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“But I want them alive. No disintegrations.” “As you wish.”

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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In 1883, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 7) and his companion Ace travelled to Earth to investigate the creepy manor known as Gabriel Chase. Among the manor’s secrets appeared to be a strange creature and a stone spaceship. To make matters worse, the Doctor learned that Queen Victoria’s life might be at stake. ("Ghost Light", Doctor Who, TV)

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October Reading

I've been having trouble sitting down to actually write this. It's almost as if I'm under a lot of stress right now. I wonder what uncontrollable near-future political event that could be about.

Recent: I reread a horror novel at the start of the month which will become evident after Trick or Treat author reveals.

Finished How To by Randall Munroe and Unmarriages by Ruth Mazo Karras. Also Biggles Buries a Hatchet, all basically good, discussed in last post.

Got a lot of knitting done while reading M. R. James on The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts, which was perhaps not the M. R. James I would expect to read in October, but nonfiction is easier right now. It's very affected by being written immediately post-WWI.

On which note, just now finished The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K. J. Charles, right under the wire before it has to go back to the library. Enjoyed it and also very much appreciate the list of referenced Victorian ghost stories in the Acknowledgements.

Also lots of Kinktober.

Current: Still skimming through Painting Nature in Watercolour with Cathy Johnson, whose style I like. Writing style, I mean, but also the watercolors.

I read a third of The Silvered by Tanya Huff and liked it enough to put it on hold again even though my ability to focus on new long fiction isn't really there.

Rereading Steadfast by Mercedes Lackey. Mrs. Pollifax is still continuing slowly.

Have I made any progress on the paper books I have out from the library? No.

Oh, I skimmed the beginning of The Blue Castle recently because I had a fic idea, and I will need to read some Victorian medievalism to get a voice for that.

Future: The Halcyon Fairy Book by T. Kingfisher will probably come in soon. I also want to find another nonfiction book to read at North York Central library to distract from jobsearching. I have a giant list of options, which doesn't necessarily help.

Otherwise not sure whether I will be fine reading normally or want lots of comfort reading. I am looking forward to starting a long RWRB historical AU.

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Day 3: A Speaking Engagement and Tea Cakes

Visitors: 107 Books Found: 18 (3 fiction) Total Tally: 49 pounds

Another magical day in Wigtown. Foot traffic was slow to start. We shelved the books that Ruth from the bookshop next door had given us yesterday. Michael had time to replace the “boring” Scotland general window display that was in the far window when we came, with something he thought people might like. The Horses display, with the quote “Horses lend us the wings we lack.” Pam Brown, 1928. Yesterday a girl had asked for a horse book, but today no equestrians came in.

I fancied up the secret brown-wrapped books with lovely brown twine, and added a few for “foodies”. To the “how to” display I added “Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dingy”. Inside the shop, I was tickled pink to find a copy of the original “Colour Me Beautiful” by Carole Jackson circa 1980s. I remember attending home-parties based on her seasonal palette (for clothes and makeup). I was a Spring, Michael a Winter. This fashion theory is having a retro moment (along with Barbie).

Around noon things picked up. We sold 3 secret books, and I was thrilled to see a book I had pulled out and highlighted on the animal shelf “A Lion Called Christian” was bought by someone who’d also seen the documentary about the domesticated and then returned to the wild lion.

It was hard to lock up at 1:45 to walk down to The Smiddy, so I went alone and Michael joined me after he’d made some sales. We had been invited to have tea with the members of the Wigtown and District October Club, which started meeting there in May 2005. The ladies (it’s a mixed club but no men attended) have speakers in, and meet for cards and conversation and tea. They wanted to hear how we ended up at the Open Book. I told them about my love of reading, my first fav books being Heidi and Little Women, and then how I became a writer of short stories (Canadians love that format – I mean our Alice Munro won the Nobel for her short stories!) It was hard for me to understand all of them, and I know I was bastardizing their names in my Canadian accent (Marilyn, Cathy). I learned about a game called Beetle Drive and Marilyn gave me the rules and a few score sheets. They politely listened to me read my short creative non-fiction story Treachery published online in Gastropoda in July, 2022. Michael came and we got prizes in the raffle – I got Tea Cakes (traded with Cathy for the Licorice All Sorts) and Michael a jar of honey from The Isle of Colonsay. They sympathized with the effort of driving on the left, and taught us that a garage sale (where I buy many old books) is called a “car boot sale”.

We met Ben Please, a famous Book Shop musician and invited him to the author reading on Friday night. He suggested we make it later than 4 pm and have free red wine if we want Shaun B. to come. We popped into The Bookstore on our way back from The Smiddy (it was drizzling rain) to meet Shaun, get a signed copy of his new book and invite him to read. He was standing barefoot at the counter signing his books. He may not be able to come, but I told him we’d change the time to suit. So, fingers crossed.

The open Scrabble game was popular today and a crying wee little one played havoc with it. To Michael’s delight, it ended her tears completely. At the end of the day, a woman asked if we had a copy of The Kon-Tiki Expedition, published in English in 1950 by Thor Heyerdahl. After she left the store, I found a copy in the Travel section. Michael tried to find her, but she was gone.

We continue to enjoy fresh baked croissants from Co-op and from the reading window seat in the flat, we like watching people double park in front of it. How they leave the flashers on and the door open rather than park up the road. Today a double-parker’s car alarm was so loud we closed the shop door. Michael plays jazz funk music in the shop and I change it to classical music whenever I can.

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Echo Live Bespin Bazaar: Saturday 1st October 2022: More guest announcements

Echo Base Live announces more guests for the upcoming October show.

