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Happy 35th Birthday to the Phantom of the Opera!

Here are some birthday gifts to you all! The 35th Anniversary performance and a few other masters I have knocking about (Including James Gant’s Debut!!)!

The Phantom of the Opera - West End Revival, 9th October 2021 (35th Birthday)

The Phantom - Killian Donnelly; Christine Daae - Holly Anne Hull*(alt.); Raoul de Chagny- Rhys Whitfield; Carlotta - Saori Oda; Firmin - Matt Harrop; Andre - Adam Linstead; Madame Giry - Francesca Ellis; Ubaldo Piangi - Greg Castiglioni; Meg Giry - Ellie Young

*James Hume as the auctioneer. Includes speech and Happy Birthday

https://mega.nz/file/vvYWWD4B#-UKgccucRN1hlFUktPt6fotaPTIbv5PNCGDVIDoGXiI

​The Phantom of the Opera - West End Revival, 19th September 2021

The Phantom - James Gant*(u/s); Christine Daae - Lucy St Louis; Raoul de Chagny- Rhys Whitfield; Carlotta - Lily de-la-Haye*(u/s); Firmin - Matt Harrop; Andre - Adam Linstead; Madame Giry - Francesca Ellis; Ubaldo Piangi - Greg Castiglioni; Meg Giry - Ellie Young

​*James Gant's first performance as the Phantom (and he does a spectacular job)

https://mega.nz/file/qnhwnLKS#8kiQeimWuwfoX1n1dRx3EK9VbROjaQ4FWU2DPPeBTlk

The Phantom of the Opera - West End Revival, 9th August 2021 (previews)

The Phantom - Killian Donnelly; Christine Daae - Lucy St Louis; Raoul de Chagny- Rhys Whitfield; Carlotta - Saori Oda; Firmin - Matt Harrop; Andre - Adam Linstead; Madame Giry - Francesca Ellis; Ubaldo Piangi - Greg Castiglioni; Meg Giry - Ellie Young

https://mega.nz/file/urBVXIbJ#z3B5MQIKFFCOXi3-xgtVcQFs7XMGR-52-t3EvAR1vrY

And a couple of older audios for nostalgia:

The Phantom of the Opera - London, 7th January 2016 (Matinee)

The Phantom - John Owen-Jones; Christine - Celinde Schoenmaker; Raoul - Nadim Namaan; Carlotta - Megan Llewellyn; M. Firmin - Michael Matus; M. Andre = Christopher Dickins; Meg Giry - Alicia Beck; Mme Giry - Jacinta Mulcahy; Piangi - Paul Morrissey*(u/s)

https://mega.nz/file/2rgg2aJJ#benNexvy_aDs8eJ731ccSjo8kf5o9dHUybY-3GAOl3M

The Phantom of the Opera - London, 8th January 2014

The Phantom – Scott Davies*(s/b); Christine – Olivia Brereton; Raoul – Sean Palmer; Carlotta – Fiona Finsbury*(u/s); M. Firmin – Andy Hockley; M. Andre – Marin Ball; Meg Giry – Cat Lane; Mme Giry – Jacinta Mulcahy; Piangi – Jeremy Secomb

https://mega.nz/file/q24SEKyY#s8f5KT0f7sjBAopdsB78Liq9vOZFJ6Acmifk42lJ94U

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Here is all the new stuff I have added to my list, please feel free to message me and sort out a trade if ur interested and check out the rest of my list 😊

Scott Davies (s/b), Katy Treharne (u/s), Will Barratt ,4th October 2010

London - December 5, 2013
Geronimo Rauch (Phantom), Harriet Jones (Christine), Antony Hanson (u/s Raoul), Lara Martins (Carlotta), Andy Hockley (Firmin), Martin Ball (Andre), Jacinta Mulcahy (Madame Giry), Jeremy Secombe (Piangi), Cat Lane (Meg)

Scott Davies (s/b), Olivia Brereton, Sean Palmer, Lara Martins, Cat Lane,June 4, 2014

London - June 19, 2014 (matinee)
Scott Davies (s/b Phantom), Harriet Jones (Christine), Sean Palmer (Raoul), Fiona Finsbury (u/s Carlotta), Andy Hockley (Firmin), Martin Ball (Andre), Jacinta Mulcahy (Madame Giry), Jeremy Secomb (Piangi), Cat Lane (Meg)


David Thaxton, Kelly Mathieson, Jeremy Taylor, Kimberly Blake, Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware ,February 12, 2019; London,minletiziaxu's master.

David Thaxon(The Phantom), Kelly Mathieson (Christine Daaé), Jeremy Taylor (Raoul), Kimberly Blake (Carlotta), Mark Oxtoby (Monsieur André), Ross Dawes (Monsieur Firmin), Jacinta Mulcathy (Madame Giry), Paul Ettore Tabone (Ubaldo Piangi), Georgia Ware (Meg Giry),March 27, 2019; London ,Second Musicals master.

David Thaxton, Kelly Mathieson, Jeremy Taylor, Kimberly Blake, Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Lily Howes (u/s) ,May 9, 2019; London,David's final matinee. NFT except through minletiziaxu on Tumblr.

Tim Howar, Kelly Mathieson, Jeremy Taylor,August 8, 2019; London

Tim Howar, Amy Manford, Jeremy Taylor, Katy Hanna (u/s), Tim Morgan (u/s) Kris Manuel (u/s), Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware ,August 31, 2019, matinee,arelya-andaria’s master ,Lots of understudies! And all sound fantastic!

Tim Howar, Amy Manford (alt), Jeremy Taylor Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Kimberley Blake, Paul Ettore Tabone, Jacinta Mulcahy, Georgia Ware September 7, 2019 (matinee) Final matinee for the 2018/19 cast. Amy Manford’s last show. Boxfivetrades’ master. *NFT except through master*

Tim Howar, Amy Manford (alt), Jeremy Taylor Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Kimberley Blake, Paul Ettore Tabone, Jacinta Mulcahy, Georgia Ware,September 7, 2019 (matinee) Amy’s last show and final matinee for the 2018/19 cast *different master from the one above*

Tim Howar, Amy Manford, Jeremy Taylor, Kimberly Blake, Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware ,September 7, 2019; London,Amy's last show, and the final matinee for the 2018/19 cast. Different than the one above and the other one that is NFT. minletiziaxu's master.

Tim Howar, Kelly Mathieson, Jeremy Taylor, Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Kimberly Blake, Paul Ettore Tabone, Jacinta Mulcahy, Georgia Ware September 7, 2019; London Evening show, final show for Tim, Jeremy, Kimberly, and others in the 2018/19 cast.

