#teenager cancer trust

[daily-broco]

Don Broco live at Royal Albert Hall

Last March, Don Broco performed with an orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenager Cancer Trust.

Although it was not possible to film the whole show, they have already posted a third of the songs they played on You Tube.

So, here's a compilation post, which I will update if they share more songs from the show.

Come Out To LA (Updated)

Pretty

Further

Nerve

Easter Sunday

Gumshield

[littlequeenies]

March 30, 2010 - Ringo Starr's daughter Lee Starkey arriving at the Royal Albert Hall to attend The Who's charity gig in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.

[findac]

I’ve donated this unique ‘Magdalena’ work on paper for the upcoming ‘Anything but ordinary’ live auction at Bonhams on Wednesday June 12th .

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Approximately 80 artworks from the likes of Basquiat, Banksy, Damien Hirst, Harland Miller, Grayson Perry, Invader, Gilbert & George, David Shrigley, The Connor Bros, JR and more are being auctioned.

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Mine is one of just 10 artworks selected where 100% of the proceeds go to @teenage_cancer.

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You can bid here: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29905/lot/16/fin-dac-irish-magdalena-colour-variant-2-screenprint-in-colours-with-hand-applied-acrylic-and-spray-paint-2022-on-wove-paper-signed-and-numbered-11-in-pencil-from-a-series-of-eight-unique-colour-variants-with-the-artists-stamp-findac-the-full-sheet-framed-sheet-1500-x-800mm-59-x-21-12in/

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

David Gilmour and Mica Paris perform during An Evening With Jools Holland, as part of the 'The Who and Friends' fundraising week of gigs, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 2004. (Photo by Yui Mok - PA Images).

[will-noble-owns-my-ass]

Okay so. This might be a long shot but I thought I’d post this here.

Hi my name is Rebekah, and this year one of my new year’s resolutions is to become more fit and active, and I’ve decided to start doing this by taking part in the Teenage Cancer Trust event of doing 2,800 squats through February

[clivechip]

Music Doing Good

A blogging friend of mine, Jill, posts a piece every Wednesday that she calls Good People Doing Good Things. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a link to yesterday’s, which is the usual collection of great things being done to help others. She has given us many examples over the years of selfless acts like these, but I’m taking a slightly different route. Regular readers will know that I’m a big fan���

[guitarbomb]

Gibson Noel Gallagher 1978 Les Paul Custom special-edition

Gibson is celebrating the launch of their UK Gibson Garage by reissuing a special-edition 1978 Les Paul Custom, famously associated with Oasis’s Noel Gallagher. Gibson Noel Gallagher 1978 Les Paul Custom This limited run of guitars commemorates Gallagher’s storied musical journey and his connection to this iconic instrument, initially a gift from Johnny Marr. Known for its classic sound on albums…

[krispyweiss]

Jeff Beck’s Final Recording to be Part of Mark Knopfler’s Teen Cancer Charity Single

- New recording of “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)” will be released March 15 and credited to Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes

Jeff Beck’s final recording - or at least parts of it - will be released March 15 on a new recording of “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero),” which Mark Knopfler spearheaded as a charity single benefitting Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

Beck is just one of more than 60 musicians - including another Yardbird, a Beatle, a Stone, two Whos, two Eagles, a Black Sabbath and a Pink Floyd, a Genesis, a Lovin’ Spoonful and a Queen, to name a few - who came together, mostly remotely, under the banner of Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes to make the nine-minute recording.

“I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches,” Knopfler said in a news release quoted by NME.

Knopfler teased the track with a 15-second snippet that reveals the familiar melody of the 1983 song, but little else.

In addition to Beck, contributors include Joe Bonamassa, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Steve Cropper, Roger Daltrey, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Brian May, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Pete Townshend, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Walsh and Ronnie Wood among others.

Produced by Knopfler’s former Dire Straits bandmate Guy Fletcher, the track will be available on vinyl, CD, BluRay, download and streaming.

“What I really want to do, more than anything else, is just to thank each and every one (of the contributors) for this sterling response,” Knopfler said. “I really had no idea that it was going to be like this.”