With just over two months until the return of Echo Base Live show returns to Redditch, plans are coming together and guest announcements are arriving thick and fast. Alongside the previously announced Bill Hargreaves, the Echo guys and gals have now added a further 3 guests to the line-up for 1st October: Paul Jerricho, Cathy Munroe and Rusty Goffe. Paul Jerricho – AT-AT Driver Paul is an English…

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Bounty Hunters. We DO need their scum.

Via the Cathy Munroe Official Website: From left to right:

Alan Harris (Bossk), Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett), Cathy Munroe (Zuckuss), and Chris Parsons (4-LOM) from “The Empire Strikes Back”. 

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ok here’s a list of every book I read in 2020

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Hard Damage by Aria Aber

Bluets by Maggie Nelson 

The Lifting Dress by Lauren Berry

Reconstructions by Bradley Trumpfheller

The Tradition by Jericho Brown^

Space Struck by Paige Lewis

The Burgermeister’s Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth Century German Town by Steven E. Ozment^

Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith^

Aeneid Book VI by Virgil, translated by Seamus Heaney^

Engine Empire by Cathy Park Hong^

Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard^

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley^

Idaho by Emily Ruskovich*

The Maid and The Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone^

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson^

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón*^

Homie by Danez Smith

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Drift by Caroline Bergvall^

There There by Tommy Orange

Nox by Anne Carson^

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro*^

A Bestiary by Lily Hoang^

The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry

Good Boys by Megan Fernandes

Don���t Be Afraid, Gringo by Elvia Alvarado, translated by Medea Benjamin^

Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village by Victor Montejo^

One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta, translated by Bill Brow^

Bandit by Molly Brodak

The Tattooed Soldier by Héctor Tobar^

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams

Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back: Carl’s Book by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark

A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok

Without Protection by Gala Mukomolova

Birthright by George Abraham

monster house. by Mia S. Willis

Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Luster by Raven Leilani

Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral

Sana Sana by Ariana Brown

The Crying Book by Heather Christle

Crown Noble by Bianca Phipps

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Cold Alchemy by Amrita Chakraborty

You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior by Carolina Ebeid

The Carrying by Ada Limón

Runaway by Alice Munro

My Year of Rest & Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Cut Woman by Dena Igusti

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Trash by Dorothy Allison

Fuck Your Darlings by Devin Devine

Set to Music a Wildfire by Ruth Awad

Daddy by Emma Cline

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Portrait of the Alcoholic by Kaveh Akbar

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg

The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr^

Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

Heavier Than Wait by Ilyus Evander

The Best American Essays 2019, edited by Rebecca Solnit^

Look by Solmaz Sharif

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Anodyne by Khadijah Queen

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart * = reread ^ = read for a class

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What I read in 2020

2020 wasn’t a vintage year for reading. I only finished 66 books – my lowest count in recent years – and I didn’t discover anything startlingly new. But I was pleased that for the second year in a row half the books I read were by women and that I came close to hitting my target of six books in Chinese. I would have hit my Chinese target if I hadn’t started a 600-page book in October, but as that’s already going to be one of the top books of 2021, I’m not too upset about missing that goal.

Upping my Chinese reading was probably part of reason for the low overall count – one page typically takes around 10-15 minutes – though also responsible was over-reading during two weeks in home quarantine in March put me off books for a while.

As usual, I mainly read older books – ones not released in 2020 – and for once the amount of fiction I read comfortably exceeded the non-fiction. Of that fiction the highlights were Lydia Davis’s Collected Stories, Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains and the second volume of The Plum in the Golden Vase.

Davis’s work is short – often very short (many of her tales are less than a page). Prose poetry? Sometimes, but not always. A lot of playfulness. But also with a power that builds as you keep reading, a few pieces one day, a few more the next, and the one after, and so on. Also her repeated determination to experiment, sometime using traditional forms, sometimes with new ones.

Carter’s book, from the late 1960s, moved through much the same collapsed-society territory as Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, but far more elegantly and to a more satisfying ending. I didn’t like her fairy stories, but this was tremendous.

The Plum in the Golden Vase, Volume Two: The Rivals – as good as the first volume. Better maybe. The best sprawling novel ever?

Aeschylus’s The Oresteia was another standout – read following last year’s Aeneid and Odyssey after consulting Richard Jenkyns’ excellent Classical Literature (an invaluable source of recommendations about what to read from Greece and Rome). No surprise that Aeschylus’s work has survived two-and-a-half millennia with its poking around matters that still bother human beings (families, states, etc).

Of the various books I read on Hong Kong, Kong Tsung-gan’s Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle was the one I found most satisfying. Partly for its exploration of some of the darker, more violent aspects of 2019’s protests, but most of all for capturing the importance of what happened and so why it will be hard for the forces of repression to succeed in the long run. The only problem with this book is that it now seems to be almost impossible to get hold of.

Of the five books I read in Chinese, my favourite was in Cantonese (and so arguably not in Chinese): 麥花臣金將軍與白龍的對談 by  並明. An extraordinary piece of work, mainly about two young men from Hong Kong in Oxford talking about Hong Kong and philosophy, but also including voluminous footnotes on matters such as why certain characters had been chosen to represent words used in Cantonese that don’t occur in standard Chinese. If you have any interest in Cantonese I would say it’s a must-read – it’s the first time I’ve come across a sustained piece of writing using Cantonese as it’s spoken.

I also enjoyed 像我這樣的一個女子 by 西西 (Xi Xi, A Girl Like Me). I had read a couple of her books in English, and thought they were so-so. Actually, the problem was the translation. In English, her stories look simple; in Chinese, even I can tell that there’s a lot more going on, even if I’m not sure what it is.

