Podcasts about banshees

Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch' and she's since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black', featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to … … John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk … the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch' Bobbie Gentry … has Goth eaten Punk? … why BBC banned Billie Holiday's “Gloomy Sunday” … the ‘death discs' of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle … how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees … Shirley Collins' Death And The Lady – “now that's what I call a pandemic!” … did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie? … Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I'd kill you all!” … and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face. Order copies of ‘Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side' here: https://acerecords.co.uk/various-artists-dressed-in-blackHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch' and she's since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black', featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to … … John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk … the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch' Bobbie Gentry … has Goth eaten Punk? … why BBC banned Billie Holiday's “Gloomy Sunday” … the ‘death discs' of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle … how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees … Shirley Collins' Death And The Lady – “now that's what I call a pandemic!” … did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie? … Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I'd kill you all!” … and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face. Order copies of ‘Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side' here: https://acerecords.co.uk/various-artists-dressed-in-blackHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourearHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cathi Unsworth was a teenage Goth, enthralled as much by Joy Division and the Banshees as by the Brontës, Bram Stoker and Aubrey Beardsley. We loved her book ‘Season of the Witch' and she's since put together a soundtrack album, ‘Dressed In Black', featuring the Goth divas she most admires and adores. And talks to us here about everything from murder ballads, the Industrial Revolution and Victorian literature to … … John Peel, Siouxsie, Joy Division and her teenage Goth conversion among the “hedge-goths” and “field-goths” of rural Norfolk … the phenomenal life, lyrics and mysterious disappearance of ‘Swamp-witch' Bobbie Gentry … has Goth eaten Punk? … why BBC banned Billie Holiday's “Gloomy Sunday” … the ‘death discs' of John Layton, the Shangri-Las and Twinkle … how Cabaret and Julie Driscoll coloured Siouxsie and the Banshees … Shirley Collins' Death And The Lady – “now that's what I call a pandemic!” … did Liz Fraser speak fluent Faerie? … Nico – “if I had a machine-gun I'd kill you all!” … and how Juliette Gréco looked the devil in the face. Order copies of ‘Dressed In Black: Goth Divas From The Dark Side' here: https://acerecords.co.uk/various-artists-dressed-in-blackHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourearHelp us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ce 27 mai, au rayon des incontournables de Pop-Rock Station, Marjorie Hache convoque Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Nine Inch Nails et The Dead Weather. L'animatrice célèbre également l'anniversaire de la grande Siouxsie Sioux en diffusant le titre "Kiss Them For Me" de Siouxsie and the Banshees. Amyl and the Sniffers, The Clash et Grace Jones complètent cette riche sélection musicale. En matière de découvertes, les métalleux de Saint Agnes, les Anglais de Fat Dog, les Vendéens de Dynamite Shakers et les Américains de Korn sont à l'honneur. La primeur de la soirée met en lumière Mike D, membre des Beastie Boys, qui se lance en solo avec le titre "What We Got", un morceau qui renoue avec l'ADN du mythique trio new-yorkais. L'album de la semaine continue d'explorer "Blue Morpho", le deuxième disque solo d'Ed O'Brien, guitariste de Radiohead, illustré aujourd'hui par l'envoûtant morceau "Sweet Spot". Enfin, la reprise du jour s'annonce surprenante : les Suédois de The Cardigans s'approprient avec audace le mythique "Iron Man" de Black Sabbath, troquant la puissance d'Ozzy Osbourne contre la voix douce de Nina Persson. Placebo - Pure Morning Saint Agnes - The Ghost Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me James Brown - Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine Tina Turner - Goldeneye Eugene Mcguinness - Shotgun Ed O'brien - Sweet Spot The Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff Amyl And The Sniffers - Guided By Angels Human League - Don't You Want Me Fat Dog - Go Fuck Urself The Cardigans - Iron Man Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Stiltskin - Inside Talurre - Mira Ten Years After - I Woke Up This Morning Nothing But Thieves - Forever And Ever More Dynamite Shakers - Cinema Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs Mike D - What We Got The Clash - The Guns Of Brixton The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper Viagra Boys - Sports Korn - Reward The Scars Ethel Cain - Dust BowlHébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Guest Review - Michael Storm appeared on Political Cadence with Maxx Payne"I had a great time visiting with Phil and Lisa. The casual but organized conversation was open and honest and fair and important. So many conversations are lopsided or just not worth participating in and it's refreshing to just talk and share thoughts and be in the moment while meeting some new and interesting people."August 1980Steve Howe -Lead GuitarTrevor Horn - Lead VocalsGeoff Downs - KeyboardsChris Squire - “Base guitar”10th Studio albumReached no. 2 on UK chartsNo Jon Anderson, no Rick WakemanTrevor Horn - from The Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star) on vocals. Trevor Horn replaced Wakeman.Jon Anderson is not on this album - Jon tended to bring his family and nanny on tour to great expense, and this grated on the band.The album was more of a new wave transition from albums like songs from topographic oceans, but it is also heavier than other Yes albums.Yes might have been the greatest example of a classic rock band trying to survives the new wave.Roger Dean designed the album cover, who was responsible for most of Yes' covers.Machine Messiah - opening reminds me of Sabotage, then goes into “Big Bottom” riff - Ascends to a very light keyboard track as Jon Anderson's voice surfaces. - 3:19 Lyrical Passage is great "Friends make their way into systems of chance (echo "friends make their way of escape into systems of chance") - Escape to freedom I need to be there - Waiting and watching the tables are turning" - The whole passage is lyrically perfect, with the echoes and call backs - - Pink Floyd sound at 5:24 mark (Tear Down the Wall”) Orchestral composition - very serene chant towards end “Machine Messiah take me into the fire” - Ends as it begins. I assumed it was John Anderson when I listened for the first time.Man in a White Car - Very brief interlude- Chimes at beginning - “Man in a White Car” are the only lyrics. It is supposed to be a call to Gary Neuman's “Cars”.Does it Really Happen - Funky rhythm at the beginning, good drumming (Jungle Boogey) - Reminds me in parts of a song called "It Can Happen" from 90125 - “Live for Pleasure, Live for fun”. - Around 5:15 it becomes a completely different instrumental, almost with a disco beat. - long fade out, which I am not a huge fan of. - Chris Squire's vocals were strong on this. Why didn't he sing more on Yes albums?Into The Lens - “I am a camera” - “Camera Camera” - Like the guitar at about the 4:00 mark. - Too much keyboard for me. - "Memories How they Fade so fast" was such a wilting, strange lyrical beginning - But “I am a camera” was a pretty lame lyric. “Camera, camera”. Musically, it had strong moments, but I found it's transitions kind of disorienting. But “Monitor” by Siouxsie and the Banshees did this better.Run Through The Light - Could not help but think of The Police and Sting during the “Run Into The Light” part - Some guitar shredding during the last minute of the song, garnished by keyboard.Tempus Fugit - Literally means ‘Time Flies' - Might have inspired Tommy Shaw/Styxx - The harmonies and rapidity of the lyrics are off the hook. “The Way That You answer with ‘Yes'! - It might just be the “Yes” song, almost reminds me of a super hero for some reason, with love as the protagonist. - I love the fast crawling of the baseline. It us a great song.Yeah Uh Huh Social Stuff:Yeah Uh Huh on Linktr.eehttps://linktr.ee/yeahuhhuhpodYeah Uh Huh on TikTok  / yeahuhhuhpod  Yeah Uh Huh on Facebook  / yeahuhhuhpod  Yeah Uh Huh on Twitter  / yeahuhhuhpod  Yeah Uh Huh on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7pS9l71...Yeah Uh Huh on Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Yeah Uh Huh Website:https://yeah-uh-huh.wixsite.com/yeahu...Yeah Uh Huh WebsiteHome | YeahUhHuhPod (yeah-uh-huh.wixsite.com)Yeah-Uh-Huh on YoutubeYeah Uh-Huh -YouTubeYeah Uh Huh on Apple Podcastshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Catch up with or listen again to Going Indieground broadcast on Mad Wasp Radio week commencing 18 May 2026. On this show you can hear:Simple Minds – Love SongSwell Maps – Vertical Slum – Forest Fire (Peel Session)Siddeleys – Sunshine ThuggerySiouxsie & the Banshees – Placebo EffectShop Assistants – Safety NetShenhai – Follow MeSmiths – … Continue reading →

WORLD GOTH DAY is May 22nd, so put on your blackest black for the annual WGD edition of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio! The first of two back-to-back expanded broadcasts, this one offers three hours of new and classic goth, including London After Midnight, Ritual Howls, Autumn-U.S., Kill Shelter, Depeche Mode, Corpus Delicti, Black Angel, Lunar Paths, Requiem in White, Then Comes Silence, New Model Army, Ashes Fallen, House of Harm, Valentine Wolfe, Peter Murphy, Frenchy & the Punk, Nox Novacula, and Siouxsie & the Banshees. Enjoy and may your World Goth Day be suitably dark. And I hope you'll join me again this coming Sunday, May 24th, for the annual Dark Nation Radio GOTHIC BEACH PARTY--A 3-hour anything goes mix of goth, new wave, psychobilly, dark wave, surf rock, and general mayhem to kick off the unofficial start of summer in the northern hemisphere. BYO Tiki drinks of despair. 9 PM EDT on sorradio.org. As always, if you like what you hear, I hope you will support the bands and consider following me on your preferred platform. Reposts of the show so that others can find out about it are particularly appreciated. Questions and promo materials may be directed to darknationradio@gmail.com. Thanks for your support! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 17 May 2026 WORLD GOTH DAY 2026 Shadows Hold, “Nosebleed” Nox Novacula, “Disappear” Amulet, “When Winter Comes” Ashes + Diamonds, “Boy or Girl” Frenchy & the Punk, “Not Under Your Spell” Corpus Delicti, “Room 36” Kill Shelter & Antipole, “Burn Bright” David Galas, “You're a Needle in My Arm” Octavian Winters, “By the Stars” London After Midnight, “Nothing's Sacred” Requiem in White, “Reckless in Misery” Then Comes Silence, “Strangers” Autumn-U.S., “Still Breathing” Lunar Paths, “Afterlight” Cemetery Sex, “Pain” Ritual Howls, “Follow the Sun” The Bolshoi, “Happy Boy” Reptyle, “Souls' Damnation” Darkswoon, “Antivenom” Peter Murphy, “Sherpa” Black Angel, “Alchemy” Still Patient? “Looking Glass” Hunter as a Horse, “Obey” Bellhead, “The The Empty” Scary Black, “American Gothic” Depeche Mode, “Halo” House of Harm, “Carousel” Isabel Shrine, “Always” Siouxsie & the Banshees, “Peek-a-Boo” Reversed Chakra, “Game of Chess” Vikowski, “Pollution” New Model Army, “Family” Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, “Driving Black” Christ vs. Warhol, “Welcome Home” Rosegarden Funeral Party, “Ghost of You” Valentine Wolfe, “Somnus Aeterna” Hangwire, “The Trial” Amaranth, “Ghost in the Rain” Ashes Fallen, “Vampira—the Ballad of Mailia (William Faith remix)” The Sisters of Mercy, “Black Planet” 404 Error, “What is Goth” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—25 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Emma Santosuosso joins Women's Sports Weekly to talk pro women's rugby, Boston Banshees culture, and the grind of balancing elite competition with a full-time job. Emma shares how she found rugby at 18, goals for the Boston Banshees, and the road towards a sustainable Women's Elite Rugby league including pay for the players. She breaks down player safety, training demands, and rugby's reputation for inclusivity. Plus: we get introduced to the unofficial Banshees mascot, Tiff!Follow Emma SantosuossoFollow the Boston BansheesFollow the Boston Wailing ClubFollow TiffIf you rate Women's Sports Weekly 5 stars, send a screenshot and you will receive a sticker!SUBSCRIBE TO WOMEN'S SPORTS WEEKLY YouTubeSpotifyApple Podcasts  FOLLOW WOMEN'S SPORTS WEEKLY ON SOCIALInstagramTikTokCONTACT WomensSportsWeeklyPod@gmail.com Women's Sports Weekly is created, produced, edited, and hosted by Carolyn Bryan and Danielle Bryan.Music is by the talented ⁠Melvin Alexander Black.  