2/8/24

[whogal]

News just in! Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes present: 'Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)', a new recording produced in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America. Featuring over 60 superstar musicians. Out March 15th.

Preorder now 👇

https://markknopfler.lnk.to/guitarheroesFA

[daily-broco]

2022, the true start of the Amazing Things era 💫 what a wild ride! Thank you so much for all your love & support. 2023 be good to us all 🙏can't wait to see you on the road. Happy new year ❤️

[littlequeenies]

Lily Allen and Lee Starkey attend the afterparty hosted by Noel Fielding following the Teenage Cancer Trust concert held at the Royal Albert Hall, at Dolce on April 9, 2008 in London, England. 

[astuteology]

Warning: DO NOT read if you're sensitive to SA/BULLYING

Astrological observations:

Sun in the 4th/7th/8th/10th/12th: might have been very badly bullied from the young age. The 1st bully could've been their siblings or cousins. They used to beat you for no reason. They lacked empathy and sympathy for you.

Pluto in the 1st/8th: might have experienced some kind of a sexual trauma when they were child (between the age of 5 and 13) or in their teenage. Random guys might have sneakingly touched you, and acted like they did nothing. No one helped you.

Lilith in the 1st/8th: we all know guys become disgustingly obsessed with people having this placement that even if the person rejects them, they threaten to beat them, k*ll them, r*pe them, or destroy everything they have like post fake n*des.

Scorpio, aries, cancer mars/moon: might have been sexually abused by a male figure in their family or relatives.

Scorpio in the 7th/ pluto in the 7th/ Lilith in the 7th/ mars in the 7th: guys might have only approached you with the intention of getting into your pants. They were desperate to have s*x with you. Made you uncomfortable whether alone or in a group, and no one believed you.

Neptune square ascendant, mars, pluto, sun/ ascendant square/conjunct Lilith: majority of people might have sl*tshamed you. Spread s*xual rumours about you for no reason. Portrayed you as a wh*ore.

Libra, aries, Capricorn, aquarius, gemini, scorpio placements: might have been very badly treated in friendships, relationships, at home, in group settings, by peers, by teachers, by literally anyone. Few people might have tried to trade you into something you don't wanna do. Forced you. Crossed your boundaries without your permission. Forcefully kissed you, grabbed you, touched your private parts, made you s*ck their c*ck.

All these said placements might be suffering from hopelessness, no will to live, suicidal tendencies, unexplainable anger, numbness, irritability, random emotional outbursts, severe depression, severe anxiety, GPPPD, vaginismus, sexual trauma, heavy trust issues that cant seem to heal. And im not stating that its astrological flaw that you suffered all that, but these placements are very prominent in those who suffered. You are not alone, and youre stronger than that and I promise you, they're gona get their karma.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Chloe Cole

Published: July 28, 2023

On Thursday, her 19th birthday, Chloe Cole testified to Congress with a “final warning” that medical treatments to change the gender of confused children is horrific. Cole, who was given surgery as a teenager to become male and soon regretted it, said what she needed most was therapy, not a scalpel. Here is what she told lawmakers:

My name is Chloe Cole and I am a de-transitioner.

Another way to put that would be: I used to believe that I was born in the wrong body and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief, and this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. 

I speak to you today as a victim of one of the biggest medical scandals in the history of the United States of America. 

I speak to you in the hope that you will have the courage to bring the scandal to an end, and ensure that other vulnerable teenagers, children and young adults don’t go through what I went through. 

Deceit & coercion 

At the age of 12, I began to experience what my medical team would later diagnose as gender dysphoria.

I was well into an early puberty, and I was very uncomfortable with the changes that were happening to my body. I was intimidated by male attention. 

And when I told my parents that I felt like a boy, in retrospect, all I meant was that I hated puberty, that I wanted this newfound sexual tension to go away.

I looked up to my brothers a little bit more than I did to my sisters. 

I came out as transgender in a letter I sent on the dining room table.

My parents were immediately concerned.

