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The Exam

Best Music Moment of 2018:

Nasty: Hearing Red Eyes live. I've already said it on TBH, but seeing your favorite band in their relative prime is such a cool thing.

BC: Since partying all night with my favorite band fell within the short window between Bestuv '17 ending and Bestuv '18 beginning, I'd have to say:

1. Kacey Musgrave's performance of "Slow Burn" on SNL

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2. Radiohead perfectly executing "There There" which transported me back to Lollapalooza in '08 3. Despite the annoyance of sitting in lots of Indy500 traffic due to a new parking situation, I quite enjoyed working through half of the Stones' catalogue with Bronco riding shotgun and Codemin listening in from the flatbed of Dillon's pickup

Codem: Spending what was New Year's Eve for the central timezone in the USA at a Fijian medical bath facility listening to music, playing cards, downing tequeel and getting ringworm with my blushing bride. -hearing peter hook play the bass line from shadowplay live and in person. -Arden, JD and JJ encouraging me to go talk to Kyle from Swearin'. -Silver Jews and Westing (By Musket and Sextant) came to Spotify. -Watching "Random Rules" video for the first time

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Larse: Sitting behind this massive (I mean orca fat) guy at the CHVRCHES show, feeling really bad for him before the show started because he was all alone and kept looking around and worrying about letting people in his row and things. As soon as CHVRCHES came on though, this guy was exactly where he was supposed to be that night. Sang the words and danced to every song and just made my day with how happy he was to be there. Jotted down every song of the setlist into his smartphone and just had an all around great time. And some of you motherfuckers won't even go to a movie by yourself!

JD: May: A moody Chinatown stroll with the new Grouper album in the rain. July: Soaking up some good tunes at the housewarming party to ring in our new pad. July: Some hilariously rambunctious youths having at it when “House of Jealous Lovers” came on during a full play of Compilation 1 at the DFA summer party. One of them (who must have been ~8 in the bygone days of 02) screamed out “this is the song that started it all!” to a crowd of stationary gawkers and I felt a brief moment of hope for the youngs. August: Shaking a leg at Pete’s wedding (also featuring a delightful hojl spin). September: A rowdy spin of “Sentient Oona” on the Levee juke with an impromptu digital jukebox dance party at the Turkey’s Nest with jj’s cousin and his lovely girlfriend. October: The best music cue I’ve ever seen at the end of Beau Travail.

Bronco: Taking John to his first concert, and that first concert was Mastodon. That was pretty awesome to be able to share that experience with him. He was super into it, and so were the metalheads at the show. "Dad of the Year" was definitely shouted more than a few times, and I thought to myself, "fuckin-A right."

Chap: My kids saying "Papa" when "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals comes on.

Best Shows Seen in 2018:

C: Open Mike Eagle at Pitchfork

Bronco: Sleep

Laser: CHVRCHES at Riverside Theater; Chromeo at Summerfest

BC: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Radiohead

Nasty: The War on Drugs.

Code: kraus - schubas peter hook - metro no age - the bottle swearin' - bowery eleanor friedberger - lincoln hall my bloody valentine - aragon "quickly climbing the ranks of my nice" ballroom kraus - the bottle pictureplane - bottom lounge soft moon - the bottle book of love - chop shop

JD: 1. Shame at Market Hotel 2. Hamilton Leithauser at the Carlyle Hotel 3. Beach House at United Palace Theater 4. The Voidz at Elsewhere 5. Parquet Courts’ Wide Awake! mid-day album release show with my morning coffee at Rough Trade

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6. Flasher at St. Vitus 7. Deafheaven at Brooklyn Steel 8. Panda Bear at Brooklyn Steel 9. No Age at Brooklyn Bazaar 10. CCFX at the DFA summer party at Elsewhere with my girlfriend in full blown rem sleep standing up with her head on my shoulder 11. Alex Cameron at Warsaw 12. Gang Gang Dance and Interpol at House of Vans Of note: Dekkar at On Cinema Live at the Bell House.

Confession of 2018:

JD: I have a real TBH confession that I held until now. I was thoroughly enjoying the Flasher album on a recent evening after a few too many drinks when a burning urge to see them washed over me. They had a show coming up at a bar just a few blocks from my apartment, so I enthusiastically snapped up tickets for me and jj. Thinking this might be a good opportunity for a TBH outing, I emailed Chap trying to peer pressure him into attending the Flasher show and gauging his interest in a Parquet Courts concert that would be happening the following evening. No response.

