#happy 48th

[im-punk]

Happy birthday Perdo! 🎉🎂

[brian-in-finance]

A Tale of Two Tonys

and Brian knows the difference 😉

Part One of Four

It was suggested elsewhere in July* Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. Brian’s own posts say otherwise. 🙃 (*Waited for today’s Happy Birthday 🥳)

Tony the band manager ⬇️

Band manager Tony McGill with Caitríona Balfe, his wife, in London England, 29 November 2023 (Image: Dave Benett/Wirelmage)

Tony the music producer ⬇️

Music producer Tony Hoffer with Joanna Sims, his wife, in Lyon France, July 2024 (Image: Instagram)

Here are some examples that dispute Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. (Try to laugh with me. 😉)

Five posts, one theme

1.

Screenshot from Brian 27 March 2021

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Screenshots from Brian 30 April 2021

3.

The actress and her Scottish music producer husband tied the knot in August 2019, at St. Mary's Church in Bruton, Somerset, in the U.K. Much like their pregnancy news, the couple was discreet with their intimate nuptials.

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Screenshots from Brian 18 August 2021

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Screenshots from Brian 6 March 2023

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Screenshots from Brian 8 March 2023

Remember… he’s not a music producer, by the way. I just have to do this... He really hates this because he manages bands. He's in artist management. One person wrote it and now everybody does. — Caitríona Balfe

Later edit: “Waited for today’s Happy Birthday” in the first paragraph should say “yesterday’s.” The birthday is 12 October. I got busy, posted late, and forgot to update. Oops… (This bit won’t show up on reblogs posted before 19 October 2024.)

[boninhau2]

Dortmund, Germany 1984. 📷 dpa.

[royalchildreneurope]

Happy 48th Birthday to Princess Marie of Denmark -February 6th 2024.

[honeyedmiller]

Birthday | Pedro Pascal

pairing: pedro pascal x gn!reader

warnings: none

word count: < 200

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You wait for the clock to strike 12 a.m. before sticking a candle into a Hostess cupcake, lighting the candle swiftly before trudging into the living room where Pedro sat on the couch.

He was fixated on a random TV show, likely unaware of the time that it was. That is, until you came into his peripheral vision. The candlelight glowed softly against your face as you moved toward him carefully, starting to sing 'happy birthday' to him.

You sat next to him on the couch, a grin playing at your lips as you handed him the cupcake once you were finished serenading him.

"Happy birthday love, make a wish." You prompt him to close his eyes and make his wish. He opens his eyes a few seconds after, blowing out the candle gently. He grins at you and leans in, kissing your cheek.

"Thank you so much." He brings you into him to give him a hug, which you gladly reciprocate.

"What'd you wish for?" Your curiosity overcomes you, as you lean back and scan his facial features.

He quirks an eyebrow up at you and chuckles, "I can't tell you that, c'mon now," He teases, a giggle bubbling in your throat, "Besides, I have everything I've ever wanted now, and here with me." He smiles graciously, bringing you into his side again.

"I hope forty-eight treats you so well." You say, and Pedro humbly smiles at your well wishes.

Forty-eight was going to be a good year.

[creationfathers]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the one and only JC Chasez 💙

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

Ok,but,was anyone going to tell me that Benedict Cumberbatch will be 50 years old in like...2 years, or was I supposed to count the years myself?

[madsmax13]

happiest of birthdays to my babygirl 💛 love you so much pedrito! I am so proud of you and all of your accomplishments thus far. I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for you. lots of love to my pedro 💛💛

[kitschydoll]

Happy 48th Flower Queen 🌼 Drew 💋

[kaminastrife]

Feliz cumpleaños al amor de mi vida

[middimidoris]

Happy Birthday Pedro Pascal 💜

[animejunki5]

The weather was absolutely gorgeous today😍 Now that my old friend's and Pedro Pascal birthday is almost over I need to rest up for my son's birthday later this week 🥰😘😍 I'm going to get hit with a lot of birthdays from now until August 🥳 This is what I like to call my broke period 😅 I need a lay down before I get started on those cheesecake pies I'll be making. All the best to my Aries and Taurus peeps this month #birthday

[brian-in-finance]

A Tale of Two Tonys

and Brian knows the difference 😉

Part Four of Four

It was suggested elsewhere in July* Brian confuses the Tonys’ roles. It’s also suggested one Tony entered the spotlight only when a(n imagined) narrative required a participant. (*Waited for today’s Happy Birthday 🥳)

Longer still before TV-Outlander…

The Fratellis — Jon, Mince, and Baz — and manager Tony McGill at SXSW 2007 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Music agency wound down after discord over funding

A MUSIC organisation which helped Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol find fame has been wound down amid uncertainty over its financial future.

