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The Angels' Share (2012) Ken Loach

January 5th 2025

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Behind The Scenes: Clint Eastwood & Don Siegel On The Set Of 1971's DIRTY HARRY

Director Don Siegel‘s 1971 cop thriller, Dirty Harry has now become an iconic slice of cinema and it set the template for loose cannon detective movies. Starring Clint Eastwood, the film sees SFPD Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan on the hunt for Scorpio (Andy Robinson), a killer who is stalking the streets of San Francisco. The plot was loosely inspired by the real-life Zodiac killings which took…

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ah yes my favorite duo abel brannigan and paul McCartney

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type o negative for KERRANG! Magazine (1997),

transcription:

THE KERRANG! CHALLENGE

The trivia stars love to hate

This weeks contestants are…

Name: Type O Negative

Occupation: Goth metal minstrels

Specialist subject: General doom and gloom

1/ Who wrote the story 'The Tell Tale Heart'?

Pete Steele: "Edgar Allen Poe."

2/ Who played Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's version of the film?

Pete: "We are not media whores - we don't care.”

Johnny Kelly: "It was the guy who played Sid in "Sid And Nancy', Gary Oldman."

3/ How many pints af blood are in the average human body?

Pete: "It depends on the size of the individual, doesn't it? l'd say 14.”

Josh Silver: “There are 12 pints of Heineken in my body, if that’s any help.”

4/ What is the average speed of male ejaculation?

Josh: “What’s yours? How do you measure it?”

Pete: “Thirty miles an hour.”

Johnny Kelly: “I’ve never really paid attention to it.”

5/ What is the opening track on Slayer’s classic “Reign in Blood” album?

Johnny: “Isn’t that ‘Angel of Death’?”

6/ Who will be drumming with Black Sabbath on this summer's Ozz-Fest tour?

Josh: "Johnny Kelly!"

Johnny: "Unfortunately not. It's Mike Bordin from Faith No More.”

7/ Who is the Prime Minister of Britain?

Pete: “John Major.”

Kerrang!: “No, we’ve had an election recently.”

Pete: “I’ve had an erection recently too…”

8/ What is the name of Courtney Love’s character in ‘The People Vs Larry Flynt’?

Josh: “Slut?”

Johnny: “Mrs. Flynt.”

9/ Which 'Friends' star appears in Wes Craven's ‘Scream'?

Pete: "There are no stars in "Friends'."

Johnny: "It was the girl who appeared in that Bruce Springsteen video 'Dancing In The Dark, Courteney Cox."

Pete: "These are all media questions, they have no relevance to the real world. Ask us about science or something real. You look enough like Thomas Dolby so you're bound to know something about science...

10/ Certainly. What is the chemical symbol for iron?

Pete: "Fe."

11/ Who is the heir to the throne of England?

Josh: "Is it me?"

Pete: "Is it Michael Jackson? Or Bubbles the Chimp? You English f* *kers can't get enough of Jacko...”

Johnny: "It's Charles."

Josh: "We heard his wife was a lesbian. Princess Bi…”

12/ If a plane crashes on the border between Switzerland and Italy who would have legal responsibility for burying the survivors?

Pete: "The Germans."

Johnny: "The survivors don't get buried.“

Pete: "The Germans would bury them anyway...”

13/ Name three of the bands who played alongside you on the second stage at Donington last year?

Johnny: "Korn, 3 Colours Red and Everclear."

Pete: "He can't spell his own name, yet he can remember trivial shit like that."

Kenny Hickey: "Did you trim your c**t?"

Kerrang!: Eh?

14/ Name the new David Lynch film.

Johnny: “Lost Highway."

Josh: "Johnny, you're the man.”

15/ Which London Underground tube line is Brixton on?

Johnny: "The red one."

Josh: "I can't understand a f**king word you say, man.”

16/ Which actor appeared as Darth Vader in 'Star Wars', and which other actor overdubbed his voice?

Josh: "Boris Karloff."

Johnny: "James Earl Jones did the voice. I know that the guy who actually wore the suit is f**king broke, but I don't know his name."

17/ Which three letters are tattooed on Jonathan Davis' arm?

Johnny: "HIV."

18/ What is coprophilia?

Pete: "That's when you enjoy having someone shit on you during sex.*

19/ What is the clotting agent in blood?

Pete: "Platelets."

20/ What is James Bond's secret agent code number?

Johnny: “007."

21/ Which two baxers contested the 'Bumble in the Jungle'?"

Johnny: "George Foreman and Ali."

22/ Who recorded the song 'Negative Creep"?

Pete: "White Zombie?"

Johnny: "No, Nirvana."

23/ Which UK ska band was fronted by legendary vocalist Buster Bloodvessel?

Pete: "You're making this shit up now, man. Buster f**king Bloodvessel... Is it the UK Subs?"

24/ Who recorded the album 'lf You Want Blood'?

Johnny: "AC/DC."

25/ Who directed the movie 'Blood Simple'?

Pete: "Enough of this f"*king media shit..."

Quizmaster: Paul Brannigan

HOW TYPE O NEGATIVE SCORED

17 out of 25

THE VERDICT

A top performance from Johnny Kelly disproves the notion that all drummers are thick and earns Type 0 mid-table respectability.

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Happy 37th Birthday, Scottish actor Paul Brannigan, born September 14th 1986 in Glasgow.