They felt like they needed to get outside help from medical professionals. 

But this proved to be a mistake.

It immediately set our entire family down a path of ideologically motivated deceit and coercion.

The general specialist I was taken to see told my parents that I needed to be put on puberty-blocking drugs right away. 

They asked my parents a simple question: Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son? 

The choice was enough for my parents to let their guard down, and in retrospect, I can’t blame them.

This is the moment that we all became victims of so-called gender-affirming care.

I was fast-tracked onto puberty blockers and then testosterone. 

The resulting menopausal-like hot flashes made focusing on school impossible.

I still get joint pains and weird pops in my back.

But they were far worse when I was on the blockers. 

Forever changed 

A month later, when I was 13, I had my first testosterone injection.

It has caused permanent changes in my body: My voice will forever be deeper, my jawline sharper, my nose longer, my bone structure permanently masculinized, my Adam’s apple more prominent, my fertility unknown. 

I look in the mirror sometimes, and I feel like a monster.

I had a double mastectomy at 15.

They tested my amputated breasts for cancer.

That was cancer-free, of course; I was perfectly healthy.

There is nothing wrong with my still-developing body, or my breasts other than that, as an insecure teenage girl, I felt awkward about it.

After my breasts were taken away from me, the tissue was incinerated — before I was able to legally drive. 

I had a huge part of my future womanhood taken from me.

I will never be able to breastfeed.

I struggle to look at myself in the mirror at times.

I still struggle to this day with sexual dysfunction.

And I have massive scars across my chest and the skin grafts that they used, that they took of my nipples, are weeping fluid today, and they’re grafted into a more masculine positioning, they said. 

After surgery, my grades in school plummeted.

Everything that I went through did nothing to address the underlying mental health issues that I had.

And my doctors with their theories on gender that all my problems would go away as soon as I was surgically transformed into something that vaguely resembled a boy — their theories were wrong.

The drugs and surgeries changed my body, but they did not and could not change the basic reality that I am, and forever will be, a female. 

Depths of despair 

When my specialists first told my parents they could have a dead daughter or a live transgender son, I wasn’t suicidal.

I was a happy child who struggled because she was different. 

However at 16, after my surgery, I did become suicidal.

I’m doing better now, but my parents almost got the dead daughter promised to them by my doctors.

My doctor had almost created the very nightmare they said they were trying to avoid. 

So what message do I want to bring to American teenagers and their families?

I didn’t need to be lied to.

I needed compassion.

I needed to be loved. 

I needed to be given therapy that helped me work through my issues, not affirmed my delusion that by transforming into a boy, it would solve all my problems. 

We need to stop telling 12-year-olds that they were born wrong, that they are right to reject their own bodies and feel uncomfortable with their own skin. 

We need to stop telling children that puberty is an option, that they can choose what kind of puberty they will go through, just like they can choose what clothes to wear or what music to listen to. 

Pseudoscience 

Puberty is a rite of passage to adulthood, not a disease to be mitigated.

Today, I should be at home with my family celebrating my 19th birthday.

Instead, I’m making a desperate plea to my elected representatives.

Learn the lessons from other medical scandals, like the opioid crisis. 

Recognize that doctors are human, too, and sometimes they are wrong. 

My childhood was ruined along with thousands of de-transitioners that I know through our networks.

This needs to stop. You alone can stop it. 

Enough children have already been victimized by this barbaric pseudoscience.

Please let me be your final warning. 

Thank you.

Might as well call her a murtad and kufr.

"The medical industry mutilated me, maybe don't mutilate other kids," shouldn't require bravery or renouncing an ideology.

Reminder: A minor under the age of 18 is too young to agree to a cellphone contract. 🤦‍♀️

[songofthenightingale19]

Basing your personality around a Hogwarts house is so passé, why not use different completely arbitrary categories? I present: the Nine Houses

Second House:

we all live in a fascist military empire, pt. 1 aka "Military propaganda? Oh, you mean the ideology I've built my entire life around?"

Third House:

decadent court life, political intrigues and body modifications without consent - what more could you want?

