#ape 2025

[boonesfarmsangria]

Phil Sharp

All Points East 2025  will be welcoming The Maccabees for their first show in eight years on Sunday 24 August.

In 2017, The Maccabees said an emotional, euphoric goodbye with three sold-out nights at Alexandra Palace.

After a final performance of their breakout hit ‘Pelican’, they stood together on stage for the final time, waving back at a sea of adoring fans, all pouring their own goodbyes into the moment. It was an ending that has stayed with all who witnessed it, equal parts joyful and sad. At their creative, critical and commercial peak, they were leaving behind everything they had known in their adult lives. The end of crafting four increasingly accomplished and acclaimed albums, with each passing record reflecting the experiences of the fans who had grown up alongside them. The end of The Maccabees.

It was a farewell so resolutely final that each member threw themselves with full commitment into countless new endeavours: music, art, books, film scores, production, broadcasting and so much more. No matter how many times the question was asked in the years after, each member felt the same thing. It was the end. But not all goodbyes are necessarily forever. And so today comes the news that The Maccabees have reunited to headline All Points East in Victoria Park, London on August 24th 2025 – it also coincides with the 10-Year Anniversary of their final record together; the critically acclaimed, Number 1 album ‘Marks To Prove It’.

Not only will The Maccabees be Sunday night headliners – the bank holiday weekend being the perfect time for such a celebratory occasion – but they are also collaborating with All Points East to deliver an essential bill of artists that they love, both old and new.

The first small turning point on the road to All Points East can be charted back to guitarist and founding member Hugo White’s wedding in February 2020. He wanted to put together a covers band as part of the celebrations. Guest spots were divided out between an illustrious list of close friends and musical peers including Adele, Florence + The Machine and Jamie T. It was mooted that The Maccabees could maybe play ‘Pelican’ at the party to make it really special, but Hugo wasn’t entirely sure if singer Orlando Weeks would accept the invitation. They hadn’t all been together, on or off stage, since that last moment at Alexandra Palace.

For Orlando, it was about participating in a landmark life moment for his friend; as he puts it “I didn’t go because it was The Maccabees playing together again, but because it was a beautiful gesture to be invited and to contribute to the spirit of the day. What I wanted, band aside, was to find a way to be in each other’s lives in some way.’’

Having played almost every venue of every size in London as the band developed, the opportunity to headline the leading festival in the Capital in such good company, in the City they all grew up in, was eventually too good an opportunity to pass up.

Having immediately sold 30,000 tickets for their final Alexandra Palace shows shortly after its announcement, demand for tickets is expected to be huge. Fans who sign up to the mailing list at www.themaccabees.co.uk will gain access to a pre-sale which opens at 10am on Wednesday 30 October. Remaining tickets will then go on general sale from 10am on Thursday 31 October.

Felix White adds, on the pertinence of the show itself, “In the intervening years we’ve been to All Points East a lot, separately. It’s become a bit of a landmark festival for us, always checking who’s on the line-up. I’d go and have a great time throughout the day, but there was always this pinch of regret watching headliners that we could’ve done it ourselves one day too. I thought that moment had passed, and it was something I was prepared to come to terms with that I was always going to miss. I think we’re all kind of shocked and excited that we get to do it together again.”

Hugo White was inspired, in part, by watching The Strokes at last year’s All Points East: “I could see that they were enjoying it , realising how great what they had created together was. Being a band, you are usually in a mindset of, ‘We can do better’ and you’re always chasing something else. This is an opportunity to realise that whatever we had in that moment was pretty special and get to enjoy it again. It’s a chance to appreciate everything, and especially how it impacts other people and created a community.

[primate-lens]

I kinda like how she's sitting like a cat.

That's awfully cat for a rat.