Paul was brought up in the working-class East End are of Glasgow around Barrowfield. Both of his parents were long-term drug addicts and much of his youth was spent amidst gang violence and petty crime. It isn't surprising with this background that Brannigan was a gang member in Glasgow, expelled from school at 14 he served time in a Young offenders institution.

I hope nobody starts condemning Brannigan for this, he has got his life together and left that behind him, it was tough for him growing up, and found this from him in an interview in 2012;

"It was tough growing up, and there were moments where I just wanted to crawl away and die. I slashed my wrist with a mirror after a fight with my dad and was just like: fuck it, man, fuck it. But it's not a sob story. I'm quite sensible; I don't get myself too close or let my emotions go. You can get hurt and then you feel your life is destroyed."

In jail, he taught himself to read via a diet of dictionaries and Newsnight , he said it wasn't for the news or the politics but to listen to the way they speak, then find out what the fancy words mean, then put sentences together and learn to become articulate.

On release he was full of good intentions, but still "a bit of a lad, doing daft things". The scar on his face was the result of a fight with his brother. He lost a job at a community centre and it looked bleak for him, however he re-prioritised after his son, Leon, was born.

He was spotted by scriptwriter Paul Laverty at the Strathclyde police's Violence Reduction Unit, where he taught four hours of football a week. He was sceptical initially, skipped auditions, and it was only the pressure of repaying a Christmas loan that meant he finally responded to Laverty's rallying phone calls. "It probably saved my life, to be honest. I'd nowhere to turn, got a kid; who knows what I'd have done for money."

I could go on and post a lot of things that Paul has done wrong on his life, but I could also say many things about my own life that I have done wrong, we all make mistakes and we have to live with them.

Paul was last onour screens in the 4 paert Glasgw set show The Nest, Paul is said to be lined up to play the ex Glasgw gangster Paul Ferris in a new flm abut the underworld enforcer.

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Editor's Letter: GHOULS ON FILM

Tobias Forge has always been wildly ambitious. After throwing everything at Ghost in his last real shot as a professional musician, he established the band as an occult-rock force you couldn't look away from, all shady Nameless Ghouls and papal vestments. As the years rolled by, Tobias might have unmasked, but the Ghost legend has only grown. Back at their early gigs in 2010, few could have predicted they'd have their own actual movie in 2024. Like everything Ghost do, Rite Here Rite Now has been kept tightly under wraps, but Tobias was kind enough to grant our Paul Brannigan an audience, and reveal the behind-the-scenes machinations that led to such a triumph of creativity. And if you're reading this letter on June 20, the day the magazine goes on sale and the day the film premieres, you're probably about to experience his vision for yourself. "This is not a tale about death, but one of life…" intones the voicover on Rite Here Rite Now's spooktacular, schlock'n'roll trailer. While we can't say for certain if Papa IV will survive in his current form, we certainly hope Ghost are around to entertain us for a long time to come.

Stay metal, Eleanor Goodman, Editor

RITES. CAMERA. ACTION! From dancing ghouls to…dead Papas? Tobias forge takex us behind the scenes of Rite Here Rite Now, Ghost's new movie spectacular. Words: Paul Brannigan - Lives: Ryan Chang - Portraaits: Travis Shinn

[Accompanying photo: two-page spread of the Forum Ritual, taken during Con Clavi Con Dio, with Papa downstage center holding the thurible. Caption: "Everything Ghost do is BIG. We expect no less from the film"]

Last year, in case you didn't notice, those "hands that threaten doom" which Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson once sang about, inched 10 seconds closer to midnight. The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the people who created the Doomsday Clock back in 1947 to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world, reset the minute hand for the 25th time since its creation, moving it closer to the hour than it has ever been. So the prospect of imminent global catastrophe is now ever more pronounced, which, to be honest, is something of a bummer.

"We are approaching the end of an era. So let's have a good time." It was with these equally doom-laden words that Papa Emeritus IV, Ghost's puckish frontman, welcomed the faithful to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on September 11 last year, for the first of two 'rituals' bringing the Re-Imperatour USA 2023 tour to a close. For those in attendance, the weight of those words hung heavily in the air.

In February last year, news that a second night at the 17,500-capacity venue had been added to the end of the Swedish band's tour schedule, after the first show sold out, was delivered in Chapter 16 of the occult rock collective's web series. The episode, titled Tax Season, was accompanied by a message from "The Clergy" stating, "We wish to inform you that in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes."

The clip itself featured none-too-subtle hints that Papa Emeritus IV may not be long for this world; at one point, while he's playing a retro racing video game, he's distracted by the sight of a glass coffin being wheeled past his door, and when his attention returns to his TV screen, the words 'Game Over!!!!!!' appear. In Ghost world, where every symbol is scrutinised to the nth degree by the faithful, this was interpreted as a warning that the writing was on the wall for this Papa in the City of Angels. And when it was revealed that the group's two-night stand at the Forum was to be filmed for a future film release, with all phones to be confiscated from patrons upon entry, we feared the worst.

Hammer duly dispatched Associate Editor Dave Everley to Los Angeles to bear witness to what promised to be the gravest chapter yet in Ghost's evolution. At the conclusion of the second night at the Forum, however, Papa IV - "channelling the ghosts of Freddie Mercury and vintage Willy Wonka", Dave noted - was still standing, indeed dancing…but there was a lingering suspicion that there was more to be revealed.