What pointed me to Lydia Davis was her translation of Swan’s Way, my third version. My first reading was in 1984, when I thought it was amazing. Then, after reading the first two or three books, I decided to save the rest for some special occasion. That never came, so in the early 2000s, I read those first few books for a second time – again finding them amazing. This time round, however, I was rather less compelled.  I enjoyed it, but didn’t care for it. I’m now thinking I will never get round to finishing the whole thing.

The list in full:

Anita Brookner, A Friend from England

Peter Gray, Free to Learn

Richard Baldwin, The Globotics Upheaval

Stendhal, Scarlet and Black

Anita Brookner, Latecomers

Daniel H Wilson, Robopocalypse

Tim Jackson, Prosperity Without Growth

並明, 麥花臣金將軍與白龍的對談

Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age

Wang Anyi, Love in a Small Town

Nina Bawden, Walking Naked

Anita Brookner, Family and Friends

Anita Brookner, A Start in Life

Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains

Gerald Graff & Cathy Birkenstein, “They Say, I Say”

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Neighborhood

Marcel Proust, Swan’s Way

Ruth Kassinger, Slime

Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Stanley SK Kwan, The Dragon and the Crown

陶傑, 香港政局的50個關鍵詞

CS Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

Felicia Nay, Red Affairs, White Affairs

Anonymous, The Plum in the Golden Vase, Volume Two: The Rivals

Julia Lovell, The Opium War

Various, Aftershock

Bruce Aitken, The Cleaner

青永屍, 你個教育制度壞咗呀

Kong Tsung-gan, Liberate Hong Kong

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

Deborah Levy, The Unloved

Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind

Elias Canetti, The Play of the Eyes

Martha Nussbaum, The Monarchy of Fear

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Vigil

Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

西西, 像我這樣的一個女子

Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu

Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Antony Dapiran, City of Protest

Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

Lydia Fitzpatrick, Lights All Night Long

Michael Taylor, Community, Anarchy, Liberty

Jean Rhys, Quartet

Toni Morrison, Home

Ursula Le Guin, The Telling

Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

譚劍, 人形軟件

Adair Turner, Between Debt and the Devil

Amos Oz, Judas

JS Sharman, The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management

Ursula Le Guin, Tales of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Felix Dennis, How to Get Rich

Martha Nussbaum, Woman and Human Development

Alice Munro, Dear Life

Sally Rooney, Normal People

David Grossman, To the End of the Land

Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

Charles Taylor, Hegel

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Happy International Women’s Day

to all the female-identifying people! 

As we could not put everyone on the gifset, we also want to shout out to all the woman inside and outside the show

Character in the show: Callie, Camille, Carol, Cindy Gaines, Copy Girl, Crying Woman, Dr. Jennifer London, Dragon, Emily Greenstreet, Etta, Eve, Female Professor, Fray, Genji, Gretchen, Harriet, Healer Faye, Hedge #1,  Homicide Detective  #1, Irene McAllistair, Iris, Kimber D'Antoni, Kira, Lia, Librarian Rona, Mackenzie, Old Woman, Orgy Girl #1, Orgy Girl #2, Phyllis, Prof. Pearl Sunderland, Poppy, Professor Bigby, Psychic Girl #2, Rainbow Girl, Receptionist, Sam Cunningham, Shelia, Stone Queen, Sylvia, The Prophet, The White Lady, Whitley, Young Hedge, AD, Arielle, Arleen, Ashley the Bookie, Baba Yaga (and the girl she posess), Beatrice McAllister,Beatrix, Becky, Dana, Doctor Meers, Dr. Higgins, Evelyn,Fairy Queen, Fillorian Mother, Goldie, Hanna, Harriet, Healer Tara, Heloise,Homeless Lady, Jane Chatwin,Marina Andrieski,Mellony, Napster, Natural Student #1,Nurse#1, Nurse#2, Persephone, Physical Kid #1, Poppy, Professor Lipson, Prudence Plover, Quentin's Mother, Rhona, Scared Woman 36,Shara,Shoshana, Silver, Skye, Sonia 36, Spectre, Stephanie Quinn, Stephanie's Friend, Suzie, TV Crew, Victoria, Water Dragon,Zal, Zelda and all uncredited characters!

