#The Vic Theatre

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The Boy in the Woods will be screened at the Victoria Film Festival - The Vic Theatre on June 24-27, 2024.

Get your tickets here.

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Mclusky's Good Intentions

Mclusky's Andy "Falco" Falkous

BY JORDAN MAINZER

"Fuck This Band". It's the name of the song Andy "Falco" Falkous and Mclusky have been opening their sets with on their triumphant return to many North American cities, including Chicago last Friday at the Vic. It's an effective calm before the storm of noise and chaos that inevitably enraptures the moshing crowd. And it's an appropriate sentiment, tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating, referential to the very loud ruckus that presumably caused the initial postponement of these tour dates to begin with. A Molotov cocktail of aural health issues forced Falkous to make fans wait a little bit longer to celebrate 20 years of Mclusky Do Dallas. It was immediately apparent from the opening chords of "Dethink to Survive" that our patience paid off: Falkous and drummer Jack Egglestone donning protective headphones, the band launched into a burst of razor wire guitars and pummeling percussion, and never stopped.

From left to right: Mclusky's Damien Sayell, Jack Egglestone, Falkous

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

The post-hardcore band's influence is wide-reaching. You can hear Falkous' everyman sprechgesang in the cubicle shouts of Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette, his frantic non-sequiturs in the nervy yelp rock of Squid, both of whom were featured on the house playlist before Mclusky took the stage. But the band continues to be good at its own game, too. Last year, they shared their first new material in 19 years, and they played two of those released songs on Friday, sounding like 2002 just as much as 2023. "Two minutes and forty five seconds is the optimum length of a rock and roll song," Falkous declared, after letting the audience know it was okay not to pretend they like new songs. But "Unpopular Parts of a Pig" is a trademark Mclusky tune, alternating between deceptively melodic shouts and droning chants, plus a loud-quiet-loud dynamic and sardonic lyrics chiding useless platitudes. Thematically and instrumentally, it nestled perfectly between the ugly guitar distortion and Damien Sayell's meaty bass on "Day of the Deadringers", and crowd favorite "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues". Meanwhile, the blown-out bass of "The Digger You Deep" and unreleased barnburner "Et Tu, Edwards?" gave the crowd a chance to let loose between "She Will Only Bring You Happiness" and "You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus", two The Difference Between You and Me Is That I'm Not on Fire songs that satirize the tortured artist and toxic masculinity.

Sayell, Egglestone, & Falkous

Really, though, to a certain generation of Mclusky fans, Friday first and foremost represented an event we thought would never come. To hear Falkous' introductory chirping on "Without MSG I Am Nothing", Egglestone's brawny thuds on "Chases", and the shout-alongs of "To Hell With Good Intentions" and "Alan Is a Cowboy Killer" was a thrilling exercise in nostalgia for some and disbelief for others. Towards the end of the set, Falkous took the time to thank everyone involved in the show, even those he had met just that night, an act of working class solidarity before his effortless bout of sarcasm: "This cavalcade of sincerity must end soon." Given Falkous' ability to lighten the mood through his well-intentioned derision, it's easy to see why Mclusky continues to be great today.

Falkous

Sayell

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“Sinéad O'Connor was a sweet, wonderful woman. She came up and said hello to me. We sat in the sun, drank Pepsi-Cola, and told each other secrets. We talked a lot about her childhood and Kurt's childhood and all sorts of childhoods. She takes in the world with huge luminous eyes, the type you rarely see, utterly lunar, laser beams to Ork.

Sinead and I would stay up all night in the bus watching really depressing movies. We watched Ryan's Daughter and two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights. She told me about Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw being sexually abused. When we were in Chicago she bought me a beautiful book that I really needed, and then she went down to her room, and when she was all alone she ran away to the airport.

She was pregnant, it was quite hot, and she was depressed. In her note that she left she said, "They can sue me. I don't care. I'II find another line of work," which I thought had a lot of integrity to it, to be honest.