Josh Piterman, Kelly Mathieson, DannyWhitehead, Britt Lenting, Ross Dawes, Richard Woodford, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware September 9th 2019, London,Opening night of the new 2019/20 cast,NFT except through the master- 25124848’s master

Josh Piterman, Kelly Mathieson, Danny Whitehead, Britt Lenting, Richard Woodford, Ross Dawes, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia WareSeptember 9, 2019; London First show of the new 2019/20 cast! different master than the one above

Josh Piterman, Kelly Mathieson, Danny Whitehead, Britt Lenting, Richard Woodford, Ross Dawes, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware,September 9, 2019; London,First show of the new 2019/20 cast! Taken by a different master than the 2 above.

Josh Piterman, Bridget Costello (alt.), Danny Whitehead, Britt Lenting, Ross Dawes, Richard Woodford, Jacinta Mulcahy, Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware,September 20, 2019; London,First audio of Bridget as the alternate with the new cast! minletiziaxu's master.

Ben Crawford (The Phantom), Eryn LeCroy (alt. Christine Daae), John Riddle (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny), Bradley Dean (Monsieur Andre), Craig Bennett (Monsieur Firmin), Janet Saia (u/s Carlotta), Maree Johnson (Madame Giry), Carlton Moe (Piangi), Kelsey Connolly (Meg Giry), Carrington Vilmont (Auctioneer/Don Attilio), Jim Weitzer (Monsieur Reyer/Hairdresser), Ted Keegan (Jeweler),September 12, 2019, Matinee (DeChagnyTrades's Master),Notes: Second show for John and Bradley.

Full list :)

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BBC QT: Emily Thornberry tears into Greg Hands over Rishi's wife - 'She should pay taxes' | Politics | News

BBC QT: Emily Thornberry tears into Greg Hands over Rishi’s wife – ‘She should pay taxes’ | Politics | News

BBC Question Time returned to TV screens last night as Fiona Bruce hosted the most recent episode in Canterbury but the show took a turn when the two London MPs had a fraught exchange about the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Hands, who was first elected as the MP for Chelsea & Fulham in 2005, clashed with Ms Thornberry, who entered the Commons as the MP for Islington South & Finsbury in the same…

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The Memory Keeper by Fiona Nichols https://ift.tt/3jKIxd8 Supermarket security guard Chris harvests old photos from his ailing mother's house, and flirts with Gemma, a waitress at the supermarket café; by Fiona Nichols.

Outside, the storm rumbled on, leaving the rain-slicked carpark almost empty. Chris headed for his usual table by the window, wet hair dripping onto his tray. He had picked the wrong day to cycle. With half an hour until his evening shift started, he set down his coffee and toasted teacake and shouldered off his backpack, leaving a puddle on the floor. He'd been turning up for work early these past few months, and the rest of his day had become a prelude to sitting in the supermarket café, in the hope Gemma was working. Chris sat facing the counter, raised his mug at her and smiled. The waitress nodded back from her cash register, but she seemed tired - not her usual sparky self at all. She was busy serving the only other customer, so he dragged his eyes away and remembered to check the old shoebox in his bag. At least by wrapping it in a plastic carrier before leaving his mum's nursing home, he had ensured the whole thing wasn't reduced to mush. The box was still dry, but the ragged corners were held together by peeling tape. Chris lifted the lid on his mother's memories to examine the contents. He considered lovestruck newlyweds on the brink of parenthood, and family snapshots with Chris on his father's sandy shoulders. It pleased him how many remnants of his mother's past they had managed to label with names and years today. Chris yawned and ruffled his hair. He needed this coffee tonight. Packing up someone else's life was exhausting, and he welcomed the caffeine as he took his first sip. He wondered whether he could release the top button of his trousers discreetly to be comfortable, without looking creepy. His waistband had been digging into his skin lately, leaving a red stripe along his belly like a scar. He should start running or something. There were four individual butters with peel-off lids on his plate. Two were low-fat margarine, two were the good stuff. Best just make it margarine. Back when he had started here, he could chase after a shoplifter, fast as a whippet. But now? He shook his head. This whole security guard thing was only ever meant to be temporary after his redundancy, but everyone here was nice, and time kept slipping away. Gemma laughed at something with her customer. How someone could look so lovely wearing a hair net and uniform was beyond him. It was as if her cheeks had been sprinkled with cinnamon and everyone knew Chris had a weakness for those freckles. He wondered sometimes if she had known it too, back when they were at school. Lately he had been thinking of the day they all went rollerblading through Finsbury Park as teenagers. Gemma cried with laughter each time she helped him up from the ground. Of course, she'd preferred Tom Alexander, all the girls did, and she'd dated that kid who went on to play professional tennis for a while too. Then she moved away and returned to London years later, married to a shifty looking guy Chris had heard sleazy rumours about. He looked down at a photo of his parents, their cheeks pressed together, wearing matching red Santa hats. It must have been taken a year before his dad died. They had deserved more time together. Chris tried to imagine growing older with his last girlfriend, but the only image he could muster was of two bored people sat at opposite ends of the sofa, with nothing left to say to each other. It should never have lasted as long as it did. When he looked up, Gemma was marching toward him, a dish cloth balled in her fist. She stopped at the next table, wiping it down before tucking in a red chair. Something flickered in his stomach, like fish darting around. She straightened up, hand on hip. "I've been meaning to talk to you actually, Chris." "You have?" "About your last shift?" "Oh yeah?" She rolled her hand, eyebrows raised, as if he'd forgotten his cue. "Eventful, was it?" Okay, there was an undercurrent here. Potential for choppy waters. Where was she going with this? He nodded slowly. "There was a lady in the carpark. I lent her my phone when she locked her keys and handbag in the trunk." Gemma tapped her foot, shaking her head. Something else, then. He rubbed the back of his neck. There was that boy he had stopped. Darryl? Chris had noticed him lurking around, picking up a bottle of vodka, checking over his shoulder. It looked like he'd stashed it in his jacket, but the boy must have thought better of it, concealing packets of Maltesers up his sleeves instead. "You mean that kid I had to give a scare out the back?" "Bingo! He's got it!" Gemma raised her hands as if to an audience, but there was only a blue-suited man engrossed in a newspaper. "I thought he'd stolen some booze, but when I realised -" "Booze? That was my nephew! Darren's sixteen; he's not going to steal alcohol. At least not from the place his auntie works, is he?" "Your nephew?" He chuckled, remembering the cheek he'd received. That soon stopped when Chris explained to him the decision he faced. Inform the police, leaving the kid with a big blot on his record, or Darren could agree to show a little more respect and Chris would let him walk away, as long as he never showed his face in here again. "Yes." Her foot was still tapping impatiently, like he was an imbecile. "A security guard stopped him and acted like a dickhead, apparently. Accused him of stealing alcohol when it wasn't true." Her eyes flashed, colour rising around her collarbone. "Did you threaten him with a criminal record, even though he didn't take anything?" Unbelievable. She was tearing a strip out of him for doing his job. The whole thing had been textbook: let the kid go with a warning but frighten him enough that he wouldn't get into future trouble. "Hey, I'm the good guy here! I let him off, even though he had half our confectionary delivery hidden up his sleeve. You should be thanking me." Her eyes widened so fiercely he tingled to the very roots of his hair. Heaping Chris with praise and gratitude was clearly not at the forefront of her mind, but when her mouth opened the words seemed to dissolve on her tongue. They stared at one another. "I'm sorry. It's just been a really tough month, with this and that." She rubbed her temples for a moment. "It's been a lot, you know?" He nodded, pulled out a chair. Gemma glanced at the empty counter and sank down beside him. "Darren's a good kid really. But my sister's been struggling with him at home and I just don't want him going off the rails." She landed the softest punch on Chris' arm. "I'm guessing you were a sweetheart dealing with him." The heat rushed to his cheeks as he watched a curl escape from her hair net. Gemma picked out a photo from the box and he stared at an indentation where her wedding ring should be. He coughed and quickly looked out the window. It was dark out now. The pelting rain had eased so all that remained of the storm was fine drizzle and shiny puddles, mirroring the headlights of cars crawling past. Chris turned to face her fully. "Feel like talking about it?" Tell me it's true. Tell me you finally threw that Lothario out and he's never coming back. She shrugged and looked directly at him for a moment, spreading warmth through his chest like brandy. "I'd rather talk about this." She pinched her chin, examining the photo more closely. "What are you doing with a picture of a ridiculously handsome man in Speedos?" "That's my dad." Her eyes twinkled, appraising Chris as he took another bite of teacake. "Hmm." "I know, the resemblance is uncanny, hey?" He smiled. His father must have been about Chris' age now in that photo. "I'm going to put all these in albums. Thought it might be nice for Mum." "Is she getting more settled?" He wrinkled his nose. "Depends. She was cheery today, chattering on, till she got confused. Other days she's kind of vacant." Whenever he could, Chris dropped into his mother's old house, sorting through crowded cupboards and drawers where moths had died in grimy corners. After this morning's detour to Oxfam, he brought stacks of photographs over to her nursing home. "You wouldn't believe what people keep. And she has all these keys! I can't throw any away in case they're important." Gemma placed her hand over his for a moment, squeezing gently. "It must get overwhelming." Chris caught his breath and tried to look nonchalant when he shrugged. "We've whittled bags of random photos down to this lot." He tapped the box with his knuckles and when she lifted her hand away, he still felt the ghost of her touch. "To be honest, it was kind of fun, getting all nostalgic - until Mum got all tangled up again and forgot who most of the family were. I'm not just talking about some distant, third cousin once-removed types either." His laugh rang a little hollow as he held a polaroid out and turned it over. She peered at his writing on the back, squinting. "Mick (your husband) with Chris (your son), Southend, 1986." She shook her head and exhaled. "It's really lovely how you take care of her." "By shoving her in a home? She's the youngest one in there, you know." Gemma stood up and unpinned her name badge, reattaching it a little straighter as she spoke. "I want you to come over on Tuesday night. I know you'll think it sounds lame, but I have a few friends over for a few drinks and scrapbooking every month." Scrapbooking? It didn't sound like his thing. "Don't pull a face!" She gestured at the photos. "It's ideal for all this. You can make something special for your mum. Help her remember things. Plus..." She tapped her chest and grinned. "You get to drink wine with a fun bunch of women. So, no excuses, okay?" Chris Googled scrapbooking when he got home. It wasn't something he'd be broadcasting around at work, but Gemma had entered her address into his phone and told him to arrive at eight with a bottle of red. Of course, he'd go. He wasn't an idiot.

