#Michael Voss

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Art Major (2020) by Michael Voss

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Michael Voss - Self portrait

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21 years since the @brisbanelions one the GF. Today bought back all the memories of those days 🥹🫶🏻

JB was living his best Lions fan moment.

Congrats to all, yeah the Lions!!! Outstanding performance 💛❤️💙🦁

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So, marry me.

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Michael Schenker My Years with UFO 2024 earMUSIC ——————————————————————— Tracks: 01. Natural Thing 02. Only You Can Rock Me  03. Doctor Doctor 04. Mother Mary  05. This Kids  06. Love to Love  07. Lights Out  08. Rock Bottom  09. Too Hot Too Handle  10. Let It Roll  11. Shoot Shoot  ———————————————————————

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Long Live Rock Archive

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EARTH LUX To Release Self-Titled Debut Through Metalville August 23rd

Metalville Records announces August 23rd as the international release date for Earth Lux‘s self-titled debut album. Earth Lux is a new band formed by French composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Steph Honde and Brazilian composer and drummer Fred Mika. Both musicians had previously worked together in the band Sunroad. In early 2023, Steph and Fred decided to form a parallel band focusing on…

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A Tribute to STATUS QUO Legend Rick Parfitt: MICHAEL VOSS Premieres New Music Video 'Don't Drive My Car' from Upcoming Album

[photo: Eva von der Forst] October 13,2023, one day after STATUS QUO legend Rick Parfitt would have celebrated his 75th Birthday, will see German singer, guitarist, producer Michael Voss release his upcoming cover album, “Rockers Rollin’ (A Tribute To Rick Parfitt)”, via Massacre Records. This very special tribute album will be out as CD Digipak, Ltd. Vinyl LP and Digital formats, the pre-sale…

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The Boyscout Release 'Hollywood Pt.1' Music Video

German rock act The Boyscout has released a muisc video for their new single ‘Hollywood Pt.1‘. The song is a tribute to all the people in the dream factory who make us laugh, cry and dream. Manuel Mijalkovski (The Boyscout) has to say: “Ever since I was a little boy I have loved to watch TV and go to the cinema as often as possible. Then I imitated the heroes! My dream has always been to be a…

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Two Faced Hare

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Vanny/Vanessa from my fnaf au (dont be fooled guys, she’s actually quite nice.)

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Heiko Voss - Follow Your Line (Michael Mayer Dub Mix)

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10/15/23.

Just to be clear, when it comes to this blog, I often put my money where my mouth is. My Bandcamp collection is currently at 911 (there's probably a message in that number). Yesterday, my collection grew by three because Subjangle is offering 25% off (use the discount code deal25). I'd been listening to this Grand Drifter release and loving its slow, languid and beautiful sound. It really reminds me of Kings of Convenience, Aztec Camera and This Is Ivy League. Grand Drifter is the work of Andrea Calvo (Italy).

But I also bought The Fisherman and His Soul (Sebastian Voss from Germany).

And, I bought a CD from 3am Again (Michael Telles from Gloucester, Massachusetts). Artwork by Jodie Lowther (if you missed the excellent "The Cat Collects Seasons" compilation do yourself a huge favor and go back a few days and listen to it).

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Nerdery

Here is something the first episode of Inspector Morse (1987) and the first episode of the magnificent BBC radio series of The Lord of the Rings (1981) have in common:-

Philip Voss (the Coroner / the Lord of the Nazgul[1]) asks searching questions of Peter Woodthorpe (Max DeBryn[2] / Gollum).

I have to wonder whether the parallel occurred to either or both of them during the filming of Morse. ;-)

Incidentally, because this delights me, here's a full list (so far! I may have missed some!) of actors who were in both the LotR radio series and the morseverse:-

James Grout (DCS Strange in Inspector Morse / Butterbur)

Michael Horden - (Dr Starkie in Inspector Morse ("Service for all the Dead") / Gandalf)

John McAndrew (Leslie Garnier in Endeavour ("Cartouche") / Pippin)

Robert Stephens (Sir Wilfred Mulryne in Inspector Morse ("The Setting of the Sun" / Aragorn)

Philip Voss (the Coroner in Inspector Morse / the Lord of the Nazgul)

Peter Woodthorpe (Max DeBryn / Gollum)

That all makes me so happy. :D

ALSO

a) James Bradshaw's played Bilbo Baggins in a stage production of The Hobbit so Max really is the hobbit pathologist (Bilbo!Max and Gollum!Max ;-) )

b) the composer of the LotR radio series was the late, great Stephen Oliver who (was the wonderful comedian John Oliver's uncle and also) wrote the music for the RSC musical of Nicholas Nickleby that was rather a hit in the 1970s. It was the success of that musical that was a huge part of why Trevor Nunn and the RSC in general were willing to take a risk on a musical of rather a long book by Victor Hugo in the 1980s... So, there's a Roger Allam connection too. ;-)

[1] Aka the Witch-King of Angmar, but he's called the LotN in the radio series cast list (and it makes sense for him as a title for nerdy reasons I won't go into ;-) ).

[2] "DeBryn" was created as Max's surname for Endeavour so strictly speaking that's inaccurate but.