Buzz Kull – “Dancing With Machines”, 2022. And One – “Love You to the End”, 2006. Click Click – “Mekanakill”, 2015. Melotron – “Dein Meister”, 2001. Tempers – “Carried Away”, 2022. Neocoma – “Mirror in Your Eyes”, 2017. Visceral Anatomy – “Flowers In Wax”, 2020. Switchblade Symphony – “Wallflower (WLDV Edit)”, 2022. Cranes – “Jewel (12” Mix)”, 1993. Echo & the Bunnymen – “All My Colours”, 1981. The Cold – “Summernight”, 2003. Siouxsie and the Banshees – “Spellbound”, 1981. Bloc Party – “She’s Hearing Voices”, 2005. Control Room – “War”, 2020. Website link: https://skullandcrossfades.com/if-i-could-keep-this-hour

Podcast time in May! Some deep cuts, a couple of requests, and some well-known favorites - they're all here!1) What I Want (12" Mix) - Dead Or Alive 2) Belly Of The Whale (12" Single) - Burning Sensations 3) China (Dance Mix) - Red Rockers 4) The Drop Deal (Mix 1) - Bazz 5) If I Ever - Red Flag 6) Solace (12" Mix) - Play Dead 7) No New Tale To Tell - Love And Rockets 8) Flesh (Full 12" Version) - A Split Second 9) Telephone (Swedish 12" Mix) - Style 10) A E I O U Sometimes Y (Long Version) - Ebn-Ozn 11) When The Lights Go Out - Naked Eyes 12) Dance - Strawberry Switchblade 13) Nicotine Stain - Siouxsie And the Banshees 14) The 15th - Wire 15) Ring Of Fire (Remix) - Wall Of Voodoo 16) World Destruction - Time Zone 17) Blown Away - The Expelled 18) Complications - Killing Joke 19) Stand Alone - Martian Dance 20) This Side Of Heaven - Play Dead 21) Please (Extended Version) - The Bolshoi

DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio this week features new ACTORS, Nine Inch Noize, Vampire Valentine, Huir, Nerdy Sanchez, Demonwarp, 404 Error, Cathedral Bells, Theo Vandenhoff, Tangients, Darkside Cowboys, and I Ya Toyah. This is a fun one! Thanks for giving it a spin and, if you like what you hear, remember to support the bands. DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 3 May 2026 Vampire Valentine, “Thorns” Days of Sorrow, “80s Cry” Nine Inch Noize, “Copy of A” Darkswoon, “Pacific City” Cathedral Bells, “Unreal” 404 Error, “Tanzen Ohne Sinn” ACTORS, “Left on Read” Damien Hearse, “Trash Factory” Peter Murphy, “Sherpa” Lowsunday, “You Lost Yourself” Vikowski, “Pollution” Reptyle, “Never Complain” Raven Said, “A Flowering and a Flattering” Huir, “Runaway” Wingtips, “Relativity” I Ya Toyah, “Feelings” Nerdy Sanchez, “Yes No Man Woman” Affect Effect, “Crash + Burn” Extize, “Sunglasses at Night” Basscalate, “Feel This Beat” Demonwarp, “Protocol Obey (Frontal Boundary mix)” Project .44, “Free” Acumen Nation, “Fool Me Thrice” Theo Vandenhoff, “April Showers” Tangients, “Void” Spectres, “Provincial Wake” Siouxsie & the Banshees, “She's a Carnival” Dark Side Cowboys, “Landmark” The Hangman's Daughter, “Some Safer Ground” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—25 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

In Episode 356 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores his personal “renaissance” of rediscovering music by using tools like Discogs and curated album runs to acquire and reconnect with the rich, often overlooked histories of bands—from The Pretenders and Siouxsie and the Banshees. He argues that diving into these back catalogs is one of the most rewarding ways to truly get into music. The Pretenders – “Popstar” Midge Ure – “Answers to Nothing” Pete Shelley – “I Surrender” Urban Verbs – “The Angry Young Men” Siouxsee and the Banshees – “Halloween” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In Episode 356 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin explores his personal “renaissance” of rediscovering music by using tools like Discogs and curated album runs to acquire and reconnect with the rich, often overlooked histories of bands—from The Pretenders and Siouxsie and the Banshees. He argues that diving into these back catalogs is one of the most rewarding ways to truly get into music. The Pretenders – “Popstar” Midge Ure – “Answers to Nothing” Pete Shelley – “I Surrender” Urban Verbs – “The Angry Young Men” Siouxsee and the Banshees – “Halloween” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

        1. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag – Country Joe & the Fish  2. See No Evil – Television  3. Wild Thing – The Troggs  4. Angel of the Morning – Joya Landis  5. Sweet Tequila Blues – Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez  6. The Garden of Earthly Delights – The United States of America  7. Bass Strings – Country Joe & the Fish  8. I Fought The Law – The Crickets  9. Peppermint Twist Part 1 – Joey Dee & the Starliters  10. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues – Bukka White  11. Who Do You Love – John Hammond  12. Who Do You Love (excerpt) – Quicksilver Messenger Service  13. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks – Funkadelic  14. She's About a Mover – Sir Douglas Quintet  15. Mendocino (live, Austin TX) – Texas Tornados  16. (Talk to Me of) Mendocino – Kate & Anna McGarrigle  17. Sally MacLennane – The Pogues  18. Harley Davidson – Brigitte Bardot  19. Bonnie and Clyde – Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot  20. Playground Twist – Siouxsie & the Banshees  21. Små Ögenblick av Frid – Blod  22. Wooden Giants and Mechanical Birds – Yara Asmar  23. The Moors – Weather Report  24. Pentangling – Pentangle  25. Workin' on a Groovy Thing – Patti Drew  26. Tokumisa Congo – Essous et l'Orchestre Bantou  27. Gaio da Rosera (excerpt) – Hermeto Pascoal  Outro: Pogles Walk – Vernon Elliott Ensemble

durée : 00:05:06 - Le 13/14 - par : Julien Baldacchino - L'artiste dessinateur Jean-Luc Verna confie le lien qui l'unit à cette chanson écrite dans un accès de colère de la chanteuse Siouxie Sioux. Une chanson qui lui évoque ses colères provoquées par l'état du monde, et par la fermeture d'une école d'art, à Valenciennes, en 2025. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Now in its 25th year, DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio is my weekly “dark music” broadcast. It leans heavily toward new and recent releases, but should appeal to fans of bands such as Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, New Order, Front 242, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and the like. This week's show features fantastic new tracks from Finnish act Kirke, South Africa's Hunter as a Horse, Sweden's Thing Eater, the Italian act The Spoiled, Oregon's Hexxes, and the UK's 404 Error. I hope you'll give it a spin! DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio Playlist 12 April 2026 Hunter as a Horse, “Paradise Lost” Advocatus Dei, “Morgenlicht” The Spoiled, “Two Souls Apart” Balduvian Bears, “Regret” The Violent Youth, “Sledy” Project .44, “Never – Nothing” Nuclear Invertebrate, “Colonist” 404 Error, “Fallout (Retro Future mix)” Admore ad Lunem x Bam Magera, “Behind the Green Door” Ritual Howls, “Follow the Sun” Octavian Winters, “Elements of Air” Byronic Sex & Exile, “Your Name on the Wind” Reviser, “Dead Eyes” Black Rose Burning, “Retro” Isabel Shrine, “Somewhere” Cold Cause, “Das Gespenst” Miss Trezz, “Fade Into the Black” Hexxes, “Fragile Thing” Thin Eater, “Half of a Double Giving Birth” Lowsunday, “Call Silence” J:dead, “Silence Calls” Sorrow Stories, “Too Early” Starsign, “Shiver” The Witch Said No, “Dead Cat” Shadows Hold, “Nosebleed” Kirke, “Demoni” Traumabond, “Mating Ritual” Dead Lights, “When the Lights Come Down” The Sisters of Mercy, “Flood II” DJ CYPHER'S DARK NATION RADIO—25 years strong! **Live Sundays @ 9 PM Eastern US on Spirit of Resistance Radio sorradio.org **Recorded @ http://www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive **Downloadable @ http://www.hearthis.at/cypheractive **Questions and material for airplay consideration to darknationradio[at] gmail[dot]com **Facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/groups/darknationradio

Yeah, Microsoft Teams meetings can be boring - except when they're haunted by Banshees. And how to turn your excessive backyard rose quartz into a trillion dollar industry.Want to call in? Email your question to weirdheretohelp@gmail.com.PATREON: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you're enjoying the show, make sure to rate We're Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Steve pulled from out of the archives of his 80s college radio show, songs that he played on the air in college and probably SHOULD HAVE played on the air during Suburban Underground's run, but never did.  In this show you will hear some familiar artists and some unfamiliar: Eighth Route Army, Mission Of Burma, O Positive, This Mortal Coil, The Things, Miracle Legion, Simple Minds, Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Squirrel Bait, Naked Prey, Shriekback, Volcano Suns, Flesh For Lulu and Devo. On most podcast platforms. Facebook: SuburbanUndergroundRadio     Instagram: SuburbanUnderground     #newwave #altrock #alternativerock #punkrock #indierock