By Tuesday night, he didn't want to seem too eager, so he arrived ten minutes late with cabernet sauvignon and a stronger shoebox. Laughter rang out through the window. Chris cleared his throat and composed himself in the small front garden, as wet feathery ferns brushed his clothes in the wind. When he knocked, the door swung open and a tall, skinny boy with too much hair gel stood bathed in light. The smile slipped from Chris' face. "Er, hello Darren." The kid sighed dramatically, like he was enacting a caricature of a stroppy teenager. "I thought she was effing joking!" He nodded and turned on his heel, shouting, "That security guard's here!" Chris watched him take the stairs two at a time, before disappearing. Women's voices rose and fell in undulating waves, followed by more peals of laughter. Chris waited, hesitated, and went inside, closing the door behind him. He took a deep breath. The wall was crowded with coats, so he folded his own and tucked it on a shoe rack just as Gemma appeared in the hall holding a corkscrew. "You came! Come in, come in." She had her hair twisted up, like an old film star, and red lipstick on that she never wore to work. Chris tried not to stare. "Thanks." He quickly ruffled his hair when she turned around but regretted it instantly as he caught sight of his reflection in a mirror. "Don't mind my nephew. Did I say he's staying with me now? Just for a month or two." "That's nice. I didn't realise." She shrugged. "I kind of like the company right now, actually. Come and meet everyone." A light, fresh scent trailed behind her. He managed to remember three names: Annabel, Keisha and Liz. Questions were fired and talk was fast, splintering in different directions as a tribal drumbeat and vocals pulsed over a speaker. She liked Florence and the Machine. Gemma handed him a big thick book like a ring binder, and a glass of wine. "Twelve by twelve," she grinned. "Because you have a lot to include. The acid-free tape is great for old photos, but you'll need scotch glue for bulkier decorations like this." She held up a tartan ribbon and gestured at a bewildering array of arty supplies spread across her table. "Help yourself. I'll be over in a minute." The older woman, Liz, with short red-streaked hair and a Cardiff shirt, patted the seat next to her. "I'll help you get started," she said, offering him a plate of sausage rolls. "I like you already, Chris. You're a brave man, joining this lot." He smiled and stuffed a sausage roll in his mouth. Liz nudged him. "We're all in a celebratory mood tonight, aren't we?" "We are?" He licked flakes of pastry from his lips. "Well, yeah. Since Gemma's finally kicked that creep out." Chris took a swig of wine. "Wow." He tried to look disappointed that Gemma's marriage had crumbled, he really did. If he hadn't heard whispers about the guy's relentless cheating, it might have been genuine regret too. Liz studied him and smiled. "Trust me, it's been a long time coming." She gestured at the shoebox. "So, what are we working with here?" Chris told her about his mother's dementia, and when he pulled out a Victoria sponge recipe his mother had scrawled years ago, the paper greasy and rumpled now, anyone would think he'd brought the winning lottery ticket along. "Great idea! You have to include that!" Gemma said, appearing over his shoulder. "I thought it might be silly. But I remember Mum always used the same one for baking, even when my head didn't reach the kitchen counter." "Okay." She handed him a Sharpie. "Write little captions and anecdotes underneath things, on stickers or pretty paper. Scrapbooking's all about memory keeping. She'll love it." "Oi!" Someone was yelling on the street outside. You could hear it when the music lulled. Then thunderous banging on the door. "Oi!" A man's voice bellowed through the letterbox now. Gemma froze. Everyone looked at her. Then each other. "Get out here Gemma! If you ignore your phone, I'm going to come over, aren't I?" As Chris stood up, there was a pounding down the stairs, and someone tore out the house. "Clear off!" Darren was shouting. "You're not wanted here!" Suddenly, there was a clamour for the door. "You can't treat Auntie Gemma like crap and come back demanding to see her." By the time Chris got outside, a man had the kid bent double in a headlock, dragging his face into the spotlight of a streetlamp by a fistful of hair. "Get off him!" Gemma hit the man's back, but he didn't let go. "Do we have a problem here?" Chris stood in front of them, folding his arms. He hoped his big bulky frame might threaten the guy, but none of Chris' friends would exactly describe him as intimidating, regardless of how many shoplifters he'd stopped over the years. "Who's this?" The man sneered. His face was pushed close to Darren's, but his eyes fixed on Chris. "Let. Him. Go." Chris' voice came out as a growl. The husband glanced at Gemma and snorted, like it was a joke. "Make me." Chris seized his arm and twisted it behind him, so he let out an involuntary yelp, before releasing his grip on the boy. Taking him out by his ankles and laying him on the ground was easier than Chris anticipated. He tried to ensure the idiot couldn't move an inch, without smashing his face on the concrete. There wasn't even much of a struggle. The guy seemed too shocked to react in time. Chris caught his breath for a second. "Let's you and I talk."

