#twin peaks ep 18

[litres-of-cocaine]

whoever started calling 10 episode seasons a ‘binge-format’ is the bane of my existence

like genuinely a smaller number of episodes doesn’t make a binge format - releasing episodes all at once does, whether that’s anything from four episodes to twenty. (something that’s pretty standard right now because of the switch from paid channels to streaming services)

i’ve seen it suggested as well that shows with 20-25 episodes a season are inherently a better format and…. no????

twin peaks season one has nine episodes (including the pilot) - one of the best tv seasons of all time. artful, beautiful, mysterious, and good fun. makes great use of the tv form but doesn’t drag itself out.

twin peaks season two has twenty-one episodes - absolutely shambolic. there are seven good episodes, then eleven bad ones, then two good ones. s1 was so popular execs wanted to do a long season but knew people were getting frustrated about not knowing the killer’s identity, so forced lynch and frost to reveal it *way* too early and ruined the mid-point of the season. nine episode season could’ve meant the finale had the reveal, didn’t compromise the point of the show and still didn’t drag itself out.

20-25 episode seasons are so so often procedural shows that have stock characters and are more about the environment of the show than plot or character or meaning.

which is okay! like it’s good for entertainment purposes, plot isn’t difficult to follow as a lot of the episodes can be viewed as stand-alones. it functions a lot of the same way sitcoms do.

but comparing idk grey’s anatomy with a show like the bear (which you could also argue is a workplace drama) and saying oh it has 20-25 episodes so must be a better series is batshit.

short series make good shows!

in my option they make better shows, but that’s just my opinion

[kubfoo]

did any of you guys know that season 3 of twin peaks (18 episodes + special features) is packaged in an Eight Disc Set. this is partially because the special features are on one disc of their own, which is generally a fair move. the more insane reason is because the first two discs contain the following:

Disc 1: Episodes 1 and 2, plus Episodes 1 and 2 combined as a "Feature Length Presentation."

Disc 2: Episodes 3 and 4, plus Episodes 3 and 4 combined as a "Feature Length Presentation."

notable information is that neither discs' main menus offer a "play all" option like the previous seasons' dvd releases did. the subsequent discs appear to have 3 episodes each, save for Disc 7, which only has 2 episodes since that's all that remained.

Notable information for THAT is there would be no need for 8 entire discs had they simply put 3 episodes each on Discs 1 (eps 1-3) and 2 (4-6). Possibly could have even spread the special features across the remaining space on all the discs, but I understand that that would make viewing them a fucking hassle so that's fair, plus it's like 6 hours of stuff.

I have Thoughts and Feelings regarding data storage and wasting physical space. I do not think this issue is unique to Twin Peaks' release. But Why. That's so stupid. Are other shows' releases doing this shit? I'm trying to stop throwing around the word "pretentious" but why else do you waste an entire dvd disc PER DISC SET PRODUCED just so you can do a Feature Length Presentation on not just the first two episodes, but the first FOUR. I could get into the pacing of said episodes as a waste of data space but I won't. David Lynch works best with sub 10 episode season/series 45 minutes each. He doesn't need more. He is a talented director when given the correct constraints. That is all.

[fatecolossal]

Cooper making Laura's angel disappear

This is a bit uncanny: if you sync the first scene of overlap between TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and THE RETURN's Part 17, then it makes it appear as if Cooper's electrical-arrival to "save" Laura is what causes her angel to disappear in the wall painting.

I'm tempted to believe this *may* be intentional synchronicity b/c (a) it's very thematically appropriate (on one level, at least), given Coop's wrongheaded white-knight attempt to change Laura's past, & fits with her fear-filled scream at him moments later in Part 17's retelling:

It also wouldn't be the first persuasive example of apparent intentional syncing in THE RETURN. In particular, see the below excerpts of a sync of the glass box scenes in Parts 1 & 2-3, found by fans in 2017, and highlights of which can be found in my Twitter thread here .

The most well-known alleged TP:TR sync is the one, alleged by a fan in 2017, claiming Parts 17-18 are synced in their entirety, if one begins playback of each simultaneously. I don't find it persuasive (at least, as it was formulated back then), & TP:TR EP Sabrina Sutherland has denied that Lynch intended that particular sync parallel, but who knows, there may be something more there.

Perhaps all of these alleged syncs are just coincidence, mere pareidolia. Still, there is at least an argument for intentionality, given: a) they stem from shared scenes of overlap; b) they're thematically fitting; & c) there is arguably more than one somewhat convincing example.

[gloriadenton]

🧡💜💕

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

Any of the extremely meta theories about s3 of Twin Peaks (that every storyline is an analogy for some part of making television, or that Cooper and Laura have broken out of the fictional universe of Twin Peaks and are now in the "real world," etc). Especially when people are like "look at this branded product you can see in ep 18, there was never anything like this in any of the other episodes!" as evidence Cooper is now in the real world. CHANTAL EATS CHEETOES. There have always been name brand products and references to real people, places and things in Twin Peaks, you just weren't paying attention.

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

Blackie O'Reilly. Tissaia de Vries. Sir Malcolm Murray. Otto Hightower. I'm a simple woman, I like manipulative old people.

💕: What is an unpopular ship that you like?

Ethan/Hecate. Yes, I will be giggling and blushing and thinking "Hecate has a boyyyyyfriend" instead of hoping Ethan goes back to London to save Vanessa from Dracula or whatever I was meant to be thinking during s3.

[ijustwantedtobeoneofthestrokesuk]

I've Never Been Impressed By Your Friends From New York And London

Yorkshire

Wakefield

The Cribs - A Band of Brothers

Conor McNicholas “We loved The Cribs, they were like our house band and they were our band, the mainstream didn’t want them.” 

The “New Rock Revolution” was created because there wasn’t a scene in the UK, but 3 brothers in Wakefield, West Yorkshire was already doing what they were looking for. The Cribs were the underdogs everybody championed. The Jarman brothers have always kept it DIY, done it their way and never sold out, even at their peak they’d still carry their own equipment and travel in their little van. Q Magazine hailed The Cribs as “the biggest cult band in the UK” in 2008 and they have continued with that mantra throughout their career. 

Way back in 1994, 14-year-old twins brothers Gary and Ryan formed their first band, Wrinkle with a couple of friends from school. They wrote songs inspired by Dinosaur Jnr., after drifting apart from their school friends when they started college they got another drummer in but their goal was to be a band of brothers, they just had to wait for Ross who is 4 years younger.  

In the summer of 2001, the twins would record rough demos at home (self-taught musicians and producers). By autumn Ross was old enough, Ryan and Gary practically forced him to play the drums and molded Ross into the drummer they wanted him to be and The Cribs were ready to take on the world, unaware of what was about to happen with The Strokes and The Stripes, they weren’t jumping on a trend, they weren’t fitting in, they were on their own and doing what they loved. 

While all 3 brothers were working in a toilet roll factory the band left their bedroom in early 2002 and moved into Springtime Studios, a large space in Wakefield where they wrote, rehearsed and recorded what they had written at night, after work. The studios would be rented out to other bands during the day to cover costs. 

On weekends they would host parties at Springtime, which would often last the whole weekend, fans would jump on the Megabus and sleep on the floor while the likes of The Paddingtons and 10,000 Things would turn up and a community began to form. 

The band was yet to play a gig and there was a line-up they wanted to be on at The Leadmill, down the road in Sheffield. Ryan hand-delivered the one-and-only CD demo they had, which started with Another Number to the promoter who liked it and saw potential in the band but he was too busy managing another band but called Ryan to see if he could pass it on to others. While taking exams at college they received a phone call from Virgin Records who had heard this demo from the guy at The Leadmill. Labels were searching for a UK equivalent of The Strokes and The White Stripes and The Cribs ticked the box.  

Within 6 weeks the band had booked their first London show, word of this demo had spread without the band even realising, the room was packed with industry types. They had just finished college but they were still working in the factory, their dream was to leave Wakefield and after that gig they were given the opportunity to do so as they were offered a publishing deal from Chrysalis that night.  

The deal allowed them to quit their jobs, tour for 18 months and buy equipment. Their dream was coming true and they would have happily done it for free. Once the publishing deal was signed they were then being hounded by labels and found themselves regularly playing industry showcase gigs in London, the initial interest was from major labels who they had no desire to sign with.  

Ryan had stumbled across The Strokes Modern Age EP when he had to nip into HMV to get change for the bus but it was their label mates, The Moldy Peaches who he was a bigger fan of so he rang Rough Trade and invited James Endeacott to one of their London shows. He attended but they chose to sign with Wichita Recordings because they got on well with them, however they had to wait for over a year as Ross was under 18 (they would have had to redo the contracts if they’d have signed when he was under 18 which would have cost money for legal fees and these guys are thrifty). Before signing the deal they recorded their debut album so that they were ready to go once Ross was old enough. 

The band was a little frustrated with the release, feeling that it should have come out earlier. It slowly gained a following, the label was pushing them to record a second album but they were keen to tour. Without the backing of the label for live shows, they did it themselves. None of them were particularly clued up when it came to technology so once they had a minute to check out their own website they were surprised how active their forum was and discovered they had fans around the world. 

Instead of going down the usual route of booking a tour, they put a message on the forum asking fans to put them on, and they’d play pretty much anywhere as long as their costs were covered. Coming from a small town like Wakefield they understood how important it was when a band played there instead of the typical cities and it was these places that built the band up and became part of the community. It was as DIY as it could get.

Unbeknown to them, the debut album had also gained a following in London too so they started playing in that scene with the likes of The Paddingtons, who they had become friends with when they visited Hull as well as bonding with Dominic Masters and The Others 853 Community who shared the same ethics.  

The bands' second album, The New Fellas, mostly written on tour (they were playing 250 gigs a year) was released in July 2005. It had 4 top 40 singles (many of the fans they’d met playing in the small towns helped them). The album still had the low-fi sensibilities of the debut but The New Fellas was more polished and came with the structure that set them apart from the indie bands rebelling against pop.  

If the shift between the debut and The New Fellas was big, there was a huge leap for third album, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever which again saw the brother pen great tunes with big hooks and sing-along moments at their gigs which were getting bigger on each tour (but they launched the album by returning the tiny venues, which were chaotic and mayhem). This album, produced by Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos gave the brothers an opportunity to work with one of the heroes, Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth who sings on Be Safe. Another big moment for The Cribs came in 2008 when they became a quartet as former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr joined the band for four years and played on Ignore the Ignorant, their first album to go in top 10.

While many bands softened their sound for the radio, The Cribs haven’t and this attitude has helped them continue to keep their old fans and find new ones with each album that has come. They discovered that they had signed a bad record deal, without having a lot of money, they did the legal stuff themselves but it tested them, they questioned if it was worth it, they considered splitting up as they weren’t touring or recording for the first time since their teens. Then, ‘the nicest man in rock’ Dave Grohl offers them encouragement, and his studio, the journey continued and they recorded an album (Night Network) and in 2022 they rereleased their first 3 albums. 

You can’t stop the Jarman brothers.

Leeds

Just up the road from The Cribs there was a wave of new and eclectic bands coming out of Leeds in 2005. Kaiser Chiefs, Black Wire, iForward Russia!, 10,000 Things and The Pigeon Detectives (along with a load of less significant acts) didn’t sound like one another, didn’t really play together, share a fanbase or a dream (but they all (pretty much) seemed to get along with, and champion The Cribs. The NME got their pun game into action and created another scene, New Yorkshire (which was pretty much Leeds and The Cribs). Kaiser Chiefs have gone on to become the only real survivors from Leeds. 