We later received an invitation to a holiday cocktail party at a friend’s apartment on the same night as the Flasher show, and I hatched a cockamamie scheme to go from our home in Greenpoint to the party in Soho, leave after an hour to catch the concert back in Greenpoint, head back to the party in Soho, and finally retire back to Greenpoint. JJ wisely passed on such a scheme and I left the party to trek off to the concert solo with an extra ticket in tow.

Awash in good cheer and excitement while Flasher set up, I thought what the hell, might as well take a flier on reminding Chap of the show. Maybe the twins are asleep, he’s just sitting around, can jump into a cab, claim the extra ticket, watch the show, and cruise on back. Mid-text I paused, wondering just why he never responded to the initial email weeks ago. A quick gmail search, and there sat my drunkenly composed beseechment to join, rotting in the drafts folder unsent.

A couple of the dudes from Parquet Courts were bouncing around the bar, and I decided it would make more sense to hit up Chap about attending their show the next day than explain the whole snafu and extend a ludicrous invitation that required dropping everything and leaving immediately for a show he didn’t even know was happening. I ate the extra ticket, had a blast watching Flasher, zipped back to the party, drank myself into oblivion, and was way too hung over to even consider the Parquet Courts show the next day. NICK SORRY NICK! (editor’s note: too long)

Larson: I saw Timberlake at Fiserv Forum

BC: My neighbor invited me to see Imagine Dragons. I lied and said I had to travel for work. "On a Saturdee?" he inquired. "Yeah. Totally sucks," I awkwardly replied. I hid inside my house all weekend.

Bronco: I'd rather see shows by myself than with my buddy. He likes going to shows, and I keep inviting him, and we have a fine time, but he doesn't live in town anymore, so I gotta worry about him drinking too much and driving an hour home. And his wife is a psychopath and that complicates shit. Too much. And it's just so much more freeing being able to not give a fuck about anyone else during that time, to just soak it all in, it feels good and right.

Codem: -despite all of the bad things that kanye said, i still liked listening to his catalogue throughout the year. i even liked his EP that came out in 2018. -i really liked the beach house album! -i liked the snail mail album, skipped two opportunities to see her and then by --the end of the year, i thought the album was sort of boring. -Arden and i went to see pictureplane open for alice glass and thought that the show sucked and pictureplane played such stupid songs. three months later, he put out my favorite album of the year and i can't stop thinking that i hated all of the same songs the first time i heard them. -i read an article on a bright fall saturday morning that exhaustively detailed the Cardi B and Nicki Minaj feud and i watched all of the instagram story clips that showed Cardi B scrolling through her phone with those outlandish nails of hers. it took me two cups of coffee to get through it all, but get through it i did. [i couldn't think of nicki minaj's name just now so i stared at the ceiling and kept running through names in my mind's eye: missy, kim, cardi, kelis, kim??, eve, trina. i couldn't remember. so i finally googled "kanye monster" and found her name. easy.]

Nasty: I'm done with new music. It’s over. I didn't listen to a single new album - I don't even know if I could name a new album. Realistically, I did like Daytona.

Biggest Disappointment of 2018:

Nasty: MAGA Kanye

Larse: Timberlake at Fiserv Forum

Bronco: Black Tusk, Alice in Chains

BC: Getting into The Orwells literally two days before #MeToo chewed 'em up and spit 'em out

Chap: Car Seat Headrest. Can't believe he's gay! jk the album was the disappointment.

Code: -somebody hacked my spotify account and wiped all of my music and replaced it with raggaeton and halsey. i was able to get my music back, but i lost all of my meticulously cared for folder structure. -i wanted the simple minds album to be cool; it was not. -i wanted the swearin' album to be really great; it was okay. -pictureplane and ovlov did not tour their albums. -i had to eat two tickets to my bloody valentine after buying four. the original show sold out and i thought i was going to be able to sell my extras for a profit -- they ended up announcing a second show and there was no secondary market for the original show. -no CCFX followup ):

JD: Got to Hammerstein Ballroom for MBV and there was a line longer than an entire avenue. They were already on by the time we made it into the heinously oversold venue and we were stuck by the bar in the lobby surrounded by people constantly shouting in an effort to compete with the apocalyptic noise.