  In the kitchen, he found Gemma giving her nephew a steaming mug. "I could've handled it," the boy sniffed. "I know." Chris nodded. The kid wiped his nose on his sleeve. "But thanks, like. For helping." "I also could have handled it, Darren." Gemma's voice was stern. "It's not your job to protect me." She turned to Chris. "Is he gone?" He nodded again. "I think he's got the message to stop bothering you." A sceptical half-laugh escaped her. "Yeah, sure." She touched his arm. "Thanks." Gemma clasped the back of her neck and exhaled slowly. He knew it was ridiculous, but the adrenaline made him feel like a hero in a movie. He'd stepped in to help the kid out of a scrape, and the woman he'd spent the last fifteen years wondering about was looking at him admiringly. Well, gratefully. Maybe. Of course, he knew it was a fleeting moment that couldn't last. If this were a movie, he'd sweep her up and kiss her - show her how he felt, and she'd feel the same. But he was not that guy. He'd always been clumsy - funny at best - destined to be quickly assigned the role of good friend. He knew just how awkwardly this night would pan out if he got carried away, with all those women in the next room, on-hand to dissect every misguided move he might make. And the last thing Gemma needed right now was drama. Chris' keys jangled as he fished them out his pocket. It was time to leave before he could make a fool of himself. Gemma pointed her chin at the kitchen door, signalling that they could talk in the hall. "Good to see you, Darren." Chris patted the boy's shoulder and walked out. He was about to thank Gemma and gather up the old photographs, but when she stood in front of him, watching his lips, no words came out. They stood in silence, closer than ever before. Finally, she spoke. "I know how to pick 'em, don't I?" Then she leaned back against the coats and pulled him toward her with both hands. Surprise tugged at the muscles in his face, his eyebrows, his growing smile. Her mouth brushed his cheek. "Some of my most fun memories are with you, as teenagers. Did you know that?" He shook his head, grinning. "Is that so?" Gemma nodded. "And lately, the days you stop by for coffee are the highlight of my week." Her breath felt deliciously warm against his ear. "I pick you this time," she whispered. "I think maybe, it was always meant to be you." He kissed her, getting lost in the softness of her lips until it made his head spin. Slowly, they pulled apart and Chris became aware of the whooping and cheering that swelled through the open doorway. Among the women, stood a teenage boy with his face in his palm. Darren shook his head but smiled up at them. "I guess I can stay a bit longer," Chris said, as Gemma laced her fingers through his. "I'd like that."

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In another setting, you could imagine Naomie Harris as the perfect Girl Scout. Teachers doubtless would have said she had a good head on her shoulders. Over lunch in London, she drinks only sparkling water, having been a teetotaler for all of her 40 years. “I’m so Miss Control Freak,” she admits. “I could never imagine being drunk or losing control like that. That’s my worst nightmare.”

This makes her performance in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight even more extraordinary. Harris plays Paula, the crack-addicted mother of Chiron, a bullied gay boy growing up in Liberty City, Miami.

She shows us Paula both as a woman trying to hold down a job and as someone in the grip of disease, the tendons in her neck straining as she screams at her son. She did plenty of research into crack addiction and worked with an accent coach over Skype. But first she had to let go of “a lot of judgment” about Paula. And to be convinced that this wasn’t going to be another portrayal of a black woman crushed by forces beyond her control.

Harris has always been determined not to fall into stereotyping. Her back catalogue bears this out — she played the survivor of a viral apocalypse in Danny Boyle’s dystopian 28 Days Later, Winnie Mandela in the film adaptation of Long Walk to Freedom, and the wink-wink-nudge-nudge Eve Moneyp­enny to Daniel Craig’s 007 (Harris was the only Money­penny ever to be bestowed the privilege of a first name).

It was Jenkins who convinced her, explaining that both his own mother and the mother of Moonlight’s original playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney, had been crack addicts. “During the time that I was shooting, Barry said that that was the hardest period, because he had to really relive aspects of his childhood that he wanted to forget,” Harris recalls. As Jenkins told the Daily Beast last year, “When you have this amazingly well-trained thespian performing so well that she starts to look like your mom … at that point it became this different thing. We were living out this therapy session I did not want to have.”

Susanna White, who directed Harris in the 2016 adaptation of John le Carré’s Our Kind of Traitor, thinks the acclaim she has garnered for her role in Moonlight is long overdue. “In Moonlight, you can really see her raw ability as an actress because you’re not distracted by her appearance,” she says. “I think in the past, her beauty may in some ways have distracted people from what a talented actress she is … I completely lost Naomie in that role. I totally forgot it was her. I was transfixed.”

