowning, but when she caught your eyes you smiled at her and she smiled back.

The practice went surprisingly calm, no one tried to tease you - you had a feeling Abby just really scared people, not only her teammates. Then it was time for you to do some of the hockey guys list, because everyone wanted a show, and you looked over the list and groaned. Of course it was Need to Know, of-fucking-course.

Ellie grinned again like a little shit she was and you got ready to dance. Everything was just fine: you didn't do any mistakes, you didn't feel anxious under everyone's eyes and actually you were just so comfortable and so in the zone, you natural flirting coming through your moves.

♪Oh, wait, you a fan of the magic?

Poof, pussy like an Alakazam

I heard from a friend of a friend

That that

"STRAP!" was a ten out of ten♪

Ellie. Fucking. Shouted it. over music.

She shouted it so loud everyone heard her. Including Abby and her teammates.

All your moves twitched, loosing the rhyme as you tried to contain your embarrassed snort, practically falling on the floor in graceful waves, not continuing the whole "slap me spank me choke me bite me" bit. You just laughed, absolutely red in the face, while Dina smacked Ellie on the head.

You sat on the floor and flipped Ellie off before looking at Abby. She looked pleased. Of course she did.

Ellie just shrugged in the mirror.

What a little shit.

[ryuko]

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