#[ birthday posts 🎂 ]

[wizards101official]

Would try to insert a Laika reference into this caption but I would bust down in tears, per usual

[hwanwooyoung]

he's just a shy lil fox 🦊

happiest birthday @soobinies 💖

[brian-in-finance]

A Tale of Two Tonys

and Brian knows the difference 😉

Part One of Four

It was suggested elsewhere in July* Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. Brian’s own posts say otherwise. 🙃 (*Waited for today’s Happy Birthday 🥳)

Tony the band manager ⬇️

Band manager Tony McGill with Caitríona Balfe, his wife, in London England, 29 November 2023 (Image: Dave Benett/Wirelmage)

Tony the music producer ⬇️

Music producer Tony Hoffer with Joanna Sims, his wife, in Lyon France, July 2024 (Image: Instagram)

Here are some examples that dispute Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. (Try to laugh with me. 😉)

Five posts, one theme

1.

Screenshot from Brian 27 March 2021

2.

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Screenshots from Brian 30 April 2021

3.

The actress and her Scottish music producer husband tied the knot in August 2019, at St. Mary's Church in Bruton, Somerset, in the U.K. Much like their pregnancy news, the couple was discreet with their intimate nuptials.

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Screenshots from Brian 18 August 2021

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Screenshots from Brian 6 March 2023

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Screenshots from Brian 8 March 2023

Remember… he’s not a music producer, by the way. I just have to do this... He really hates this because he manages bands. He's in artist management. One person wrote it and now everybody does. — Caitríona Balfe

Later edit: “Waited for today’s Happy Birthday” in the first paragraph should say “yesterday’s.” The birthday is 12 October. I got busy, posted late, and forgot to update. Oops… (This bit won’t show up on reblogs posted before 19 October 2024.)

[its-simply-just-krys]

𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫

𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝟏𝟕 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝟏𝟕 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞,

𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.

𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘶𝘹 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭

[whitelittlebunny]

My first art this year aaand...its him, the love of my life 😩💜

Don't steal/repost. Otherwise Clavis will come after you 🐆🙂.

[ajtheboywonder]

Level 29 Achieved! 🥳🎂🎉🎮✌️

[itagakimizuki]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE @itsallaboutzayn 🎁🥳

[nightcourtcaps]

Night Court - The Apartment (S3:E15)

[heynhay]

⚡️🎸band battle!🎤⚡️

[holorform]

Happy Birthday to my Dear friend💛

*Lifts you up*

(⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

"I may be short, but that doesn't mean I can not lift my dear friend up!"

Happy birthday @l4rge-spe4ker!

💛🎉🍰🎉💛

[chlorinecake]

hi!! i wanted to ask you your opinion about writing NSFW of riki. ive been seeing so many posts that disagree with it, and i also received both anon and open hate for saying that i am not against it. I'm the same age as jungwon btw, a little younger.

hi !! so, I’ll try and be nice abt this with you bc you’ve really given me no reason to be rude. I just find it creepy / disrespectful how some ppl are viewing Riki’s birthday as a green light for them to write NSFW content abt him instead of celebrating his transition into adulthood normally, y’know? I get that ppl will have differences in opinion concerning this, but you being “a little younger” than jungwon doesn’t make it less odd to me?? like, I’m more than a year younger than jungwon, and the idea of sexualizing someone born in my birth year (2005) gives me the ick, esp bc most of us are only 17/18 rn. Anyways, I appreciate you asking me abt this in a mature way. Still, ik that ppl are gonna write whatever their heart desires abt Riki, and in a way, it’s “okay” because he is technically legal now. And sure, every human has a sexual side, even 17/18 year olds like myself, but I’d rather ppl just wait until he turns 19 at least before they start, uh…. putting him down on some gangster shit :D But ofc, I’m not gonna stress myself out over this bc it’s too easy to block the content I’d prefer not to see on here 🥰 Ty, Tumblr ~~

And yes, there is a difference between 18 and 19, just like there’s a difference between 20 and 21 when it comes to drinking :D

[everysai]

【 Naruto x Sanrio collaboration illustrations 】

[brian-in-finance]

A Tale of Two Tonys

and Brian knows the difference 😉

Part Four of Four

It was suggested elsewhere in July* Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. It’s also suggested one Tony entered the spotlight only when a(n imagined) narrative required a participant. (*Waited for today’s Happy Birthday 🥳)

Longer still before TV-Outlander…

The Fratellis — Jon, Mince, and Baz — and manager Tony McGill at SXSW 2007 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Music agency wound down after discord over funding

A MUSIC organisation which helped Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol find fame has been wound down amid uncertainty over its financial future.