As it happens, the day after Harris and I have lunch, Moonlight will scoop up eight Oscar nominations, including hers for Best Supporting Actress. There will also be a lot of media chatter about how refreshing it is to see so many people of color among the nominees after last year’s #OscarsSoWhite campaign.

“I know that everyone thinks this year is a response to that whole campaign,” Harris says carefully. “When, in fact, these films were in production or preproduction for years before all of this. So they aren’t actually a response to that whole argument. So I don’t like the way that they’re used as a response to that. And people are saying, you know, ‘Isn’t it amazing in a year how things have changed as a result of that campaign?’ ”

She cautions against such complacency. As the child of immigrants (Harris’s mother came to Britain from Jamaica at the age of 5; her father hails from Trinidad), she is “massively” worried by the anti-immigrant rhetoric of politicians in both America and Britain: “Because the whole foundation of these countries — America in particular — is based on immigration. Britain wouldn’t be the country it is without immigration. So it’s madness. It just seems so retrograde to talk about these ideas now, at a time when the world is just becoming smaller and more interconnected. And now, to want to take a step backward, almost to the dark ages, where, you know, ‘We want monocultures and mono-races,’ it just seems really … yeah, regressive. And very sad.”

I ask about her own experiences with racism. “The only time I’ve ever experienced racism — I’m talking about blatant racism — was in France when I was called a ‘nigger’ by a bunch of kids and hit on the head.” She was 16 and on a student exchange. “It was really shocking. I had never heard that word. I mean, I had heard it, but not used against me … I just thought, What idiots. I didn’t even feel afraid.”

Such fortitude comes in no small measure from her mother, Lisselle Kayla, who was 18 when she had her. Harris’s father left before she was born. So for a long time, it was just the two of them in their modest council flat in North London’s Finsbury Park. Starting when Harris was 5, her mother put herself through university. She couldn’t afford a babysitter, and one of Harris’s earliest memories is of sitting quietly with coloring books while her mother took notes during a sociology lecture.

“I remember being so inspired by her work ethic, the vision she had for herself,” Harris says. “My mum used to collect these plates because she always said, ‘One day, we’re going to live in a really nice house and we’re going to be able to use these plates.’ ”

For years, her mother stacked them, unused, in the kitchen cupboards. “And then,” Harris recalls, “at 15, we got our house. And my mum finally pulled out these plates.”

She wells up at the memory, waving her hand in front of her face until the tears recede.

Harris always wanted to be an actress but doesn’t have a clear idea of where the ambition came from. By the age of 9, she was getting parts in children’s-television dramas. When she went to an all-girls school in Marylebone, she already bore the sheen of fame.

“There was a lot of jealousy. I was a weird child because I was sort of well known,” she says, “but then I was very shy and very introverted, so I think that just wasn’t a good combination … It made me a target for bullying. Just no one wanting to be my friend. The head bully saying, ‘Nobody’s allowed to speak to Naomie today.’ ”

This is said without any self-pity. “I think she has an internal confidence, however insecure she might be, like us all,” says Danny Boyle. “She knows she’s worth it. And she is! I’d cast her in a heartbeat as anything, really.” Boyle remembers Harris filming one scene in 28 Days Later in which she was required to hack an infected man to pieces. “And it’s merciless! And then she’s kind of elegant again in the next moment.”

I ask Harris how she feels about the Academy Awards. She gives an apprehensive smile.

“It’s not going to happen. It’s Viola [Davis]’s year, you know?”

But will she write a speech, just in case?

She laughs. Harris recently witnessed another British actor, Tom Hiddleston, tie himself in earnest knots with his Golden Globes acceptance speech, in which he told a garbled story about his humanitarian work in South Sudan. A shot of Harris’s seemingly unimpressed face became an internet meme. Hiddleston later apologized.

“I really sympathize with Tom,” she says, “because I think it’s so easy, under the pressure of those moments … to find yourself going down the path of telling a story and as you’re telling it, think, This is not what I want to say, it’s not how I mean it to go, but you’re kind of trapped on that train and you can’t stop … And then ridiculing a person for that … I just think it’s so mean!”

After a bit more prodding, Harris concedes that she will be writing a speech. Like all the best Girl Scouts, she wants to be prepared for every eventuality.

Styling by Rebecca Ramsey; Hair by Peter Lux using Oribe at Frank Agency; Makeup by Fiona Stiles using Fiona Stiles Beauty at Starworks Artists.

*This article appears in the February 6, 2017, issue of New York Magazine.

[coldlipsmag]

STEAL OUR LIGHT & SEND US TO THE SUBURBS - STEWART HOME, DELLER et al REBEL AGAINST GENTRIFICATION

Steal our light and send us beyond the suburbs.

It ain’t gentrification – it’s an ideological wipeout. People all over the London, told they’re going on a little holiday while their flats get updated. Never to return. Their homes flattened, sold off to international investors who are stashing their hard-earned, away from their localised greed, in investment pods in the UK that they’ll leave empty.

And artists have had enough.

Golden Lane Estate is a classic architectural design. Sheltered within Peabodys, Guinness Trust and the latter-built Barbican, it is a space of light and peace separating the city and London Wall with the west/east traffic vein of Old Street. The market of Whitecross Street bustles through the day with lunches. But following countless exorcisms of tenants as private companies scoop up land cheaply from cash strapped councils, under the cry of “austerity”, but it actually being far closer to “I’m a greedy bastard, I wanna profit from people” – do we just roll over and let our city become a ghosttown shell for the superrich, where places like south London’s Elephant Park, which displaced 3000 residents for a first phase of quasi-Spanish coastline/Hamptons/riad properties sold entirely to internationals. The lack of government care for our land has had its day. Councils taking short term backhanders, selling off our roots, and rights. Whether it’s under the guise of London Newcastle-style artistic community support, where they create galleries, street art gardens to reroute pedestrian pathways, or sponsor places like Richmix – in the post-Grenfell era, we gotta reclaim our streets. Taylor Wimpey are one of the newest old fams of Britain to try and deprive long term dwellers of light, by smashing down one building to hit the sky with flats already promised to Hong Kong people who’ll hardly be there. 80% reductions of light into some windows. This is what’s happening at Golden Lane. So, Stewart Home has rallied his Turner and Booker prize winning mates in to decorate the buildings under threat.

Bowater House, Golden Lane Estate, London EC1Y 0RJ. View from Fann Street, EC1.

Visit, share the banners till December 10.