C: Terrible sound at Tame Impala show

Most Overrated of 2018:

Code: -probably that kacey musgraves album; i got absolutely nothing out of it. also, i liked the robyn album, but i wanted to love it after many years between releases. i think i'm just being greedy. -i'm going to get killed for this, but the throwing the baby out with the bathwater approach to artists' criminal behavior or inflammatory tweets is pretty overrated right now.

Bronco: Ghost - I like their schtick, with rotating members and the whole inverted church thing. It's campy but they're sticking to it, and that's fine, but their music isn't metal. It's poppy glam shit about the devil, and that's also fine, but I don't get why it's on anyone's list. Production value maybe? But the music itself isn't anything to write home about. I just don't get it.

JD: n/a. The thick layer of nonsensical, Pynchonian obfuscation the platform economy dollops over everything has made it impossible to understand how anything is rated. Almost feel bad for the click driven publications that have to just throw out a guess.

C: Mitski

Chap: Snail Mail

BC: Kanye. His new music is no longer good enough to put up with his bufoonery.

Laser: Timberlake at Fiserv Forum

Nasty: Clemson. GOARSH.

Make It Stop 2018:

Nasty: DJT, anytime now.

Bronco: Party politics. No more labels allowed. You can have a list of stuff you support and a list of stuff you are against, but that's fucking it. No more this side vs that side for reasons as caddy as an R vs. a D. Also religion having any influence whatsoever in the way our country is run. Believe whatever you want to believe, but don't force your bullshit on anyone else. You want to torment yourself with a lifelong christian guilt trip, that's your boat to float, but don't go poking holes in my boat just because you're a miserable fuck. Just stop. Also, Jack White.

Larse: Timberlake at Fiserv Forum

Chap: Baby Shark

BC: My shrinking attention span

JD: The cultural currency of clapbacks, shade, and tea.

Code: trap music playing from a phone's external speaker while i'm trapped on public transportation. i'm going to go broke buying enough earbuds to distribute to these offenders.

Biggest TBH Regret of 2018:

Larse: Timberlake at Fiserv Forum

C: Not seeing Low at a church on University of Chicago's Campus

JD: -Hearing about a Grouper show at a church around the corner from my pad after it sold out. -Not necessarily a regret because I didn’t know it was happening, but oh how I wish I had seen Jon Glaser and Jon Benjamin as Dave Farina and Dave Franz, Dennis and Dennis’ sons, at a Bowery Ballroom Yo La Tengo show.

BC: -I wish I would've cooked up a way to see Shame play a midnight show in Bloomington. ��I just want that kid to scream "Concrete" in my face. -I probably should've seen Smashing Pumpkins when they rolled through town too.

Code: my flight got delayed and i missed the swearin' show at that place in brooklyn that "smelled like hot fish"

Bronco: Not a regret so much as I was super-bummed when High on Fire dropped out of the tour I saw in November. The venue we were at put my buddy and I right next to the stage. It would've been crazy awesome to see HOF there, but they've rescheduled at least, and I'll see them in January.

Bin: I haven't listened to any Kanye this year. I thought it would feel gratifying by year end - it doesn't. I'll probably still avoid this most recent album, but I'm going back to the well. I'll continue to talk shit about him though. Take that Ye!

Chap: No regrets

Detective Murtaugh of 2018:

Larse: Getting too old to keep up with all of this new music and put a worthwhile list together at the end of the year…

Nasty:

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Code: i added book of love show to my top ten concert list because Arden and i were able to take a seat on the ground in the balcony section. we had to continually move our spot on the floor to be able to peer through the railing and a mass of bodies in order to catch a glimpse of the stage.

JD: -Two of my favorite music related experiences of the year were seeing Hamilton Leithauser in the cafe of the Carlyle Hotel and the extended Niles family in The Nutcracker at the NYC Ballet. -When I googled “Detective Murtaugh” just now it was mostly pictures of Damon Wayans (Jr. no less!) playing the role on the Lethal Weapon CBS series.

Bronco: Putting up with shit instead of speaking up about it. There's room on the train but I'm squished by the door because some self-absorbed dinks won't move in? "Could you please move in?" It sounds so simple, but breaking that silence barrier was a scary thing. Now I don't give a shit. I'm on train for two stops, and I'm not going to see you again, so fuck you, move in or I'm going to move myself in and it aint gonna be pleasant for you.