Locks' exhibition operates as a split composition: the back gallery leans into layered, exploratory collage rooted in his teaching experience with Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project at Stateville Correctional Center, while the front gallery delivers sharper, declarative works built around text and figuration. The conversation frames this as a kind of A-side / B-side logic, with one space functioning like improvisational jazz and the other like a stripped-down, urgent punk track. Locks pushes back on easy analogies, but embraces the underlying idea: that both bodies of work are driven by different modes of attention and response. A major thread is process. Locks describes an almost anti-archival system of working, where stacks of Xeroxes, prints, and sampled sounds are mentally cataloged rather than digitally organized. This produces a practice grounded in rediscovery and accident, closer to crate-digging than database searching. Equally central is pedagogy. His decade-plus engagement with incarcerated students becomes a generative force, not a side project. The "homework" he assigns becomes his own studio method, expanding into the work shown here and into related musical output like List of Demands. Throughout, Locks positions his work within a lineage that moves fluidly between comic books, punk ephemera, Black radical print culture, and contemporary art. The result is a practice that refuses clean categorization, operating instead as an ongoing negotiation between sound, image, politics, and community. Names Dropped  Duncan MacKenzie — https://kurasmackenzie.com/ Ryan (Peter Miller) — http://ryanpetermiller.com/ Damon Locks — https://damonlocks.black/ Goldfinch Gallery — https://goldfinch-gallery.com/ Lumpen Radio — https://lumpenradio.com/ Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project — https://pnaep.org/ Stateville Correctional Center — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Correctional_Center Artists / Art References Charles White — https://www.artic.edu/artists/23067/charles-white Raymond Pettibon — https://gagosian.com/artists/raymond-pettibon/ Emory Douglas — https://www.moma.org/artists/13246 Kerry James Marshall — https://kerryjamesmarshall.com/ Music / Punk References Bad Brains — https://www.badbrains.com/ Minor Threat — https://dischord.com/band/minor-threat Government Issue — https://dischord.com/band/government-issue The Clash — https://www.theclash.com/ Siouxsie and the Banshees — https://www.siouxsieandthebanshees.co.uk/ The Damned — https://www.officialdamned.com/ Big Black — https://touchandgorecords.com/bands/big-black/ Naked Raygun — https://www.nakedraygun.org/ Black Flag — https://sstsuperstore.com/collections/black-flag Comics / Illustration Influences John Byrne — https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/byrne_john.htm Neal Adams — https://nealadams.com/ George Pérez — https://www.marvel.com/comics/creators/126/george_perez Marshall Rogers — https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rogers_marshall.htm

Varla Ventura is an acclaimed author, folklorist, and researcher known for her deep exploration of the strange, the supernatural, and the beautifully bizarre. A self-described “lover of the strange,” she has written numerous books covering everything from paranormal parlor games and supernatural women's history to mermaids, banshees, vampires, and other legendary creatures. Her work blends folklore, history, and dark curiosity, making her a standout voice in the world of the unexplained. Her latest book, Enchanted Plants: A Treasury of Botanical Folklore and Magic, dives into the mystical role of plants in fairy tales and ancient traditions, further cementing her reputation as a unique storyteller of both the natural and supernatural worlds.Beyond her writing, Varla is a frequent guest on radio, podcasts, and television, sharing her knowledge on platforms like Coast to Coast AM, Spaced Out Radio, and other paranormal-focused programs. She is also a founding fellow of Odd Salon and a passionate explorer of forgotten lore, often found wandering forests, graveyards, and tending her infamous “poison garden” in Minnesota. With a lifelong fascination for myth, magic, and the eerie edges of reality, Varla Ventura continues to captivate audiences by bringing ancient legends and dark mysteries into the modern world.Spaced Out Radio is your nightly source for alternative information, starting at 9pm Pacific, 12am Eastern.  We broadcast LIVE every night. #spacedoutradio #lostworlds #pyramids #lostcivilizations #ancientcivilizations-------------------------------------------------------You can now join the Space Traveler's Club;Join us at  https://www.patreon.com/sor_space_travelers_club  --------------------------------------------------------Grab Our Latest Spaced Out Radio Gear At:http://spacedoutradio.com/shop  It's a great way to support our show!--------------------------------------------------------OUR LINKS:TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/spacedoutradio   FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/spacedoutradioshow  SPACED OUT RADIO - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/spacedoutradioshow  DAVE SCOTT - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/davescottsor   TWITCH: https://www.twitch.com/spacedoutradioshow  WEBSITE: http://www.spacedoutradio.comGUEST IDEAS OR QUESTIONS FOR SOR?Contact Klaus at bookings@spacedoutradio.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaced-out-radio--1657874/support.

What does it take to create the visual worlds of modern cinema? Recorded on location at RENDR 2026 in Belfast, we catch up with CG & On-Set Supervisor Noel O'Malley and BAFTA-winning DFX Supervisor Dean Koonjul of Union VFX. With credits spanning Ex Machina to 28 Years Later and Poor Things, they discuss their exciting careers, creative collaboration, and the changing demands of high-end visual effects across film and TV.After, (at timecode 31:37) we speak to James Carson, CG Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, whose work includes KPop Demon Hunters and the upcoming feature Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling. In this conversation, he reflects on his career journey from Belfast to supervising major international productions, sharing insights into working in animation and live-action, and working with teams on ambitious projects.This series of talks was recorded in The Spinners Mill Studio, a podcast and DJ studio based in Banana Block offering tailored solutions for DJ sessions, small-scale events and podcasting from concept to final distribution. We are delighted to present a very special speaker series in partnership with RENDR Festival and supported by the National Talent Academy for VFX.James Carson - CG SupervisorJames is a CG Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, most recently working on the global phenomenon KPOP Demon Hunters for Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix. Carson is currently supervising the live-action feature Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and starring Ryan Gosling. His other CG Supervisor credits include the animated feature In Your Dreams and the Academy Award®-nominated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Carson joined Imageworks in 2015 and has served as a Lighting TD and Lighting Lead, working on both animated and live-action projects. His additional Imageworks credits include: In Vaulted Halls Entombed, Mulan, the Academy Award®-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Meg, and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Prior to Imageworks, Carson worked in various roles at Image Engine, ScanlineVFX, Prime Focus World, MPC, DNEG, and Zoic Studios. Carson is from Belfast, Northern Ireland.Union VFXHeadquartered in Soho, London with a sister company in Montréal, Union has established an unrivalled reputation for seamless invisible effects on a wide range of projects building strong creative relationships with really interesting directors including Danny Boyle, Susanne Bier, Martin McDonagh, Marjane Satrapi, Sam Mendes, Fernando Meirelles & Yorgos Lanthimos. The studio's regular clients number some of the world's top filmmakers, who return to Union time and again as a trusted technical partner and creative ally. The team works closely with clients throughout every phase of the creative process. Union has been the sole visual effects studio behind many prestigious film projects, including Three Billboards Outside, Ebbing Missouri, Florence Foster Jenkins, T2: Trainspotting, 127 Hours, Black Sea, The Two Popes, Radioactive, The Dig, Stan & Ollie, Mamma Mia! Here we go again, The Gentlemen, Empire of Light, The Banshees of Inisherin and Poor Things. Episodic projects include Black Mirror, The Regime, Moon Knight, Trust, The Third Day, The Irregulars, Pistol, The Undoing, Happy!, The Crown, Outlander, For All Mankind, The Wheel of Time, The Sandman, The Power and Slow Horses. A significant highlight on the Union roster saw the company joining Danny Boyle's creative team to deliver the short films for the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.RENDR FESTIVALThis is a unique event celebrating creative craft and artistry in a fully immersive two-day festival exploring the space between Creativity and Technology. Ignite your imagination with inspiring speakers from the worlds of Film, Gaming, Animation, Immersive, and more! Learn from the best, with 30+ creatives from the likes of Netflix, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios and Epic Games among others.Over the years, the podcast has featured acclaimed guests such as Phyllida Lloyd, Lenny Abrahamson, M. Night Shyamalan, John Boorman, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Aisha Tyler, Colm Meaney, Paul Reiser, Niamh Algar, David Freyne, Ciarán Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, John Crowley, Niamh Algar, Gene Stupnitsky, and Terence Davies, alongside many of the most influential voices working in film and television today.So make sure to subscribe and listen back! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's insightful and extremely fun episode of Synthetic Dreams, I'm joined by singer, actor , author and pop icon Clare Grogan.We had a really lovely chat that covered a lot of ground — from classic 80s synth pop to touring stories, acting memories, and brand new music.Clare talks about the upcoming Altered Images Happy Birthday 50th Anniversary Tour, which celebrates the legendary debut album Happy Birthday. On the tour, Altered Images will perform the album in full — a record that still sounds as fresh and joyful today as it did when it was first released in 1981.We also go back to the early days of the band, including what it was like touring with their heroes Siouxsie and the Banshees, and working with Banshees bassist Steve Severin on the Happy Birthday album.Away from music, we share a laugh about Clare's brilliant — and very funny — appearance in the classic comedy Father Ted.We also dive into the making of the band's latest album Mascara Streakz — a record that acts as both a love letter to Clare's daughter and a reflection on life, family, and growing older.The Altered Images 50th Anniversary Happy Birthday Tour kicks off at the Norwich Waterfront on 3 September and finishes at Liquid Rooms on 25 September.For the full list of dates and ticket information visit:alteredimages.bandAltered Images - Happy Birthday (Official Video) Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love (Official Video)Clare Grogan on Father TedGregory's Girl film trailer Synthetic Dreams is presented and produced by Scott ZverblisFollow Synthetic Dreams on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Synthetic Dreams on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following artists for your weekly time warp to the 1980s: Stray Cats, Icehouse, Jane’s Addiction, The B-52’s, Nu Shooz, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Robert Hazard, Klark Kent, U2, Dave Edmunds, English Beat, Single Bullet Theory, Rick Astley, Uncanny X-Men, Violent Femmes, and finally with […]

Remember Underground Creatures? What about Seaside Village? Maybe Devil Dogs, Lair of the Banshees, or even Billie Eilish will jog your memory. For the sake of sanity, we're taking a trip back and revisiting Version 1 of every Speculation Map from HHN30 through HHN34, all created by the crew at Horror Night Nightmares. We'll look back at what the rumors were at the time, what everyone in the community was saying, and what our initial reactions were when these maps first dropped years ago. We're also breaking down the accuracy percentage of these first versions to remind everyone of one important thing: things change… and it's still very early in rumor season.