And pop by the BASQUIAT… The Artists & Slogans Iain Sinclair: this sets the positive force of life against the avarice of the Corporation of London, for whom, to quote one Bowater House resident, ‘money is their only God’.

Katrina Palmer: is invoking the 1989 horror movie Society directed by Brian Yuzna; in it the upper classes are aliens who suck the nutrients out of their human victims and they call this shunting.

Arnaud Desjardin: “city = thieves = liars = speculators”. This artist, who lives close to The Denizen site, recently had to take legal advice to prevent a developer from getting the local council to grant them a compulsory purchase order on his right to light in the premises at which he produces his work.

Cornelia Parker: normally for a shadow to fall, the object casting it must fall too. However, The Denizen is already casting a shadow over life around Golden Lane without construction having even begun, and so the darkness surrounding it could be dispelled by stopping it from being built.

Siu Lan Ko: Marx and Engels often used dialectical reversal to make points and in The Communist Manifesto they state: ‘all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind’; many now associate the first part of this citation with its reuse in the title of Marshall Berman’s book All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982).

Stewart Home: ghost homes are residential properties which the buyer neither lives in nor rents out, but on which huge profits can be made due to rising house prices.

Stewart Home (loosely translated): a Bowater House resident liked Stewart Home’s English slogan so much he asked a friend to render it in Chinese. Since a literal translation didn’t work well, the friend suggested 陰地上的豪宅 or yīn dìshàng de háozhái, meaning ‘mansion on shady land’. The translator said shady in this instance meant haunted and the phrase had an eerie and poetic vibe; it could almost be advertising for a ghost movie. Purchasing a Denizen luxury apartment will haunt you forever!

Tom McCarthy: quote from Dante’s Inferno.

Mark Aerial Waller: S106 refers to legislation requiring developers to include affordable housing in their schemes subject to ‘commercial viability’. Taylor Wimpey’s The Denizen – like many other developments – manipulates the loose rules about this.

Margarita Gluzberg: French slogan appropriated from Paris, May 68: “No replastering; the structure is rotten”

Fiona Banner: a contraction of the final stanza of the Philip Larkin’s 1967 poem High Windows, seemingly replacing the original’s ambiguous treatment of transcendence with a positive endorsement of inner experience, something that isn’t possible in ‘air-conditioned nightmares’ like The Denizen. As Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse) noted in Poésies (1870): “Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It holds tight an author’s phrase, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, and replaces it with the right one.”

Pippa Henslowe: many new builds in the EC1 City fringe are bought as buy to leave investments, while in the computer game Black Ops II a denizen is a kind of zombie.

Gavin Turk & Deborah Curtis: Taylor Wimpey’s The Denizen development will steal sunlight from 2 schools, the Golden Lane Children’s Centre and Fortune Street Park; as well as plunging into darkness many of the flats the children who use these community assets live in.

Liz Price: has used the title of both a tune and an album by Eddie Harris (1934-1996), the godfather of jazz funk; and one which highlights the fact that both the City of London and Taylor Wimpey have to date turned a deaf ear to the interests of both local residents and those who work in the vicinity of The Denizen site.

Jeremy Deller & Fraser Muggeridge: invite us to ponder whether there is much difference between Taylor Wimpey’s building construction and the aftertaste of burgers sold by fast food chain Wimpy; while also offering an opinion about the moral robustness of corporations.

Adam Dant: British post-WW1 slogan ‘Homes Fit For Heroes’ in Chinese.

Patrick Goddard: a contraction of a slogan from an earlier text/image work by this artist; the original piece invoked Grant Morrison’s graphic story The Invisibles (1994-2000), as well as drawing on rapper Jehst’s City of Industry (2002). Here the suggestion is The Denizen’s ghost home investors will lead lives that are emotionally and intellectually barren, rather than enjoying cultural riches that echo those of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, as Taylor Wimpey ridiculously suggest in their promotional material for the development.

Esther Planas: “Warning! Frank Knight & Savills Don’t Give A Damn About Our Space” in Catalan. Frank Knight and Savills are the main agents selling Taylor Wimpey’s The Denizen development.

Anjalika Sagar – The Otolith Group: developers are attempting to rebrand the Finsbury/Bunhill/St Luke’s area as East Clerkenwell, to create a ‘hipster central belt’ running from Hoxton and Shoreditch to the east to the real Clerkenwell in the west. The Denizen lying mere metres over the border from the old borough of Finsbury (now a part of Islington) fits this pattern of hipster gentrification although it is situated just inside the City ward of Cripplegate Without. The Denizen is NOT located in the ancient heart of the City of London as Taylor Wimpey have falsely claimed in advertising material, since it lies well outside the old city wall.

Eleanor Vonne Brown: slogan from luxury apartment hoarding in Haggerston.

Artists Against Overdevelopment: a hashtag so that people seeing the banners and wanting to know more could look it up online. #savegoldenlane

The typeface used on these banners is Bureau Grotesque 37, it was also used on all the original 1950s signage on the Golden Lane Estate.

More here:

“A spectre is haunting the cynical overdevelopment that characterises London’s buy to leave property boom, the spectre of modernism!” #savegoldenlane

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Is it summer yet? Majority of Brits spend winter wishing for summer has been published on Energy Solutions News

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Is it summer yet? Majority of Brits spend winter wishing for summer

New research reveals that 60% of Brits wish it was summer all year round

Brits would give up mobile phones, takeaways and chocolate to have a longer summer

The top pick-me up in winter is a cosy night in, and the thing Brits miss most is having a drink outside in the evening

E.ON and Love Island’s Gabby Allen team up this winter to bring a ‘Shot Of Summer’ to London with a three-day pop-up event and share tips on how to winter-proof your life and home

As winter sets in, new research from E.ON1 reveals that more than a fifth (21%) of Brits would be willing to give up their mobile phones for a longer summer. With cosy nights in listed as the biggest pick-me-up over the winter period, E.ON has partnered with Love Island 2017 finalist, Gabby Allen, to share advice on how to get a shot of summer this winter.

Most (60%) Brits reveal they feel happier in summer than in winter so it’s no surprise that almost a third of us would give up takeaways (29%), a quarter would give up chocolate (25%) and one in seven (14%) would pay money to have a longer summertime. Being outside is what we miss most about summer with almost half (49%) of us missing having a drink outdoors in the evening, closely followed by going to the park or a beach (40%) and having BBQs and picnics (37%).