Chap: A hipster female barber said I was a silver fox. AYFKM?

BC: What the hell is Fortnite?

Resolution for 2018 Update:

Larse: get my list in on time! How it went: probably horseshit! (editor’s note: it was early yet!)

NACK: While I didn’t have the occasion to catch shows this year, I anticipate doing so in '18 due to some changes afoot. How it went: Joe Dons has yet to let me know of a concert going on and I have no other friends here, so I blame him for my failure

Bin: I’m just going to keep saying “get to NY for a show with JD” until I make it happen. How it went: Didn't get to NY for a show with JD.

JD: See you gents more often with or without a show attached. How it went: Fairly decent, but is it really ever enough?

Bronco: Get in shape. I want to stick to a schedule of running all year round. I ran a 10K back in June, then needed to recover for a bit, been recovering ever since…Fat Dad needs to keep running all year round without excuse, especially given that we go skiing between Xmas and New Year’s and I’m gonna be a floppy legged mess. During those runs, I’ll try to listen to new material each time. How it went: I ran a 5-miler in May. Haven't run since. Though I have been reasonably consistent with my prison workout (situps and pushups before bed time), so now there's a hint of muscle under my fat dad layer. Just gotta combine the two now somehow.

Code: make more playlists for my wife How it went: i said that i was going to make more mixes for my wife. i made one year-end mix for her and i'm sure she's loving it :*

BC: No more resolutions How it went: 2018 Resolution was "No More Resolutions," so pretty darn good!

Resolution for 2019:

Laser: ---

BC: Listen to one new album a week; reboot the Classic Album Review Club

JD: Greater consciousness of how I’m using my attention - an ineffectual and meaningless protest of the ways the world is burning down in pursuit of it.

Bronco: Read more 'classic' books. I didn't read many of them, even in school (especially in school? Never could read a book I was told to read). But I'm leaning in the sci-fi direction of 'classics'. I just read Dune this summer, and wrapped up Fahrenheit 451 the other day. I'm feeling an unexplained need to beef up my nerd credentials and this seems the way to accomplish it.

Chap: Learn Piano; Guilt Joe Dons into finally inviting me to a concert

Nasty: I'm sticking with it - get to NY for a show with JD.

Code: catch ovlov, pictureplane, washer, chromatics, EMA and colleen green live this year.

Most Anticipated of 2019:

Bronco: Tool. Fifth year's the charm. I'm actually hopeful this time around. In fact, I half expect them to drop it on New Year's Eve or something, just so it's post Listicle season, but not quite 2019 so it can't end up on those lists either. They're such dicks like that.

BC: Still waitin' on dat Vampire Weekend yet

Chap: Vampire Weekend, Chromatics

C: Lin Manuel in Mary Poppins... I kid, My Bloody Valentine

JD: Going to put Frank Ocean out into the universe, MBV take 2, Grimes, Panda Bear, Kanye’s escape from the Black Lodge

Codem: chromatics - tommy, MBV, washer, colleen green, EMA(?), DoM

Laser: no idea what's even on the docket

Nasty: Mueller's Report

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blinktutor · 3 years ago

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কোনও খান নন, বলিউডের দুর্দিনে ভরসা খিলাড়ি অক্ষয় কুমার! কারণ...| Akshay Kumar film Bell Bottom release in cinema halls across India– News18 Bangla

কোনও খান নন, বলিউডের দুর্দিনে ভরসা খিলাড়ি অক্ষয় কুমার! কারণ…| Akshay Kumar film Bell Bottom release in cinema halls across India– News18 Bangla

#মুম্বই: কোনও খান নন, আপাতত মুম্বই ফিল্ম ইন্ডাস্ট্রির পরিত্রাতা হিসেবে উঠে আসছে অক্ষয় কুমারের(Akshay Kumar) নাম৷ খিলাড়ির উপর বাজি ধরছে গোটা বলিউড৷ অক্ষয়ের ছবি ‘Bell Bottom’-কেই এখন পাখির চোখ করছেন সকলে৷ কারণ দীর্ঘদিন বাদে Bell Bottom মুক্তি পাচ্ছে হলে৷ যদিও মহারাষ্ট্রে হল খোলার অনুমতি এখনও মেলেনি৷ তাই মুম্বইবাসীর জন্য এই ছবি অদেখাই থাকবে৷ যার জেরে ছবির ব্যবসায়ও ঘাটতি থাকবে প্রায় ৩০ শতাংশ৷…