Fourth House:

we all live in a fascist military empire, pt. 2: elctric boogaloo aka child soldiers make great cannon fodder, trust me!

Fifth House:

How To Get Rich Through Colonialism In Three Easy Steps (NOT CLICKBAIT!!), will kill you with kindness and the angry revenant they just summoned

Sixth House:

librarians trapped in bureaucratic hell, "Let me introduce you to my 572 cousins who all finished university in their teens at the cost of their childhood!"

Seventh House: 

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I'm agonizingly dying of blood cancer and I hope you are too

Eighth House:

planetwide cult led by teenager, exhibit A - personally I think the puritans were too lax about the whole religion thing

Ninth House:

planetwide cult led by teenager, exhibit B - oops! All satanic worship!, 500 geriatric nuns that may have taken "human resources" a bit too literally

[v0rtex-sys]

TMA disability headcanons time!! this is only michael, gerry, jon, and martin but i will add more later. mild CW for talk of disorders :}

lots of these are based off my own experiences, especially michael </3

also i literally read the DSM-5 for this.

michael:

Cyclothymic disorder - a bipolar disorder. michael definitely has mania + depressive episodes that only last a day or so at a time

separation anxiety - probably been left before, finally found someone he trusts so now (gerry) he’s obsessively worried

ocd - probably caused/related to some of their other issues, i think they have very strict schedules and they freak out if it gets messed up

persistent vocal tic disorder - i think they’d only have vocal tics (until they get spiraled). probably a whistle tic, cursing mayhaps, echolalia

probably was selectively mute as a child

panic disorder - do i even have to explain myself?? i headcanon that it is worse during hypomanic episodes

Hypersomnolence disorder - i bet he is an eepy eeper and regularly falls asleep in weird places

borderline personality - worsened by mania + depressive episodes, their self image is regularly changing and also spiral avatar

visual snow - again, spiral avatar. i have this :} i also just think it’d be interesting

some sort of joint issues in their hands, maybe arthritis but i haven’t decided

gerry:

NPD - this solely of vibes (not in a bad way!!!) i dont have NPD so i can’t say too much ab it, would be down to expand on it but i don’t want to spread misinformation:,}

reactive attachment disorder - i think this is only a diagnosis for children but i'm not certain. mary definitely fucked his mental state up and he avoids people in caregiver roles (might have presented as being extra rebellious as a teenager)

insomnia - it’s essentially canon. i also think he and michael having opposite sleep disorders would be funny :}

ADHD - hyper with zero attention span

chronic fatigue - cane user because of it, can’t walk for too long. fainting/dizzy spells. worsened by the lung cancer

epilepsy - also worsened by lung cancer. probably has migraines bc of the seizures. i bet he regularly has petit mal seizures

jon:

autism - no explanation needed. although i hc that he learned bsl in college cause he kept going nonverbal (or maybe georgie taught them? she seems like she knows bsl)

brief psychotic disorder - literally him all of season two. plus maybe the end of season 4 & the end of season 5.

hoarding disorder - idk they seem like a hoarder to me. but only a little? like they hoard but they’re so anxious about people judging them for it so they force themself to get rid of stuff which results in more horading

ARFID - sensory issues make it hard for them to eat:(

paranoid personality disorder - essentially canon, literally them all of season 2

schizoid personality disorder - ik it could be their autism but still, i think the relationship avoidance (especially with martin) is a bit more than just tism

schizotypal personality disorder - worsened by the eye.

(yes i know that’s all the cluster A personality disorders, it’s not my fault they all fit him!! /lh)

chronic fatigue - probably bc of the eye bullshit, they probably faint a lot

cane user - i dont know what physical disability they’d have, but i like the cane user jon HC soooo

i also think they’d have some nervous tics, not a tourette disorder tho

martin:

dissociative amnesia + derealisation/depersonalization - brought on by the lonely. probably struggles to recognise people (worsened by not-sasha)

rheumatoid arthritis in his hands (+ his feet from the walking in the fearpocalypse)

major depressive disorder - had since he was little, worsened by the lonely