off cameras woman : Adela Baborova, Aeryn Gray, Alexandra Rojek, Allison Gordin, Alma Kuttruff, Alyssa Jacobson, Amber Crombach, Amber Waters, Ana Lossada, Ana Lossada, Angie Kennedy, Anna Register, Annalese Tilling, Anne Grennan, Ashley Biggs, Ashley Mason, Athena Wong,Audrey Himmer-Jude, Aylwin Fernando, Barbara Jansen, Beth Williams, Blair Richmond, Blythe Bickham, Breanna Watkins, Bree Brincat, Briana Skye, Brittney Diez, Caitlin Groves, Candice Harvey, Cara Doell, Carmen Lavender, Carole Appleby, Caroline Milliard, Carolyn McCauley, Carolyn Williams,Carrie Audino ,Cassandra Parigian, Cathy Darby, Chere Theriot, Cherie Bessette, Cherie Smid, Cheryl Callihoo, Christina Nakhvat, Clara George, Clarinda Wong, Coreen Mayrs, Crystal Mudry, Danielle White, Debbie Douglas, Deborah Burns, Deborah Burns, Deneen McArthur, Denya McLean-Adhya, Desiree J. Cadena, Donna Stocker, Elie Smolkin, Elizabeth Rainey, Elle Lipson, Emily Nomland, Emily Upham, Emily Weston, Emmanuelle Charlier, Errin Clutton, Eunice Yeung, Eva Abramycheva, Gilda Longoria, Ginge Cox, Grace Delahanty, Heike Brandstatter, Helen Geier, Irina Berdyanskaya, Irwin Figuera, Janene Carleton, Janet D. Munro, Janice MacIsaac,Janice Williams, Jayne Dancose, Jenni Macdonald, Jennifer Gilevich, Jennifer Kaminski, Jennifer Machnee, Jennifer Nelson, Jesse Toves, Jessica Goodwin, Jessica Williams, Juli Van Brown, Julia Holt, June E. Watson, Justin Coulter, Kai Lesack, Kara Bowman, Karen Lorena Parker, Karina Partington, Karley Stroscher, Karly Paranich, Kate Marshall, katerina Motylova, Kathie Singh, Katie Letien,  Katrissa 'Kat' Peterson, Kelli Dunsmore, Kendelle Elliott, Kristy Jelinek, Kyla Rose Tremblay, Kyle Landry, Laura Dickinson, Laura Schiff, Lauren Aspden, Lauren Beason, Laurie Lieser, Leslie Cairns, Lisa Blaxley, Lisa Chandler, Lisa Godwin, Lisa Pouliot, Lisa Pouliot, Lisle Fehlauer, Liz Goldwyn, Lucie Elwes, Luisa Abuchaibe, Lyne Talbot, Lynn Werner, Madeline Jensen, Madison Mah, Madison Penland, Magali Guidasci, Maisie Lucas, Margot Ready, Maria Gleeson, Marie Marolle, Marijke Richman, Martha Dietsche, Mary Hubert, Meghan Kelly, Michelle Kabatoff, Michelle Kee, Michelle Yu, Miluette Nalin, Mimi Dejene, Nadia Alaskari, Natasha Wehn, Nicole Bivens, Nina Göldner, Patricia Jagger, Patti Henderson, Paula Antil, Polina Nikolai, Pricilla Rodgers,Priya Ayengar, Rachel O'Toole,Rita K. Sanders, Rudy Jones, Sam Ochotta, Sarah McLauchlan, Sera Gamble, Shae Salmon, Shae Salmon, Shailey Horton, Shannon Courte, Shannon Kohli, Shannon McArthur, Sharon Dever, Shelly Goldsack, Shelly Shaw, Sina Nazarian, Sondra Durkse, Sonia V. Torres, Sophia Delgiglio, Stephane Bourgeault, Stephanie Plett, Sue Blainey, Sumner Boissiere III, Sunil Pant, Taja Perkins, Tamara Daroshin, Teresa Brauer, Tracey McLean,Tracie Hansen, Tracie Leaphart, Tracy Craigen, Vanja Cernjul, Wendy Foster, Wendy Snowdon, Wendy Talley 

(Source IMDB) 

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Cate Blanchett for Vogue Italia, November 2017

Stylist: Cathy Kasterine

Photographer: Tom Munro

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And even more Black final girls for the list:

Ida James and Nina Mae McKinney as Sylvia and Isabelle - The Devil’s Daughter

Carmen Munroe as Beverley - Naked Evil

Marlene Clark as Ganja - Ganja & Hess

Janee Michelle as Lorena - The House on Skull Mountain

Ines Pellegrini as Naiba - Eyeball

Pam Grier as Lisa - Scream Blacula Scream

Marki Bey as Diana “Sugar” - Sugar Hill (1974)

Rosalind Cash as Lisa - The Omega Man

Teresa Graves as Countess Vampira - Vampira (1974)

Leslie Uggams as Liz - Poor Pretty Eddie

Jennifer Beals as Eva - The Bride (1985)

Cathy Tyson as Marielle - The Serpent and the Rainbow

Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, and Tisha Campbell as Crystal, Ronette, and Chiffon - Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Angela Bassett as Fran - Critters 4

N'Bushe Wright as Karen - Blade

Jennifer Beals and Kasi Lemmons as Rachel and Jackie - Vampire's Kiss

Oprah Winfrey and Kimberly Elise as Sethe and Denver - Beloved (1998)

Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Debbi Morgan, and Lynn Whitfield as Eve, Cisely, Mozelle, and Roz - Eve’s Bayou

Nia Long as Donna - Stigmata

Rachel True as Rochelle - The Craft

Kasi Lemmons as Ardelia - The Silence of the Lambs

Kelly Jo Minter as Ruby - The People Under the Stairs

Vivica A. Fox as Debi - Idle Hands

Akosua Busia as Vanessa - The Final Terror

Kelly Jo Minter as Yvonne - A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Angela Bassett as Kaela - Supernova (2000)

Rae Dawn Chong as Diana - The Borrower

Loretta Devine as Reese - Urban Legend

Regina Hall as Brenda - Scary Movie 2

Bianca Lawson as Cynthia - Bones (2001)

Rah Digga as Maggie - Thirteen Ghosts

Kandyse McClure as Sue - Carrie (2002)

Halle Berry as Miranda - Gothika

Marsha Thomason and Aree Davis as Sara and Megan - The Haunted Mansion (2003)

K.D. Aubert as Eliza - Frankenfish

Jennifer Beals as Valerie - The Prophecy II

Tina Lifford as Grace - Urban Legends: Bloody Mary

Ruth Negga as Mary - Isolation (2005)

Lenora Crichlow as Mandy - Wilderness (2006)

Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Gail - Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

Christina Vidal as Christine - See No Evil (2006)