Tom Greatorex (Black Wire) “I moved to Leeds at the tail end of 1999 to study graphic design at what was then known as Leeds Met University. It could have been any city or metropolitan area; growing up in a small town in Derbyshire effectively rendered almost all cities as some sort of cultural omphalos in my mind. I'd read the NME and Melody Maker every Wednesday and read about all these groups who I idolised playing places like Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, Sheffield....fucking, Chester - you get the point - they might as well have been taking place under the sea for a young person with zero money in a deindustrialised village called Somercotes. 

So, working towards 'getting-the-fuck-out' was top priority and my means of empowerment was picking any university that did a graphic design course and running at it head-first in the hope they'd let me in. 

Leeds was a revelation: not only could I buy tickets to see someone like Idlewild or CAY, but there were people I spoke to in the pub who were actually in bands themselves! It makes me sound like some sort of redneck hick but this was my first experience of people actually doing the whole DIY-punk thing that I'd coveted since my early teens. 

There were a hell of a lot of Post-Rock/Mathrock bands and every one of them was 100% pig-shite boring but I went to see them because they were there and it was something I'd never before had access to. 

A few years later when we started PIGS it wasn't necessarily in opposition to the utilitarian aesthetics of that scene...but it provided a good foundation. There's a big thing made of talking down influence in British society so let's not do that; PIGS was very influential in Leeds. It provided a brand new space for a brand new taste. Well, sort of. The 3 years pre-millennium were filled with creators and media of all kinds designing itself for a pioneering new era and when it came the mainstream decided to act paradigmatically and double-down on guitar, bass, drums. vocals and practiced indifference. BUT, there were 18 months where everything was vying for main place. Electroclash was seemingly as popular as garage rock, just as UK garage was seemingly as popular as punk rock. The point I'm trying to make is that PIGS played it all regardless of genre and anyone with any REAL sense of futurism got on board with that. Bands formed at PIGS, fanzines got written at PIGS, people stole cameras from Uni to start their photography careers because they felt the need to capture this 'thing' that was happening. 

Mainly though it was just a load of kids getting fucked on vodka and smacky pills (Ketamine was at least 2 years away at this point) and getting off with each other. As much as it did give space for people to forge their own creative paths let's not paint it as some den of post-nut clarity school of academia - no one was sat in the corner reading Sartre...apart from this one lad who I won't name but everyone thought he was a cunt anyway. We put on A.R.E. Weapons for fuck's sake. Kids nowadays need to know how bloody cool that was. 

I do have to make an important point though, PIGS wasn't at the forefront of all this radical shift in Leeds: Dan Lomax ran a night at a tiny venue in a shopping centre called The Basement and in the Spring of 2001 myself and a small handful of other pals (Nick Hodgson, Nick Scott/Narcsville, Dom Ord, Lisa Harker, Ricky Wilson) would go there on a Thursday. It was dead because all the students would be away for a month at Easter, but Dan had started to play all this new music: Fischerspooner, Miss Kitten and The Hacker, The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Streets etc. I can't impress enough the point that NOWHERE in Leeds was playing this music at the start of 2001. 

By the Autumn of 2001 we realised that loads of other cities around the country had all had the same idea when we did. That idea we all had was: just try and copy Trash. 

Kaiser Chiefs became SO huge (and deservedly so) that they sort of BECAME Leeds. I don't think the spotlight really stayed on Leeds because of Kaiser Chiefs, it was more like the spotlight followed them and they were Leeds made corporeal. The rest of the country/world didn't need to know what Leeds was because in their experience they were looking at Leeds on the stage right there. 

I tell you something though: If it was a spotlight which gave bands from Leeds a platform then there should have been a nationwide fucking blackout before it shone on The Pigeon Detectives.” 

Kaiser Chiefs

It felt like Leeds 5-piece, Kaiser Chiefs left the indie scene quicker than they were in it. One minute they were breaking through with catchy indie disco floor fillers, Oh My God and I Predict A Riot, supporting The Killers, dressed in garms from Blue Rinse, the next minute they’d be A-listed on Radio 1 and selling out arenas themselves. It didn’t take long for them to lose their cool factor while local pals, The Cribs, Blackwire and 10,000 Things oozed it. It might have looked effortlessly when they moved into the mainstream but they did have to work hard for it. 

Kaiser Chiefs’ story begins at school when they started playing rock tunes together, the line-up, the name and sound changed numerous times. They finally settled on the name Parva in 2000 which saw Ricky Wilson front the band, Whitey on guitar, Simon Rix on bass, keyboardist Peanut and Nick Hodgson on drums. 

Nick, Peanut and Simon have been mates since they were 11 when they were in the same class at school. In 1996 Simon and Peanut would leave Leeds for uni while Nick stuck around and met Ricky and Whitey. The trio would go on to form Runston Parva which would become Parva when Simon and Peanut returned to Leeds in 2000. 

The band recorded 1 album as Parva, 22, it was set to come out in June 2003 but Mantra Recordings, who was releasing it closed down. This could have been the perfect time for the lads to down tools and get a “proper job” but they had a rebrand. Kaiser Chiefs were born, named after Leeds United footballer Lucas Radebe's old team, Kaizer Chiefs. 

Bands who have had a record deal and failed are often looked at as damaged goods by other labels so Kaiser Chiefs became a brand new band and pretended to be younger than they were. The first song they wrote as Kaiser Chiefs was Modern Way, the start of the big hits that can be heard on their debut album, Employment released on B-Unique Records in March 2005. There was a lot of hype around the band within the industry on the strength of these potentially chart-topping singles. In a year they went from their day jobs (Ricky was an art teacher) to selling out large venues. 

Ricky sang with a Yorkshire dialect with lyrics about real-life, relatable situations. I Predict A Riot is about the scenes they’d see outside Majestic at 3am on a Saturday. 

Kaiser Chiefs and The Cribs had become good mates over the years, often supporting one another despite the fact that Kaiser Chiefs wanted to be part of the mainstream while The Cribs avoided it like the plague. 2007 wasn’t just a pivotal year for The Cribs, Kaiser Chiefs had a strong one too as they outdid Employment with the follow-up, Yours Truly, Angry Mob which went straight in at no.1. Not only did they have a huge album, lead single Ruby is their only song to top the UK Singles Chart.  

Since then the band have come-and-gone, then they would return bigger. The departure of drummer and songwriter Nick in 2012 could have been the end for them but Ricky Wilson joined a minor celeb for a moment when he was a judge on The Voice for 3 series’ and their next album topped the charts. Each release comes with arena tours but their early hits are still what the people want to hear. 

Black Wire

Another player in the Leeds scene was Black Wire who was more electro punks than indie. They were a band ahead of their time, they would have fit into the nu rave scene, if they hadn’t already faded out. 

They formed in 2002 after school friends Dan and Si moved from Middlesborough to Leeds for uni. The pair had been obsessed with music for years, they’d tried to do something in Middlesborough together but Dan was too shy to perform.  

Si had some experience in bands while studying music at college as Dan started to gain confidence at art school, when they arrived in Leeds it was like a new world for them. Si bought a drum machine with which they started to write songs with. 

Tom “I first met Dan and Si at a gig at The Rocket (R.I.P). It was March 4th, 2002, and 'The Tour With No Name' had tipped up which was mega exciting as it consisted of 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Parkinsons and Ikara Colt. 

Along with Nick Scott/Narcsville we were the only ones at the front dancing. I can never quite figure out why that was, Leeds wasn't known for stand-offish crowds at gigs like London is, there were plenty of people there even though it was in the smaller gig room of The Cockpit. There's the possibility that I'm remembering it incorrectly but I highly doubt that. You know that scene in 24 Hour Party People where The Sex Pistols play the Lesser Free Trade Hall and all these soon-to-be luminaries slowly, individually, rise from their seats and begin to dance, soon to go home that night and all form their own bands? Well it was nothing like that. 

But, I DID meet them that night and I DO remember it just being us dancing and we DID form Black Wire that night. 

After the gig we sat in the little bar area and talked about mutual friends we had. Dan and Si mentioned they wanted to form a band (in fact they already had started making some music together under the name Slush Yuppie) and said they needed a bass player. For whatever reason I said "That's me. I'm the only bass player in Leeds you need to talk to"...bear in mind I didn't own a bass guitar and probably didn't know whether you blew into one or wound it up to make it work. But no one had asked me to be in a band before and I was 21 at the time so I needed to do it before I got OLD 2 years later. 

They had been recording on a Zoom multi-track which provided the drums and we stuck with that for three reasons, 

1: We were incredibly eclectic and saw no reason to not incorporate digital and synthesised sounds in our music, 

2: We didn't know anyone rich enough who owned a drum kit and 

3: We didn't fucking want a drummer anyway. 

Our influences were stuff like The Cramps, The Specials, The Faint, The Birthday Party, LCD Soundsystem etc.” 

After a month of forming the band they played at PIGS and their unique set-up of the drum machine made it easier to get gigs as they fitted in perfectly for indie discos as well as supporting bands, thanks to their energy.  

It took over their lives, from early on they were either writing, rehearsing or playing live. They constantly toured. 

In March 2004 Black Wire released their first single, Attack!Attack!Attack!, the original pressing of 500 copies sold out, as did the second and it was NME’s single of the week. The band had signed to 48 Crash, a record label created for Black Wire which gave them the flexibility to record when they wanted while their manager invested in a van so they could tour when they wanted to. The label founders discovered Black Wire when they played a battle of the bands' competition where they came last. 

They toured with The Cribs early on as well as supporting the likes of Bloc Party and The Rapture. They had been booked to play a Queens of Noize night at The Barfly in Camden when they got a phone call to ask if they’d be happy for a last-minute addition to the gig which turned out to be a Libertines reunion after Peter had been released from prison. 

Tom “The Cribs were pretty much the only band we felt a direct affinity with, to be honest (along with a great band called Baby Food). Even though we made different music (to a degree) we both felt fundamentally like outsiders. All the sad old nerds from the upstairs-at-the-dog-and-kebab gigs didn't like either of us because we had the gall to get gigs outside of Yorkshire and that was seen as treasonous in the eyes of the Leeds music scene. But that was fine because we didn't care. We wanted to be Black Wire, not Black Wire From Leeds. None of us were from Leeds anyway.” 

Their second single, Hard To Love, Easy To Lay was a floor filler, a staple for any decent indie disco. The 7” had made its way over to legendary record shop Amoeba Records in San Fransico. The artwork caught the eye of a manager who was immediately impressed with the band, so much so that he went back to the shop, bought the rest of the copies so nobody else could, called the band and flew to Leeds 2 days later. 

The 3 best mates were pretty low maintenance, the American manager covered their rent for a few months and gave them enough money to record the debut album before flying them out to America for a tour. They covered all the major cities, played iconic venues in New York, including Misshapes but it was a small town, on the outskirts of Chicago where Black Wire made the front page of the local newspaper. Inspired by the American all-age punk shows they ended up playing a high school in the town where their manager was from however parents were concerned with Hard To Love, Easy To Lay, there was police outside ready to arrest Dan if he sang it, instead they got their managers 6-year-old son to say the line. The next day they made the headlines for bringing rock ‘n’ roll to the small town, 

Tom “Everything was memorable because all 3 of us were doing this for the first time. Everything we did we shared in it because none of us had experienced it before and that really makes me quite emotional because it honestly felt like us against everything else. At the time a lot of people saw us as very insular and impenetrable as a group but that was because everything we did bonded us closer. 