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globalexpressnews · 3 years ago

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Bell Bottom Movie: Release Date, Box Office, Where to Watch, HD Download and Book Ticket Online

Image Source : TWITTER/@MULTIVYBES Know everything about Akshay Kumar’s Bell Bottom here Starring Akshay Kumar and Vaani Kapoor, the spy thriller Bell Bottom is all set to hit the cinema halls on Thursday (August 19). The film has already peaked the excitement of the fans with its trailer. Directed by Ranjit M Tewari, Bell Bottom is inspired by true events. It is about a real-life hijacking of…

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filternewsofficial · 3 years ago

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EXCLUSIVE: Akshay Kumar’s Bell Bottom to arrive in 3D; Tentatively looking at Independence Day release

On June 15, Akshay Kumar put all the speculations to rest as he announced that his action thriller, Bell Bottom, will see a theatrical release across the globe on July 27. While the release date has been deferred as cinema halls are yet to open in key markets, the delay gave the makers time to amp-up the theatrical experience for the audience. Pinkvilla has exclusively learnt that the espionage…

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atscorpsblog · 3 years ago

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SCOOP: Akshay Kumar’s Bell Bottom to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on THIS date? : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama

SCOOP: Akshay Kumar’s Bell Bottom to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on THIS date? : Bollywood News – Bollywood Hungama

Akshay Kumar and Pooja Entertainment recently announced the release date of their thriller, Bell Bottom and the same has got the entire film industry excited. And why not, as it’s the first major superstar film to be released in the cinema halls over the last one and a half years. The film directed by Ranjit Tewari is all ready for a July 27 release in cinema halls across the globe. And that’s…

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thenewsroom8 · 3 years ago

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SCOOP: Akshay Kumar’s Bell Bottom to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on THIS date? : Bollywood News

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salmankhanholics · 4 years ago

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★ Mirroring the Industry: Sooryavanshi and Radhe in cinemas, but why is Bell Bottom exploring an OTT release?!

While Salman Khan's Radhe is confirmed for an Eid 2021 opening, Akshay Kumar's Sooryavanshi might be the first major Hindi film to release in cinema halls. But what does Bell Bottom taking OTT route mean? January 21, 2021

January 19 was a historic day, as India won a test series against Australia in their own den. As the country was celebrating,

the exhibitors of India also got a reason to rejoice as their most wanted superstar, Salman Khan, finally put the record straight and confirmed that his next film, Radhe, will release only in “theatres” during the Eid 2021 weekend. With the announcement, Salman became the first A-List superstar to come out and take an open stand for exhibitors and also, the first superstar to announce the “theatrical release date” of his film in between the pandemic.

To the ones who are not aware, in September and October last year, Salman was flooded with offers from OTT platforms to bring his film, Radhe on their platform. The OTT players keen to get the exclusive streaming rights of Radhe were Amazon Prime, who had made an offer of Rs 175 crore plus, and Eros Now, offering Rs 180 crore plus, solely for the streaming rights. However, in the longer run, keeping the best interest of everyone in mind, the producers of Radhe stood their ground to bring the film only in cinemas. The theatrical, satellite, digital and music rights of Radhe have been acquired by Zee Studios for a sum of Rs 230 crore, thereby making it the biggest deals in Covid times. While the producer, Salman is already in profits, it’s a reasonable deal for even Zee, standing a high chance to mint money.

Eid has been synonymous with Salman, in-fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that he took the festival to new heights in terms of theatrical biz in India.

While the exhibition sector and fans are awaiting Eid i.e., May 12, there is a certain section who is wonder if Salman should have come earlier in February or March to revive cinema halls. But well, our view point is that, more than the date of release, him coming on the big screen holds more importance, as the easiest thing for him was to take the OTT route. It’s the intent of bringing the film in cinemas that makes the difference. Eid has been synonymous with Salman, in-fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that he took the festival to new heights in terms of theatrical biz in India, and an action film like Radhe, arriving on Eid, should aim at scaling up the initial run at box-office in the Hindi circuits in this pandemic.