Jessica Lucas as Kate - The Covenant (2006)

Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, and Josephine Ndagnou as Majolie, Chouchou, and Natou - Les Saignantes

Karan Ashley as Symphony - Devon’s Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy

Garcelle Beauvais as Julie - I Know Who Killed Me

Essence Atkins as Kisha - A Haunted House

Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms as Abernathy and Kim - Death Proof

Jessica Lucas as Lily - Cloverfield

Bresha Webb as Julie - Hollows Grove

Murray Gray as Reagan - Unsullied

Carla Greene as Solitaire - Shadow: Dead Riot

Tanedra Howard as Simone - Saw VI

Athena Karkanis as Tomboy - Survival of the Dead

Jessica Szohr as Juliana - Love Bite

Vanessa Morgan as Sarah - My Babysitter’s a Vampire

Rebecca Hall as Florence - The Awakening (2011)

Naya Rivera as Vera - At The Devil's Door

Tawny Cypress as Cindy - Remains

Nicole Ari Parker, Sanaa Lathan, and Ariana Neal as Sophie, Maggie, and Francesca - Repentance (2013)

Shannon Kane as Paz - The Collection

Halle Berry as Jordan - The Call (2013)

Emayatzy Corinealdi as Kira - The Invitation (2015)

Oluniké Adeliyi as Kim - A Christmas Horror Story

Zaraah Abrahams as Ganja - Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Bresha Webb as Allie - Meet the Blacks

Pearl Thusi as Nandi - Tremors 5: Bloodlines

Logan Browning as Lizzie - The Perfection

Christina Milian as Magenta - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Freema Agyeman as Angel - Eat Locals

Carmen Ejogo and Zoë Soul as Eva and Cali - The Purge: Anarchy

Isabél Zuaa as Clara - Good Manners

Lex Scott Davis as Nya - The First Purge

Reign Edwards as Brooke - Hell Fest

Rutina Wesley as Shelby - 13 Sins

Betty Gabriel as Laney - The Purge: Election Year

Petronella Tsuma and Kwande Nkosi as Busi and Gracie - The Tokoloshe

Kiersey Clemons as Sophia - Flatliners (2017)

Simone Landers and Natasha Wanganeen as Thoomi and Josie - Cargo (2017)

Jessica Allain as Lisa - Thriller (2018)

Tamiko Robinson Steele as LaQuinta - Black Holler

Korto Davis as Fatima - Fatima's Revenge

Shaunette Renée Wilson as Marie - Treehouse

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ava - The Cloverfield Paradox

Nicole Beharie as Samantha - Jacob’s Ladder (2019)

Ashleigh Morghan as Zoe - Head Count (2018)

Sasha Lane as Cassie - Daniel Isn’t Real

Storm Reid as Ashley - Don’t Let Go (2019)

Zolee Griggs as Izzy - Bit

Lily Frazer as Carol - Saint Maud

Zazie Beetz as Alicia - Wounds

Corinne Foxx as Sasha - 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Tashiana Washington as Drea - Critters Attack!

Nicole Stamp as Melanippe "Mel" - The Carmilla Movie

Sarah Jeffery and Nadine Ellis as Daphne and Elizabeth - Daphne & Velma

Sennia Nanua as Melanie - The Girl with All the Gifts

Danielle Vitalis and Paige Meade as Tia and Dimples - Attack the Block

Alexandra Shipp as McKayla - Tragedy Girls

Kiersey Clemons as Jennifer - Sweetheart

Carmen Ejogo as Katrina - Rattlesnake

Janelle Monáe as Veronica/Eden - Antebellum

Elle Lorraine and Chanté Adams as Anna and Linda - Bad Hair

Mary J. Blige and Anika Noni Rose as Renee and Taneesha - Body Cam

Kyliegh Curran as Abra - Doctor Sleep

Lupita Nyong’o and Shahadi Wright Joseph as Adelaide and Zora - Us

Wunmi Mosaku as Rial - His House

Taylor Russell as Zoey - Escape Room (2019)

Sasheer Zamata as Jessie - Spree

Oluniké Adeliyi as Lacey/Lilith - She Never Died

Aleyse Shannon as Kris - Black Christmas (2019)

Lupita Nyong’o as Miss Caroline - Little Monsters (2019)

Jessica Williams as Jess - Corporate Animals

Ajanae Stephenson/Lorraine Toussaint as Louise "Lou Lou" - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Gabrielle Elyse as Hayley - Snatchers

Jahkara Smith as Shay - Pure

Ella Balinska as Cherie - Run Sweetheart Run

Kiana Madeira as Deena - Fear Street

Lovie Simone as Tabby - The Craft: Legacy

Reign Edwards as Cody - Pilgrim

Lyndie Greenwood as Susan - Pooka Lives!

Morgan Alexandria as Imani - Stay Out of the Attic

Tamara Lawrance as Charlotte - Kindred (2020)

Coco Jones as Rita - Vampires vs. the Bronx

Mariah Robinson as Sophia - Cheer Camp Killer (2020)

Kourtney Bell as Caitlin - Don’t Look Back (2020)

Pepi Sonuga as Misty - Crawlers (2020)

Danielle Deadwyler as Lemon - The Devil to Pay

Natalie Paul as Valerie - Delivered (2020)

Aundra Smith and Sydelle Noel as Mira and Naomi - The Clearing (2020)

Celeste M. Cooper as Mel - Range Runners

Alexandra Slade as Diane - Friend of the World

Storm Reid as Sydney - The Invisible Man (2020)

Sydney Park and Asjha Cooper as Makani and Alex - There’s Someone Inside Your House