Then, on May 1 this year, came a new message: the announcement that Rite Here Rite Now, Ghost's debut feature film, chronicling the events in Los Angeles, would be screened in cinemas worldwide on June 20 and 22. And those studying the minutiae of the film poster observed that the letter "o" in the final word of the title had been substituted for an analogue clock, its hands positioned at - and you might be ahead of us here - two minutes to midnight. Well, well, well…

"The Doomsday Clock is not an actual clock - it's more of a measuring tool for us to understand how near we are to fucking things up. But it's not like a timer on a bomb, and that means that we can still change things around. And this film is a little bit about that, about turning around and changing your ways, even if it's just your attitude towards things."

The real world time is 6:30pm (BST) on May 9, and an email has just informed us that 'Mary Goore' has joined our Zoom call from Stockholm. Those familiar with Ghost's pre-history will be aware that this was Tobias Forge's stage name in both his death metal band Repugnant and his glam metal outfit Crashdiet, and though he chooses today to keep his camera off, the voice on the call is unmistakably that of Ghost's 43-year-old leader. The trailer for Rite Here Rite Now premiered exactly four and a half hours ago, and as far as Tobias can ascertain, it's been "well met" so far the only "concerns" he as noticed to date bein raised by fans worried that the film has not yet been booked into picture houses in their homelands.

"The film is being distributed in many countries, but not all," he explains, "so I understand that there were some voices that felt like we'd overlooked this or that country. It's like when you announce a tour, and immediately get 'Why aren't you coming to… [insert country name]?' That wasn't our decision, I can't tell you why, it's just that some countries didn't want the film, or whatever."

Officially, the first seeds for Rite Here Rite Now were planted in Tobias's mind "over a decade" ago.

"When Ghost got signed to Loma Vista, Tom Whalley [owner and CEO] asked what the story of the band was," he explained in the press release announcing the film. "He felt telling a story was vital in order to get new fans engaged. I said that because we were a new 'baby' band and, more importantly, we were an anonymous baby band, there wasn't really a compelling story to tell. Not yet anyway. But I told him that if he wanted a story, I could come up with one. This film is the fruit of that conversation."

Those who've follwed the band from their earliest days, however, will know that, from the outset, Ghost emerged accompanied by a sense of theatre. Back in 2012, when I spoke to Swedish journalist Richard Lagergren, formerly the guitarist in the band Portrait, and the first 'outsider' to be informed of the existence of Ghost, he used the words "very cinematic, very surreal and very intense" to describe his first encounter with the group. He revealed that he was at his home one Sunday afternoon in October 2010, when he received a phone call telling him that a local band wished to see him. Within an hour, a car pulled up outside his home, and he was blindfolded, driven into the countryside and led into a disused warehouse, where, once his blindfold was removed, he found himself face-to-face with Papa Emeritus and five Nameless Ghouls, and was informed that he had been selected to begin disseminating word of Ghost's Satanic ministry to the world. This was very much not how bands were expected to conduct their business in 2010, and it telegraphed, from day one, Tobias's (still present) desire to keep Ghost out of step with standard, traditional music industry conventions.

[Accompanying photo: Portrait of Papa IV taken in his costume from the start of the show - gold Huntsman jacket, black pirate shirt, black ascot with devil scarf ring, distressed black pants. He is staring at the camera, his arms crossed and his hands at shoulder height, making the sign of the horns. Caption: "What delights are up Tobias's ornate sleeves this time?"]

"From the start, we were cutting against the grain," he reflects. "If you think back to that time, it was the beginning of when the music industry demanded a sort of hyper-frantic online presence from bands, and every band was updating Facebook as soon as they did anything, sending out private messages, like, 'Hey, everyone, don't forget to buy tickets!' I said immediately to my label, 'I don't wanna do that, I fucking hate that shit, and I don't wanna be part of that…and we're a fucking anonymous band.'

"So it was an issue, and we had to steer around a lot of those things, while figuring out, 'How do we communicate with the world what we want to communicate?' We had to figure out ways to sort of cable out a story to the world, a story that we didn't really have at that time, or a story that I didn't want to tell. Because what was that story going to be? My story? No, fuck that. So I said 'I'm gonna come up with a story, and it might unfold in the form of short little online episodes.' And Tom Whalley was like 'OK, I'm intrigued. What do you want to do?'

"So we started doing these episodes about The Ministry, with our little commercial messages attached, and it turned out fun. But obviously it became very complicated: there's a reason why bands just turn on their phones and are like, 'We're coming to Brazil!' It's so much easier. Whereas everything that we've ever done has always been way more complicated. But lots of fun, too. And so, via those web episodes, the story has really taken shape. The idea of making a film has been in my head for years, and I've always been adamant about the web episodes not being too detailed, because you don't want to paint yourself into a corner, so there's been a lot of loose threads. But I figured that I could take these loose threads, tie them together in some sort of comprehensible form, and that could be the film. And that's why we're talking today, finally!"

If you think that today Tobias Forge is going to outline exactly what happens onscreen in Rite Here Rite Now, you really haven't been paying attention to how Ghost operate. For as much as Tobias loves theatre and showmanship, he also treasures and truly values the mystique around his band. And that has its roots in the way he himself discovered his favourite bands as a teenager. For as much as he loved Kiss, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, the Sex Pistols and Venom, the young Tobias Forge was equally immersed in an underground extreme metal community where anonymity was prized above adulation.

