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James Hoare was born with a brain injury called hydrocephalus and had 4 brain surgeries before he was 7 years old. However, that didn't hold back his inherent competitive nature to try challenging and exciting past times during his life. He started mountain climbing in 2011 with Mt Kosciusko then Mt Kilimanjaro in 2013. After Mt Kosciusko he created the goal of being the first person with hydrocephalus to ever climb the 7 summits - the tallest mountain on every continent.
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Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!The near-silent and tense Stargate SG-1 episode ‘Death Knell' showed us a Samanta Carter we rarely see.The original article on The Companion The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju The Companion's Audio Articles is produced by Rebecca DavisOur wider team includes Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Valentine, & Ben Herbert
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Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Dating all the way back to his mythological origins, Loki the God of Mischief has long represented a means of overcoming the trappings of societal expectation.The original article on The Companion The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju The Companion's Audio Articles is produced by Rebecca DavisOur wider team includes Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Valentine, George Mole, & Ben Herbert
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Creators and visitors recall Disney World's short-lived ExtraTERRORestrial, its origins as an Alien movie ride, and the role of… George Lucas?Read by Lawrence Kao and written by Clarisse Loughrey. Theme song by Lofi Geek. The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/12/14/the-myths-and-mysteries-of-disney-worlds-nightmare-attraction-extraterrorestrial-alien-encounter/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Starting with Stargate SG-1 episode ‘Secrets', the saga of Samantha Carter and her frosty relationship with her father, Jacob, was one of the most powerful in the series. Read by Lawrence Kao and written by James Hoare. Theme song by Lofi Geek. The Impact of Service Life on the Military Child by the Naval Children's Charity: https://www.navalchildrenscharity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/The-Impact-of-Service-Life-on-the-Military-Child-The-Overlooked-Casualties-of-Conflict-Update-and-Review-Report-Interactive-Singles-1.pdf Tensions in the Parent and Adult Child Relationship: Links to Solidarity and Ambivalence by Kira S. Birditt: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690709/ The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/12/03/sam-carter-a-fathers-battle-a-daughters-war/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Rebecca Davis, Tommy Terry-Green,, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Neo's desperate attempts to defy a system that insists on deadnaming him and pushing him back in line, always read as a powerful transgender allegory. Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Ell Twine. Theme song by Lofi Geek. Lilly Wachowski's article in the Windy City Times: https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Second-Wachowski-filmmaker-sibling-comes-out-as-trans-/54509.html Fluid Realities/Fluid Identities: Gender in the Matrix by Hannah Kuhlmann: http://girl_type.tripod.com/papers/matrix.html Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Wilchins: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-My-Lips-Sexual-Subversion/dp/1936833646 Lana Wachowski receives the HRC Visibility Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c Lilly Wachowski's GLAAD Award speech: https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/43vmvp/lilly-wachowski-encourages-viewers-to-reconsider-the-matrix-through-the-lens-of-transness The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2021/11/26/the-matrix-transgender-allegory-and-applicability/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Tessa B. Dick gives us the definitive take on Total Recall, what her late husband would have thought, and how much of Philip K. Dick's wit, wisdom, and empathy she sees in Paul Verhoeven's blockbuster. Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Tessa B. Dick. Theme song by Lofi Geek. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1966): https://www.scribd.com/document/485526708/We-Can-Remember-it-for-You-Wholesale The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/11/23/tessa-b-dick-searching-for-my-husband-in-verhoevens-movie-total-recall/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Science fiction stories have always mirrored their own eras. They're a time capsule as much as they are a vision of the future, and few decades offer as rapid a change on screen as the sci-fi films of the 1990s.Caution: This article contains plot points from Total Recall, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Universal Soldier, Alien 3, Demolition Man, Johnny Mnemonic, Independence Day, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Alien Resurrection, Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Wild Wild West, and – phew – The Matrix, and in some cases reveals the ending. Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Katherine McLaughlin. Theme song by Lofi Geek. David Fincher's Imagi-Movies interview: https://mossfilm.