#paul hallam

[monkeyspanker69]

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

[rottingrard]

Nov 13 2007. Backstage at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena. Shot by Paul Harries.

[byneddiedingo]

Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien, 1991)

Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr, GaryMcDonald, Debra Gillett, Eamonn Walker, James Bowers, Billy Braham, Wayne Norman, Danielle Scillitoe. Screenplay: Paul Hallam, Derrick Saldaan McClintock. Cinematography: Nina Kellgren. Production design: Derek Brown. Film editing: John Wilson. Music: Simon Boswell. 

[myvinylplaylist]

Queen + Paul Rodgers: Return Of The Champions (2005)

Recorded live at Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield on 9th May 2005

2 Compact Disc +DVD

Hollywood Records

[thoughtportal]

When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free.

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites”) in the mid- to late-1990s. “The Scene,” as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez” itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software.” Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures of an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy.

Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.

About the Author

Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published books on a wide variety of topics, including Close Reading with Computers (Stanford, 2019), password (Bloomsbury, 2016), Pynchon and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014),  and Open Access and the Humanities (Cambridge, 2014), among others. His ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5589-8511.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.9 (before 1940)

681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty. 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen. 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake: The first of two earthquakes destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. After the second quake on 11 January, the death toll is estimated at between 60,000 and 100,000 people. 1760 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1787 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees. 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1792 – Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857 – The 7.9 Mw  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). 1858 – British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong. 1861 – American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee outlaws the Makhnovshchina by decree, igniting the Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict. 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

[longforyesterday]

I finished the first two (of three) episodes! I definitely recommend this miniseries!

No one asked, but...

Episode 1

I didn't expect Ringo to be the first Beatle (he's not a Beatle yet at this point tho) we saw! I thought John would be the first!

Awwwww, we got a bit of Elsie Starkey here!!

I like his actor, even though he's a bit tall (6", way taller than Jack Farthing who plays John)

Rory Storm (oh, hi Jamie Muscato!) singing Roll over Beethoven was so weird, I'm used to George's version

Love the Hurricanes' suits!

Pre-moptop "Ringo" looks like (real) Teddy Boy John sometimes

Poor "George" looks NOTHING like the real one, poor man. Also, he smiles too much. (Yes, I know George wasn't always bitter and sour, but this one is kinda jarring. I'm not used to seeing George smile THAT MUCH.)

Cilla thinks Pete is gorgeous!

"Paul" is very cute and I love his movements while he plays and sings!

"Pete" looks nothing like the real one.

Cilla thinks George is "just a baby" ( = he looks very young)

Ok, "John" is definitely the hottest one here, even though he doesn't often look like the real one and he's a bit short. Love Jack Farthing and his portrayal of him (more to come on Episode 3, apparently!).

OH MY GOD ED STOPPARD AS BRIAN - He doesn't look like him (I keep seeing Hallam Holland from Upstairs Downstairs instead of Brian Epstein) but I like him anyway

The moptop suits this Ringo better than it did the real one most of the time (my favourite Ringo haircut was the one he had from the White Album onwards)

"Paul" singing Love of the Loved to Cilla OH MY GOD

LONG TALL SALLYYYYYY

Episode 2

All I can say is:

Elliot Cowan (one of my favourite Mr Darcys) as George Martin is a YES from me

I really like Ed Stoppard as Brian

[Aneurin Barnard plays Cilla's boyfriend (later husband) Bobby Willis. He has a weird wig and I can't take him seriously, it's too distracting. He has a nice singing voice, tho.]

Has anyone here watched the "Cilla" miniseries? It's about Cilla Black and apparently it features some scenes with the Beatles (and Brian Epstein, of course). I know Jack Farthing from Poldark plays John...

[modbrother]

Mods outside the Marquee club in Wardour Street, 1985.

Photo by Paul Hallam

[mychameleondays]

Stereo MC’s: Connected

Island/4th & Broadway/Gee Street 535 100 7, 2014

Originally released: October 5, 1992

[unsaltedsinner]

Well, it is 1487.

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

[rottingrard]

Backstage at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena. Nov 13 2007. Shot by Paul Harries.

[byneddiedingo]

Mathilda May in Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985)

Cast: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Michael Gothard, Nicholas Ball, Aubrey Morris, Nancy Paul, John Hallam. Screenplay: Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby, based on a novel by Colin Wilson. Cinematography: Alan Hume. Production design: John Graysmark. Film editing: John Grover. Music: Henry Mancini. 

Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce is a delirious mashup of space travel sci-fi, vampire thrillers, zombie movies, sexploitation flicks, and apocalyptic disaster films. A British-American crew exploring Halley's comet, making its appearance near Earth, finds an alien vessel caught up in the comet's wake. All of its batlike crew seem to be dead, but there are three containers on board with naked humanoid beings, one female and two males, in some kind of stasis. Back on Earth, when mission control loses contact with the space ship, a rescue ship is sent. It discovers that everyone on board, except the three humanoids, is dead. The aliens, brought to Earth, awake and begin to create a mess: They apparently have the ability to shape-shift and to suck the life force from humans. Meanwhile, a member (Steve Railsback) of the crew from the original ship who managed to board an escape capsule arrives on Earth to explain what's going on and to help save the planet from the aliens. It's a standard horror-from-outer-space setup, but the script keeps embroidering on it until the creepiness turns ludicrous: Patrick Stewart, for example, plays the administrator of an insane asylum that belongs in a Universal horror movie from the 1930s. The heroes, played by Railsback and Peter Firth, have to dash across an embattled London to St. Paul's Cathedral to kill the female alien (Mathilda May), who is lying on the altar transmitting a glowing stream of human souls to her ship. Somehow, the only weapon that will kill her is an antique sword. Lifeforce, in short, is the stuff of which video games are made. Other than noise and carnage by the bucketsful, it has little to recommend it beyond some wildly entertaining overacting and a preposterousness that can only be called chutzpah. 

[mariocki]

Lifeforce (1985)

"Well, I'm fascinated by death itself: what happens as we die; when we die; what happens after we die."

"You mean life after death?"

"Yes."

"Is there?"

"What?"

"Life after death."

"Do you really want to know?"

[natromanxoff]

Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Hallam in Sheffield, UK - May 9, 2005

Freddie's mum was in the audience and Brian dedicated Love Of My Life to her.

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