Going to America on tour was us going as a gang. We were 3 people that had defied the odds and made something happen because we felt it HAD to happen. We were a product of our own desire to experience something genuine and weren't afraid of praxis. 

But I suppose I should mention stuff like the time we were playing at Vibe Bar on Brick Lane and a man dressed as a priest (or maybe an actual priest) bit Si while we were playing so Si suplexed him through a table, or the time we played a last-minute gig at a High School in Oswego, Illinois for a laugh and got guns pulled on us by the police because we played 'Hard To Love, Easy To Lay' (for some antediluvian reason we were told not to play it because they thought the song was about shagging), or the time we invented the Kaiser Chiefs by causing a riot at a gig in Leeds etc.” 

After a handful of attempts, The Cribs final encouraged the band to reform for one of their Cribsmas gigs on the O2 Academy in Leeds in December 2013. 

10,000 Things

Leeds-based 6-piece 10,000 Things felt the force of how important the NME was at the time following an album review that practically killed the band. 

The band had been creating slick rock ‘n’ roll in the city as they came to life on stage, frontman Sam Riley had a touch of class when he had an audience to perform to. His charm, charisma and love of a few too many beers was the perfect formula for a band in the 2000’s. The energy didn’t come across on the self-titled debut, which the NME gave a 0/10 and that was pretty much it. They got dropped from their label and, just after dreaming of stardom they found themselves behind the bar, instead of getting the rounds in.  

The 10,000 Things dream might have been over but Sam’s time on stage wasn’t. After they split he took the lead role as Ian Curtis in the film Control where he not only played the iconic frontman brilliantly but he got to perform on stage once again, but this time it was Joy Division songs. 

iForward Russia!

iForward Russia! was a key part of a Leeds scene thanks to their Dance To The Radio record label which supported a lot of the up-and-coming bands who all had differing sounds, their only thing in common being their location.  

iForward Russia! formed in Leeds in 2003, Tom and Rob were in The Black Helicopters, Whiskers was in les Flames, they liked each other's bands but Whiskers wanted to start something new and asked Tom and Rob to join him. Whiskers sister, Katie was a drummer and she completed the line-up. 

Whiskers was into the music industry side of it, he handled the admin, booking gigs and trying to get management and a label. They took it seriously from the start, rehearsing 3 times a week. Their previous bands were garage rock and they felt restricted to stick to that sound, with iForward Russia! there weren’t the same boundaries and, as they numbered the song titles in order of writing them you can track their progression. They were influenced by the ‘60’s and ‘70’s as well as newer bands like The Rapture. 

They struggled to get a record deal and Whiskers wanted his own label, this gave him the perfect opportunity to do so, and he launched Dance To The Radio to initially release i!Forward Russia! music but it would go to release local talent including iLiKETRiANS, This Et Al and The Pigeon Detectives. 

The Pigeon Detectives

While Kaiser Chiefs were receiving commercial success with their debut album, 5 lads from Rothwell, a mining town near Leeds had given up on hopes of becoming footballers and they were bored of their 9-to-5 office jobs so they formed The Pigeon Detectives. 

Matt, Oliver, Ryan, Dave and Jimmi have been friends since primary school, none of them were particularly talented when they started out, they began by just playing Oasis and The Beatles songs while they got to grips with the basics. Every Sunday, after a week at work and weekends at indie discos in Leeds they would rehearse and write songs for eight hours with a hangover. 

Things started to evolve quickly as they were in the right city at the right time. They signed to Dance to the Radio and were offered a slot supporting Dirty Pretty Things on a UK tour. The 5-piece still had full-time jobs so the label put £10,000 in the bank, they quit their jobs and they were officially rock stars.  

Their rise was gradual as they were a live band. Suddenly they started getting radio play, then they were selling out bigger and bigger venues then they were being booked to play festivals. They went on to release 5 albums including Wait For Me in May 2007. The album charted at no.3 but it had leaked 3 weeks earlier (it would have have probably reached no.1 otherwise). The album took the band on tour around the world whilst the NME created conflict between them and local favourites The Cribs.  

Unlike a lot of bands at the time, their second album, released 12 months later was also a commercial success, reaching no.5 despite having the pressure of a successful debut. The intense touring took its toll on some members mental health and they had a couple of years off before heading to New York to record Up, Guards and at ‘Em! but they struggled to reach the same numbers as their first 2 albums reached. The band have continued to release albums, tour the UK and spend their summers on the festival circuit.  

Hull 

The Padddingtons

The Paddingtons, from Hull formed in 2000, they were just a bunch of mates (and brothers) who wanted to hang out and be in a band. 

They are the perfect representation of the era, when the teens came across something that excited them they went in deep, making them the most authentic of them all. After falling for The Strokes they deep-dived into ‘70’s punk bands who helped form their sound. Nobody in Hull was doing it and they didn’t realise people in London were doing it until they went there. They looked cool too, they were stylish, not fashionable, they’d go to a charity shop and pick up bits for a few quid. They’d fix leather jackets and ripped jeans with gaffer tape because they were skint. They were a gang who lived for each other as much as they did music. 

The 5-piece were exciting, energetic and raw. Fronted by Tom Atkin, who shared the ‘give no shits’ attitude of the Sex Pistols and Josh had the swagger of The Clash’s Mick Jones. They timed the existence brilliantly, sliding into the scene and surrounding themselves around Pete Doherty effortlessly. He was a fan, as was Alan McGee. 

Tom Atkin “I went to school with Josh so we kind of knew each other anyway but he was the last one to join. Me and Lloyd were the first ones that kind of started to bond, we went to different schools and met through a friend as he knew we were both into the same sort of music. I was 16, Lloyd and Marv are a couple of years older than me, Josh and Grant.  

I was into Oasis, Blur and The Stone Roses and really wanted to be in a band but could barely play guitar. Lloyd’s brother, Grant was a drummer, they’d played in bands together at school, Marv was Lloyd’s friend from school and he’d just started learning guitar. I wanted to be the frontman but I was quite screamy. We’d practice as a 4-piece in my dad's warehouse, after initially playing in my parents' house, but that didn’t last long. It was freezing in the warehouse, we got proper wrapped up, Grant started wearing a duffel coat, he’d drum in and looked like Paddington Bear, which led to the band name as I got a coat too. Then Josh came on board and we felt like a band, we just got on with it. We learned by rehearsing covers of The Strokes, The Hives and Pixies in between reading the NME, talking about music and drinking cheap booze. 

Josh’s sister became our tour manager and she bought The Modern Age EP which really changed everything for us and we started looking to New York for inspiration. The New York movement was huge in the UK, after playing Is This It to death I got obsessed with Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, they were all really cool. The Strokes inspired us in every way, we didn’t really sound like them but we did copy them how we dressed, head-to-toe. We got into a lot of the New York bands because of The Strokes likeTelevision and Guided By Voices. This was the first time we really listened to punk and it organically fed through into what we were doing.  

The first proper song we wrote as a band was 21. Me and Lloyd wrote most of the first album, either combining ideas together or bringing individual bits to the table but those songs we nothing without all of us, everyone would chip in. 21 went on to become our first single. 

Our first gig was meant to be at Cross Keys, a pub in Cottingham, the village where me and Josh went to school. We turned up dressed like punks, trying to be rock stars, we had a Union Jack flag and they took one look at us and cancelled the gig. We had a hundred people coming to watch us, our mates and family, thankfully the Railway Tavern, down the road let us play.  

We kept playing in and around Hull for about a year before doing a gig in Scarborough. The Hull scene was really good, once we started to establish ourselves a scene popped off. Indie was massive at the time, every other kid was trying to be in a band. We had some really good bands who should have done better. Music in small towns and cities is so important, the people are so passionate. I live in London now, and we ‘made it’ as a ‘London band’ but Londoner’s are spoilt for choice. Our management, label and friends from the scene were in London but it was so important to play the small places. We gained loyal fans there.” 

The online community allowed them to connect with like-minded people from all over the country, particularly the towns like Coventry and Middlesbrough, which, like Hull didn’t have a huge scene but there were people wanting to make things happen. Like The Cribs, they would use the message boards to advertise gigs and book tours (including one in campsites across the UK).  

Tom “The north was always good to us, we had a lot of mates in Leeds. We played with Black Wire and The Cribs, we first met The Cribs when I went to see them in Hull and knew they were special, they are still one of my favourite bands. We started to bump into them and play with them more and more. We also had a great relationship with Scotland, we recorded the second album in Glasgow so we were there a few months. 

We were supporting The IV’s, fronted by Scarborough Steve who’d been in The Libertines on our first gig outside of Hull. He invited us to our first London gig, we got our equipment and jumped on a train, the gig was at a squat in Kings Cross with Portuguese punks, it was chaotic. That’s where it started. We got invited to play with Pete at Wolfman’s flat in Gunter Grove, however it didn’t really go to plan as the police shut it down before we played, we grabbed our equipment, jumped in the car and headed home but this is where we first met Pete who fell in love with us. We started posting on .org which got us more London gigs, there was a huge community in the London scene, that’s what made it special, so huge. One night, at The Rhythm Factory supporting The Libertines was where Alan McGee first saw us and wanted to put out 21 as a single on Poptones. It was about 3am when I came off stage, Alan grabbed me and said he wanted to sign us and put a single out. The only version we had was a really rough demo so we quickly rerecorded it. It was released on CD and 7”, charting at no.47 selling all 1000 copies without any marketing, it was all organic. The success of 21 and Alan’s relationship with Mercury led to our 5-album record contract.” 

Signing the record deal was exciting but for lads who’d never had much money, getting the advance in the bank account was a real high for them, and they celebrated in rock ‘n’ roll fashion, ending up getting arrested after “play-fighting” with each other in a hotel room after a gig in Edinburgh. They were young, so young Tom had to get his parents to sign the contract. They had no management or guidance from anybody, they were essentially putting their career in the hands of a major corporation who don’t care about people but at the time they were young and having fun. 

The Paddingtons weren’t a band in it for the money and in the very early days they were naive with the business side of the industry. They were part of the last era of bands who signed a record deal where the record company would give them a decent advance to pay for everything which would be recouped in record sales, like a loan.  

An advance sounds great but it has to pay wages for band members, management, agents, accountants, lawyers, equipment, rehearsal space, recording time, distribution, music videos, artwork and pretty much anything else. Money from gigs would pay for the tour bus/hotels, touring crew/roaders, the rider would be included in the budget and band members would get a daily allowance, for The Paddingtons, they each got £20 a day. Money that was leftover from the tour would go into the band bank accountant and be divided amongst members, Tom’s mum looked after their finances.  

Having money, being on tour with fans who paid to see them, the lads were living their best life. They felt invincible although they felt a bit overlooked when bands such as The Enemy, The Fratellis and The View would support them and a few weeks later there’d be topping charts. 

Alan McGee was good friends with producer Owen Morris from the Oasis days, he had a reputation for being a bit mad and The Paddingtons had started to get a party reputation too. The label had concerns about them working together for the debut album so they let him produce their second single, Panic Attack, it all went smoothly, it was their highest-charting single at no.21. 

