#Michael Pritchard

[halothanic]

“ARE YOU COMING OUTSIDE?”

mock film poster to celebrate everything everything's mountainhead release this past friday! i could not be happier with the album and have listened to it countless times already. i feel like the mad stone is reminiscent of the themes of 2001: a space odyssey, so..!

[lizardzap]

Sorry Satan!

[leavetheengineroom]

Sorry for giving y'all a mental breakdown but this is important research

[qwertyfingers]

Everything Everything @ Night & Day, Machester, March 2009 📷 Shirlaine Forrest

[comealivediana]

notable moments

jon-

- saying 'noo waay' after 'i don't wanna go back down inside of me'

- 'i've been drinking this since i was eight or nine' (holding up the guitar as if that is what he was drinking ??)

- his little hook finger on 'my finger did curl'

- stroking his chin w his mic during cough cough

- pinching his nose when he sang 'im happening now' (????)

- ending photoshop like 'eeeelseeellelelelelel' (wiggling his tongue)

- nicholas making little spins/circles with his camera (i assume to get v cool photos but it looked cute

- pete doing the MOST in notlk, and also how he had different buttons for the different distant pasts (which i would not have noticed without @hellkitepriest mentioning it in a post a few weeks back)

- mike's consistent drum stank face, honestly so real he was going so hard

- noticing how alex/jon/jeremy are always stood smallest -> biggest in stance wideness

- alex making nonstop weird little faces (which again i wouldnt have noticed without c talking about it)

- whatever the fuck the gay little guitar/bass moment is between jon and jez in cold reactor

- them all coming back on with little fruity drinkies for the encore

- jon wildly trying and failing to use his tongue to get a hold of his straw as they all walked off at the end

- the lovely person who i met in the queue getting a setlist (deserved)

- accidentally setting off my grandma's house alarm when i got back

[pissworm39]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN!!!

[skullunter]

TWO MEN

[pliablehead]

Everything Everything @ Underground Arts Philadelphia 5 Oct '23 via Asbury Park Vibes (more photos at link)

[hellkitepriest]

everything everything @ hmv manchester arndale on flickr

[sherlockianscholar]

part 1 (1985-1990): the saga of jeremy brett through the scuttlebutt archives

go here for part two!

since 1971, sherlockian and baker st irregular, peter blau has published a small "gossip" sheet for all sherlock holmes news under publication of the "scuttlebutt from the spermaceti press." after the advent of computers, peter started digitizing all his sheets from 1985 onward.

i went through blau's archives to look for any tidbits on jeremy brett. what i found tells jeremy's saga as granada's sherlock holmes. some of the entries are very straightforward. some of them require reading through the lines. some of them are just fun background bits of granada. but all of them paint jeremy's story through little snippets of news.

March 1985: granada premieres in america! vincent price quoted edgar w. smith, one of the foremost sherlockians in history :)

July 1985: the beginning of the closing chapter of his life

for some reason these are the only pictures i can find of joan and jeremy together, but they are absolutely adorable

August 1985 #1

August 1985 #2: jeremy's flightiness around the role trickles to the press. though he'll never say why.

"'and then i hang my pipes up,'" he said with a smile." his feelings regarding holmes were dangerous before joan's death and only got worse.

to quote producer june wyndham-davies, "when his depression was upon him, and he suffered from depression of the worst kind, he was a different person entirely. i've never known anyone whose personality could change so much. he would become aggressive and not want to continue. i had so many conversations with jeremy about not wanting to continue as sherlock holmes. he felt that sherlock holmes had turned him into a monster. jeremy brett was like that before he ever came to sherlock holmes, but it wasn't his fault and it certainly wasn't sherlock holmes fault."

December 1987: i didn't know he commissioned the play, the secret of sherlock holmes! and helped write it!!

February 1988: damn, that's audacious

May 1988: i can only imagine how much more would've been created and executed if jeremy hadn't gotten sick

okay but, the dog in the hound of the baskervilles is named khan. the movie is literally the wrath of khan.