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Anika and Liz watch Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's "The Life of the Stars" and have a little cry. Featuring a special guest appearance by Bradley Whitford and Liz reads a brief excerpt from Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah.  We got Star Trekked. We got Our Towned. They got us RIGHT in the feels. The women that time forgot How much agency has Tarima had in her recovery? It seems like not much! Did Liz totally misread the Tarima allegory? Banshees and mental illness and maybe you can spend so much time looking for the allegory that you miss the story? "Stealth trauma counselling" isn't the MOST unethical use of psychology in Star Trek, but we have raised our eyebrows! At no point did we think Sam would die, but ALSO we were on the edge of our seats through this entire plotline "Not holding Sam's hand felt like a war crime." Us a few weeks ago: "Sam's makers feel like an allegory for helicopter parents." This week: helicopter parents fail to build resilience in their children The Tarima-Caleb-Genesis love triangle is handled … really maturely? What if you were attracted to someone and simply chose not to do anything about it? 

For this episode we welcome former Q/Kerrang! editor-in-chief Paul Rees to RBP Towers to discuss his riveting new book Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola. An oral history of AOR (or Album-Oriented Rock), Raised on Radio gives us an eagerly-awaited chance to enthuse about an oft-maligned genre we all happen to adore. The conversation takes in most of AOR's major practitioners, from Kansas and Toto to Journey and Survivor, and incorporates clips from John Tobler's 1979 audio interview with Tom Scholz and Brad Delp of Boston. After we've exhausted these guilty-till-proved-innocent pleasures, Mark quotes from newly-added library pieces about Siouxsie & the Banshees (1982) and Chic's Bernard Edwards (1987), then Jasper talks us out with his reflections on archive interviews with George Clinton (1997) and Brutalist composer Daniel Blumberg (2025). Many thanks to special guest Paul Rees. Raised on Radio is published by Constable and available now from all good bookshops. Pieces discussed: More Than a Feeling: The 20 Greatest AOR Tracks of All Time!, American revolution: Aerosmith, Boston, Kansas and co., Hard Pop, Suburban Rock, Hall & Oates: Blue-Eyed Philadelphia Soul, The Buzz On Boz Scaggs, Nirvana: Smells like Success, Boston (1979), Heart, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bernard Edwards, George Clinton: Funkamental and The Brutalist's score.

Danny joins me this week to discuss The Banshees of Inisherin, the haunting and darkly humorous film from director Martin McDonagh. Set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War, the movie serves as a powerful anti-war allegory exploring friendship, isolation, and the devastating consequences of conflict on a small community. Danny shares why this thought-provoking story left such a lasting impression on him, as we dive into the film's performances, themes, and the emotional weight that lingers long after the credits roll.   Danny's links: Scriptipps Catch up with us on Twitter:   @ILTMpodcast   Instagram: @Ilovethatmoviepodcast   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Ilovethatmovie

Grief has a soundtrack—and so does joy. We open with a heartfelt salute to Catherine O'Hara, tracing how a single scene, a laugh line, or a voice can linger long after the credits, then wander into the wild terrain where memory and music meet. From Beetlejuice's dinner table possession to Home Alone's enduring comfort, we reflect on how film and song become the waypoints we use to navigate time. That doorway leads us to a run of resonant passings and timeless cuts: Demond Wilson's place in Sanford and Son and the instant-transport power of Quincy Jones' Street Beater, the exuberant lift of Three Dog Night's Joy to the World, and a trip through New York's CBGB with Television's Fred Smith, Marquee Moon, and the creative stubbornness that forged a landmark record.We trace another kind of legacy through Lynn Blakey—muse behind Left of the Dial—and the thrill of literally finding a friend on college radio while touring dark highways. Her voice in Salt Collective's recent release becomes proof that “new” music thrives when veterans share a room, a pen, and superior instincts. Along the way we spotlight the Pretenders' crisp poetry, Dolly Parton's ever-true 9 to 5, and Siouxsie and the Banshees turning the ash of Pompeii into a dance-floor revelation. These are touchstones that explain why a Pink Floyd joke can still land and why Mount Vesuvius can power a chorus.Then the lens widens to the Blitzkrieg Bop at 50—a hook first shouted in downtown clubs that now rattles stadiums and commercial breaks—and ask how simple phrases become lifelong companions. It's a tour through what lasts, why it lasts, and how it keeps finding us—left of the dial and right in the heart.If this journey moved you, tap follow, share it with a friend who loves great stories about music and film, and leave us a quick review with your favorite “timeless” track—we'll feature picks in a future mailbag.Learn Something New orRemember Something OldPlease like and follow the Music in My Shoes Facebook and Instagram pagesReach out to us at musicinmyshoes@gmail.comSend us a one-way message. We can't answer you back directly, but it could be part of a future Music In My Shoes Mailbag!!!

Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast![Transcript of text messages between Paul and Geoff #2862768/2026. Subject: podcast content suggestions]PAUL: What shall we talk about in this podcast, Geoff? We've literally nothing to go on right now. No new Doctor Who for ages.GEOFF: CBAPAUL: Ooh! Cybermen, Banshees and Autons?GEOFF: NoPAUL: [search request: 'CBA'. Search returns results on 'CBA - acronym, vernacular usage] Oh... um... right.. er... anyway-GEOFF: Tennant's coming back. That's the rumour.PAUL: What? Seriously? OK... er... let's start with that then, and see what occurs!That's what happened. Honestly. We started talking about the rumours regarding the return of you-know-who to the show and then at around 7 minutes, Geoff cheered up and all kinds of topics flew across our virtual studio.Put your seatbelts on, listeners! You don't want to miss this ride!Chapters00:00 Introduction, Winging it and Overview of Rumours02:27 Diving into Doctor Who Rumours05:19 The Nature of Leaks and Marketing07:45 First mention of Avatar10:52 Speculations on Future Showrunners13:32 Marvel and Doctor Who: A Shared Nostalgia?16:27 The State of Cinema and Originality19:41 The Changing Landscape of Cinema24:39 Nostalgia and its Impact on Storytelling30:32 The Commercialisation of Creativity37:19 Doctor Who: A Reflection on Change and Continuity38:21 Nostalgia vs Innovation in Fandom41:11 Anticipation for Upcoming Doctor Who Content43:30 Exploring New Audio Adventures and Comics44:47 Audience and Community Feedback49:27 Future PlansSupport the show Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Now available to watch on YouTube! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Visit the WHOC2C merch store! Enjoying what we do? Consider joining our Explorers Subscription plan for more content! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!

Send us a text and let us know what you think of our podcast!The Doctor receives a text message from an unknown caller and follows it up in the TARDIS to arrive in war torn Afghanistan. However, no sooner have they stepped out to admire the view when both the Doctor and Yaz are pulled into a dimensional rift that deposits them on a world called 'Rock', upon which a brutal war is being fought between the humans and the monstrous BANSHEES! Listen up as Geoff and Paul dive deep into the latest 13th Doctor audio adventure from the realms of BIG FINISH. With contributions from our very own Thirteenth Doctor, Katie Haynes! We discuss:Ride or Die's plot and character developmentOverarching themes of warfare, complicity, and moralityYaz's journeyThe symbolism of the BansheesThe implications of corporate involvement in conflict. AND who (or what) is the Tourist? Do we know more or less by the time the story ends...? Support the show Subscribe to Who Corner to Corner on your podcast app to make sure you don't miss an episode! Now available to watch on YouTube! Join the Doctor Who chat with us and other fans on Twitter and Facebook! Visit the Who Corner to Corner website and see our back catalogue of episodes! Visit the WHOC2C merch store! Enjoying what we do? Consider joining our Explorers Subscription plan for more content! Who Corner to Corner: Great guests and 100% positive Doctor Who chat!

The gang talks about what they're looking forward to for 2026 before Cody reviews The Banshees of Inisherin! Then, they revisit their 2025 goals and set new ones for the upcoming year before Cody sells Tim on Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray!Bluesky - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardsellshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email - hardsellshow@gmail.comTwitch - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardsellshow⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(00:00:00) Intro: 2026 Anticipated Media(00:27:15) Review: The Banshees of Inisherin(01:16:59) Middle Segment: 2026 Media Goals(01:48:42) Pitch: Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Ep 1-13(01:55:41) Outro