"A lot of the bands that I grew up listening to weren't very famous at all," he recalls. "Some of them didn't ever play live, some 'bands' were actually one guy in his bedroom, and you knew very little about anyone. And when these bands did communicate with the world, it was through fanzines, and very adolescent interviews where they gave outrageous, very provocative answers. That helped cement my magnetism towards maintaining mystique, and back in 2010, I definitely thought that there was a way where Ghost could achieve some sort of success whilst 100% maintaining a mystique. And over the years, I've learned that was hard…but then I never thought we'd be as successful as we are.

"The best way to be anonymous in a band is by not forming a band. Don't do it! It's counterintuitive to remain anonymous if you want to be in a big professional band, and it's counterintuitive to sign with a major label who want to break your band. I've always been under the impression that in order to become a representative of the night, you have to be supernatural, but now it's time to let the world in on the story so far, to some extent."

[Accompanying image: Papa IV on stage during Year Zero, microphone in his left hand, his right hand counting two. Caption: "Is Papa IV on borrowed time?"]

With Rite Here Rite Now, Tobias admits that he's in "virgin territory". But here's what we're allowed to know. The film takes place over the course of one evening, with a narrative centered around a gig in Los Angeles, but with flashbacks referencing storylines in the Ghost 'webisodes', which began on YouTube in March 2018. For metal fans, the concept of a feature film blending a live show with a dramatic narrative will likely call to mind Metallica's bold and largely incomprehensible 2013 film Through The Never, a commercial disaster for the band, with James Hetfield subsequently admitting that it "disappeared" and describing the entire experience as "bittersweet". Tobias insists that, actually, there are no overlaps in what he set out to do with Ghost's film - "that film was never a guiding light" are his exact words - and he cites two alternate films as much more instructive in terms of his ambitions.

"As we were pitching the film, the two films that I mentioned a lot in orer for people to try to comprehend artistically what I'm trying to do were [The Rolling Stones' 1983 concert film] Let's Spend The Night Together mixed with [The Sex Pistols' 1980 'mockumentary'] The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle. There is a sense of an origin story, but it's very much a story that takes place during an evening. So you sort of step right into what is happening right there and right then, and maybe the main character's inability, or unwillingness, to be there.

"One issue, or one challenge, that we faced was making a film that was comprehensible to anyone who had no clue about what Ghost is," he continues. "We have a very, very passionate fanbase, who, to a large degree at least, are very aware of everything that goes on with Ghost. The easy part, conceptually, was to make a film that would please them, because they know the story already, they know the context that we are now extending with this film, because it's basically picking up where the last episodes ended. But we wanted it to be that someone who doesn't know shit about the story gets brought up to speed pretty quickly. But this is where my ability to be objective ends, because I'm wondering, 'Do people understand what I'm saying here? Do people get that?'

"Obviously, as with everyone else, I'm a Star Wars fan, and that worked pretty well in the sense where you just crash land right into the story. That works where the message of the film is quite simple, and I think that the message that we're trying to convey with this film is to be right here right now, and not anywhere else. That's what I'm hoping everyone will understand."

[Accompanying photo: Papa and the ghouls backstage before the show. Caption: "What role will the Ghouls play in Rite Here Rite Now?"]

This sounds quite straightforward on paper. But, as Tobias was to quickly learn, the film business is not straightforward, not when films cost 'x million' dollars to make, and someone has to stump up those 'x million' dollars to get it from scripts and storyboards to the screen. Making a film, Tobias says with a very audible sigh, is so much more complicated than making a record, not least because the trust that an artist accumulates working in the music business doesn't necessarily translate to being trusted with a multi-million dollar film budget.

"The film had to go through discussions with finance people who were as curious about the content as you are," he says, diplomatically. "And let's just say that I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it. I'd be saying, 'Look, this is not really, you know, just us live from the Forum.' And they were like, 'Well, could you scrap the live show and just do a film about something else?' And I'd say, 'Well, that kinda defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to sell to you.' So that was a little bit weird."

The end result of such conversations was that no financial backer came onboard for the film, and Ghost and their management ended up funding the whole process - which, he says, ultimately simplified things. But the uncertainty meant that acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlund - famously once a member of Bathory, and a creative visionary who's made music videos for the likes of Madonna, The Prodigy, U2 and more, as well as directing films such as Lords of Chaos and Spun - decided to step away from potentially directing the film to instead take on a co-producer role, and to advise Tobias as a friend.

In his place, as director, came American filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. He first saw Ghost opening up for Iron Maiden in New York in July 2017, at the conclusion of Maiden's North American tour for The Book of Souls, and subsequently directed the band's own 'mockumentary' Metal Myths, as well as the fabulously provocative promo video for the band's cover of Genesis's 1992 single, Jesus He Knows Me.

"He was obviously the right choice," says Tobias, "and a no-brainer to come aboard, because not only is he a very, very nice guy, but he also totally understands the band.

"Jonas was very involved with all the legwork beforehand, but when he stepped down as the director, and became a producer, it actually made things a little bit easier, because he became less stressed about it; all of a sudden he became calm, and just became my friend instead, pushing everything along. At no point did I feel like I'd bitten off more than I could chew, but the whole thing was definitely a huge learning experience.

"A lot of film studios sometimes struggle to comprehend something that isn't mainstream," he adds. "Like, it's not uncommon that you might want to make a film about, say, a historical event, and they would be, like, 'Hmmm, it's really depressing that the boat sinks in the end. Can it not do that?' And you're like, 'Well, no, the story is about these two lovers that meet on the sinking boat, and yeah, he dies in the end.' 'But that's so depressing! Can we make a different ending?' 'Er, No.' 'Well, we don't want to pay for that.' That's the sort of shit you're up against."