One official from NewMusic in Scotland (Nemis) has criticised the government and the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) for failing to give contemporary music the level of support of other art forms.

However, the SAC said Nemis had failed to provide audited accounts and a business plan, and pointed out that a number of its board members had resigned recently. It has already had GBP 100,000 of public money.

Nemis, which has an office in Jamaica Street, Glasgow, offers advice to musicians and bands on a one-to-one basis and through organised seminars, as well as helping with marketing and promotion. It also has had a pivotal role in the annual Musicworks convention in Glasgow.

Two years ago, it produced a promotional CD of Scottishbased bands which went to some of Europe's most influential industry executives at the MTVEurope Music Awards in Edinburgh, including offerings from the-then little known bands Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol.

But now the four-year-old development agency has said it has run out of money and it will effectively have to halt operations. Only its website, offering contacts and diary dates, will remain.

The agency has had arts council grants worth GBP 70,000, and GBP 30,000 in start-up help from Scottish Enterprise.

Alec Downie, new music development officer forNemis, said the body could not continue its work and was scathing of "elitism" in arts funding.

"In my view, the arts council is nepotistic and bureaucratic and, most of all, is out of touch with what is happening now. I would argue that the likes of The Delgados, Chemikal Underground, and Belle and Sebastian are culturally significant, but they (the arts council)would not.

"That shows the mentality of the people that control the arts here."

Scott Twynholm, of the Glasgow electro-pop band Hoboken said help from Nemis had proved vital. The band released an album last year and will release a single next month.

"Through Nemis, we appeared on two CDs which were distributed at the majormusic conferences throughout the world, " Mr Twynholm said.

"There is no way we would be in the position of recording our second album, or our new single, were it not for the help and advice Nemis has provided."

Tony McGill, manager of The Fratellis, who recently signed to Island records, said: "I have got the MD of Island to send a strongly worded e-mail to the SAC because the work Nemis does is crucial.

"When you are starting out as a band, you don't knowwhat to do, you don't have the contacts or the knowhow, and Nemis supplies all that. I am shocked this is happening."

An SAC spokeswoman said there was no doubt of "absolute commitment" by Nemis to its work, but the council was "a steward of public funds and needs to be confident that public funding is being spent to best effect in an organisation that can clearly articulate where it is going".

She said it was not accurate to say that Nemis's funds had been cut, as it was not given revenue grants, but one-off assistance. Neither, she said, had it officially applied for new funds of any kind, nor did it raise any of its own income.

The SAC statement added:

"Essentially . . . it is an issue of confidence: information requested has not been supplied - fundamental information such as audited accounts and a clear business plan.

"We are primarily concerned with the governance and structure of Nemis. It is unclear whether Nemis is a membership organisation solely or is a limited company purporting to represent the contemporary music sector in Scotland."

SUCCESS STORIES

NEMIS promotional CD given out at MTV Europe Awards in November 2003 included:

The Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand

Spitting Games - Snow Patrol

I Love You Cause I Have To - Dogs Die in Hot Cars

Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash

With Aplomb -Biffy Clyro

Maybe It's Time -The Grim Northern Social

Black Path - Aereogramme

Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo

The Herald 26 October 2005

Music Week 2 September 2006

World Radio History 26 April 2008

World Radio History 7 June 2008

Remember… when you are starting out as a band, you don't know what to do, you don't have the contacts or the knowhow, and Nemis supplies all that. I am shocked this is happening. — Tony McGill

MD - music director

Later edit: “Waited for today’s Happy Birthday” in the first paragraph should say “yesterday’s.” The birthday is 12 October. I got busy, posted late, and forgot to update. Oops… (This bit won’t show up on reblogs posted before 19 October 2024.)

[wonwoosthetic]

why did i just get jumpscared by pedro pascal

What hahahahaha what happened hahaha

Booh!

[msclaritea]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU BIG NUT!

Happy 48th Birthday to Benedict♥️💐

[cilly-murphy]

HAPPY 48TH BIRTHDAY TO THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNER CILLIAN MURPHY (MAY 25TH 1976) ST MAGAZINE: have you ever faked an orgasm? CILLIAN MURPHY: yes, i was young. you never think of men (doing it), but it's just as possible. ST MAGAZINE: did the person know? CILLIAN MURPHY: no. i'm an actor for god's sake.