One official from NewMusic in Scotland (Nemis) has criticised the government and the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) for failing to give contemporary music the level of support of other art forms.

However, the SAC said Nemis had failed to provide audited accounts and a business plan, and pointed out that a number of its board members had resigned recently. It has already had GBP 100,000 of public money.

Nemis, which has an office in Jamaica Street, Glasgow, offers advice to musicians and bands on a one-to-one basis and through organised seminars, as well as helping with marketing and promotion. It also has had a pivotal role in the annual Musicworks convention in Glasgow.

Two years ago, it produced a promotional CD of Scottishbased bands which went to some of Europe's most influential industry executives at the MTVEurope Music Awards in Edinburgh, including offerings from the-then little known bands Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol.

But now the four-year-old development agency has said it has run out of money and it will effectively have to halt operations. Only its website, offering contacts and diary dates, will remain.

The agency has had arts council grants worth GBP 70,000, and GBP 30,000 in start-up help from Scottish Enterprise.

Alec Downie, new music development officer forNemis, said the body could not continue its work and was scathing of "elitism" in arts funding.

"In my view, the arts council is nepotistic and bureaucratic and, most of all, is out of touch with what is happening now. I would argue that the likes of The Delgados, Chemikal Underground, and Belle and Sebastian are culturally significant, but they (the arts council)would not.

"That shows the mentality of the people that control the arts here."

Scott Twynholm, of the Glasgow electro-pop band Hoboken said help from Nemis had proved vital. The band released an album last year and will release a single next month.

"Through Nemis, we appeared on two CDs which were distributed at the majormusic conferences throughout the world, " Mr Twynholm said.

"There is no way we would be in the position of recording our second album, or our new single, were it not for the help and advice Nemis has provided."

Tony McGill, manager of The Fratellis, who recently signed to Island records, said: "I have got the MD of Island to send a strongly worded e-mail to the SAC because the work Nemis does is crucial.

"When you are starting out as a band, you don't knowwhat to do, you don't have the contacts or the knowhow, and Nemis supplies all that. I am shocked this is happening."

An SAC spokeswoman said there was no doubt of "absolute commitment" by Nemis to its work, but the council was "a steward of public funds and needs to be confident that public funding is being spent to best effect in an organisation that can clearly articulate where it is going".

She said it was not accurate to say that Nemis's funds had been cut, as it was not given revenue grants, but one-off assistance. Neither, she said, had it officially applied for new funds of any kind, nor did it raise any of its own income.

The SAC statement added:

"Essentially . . . it is an issue of confidence: information requested has not been supplied - fundamental information such as audited accounts and a clear business plan.

"We are primarily concerned with the governance and structure of Nemis. It is unclear whether Nemis is a membership organisation solely or is a limited company purporting to represent the contemporary music sector in Scotland."

SUCCESS STORIES

NEMIS promotional CD given out at MTV Europe Awards in November 2003 included:

The Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand

Spitting Games - Snow Patrol

I Love You Cause I Have To - Dogs Die in Hot Cars

Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash

With Aplomb -Biffy Clyro

Maybe It's Time -The Grim Northern Social

Black Path - Aereogramme

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

The Herald 26 October 2005

Music Week 2 September 2006

World Radio History 26 April 2008

World Radio History 7 June 2008

Remember… when you are starting out as a band, you don't know what to do, you don't have the contacts or the knowhow, and Nemis supplies all that. I am shocked this is happening. — Tony McGill

MD - music director

Later edit: “Waited for today’s Happy Birthday” in the first paragraph should say “yesterday’s.” The birthday is 12 October. I got busy, posted late, and forgot to update. Oops… (This bit won’t show up on reblogs posted before 19 October 2024.)

[vexinghearts]

AHHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY POOKIE BEAR, KENNY (@astrofairy06) !!

[raspberry-beret]

Special Edition - Happy Birthday Raspberry!

[mashbrainrot]

I made it very clear right then that I was not interested in replacing Wayne as Trapper. ... The M*A*S*H people said right off that it would be a new role, B.J. Hunnicutt ...

... When we started, we had very little. It was agreed that we would all flesh him out by committee. But he was straight, to contrast him to Hawkeye. When I say straight, that really brought out some problems. The writers thought straight meant straight - he had no nuttiness to him, he could get boring very quickly. We had a lot of discussions, not battles, to make him less predictable. ... I had to stand my ground for B.J. or there just might not have been a B.J.

- Mike Farrell, on the creation of B.J. Hunnicutt, from 'The Complete Book of Mash' (Suzy Kalter)