This playlist is 67% vinyl friendly. Poor. ‘In the year 2021, few turntables have captured the essence of that time the way that the Old Future Turntable and Speaker has. The silhouette of the player itself pays homage to ’70s architecture in Seoul. Slanted roofs were common during that era, and when you place the turntable and speaker side-by-side, they look like part of a ’70s city skyline. Some vinyl-lovers may not like this product initially because a flat, horizontal turntable would be preferred for sound quality. For those who care about audio quality over aesthetics, the turntable's legs are adjustable, so you can make the table more even‘. – yankodesign.com Looks like it could more readily blow out hot and cold air than music. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps in the mix here. Lyric of Playlist 147 ‘Observational, not sexist‘ noted Jean-Jacques Burnel. 00.00 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983. Episode #1 for info. 00.41 NEW ORDER – Face Up – Low-life, LP – Factory – 1985 Face Up? More like Jump up, given the NO audience reaction when the chorus kicks in. 05.25 THE YOUNG GODS – Mes Yeux De Tous – Appear Disappear, 2LP – Two Gentlemen Records – 2025 Given that in the mid ’80s they were initially loosely bandied around in the same ‘industrial’ bag as my ‘charges’ Click Click I’ve heard very little of their lengthy and regular catalogue. This though is a mighty tune. 09.19 BLAWAN – Toast – Dismantled Into Juice, 12″ EP – XL Recordings – 2023 Nicely odd, with a ‘chorus’ that makes me smile. 11.56 BASETANK – Got Some Skills – The New Breed, v/artists promo only CD – Detonation – 1999 If it wasn’t for the 35 year age gap I might have said the vocalist on Got Some Skills and the modern day Microwave Man and his electric dirt bike online ‘Let Me Tell You Something, right?‘ words of wisdom sketches were of the same family. 15.44 9 LAZY 9: Turn Me Loose; UP, BUSTLE & OUT: Nightwalk; DJ FOOD: Klutes Groove; DJ TOOLZ: Rusty Goes GaGa; FUNKI PORCINI: It’s A Long Road – The Morning After The Night Before (one half of a CD free with DJ magazine – 1994 Old skool mixing from Cold Cut. ‘It’s (been) a long road… ‘ indeed. 22.00 HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR (feat HIPS & LIPS) – Someone Else Is Calling, 12″ EP – Stratasonic – 2025 The sort of hypnotic beats that could have fitted in with a Winkles, Bedford set list back in the ’80s… although someone might point a sound or two here didn’t exist back then. 26.12 FUNKY GREEN DOGS – The Way * – 12″ – Twisted – 1997 ‘Anyone who ever liked That Sound from the Murk camp will like this just as much, even if they do whinge that it’s very similar to their previous favourite. The original is the heart-winner with its quivering vocal and acid-meets-funk groove, but the mixes are all attractive in their respective ways – Farley & Heller plod sweetly, Canadian Crash Productions do something along the same lines. Dirty White Boy rock and roll and Club 69 kick up a noisy messy rumpus. The best track of all is possibly the excellent FGD way-out beats. **** Daisy & Havoc, Record Mirror (Music Week), 10.5.97 Tough, liquidy goings on from the Murk camp. I was a fan. 32.51 JOY – Fragile Space – 7″ – DB-Low – 2000 ‘Isaac Hayes meets Led Zeppelin‘ ran the press release for Joy Jones’ one-off (at the time) dip into music, and there’s something sad about a single of substance that didn’t do enough for the artist to build on. 35.52 TALKING HEADS – Listening Wind – Remain In Light, LP – Sire – 1980 Just checked. This is the last in a near complete run of the album’s tracks making it to 41 Rooms. So, that must make Remain In Light a bit of a classic to my ears. 39.36 THE SOULSAVERS – Rumblefish – Beginning To See The Dark 12″ – Ghost Ride Music – 2002 The sort of drifting beats thing that would crop up late night/early morning on KISS FM or maybe Ross Allen radio shows of the time. 43.28 BETHANY & RUFUS – 900 Miles – 900 Miles, CD only – Little Monster Records – 2005 With Bethany being the daughter of ’60s folk group, Peter Paul and Mary’s Pete Yarrow, an ancient tune reworked. And it’s a cello apparently, not a double bass. 46.48 STARGARD – (Theme Song From) Which Way Is Up – 7″ – MCA -1977 As funky now as the day it was delivered. I was 20… and this would have been hitting someone’s decks at Bedford’s Nite Spot, Spectrum, Pilgrims, The Anglers’ Laird bar and elsewhere out of town I went. 51.29 THE STAPLE SINGERS – I’ll Take You There – 7″ – Stax – 1972 They never let on where exactly ‘there’ is but with their gospel background we can maybe guess. Good luck with it. 55.30 CARLA THOMAS – Things Ya Make Me Do (Summer Mix) – 12″ – Ruff Justice – 1994 Not the ’60s Stax label Carla Thomas but it’d be nice to think this CT’s parents had that lady in mind when naming this lady. What might have been tagged ‘street soul’… and possibly out of Manchester, UK. 59.06 THOMAS DYBDAHL – All’s Not Lost – That Great October Sound, CD only – Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions – 2001 Delicate sounds from Norway. 01.04.06 PURESSENCE – Don’t Know Any Better – 7″ – Reaction Records – 2008 James Mudriczki’s vocal… 01.07.22 DAVID SYLVIAN – Nostalgia – Brilliant Trees, LP – Virgin – 1994 Post Japan, his first solo album making its mark in fine style. It was unlikely to do otherwise. 01.12.57 JOY DIVISION – Insight – The Peel Sessions, 12″EP – Strange Fruit – 1986 Peel sessions sort of mimicked a live gig recording at its crystal clear best… this one included. 01.16.50 SIOUXSIE and THE BANSHEES – Christine (Warner Chappell demo) – Kaleidoscope, CD only – Polydor – 2006 With everyone and everything here ‘battling’ to be the most understated – and with it all quite possibly recorded in a rehearsal room, on the likes of (say) a 4-track Portastudio – this is as demo’ish as a major act’s demo could sound back then. 01.19.32 THE FLAMINGOS – Shone Like The Sun #3 (unreleased demo) – 1984 With Cliff (Peacock) in Scott Walker-mode there were a few versions of this tune and to these ears it sounds even better now than it did back then. In effect the above might have doubled as my 27th birthday party and Shone Like The Sun was very likely on the Flamingos set list. 01.24.12 THE WAKE – Make You Understand – Here Comes Everybody, CD only comp – Factory Benelux – 2015 Recorded for a Feb ’84 BBC Radio 1 session for David/Kid Jensen and played live but the former only ever surfaced on the above. Stephen, Mac, Carolyn and Caesar: Winkles, Bedford, 13.11.83 Photo credit/copyright: Dec Hickey 01.26.33 LITTLE NEMO – Bed In Summer – La Cassette Froide, split cassette (with Rain Culture) – self released – 1986 Not the first European band in the mid to late ’80s to have sounded as if heavily influenced by UK bands of the early ’80s and with a track only to be found on this cassette. I won’t be acquiring one any time soon. 01.30.27 THE STRANGLERS – London Lady – 7″ – United Artists – 1977 Yep, Jean-Jacques Burnel with a lyric or two (well, one in particular) that we youth most probably laughed through back in the day but now would maybe slightly wince at. The times… 01.32.52 ELVIS COSTELLO – (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea – 7″ – Radar – 1978 I had a brief moment with Declan’s singles around this time… and you had to admire the balls of a musician who wanted to strike out as an Elvis. 01.35.53 THE SUB ENSEMBLE – Faster Than The Sun (Domu Remix) – Download only – 2008 Very short-lived crew aided and abetted here by acclaimed Bedford-based (then, anyway) DJ, producer, remixer, Domu. 01.41.01 JAZZ THE GLASS – 16 Seconds – Download only, Soundcloud – 2019 A 41 Rooms regular, with another winner. Dave reminded me it uses a sample from a US boy band. I think it was a white label 12″ with anonymous writing (just initials?), that I took a punt on at no more than 20p. 01.44.47 FPI PROJECT – Come On (And Do It) (TC Funky Mix) – 12″ – Synthetic Records – 1993 ‘Tremendous funky Italian offering as ever from those talented members of Ital’s most consistent band. Chocca full of good alternative mixes, including a wicked guitar ladened TC Funky mix… ‘ – Kenny Grogan, Mixmag Update, 28.4.93 ‘Everything you love/hate about Italian records in double helpings. Very FPI Project but bang on time with its riffing flamenco-style guitar and a bundle of irresistibly funked up mixes firm Mother-man Lee Fisher, which include a wonderful reinvention of the bouncy original into a big booming beast of a track‘. Matthew Cole, Record Mirror (Music Week), 10.7.93 ‘Girl chanted powerful Hamilton Bohannon-ish happy party pounder’s original Gypsy Kings-like guitars strummed 125bpm Official, 125.2bpm Gipsy, TC 1993 wukka-wukked 125.2bpm TC Funky Mixes, new sax squawked jerkily percussive building 124.9bpm Mothers At Work Remix and Dub‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 7.8.93 As mentioned on the show, a one and a bit trick pony but sometimes a funky break and some vocal snippets is all you need for some head nodding bizniz. 01.49.36 CHEZ DAMIER & CO-INSIDE – Give A Little Love (Made In Detroit Mix) – The United States EP, 12″ – t:ime – 1993 ‘Nottingham’s Sine boys have always (worn) worthier US influences on their sleeves. This time they make a more permanent connection with two excellent transatlantic collaborations. Their Made In Detroit Mix of Give A Little Love by Chez Damier & Co-Inside is a supremely cool organ-washed garage groove with the repeated title line drifting in and out of the mix. It becomes less mellow and more dubby as it progresses…‘ – Andy Beevers, Record Mirror (Music Week), 4.9.93 And yet another tune with a minimal use of different lyrics… and here you’re not getting the full nine minutes they’re spread over on the 12″. Still, jaunty US house with a bit of a UK ’90s garage’y feel… and I think I edited out some frogs sounds. 01.53.15 THE REESE PROJECT – The Colour of Love (Groove Corporation Trance Mix) * – 12″ – Network – 1992 ‘Even by his own standards, Kevin Saunderson is having a good year. With Inner City firmly re-established as one of the world’s leading dance acts, he now takes the limelight under his alter-ego for what will be one of the biggest tunes of the year. The Deep Reese mix (featured on the Network ‘Elixir Vitae’ double pack extravaganza that some might say is their apology for KWS) is still the one for me. The coffee table intro soaring into a menacing groove with the hookiest of vocal samples… bliss. But wait, let us not forget Groove (aka Electribe 101) Corporation’s four mixes full of true British grit and trance appeal… ‘ – Dave Seaman ****1/2 Mixmag Update, July 9, ’92. ‘Kevin ‘Master Reese’ Saunderson’s powerful Rachel Kapp wailed Club Chart topper is now out on one single in brilliant swimming bass pulsed wriggly warbling 121.6bpm Magic Juan Atkins Mix, gospelishly started hypnotically chugging (0-)123.4bpm Deep Reese Mix, piano plonked 121.6-121.5bpm Underground Resistance Mix, repetitively stuttered Kym Sims-ish 122-122.1bpm MK Deep Dub, good insistently rolling 114.7-114.8bpm Groove Corporation Trance Mix and bass bubbled blippy 114.9-114.8bpm Groove Corporation Wobble Dub, while the first of the separate promos had its throbbing somehow then steady 115bpm Vocal (Trance Mix) and 115-114.9bpm Acid Revival (Wobble Dub), plus alternative swirlingly chugging 115bpm Plae Blue Mix and Instrumental Groove Corporation 021 Remixes‘. – James Hamilton, Record Mirror (Music Week), 1.8.92 Slinky Saunderson… and albeit it the same theme, a thousand miles from Terry Callier’s What Colour Is Love in every other way. Show 148 should surface here Feb 1. Dec x The post Post Punk Plus Podcast Playlist 147 – Original upload 4.1.26 appeared first on 41Rooms.