I missed Sinéad.”

Courtney on touring with Sinead in July 1995. Written in 1995. Sinead told festival founder Perry Farrell that the reason she joined Lollapalooza was because of Hole and Courtney. Rest in power you beautiful human.

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Jared Harris as Max in The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre

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I love Vic Michaelis you see them in group activities and they get all tiny and polite and pitching in jokes at just the right time that maybe not everyone in the room hears, just four degrees left from Scared Of Being Here With All These Cool People............ and then they start acting and the God Complex fully kicks in

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Jared Harris in the Homecoming at the Young Vic.

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Photographed during a dress rehearsal, Judi made her London debut as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre in September 1957

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Faith Healer - 19/09/2020  #35

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Victoria Theatre in Te Hau Kapua, Aotearoa! absolutely gorgeous thing, about 112 years old and run by people who love it. the movies they show are fantastic, including many old movies from around the 80s! they even have a live performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show occasionally. I'm kind of in love with her art deco interior and soft colours...

SPEAKING OF WHICH. why did they do this.

HER LOVELY COLOURS..... all gone!!!! and for no reason other than to "blend in" with the other white buildings on the street. one day I'll sneak out in the middle of the night and repaint her when nobody is looking I swear (mostly joking. or am I....)

anyway! absolutely gorgeous cinema. AND theres gelato [:

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“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”

John Proctor, The Crucible

Happy World Theatre Day!!! 🎭

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Jiavani and Vic.

Yes.

You agree with me.

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Alfred Enoch at the press night for A Christmas Carol which is set to open at The Old Vic Theatre

11/20/2024

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First photos of Jared as Max in Pinter's The Homecoming

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omg okay ik my blog isn't abt this kind of stuff but i need to have a written account of exactly what happened when i saw comedy bang bang live last night before i forget the details. it was like crazy funny like my neck started to hurt from laughing after a while. i also totally freaked out when jason mantzoukas came on cuz i absolutely love that man and seeing him right in front of me was crazy. the show was really good and after i lined up to meet some of the performers which was super sick. i met brett morris first and he was like 'hi im brett morris' and i was like 'OMG I KNOW!!! i love who charted' and he was all 'oh that's great i'll tell howard!!' and then we talked a little abt how im visiting la from canada and i totally forgot to mention how much i love his band mister heavenly so that kind of sucks but whatever it's fine. after that i talked to vic michaelis who is literally the sweetest sweetheart on the planet and they're from a town that's a pretty short distance from where i am (and went to a university that's also really close) so we talked about that and it was actually so nice!!! then i got to meet paul f tompkins and scott aukerman and pft and i talked abt toronto and he literally had this like warm energy im not sure how to put it but talking to him felt like such a genuine experience and i got so nervous i told him i liked his glasses 😭😭 also meeting scott was literally the best ever he asked me what my name was and when i told him he was like 'camryn so like camera with an n' and i was like 'yeah that' and he laughed a teeny bit which was a huge ego boost and then i told him abt how i started listening to cbb when i was in like middle school and im abt to go to college and he asked me what i was planning on majoring in and i said photography and he said 'oh like cameras??' and i said 'no like camryn without the n' (i know very funny) and then i got a picture w them and the lady who took it (i assumed she worked for the venue or was like a part of the touring company) was like 'omg i'm nervous cuz ur an expert' and scott was like 'YEAH ASK CAMRYN FOR HER ADVICE' and i got really flustered but then either scott or paul (was too nervous to make note) said something along the lines of 'well she hasn't gone to college YET' and we took a few photos and the lady was like 'omg these are so cute' and scott and paul were like 'wow she hasn't described any of these photos as cute before' and then i thanked them and paul said he'd see me in canada and they were just the coolest i literally could not stop smiling like my face hurt after leaving. absolute 10/10 experience i was so scared i was gonna end up sobbing or freezing but all i did was shake a teensy bit which i consider a huge win. anyways scott and paul love u both u made my week actually tysm