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mriduldasgupta · 4 years ago

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Akshay Kumar: Akshay Kumar Released New Film's Poster 'BELL BOTTOM' on Instagram. Here is the full details of the film.

Akshay Kumar's new movie 'BELL BOTTOM' poster has released on Instagram

Akshay Kumar post a message on Social media of his latest film. He confirmed on today that his film 'BELL BOTTOM' released on 2nd April 2021. He posted his film poster with a readable text.

Akshay Kumar posted and Wrote "Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. Its teamwork and I am grateful to each and every member of the cast and crew. #BellBottomCompleted. Here’s the poster."

In 'BELL BOTTOM', Akshay Kumar play suspicious role and it's a look like a Spy Film(not confirmed). According to report, this film directed by Ranjit M Tiwari and its will be released on 2nd April 2021 Worldwide in Cinema Hall.

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barpurplewrites · 8 years ago

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TMI fot Left the Following Comment On - has Gold ever wanted to attend a con? Now that he's more comfortable with himself and Belle and fanlife in general would he ever go and experience one for himself? Cosplay optional, of course :)

Chapter 17: left the following comment on.

Belle had been talking about upcoming conventions for awhile, Rum knew that she was hoping they would go as a couple, and as temptingas it sounded to spend a weekend with Belle immersed in fanlife he couldn’t getover the panic that the crowds caused in him. Just reading the capacity of thehall for the celebrity panels made him break out in a cold sweat. Belle hadnoticed that something was wrong, but he’d kept brushing her off with flimsyexcuses that he was tired, or maybe coming down with something. He was tooscared to tell her that he couldn’t face large crowds.

When she’d mentioned that Ruby was going to buy the ticketshe realised that he had no choice, he had to tell her about his fear.

“Belle, I can’t go to a big con. I’m, I’m terrified of largecrowds.”

He braced himself for mockery and snide comments, and thenkicked himself for thinking so little of Belle, she was far too kind to reactlike that, and it was wrong of him to project other people’s reactions on toher. She was chewing on her bottom lip as she thought. There was only kindnessin her eyes as she looked at him.

“I’ve been making you uncomfortable talking about this haven’tI?”

He gave her an awkward shrug; “A little. I should have toldyou, sweetheart, but it’s such a ridiculous fear.”

She pursed her lips and jutted her chin at him.

“Like my ridiculous fear of spiders?”

Rum reached for her hand, making sure that his touch wasfirm and in no way spidery; “I still think arachnophobia is a rational fear foran Australian. I’ve got no reason for my fear of crowds.”

“It doesn’t need a logical reason behind it, this issomething that makes you uncomfortable and I don’t want to put you in that sortof situation.”

They were quiet for a moment, Rum feeling relived that she’dnot made fun of him or tried to force the issue. He could tell Belle wasturning something over in her mind.

“How are you with cinemas?”

“Hum? Oh okay. I tend to wait until most people have leftbefore I leave, but I’m fine with them.”

Since Storybrooke didn’t have a cinema, the nearest on beingthree towns away, it had never featured as a date option for them. Rum’s AmazonPrime account gave them the option to watch new films almost as soon as theywere released so they weren’t missing out on anything. Belle pulled her laptoptowards her and pecked away at the keyboard one handed, her thumb rubbing overhis knuckles. She turned the screen towards him.

“What do you think about this?”

“USS Constitution, a month meeting of sci-fi and fantasy fans?”

“Yep, they meet in the college in Bangor, screen episodes,have fic readings, that kinda thing. The hall can only hold a hundred or sopeople, do you want to see some pictures?”

Rum glanced at her surprised that she’d picked up on thefact that even pictures of crowds could set him off. A hundred max capacity? Hecould cope with that.

“Let me see.”

She clicked the link for the gallery, but her eyes were onhim as the slideshow rolled by. He squeezed her hand to reassure her there wasnothing triggering in the images for him. He was intrigued by the variety ofages and the fact that many people were in costume.

“Is cos play compulsory?”

“Oh no, but they do have regular competitions.”

The idea of Belle in a classic Trek costume popped into hismind. That would be very nice to see.

“When’s the next meeting?”

“A week Saturday. Let’s see,” Belle found the calendar ofevents and grinned, “It’s Tribble Day, they’re showing both episodes and havinga make your own Tribble workshop.”

‘Trials and Tribulations’ was one of his favourite DS9episodes, it could be taken as a good sign. He bumped Belle with his shoulder.