Today we're delving back into the After Dark vaults to revisit our episode on Banshees...Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) joins Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling for the story of the Banshee.The Banshee is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by shrieking, or keening. Anthony tells us a story about one dying man in 1772 who is called to his death by her wailing cries.Written by Anthony Delaney. Edited by Tom Delargy. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.You can now watch After Dark on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@afterdarkhistoryhitSign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  All music from Epidemic Sounds.After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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John Granger Attempts to Convince Nick (and You!) That The Hallmarked Man will be Considered the Best of the Series.We review our take-away impressions from our initial reading of The Hallmarked Man. Although we enjoyed it, especially John's incredible prediction of Robin's ectopic pregnancy, neither of us came away thinking this was the finest book in the series. For Nick, this was a surprise, as enthusiastic J. K. Rowling fan that he is other than Career of Evil every book he has read has been his favourite. Using an innovative analysis of the character pairs surrounding both Cormoran and Robin, John argues that we can't really appreciate the artistry of book number eight until we consider its place in the series. Join John and Nick as they review the mysteries that remain to be resolved and how The Hallmarked Man sets readers up for shocking reveals in Strike 9 and 10!Why Troubled Blood is the Best Strike Novel:* The Pillar Post Collection of Troubled Blood Posts at HogwartsProfessor by John Granger, Elizabeth Baird-Hardy, Louise Freeman, Beatrice Groves, and Nick JefferyTroubled Blood and Faerie Queene: The Kanreki ConversationBut What If We Judge Strike Novels by a Different Standard than Shed Artifice? What About Setting Up the ‘Biggest Twist' in Detective Fiction History?* If Rowling is to be judged by the ‘shock' of the reveals in Strike 10, then The Hallmarked Man, the most disappointing book in the series even to many Serious Strikers, will almost certainly be remembered as the book that set up the finale with the greatest technical misdirection while playing fair.* The ending must be a shock, one that readers do not see coming, BUT* The author must provide the necessary clues and pointers repeatedly and emphatically lest the reader feel cheated at the point of revelation.* If the Big Mysteries of the series are to be solved with the necessary shock per both Russian Formalist and Perennialist understanding, then the answers to be revealed in the final two Strike novels, Books Two and Three of the finale trilogy, should be embedded in The Hallmarked Man.* Rowling on Playing Fair with Readers:The writer says that she wanted to extend the shelf of detective fiction without breaking it. “Part of the appeal and fascination of the genre is that it has clear rules. I'm intrigued by those rules and I like playing with them. Your detective should always lay out the information fairly for the reader, but he will always be ahead of the game. In terms of creating a character, I think Cormoran Strike conforms to certain universal rules but he is very much of this time.* On the Virtue of ‘Penetration' in Austen, Dickens, and Rowling* Rowling on the Big Twist' in Austen's Emma:“I have never set up a surprise ending in a Harry Potter book without knowing I can never, and will never, do it anywhere near as well as Austen did in Emma.”What are the Key Mysteries of the Strike series?Nancarrow FamilyWhy did Leda and Ted leave home in Cornwall as they did?Why did Ted and Joan not “save” Strike and Lucy?Was Leda murdered or did she commit suicide?If she was murdered, who dunit?If she commited suicide, why did she do it?What happened to Switch Whittaker?Cormoran StrikeIs Jonny Rokeby his biological father?What SIB case was he investigating when he was blown up?Was he the father of Charlotte's lost baby? If not, then who was?Why has he been so unstable in his relations with women post Charlotte Campbell?Charlotte CampbellWhy did her mother hate her so much?What was her relationship with her three step-fathers? Especially Dino LongcasterWho was the father of her lost child?Was the child intentionally aborted or was it a miscarriage?What was written in her “suicide note”?Was Charlotte murdered or did she commit suicide?If she was murdered, who done it?If she committed suicide, why did she do it?What happened to the billionaire lover?What clues do we get in Hallmarked Man that would answer these questions?- Strike 8 - Greatest Hits of Strikes 1-7: compilation, concentration of perumbration in series as whole* Decima/Lion - incest* Rupert's biological father not his father of record (Dino)* Sacha Legard a liar with secrets* Ryan Murphy working a plan off-stage - Charlotte's long gameStrike about ‘Pairings' in Lethal WhiteStrike continued to pore over the list of names as though he might suddenly see something emerging out of his dense, spiky handwriting, the way unfocused eyes may spot the 3D image hidden in a series of brightly colored dots. All that occurred to him, however, was the fact that there was an unusual number of pairs connected to Chiswell's death: couples—Geraint and Della, Jimmy and Flick; pairs of full siblings—Izzy and Fizzy, Jimmy and Billy; the duo of blackmailing collaborators—Jimmy and Geraint; and the subsets of each blackmailer and his deputy—Flick and Aamir. There was even the quasi-parental pairing of Della and Aamir. This left two people who formed a pair in being isolated within the otherwise close-knit family: the widowed Kinvara and Raphael, the unsatisfactory, outsider son.Strike tapped his pen unconsciously against the notebook, thinking. Pairs. The whole business had begun with a pair of crimes: Chiswell's blackmail and Billy's allegation of infanticide. He had been trying to find the connection between them from the start, unable to believe that they could be entirely separate cases, even if on the face of it their only link was in the blood tie between the Knight brothers.Part Two, Chapter 52Key Relationship Pairings in Cormoran Strike:Who Killed Leda Strike?To Rowling-Galbraith's credit, credible arguments in dedicated posts have been made that every person in the list below was the one who murdered Leda Strike. Who do you think did it?* Jonny Rokeby and the Harringay Crime Syndicate (Heroin Dark Lord 2.0),* Ted Nancarrow (Uncle Ted Did It),* Dave Polworth,* Leda Strike (!),* Lucy Fantoni (Lucy and Joan Did It and here),* Sir Randolph Whittaker,* Nick Herbert,* Peter Gillespie, and* Charlotte Campbell-RossScripted Ten Questions:1. So, Nick, back when we first read Hallmarked Man we said that there were four things we knew for sure would be said about Strike 8 in the future. Do you remember what they were?2. And, John, you've been thinking about the ‘Set-Up' idea and how future Rowling Readers will think of Hallmarked Man, even that they will think of it as the best Strike novel. I thought that was Troubled Blood by consensus. What's made you change your mind?3. So, Nick, yes, Troubled Blood I suspect will be ranked as the best of series, even best book written by Rowling ever, but, if looked at as the book that served the most critical place in setting up the finale, I think Hallmarked Man has to be considered better in that crucial way than Strike 5, better than any Strike novel. Can you think of another Strike mystery that reviews specific plot points and raises new aspects of characters and relationships the way Strike 8 does?4. Are you giving Hallmarked Man a specific function with respect to the last three books than any of the others? If so, John, what is that exactly and what evidence do we have that in Rowling's comments about reader-writer obligations and writer ambitions?5. Nick, I think Hallmarked Man sets us up to answer the Key mysteries that remain, that the first seven books left for the final three to answer. I'm going to organize those unresolved questions into three groups and challenge you to think of the ones I'm missing, especially if I'm missing a category.6. If I understand the intention of your listing these remaining questions, John, your saying that the restatement of specific plot points and characters from the first seven Strike novels in Hallmarked Man points to the possible, even probable answers to those questions. What specifically are the hallmarks in this respect of Hallmarked Man?7. If you take those four points, Nick, and revisit the mysteries lists in three categories, do you see how Rowling hits a fairness point with respect to clueing readers into what will no doubt be shocking answers to them if they're not looking for the set-ups?8. That's fun, Nick, but there's another way at reaching the same conclusions, namely, charting the key relationships of Strike and Ellacott to the key family, friends, and foes in their lives and how they run in pairs or parallel couplets (cue PPoint slides).9. Can we review incest and violence against or trafficking of young women in the Strike series? Are those the underpinning of the majority of the mysteries that remain in the books?10. Many Serious Strikers and Gonzo Galbraithians hated Striuke 8 because Hallmarked Man failed to meet expectations. In conclusion, do you think, Nick, that this argument that the most recent Strike-Ellacott adventure is the best because of how it sets us up for the wild finish to come will be persuasive -- or just annoying?On Imagination as Transpersonal Faculty and Non-Liturgical Sacred ArtThe Neo-Iconoclasm of Film (and Other Screened Adaptations): Justin requested within his question for an expansion of my allusion to story adaptations into screened media as a “neo-iconoclasm.” I can do that here briefly in two parts. First, by urging you to read my review of the first Hunger Games movie adaptation, ‘Gamesmakers Hijack Story: Capitol Wins Again,' in which I discussed at post's end how ‘Watching Movies is a a Near Sure Means to Being Hijacked by Movie Makers.' In that, I explain via an excerpt from Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, the soul corrosive effects of screened images.Second, here is a brief introduction to the substance of the book I am working on.Rowling is a woman of profound contradictions. On the one hand, like all of us she is the walking incarnation of her Freudian family romance per Paglia, the ideas and blindspots of the age in which we live, with the peculiar individual prejudices and preferences and politics of her upbringing, education, and life experiences, especially the experiences we can call crises and consequent core beliefs, aversions, and desires. Rowling acknowledges all this, and, due to her CBT exercises and one assumes further talking therapy, she is more conscious of the elephant she is riding and pretending to steer than most of her readers.She points to this both in asides she make in her tweets and public comments but also in her descriptive metaphor of how she writes. The ‘Lake' of that metaphor, the alocal place within her from her story ideas and inspiration spring, is her “muse,” the word for superconscious rather than subconscious ideas that she used in her 2007 de la Cruz interview. She consciously recognizes that, despite her deliberate reflection on her PTSD, daddy drama, and idiosyncratic likes and dislikes, she still has unresolved issues that her non-conscious mind presents to her as story conflict for imaginative resolution.Her Lake is her persona well, the depths of her individual identity and a mask she wears.The Shed, in contrast, is the metaphorical place where Rowling takes the “stuff” given her by the creature in her Lake, the blobs of molten glass inspiration, to work it into proper story. The tools in this Shed are unusual, to say the least, and are the great markers of what makes Rowling unique among contemporary writers and a departure from, close to a contradiction of the artist you would expect to be born of her life experiences, formative crises, and education.Out of a cauldron potion made from listening to the Smiths, Siouxie and the Banshees, and The Clash, reading and loving Val McDermid, Roddy Doyle, and Jessica Mitford, and surviving a lower middle class upbringing with an emotionally barren homelife and Comprehensive education on the England-Wales border, you'd expect a Voldemort figure at Goblet of Fire's climax to rise rather than a writer who weaves archetypally rich myths of the soul's journey to perfection in the spirit with alchemical coloring and sequences, ornate chiastic structures, and a bevy of symbols visible only to the eye of the Heart.To understand Rowling, as she all but says in her Lake and Shed metaphor, one has to know her life story and experiences to “get” from where her inspiration bubbles up and, as important, you need a strong grasp of the traditionalist worldview and place of literature in it to appreciate the power of the tools she uses, especially how she uses them in combination.The biggest part of that is understanding the Perennialist definition of “Sacred Art.” I touched on this in a post about Rowling's beloved Christmas story, ‘Dante, Sacred Art, and The Christmas Pig.'Rowling has been publicly modest about the aims of her work, allowing that it would be nice to think that readers will be more empathetic after reading her imaginative fiction. Dante was anything but modest or secretive in sharing his self-understanding in the letter he wrote to Cangrande about The Divine Comedy: “The purpose of the whole work is to remove those living in this life from the state of wretchedness and to lead them to the state of blessedness.” His aim, point blank, was to create a work of sacred art, a category of writing and experience that largely exists outside our understanding as profane postmoderns, but, given Rowling's esoteric artistry and clear debts to Dante, deserves serious consideration as what she is writing as well.Sacred art, in brief, is representational work — painting, statuary, liturgical vessels and instruments, and the folk art of theocentric cultures in which even cutlery and furniture are means to reflection and transcendence of the world — that employ revealed forms and symbols to bring the noetic faculty or heart into contact with the supra-sensible realities each depicts. It is not synonymous with religious art; most of the art today that has a religious subject is naturalist and sentimental rather than noetic and iconographic, which is to say, contemporary artists imitate the creation of God as perceived by human senses rather than the operation of God in creation or, worse, create abstractions of their own internally or infernally generated ideas.Story as sacred art, in black to white contrast, is edifying literature and drama in which the soul's journey to spiritual perfection is portrayed for the reader or the audience's participation within for transformation from wretchedness to blessedness, as Dante said. As with the plastic arts, these stories employ traditional symbols of the revealed traditions in conformity with their understanding of cosmology, soteriology, and spiritual anthropology. The myths and folklore of the world's various traditions, ancient Greek drama, the epic poetry of Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe, the parables of Christ, the plays of Shakespeare's later period, and the English high fantasy tradition from Coleridge to the Inklings speak this same symbolic language and relay the psychomachia experience of the human victory over death.Dante is a sacred artist of this type. As difficult as it may be to understand Rowling as a writer akin to Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Spenser, Lewis, and Tolkien, her deployment of traditional symbolism and the success she enjoys almost uniquely in engaging and edifying readers of all ages, beliefs, and circumstances suggests this is the best way of understanding her work. Christmas Pig is the most obviously sacred art piece that Rowling has created to date. It is the marriage of Dantean depths and the Estecean lightness of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, about which more later.[For an introduction to reading poems, plays, and stories as sacred art, that is, allegorical depictions of the soul's journey to spiritual perfection that are rich in traditional symbolism, Ray Livingston's The Traditional Theory of Literature is the only book length text in print. Kenneth Oldmeadow's ‘Symbolism and Sacred Art' in his Traditionalism: Religion in the light of the Perennial Philosophy(102-113), ‘Traditional Art' in The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr(203-214), and ‘The Christian and Oriental, or True Philosophy of Art' in The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy(123-152) explain in depth the distinctions between sacred and religious, natural, and humanist art. Martin Lings' The Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things and Jennifer Doane Upton's two books on The Divine Comedy, Dark Way to Paradise and The Ordeal of Mercy are the best examples I know of reading specific works of literature as sacred art rather than as ‘stories with symbolic meaning' read through a profane and analytic lens.]‘Profane Art' from this view is “art for art's sake,” an expression of individual genius and subjective meaning that is more or less powerful. The Perennialist concern with art is less about gauging an artist's success in expressing his or her perception or its audience's response than with its conformity to traditional rules and its utility, both in the sense of practical everyday use and in being a means by which to be more human. Insofar as a work of art is good with respect to this conformity and edifying utility, it is “sacred art;” so much as it fails, it is “profane.” The best of modern art, even that with religious subject matter or superficially beautiful and in that respect edifying, is from this view necessarily profane.Sacred art differs from modern and postmodern conceptions of art most specifically, though, in what it is representing. Sacred art is not representing the natural world as the senses perceive it or abstractions of what the individual and subjective mind “sees,” but is an imitation of the Divine art of creation. The artist “therefore imitates nature not in its external forms but in its manner of operation as asserted so categorically by St. Thomas Aquinas [who] insists that the artist must not imitate nature but must be accomplished in ‘imitating nature in her manner of operation'” (Nasr 2007, 206, cf. “Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation: Art is the principle of manufacture” (Summa Theologia Q. 117, a. I). Schuon described naturalist art which imitates God's creation in nature by faithful depiction of it, consequently, as “clearly luciferian.” “Man must imitate the creative act, not the thing created,” Aquinas' “manner of operation” rather than God's operation manifested in created things in order to produce ‘creations'which are not would-be duplications of those of God, but rather a reflection of them according to a real analogy, revealing the transcendental aspect of things; and this revelation is the only sufficient reason of art, apart from any practical uses such and such objects may serve. There is here a metaphysical inversion of relation [the inverse analogy connecting the principial and manifested orders in consequence of which the highest realities are manifested in their remotest reflections[1]]: for God, His creature is a reflection or an ‘exteriorized' aspect of Himself; for the artist, on the contrary, the work is a reflection of an inner reality of which he himself is only an outward aspect; God creates His own image, while man, so to speak, fashions his own essence, at least symbolically. On the principial plane, the inner manifests the outer, but on the manifested plane, the outer fashions the inner (Schuon 1953, 81, 96).The traditional artist, then, in imitation of God's “exteriorizing” His interior Logos in the manifested space-time plane, that is, nature, instead of depicting imitations of nature in his craft, submits to creating within the revealed forms of his craft, which forms qua intellections correspond to his inner essence or logos.[2] The work produced in imitation of God's “manner of operation” then resembles the symbolic or iconographic quality of everything existent in being a transparency whose allegorical and anagogical content within its traditional forms is relatively easy to access and a consequent support and edifying shock-reminder to man on his spiritual journey. The spiritual function of art is that “it exteriorizes truths and beauties in view of our interiorization… or simply, so that the human soul might, through given phenomena, make contact with the heavenly archetypes, and thereby with its own archetype” (Schuon 1995a, 45-46).Rowling in her novels, crafted with tools all taken from the chest of a traditional Sacred Artist, is writing non-liturgical Sacred Art. Films and all the story experiences derived of adaptations of imaginative literature to screened images, are by necessity Profane Art, which is to say per the meaning of “profane,” outside the temple or not edifying spiritually. Film making is the depiction of how human beings encounter the time-space world through the senses, not an imitation of how God creates and a depiction of the spiritual aspect of the world, a liminal point of entry to its spiritual dimension. Whence my describing it as a “neo-iconoclasm.”The original iconoclasts or “icon bashers” were believers who treasured sacred art but did not believe it could use images of what is divine without necessarily being blasphemous; after the incarnation of God as Man, this was no longer true, but traditional Christian iconography is anything but naturalistic. It could not be without becoming subjective and profane rather than being a means to spiritual growth and encounters. Western religious art from the Renaissance and Reformation forward, however, embraces profane imitation of the sense perceived world, which is to say naturalistic and as such the antithesis of sacred art. Film making, on religious and non-religious subjects, is the apogee of this profane art which is a denial of any and all of the parameters of Sacred art per Aquinas, traditional civilizations, and the Perennialists.It is a neo-iconoclasm and a much more pervasive and successful destruction of the traditional world-view, so much so that to even point out the profanity inherent to film making is to insure dismissal as some kind of “fundamentalist,” “Puritan,” or “religious fanatic.”Screened images, then, are a type of iconoclasm, albeit the inverse and much more subtle kind than the relatively traditional and theocentric denial of sacred images (the iconoclasm still prevalent in certain Reform Church cults, Judaism, and Islam). This neo-iconoclasm of moving pictures depicts everything in realistic, life-like images, everything, that is, except the sacred which cannot be depicted as we see and experience things. This exclusion of the sacred turns upside down the anti-naturalistic depictions of sacred persons and events in iconography and sacred art. The effect of this flood of natural pictures akin to what we see with our eyes is to compel the flooded mind to accept time and space created nature as the ‘most real,' even ‘the only real.' The sacred, by never being depicted in conformity with accepted supernatural forms, is effectively denied.Few of us spend much time in live drama theaters today. Everyone watches screened images on cineplex screens, home computers, and smart phones. And we are all, consequently, iconoclasts and de facto agnostics, I'm afraid, to greater and lesser degrees because of this immersion and repetitive learning from the predominant art of our secular culture and its implicit atheism.Contrast that with the imaginative experience of a novel that is not pornographic or primarily a vehicle of perversion and violence. We are obliged to generate images of the story in the transpersonal faculty within each of us called the imagination, one I think that is very much akin to conscience or the biblical ‘heart.' This is in essence an edifying exercise, unlike viewing photographic images on screens. That the novel appears at the dawn of the Modern Age and the beginning of the end of Western corporate spirituality, I think is no accident but a providential advent. Moving pictures, the de facto regime artistry of the materialist civilization in which we live, are the counter-blow to the novel's spiritual oxygen.That's the best I can manage tonight to offer something to Justin in response to more about the “neo-iconoclasm” of film This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