June 1988: i can't pinpoint the timeline for when jeremy's mental illness became public knowledge and published by the media. however, from this short news clipping, it doesn't seem like they knew the real reason jeremy's hair was cut short. and almost certainly not that he chopped it off himself.

"jeremy just got into one of his manic states—you know, i hate sherlock holmes etc., and one day he cut his hair. in front of the mirror, he lopped bits off. i remember the first time I saw him after he had done it. we were both appearing in an 80th birthday tribute to sir laurence olivier at the national. he turned up at the theatre and i said, 'god, what have you done to your hair?' it was patently obvious it had not been cut by a barber—there were bits sticking up all over." -edward hardwicke

July 1988: the age of jeremy brett! forget the victorian era, this is the jeremerian? brettian? era

October 1988 #1

October 1988 #2: jeremy's insecurities shine through more. high praise for daniel day-lewis. "don't worry you haven't heard or seen the last of him!" congrats to jeremy for introducing lewis to america LOL. yay for play success! (also what does he mean by saying the private life of sherlock holmes is a "damaged film?" robert stephens was one of jeremy's life long best friends--stephens died exactly 2 months after jeremy. coincidentally, jeremy's ex-boyfriend, paul shenar, died exactly one month after jeremy.)

October 1988 #3: L O L

November 1988 #1: jeremy's opinion matters!

November 1988 #2: in my opinion, "bending the willow" is the most important part of jeremy's interpretation of holmes

August 1989: michael cox (the cornerstone of creating and shaping the first half of granada's run) begins to make his (very forced) exit. jeremy's physical health problems are becoming apparent, but they are brushed away by the actor, attributing his breathing issues and weight gain to heavy smoking. and once again, jeremy tries to cast off holmes, without revealing his true reasons.

according to granada's page on the arthur conan doyle encyclopedia, this is what was really happening:

"the performances were probably cathartic for him, but required excessive physical effort from a man with a worsening heart condition who, due to the enormous water retention caused by the lithium, found it difficult to breathe and move. he was forced to leave the theatre and go to hospital, where he stayed for a fortnight and had more than twelve litres of water removed from his body. by 1989 brett and hardwicke, who had supported him with boundless patience, were on their knees. brett took a short holiday but had to be rushed home and hospitalized: the treatments for his bipolar disorder and his heart condition had clashed."

i strongly recommend reading edward's later comments of his difficulties with jeremy during the show: link here

October 1989: two months later, jeremy has yet again changed his mind on continuing as sherlock holmes

November 1989: philip purser how d a r e you say that about my beloved watson. of course, it's from the daily mail, so his opinion doesn't matter.

December 1989: granada undergoes major changes. the conservative government was actively attacking the british media and coming after their budgets. after ousting all of the original leaders of granada's sherlock holmes, the new priorites were based off of ratings and profitability. "you must always remember that your business is to form the market as well as to supply it, [otherwise] your career will have succeeded only in restraining the arts, tarnishing the virtues, and throwing confusion into the manners of your contemporaries." -a granada staffer to the new leaders of the show

January 1990: jeremy finally feels stable in the role, but i think without that dance with "the dark side of the moon" he felt like he lost a key element in his portrayal of holmes. even though he had always been terrified of that instabiity.

end of part 1, so here's part two!

[halothanic]

two drawings of everything everything that i was lucky enough to give them when i saw them last week! first is my rendition of their artist pfp during the raw data feel era. it was fun trying to work out their strange sci-fi forms and their near-unrecognizable faces. and of course, hiding my favorite robot cyclops within. which they spotted!

second is just a little redraw of their 2016 tour mini-poster i had printed out and put on my wall for soooo long back then. can't find the actual image but here's the photo in question. more standing emojis. love those tour costumes sm

[jonathangroffappreciation]

Old photos from Michael Mayer’s Instagram (@michaelmayerdir).

[leavetheengineroom]

[qwertyfingers]

Everything Everything @ Dockville festival, Hamburg, Germany, August 2010 📷 Anne-Hélène Lebrun/Frall Photo

[honeyvenommusic]

and again, Jeremy Pritchard the fucking BASSIST YOU ARE