They got the green light to work together for the album, First Comes First and from day 1, it was wild. The studio was in the middle of nowhere, they met Owen at the nearest pub, also in the middle of nowhere and he put his credit card behind the bar. Every day, before recording, which wouldn’t start until the evening there’d be in the pub. There’s not a sober note on the album and Owen had some out-there tactics to get the most out of the band. When Tom was doing vocals for the first song none of the other band members were allowed in the studio, he’d get both Tom and himself to snort a load of pills then make Tom do vocals over and over again while Owen threw up in a bucket. Each day they’d wake up at 4pm, after the pub they would be in the studio from 7pm and recording until 5am. He’d get into the boys' heads, whether that was with drink and drugs, playing Green Day’s American Idiot on repeat or mentally torturing them, he sent Marv crazy and he had to go home. It worked. The album gushes with energy. 

Tom “We recorded the debut album with Owen Morris, he was an interesting guy to work with, bonkers. We were big fans of Owen as he’d produced some of our favourite albums when we were younger so we were excited for the opportunity. It was a no-brainer. All of the rumours were true, as soon as we started working with him we knew it was going to be a rollercoaster, it was wild. He was a bit of a madman, in the best possible way. I was 18, it was fun.” 

Ahead of the release of the debut album Marv had to pull out of the tour following a serious injury to his arm during a drunken night out. Stu from Kill City, who had supported the band before stepped in. Stu was a fan of the band too and he was welcomed in like he was one of the close-knit gang. Stu would go on to replace Marv a few years later on after the band briefly split up for a couple of months before reforming without Marv, Stu felt like he was part of the band but always knew it was Marv’s baby. After years of Marv not talking to the band, they all settled their differences and on the 2017 reunion tour both Marv and Stu played together. 

The expectation from all was that The Paddingtons would replicate The Libertines but Owen’s tactics gave them the anger and energy to create a punk record, it surprised everyone, particularly the NME who gave First Comes First a positive review when it was released in October 2005. 

The record label chose Sorry as a single but the album version is almost 5 minutes long, it had to be re-recorded and the label sent in another iconic producer in Stephen Street, famed for his work with Blur. They’d go from recording with Oasis’s producer to Blur’s. It was a very different experience too as Stephen works 9am - 5pm and the single version is much more concise than the one on the album which lacked a little guidance.  

Touring was essential for a band like The Paddingtons and the community aspect was clear amongst bands and fans as you’d often see similar bands share line-ups. They supported bands who were a couple of leagues above them such as Babyshambles and The Cribs and they’d know that a good amount of the crowd would be fans of theirs. At their peak The Paddingtons could sell out 1000-capacity venues in London such as Koko and ULU but they also had a following of punks in Japan. 

Tom “We were buzzing from the first album, when I listen to it now it could have been slower but I guess that was what we were doing. The energy told the story of what was going on in our lives, everything was happening so fast, we didn’t have a minute off. Even when we went home we still partied or rehearsed, there was no rest and you can hear that on the album. We were satisfied with how it sold and it kept us going to a second album, which I still really like, it was just a very complicated time, we felt a bit rushed. 

It would have been nice to see how it would have gone with an indie label but we were just excited that Mercury wanted to sign us. We were such young kids, making those big decisions at 18, I didn’t know what I was doing. We didn’t have a proper manager, it all happened very quick. 

Me and Marv had an altercation, a bit of a bust-up which involved most of the band when we were on tour in Europe, it was a sad time. Touring with best friends takes its toll. Being in a band isn’t easy, we were living the dream but it was quite difficult. We love each other, me and Marv are super tight now but there was a few years where we didn’t really talk which is weird looking back.” 

Ahead of recording the second album the band went into The Charlatans recording studio, Big Mushroom in Cheshire where they recorded 5 tracks which cost them £16,000, they didn’t really understand how much it was going to be and ended up not using any of the songs. 

In 2007, after delays they moved to Glasgow to record No Mundane Options with Tony Doogan, the experience was very different to the first as he was sober.  

Tom “We had a bunch of songs which we planned for a second album, we were touring constantly. Everything was going so fast, it was a bit of a blur, we were wasted a lot and got carried away with partying, touring and having fun, not concentrating on a second record so when it came down to writing and recording the second album it was a bit of a rush. Midway through recording album we got dropped and released it ourselves which was hard work, things are easier when you’ve got a team behind you.” 

The bands' second album, No Mundane Options was released in November 2008 on their own record label, Mama Bear (JD Sports invested in the band and sold records in their shops) but it was too late. It only took 2 months to record but they took too long to get into the studio. A lot of the criticism of the album was that it already sounded dated, if they had released it 18 months earlier it would have hit the mark, there were so many bands releasing albums at the time it was easy to become irrelevant and even though there was progression between First Comes First and the follow-up, it was left behind. 

No Mundane Options was followed up by The Lady Boy Tapes in April 2010 which saw the legendary Adam Green join them on lead single, Lady Boy. 

After The Paddingtons, Josh moved to New York and started Skaters whose debut album deserved more success. The Hull lads have had brief reunions but with them scattered around the country (and New York) and having ‘proper jobs’ it can be hard to schedule dates in. They are no longer the youthful, energetic lads they once were, their 2017 reunion tour took it out of them.  

Tom “There was plenty of highlights, touring in Japan, it’s like another world, so interesting, nice people, respectful, it’s great place, I felt like we’d ‘made it’. Playing Leeds and Reading Festival, we went as kids so it was great. Recording was great too.” 

NEXT CHAPTER

[school-in-london]

20231125 10TH ANNIV. TOUR [TOKYO]

■ DJ: タイラダイスケ

Yuno / Fall In Love

Los Retros / Someone to Spend Time With

Kurt Vile / Gone Girl

The Arcs / Sunshine

Fonteyn / Girl on a Motorcycle

Hovvdy / True Love

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / On the Kill Again

Sam Blasucci / Sha La La

Big Thief / Forgotten Eyes

Primal Scream / Star

Daddy Freddy & Horace Andy / Dirty Money Business

Stimulator Jones / Need Your Body

OGRE YOU ASSHOLE / 真ん中で(from 浮かれている人twilight edition EP)

Janelle Monáe / Lipstick Lover

Cleo Sol / 23

Ami Faku & Gallo Remixed / There's Music in the Air (feat. Black Coffee)

Vampire Weekend / We Belong Together (feat. Danielle Haim)

Benny Sings / Pyjamas feat. Remi Wolf

lola coca / The Map

- ■ DJ: 遠藤孝行

Little Simz / Point and Kill (feat. Obongjayar)

Wu-Lu / Scrambled Tricks

Twin Peaks / Dance Through It

The Last Dinner Party / Sinner

Peace / Happy Cars

CAROLINE POLACHEK / Bunny Is A Rider

DEAN / Love (feat. Syd)

Dua Lipa / Houdini

Tame Impala / Is It True

Blur / Music Is My Radar

Water From Your Eyes / Out There

The XX / On Hold

The 1975 / Happiness

The Strokes / Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus

The Cribs / Men's Needs

Bloom Twins / Drunk & Loud

Thee Oh Sees / Die Laughing

Mock Media / Modern Visions

- ■ DJ: 村田タケル

Deadletter / Line The Cows

Water From Your Eyes / True Life

The Psychotic Monks / Post-Post-

Thank / Trouble Cube

Fat Dog / King of the Slugs

HMLTD / The End Is Now

Black Country, New Road / Dancers

boygenius / Not Strong Enough

Arlo Parks / Weightless

Emily Yacina / Gleaming

The Drums / I Want It All

Computerwife / Vacation

Royel Otis / I Wanna Dance With You

cumgirl8 / llc

Current Joys / Dr Satan

Lifeguard / 17-18 Lovesong

My Bloody Valentine / Nothing Much To Lose

Protomartyr / 3800 Tigers

bar italia / my little tony

Treeboy & Arc / Box Of Frogs

Italia 90 / Funny Bones

- ■ DJ: タイラダイスケ

Dehd / Bop

The Strokes / The Adults Are Talking

Dominic Fike / How Much Is Weed?

SuperJazzClub / Cameras

Watch the Ride & Nia Archives / Mash up the Dance

Miso / Emotions (feat. Lil Cherry)

Mura Masa / Whenever I Want

The Postal Service / Such Great Heights

Romy & Fred again.. / Strong

Troye Sivan / Rush

salute / Joy

Disclosure & RAYE / Waterfall

Jorja Smith / Little Things

PinkPantheress & Ice Spice / Boy's a liar Pt. 2

Eliza Rose / Better Love

bed / Kare Wa

Confidence Man / Angry Girl

Nirvana / Drain You

The Beatles / Tomorrow Never Know's

The Stone Roses / I Am The Resurrection

- ■ DJ: 遠藤孝行

LCD Soundsystem / All My Friends

Blur / Tender(Cornelius Remix)

Arctic Monkeys / 505

Hosegirl / Option8

Yuck / Get Away

Hole / Celebrity Skin

Courting / Flex

THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT / Danny Go

The Libertines / Don't Look Back Into the Sun

Equal Parts / lying Down

Ash / Burn Baby Burn

Bleachers / Modern Girl

Elvis Costello / Pump It Up

Catfish and the Bottlemen / Emily

Alvvays / Pharmacist

Ride / Chelsea Girl

- ■ DJ: 村田タケル

The Hazmats / Wondered

Yard Act / The Trapper's Pelts

Porchlight / Noel

Moin / Melon

Yo La Tengo / Fallout

Horsegirl / Anti-Groly

bar italia / worlds greatest emoter

bar italia / Polly Armour

bar italia / Punkt

Tramhaus / Karen is a Punk

shame / The Fall Of Paul

Double Virgo / No Sweat

Doss / Strawberry

Sextile / New York

Crack Cloud / Image Craft (Live in London)

Model/Actriz / Amaranth

black midi / John L

The Lounge Society / Last Breath

The Murder Capital / Return My Head

Moreish Idols / Chum

Pet Shimmers / Mortal Sport Argonaut

Exlovers / Moth-Eaten Memories

Italia 90 / New Factory

The Wake / On Our Hnoeymoon

The Cure / Jumping Someone Else's Train

HighSchool / Only a Dream

Courting / Famous

Tramhaus / Beep Beep

~Ending~ bar italia / Friends

[absolutelybatty]

Also: as soon as I finished ep 1, my freshly 18 year old sib came home, and I shared that I watched the first episode, explained what it was about, etc. And the kid just stares at me for a minute before going "honestly, I thought Twin Peaks was a comedy, so I'm kind of confused."

Okay I have FINALLY started Twin Peaks. Been meaning to, but David Duchovny pushed me over the edge.

[excellent-rectangle]

A curtain call

So, there might be a season 4 of Twin Peaks, or there might not be. If there is no season 4, then I just witnessed one of the most depressing, and one of the most audacious series finales ever.

Cooper goes back to stop Laura’s murder from even happening, therefore cancelling out the entire series, and then goes further and cancels himself out in the process. It’s a bold move for a tv show that was so incredibly influential, and twice changed the nature of tv, to erase itself. Twin Peaks as we know it never happened. It’s a big middle finger, and on an intellectual level I think it’s brilliant but on an emotional level it’s crushing. 

Like every fan who watched it I am still processing it, two days later. The first night after watching it I slept poorly, dreamt of Twin Peaks and every time I woke up I was immediately thinking about the finale. I think my brain was trying to process all the puzzles in my sleep. I can’t recall being effected by an episode of tv so much before.