The worst things cited about winter are the weather (63%), getting colds (55%), shorter days (54%) and commuting in the dark (42%). Sadly we can’t stop winter from coming which is why E.ON has partnered with Gabby Allen to share advice on how to winter-proof your life and home. Gabby says: “I just love summer – nothing cheers me up like a sunny day. When it comes to beating the winter blues, I really make an effort to adapt my favourite summer activities for the colder months, and also try to make my home as cosy as possible.”

This winter, E.ON is inviting the public to attend its ‘Shot of Summer’ event in London – a warm bright bubble where you can relax, have fun and even have a chance to see Gabby. People can also visit E.ON to find out more about E.ON’s advice and solutions to help make homes cosier this winter.

Gabby Allen’s tips for bringing a shot of summer to winter:

Let’s get physical. Seven in ten (72%) of us find it difficult to get out of bed on winter mornings, which makes it harder to hit the gym. My solution is to bring the gym to you. There are so many work-outs you can do in the comfort of your own home – like squats, lunges and ab work-outs. Get the endorphin buzz you need in winter and get summer ready at the same time, win-win!

Summer soundtrack all year round. Personally, some songs just scream summer and I can’t help dancing along to them. When I’m out and about, I pop my headphones in and listen to the top hits from summer – it never fails to bring a smile to my face.

Keep cosy with a twist. 85% of us want to keep cosy in winter, and half of us want comfort food. I like to combine the two – but with a summery twist. Why not invite some friends over, cook up a big bowl of paella, and re-live those summery Spanish nights. Even better with sangria.

Going green. Many of us prefer to spend time indoors in winter so why not bring the outside in with a few summery plants. Flowers always add a bit of cheer, and I love mini cacti because they’re low maintenance. To top it off, I always have mint at home because it gives off such a summery smell.

Get beachy. Jetting off for some summer sun isn’t always possible, but you can keep that beachy look. For girls, salt-spray is a must for that beachy hair, and I use a winter bronzer so I’m always looking sun kissed. For guys, get some hair styling wax for that surfer look.

  Top tips for winter-proofing your home by Mike Feely, Energy Efficiency Expert at E.ON:

Did you know that getting proper insulation could save you up to £285 a year in lost heat? E.ON is currently offering free cavity wall and loft insulation regardless of your current energy supplier2.

Ask your energy supplier about installing a smart meter to ensure you can effectively monitor your energy use. E.ON customers should visit eonenergy.com/smart for information about smart meters and to see if they’re able to get one installed. If eligible, they can also book an appointment online.

Installing a smart thermostat, such as tadoo from E.ON, can help you control the temperature at home with your phone, saving energy while you’re out and getting your home cosy for when you return.

You could also save up to £210 off your annual energy bill3 by replacing an inefficient boiler. E.ON has a replacement boiler offer where you can get interest free finance for up to four years.

Check you’re on the right tariff for you – from fixed to green tariffs, there are lots of options. You can also use free online tools like E.ON See to help you see how much energy you’re using.

Finally, why not explore new technology solutions like solar and battery technology. With E.ON Solar and Storage you can just type in your postcode to see your savings and cost.

E.ON’s ‘Shot of Summer’ event is open from 7am–7pm in Finsbury Avenue Square, next to Liverpool Street Station in London, from Wednesday 22nd– Friday 24th November. To find out more about E.ON’s winter tips and smarter customer solutions, visit eonenergy.com.

Ends

Notes to editors

Based on research conducted by OnePoll in October 2017 among 2,000 British adults.

Source: energysavingtrust.org.uk/home-insulation/cavity-wall

Source: energysavingtrust.org.uk/home-energy-efficiency/boiler-replacement

For more information contact:

Jag Bickham on 02476 181 308 or jag.bickham@eon-uk.com

Kaitlin Ellis on 07989 152 777 or kaitlin.ellis@eon-uk.com

Fiona MacGregor on 07976 374 161 or fiona.macgregor@eon-uk.com

[londontheatre]

MUSO aims to inspire and develop a new level of engagement between audiences, the arts, academia and museums. It takes an audience on a journey through an exhibition where they are invited to seek out hidden treasures, share their responses, hear from an expert and watch as their ideas are spun into music by an improvising opera troupe. It is the first of its kind of performance; an explosive collaboration between improvised opera and academia that places the audience at its centre.

Muso is the brainchild of Impropera artistic director David Pearl “It evolved from work we have done over many years including with world-leading Process Psychologists Jean-Claude and Arlene Audergon. They particularly helped us develop our intuitive skills, flex our creative freedom and deepen the improvisational process. We worked together on Songs from Nowhere which invited audience members to consider “what’s on your mind?”, to share this and then have the company explore these ideas musically and vocally. This led to us exploring how we might use these skills to animate architectural spaces (letting the ‘genius loci’ sing). Which in turn led to MUSO. Then we met the charismatic academic Dr.Chiara Ambrosio (UCL lecturer in History and the Philosophy of Science) who joined the project and introduced us to UCL’s Grant Museum of Zoology a wonderfully theatrical museum space which was the perfect environment to develop this project. This new phase, generously supported by UCL Culture, will bridge to other Museums and grow the academic ensemble to include UCL evolutionary biologists, astrophysicists, anthropologists and philosophers.”

Impropera was founded in 2000 and emerged from the improvisational work at Opera Circus, the physical opera company set up by David Pearl and Tina Ellen Lee in the mid 90’s, who used improv to devise shows (Shameless, Kill Me I Love You, King Stag). This improvisational work was guided by the Director David Glass, inspired by the process of Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord in Paris and Theatre de Complicité, members of both companies mentored them. Over the years Impropera have performed throughout the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East. Founder members of the company include the sopranos Morag McClaren and Susan Bissatt as well as Comedy Store and Improbable regular, Niall Ashdown.

@Impropera | #MUSO | www.impropera.co.uk Running Time: 75 minutes | Suitable for ages 11 and upward

Company Information Directed by David Pearl Music and all contents devised by the Company

Cast Anthony Ingle (Music Director) Philip Pellew Yshani Perinpanayagam Lou Crane Fiona Finsbury David Pearl (Artistic Director) Chiara Ambrosio (Academic Performer)

Listings information Fri 13 Oct British Museum Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG MUSO presents: The Unsung Scythians 7–7.50pm & 8.05-8.35pm at the special late event for the BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia Free but booking recommended http://ift.tt/xBeq3m

Thur 09 Nov Grant Museum 21 University St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6DE http://ift.tt/2k0o5tT

February (date TBC) Hornimann Museum 100 London Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ www.horniman.ac.uk

Thur 08 March TBC Grant Museum 21 University St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6DE http://ift.tt/2k0o5tT

Fri 13 Apr Wallace Collection Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London W1U 3BN http://ift.tt/wvHnUt

Wed 16 May TBC Grant Museum 21 University St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6DE http://ift.tt/2k0o5tT

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Artist Spotlight: Emi McDade

“It's not very often you can say that you've been swept off your feet or left swooning from the sheer power and raw emotion from an artist's songwriting or vocal presence.” - The Flux Presents.