For Tobias, Rite Here Rite Now is clearly the biggest project that he's ever taken on, but Ghost fans shouldn't worry that they're about to lose their hero to Hollywood. At one point today, he mentions his work on the next Ghost album, specifically saying that he's "synchronising" his work on the film with the new record, so we may get an announcement on that sooner rather than later.

There remains one last matter to discuss. In each chapter of Ghost's journey to date, there has been death and renewal, with a new Papa coming along at the end of each cycle to replace the outgoing bandleader. And yet Papa IV was not killed off in Los Angeles. So, Tobias, is he going to transition into the next cycle?

A drawn out "Errrrrrrr…" comes through the speakers before an answer arrives.

"He will be with us, yeah. For a lifetime, if you will. As everyone is."

Okaaaaaay. But will Papa V also be appearing soon?

"I hope so."

At this point, the band's PR steps in to advise that we have one last question. So we ask if Rite Here Rite Now is close to the vision Tobias had in his head when he first embarked upon this ambitious undertaking.

"It's never, you know, 100%," he answers, "but pretty damn close. A lot of things that I think scared people in meetings a year ago, are things that I know that we pulled off. As an artist, people want you to dream big, but I always try to come up with things that are actually doable.

"Everything with Ghost is difficult and expensive, but the records are getting closer to what I imagine, and this film turned out pretty close to what I envisioned. And when I see the film, even I look at the show and go, 'That's pretty entertaining, that's pretty cool.' This is a film that you have not seen before. And you can all tell me what you thought when you see me next, OK?"

SIDEBAR ARTICLE 1: "I'M IN AWE OF TOBIAS!" Rite Here Rite Now director Alex Ross Perry explains how he helped Ghost's mastermind realise his vision.

[Accompanying photo: Another portrait of Papa IV in the gold jacket. His left hand is on his hip, his right gestures across his body, as though he is pointing to the sidebar. Caption: "Tobias has one helluva vision. Getting execs to understand it ain't easy!"]

[Inset photo: Alex Ross Perry looking off-camera to the right, as though he is staring at the photo of Papa next to him.]

Pennsylvania-born filmmaker Alex Ross Perry has a CV that includes helming music videos for the likes of Kim Gordon, Pavement, Sleigh Bells and Bully; writing, producing and directing acclaimed grunge/punk movie Her Smell; and creating Ghost's brilliant 2022 mockumentary, Metal Myths. However, he explains, working with Tobias Forge on Rite Here Rite Now was an experience like no other.

How did you and Tobias first come into one another's orbit? "I first saw Ghost opening up for Iron Maiden in New York, at the Barclays Center, seven years ago, and then I went on YouTube and had a lot of fun diving into their music videos. I'd done work for [Ghost's US record label] Loma Vista, and so I said to them, 'Nothing I've done is in the world of this band, but I'm a big fan, so if you ever need anything in the world of Ghost, my hand is raised.' And a couple of months later, I was asked if I wanted to create an official/unofficial Ghost mockumentary, streamlining the narrative woven into the band's story, and that became Metal Myths, which launched on April Fool's Day 2022."

How was that received? "I know that Tobias really liked what we did with that, and thought it was an amazing testament to his work and creativity. So then I was asked to curate an event at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles to celebrate Ghost's Grammy nomination [for Best Metal Performance, for Call Me Little Sunshine], and we had some fun working on the Mary On The Cross [sic] 1969 era. While I was out in LA, we did the Jesus He Knows Me music video too, and I was told, 'We're doing a movie,' so I said 'Well, if you need any help, I'm here.'"

What did you make of Tobias when you first spoke to him? "I was, and am, a huge admirer of everything that he's built, so I was in awe of his creativity and the scope of his vision, and I remain so having now collaborated with him on this movie. He's one of the greats, in terms of the vision he has. He's a nerd, a repository for information and references to music history and film history, and that is incredibly rare. His vision has taken him so far in 10 years, and in 10 years' time it'll have taken him even further. My favorite band is Kiss, and Tobias might say the same, but they stumbled when they tried to branch out with [1978 TV film] Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park, whereas Tobias built a visual narrative into the Ghost solar system from the beginning. Working with him was constantly inspiring."

What was the most challenging part of the whole process for you? "It was just logistically very complex. It was challenging being at the Forum, shooting scenes that we were going to connect with scenes that we would be filming five months later."

How much creative input did you get to have, and how much were you able to bring your own vision to what was already mapped out? "I consider it a real collaboration between the two of us. His vision for the storytelling is crystal clear, but even though the A to Z is mapped out, there's so much room to discuss what happens from B to Y. You could just talk all night about that, and we did many times, like, 'Does this happen?' 'Is this joke funny?' 'Should this scene have no dialogue?' I took ideas that were not possible and turned them into ideas that are possible. We sat on his tourbus one month before the Forum and just talked until 4 or 5am about every story beat, every scene, every moment between the characters. It was such an amazing experience from start to finish."

SIDEBAR ARTICLE 2: "I'D SIT WATCHING FILMS ALL NIGHT, THEN HAVE A HORRENDOUS NEXT DAY IN SCHOOL!" Five flicks that fired the imagination of teenage cinephile Tobias Forge

[Accompanying photo: A third portrait of Papa IV in the gold jacket, staring directly into the camera and throwing the horns with both hands. Caption: "What the Devil will Tobias do next?"]