Canon 550D EF 50mm f/1.8 STM

Poznań, Poland Jan'25

[911actually]

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[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Steyr Puch Haflinger 700 AP Prototype, 1959. A lightweight off-road vehicle with astonishing off-road capabilities, thanks to its front and rear differential locks and low weight. This is the 48th one produced and left the factory on the October 22nd, 1959. Originally intended for the Austrian army, it was kept at the factory in order to create a prototype for the US market, identifiable by the size of its headlights and its odometer calibrated in miles. As it was never shipped to the USA, it was finally sold to Fiat (the brand’s distributor at the time) on the 24th October 1960 and then registered in Turin, becoming the first and only example delivered to Italy in 1960. The Haflinger was discovered in the small mountain village of Curiglia in Italy, hidden in a tool shed only accessible via a stone path. The restoration carried out has preserved the originality of this machine as much as possible. Since October 1959 it has travelled only 11,990 miles and will be offered at auction at Rétromobile 2025.

auction listing

[mrs-stans]

‪@APEntertainment: Speaking at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, Oscar-nominated actor Sebastian Stan reveals the special someone who will accompany him to next month’s Academy Awards.‬

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Here's my art challenges for the year! My overarching goal is just to crochet a different Pokemon every day, but these monthly challenges will help narrow down my choices.

Jan-New-Ary for Pokemon from Paldea, Fae-bruary for fairy types, Maw-rch for Pokemon with big jaws or teeth, Ape-ril for ape-like Pokemon, Mer-may for water types, Junebug for bug types, Jewel-ly for rock types, Smaugust for dragon types, September for fire types, Ectober for ghost types, Dinovember for fossil and dinosaur-like Pokemon, and Decem-brr for ice types. Blank calendar pages under the cut:

[shehatescoffee]

sometimes i forget that the jjk trio are also gen z and whenever i remember i feel so happy and free

i say this because i am picturing nobara saying BFFR and megumi shitposting on twitter and yuuji making skibbity rizz jokes and subsequently getting punched by megumi

[joemerl]

Me, @DreamWorks

Seriously, everyone was praising you after Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Best not-actual-Disney movie in years. And then you look at their parade of hated remakes failing at the box office, and what? You thought this was an idea worth stealing?

[makeyoumine69]

2025 (AP will be 25 years old🥲!)

I'm going to do my traditional New Year's post and say that I can't believe that time goes by so fast and that this is my third time doing such a post! I want to wish you all the best in 2025 and I hope that the American Psycho fandom will only grow and we will all have a great time! I'm so lucky to be here among such amazing people! 2024 was pretty hard for me, but I'm looking forward to the future with a lot of hope!🪓🫠

Stay safe and have a Happy New Year!💕

[ladylucck]

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style MET GALA 2025

The 2025 Met Gala Has a Dress Code —and It's Personal.

[boonesfarmsangria]

[primate-lens]

So, funny thing about this particular photo is; since I'm shooting with a 50mm lens (the one that can't zoom in or out and has the focal length and view similar to how your eyes see) I had to lie down and roll in grass to get the good shot I wanted. The lighting was otherworldly, by the way. The purple hue from the setting sun isn't much different than on the original photo. Anyways, there were two people having their photographs done at the base of the monument and they actually moved aside so I can take this picture, despite the fact I could have shot it with them. They were too far away for me to hear them, anyway.

I guess I got moved by this small act of human kindness.

Canon 550D 50mm f/1.8 STM

Poznań, Poland Feb'25

[d-criss-news]

Selma Blair, Christina Hendricks, Darren Criss attend Christian Siriano fashion show *Darren Edit

[dead-man-stimming]

Bonobo Stimboard for World Bonobo Day 2025!

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(Bonobo photograph (c) Emilie Genty.)

(All bonobo gifs in this board were made by me).

Resources and information about Bonobos below the cut!

Ape Initiative

Friends of Bonobos

IFAW

Please consider donating to conservation efforts to protect our closest primate ancestors!

[ape-apocalypse]

Oscars are coming this weekend and Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes is up for Best Visual Effects. However, it has been a curse on the reboot series that every Apes movie was nominated for this category but lost.

Knowing this...

[realshawnhunt]