If there is going to be a season 4, then I have some thoughts, questions, speculations. Here goes: Did Cooper go back in time, or is this an alternate reality? The Fireman/Giant tells Coop in episode 1 “Remember 430. Richard and Linda. Two birds, one stone”. Cooper becomes Richard, and Diane becomes Linda. Why give Richard the same name as Bad Coop’s son? Is our Coop inside Richard Horne in this alternate reality? Richard Horne was zapped by electricity at the co-ordinates given to Bad Coop by Philip Jeffries. There was no body- perhaps he didn’t die but was sent to this new reality by the electricity, same as Good Coop. It might explain why RichardCoop’s personality seemed to be an unsettling mix of Good Coop, Bad Coop, and Dougie. Diane/Linda seemed to vaguely remember something of Bad Coop also. Can someone remind me- were the co-ordinates on the librarian’s torso also the ones for where Richard Horne died? Was it established where Major briggs was “hiding” when Bill Hastings and the librarian found him in the other dimension? Could Briggs have been in this alternate reality, or was it the white lodge? I can’t remember. And perhaps Audrey is also in this alternate reality. She also doesn’t seem to know who she is, or where she is going. 

I’m wondering if the alternate dimension was part of the series all along. Some of the stuff that happened at the roadhouse seemed unrelated to anything else in the plot. Someone posted a video of the end of Ep. 15 where the scene of Dougie being electrocuted had exactly the same timing as the girl, Ruby, at the Roadhouse who crawled along the floor and started screaming.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJ__doruW4 (But then, it could also just be how David Lynch paces many scenes) Anyway, is this alternate dimension running alongside the season 3 Twin Peaks storyline? 

[sxsteremerxtus]

Do you have any headcanons for T4T Sister x Nihil where Nihil is pregnant? (not with Copia necessarily maybe him and Sister got freaky and made a demon baby)

Specifically imagining them both from the KTGG vid bc they are peak gender

In my personal t4t au Nihil and Impera have all the Emeritus babies and Caridnal together, but Cardi is a whole story on its own, if this gets attention I’ll explain more.

TW: ‼️NSFW, 18+ only please‼️mentions of dysphoria, pregnancy dysforia, depression, mention Su!c!dal thoughts and tendencies. Read with caution.

•Impera is definitely jealous that Nihil is pregnant, but Nihil tries hard to affirm Impera, and make sure she feels as loved as possible.

•Nihil loves taking baths to ease himself, he was pregnant with twins. On his first pregnancy. He always rubs his Tum and hums made up hymns to see what will get his little ones to kick.

•Impera and Nihil are attached at the hip, Impera loves to baby Nihil, and go clothes shopping for the babes while Nihil hates it and would rather stay home (he will faun over the onesies and booties while he puts them away though..don’t tell)

•While Nihil was pregnant with Terzo, his cravings were the worst. Also wanting to eat everything he wasn’t supposed to. He got caught a couple times, but nothing too detrimental. Impera would always give him a side eye.

•Nihils Dysphoria gets really bad when his belly starts to become unhideable. He started becoming very depressed, and felt that he wouldn’t be the man he wanted to be. He always feared his body wouldn’t return to its original state or something close to it. Especially having twins the first go, Nihil was terrified.

•Impera would cradle Nihils stomach in her hands while she thrusted into Nihils warmth. She could feel her tip pressing into his cervix, which made her feel overwhelmed, and would cause her to climax unexpectedly.

•Impera was always nervous she wouldn’t make a good mother. She totally watches “how to be a good mom” videos and asks for advice from mom friends.

•when Nihil is ontop, he always works 100% to make Impera feel submissive, just as she would him. Nihil would kiss her chest, tell her how gorgeous she is, and point out his favorite parts of her, calling her his queen, princess.

•Impera enjoys being praised. She wants to feel like a good girl, even while Nihil is swollen with her child.

•They go to every check up appointment together. No if ands or buts about it.

•Primo and Secundo loved snuggling Nihil while he was pregnant. Both of them laying on him while Impera lays under his arm, rubbing his thigh.

•the first time Primo called Nihil “Dada” he literally could have collapsed with excitement.

•Nihil found out they were pregnant with Terzo a week after they renewed their vows. They were married for 5 years, Primo and Secundo were 3. Impera was more excited this time around than before. She felt more involved and invested now knowing more of how to care for Nihil while they worked with their body changes.

•with the time period, their relationship was accepted in the abbey, but it was hard outside and around the world. After Nihils EP came out, he found out they were expecting the twins.

•After Terzo was Born, Nihil had his tubes tied and scheduled consults for gender affirming surgeries. He and Impera agreed they didn’t want anymore kids.

[cschaplin]

i honestly cried through 90% of episode 17

[doomedandstoned]

Toronto’s SUN BELOW Take Us on a Cosmonautic Trip for Their Full-Length Debut

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Album Art by Adam C. Design & Illustration

Though I've spent the majority of my adult life in the United States, I was actually born in Canada. As such, I've been entirely fascinated by the growing heavy music scene over the past 10-20 years in cities like Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Whitehorse, Quebec, and Toronto. To the latter we now scatter, converging upon a singular band: SUN BELOW.

This band just gets me high, man. Maybe it's because Jason Craig (guitars, vox), Will Adams (drums), and Garrison Thordarson (bass) have a good feeling for concepts and the musical implications of fantasy. They've been grinding away since at least 2018, releasing three EPs and forging a sound worthy of a bonafide full-length record. Before us: the band's first album, 'Sun Below' (2021) -- a psychedelic doom adventure for our age.

It kicks off with "Chronwall Neanderthal," which grabs us by the shirt right away with its boisterous drumming, hellish fuzz, and reverberating vocals. The lyrics are a bit of an esoteric riddle, painting a picture in three word phrases like "hallowed flame Harvest," "crystal stone Dooman," and (my favorite) "bong and bone Awaken." We featured this track on our recent compilation, 'Doomed & Stoned in Canada (Volume II)' (2021) -- which came out in October. It's one I continue to enjoy, especially in the early mornings when I'm looking for a peppy vibe to carpe diem.

Sun Below continues the chronicles of the "Holy Drifter," a motif that has been central to their work so far. Track number (and indeed, the whole album) elucidates Holy Drifter's nature and motivation.

Ragged drifter walks the holy path Seeking out the ancient herb Gift of sight a curse in stranger's eyes Fear the future yet untold

Shifting down in tempo, we can really appreciate the low-lows of those deliciously downtuned instruments of doom, while the drumming remains strong. Hommages to Dopesmoker are hinted at here and there, especially in the impressive guitar play that seems to tune right into that Matt Pike wavelength, while distinguishing itself with sanguine moments of chill phrasing. Even at a doom's pace, the drumming is meaty and full of heart, something that's not easily accomplished in slower tempos. All three join in unison for an anthemic vocal section in the waning moments:

Wisdom's eyes, burning red Sativa rising from red shed Calling to the peaks of pike Smoke builds up and frees the mind

Ever wondered if doom can dance? Sun Below makes it happen with third track "Shiva Sativa" -- one of three instrumentals on the record, reminiscent of those lively Black Sabbath B-section romps.

Craving a return to the low 'n' slow, the trio conjure "Green Visions" next. The bass generates a dank wah as the guitar croons to the crushing weight of skins and cymbals. The reverb on the vocals reminds me so much of Orchid here.

Green visions What did you see? Green visions What did it mean?

After another instrumental ("Bong Psalm"), Sun Below bring us the off-beat "Kinetic Kief" and a murky "Doom Stick" before summoning their full powers for "Twin Worlds" -- an 18-minute behemoth in two parts that gets very psychedelic. Warning: it's quite easy to get lost in this one! Beginning with a march-like beat, the Holy Drifter trips out and falls into an alternate timeline in history. Explains the band:

By this part in the album’s story, the Drifter has grown fatigued with his lack of understanding of his visions and decides to scale the Chronwall to the peak of his mountain shrine. There, he commences a ritual that creates a rift in space-time, and through the newly created void looming above him, he encounters a future version of himself in the distant future. Through a telepathic link established between them, the Drifter learns that many years from now, the sun is threatening to imminently burn out in the future, and the future Drifter decides to impart this knowledge of impending doom, as well as an enhanced strain of the Sativa herb, to his younger counterpart. Musically, it is the most ambitious track on the record in length and in scope, as it combines groove with the crushing weight of impending doom as well as spaced out vocals which themselves seem to echo across time.

At last, we reach our destination, the aptly titled "Solar Burnout." It's the bluesiest number of the set and my personal favorite (maybe because me and burnout are such close acquaintances).

Light flickers from the smoking star Scorched embers, burning low Depart for worlds of potent green Drifting somewhere in the galaxy

It's got a good share of groove, too. Some will be reminded of the more jaded tracks from Electric Wizard's catalog, all the while cognizant that we have here a talented young crew with a vision uniquely their own. Jason Craig's guitar solo really sings on this one, too, guiding us all the way to the record's rumbling finish.

Look for Sun Below to drop this weekend (pre-order here), which you can hear in the meanwhile as Doomed & Stoned brings you the album's exclusive premiere!

Give ear...

Sun Below by Sun Below

SOME BUZZ

Sun Below is a heavy stoner/doom power trio from Toronto. Playing a signature brand of self-described Sativa rock, a combination of fuzz, volume, and heavy grooves, Sun Below seeks to spread their infectious, rollicking sound to the masses.

Starting as a humble seedling in 2018, the trio formed with a desire to create heavy rock with stoner/doom elements in a groovy Sabbath style, and through constant improvisation, the material is grown organically first with the music and then with the lyrics.

Engaging, extended tracks compiled with a crushing amount of volume touch on topics including cannabis, the occult, Lovecraft, unexplained occurrences, the infiniteness of space and the Holy Drifter. Even at length, each track is an exceptional sonic journey through space and time. Inviting their listeners to get into the groove and the headspace of the music, Sun Below is the perfect combination of a mellow trip with an energetic Sativa boost.

The trio of Jason Craig (guitars/vocals), Garrison Thordarson (bass/backing vocals) and Will Adams (drums/backing vocals) specialize in loose, long burning jams that worship at the altar of tone, riffs, and smoke, but also brim with raw bombastic heavy metal rock to keep the energy up high. Smoke up, tune down, play loud, burnout.

Still relatively new, but reaching towards the light and maturation, Sun Below have been hard at work sharing the stage with the likes of Black Mastiff and Chron Goblin -- releasing three EPs: Black Volume EP (2018), Black Volume EP II (2019), Black Volume EP III (2019), and a music video "Into the Haze." In addition, they were featured on Doomed & Stoned in Canada, Volume 2 (2021). With a new stoner sun set to rise this autumn, the power trio will release their first full-length debut on November 19th to keep the fuzzy momentum going.

The self-titled album has a running time of an hour and ten minutes. It was self-produced, mixed by Will Adams (drums), engineered by Farmer Jesse, recorded at Rival Sound Studios and the album artwork was done by Adam C Design and Illustration.

According to Sun Below, anyone who has been following them through their previous releases will see this record as the final destination on the holy path they have traversed. The concepts and themes present in their past work have now come together fully formed after years of practice.

Fans of big riffs, fuzzed-out guitars, crushing drums, and driving bass will not be disappointed in this record especially those with an interest in Sleep, Electric Wizard, and Red Fang.