Emi McDade's music has taken her travelling throughout the UK. After being voted Gloucestershire Solo Artist of the Year, the young indie/folk singer-songwriter has performed on stages such as BBC Introducing, Ronnie Scott's, Guildhall, and many others, headlining the Acoustic Stage of Dot to Dot Festival, as well as supporting artists such as JP Cooper, Mike Dignam, Billy Lockett, Fiona Bevan, Kal Lavelle, Toyah Willcox, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker, and performed alongside artists such as Jasmine Thompson.

Emi McDade performs live at Stop Look Listen for #BLOGTOBER Festival. Join the Facebook event for further details. Tuesday 3 October @ 7.30pm, FREE ENTRY The Finsbury, N4 1BY (Manor House Tube 1 min). Free advance reservations - Book Now

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Finsbury Park van attack: Media lawyer says newspapers have ‘pushed at the boundaries’ and may be in contempt of court

Morning headlines could spell trouble for press

Image via Twitter (@aaalec)

A media law expert who went viral yesterday for defending the press against accusations of unfair reporting has now said newspapers may have “pushed at the boundaries” with their morning headlines.

During the early hours of Monday morning, a van struck pedestrians close to Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park, injuring several. They had been helping a man who had collapsed; he later died but it’s not clear at this stage if it was because of the attack.

The suspect has been named as Darren Osborne, aged 47 or 48 depending on what you read, from Cardiff. The Metropolitan Police has said he was being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder and attempted murder.

Media coverage of the incident has arguably been somewhat muted, at least compared to the recent spate of terror attacks in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge. Notably, the press has been careful not to explicitly link the incident to terrorism, many newspapers punting for ‘Finsbury Park attack’ and ‘Van attack’ instead.

Why? Some have speculated it’s because the attacker is white:

Why is the coverage of this attack so different because he is a white. Hate is hate! Stop broadcasting it differently #FinsburyPark

— Fiona (@irnbruaddict) June 19, 2017

Lots of coverage on BBC homepage about #FinsburyPark – but no mention of the word "terror" anywhere…

— Philip Copley

(@PhilipCopley) June 20, 2017

Similar vilification was directed at the press over its reporting of the Damon Smith trial. The 20-year-old was found guilty of planting a homemade bomb at North Greenwich tube station by the Jubilee Line when he was 19. He was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.

While Smith was called a “weapons-obsessed student”, a “tube bomb plotter” and an “ex-altar boy”, the media strayed away from the word “terrorist”. Again, social media wondered whether Smith’s ethnicity had something to do with this:

Whys the guy who left a bomb at North Greenwich being called a student and not a terrorist? Cos he's white? Surely not!? #doublestandards

— AnthonyWhite(Chalky) (@ant_antwhite) May 3, 2017

What's this guy have to do to be called a terrorist? Not be white? Greenwich tube bomb suspect named as Damon Smith https://t.co/O9VCtCcGwV

— Jermain Julien (@JermainJulien) October 26, 2016

Of course the white guy who tried to bomb North Greenwich has autism. A brown/black person would just be a terrorist, right?

— Billy Winchester (@BillyWinchester) October 28, 2016

This week, legal experts have stepped forward to clear up this hoo-ha. Here is media law guru David Banks’ explanation:

If Finsbury Mosque attacker doesn't get coverage you think he deserves compared to London Bridge or Manchester, it's because of the law…

— David Banks (@DBanksy) June 19, 2017

…He is alive and will stand trial, so restrictions now apply to reporting by msm. It's not a conspiracy, or a D Notice, just the law

— David Banks (@DBanksy) June 19, 2017

Lawyer and writer David Allen Green made a similar point when he said:

#CarefulNow

Prejudicial tweets about #FinsburyPark suspect may be contempt of court, and could even lead to a trial being abandoned.

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) June 19, 2017

(For further information on this, see former journo Steve Parks’ interesting Twitter thread and Banks’ contempt of court blog post.)

A selection of this morning’s headlines, which Legal Cheek has chosen not to reproduce here, could possibly cause problems in relation to contempt of court. On this, Banks told us:

I think papers have pushed at the boundaries today… Talking about motive, mental state, that could very much be at issue at trial.

Whether this will lead to contempt of court proceedings, brought by the Attorney General, is unclear. “A lot depends on the Attorney General’s attitude to contempt and Dominic Grieve’s successors do not seem as quick to prosecute as under his regime,” Banks said.

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Anne Priscilla Bridal Sample Sale, 57 Miller Street, Glasgow, G1 1EB. 27th January 2017

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Savin London Trunk Show at The Wedding Club, 16 Highfield Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 3DU. 27th – 29th January 2017

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This post Weekly Wedding News 06/01/2017 first appeared on The Wedding Community Blog

[operafantomet]

Hi, I just saw POTO on broadway after seeing it in London a few months ago. Carlotta's dress in Notes/Prima Donna scene are different in the two productions. I really liked her London dress. The Broadway dress had too much bling. Do you have any photos of the dresses?

How cool to see both the West End and Broadway production in a fairly short time span! It really is a case of “same, same, but different”.

When it comes to the b/w 1st Managers dress Carlotta wears, it’s kinda wild that what you’d think was a plain black and white dress can vary so much around the world. The West End and Broadway ones definitely differs.

Roughly speaking, the West End one features a black bodice and black overskirt/side drapes over a ruffled and floral silvery/black brocade skirt. The dress is almost military in style; a popular fashion in the mid/late 19th century. But here’s lots of “bling” in terms of black appliquées, beading and silvery trims if you look closer.

The Broadway ones are overall brighter and blingier in look, using a floral silvery/black in bodice and skirt, with only the side drapes in black (but covered in appliqueed silver flowers). There’s also a more bib-like beaded decoration down the bodice front:

The impression of the costume is however quite similar - a big black/silvery creation with ruffles and vandyking, fur stola and tilted hat:

So there ya go!

[andrewlloydwebber]

Fiona Finsbury, first cover Carlotta in the West End, leaves today! Photos presumably by HMT’s in house photographer.

[silverfoxstole]

From Fiona Finsbury on the Phantom Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/phantomopera

[marleneoftheopera]

Fiona Finsbury & her magnificent wardrobe || West End She's so pretty.

[evanss-chris]

Richard Munday ‏

@Fifiacts and I tried a selfie but they were pants so Blakey took one of us. Sat night