This is Garrett Chaffin-Quiray's summation of GATEWAY CINEMA, a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, Garrett and Ed Rosa have interpreted and celebrated a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director's Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie à Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.***Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 20:“La Haine” (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)“Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)“Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)” (David Fincher, 1992)“Come and See” (Elen Klimov, 1985)“Perfect Days” (Wim Wenders, 2023)“Sweet Smell of Success” (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)“The Swimmer” (Frank Perry, 1968)“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Andrew Dominik, 2007)“Amadeus (Director's Cut)” (Miloš Forman, 1984/2002)“Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)“Friday” (F. Gary Gray, 1996)“Marie Antoinette” (Sofia Coppola, 2006)“The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)“Crank” (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2006)“Crank 2: High Voltage” (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2009)“Portrait of a Lady Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019)“The Fabulous Baron Munchausen” (Karel Zeman, 1962)“Joker: Folie à Deux” (Todd Phillips, 2024)“Welcome to the Dollhouse” (Todd Solondz, 1995)“Heathers” (Michael Lehmann, 1988)“The Death of Stalin” (Armando Iannucci, 2017)"Star Trek" (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 20:“Also sprach Zarathustra” (1896) by Richard Strauss, performed by Berliner Philharmoniker, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o“Eugene's Lament” by Beastie Boys, Nishita, Bobo, and Eugene Gore for the album “Ill Communication” by Beastie Boys (1994), used in “La Haine” (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)“Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)“Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)” (David Fincher, 1992), including “End Credits” composed by Elliott Goldenthal“Come and See” (Elem Klimov, 1985)“Perfect Days” (Wim Wenders, 2023), including “Perfect Day (Piano Komorebi Version)” (2024) by Patrick Watson, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhC3YPiBwS9Vc9nbBG1Dl6y4AfZPD23lm“Sweet Smell of Success” (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)“The Swimmer” (Frank Perry, 1968), including “Theme from ‘The Swimmer' (Send for Me in Summer) / Big Splash” and “My Kids Love Me / Traveling Home / Closer to Home / Home / Marcia Funebre” by Marvin Hamlisch, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkAUJkbhd-RgA8zSAa_Uqqq45GMl_ONci“Amadeus (Director's Cut)” (Miloš Forman, 1984/2002)“Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)“Friday” (F. Gary Gray, 1996)“Marie Antoinette” (Sofia Coppola, 2006), including the song “Hong Kong Garden” (1978) by Siouxsie and the Banshees, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkTESLJ1DzwVuwneRvZRNBzJkbNQsX-sP“The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955)“Crank” (Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2006), including “Don't Stop” by Paul Haslinger,

The story began as a fantasy based on a childhood memory about a Banshee in Ireland. As repressed memories surfaced, the story evolved into an memoir unlike any other. The story blends imagination with the true story about six-year-old Paddy in the 1960sand his life in New York City, to rural Kilkenny County in Ireland, and back to New York, and how he learned that Banshees are real while also managing to navigate and survive a broken home and a variety of other early-life challenges. The boy's name may not really be Paddy, but to tell this story, a hint of Irishness and anonymity may be necessary.