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Books On Books Collection - Ellen Lanyon

Transformations I: 1973-74 (1977) Transformations I: 1973-74 (1977) Ellen Lanyon Leporello with board covers. 174 x 115 mm. [24] pages. Acquired from Specific Object, February 2024. © The Ellen Lanyon Estate, courtesy GRAY, Chicago/New York.Photos: Books On Books Collection. Displayed with permission of artist’s estate. Transformations is a book as drawing. Across 24 panels of this…

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Jacobi and McKellen as grand marshals of New York City's 2015 pride march.

All Good Omens (show) fans will know Derek Jacobi as the Metatron. His brief role on Doctor Who is also getting a lot of mention in recent posts, but I'm not going to talk about any of that.

Like his Vicious co-star Ian McKellen, Jacobi has had a long and illustrious career in theatre, television, and film. McKellen and Jacobi met when they were at Cambridge.

I'm not a huge fan of the Daily Mail, but this article, an interview with the two actors, is quite interesting. I'll just quote this part:

Jacobi says he came out to his mother when he was at university. ‘She said, “All young men, go through this phase, don’t worry.” I remember saying, “Don’t tell Dad.”’ He doesn’t know to this day if she did. ‘I think she did, but I don’t know. But they were wonderful, my parents, not much was said but they kind of knew, they got it.’

McKellen hasn’t heard his friend talk of this before. ‘That’s the first time I’ve heard that,’ he says, genuinely moved. ‘I never came out to my family. Biggest regret of my life.’ It turns out he didn’t even come out to Derek at university, even though it’s always been reported that he had something of a crush on him. 

‘Yes, I did fancy Derek, but I didn’t act on it, God, no. It was illegal, remember. I do get on my high horse about it, because it was so difficult. There were no gay clubs you could go to. No gay bars, no gay newspaper, nothing. What there was was a bit sleazy, I suspect. One of the reasons I became an actor was that you could meet gay people. Even then everything was difficult. When you went to America they asked, “Are you now, or have you ever been, homosexual?” I lied on the form. It was a different world.’

I want to talk about Vicious for a bit, the ITV britcom in which Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen play an aging gay couple, (respectively) a homemaker, Stuart Bixby, and an actor, Freddie Thornhill, for fourteen episodes.

Freddie (McKellen) tells Stuart (Jacobi) about a part he's hoping to get.

I had to add these for the Broadchurch reference.

It's a law that British actors of a certain age play this part.

I couldn't find one with Michael Sheen and the skull, but here he is in the role.

McKellen did the part again at 81 in an age-blind production.

Jacobi's big breakout was the titular role in I, Claudius on the BBC in 1976.

In the '90s, Jacobi played amateur sleuth and 12th century monk, Brother Cadfael on the ITV series.

I had watched some of Vicious before, but, spurred on by Jacobi's reappearance on Good Omens, looked for it again and watched both seasons a couple of weeks ago. Because I love a good fancast and Jacobi and Sheen (at least as Aziraphale) remind me a little of each other, I couldn't help but think that Jacobi and McKellen in their youth could have played a version of Aziraphale and Crowley. (There have been a couple of posts noting this about Jacobi, and that he might have been up for the part if it had been done soon after the book came out.)

Jacobi, left, and McKellen, right (obviously).

I also think that Tennant and Sheen could have pulled off playing Freddie and Stuart in a flashback.

An even younger version of Freddie and Stuart does appear in the series, however, played by Luke Treadaway and Samuel Barnett.

Also good casting! They do a great job playing McKellen and Jacobi playing Freddie and Stuart.

Shoutout to this post by @ember-knights, that suggested Good Omens fans should check out Vicious for a glimpse of what life in the South Downs cottage might be. And also to other posts mentioning Vicious and Good Omens in the same breath, as well as comparing Sheen and Tennant to Jacobi and McKellen (which I probably reblogged but can't find right now).

Cast of Vicious: Frances de la Tour, Iwan Rheon, Philip Voss, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Marcia Warren (Wikipedia). (Yes, the upstairs neighbor (Rheon) does go on to play Ramsay Bolton on Game of Thrones. He's a sweetheart in this, though.)

Now, I don't think Crowley and Aziraphale are the same as Freddie and Stuart, by any means. Freddie and Stuart say quite cruel things to each other. The characters become deeper in the second season; it’s a little sweeter than the first. I enjoy the bitterness of the first season too, though. It is funny, and Good Omens fans may enjoy watching it if only to see Derek Jacobi (who plays the Metatron) in a comedy role and a role that's sympathetic, especially if they are not familiar with his large and impressive body of work.

I don't think Aziraphale and Crowley's life in the bookshop as a couple, not just a group of two, or life on the South Downs, would be exactly like this, but there are somehow some similarities that I don't even know how to begin to pinpoint or explicate.

Crowley and Aziraphale’s affection is always so palpable and that’s not always clear with Freddie and Stuart. Crowley and Aziraphale are so loving that, even when they're bickering, it's joyful, even when they're arguing, even when they're coming apart (temporarily) at the seams, their love is undeniable. I don’t even think their breakup was toxic; although they were desperate at that point and hurt each other badly, it wasn't what they wanted. Sometimes it's that way.

And, lest I'm putting you off Vicious here, the Ineffable Husbands are a high bar as love stories go, but you will get to see some love and affection between Freddie and Stuart too, and I'd really love to see these actors work together more. (I am happy with how the show ends up, by the way.)

Toodle-loo! Hope everything is tickety-boo with you.