Phylicia Rashad and Amanda Christine as Lilian and Ava - Black Box (2020)

Celeste O’Connor as Nyla - Freaky

Zazi Kunene as Nomzamo - Pinky Pinky (2020)

Tamika Shannon as Nicole - Nicole (2020)

Renelle Nicole as Michelle - Friend Request (2020)

Nia Long and Audrey Cleland as Ellie and Brittany - Fatal Affair

Lorraine Burroughs and Hannah Gonera as Veora and Samsara - Spell (2020)

Gabrielle Graham as Nicole - Tempted by Danger

Faith Monique as Angela - Death Ranch

Davida Williams as Jess - Useless Humans

Samantha Logan as Kasey - Polaroid

Tamara Smart, Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, and Indya Moore as Kelly, Berna, and Peggy - A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting

Octavia Spencer as Agatha - The Witches (2020)

Maya Rudolph and China Anne McClain as Mary and Chantal - Hubie Halloween

Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Nicole - Always and Forever (2020)

Teyonah Parris as Brianna - Candyman (2021)

L. Scott Caldwell as Dolores - Bingo Hell

Georgina Campbell as Fig - All My Friends Hate Me

Evelyne Ily Juhen as Awa - Saloum

Chumisa Cosa, Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya, and Nosipho Mtebe as Tsidi, Winnie, and Mavis - Good Madam (2021)

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Alexis - Sound of Violence

Lidya Jewett as Yasmin - Nightbooks

Hannah Gonera and Masali Baduza/Schelaine Bennett as Dana and Trish - Slumber Party Massacre (2021)

Asjha Cooper as Shawna - Black as Night

Shantae Barnes-Cowan and Tasia Zalar as Maxi and Grace - Wyrmwood: Apocalypse

Michole Briana White as Regina - Malignant (2021)

Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson and Dakota Baccelli as Emma and Lilly - Let’s Scare Julie

Hannah John-Kamen as Jill - Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

Gbemisola Ikumelo as Comfort - The Power (2021)

Zainab Jah as Grace - False Positive

Mari Oliveira as Mariana - Medusa

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy - Scream (2022)

Mame-Anna Diop as Aisha - Nanny

Meagan Good and Zion Broadnax as Jocelyn and Paige - Day Shift

Thalia Besson as Samantha - Arthur, malédiction

Amandla Stenberg as Sophie - Bodies Bodies Bodies

Priah Ferguson and Kelly Rowland as Sydney and Emily - The Curse of Bridge Hollow

Georgina Campbell as Tess - Barbarian (2022)

Andrea Laing as Zoe - Adult Swim Yule Log

Robyn Alomar as Alana - Terror Train (2022)

Aisha Dee as Cecelia/Sissy - Sissy

Iola Evans and Angela Griffin as Kayla and Thea - Choose or Die

Kota Eberhardt as Desi - She Will

Megalyn Echikunwoke as Esme - Blood Moon

Keesha Sharp as Celeste - Titanic 666

Antoinette Robinson as Lisa - The Blackening

Quei Tann as Alexandra - They/Them

Miia Harris as Clawdeen - Monster High: The Movie

Leah Sava Jeffries and Iyana Halley as Norah and Meredith “Mare” - Beast (2022)

Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, and Tamara Smart as Kat, Sister Helley, and Siobhan - Wendell and Wild

E’myri Crutchfield as Kelly - Dark Harvest

Jonica T. Gibbs as Mollie - Fresh (2022)

Sierra Holder as Jackie - Bring It On: Cheer or Die

Cheyenne Haynes as Merritt - Student Body

Regina Hall as Gail - Master (2022)

Riele Downs and Genneya Walton as Darby and Bree - Darby and the Dead

Taylor Russell as Maren - Bones and All

Hannah John-Kamen as Maya - Unwelcome

Ashley Madekwe, Bukky Bakray, and Maria Almeida as Neve/Cheryl, Dione/Abigail, and Mary - The Strays

Beth Million as Miri - Sick (2022)

Sophie Wilde as Mia - Talk to Me (2022)

Amandla Stenberg as Jonny - My Animal

Alisha Wainwright as Margaret - There's Something Wrong with the Children

Erica Ash as Melanie - We Have a Ghost

Cleopatra Coleman and Amanda Brugel as Em and Jennifer - Infinity Pool

Rosario Dawson and Tiffany Haddish as Gabbie and Harriet - Haunted Mansion (2023)

Laya DeLeon Hayes, Reilly Brooke Stith, and Amani Summer as Vicaria, Aisha, and Jada - The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

LisaGay Hamilton as Dr. Weller - The Boogeyman (2023)

Taylour Paige as J.J. - The Toxic Avenger (2023)

Grace Porter as Shauna - Clock

Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Billie - Jagged Mind

Lidya Jewett and Okwui Okpokwasili as Angela and Dr. Beehibe - The Exorcist: Believer

Troy L. Johnson/Kimberly Huie and Kelcey Mawema as Lauren and Amelia - Totally Killer

Tadasay Young as Dr. Lillian - Five Nights at Freddy's

Kiah McKirnan, Melanie Liburd, and Ireon Roach as Jonquil "Jonny", Jean, and Elektra - Perpetrator

Cleopatra Coleman as Miss Devine - Cobweb

Brittany O'Grady as Shelby - It's What's Inside

Lupita Nyong'o as Sam - A Quiet Place: Day One

Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry as Lucy and Summer - Time Cut

Brandy as Belinda - The Front Room

Andra Day and Mo'Nique as Ebony and Cynthia - The Deliverance

Jerrika Hinton as Summer - Mr. Crocket

Ava Kelders as Ruby - Longlegs

Chloe Bailey as Blake - The Exorcism

Ashley Moore as Ash - Festival of the Living Dead

DeWanda Wise as Jessica - Imaginary

Black Final Girls 

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Celine’s Salon Presents

Memories and Special Moments

Monday 28 October 2019 

7:30-11:30

Gerry’s Club

52 Dean Street, Soho W1D5 

London, United Kingdom

Our first Autumn salon is here and our chosen theme is ‘Memories and Special Moments’. Let’s remember people, experiences and major influences in our lives. We have a multitude of talented writers to do exactly that!