By his own admission, Tobias Forge is a film nerd, who watched "everything, all the time."

"I've always been very interested in cinema," he says. "As a kid, I'd watch everything that my older brother and his friends were watching, and as soon as I was old enough, I had a TV and VCR in my bedroom. I spent so much time in front of the TV playing guitar and watching films - French drama, comedy, horror, action, all kinds of films. I'd sit watching films all night, then have a horrendous next day in school! Anyone who has a record collection and video collection similar to mine will recognize lots of little references in our film."

Here are five films that regularly got slotted into the video cassette recorder in Tobias's teenage bedroom.

THE FUNHOUSE (Tobe Hooper, 1981) Tacky, violent and unpleasantly scary slasher flick set in a traveling carnival, directed by Tobe Hooper, who had produced, co-written and directed 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. A commercial failure, but one with cult appeal for fans of 80s 'video nasties'.

SCARFACE (Brian De Palma, 1983) Endlessly quotable and unrelentingly violent crime drama depicting the rise and fall of drug lord Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino. One of the most iconic gangster films ever made, referenced on countless gangsta rap records. All together now: "Say hello to my little friend!"

C.H.U.D. (Douglas Cheek, 1984) Schlocky sci-fi horror about murderous humanoids roaming the sewers of New York City. Ghost pal Dave Grohl was also a fan of the movie. His teenage band, Mission Impossible, recorded a song called C.H.U.D. with a chorus that ran: 'Chaotic Hardcore Underage Delinquents! Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers!'

BETTY BLUE (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986) Impossibly intense French 'erotic psychological drama' featuring lots of philosophical musing, lots of steamy sex, and an inevitable slide into madness. A cult classic, which shifted tens of thousands of film posters to art and film studies students worldwide, it made 21-year-old Beatrice Dalle an international sex symbol.

LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (Leos Carax, 1991) Another intense, wordy French drama about a doomed, obsessive love affair, staring a young Juliette Binoche as homeless artist Michele besotted with alcohol-and-pills-addicted wannabe circus performer Alex (Denis Lavant). The film went insanely over-budget and took forever to shoot; by the end, real-life lovers Binoche and Carax had split.

Copped the Ghost Metal Hammer so thought I’d share the contents for anyone who may not be able to buy it for themselves (the article and Tobias interview is Rite Here Rite Now spoiler free!)

Let me know if any of the photos are bad quality and I’ll re-take them!

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  #ProyeccionDeVida

🎬 “LICORICE PIZZA” 😎🏪💽🎵💿🍕🏬

🔎 Género: Comedia / Drama / Romance / Adolescencia / Años 70

⌛️ Duración: 133 minutos

✍️ Guión: Paul Thomas Anderson

🎼 Música: Jonny Greenwood

📷 Fotografía: Eliot Rockett

🗯 Argumento: Historia entre Alana Kane y Gary Valentine, cómo se conocen, pasan el tiempo juntos y se enamoran en el Valle de San Fernando en el año 1973. Gary Valentine es un adolescente de quince años con una confianza arrolladora que se enamora de Alana Kane, una joven de veinticinco años que aún no encuentra su camino en la vida. Juntos, navegan por una serie de aventuras a través del Valle de San Fernando, en un mundo lleno de oportunidades, fracasos y conexiones inesperadas.

👥 Reparto: Alana Haim (Alana Kane), Cooper Alexander Hoffman (Gary Valentine), George DiCaprio (Mr. Jack), Skyler Gisondo (Lance Brannigan), Ben Safdie (Joel Wachs), Nick Dumont (Brenda), Danielle Haim (Danielle Kane) y Bradley Cooper (Jon Peters).

📢 Dirección: Paul Thomas Anderson

© Productoras: Ghoulardi Film Company, Bron Studios & Focus Features.

📼 Distribuidora: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

🌎 País: Estados Unidos

📅 Año: 2021

📽 Proyección:

📆 Jueves 13 de Marzo

🕗 8:00pm.

🎦 Cine Caleta (calle Aurelio de Souza 225 - Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

🙂 A tener en cuenta: Prohibido el ingreso de bebidas y comidas. 🌳💚🌻🌛

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

""I liked DISCHARGE, and really respected CRASS too." Before she became a world-famous pop star, BJÖRK had an angry anarcho-punk band called SPIT AND SNOT."

"Pop stars rarely cut their teeth in anarcho-punk and jazz-fusions bands, but then Björk isn't like other pop stars."

-- LOUDER SOUND, by Paul Brannigan, published 3 hours ago

Dis nightmare still @%*$!#& continues!!

PIC #3: Spotlight on UK anarcho punk band CRASS, performing live at The Conway Hall in May 1978.

Learn more @ www.loudersound.com/features/bjork-discharge-crass-spit-and-snot.