Det er juletid, og Poptillægget genudsender det bedste fra arkivet hver dag fra 1. til 24. december. Afsnittet er oprindeligt udgivet d 19. februar 2023. Det vælter ud med værker om venskabsbreakups, og det tolker vi som, at der er brug for, at vi ophøjer venskabets betydning i vores liv. Vi mangler et sprog for de forliste venskaber, og det sprog er begyndt at dukke op i film som den Oscar-nominerede film ’Banshees of Inisherin’, Ia Genbergs prisvindende roman ’Detaljerne’ og Dolly Aldertons inderlige tv-serie version af bogen ’Everything I know about love’. Vi dykker ned i de tre værker og lader dem sætte ord på venskabets mange facetter. Hvordan slår man op med en ven? Hvorfor? Hvad sker der, når grænserne for venskabet udviskes, og man pludselig kysser sin veninde - hvad er man så? Vi søger også indad i os selv og taler om, hvorfor venskabsbreakups er så vigtige at tage alvorligt, og hvorfor venskaber i det hele taget fylder så meget i popkulturen - både kærligheden men også sorgen, der kan følge med dem. Vi har også spurgt jer lyttere om jeres oplevelser med venskabsbreakups og læser dem op løbende. Dog ikke dem alle, da vi har modtaget overvældende mange. Og tusind tak for dem. Vært: Lucia Odoom Panel: Johanne Schwensen, psykolog med speciale i venskaber Linnea Maja Ernst, kulturjournalist på Weekendavisen (Og Lucias veninder

In the Rocker Death series, Tessa continue in part 7 with a new lineup of rockers who left us too damn soon. From MS to murder and more, it all starts now. ROCKER LINEUP: Clive Burr, Teresa Nervosa, John Lennon and Felix Pappalardi CREDITS & LINKS  MUSIC COURTESY OF: Fading Point "Gasoline” Alien Manner "Listen Official” Destined to Fail "The Sin is Enough” Liars Handshake "Stockholm” Alien Manner "Green Dragon” Fading Point "Trigger” Destined to Fail "Dead Man's Orgy” CITY SHOUT OUT:

This week on I Know That Face, Andrew and Stephen take each other to task over their recent Letterboxd reviews, discussing everything from the new movies The Running Man and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, upcoming releases like Primate, to all five Twilight films. Stephen also argues that TV is officially back, thanks to The Chair Company and Pluribus. After this, we take on the career of Kerry Condon, Tipperary's most famous export. Oscar-nominated for her role in Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin, she has been acting since the '90s, appearing in shows like Better Call Saul and Rome, as well as films like Unleashed, F1, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, and the just-released Train Dreams. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Edited by Andrew Carroll and Stephen Porzio Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Licence⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode David sat down with friend of the pod and music critic Tommy Ellis to discuss the debut album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Scream from 1978.

Join host Gary and the Bantering Banshees, Jill and Steph, as they descend into Ireland's most mournful legend. From Lady Fanshawe's 1642 moonlit terror at Ballyallia Castle—where a red-haired phantom keened “Ahone! Ahone!” just hours before an O'Brien kinsman's death—to the famine-ravaged Corofin Workhouse, where a ragged wraith paced the fog, heralding mass graves. Is she Aibhill, fairy queen of the Dalcassians? A betrayed lover's ghost? Or just a barn owl's shriek twisted by grief and superstition? One thing is certain: when the Bean Sí calls your ancient name—O'Brien, O'Neill, or otherwise—death is already at the door.Facebook Fan Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/544933724571696Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withinthemistpodcast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@withinthemistpodcast1977 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on The Filmmakers Podcast, host Dom Lenoir welcomes the team behind Netflix's Train Dreams: Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, Clint Bentley, and Joel Edgerton. Felicity Jones – celebrated for her roles in The Theory of Everything and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – & Kerry Condon – Academy Award-nominated actor known for The Banshees of Inisherin and Better Call Saul discuss the actor-director relationship, rehearsals, and what it was like working on the project. Clint Bentley – acclaimed filmmaker behind Jockey and now director of Train Dreams – shares his perspective on shaping performances, cinematography, music, nature and how this project got made. Joel Edgerton – actor & producer – joins the conversation to discuss acting, modern technology, and the human condition. Together, they explore the making of Train Dreams. An inspiring and thought-provoking look behind the scenes of one of Netflix's most anticipated films of the year. TRAIN DREAMS is out now! Links FOOD FOR THOUGHT documentary out NOW | Watch it FREE HERE. A documentary exploring the rapid growth and uptake of the veganlifestyle around the world. – And if you enjoyed the film, please take amoment to share & rate it on your favourite platforms. Every review& every comment helps us share the film's important message withmore people. Your support makes a difference! Help us out and Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify,Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell your pals about this podcast. Thank you! PODCAST MERCH Get your very own Tees, Hoodies, on-set water bottles, mugs and more MERCH. https://my-store-11604768.creator-spring.com/   COURSES Want to learn how to finish your film? Take our POST PRODUCTION COURSE https://cuttingroom.info/post-production-demystified/   PATREON Big thank you to: Serena Gardner Mark Hammett Lee Hutchings Marli J Monroe Karen Newman Want your name in the show notes or some great bonus material on filmmaking? Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, industry survival guides, and feedback on your film projects!   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Check out our full episode archive on how to make films at TheFilmmakersPodcast.com   CREDITS The Filmmakers Podcast is written and produced by Giles Alderson @gilesalderson Edited by @tobiasvees Logo and Banner Art by Lois Creative  Theme Music by John J. Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight we have horrifying banshees, messages from the Beyond, haunted cabins with spirit attachments and so much more. Keep it spooky and enjoy. Season 20 Episode 7 of Monsters Among Us Podcast, true paranormal stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and more, told by the witnesses themselves. SHOW NOTES:  Support the show! Get ad-free, extended & bonus episodes (and more) on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/monstersamonguspodcast Tonight's Sponsor - Better Help - Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at BetterHelp.com/MAU MAU Merch Shop - https://www.monstersamonguspodcast.com/shop MAU Discord - https://discord.gg/2EaBq7f9JQ Watch FREE - Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borrego Triangle  - https://www.borregotriangle.com/ Monsters Among Us Junior on Apple Podcasts  - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monsters-among-us-junior/id1764989478 Monsters Among Us Junior on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1bh5mWa4lDSqeMMX1mYxDZ?si=9ec6f4f74d61498b Beyond Episode Sn. 19 Ep. 6 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/extended-ad-free-127854034?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Beyond Episode Sn. 19 Ep. 12 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/extended-ad-free-129566190?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Music from tonight's episode: Music by Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse - https://www.youtube.com/c/IronCthulhuApocalypse CO.AG Music - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Music By Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio - https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio White Bat Audio Songs: Ghost Protocol Angel Heart Somewhere in Time Past Lives Daybreak Embers Night of the Creeps

In his new movie, “Ballad of a Small Player,” Colin Farrell (The Penguin, The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges) plays a gambling addict who's not adverse to going all in. The role comes on the heels of his award-winning part in “The Penguin” on HBO, and his Golden Globe-winning performance in the 2023 film “The Banshees of Inisherin.” In this interview with Tom Power, Colin talks about continuing his winning streak by ironically playing a guy who keeps losing.Fill out our listener survey here. We appreciate your input!

In music, experimentalism is more than just "that one time in college." This week, we cover the albums that dared to be different, were fearless in their pursuit of breaking new ground, and subverted traditional expectations of what music should sound like. The spirit of experimental music is alive and well on The Sound, the debut solo album by guitarist, cellist, composer producer, arranger, painter, and educator Knox Chandler. This project is a musical memoir depicting the shift in his surroundings from the urbanism of New York, London, and Berlin to the serene rural setting of the Connecticut shoreline. Through 10 diaristic and transportative soundscapes, The Sound incorporates Knox's "Soundribbon" style of meditative, powerfully cinematic guitar, accompanied by upright bass and percussion, and is paired with a book of paintings, sketches, and writings. You no doubt have heard Knox Chandler's work throughout a career that has spanned four decades, as a member of The Psychedelic Furs, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cyndi Lauper's band, and The Golden Palominos. He's also played, composed, produced, and arranged on dozens of records including REM's Automatic For The People, Depeche Mode's Exciter, David Gahan's Paper Monsters, Paula Cole's Harbinger, and many more. Special thanks to Howard Wuelfing from Howlin' Wuelf Media for the introduction and coordination. Proud members of the Pantheon Podcasts family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Returning guest, singer/songwriter Oscar Herrera (The Sleep of Reason, Black Tape for a Blue Girl), brings us Bauhaus and their 1980 debut full-length: 'In The Flat Field'. Often cited as a foundational release in the Goth-rock genre, there's no denying this darkly theatrical, often ferocious collection of songs STILL packs an unsettling punch. Happy pre-Halloween! Songs discussed in this episode: Dark Entries (Bauhaus cover) - Revolting Cocks (Feat. Gibby Haynes); I Have A Task - Oscar Herrera; God Of Thunder - Kiss; Isolation - Joy Division; Jigsaw Feeling - Siouxsie and The Banshees; His Box - Dalis Car; Castor and Pollux, To The Sea, Validation - Oscar Herrera; Double Dare, Antonin Artaud, In The Flat Field, God In An Alcove, Dive, The Spy In The Cab, Small Talk Stinks, St Vitus Dance, Who Killed Mr Moonlight, Stigmata Martyr, Nerves, Bela Lugosi's Dead, Telegram Sam (T-Rex cover), Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie cover) - Bauhaus; The Black Harvest (Live) - The Sleep Of Reason; Rose Garden Funeral of Sores (John Cale cover, live) - Bauhaus; Vienna (Ultravox cover) - Oscar Herrera

Crush was an alternative rock[1] band with East West Records from 1991 to 1993.[2] Original members included singer-songwriter Michael Bramon, English guitarist-songwriter John Valentine Carruthers (formerly of Siouxsie and the Banshees), English drummer-songwriter Paul Ferguson (formerly of Killing Joke), and American bassist/backing vocalist/songwriter John Micco.[3] -- Audiomorphs is an Animorphs podcast which is actually not so much a podcast as a bootleg Animorphs audiobook. Releases every Friday. Visit https://www.theapodcalypse.com/ Twitter: @audiomorphs