Lucy Lyrical, Cathy Flower, Douglas Wilson, Dare Cullen Jones, Polly Bull, Robin Munro Runciman, Wendy Young, Maria Maz, Ashley Chapman, Heather Moulson, Camilla and Sasha, Gary Dunnington and Alex Bauer. £7 on the door

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Friday Releases for March 26

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for March 26 include Nobody, Invincible, It Takes Two, and more.

Nobody

Nobody, the new movie from Ilya Naishuller, is out today.

Emmy winner Bob Odenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell, an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake (Gage Munroe), is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca (Connie Nielsen), seems to pull only further away.

The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch’s long-simmering rage, triggering dormant instincts and propelling him on a brutal path that will surface dark secrets and lethal skills. In a barrage of fists, gunfire and squealing tires, Hutch must save his family from a dangerous adversary (famed Russian actor Aleksey Serebryakov)—and ensure that he will never be underestimated as a nobody again.

The Vault

The Vault, the new movie from Jaume Balagueró, is out today.

When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain’s World Cup Final. With thousands of soccer fans cheering in the streets, and security forces closing in, the crew have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime.

A Week Away

A Week Away, the new movie from Roman White, is out today.

Troubled teen Will Hawkins (Kevin Quinn) has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular (Bailee Madison), and sense of belonging in the last place he expected to find it.

The Seventh Day

The Seventh Day, the new movie from Justin P. Lange, is out today.

A renowned exorcist who teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.

Enhanced

Enhanced, the new movie from James Mark, is out today.

A young woman with enhanced abilities finds herself hunted down by a sinister government organization. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, the new TV series from Steven Brill, Josh Goldsmith, and Cathy Yuspa, is out today.

In present day Minnesota, the Mighty Ducks have evolved from scrappy underdogs to an ultra-competitive, powerhouse youth hockey team. After 12-year-old Evan is unceremoniously cut from the Ducks, he and his mom Alex set out to build their own ragtag team of misfits to challenge the cutthroat, win-at-all-costs culture of competitive youth sports.

The Irregulars

The Irregulars, the new TV series from Tom Bidwell, is out today.

Meet The Irregulars: Bea, Jessie, Billy, Spike and Leo. Join this ragtag gang as they uncover the demonic and mysterious depths of Victorian London alongside the sinister Dr Watson and his enigmatic business partner, Sherlock Holmes.

Invincible

Invincible, the new TV series from Robert Kirkman, is out today.

INVINCIBLE is an Amazon Original series based on the groundbreaking comic book from Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead. The story revolves around 17-year-old Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), who’s just like every other guy his age — except his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons).

It Takes Two

It Takes Two, the new game from Hazelight and Electronic Arts, is out today.

Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two, a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Play as the clashing couple Cody and May, two humans turned into dolls by a magic spell. Together, trapped in a fantastical world where the unpredictable hides around every corner, they are reluctantly challenged with saving their fractured relationship.

Monster Hunter Rise

Monster Hunter Rise, the new game from Capcom, is out today.

Set in the ninja-inspired land of Kamura Village, explore lush ecosystems and battle fearsome monsters to become the ultimate hunter. It’s been half a century since the last calamity struck, but a terrifying new monster has reared its head and threatens to plunge the land into chaos once again.

Balan Wonderworld

Balan Wonderworld, the new game from ARZEST Corp. and Square Enix, is out today.

BALAN WONDERWORLD is a wondrous action platformer game themed around the Balan Theatre. Led by the enigmatic maestro named Balan, the stars of the show Emma and Leo will use special abilities from a multitude of characterful costumes as they adventure in the bizarre and imaginary land of Wonderworld. Here memories and vistas from the real world mix with the things that people hold dear. Twelve different tales await our stars in the Wonderworld, each with their own unique quirks. They will explore all corners of these labyrinthine stages, filled with a myriad of tricks and traps, to get to the heart of each story.

Genesis Noir

Genesis Noir, the new game from Feral Cat Den and Fellow Traveller, is out today.

A noir adventure spanning time and space. When a love triangle between cosmic beings becomes a bitter confrontation, you'll witness a gunshot fired by a jealous god—otherwise known as The Big Bang. Jump into the expanding universe and search for a way to destroy creation and save your love.

I TAPE

I TAPE, the new album from Vic Mensa, is out today.

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The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) announces with extreme sadness and deep regret, the passing of Jihan Palmer, former dancer with the Company. She transitioned in the early hours of Saturday (April 21) in New York, USA after battling stage four cancer. She was 36 years old.

Artistic Director of the NDTC, Marlon Simms said that the death of Jihan has rattled the entire dance community. “We are all at a loss,” Simms said, continuing, “The immense outpouring of support while she battled cancer and the extent of the tributes now, is testament to the fact that her light was bright, powerful and wide reaching. Jihan fought hard and suffers no more.”

“The NDTC extends heartfelt sympathy to her son Rafael, step-son Anthony, mother Joan Munroe, husband Ryan, brother Jason, and the rest of her family, friends and the entire dance fraternity,” he added.