“Think you can get time off?”

“You want to go?”

Rum thought about it for a second, “Yeah I do, it’s a smallevent. I can do this.”

Belle pressed a kiss to his check; “You’re not doing this onyour own. I’ll be right there with you.”

Rum smiled at her as butterflies fluttered in his stomach,not the squirming harbingers of anxiety, but the light excited sensation ofanticipation. This was going to be fun.

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trevorbailey61 · 8 years ago

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Black Sabbath

Genting Arena, Birmingham

Thursday 2nd February 2017

And in the end...... They left home to take on the world, they have fought and conquered and their language has been absorbed and translated by a host of inferior imitators. For the warriors one last victory procession before the end, a finality that as they reach where it all started now seems very real. Of course the final tour doesn't always mean the final tour. The thought that there is just this one remaining opportunity means final tours are often highly lucrative leading to them going on for years. The Who have been on a never ending one for about three years, including another two visits to Birmingham since I wrote some drivel about the end of an era. When the end does come, it can be sudden and unexpected, we decided against paying the vastly inflated ticket price asked for Prince's “Hit and Run” tour fully expecting there would be another chance to see him. At nearly 80, it was always likely that we would regret not taking a last chance to see Leonard Cohen but then, about a year later we were to see Burt Bacharach still tinkling the ivories at 86. The grand statement, therefore, allows some sense of control in the face of the unpredictability of fate, one day you will be right. The feeling is, however, that for Sabbath, this really is the end. They are already one member down, Bill Ward embroiled in some contractual dispute with the others that also acts as a cover for his failing health. Tony Iommi looks lean and fit but has had his battles with cancer whilst Geezer Butler, who of the four appears the most unscathed, no longer posses the girth to carry off the leggings his younger self was known to wear. Then there is Ozzy, the charismatic front man who whilst in what appeared to be a permanent state of confusion, practically invented reality TV. It is tempting to see that his battles with drink, drugs and his dysfunctional family have left him a shell bit here, in front of a fiercely partisan crowd in his home town, he is in his element. His figure may be hunched and dressed entirely in black he may have forsaken the flamboyance of his glory days but his sheer presence is as magnetic as ever. Black hair, dark black eyes, white skin showing the lines brought about by age and those binges and the demonic stare that fills the giant screen combine to show that on this final tour, he has a look that complements the bleak intensity of the music. The proficiency and technique of those around him create the brooding atmosphere but it is on Osbourne's shoulders that the show rests and despite his demons he delivers.

In their thousands they came, an army in black swarming through the concourses and empty halls of the NEC. Their influence is such that this was so much more than a wake for those mourning the passing of an old friend, eager young faces mixed with craggy old ones and, for a band who always seemed very blokey, there were a surprising number of XX chromosomes present. The diversity only extended so far, however, and, as it always has done, Sabbath’s particular brand of hard rock appeals to a mostly white audience. T-shirts are proudly worn displaying the tours on which many had seen them before, the oldest of these, tightly stretched over the middle age spread of its wearer, was faded to grey and listed a series of dates in the early 70s. Like the band themselves, time has not been kind to many of their followers and some moved tentatively, stick in their hand to give them support and confidence but infirmity was never going to keep them away. Waiting just outside the station, a family walk past, different generations drawn to the dark lords but each expressing how they have personalised their connection with the music. Grandparents, dressed in denim and leather, grandad with a goatee and shaven head, grandma with bleached white hair and overdone make up, were 70s heavy metal veterans from when Sabbath first burst onto the scene, possibly a little surprised that both they and the band have survived this long. White faces, long black hair and huge boots, mum and dad were 80s goths, Sabbath temporarily absent in their youth meaning these darker paths were opened through some of those they had influenced. The confidence, and a figure that has yet to show the ravages of time, mean that the children can take the look of their parents to its striking and extravagant conclusion, tight ripped jeans and t-shirts, spiked hair and the same huge boots. A love shared by the family but each with their own version.