Doomed & Stoned in Canada (Vol II) by Sun Below

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[darkmttrcat]

i was tagged by @robins-gf !! ty for the tag 🥰🥰 i’m v sorry that i’m repsonding to this so late - i’ve been quite busy these past few days ;0; !!

GET TO KNOW ME TAG !!

(under the cut because i’m afraid this will be long)

NICKNAME: i go by both cait and cat ^^ !! i also have some personal nicknames from family and pet names (?) from my girlfriend but i will not be disclosing those lol

GENDER: gender?? i hardly know ‘er 😳😳 !! hhn anyway, i’m a girl who goes byshe/her and they/they pronouns! (i’m still questioning, though. so 😔👍)

ZODIAC: i’m a leo - meow 😼

HEIGHT: i hate telling people my exact height !!! so i’ll just say i’m around 5 foot!

CURRENT TIME: 3:42 AM

BIRTHDAY: august 3rd !!

FAVORITE ARTISTS: (i feel like i have a lot so i’m just going to list the ones that first come to mind) freddie dredd, rav, kill bill: the rapper, tyler the creator, matt watson, mother mother, the smiths, wilbur soot, queen, david bowie, red hot chili peppers, and so on...

LAST SONG I LISTENED TO: well i’m actually listening to music as i write this so - no surprises by radiohead !!

LAST MOVIE I WATCHED: the village (2004) !! i like a lot of shyamalan movies, this included. i planned to speak further about it but like never mind lol it’s good - if you like horror/suspense/thriller !!

WHEN DID I MAKE THIS BLOG: 06/09/2015 at 11:45:41 PM (thanks to memories 😳😔)

WHAT DO I POST: majority of the time, i reblog posts that revolve around different fandoms/things i’m interested in (i’m currently into mcyt so 😔😔) but !! i occasionally post my own content, such as: gif sets/edits and writings!!

LAST THING I GOOGLED: camera rune ability (i’m playing botw atm 😳😳)

DO I GET ASKS: yeah, when i reblog ask games and such :O !!

WHY I CHOSE THIS URL: this is an old username that i’ve had for quite a while :’) !! it’s not a very interesting story, though lol it all started when i was watching my friend play a game and i noticed her user was DarkMatter with a bundle numbers afterwards. so, when i was creating a username for whatever website, i thought back on the user DarkMatter. then, i decided to slap Cat at the end because i really liked cats 😁👍 (it also counted as my nickname at the time, too lolol) so... that’s how this user was born !! (yet, for tumblr, i decided to take the vowels out of matter because it looked cool so 😼😼😈)

LUCKY NUMBERS: 3, 11, 13, 18

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP PER NIGHT: bruh idk LMAO maybe 8ish hours?? i guess it depends but i don’t know :O

INSTRUMENTS I PLAY: i’m currently learning how to play bass guitar! i played violin for 5ish years :O ?? i also dabbled a bit in acoustic guitar!

WHAT I’M WEARING: a pair of simple, black sweatpants and a t-shirt of matt watson’s “ouch!” album/ep.

DREAM JOB: uhh... i don’t know :(( maybe a journalist or a psychologist. 

DREAM TRIP: i’ve always wanted to visit amsterdam :’) !! also, the place where they filmed twin peaks would be pretty dope to visit >:) !!!

NATIONALITY: american

FAV SONG: i can’t choose favorites !! so ✌😙

LAST BOOK I READ: blood of elves by andrzej sapkowski

THREE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES TO LIVE IN: hmm... maybe the x-files or twin peaks universe because it’s kind of like the normal world, y’know?? animal crossing !!!! stardew valley/legend of zelda/ffxv - they all kind of have this magical/fantasy element about them :O !! (that’s definitely not three but you get the general idea of it)!

tagging: @wolfex126 (or your art blog 👀) @apocalypsekid @bluewaterlily and whoever else wants to do this :’) !!

[shrimpkardashian]

I have a list of ~900 albums from 2019 that I still want to eventually listen to / review [IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT ALERT]

For this project (already 125+ releases deep), which is just impossibly daunting and makes me head hurt. IDK how to streamline this process or is any “critic” out there really listening to “all” the good music? It’s impossible I guess... BUT needless to say, these have made this list from an even larger pool of music that I either listened to briefly and immediately dismissed or (gasp!) never even came across my radar (radar = many many music blogs I follow via RSS). 

Anyway, because I’ll most likely never get to this (whatever this is, an Xgau parody or something)... Here is the list (please ignore some of my notations/typos):