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"I'm not too struck on Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I never saw what was in Clapton at all". In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was asked for his thoughts on his peers: he did not hold back

(Image credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images |Ebet Roberts/Redferns | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) (via Classic Rock) By Paul Brannigan In March 1975, Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore appeared on the cover of International Musician & Recording World magazine after conducting a rare interview with American writer/producer/guitarist Jon Tiven. Hailing Blackmore as “perhaps the world’s…

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.26

Holidays

Air Max Day

Asian-American Day of Action

Day to Mourn the Victims of Biological Weapons

Dia Nacional por la Vida la Paz y la Justica (National Day of Life, Peace and Justice; El Salvador)

Epile[sy Awareness Day

Extra Work Day (Hungary)

Festival of Blades (Elder Scrolls)

Fiesta del Arbol (Fete of the Tree; Spain)

Free the Nipple Day

Global Day of Epilepsy Awareness

Good Hair Day (UK)

International Procrastination Day [observed]

Jonas Salk Day

Legal Assistants' Day

Leonard Nimoy Day (Boston)

Live Long and Prosper Day

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

Martyr’s Day (a.k.a. Democracy Day; Mali)

Medic Alert Day

National Acoustic Soul Day

National Day of Action & Healing

National Day of Life, Peace and Justice (El Salvador)

National Epilepsy Awareness Day

National Hug a Ghost Day

National Landon Day

National Ranboo Day

National Science Appreciation Day

National Underwriter Appreciation Day (Canada)

National Wayne Day

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 6, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 

Navruz (Tajikistan)

Plowing Day (Slavic)

Prince Kūhiō Day (Hawaii)

Purple Day (Canada, US)

Solitude Day

Tabaung Full Moon Holiday (Myanmar)

Universal Dole Day

World Climate Day

World Day of Cervical Cancer Prevention

Food & Drink Celebrations

Falafel Appreciation Day

National Nougat Day

National Spinach Day (a.k.a. Spinach Festival Day)

4th & Last Sunday in March

Black Marriage Day [4th Sunday]

Blessing of the Bock (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [Last Sunday]

Neighbour Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

Simple Sunday [Last Sunday]

Summer Time begins (EU) [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Bangladesh (from Pakistan, 1971)

Kingdom of Trebor (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Sokovia (Declared, from Pakistan; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Braulio of Aragon, Bishop of Saragossa (Christian; Saint)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Castulus (Christian; Saint)

Emmanuel and companions (Christian; Saints)

Felicitas (Christian; Saint)

Fifth Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 

Care Sunday

Carling Sunday

Judica (Lutheranism)

Passion Sunday

Passiontide begins [lasts 2 weeks]

Solidarity Sunday

Harriet Monsell (Church of England)

Khordad Sal (Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday; Zoroastrian)

Larissa (Christian; Saint)

Ludger (Christian; Saint)

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (Pastafarian)

Moby (Muppetism)

Nero Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paul Erdos (Humanism)

Plowing Day (Slavic nations)

Richard Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))

Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Orthodox)

Theophrastus (Positivist; Saint)

William of Norwich (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Brannigan (Film; 1975)

Damage, by Josephine Hart (Novel; 1991)

Diamonds Are Forever, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1956) [James Bond #4]

Doug’s 1st Movie (Animated Film; 1999)

Ebony & Ivory, by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (Song; 1982)

Funplex, by The B-52s (Album; 2008)

Gorillaz, by Gorillaz (Album; 2001)

Hot Tub Time Machine (Film; 2010)

How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Film; 2010)

The Illustrated Man (Film; 1969)

Invincible (Animated TV Series; 2021)

Just Another Band from L.A., by Frank Zappa (Album; 1972)

Nobody (Film; 2021)

The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol (Short Story; 1836)

Quality Street (Film; 1937)

Quantum Leap (TV Series; (1989)

This Side of Paradise (Novel; 1920)

Ugetsu (Film; 1953)

The Way, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2013)

Women and Children First, by Van Halen (Album; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Lara, Ludger (Austria)

Emanuel, Goran, Maksima, Montan (Croatia)

Emanuel (Czech Republic)

Gabriel (Denmark)

Imand, Imant, Immo (Estonia)

Immanuel, Immo, Manne, Manu (Finland)

Larissa (France)

Lara, Ludger, Manuel, Manuela (Germany)

Poulios, Sylas (Greece)

Emánuel (Hungary)

Eginardo, Emanuele, Manuel, Quadrato, Romolo, Teodoro (Italy)

Dabrelis, Eiženija, Emanuels, Ženija (Latvia)

Arbutas, Emanuelis, Feliksas, Teklė, Vydmantė (Lithuania)

Gabriel, Glenn (Norway)

Emanuel, Feliks, Larysa, Manuela, Nikifor, Teodor, Tworzymir (Poland)

Gavriil (Romania)

Emanuel (Slovakia)

Braulio (Spain)

Emanuel (Sweden)

Ella, Gabriel, Hnat, Ignatius, Larissa (Ukraine)

Dudley, Geomar, Hunt, Hunter, Huntley, Xiomar, Xiomara (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 85 of 2023; 280 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 12 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 5 (Gui-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 4 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 4 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 24 Ver; Threesday [24 of 30]

Julian: 13 March 2023

Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 1 Archimedes (4th Month) [Theophrastus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 7 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 6 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Archimedes (Ancient Science) [Month 4 of 13; Positivist]

Ehwaz (Horse) [Half-Month 7 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 4.9)

[newesthope]

[brookston]

Holidays 3.26

Holidays

Air Max Day

Asian-American Day of Action

Day to Mourn the Victims of Biological Weapons

Dia Nacional por la Vida la Paz y la Justica (National Day of Life, Peace and Justice; El Salvador)

Epile[sy Awareness Day

Extra Work Day (Hungary)

Festival of Blades (Elder Scrolls)