A toiling bell announces the princes of darkness, the solemn signature of the “Black Sabbath” song, Iommi’s tritones forming the devil’s interval to create the unsettling setting for the doom laden lyrics. Osbourne’s straight and impassioned delivery gives them the substance they would otherwise lack and the prog rock twists and jazzy rhythms immediately show the subtleties and variations that made them so much more than just a heavy metal band. “Let’s go crazy”, shouts Osbourne igniting a ferocious Iommi riff to release the built up tension into a frenzy. It was the song that started it all and the tone and structure of much guitar based music that followed, the cartoon new metal sound of acts like Iron Maiden, the dense goth of The Cult or the slacker grunge of Nirvana, can all be found in the legacy that Sabbath left, particularly over the course of four stunning albums released in the early 70s.

Bringing it all back home, the set is dominated by these four albums, a celebration of their power and influence. Some choices are obvious, “War Pigs” shows that whilst their lyrics often lacked subtlety, the breadth of the themes they tackled was much broader than they were often given credit for. A reflection on peace that comes straight from Woodstock, they were almost hippies, it’s anti war message is all the more forceful through being stated so plainly and at such volume. Wailing sirens, Iommi’s power chords and Butler’s fluid bass lines create the tone for the apocalyptic lyrics; “Evil minds that plot destruction; Sorcerers of death's construction”, some things don’t change. “NIB” is introduced by a surprisingly funky Butler bass line and leads to an instrumental section where Iommi gives the teasing signature of songs that had failed to make the set, This concludes with one of those rituals of the early 70s - the drum solo. There was certainly no doubting the technique but with over a dozen false endings it is a relief when the rest of the band reappear. When they do it is with the thumping beat and the instantly recognisable motif of “Iron Man”, fittingly about a man returning from the future to warn of an impending apocalypse, perhaps now this is the future.

“NIB” casts Osbourne as the devil, something that feeds speculation on the bands interest in the occult, particularly in their early days. Sabbaths devils, however, are more Hammer Horror than Aleister Crowley, not to be taken too seriously and a bit camp. The humour was mostly lost on their more obsessed followers and, as is the case with “NIB”, the satanic themes were often used to illustrate more worldly concerns. “NIB” shows how easy it is to give into temptation, something explored more directly in “Snowblind”. In introducing the song Osbourne briefly reflects on his own addictions, saying it is something he wouldn’t wish on his worst enemy, and the lyrics are some of their most incisive. These were written by Butler and show terror, pain and a frightening descent into dependency; “Winds of ice that soon will spread; Down to freeze my very soul”; a path the person singing them was already taking. “After Forever” shows that, despite their reputation as purveyors of the black arts, their background and religious views were Catholic and rather than a celebration of the occult, is an attack on atheism, “Is your mind so small that you have to fall; In with the pack wherever they run”. Through “Fairies Wear Boots”, “Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes”, “Into the Void”, the pace and density of the sound never lets up and each is built around Iommi’s glorious signature guitar. His playing is possibly at its most fluid on “Dirty Woman”, but appearing on “Technical Ecstasy” it is the one time they step away from the first four albums and lacks the urgency of their best work. “This is the last one” Osbourne tells us before “Children of the Grave”, unless of course we earn another one but with the ferocity of the playing that was never in doubt and as balloons fall from the roof engulfing the stage the party is almost complete. All that was needed was, of course, “Paranoid”, a short burst of self doubt that displays both individually and collectively the strengths of this formidable band. Purple confetti, each piece having “Black Sabbath” printed on it, flutters down across the hall, a group hug, a wave and they were gone, one more performance and that is it - the end of their dark era.

In 1968 an oddly worded ad appeared in a music shop in Birmingham, “Ozzy Zig Needs Gig”, Intrigued and having just seen their jazzy blues rock band Mythology fold, Toni Iommi and Bill Ward replied and thus found themselves alongside two other survivors from a failed band, a psychedelic outfit called Rare Breed. Having tried different names without success, they found themselves rehearsing above a cinema that specialised in the horror and sci-fi b movies that were to give them so much inspiration. After one such evening, Butler had a dream, "I was asleep and I felt something in the room, like this weird presence, I woke up in a dream world, and there was this black thing at the bottom of the bed, staring at me. It was just this apparition. It just lasted a second. But it just freaked me out.” Osbourne captured Butler’s description of his dream in the ominous lyrics, Iommi added the guitar motif and the title was lifted from a Boris Karloff movie. The band had a song and an identity. On a chilly night, the song that the dream inspired will be performed by its creators for the last time, or will it. No sooner had the last piece of confetti softly landed, than Iommi announces that the band may work together again, perhaps another never ending final tour is just beginning.

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