1 matana roberts, coin coin chapter four 2 jeffrey lewis 3 negativland 4 camedor 5 the darkness 6 jai paul [leak] 7 shikoswe 8 anatolian weapons 9 cakedog, doggystyle 10 carly rae jepsen (LP, plus single w Gryffin) 11 parsnip 12 the comet is coming 13 girl in red 14 ezra furman 15 the kvb 16 freddie gibbs & madlib 17 say sue me (single) 18 denzel curry 19 fatamorgana 20 vivian girls 21 wobbly, monitress 22 helado negro 23 anamanaguchi 24 paul demarinis 25 comet gain 26 personal best 27 king princess, LP? big little lies single 28 marble arch 29 mini dresses 30 matt christensen 31 jade bird 32 black mountain 33 body meat 34 pat, Love Will Find A Way Home 35 acid arab 36 the 83rd 37 common holly 38 wicca phase 39 mark ronson 40 spirit in the room, single 41 rebe, “pienso en ti a todas horas” [just a single?] 42 a giant dog, neon bible cover LP 43 hey collosus 44 moon king (meh/ or *) 45 vanity productions 46 velvet negroni 47 g perico 48 budokan boys 49 skryptor 50 oscar scheller 51 the muffs 52 larry gus 53 these new puritans *** 54 angel olsen 55 bleu nuit 56 meatraffle 57 josephine wiggs 58 jennifer vanilla 59 big|brave 60 rico nasty 61 friendship, dreamin' 62 mike, tears of joy 63 bellrope 64 gbv 65 machìna, archipelago 66 toy, songs of consumption 67 ayankoko 68 the intelligence 69 drahla 70 corridor, junior 71 urochromes 72 david hasselhoff 73 aMAZONDOTCOM 74 kehlani 75 ne-hi EP (final) 76 avey tare 77 bonnie "prince" billy 78 battles 79 snapped ankles 80 mannequin pussy 81 toro y moi, soul trash 82 twen 83 self discovery for social survival comp 84 bad heaven ltd 85 eric frye 86 the mattson 2 87 duncan park 88 pure bathing culture 89 arthur russell, iowa dream 90 wild pink 91 flaming lips 92 pan amsterdam 93 flaural 94 knife wife 95 hannah peel & will burns 96 klein 97 meat puppets 98 tnght 99 james ferraro 100 royal trux / ariel pink 101 new rain duets 102 black marble 103 sui zhen 104 liam the younger 105 the mountain goats, welcome to passaic 106 frank hurricane and hurricanes of love 107 sebadoh 108 xylouris white 109 lindstrøm 110 franck vigroux 111 joyero 112 dorian electra  113 ride 114 crumb, jinx 115 nonconnah 116 cup, spinning creature 117 brutus 118 bjarki 119 khotin 120 alexander tucker 121 gunna 122 operator music band 123 tony molina 124 nanami ozone 125 sad planets 126 bemydelay 127 laurie anderson et al, songs from the bardo 128 teebs 129 deerhunter, timebends 130 tr/st (2 LPs) 131 dolores catherino 132 liturgy 133 floating points 134 sasami, LP + xmas EP 135 trikorder23 136 moor mother 137 have a nice life 138 la dispute 139 lingua ignota 140 lina tullgren 141 earl sweatshirt 142 entrail 143 alexander noice 144 shock narcotic 145 rakta 146 munya 147 el drugstore 148 buck gooter 149 caribou, single - more? 150 rosenau & sanborn 151 kevin abstract 152 pile 153 e for echo 154 animal collective, new psycho actives vol. 2 + live album 155 harlem 156 sudan archives 157 lil peep, posthumous ep 158 young guv, i and ii 159 orville peck 160 75 dollar bill 161 institute 162 tove lo 163 the chocolate watchband 164 foie gras, holy hell 165 french vanilla 166 chuck cleaver 167 kollaps 168 spirits having fun 169 game 170 badgirl$ 171 medhane 172 alberich 173 show me the body 174 the night watch, an embarrassment of riches 175 inus, western spaghettification 176 pregoblin, singles? 177 ra ra riot 178 de lorians 179 kool keith 180 kaspia & stride 181 glen hansard 182 dpeee 183 berlin taxi 184 foghorn 185 ionnalee 186 american sharks 187 sitcom, dust single 188 pip blom 189 j balvin & bady 190 fenella 191 tanya tagaq 192 sean o'hagan 193 j robbins 194 peter ivers (comp) 195 neon indian, not sure if single is part of larger proj? 196 triad god 197 yeule 198 roland tings 199 schoolboy q 200 ava luna EP 201 fried eggs 202 drugdealer 203 half japanese 204 todd anderson-kunert 205 emily reo 206 christelle bofale 207 brion starr 208 jan jelinek (reissue) 209 peaer 210 devin townsend 211 vik 212 young m.a 213 default genders 214 night lovell 215 rocketship 216 kim gordon 217 ellen arkbro 218 george clanton and nick hexum [single?] 219 the minus 5 220 penguin cage 221 felicia atkinson 222 take offense 223 moon duo 224 chemical brothers 225 nef the pharaoh 226 daniel norgren 227 unkle 228 pup (?) 229 baroness 230 velvet bethany 231 resavoir 232 gruff rhys 233 lana del ray 234 empath 235 burial and the bug, flame 2 236 russian baths 237 quelle chris 238 corpse flower 239 roy montgomery [reissue] 240 clinic 241 a.g. cook, [single] 242 why? 243 beck 244 francis lung 245 thom yorke 246 warmduscher 247 uv-tv 248 aa bondy 249 max richter, ad astra ost 250 younghusband 251 stereo total 252 julie's haircut 253 aa matheson 254 eartheater 255 kelly moran 256 mana (seven steps behind) 257 c.h.e.w. 258 sarah mary chadwick 259 midsommar ost 260 beabadoobee 261 life, a picture of good health 262 dumb, club nites 263 dame dolla 264 endless boogie 265 burna boy 266 lungbutter 267 wand 268 future punx 269 yves jarvis 270 kim petras [LP, halloween EP] 271 bts world 272 pikelet 273 panda bear, single 274 samiyam 275 red river dialect 276 ryan pollie 277 ryuichi sakamot (reissue) 278 jackie mendoza 279 dark blue 280 jay som 281 stephen mallinder 282 neutrals, kebab disco 283 foodman 284 capitol, dream noise 285 new pornographers 286 mark korven, the lighthouse ost 287 gauche 288 the japanese house 289 cave (re-issue) 290 ybn cordae 291 the vacant lots 292 arwen 293 rhucle 294 lil b, @ least 2 releases? 295 tea service 296 chai 297 black pumas 298 program, show me 299 marika hackman 300 sonny and the sunsets 301 lillie mae 302 mean jeans 303 the stroppies 304 poppies 305 twin shadow 306 vanishing twin *** 307 portrayal of guilt [EP + split single] 308 lucki [2 lps] 309 absolutely free 310 girl band 311 black midi 312 torche 313 perfume (best of) 314 white denim 315 clipping 316 the hu 317 big business 318 metro crowd 319 ex-vöid, 7" 320 broken social scene 321 lil pump 322 uranium club 323 doon kanda 324 hesitation wounds 325 sorry girls 326 bibio 327 red mass 328 the shins, single 329 lil keed 330 yeasayer 331 bts / blackpink KPOP 332 galen tipton, fake meat 333 the world, reddish 334 lanark artefax, ep 335 ladytron 336 g.s., schray 337 just mustard [single, more?] 338 mdou moctar 339 rangers, spirited discussion 340 tyson meade 341 dj nate 342 kelly lee owens 343 bambara 344 kilo kish 345 lusine 346 ralph heidel / homo ludens 347 psychic graveyard 348 homeshake 349 wives, so removed 350 proto idiot 351 let’s eat grandma, ost ep 352 foals 353 caroline shaw & attacca quartet 354 juan waters 355 mount eerie with julie doiron 356 mestozi 357 patio 358 oh baby, the art of sleeping alone 359 earth 360 haybaby 361 anna meredith 362 the caretaker (6) 363 rich brian 364 sunn o))), [two LPs] 365 alessandro cortini 366 ty segall 367 injury reserve 368 elucid 369 budos band 370 tim hecker 371 waqwaq kingdom 372 william doyle *** 373 innercity ensemble 374 filthy friends 375 prurient 376 shlohmo 377 bon iver 378 sean henry 379 yeesh 380 faye webster 381 megan thee stallion 382 squid, town centre 383 simulation (hausau mountain) 384 flying lotus 385 horse jumper of love 386 rap, export 387 lansky jones 388 the gonks 389 cate lebon 390 rome fortune 391 chain cult 392 empty set 393 big thief (2 lp's) 394 laura cannell [and polly wright album ?] or is there just a laura c album too ? }} 395 froth 396 thugwidow 397 organ tapes 398 the new pornographers 399 zonal 400 bbg baby joe 401 whitney 402 guards 403 anemone 404 sheer mag 405 nots 406 fujiya & miyag 407 kool aid, family portrait ep 408 frankie cosmos 409 kaputt 410 quelle chris 411 operators 412 marco benevento 413 elvis depressedly 414 school of language, 45 415 rob burger 416 pozi 417 redd kross 418 randy randall 419 yatta 420 hide, hell is here 421 bobby krlic, midsommar ost 422 planet england 423 kev brown 424 robedoor 425 tropical fuck storm 426 haram, 9/11 ep 427 candy, super-stare single 428 sly and the family drone 429 kevin morby 430 porches, rangerover [single] 431 odae 432 pottery 433 saint pepsi 434 slowthai 435 iggy pop 436 swans 437 iLOVEMAKONNEN 438 mukqs 439 feels 440 luke temple 441 oli xl 442 orphan swords 443 post pink 444 deli girls 445 nilüfer yanya 446 idk, is he real? 447 interpol 448 priests 449 galcher lustwerk 450 smokepurpp, various? 451 kindness 452 ex hex 453 sampa the great 454 methyl ethel 455 ellis, the fuzz ep 456 jeanines s/t 457 water from your eyes 458 twin peaks 459 sam cohen 460 fontaines dc 461 spiral stairs 462 the hecks 463 nicola ratti 464 four tet, various (inc. "wingdings" alter ego side proj) 465 holy ghost 466 half stack 467 cherubs 468 juana molina, forfun EP 469 jpegmafia 470 bedouine 471 fury 472 melvins/flipper 473 the curls 474 izambard 475 heart eyes 476 drinking boys and girls choir 477 big search 478 glenn branca 479 rose elinor dougall 480 bat for lashes 481 young knives, [single, more? 482 hot chip 483 alex lahey 484 hemlock ernst & kenny segal 485 dj seinfeld 486 joni void 487 rema rema 488 spencer tweedy 489 trash kit 490 dry cleaning [2 ep's] 491 mega bog *** 492 saudade 493 monster rally 494 wilco 495 chromatics, LP + EP 496 slayyyter 497 maral 498 blarf 499 pernice brothers 500 la neve 501 marie davidson 502 tredici bacci 503 deathprod 504 lowly 505 russian circles 506 angel witch 507 fires were shot 508 amy o 509 q da fool 510 clams casino 511 automelodi 512 paradox 513 dababy (2) 514 david kilgour 515 missy elliot 516 baby smoove 517 boris 518 thanks for coming 519 yves tumor [single w/] 520 ΜΜΜΔ 521 falcon/falkland 522 noel wells 523 ecstatic vision 524 amyl & the sniffers 525 barrie 526 bianca scout 527 katie dey 528 prince rama 529 control top 530 duster, comp + new LP 531 foxes in fiction 532 slowthai x denzel curry [single] 533 the murlocs 534 plaid 535 ela orleans 536 gobby 537 cfm 538 carla del forna 539 pale spring 540 pixx 541 širom 542 lightning bolt 543 cate lebon & deerhunter 544 channel tres 545 sigrid 546 help, s/t 547 shellac, live 548 crack cloud, pain olympics (ongoing) / s/t (2018) 549 notes underground 550 fat white family *** 551 gloop 552 equiknoxx 553 nakhane 554 czarface meets ghostface 555 the rubinoos 556 shannon lay 557 tim heidecker 558 droneflower 559 john vanderslice 560 your old droog 561 bats, alter nature 562 zvi 563 justus proffit 564 lower dens 565 anna of the north 566 yg 567 holly herndon 568 good fuck 569 clark, single 570 charli xcx 571 the nativist 572 low life 573 jonsi & alex somers 574 kazu 575 günter schickert 576 odonis odonis 577 kelsey lu (+ remix EP) 578 young thug 579 thaiboy digital 580 hatchie 581 hiro kone 582 cocorosie 583 sabiwa 584 oh sees 585 rex orange county 586 311 587 erland cooper 588 jtamul 589 the brilliant tabernacle 590 free love, extreme dance anthems 591 jeff lynne's elo 592 dutch courage 593 booji boys 594 giggs 595 ceschi 596 inter arma 597 psychic sounds ensemble 598 eli kezsler EP 599 thelma 600 haiku salut 601 julia jacklin 602 otoboke beaver 603 colin self 604 mark mulcahy 605 rosalia, single "a pale" more? 606 chris lott 607 royal trux 608 weyes blood 609 mikal cronin 610 hissing tiles 611 grace ives 612 vic bang 613 nick cave 614 sugar world [single] 615 herzog 616 offset 617 mike adams at his honest weight 618 real life buildings 619 aldous harding 620 pye corner audio 621 doja cat 622 bleached 623 book of shame 624 kate davis 625 i was a king 626 pendant, through a coil 627 joseph arthur 628 great grandpa, four of arrows 629 modern nature 630 stef chura 631 spaza, s/t great 632 the alchemist 633 pond 634 aiden baker, etc 635 kirin j. Callinan 636 possible humans 637 greys 638 kizuna ai 639 little simz 640 big bend 641 membranes, what nature gives… 642 young nudy 643 car seat headrest (live) 644 seahawks 645 dumbhop's party 646 julien chang 647 pacific yew 648 pharmakon 649 lomelda 650 versing 651 olden yolk 652 mekons 653 the dream syndicate 654 the gotobeds 655 amy klein 656 bABii 657 bill callahan 658 grlwood 659 van dale 660 ziúr 661 delicate steve 662 debby friday 663 dehd 664 south city hardware 665 kesha 666 (sandy) alex g 667 computer slime 668 fka twigs 669 rob halford, celestial 670 dean hurley 671 school of language 672 nicolas godin 673 blue hawaii 674 leggy 675 ceremony 676 his name is alive 677 third eye blind 678 sadgirl 679 ariana grande 680 skepta 681 dylan moon 682 jay mitta 683 the drums 684 kero kero bonito, ep 685 charly bliss 686 lee renaldo etc 687 rina mushonga 688 ulla straus 689 cherushii & maria minerva 690 slaughter beach, dog 691 maps 692 dj shadow 693 tool LOL 694 diiv 695 pixies 696 cuco 697 black peaches 698 subhumans 699 gurr 700 cashmere cat 701 brockhampton 702 fire-toolz 703 lambchop, LP + EP 704 messthetics 705 neuland 706 westkust 707 haelos 708 sturgill simpson 709 maria usbeck 710 king gizzard (2) 711 earthgang 712 paranoid london 713 fet.nat 714 bethlehem steel 715 neil young with crazy horse 716 tengger 717 guerilla toss 718 spelling 719 lizzo 720 wiki 721 dr00p, mkULTRAHD 722 ghost orchard 723 jane weaver 724 usa/mexico 725 carl stone 726 richard dawson *** 727 rafael toral 728 test dept 729 sacred paws 730 big krit 731 mallrat 732 jenn champion 733 moE/Mette Rasmussen, tolerancia picante 734 facs 735 yung lean, single (blue cup) and ep, more? 736 pissgrave 737 moodyman 738 sing sinck, sing 739 tyler the creator 740 sleater-kinney 741 dean blunt, zushi 742 cursive 743 barker, utlity 744 gemma 745 octavian 746 pronoun 747 girl ray 748 julia shapiro 749 nodding god 750 daniel saylor 751 jakob ogawa 752 richard youngs 753 diät 754 w00dy 755 omar souleyman 756 vōx EP 757 topdown dialectic 758 penelope islea 759 gbv 760 glass beach 761 james hoff, hobo ufo 762 euglossine 763 dream ritual 764 terry allen 765 office culture 766 ghostie, devour 767 beat detectives 768 red channel 769 octo octa 770 julien baker [toyko single] 771 shackleton as "tunes of negation" 772 sons of raphael 773 lena raine 774 fitted, first fits 775 velf 776 cvn 777 black country, new road, [2 singles only?] 778 chief keef 779 andrew bird, LP and EP 780 tamaryn 781 vagabon 782 zelooperz 783 brian jonestown massacre 784 angel dust 785 pere ubu 786 vatican shadow, church... 787 spencer radcliffe 788 mr muthafuckin exquire 789 earth to mickey 790 beak> 791 byron westbrook 792 major murphy 793 nicole yun 794 the divine comedy 795 sote, parallel persiao 796 the radio dept. 797 prince daddy & the hyena 798 mudhoney 799 truth club 800 shura 801 underworld, drift 802 lil texas 803 that dog 804 gary wilson / r. stevie moore 805 divino nino 806 spiral heads 807 claire cronin 808 devendra banhart 809 c.y.m. EP 810 dude york 811 sangri 812 vegyn [2 lp's?] 813 brooke candy 814 caroline polachek 815 hurt valley 816 O.L.I.V.I.A, modo avion 817 ziúr 818 pepper mill rondo, it's christmas time 819 ben vida 820 nick hexum/george clanton 821 meara o'reilly 822 tyler holmes, devil 823 blood incantation 824 guenter schlienz 825 gavilán rayna russom 826 loraine james *** 827 lithics, Wendy Kraemer EP 828 navel, ambient 2, in space 829 the proper ornaments 830 jon hopkins & kelly lee owens, single 831 julianna barwick 832 park hye-jin 833 bea1991 834 men i trust 835 erika de casier 836 ducks unlimited 837 lyzza 838 refused 839 jim o'rourke, to magnetize ... 840 analemma, 2 singles on a comp? 841 zack fox, "the bean kicked in" 842 real life rock n roll band 843 prefab sprout 844 daniel lopatin, uncut gems ost 845 kaytranada 846 the voidz, 2 song single + video? 847 grandaddy, single (add scissors icon) 848 dark thoughts, must be nice 849 loose nukes 850 sam mallet 851 very good, adulthood 852 henge, nothing head 853 kaleidobolt 854 nebula, holy shit 855 terminal cheesecake 856 uzeda 857 wet tuna 858 sean mccann 859 black dresses, love and... (2nd LP) 860 nefew 861 taylor swift ??? 862 lala lala, the lamb 863 jenny lewis 864 33EMYBW 865 blood orange, angel's pulse 866 caterina barbieri *** 867 yusu 868 white reaper 869 rozi plain 870 bamboo, daughters of the sky 871 seragina steer 872 clear channel, hot fruit 873 patience, dizzy spells 874 mope grooves, desire 875 current affairs, object & subject 875 comfort, not passing 876 bill orcutt 877 bonnie baxter 878 carl stone 879 thurston moore 880 alameda 5 881 john zorn 882 the membranes, what nature gives... 883 meemo comma 884 ana roxannne 885 whistling arrow, s/t 886 dis fantasy 887 giant swan, s/t 888 buck young, buck ii 889 abdu ali 890 ifriqiyya électrique 891 $hit and $hine, doing drugs, selling drugs 892 ghold 893 theon cross 894 yao bobby & simon grab 895 solange *sure whatever ok 896 the comet is coming 897 the utopia strong, s/t 898 karenn, grapefruit regret 899 brìghde chaimbeul 900 nav, bad habits 901 chance, big day 902 nostalgia critic's the wall 903 uboa, the origin of my depression 904 hobo johnson 905 ana frango elétrico 906 dorian electra

[myrcella]

i was tagged by @winterswake ♥♥♥ ilyyy babie !! 

Pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions, don’t cheat. Tag 10 (or however many) people.

Game of Thrones

Doctor Who

Big Little Lies

Bates Motel

Twin Peaks

1. Who is your favourite character in 2? a real toss up between the eleventh doctor, his beamtiful wife river song, and the thirteenth doctor... clara & twelve are massive comfort characters as well

2. Who is your least favourite character in 1? ROBERT BARATHEON like i love the bobby b memes but then i realise he was my fave’s abuser :)) and of course gregor clegane, ramsay bolton, etc.

3. What is your favourite episode of 4? 2x02 when norma and norman do a musical together <3 it’s one of the few “wholesome” eps of bates where the plot was lulled and summery and lovely

4. What is your favourite season of 5? so far, the first season was basically flawless, but i’m in the middle of the dip in quality from 2x10 onwards... where david lynch’s control was taken away and no one knew what to do 

5. Who is your favourite couple in 3? renata x me

6. Who is your favourite couple in 2? eleventh doctor AND HIS WIFE RIVER SONG. amy and rory pond of course. and twelve and clara, again.

7. What is your favourite episode of 1? i stan the fuck out of 2x09, blackwater. it’s just perfect in how the tension is built, the first time we actually get to see (some) of the war of the five kings directly, stannis baratheon is there, joffrey’s in his lannister armour panicking, it’s Cinematic Brilliance.

8. What is your favourite episode of 5? laura palmer’s death reveal episode ofc, 2x07 “lonely souls”

9. What is your favourite season of 2? season five! the ponds and eleven, the best combination. it was the season i grew up on too.

10. How long have you watched 1? maybe a year after it aired - early 2012 when i binged all of it, then binged asoiaf.

11. How did you become interested in 3? honestly @ladycomstock said i would like it TWO YEARS AGO and i didn’t follow it through and then i randomly decided to watch it mostly after seeing laura dern as renata klein and would you know what i adore this show to fucking pieces now.

12. Who is your favourite actor in 4? can’t make me choose between vera farmiga and freddie highmore -- absolute geniuses 

13. Which do you prefer, 1, 2, or 5? game of thrones forever, idc what y’all say

14. Which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3 ? well, there’s 8 seasons of got and only 2 of bll...

15. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be? bruh emma i fucking guess cause she LIVES and has a baby 

16. Would a crossover between 3 and 4 work? “the monterey five tries to evade norman bates”

17. Pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple? i always thought theon x sansa was random but here we are,

18. Overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5? i adore big little lies but i can’t compare it to the show that changed the face of television forever, thank you david lynch for your service

19. Which has the better theme music, 2 or 4? bates doesn’t have an intro so -- but for doctor who with its 23919419 intros, i like twelve’s the best it’s so dramatic

tagging: @ladycomstock @katherinewaterstcn @rcberthouse @oberynmartell @nathanprescutt @nazura @leroichevalier @leejordan @joanna-lannister @hugh-grants ♥♥♥♥

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(Discografija) *ACA LUKAS + HARIS DZINOVIC ( 170 pesama) ----------------------- RAZNI MP3 MIXEVI --------------------- *Samo jedan Klub, Samo jedan Grad - Grobarske Pesme ,(Audio CD) *POP MUSIC - Mix1, ( 135 pesama ) Anastacia - Freak of Nature (12) Anastacia - Not That Kind (12) Kosheen - Hide U (11) Macy Gray - On how life is (10) Madona - Best Of (23) Madona - Ray of Light (14) Natalie Imbruglia - The Greatest Hits (17) Whitney Houston - My love is your love (13) Cowboy Junkies - Studio (14) *POP MUSIC - Mix 2 , ( 191 pesma) Barry White - Ultimate Collection (18) Chris Rea - The Best Of (17) Eros Rammazzotti - Greatest Hits (16) Fun Lovin Criminals - Mimosa (7) George Michael - The Best Of (13) James Brown - Best (14) Macy Gray - The ID (13) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (18) Movie Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction Movie Soundtrack - Best of Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtrack - Twin Peaks Movie Soundtrack - Blue Velvet Movie Soundtrack - Wild at Hearth *ALTERNATIVE -Mix 1 Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter And the Stars Kosheen - Hide U Propellerheads -Decksandrumsandrockandroll Massive Attack - Mezzanine Massive Attack - Protection Massive Attack - Gold 2000 Stone Roses 85-94 Prodigy -The Fat Of Land Thievery corporation -The MirrorConspiracy Tricky - Best of Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld Live - Everything Utopia Revisited - RadioB92 Selecton Of Groovy Tunes *TECHNO BEATS (vol.3) Laurent Garnier - Shotin the Dark Leftfield - Leftism ST Germain - Alabama Blues ST Germain - Alabama Blues Revisited EP Various Artists - 9000 Ohm! -(disk 1&2) Various Artists -Syntetic Pleasures -(vol.1) Various Artists - Urbal Beats Various Artists - Utopia Revisited *CUBA - mix 1 ,(187 pesama) Ana Caram - Bossa Nova (12) Buena Vista Social Club (24) Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo (11) Cesaria Evora - Best of (17) Cesaria Evora - São Vicente di longe(15) Cuba Libre (47) Omara Portuondo - Veinte Anos (21) +BONUS - Brazilica! (40)

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Ekaterina Velika Diskografija Chromebook

(Discografija) *ACA LUKAS + HARIS DZINOVIC ( 170 pesama) ----------------------- RAZNI MP3 MIXEVI --------------------- *Samo jedan Klub, Samo jedan Grad - Grobarske Pesme ,(Audio CD) *POP MUSIC - Mix1, ( 135 pesama ) Anastacia - Freak of Nature (12) Anastacia - Not That Kind (12) Kosheen - Hide U (11) Macy Gray - On how life is (10) Madona - Best Of (23) Madona - Ray of Light (14) Natalie Imbruglia - The Greatest Hits (17) Whitney Houston - My love is your love (13) Cowboy Junkies - Studio (14) *POP MUSIC - Mix 2 , ( 191 pesma) Barry White - Ultimate Collection (18) Chris Rea - The Best Of (17) Eros Rammazzotti - Greatest Hits (16) Fun Lovin Criminals - Mimosa (7) George Michael - The Best Of (13) James Brown - Best (14) Macy Gray - The ID (13) Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (18) Movie Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction Movie Soundtrack - Best of Quentin Tarantino Movie Soundtrack - Twin Peaks Movie Soundtrack - Blue Velvet Movie Soundtrack - Wild at Hearth *ALTERNATIVE -Mix 1 Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter And the Stars Kosheen - Hide U Propellerheads -Decksandrumsandrockandroll Massive Attack - Mezzanine Massive Attack - Protection Massive Attack - Gold 2000 Stone Roses 85-94 Prodigy -The Fat Of Land Thievery corporation -The MirrorConspiracy Tricky - Best of Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants Underworld Live - Everything Utopia Revisited - RadioB92 Selecton Of Groovy Tunes *TECHNO BEATS (vol.3) Laurent Garnier - Shotin the Dark Leftfield - Leftism ST Germain - Alabama Blues ST Germain - Alabama Blues Revisited EP Various Artists - 9000 Ohm! -(disk 1&2) Various Artists -Syntetic Pleasures -(vol.1) Various Artists - Urbal Beats Various Artists - Utopia Revisited *CUBA - mix 1 ,(187 pesama) Ana Caram - Bossa Nova (12) Buena Vista Social Club (24) Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo (11) Cesaria Evora - Best of (17) Cesaria Evora - São Vicente di longe(15) Cuba Libre (47) Omara Portuondo - Veinte Anos (21) +BONUS - Brazilica! (40)

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WZBC NCP Top 30: 16 October 2018

1. Jon Hassell, Listening to Pictures // 2018 Ndeye

2. Peter Brötzmann, The Chicago Octet // 1998 Okka Disk 

3. Angelo Badalamenti, Twin Peaks(Original Soundtrack) // 1989 Warner Bros.

4. The Radiophonic Workshop, Burials in Several Earth // 2017 Room 13

5. Poppy Ackroyd, Resolve //  2017 One Little Indian

6. Moe Shop, Moe Moe - EP // 2018 Repost Network

7. Tendencies, Waterbed - EP // 2018 Captured Tracks

8. Tek.Lun, Ridin’ Round 2 // 2015 Ultra Records

9. Auscultation, L’étreinte Imaginaire // 2015 100% Silk

10. Squarepusher, Go Plastic // 2001 Warp Records

11. Sun Electric, Present // 1996 R&S Records

12. Skee Mask, Compro // 2018 Ilian Tape

13. Venetian Snares, Rossz Csillag Alatt Született // 2005 Planet Mu Records

14. Scorch Trio, Luggumt // 2004 Rune Grammofon 

15. Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, Pakistani Pomade // 1973 FMP

16. Lustmord, Dark Matter // 2016 Touch

17. Carrier, 47017 - EP // 2018 47

18. Cervello Elttronico, Logical Fears // 2016 HANDS

19. Autechre, NTS Session 1 // 2018 Warp Records

20. Anteloper, Kudu // 2018 International Anthem Recording Company

21. Cavern of Anti-Matter, Hormone Lemonade // 2018 Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks 

22. Bill Frisell, Rambler // 1985 ECM Records

23. Techno Animal, Re-Entry // 1995 One Up 

24. Colossus, Decade // 2014 DNBB Recordings

25. SD Theory, Attitude // 2016 Liquid Flavors Records

26. Fehlfarben, Monarchie Und Alltag // 1980 Welt-Rekord

27. Electric Mantis, Braincase (Deluxe) // 2017 Electric Mantis

28. Devonsho, Perfect Strangers // 2013 Dropping Gems

29. Ohbliv, Baker’s Dozen // 2016 Fat Beats

30. Betonkust, Center Parcs LP // 2018 Dekmantel