A free spirit

Born Jihan Aisha Alicia Palmer on June 19, 1981, her love for dance began during her primary education at Saints Peter and Paul Preparatory School and continued when she matriculated to the esteemed Campion College in 1992. She joined The Little People & Teen Players Club in 1994 at the age of 12. There, her natural talent in dance and performance was fostered and she developed into the elegant, passionate and versatile dancer for which she became renowned as an adult.

Cathi Levy, Artistic Director, The Little People & Teen Players Club remembers Jihan fondly: “A bright-eyed, twelve year old Jihan Palmer walked into my life in the early 1990s and spent the better part of five years - through her teens - in The Little People & Teen Players Club (LP &TPC), being introduced to and developing her skills in multiple disciplines within the performing arts. Her gregariousness, talent and passion for the dance drove her success in the LP & TPC, and her unwavering love for her Club-family has cemented a spiritual bond in all our hearts that won’t soon be forgotten. We love and miss you, JiJi. DANCE ON in Heaven, our angel!,” Levy said.

Persistently and fervently seeking her own personal and professional growth, Jihan danced with L’Acadco: a United Caribbean Dance Force for approximately three years while pursuing her Diploma in Dance at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in 2000. She furthered her tertiary education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Brockport, New York, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 2001.

Dr. L’Antoinette Stines, founder and artistic director of L’Acadco expressed sorrow at Jihan’s passing. “She was one of the most beautiful dancers that I have ever worked with. Jihan was a spirit dancer. She was technically clean and beautiful when she performed. She was a free spirit that had to fly,” Dr. Stines commented.

Jihan joined the NDTC in 2003. A year later, in 2004, she was recruited by Garth Fagan Dance Company in New York and spent two years performing and touring with the internationally acclaimed company. On her return to the island in 2007, she re-joined the NDTC and danced with the company up until 2008.

A muse

Within the NDTC, Jihan was a sought after muse, working with most major choreographers, performing in dozens of works and touring extensively to the USA, UK, and the Eastern Caribbean.

Described as the consummate dancer with a commanding stage presence, Jihan was coveted for her articulation, focus and sense of purpose. She is especially remembered for her powerful performance in A Prayer, a solo choreographed by Arsenio Andrade Calderon as well as for leading roles in Rex Nettleford’s Drumscore and The King Must Die.

She gave memorable performances in Clive Thompson’s duet Vision and full company work FolkTales, and was a favourite in David Brown’s Labess and Bert Rose’s Steal Away. Additionally, she was a critical cast member in Barre Talk by Oneil Pryce; Incantation and Rhythm de Deux by Haitian choreographer Jean-Guy Saintus; as well as in Chris Walker’s Urban Fissure, Fragile and Of a Passage.

Jihan was not only a celebrated dancer, but a dedicated teacher, lifelong learner and cultural entrepreneur. In 2010, she founded and operated an after school dance programme, Lines Dance Institute in Mandeville, offering a fusion of dance genres including, ballet, tap, modern, jazz and folk. Hundreds of children in the parish benefitted from her tutelage, some of whom achieved gold medals in national dance competitions and gained merit-based scholarships to U.S. institutions.

She ran the programme until 2016 when she moved to New York in to pursue her Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Accounting from the Simon Business School, University of Rochester, New York in 2016.

The mother of two balanced her family life with major professional passions – for dance and finance. In her work life, she served as an MBA Intern at Empire Valuations Consultants in New York; and as a Brand Manager at the Wisynco Group. At the Simon school, Jihan was active in her university community serving as President of the Simon Dance Club; Vice President of Marketing and Communication, Simon Finance and Investment Club; Vice President of Marketing and Communication of the Simon School Venture Fund.

Jihan was also well known for her strong Christian faith and often used her enormous talent in dance to minister the gospel. She volunteered as a mentor with Vessels of Praise, a faith-based organization, which provides an outlet for individuals to express themselves through the performing arts and was a member of the Simon School Christian Fellowship.

In a 2014 quote describing her relationship with dance for the NDTC Journal, Jihan said “I am not bound, rather I flow freely. I ‘flex’ my body so that I can 'releve’ to the heights of perfection. I am a dancer! I create positive space despite the negative space that surrounds me and this love vibrates through each vertebrae when I’m … sharing, moving, feeling, shining…dancing.“

NDTC Principal Dancers Marisa Benain and Kevin Moore, also products of The Little People & Teen Players and close friends of Jihan, described her as a “beautiful soul”.

“Jihan was fearless in all her endeavours and every dream she envisioned. It is a painful loss,” Benain recounts.

“I will never forget all the beautiful memories that we shared. From Little People to NDTC to Garth Fagan Dance… Jihan touched so many aspects of life in such a positive way. I honour her. She was the epitome of a strong black diva. May her soul Rest in Eternal Peace, ” Moore said.

The NDTC says it will pay tribute to Jihan Palmer as part of its 56th Season of Dance at The Little Theatre between July 20 and August 12.

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Echo Live Bespin Bazaar: Saturday 1st October 2022: New guest announcements

Echo Base Live announces more guests for the upcoming October show.

With only weeks to go before the Echo Base Live show returns to Redditch, the team are spoiling us with even more guest announcements in the last few days. Alongside Bill Hargreaves, Paul Jerricho, Cathy Munroe and Rusty Goffe and Joe Gibson, they’ve announced a further 3 guests who’ll be along for the ‘Bespin Bazaar on October 1st. Chris Bunn – Stormtrooper and Danz Borin Chris is an English…