Fiesta del Arbol (Fete of the Tree; Spain)

Free the Nipple Day

Global Day of Epilepsy Awareness

Good Hair Day (UK)

International Procrastination Day [observed]

Jonas Salk Day

Legal Assistants' Day

Leonard Nimoy Day (Boston)

Live Long and Prosper Day

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

Martyr’s Day (a.k.a. Democracy Day; Mali)

Medic Alert Day

National Acoustic Soul Day

National Day of Action & Healing

National Day of Life, Peace and Justice (El Salvador)

National Epilepsy Awareness Day

National Hug a Ghost Day

National Landon Day

National Ranboo Day

National Science Appreciation Day

National Underwriter Appreciation Day (Canada)

National Wayne Day

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 6, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 

Navruz (Tajikistan)

Plowing Day (Slavic)

Prince Kūhiō Day (Hawaii)

Purple Day (Canada, US)

Solitude Day

Tabaung Full Moon Holiday (Myanmar)

Universal Dole Day

World Climate Day

World Day of Cervical Cancer Prevention

Food & Drink Celebrations

Falafel Appreciation Day

National Nougat Day

National Spinach Day (a.k.a. Spinach Festival Day)

4th & Last Sunday in March

Black Marriage Day [4th Sunday]

Blessing of the Bock (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [Last Sunday]

Neighbour Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

Simple Sunday [Last Sunday]

Summer Time begins (EU) [Last Sunday]

Independence Days

Bangladesh (from Pakistan, 1971)

Kingdom of Trebor (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Sokovia (Declared, from Pakistan; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Braulio of Aragon, Bishop of Saragossa (Christian; Saint)

Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)

Castulus (Christian; Saint)

Emmanuel and companions (Christian; Saints)

Felicitas (Christian; Saint)

Fifth Sunday in Lent (Western Christianity) (a.k.a. ... 

Care Sunday

Carling Sunday

Judica (Lutheranism)

Passion Sunday

Passiontide begins [lasts 2 weeks]

Solidarity Sunday

Harriet Monsell (Church of England)

Khordad Sal (Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday; Zoroastrian)

Larissa (Christian; Saint)

Ludger (Christian; Saint)

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (Pastafarian)

Moby (Muppetism)

Nero Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Paul Erdos (Humanism)

Plowing Day (Slavic nations)

Richard Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))

Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Orthodox)

Theophrastus (Positivist; Saint)

William of Norwich (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Luckiest Day of the Year

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Brannigan (Film; 1975)

Damage, by Josephine Hart (Novel; 1991)

Diamonds Are Forever, by Ian Fleming (Novel; 1956) [James Bond #4]

Doug’s 1st Movie (Animated Film; 1999)

Ebony & Ivory, by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (Song; 1982)

Funplex, by The B-52s (Album; 2008)

Gorillaz, by Gorillaz (Album; 2001)

Hot Tub Time Machine (Film; 2010)

How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Film; 2010)

The Illustrated Man (Film; 1969)

Invincible (Animated TV Series; 2021)

Just Another Band from L.A., by Frank Zappa (Album; 1972)

Nobody (Film; 2021)

The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol (Short Story; 1836)

Quality Street (Film; 1937)

Quantum Leap (TV Series; (1989)

This Side of Paradise (Novel; 1920)

Ugetsu (Film; 1953)

The Way, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2013)

Women and Children First, by Van Halen (Album; 1980)

Today’s Name Days

Lara, Ludger (Austria)

Emanuel, Goran, Maksima, Montan (Croatia)

Emanuel (Czech Republic)

Gabriel (Denmark)

Imand, Imant, Immo (Estonia)

Immanuel, Immo, Manne, Manu (Finland)

Larissa (France)

Lara, Ludger, Manuel, Manuela (Germany)

Poulios, Sylas (Greece)

Emánuel (Hungary)

Eginardo, Emanuele, Manuel, Quadrato, Romolo, Teodoro (Italy)

Dabrelis, Eiženija, Emanuels, Ženija (Latvia)

Arbutas, Emanuelis, Feliksas, Teklė, Vydmantė (Lithuania)

Gabriel, Glenn (Norway)

Emanuel, Feliks, Larysa, Manuela, Nikifor, Teodor, Tworzymir (Poland)

Gavriil (Romania)

Emanuel (Slovakia)

Braulio (Spain)

Emanuel (Sweden)

Ella, Gabriel, Hnat, Ignatius, Larissa (Ukraine)

Dudley, Geomar, Hunt, Hunter, Huntley, Xiomar, Xiomara (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 85 of 2023; 280 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 12 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 5 (Gui-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 4 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 4 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 24 Ver; Threesday [24 of 30]

Julian: 13 March 2023

Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 1 Archimedes (4th Month) [Theophrastus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 7 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 6 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Archimedes (Ancient Science) [Month 4 of 13; Positivist]

Ehwaz (Horse) [Half-Month 7 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 4.9)

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Done reading!

[gingesbecray]

https://gingesbecray.com/the-nest-s1e01-recap/

I’ve started recapping new BBC One thriller The Nest with our Sophie Rundle and Martin Compston.

https://gingesbecray.com/the-nest-s1e01-recap/

[filmphilics]

Recommendation of the week: Under The Skin (2013)

Dir.: Jonathan Glazer

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Robert J. Goodwin, Krystof Hádek

Genre: Sci-Fi

Plot: A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.

Filmphilics score: 7/10