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/alien-3-fincher-talks/ Paul Verhoeven's Interview Magazine interview:https://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/paul-verhoeven-interview/ Lily Wachoski's Netflix Film Club interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adXm2sDzGkQ&feature=emb_title The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2020/09/18/changing-faces-of-90s-sci-fi-icons/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!The events of ‘Heroes Part 1' and ‘Part 2' shocked Stargate fandom but as Kayleigh Dray argues, the tragic death of Dr. Janet Fraiser has only become more affecting in the years since it was broadcast. Content Warning: This Audio Article deals with the death of a character, please be advised. Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek. Excerpts from Martin Wood's Stargate SG-1 Explorer Unit fan club interview: https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s7/heroes-part-2/ Robert C. Cooper's GateWorld interview: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/01/how-heroes-came-to-be-stargate-most-memorable-episodes/ The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/05/10/firefly/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Whether miniskirts and calf-high boots or spandex and shoulder pads, Star Trek uniforms have always kept one eye on today's fashion as well as tomorrow's. Featuring special guest Harriet Hall, fashion expert, Lifestyle Editor at The Independent newspaper, and feminist author of She: A Celebration of Renegade Women.Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek. Nichelle Nichols' BBC interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9j6 The ‘Hopepunk' case for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/04/07/star-trek-deep-space-nine-is-the-definition-of-hope-punk-and-we/ Costume Designer Robert Blackman's interview on StarTrek.com: https://intl.startrek.com/article/meet-emmy-award-winning-costume-designer-robert-blackman-part-3 Costume Designer Gersha Phillips's interview on Shondaland: https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a26732991/star-trek-discovery-costume-designer-gersha-phillips/ ….ComicBook.com: https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-discovery-gersha-phillips-interview/ …and We Got This Covered: https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/new-interview-reveals-where-star-trek-discovery-drew-its-uniform-inspiration-from/ Costume Designer Christine Bieselin Clark's panel interview on Gold Derby: https://www.goldderby.com/article/2020/christine-bieselin-clark-star-trek-picard-costume-design-experts-panel-video-interview/ The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/08/star-trek-starfleet-uniforms/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Across the multiverse, the one constant is that Jack O'Neill's son, Charlie, has died. This never changes. This is why Stargate SG-1 connects. For anyone who's ever lost a loved one, the struggle isn't just about their death, it's the journey we have to endure afterward.Content Warning: This Audio Article deals with the death of a character, please be advised. Read by Lawrence Kao and written by George Mole. Theme song by Lofi Geek. The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/02/06/stargate-jack-oneill_loss/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Rebecca Davis, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
Join Stargate's Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman to learn the ins and outs of the hotseat of the control room in this immersive roleplay and cosplay experience!Tickets and info are available now at www.thecompanion.app/events. Sign up as a member (paid or free) for a discount code!Despite a love of science fiction and a dream of working for NASA, Kayleigh Dray struggled to see any women on screen who reflected her experiences. Then, she stumbled across Firefly and discovered the optimistic, scrappy, kind, sex-positive, and utterly authentic Kaylee Frye, who shows that women can be both hopelessly romantic and totally practical.Read by Rebecca Davis and written by Kayleigh Dray. Theme song by Lofi Geek. Cayce LaCorte's viral TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@book_mama/video/6930669280841305350 The original article on The Companion: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/03/23/stargate-janets-death/ The Companion's Audio Articles is a new series and we'd love to know if you like the new show. If you do, please share it with your friends on social media, WhatsApp, or any other text groups. You can Tweet us @thecompanionapp or send a message on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/BcFBwtY3Ju Thank you to our production team which include Nick Hayward, Lawrence Kao, Tommy Terry-Green, James Hoare, George Mole, Ben Herbert, Hattie Smith, and Chris Smith.
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Kitchen Sink # 104 Playlist Lightning Bug – Intro (October Song, NYC dream pop) HYLA – Deserve (new single, Melbourne shoegaze) Hoops – Fall Back (new single from forthcoming Halo, indie pop from Bloomington, IN) Break 1 The Memory Fades – 14 Cheerleader Coldfront (acoustic version, new single, UK indie pop) Joe Pernice – Sullivan Street (Richard, new, Massachusetts indie rock) Laura Marling – Alexandra (Song For Our Daughter, new, UK folk) Snowgoose – Who Will You Choose (The Making of You, new, Scottish folk rock, helped out by members of Belle and Sebastian, The Pearlfishers, and Teenage Fanclub) The Hanging Stars – I Will Please You (A New Kind of Sky, new, London psych pop) Pale Lights – Golden Times (new, You and I EP, NYC jangle pop) Corasandel – Cracked Light (new single, Lincoln UK psych gaze) Shack – I Want You (H.M.S. Fable, UK indie rock with Michael Head, 1999) The Asteroid No. 4 – Northern Song (new single, CA psych) Bryan Estepa – Subject To Change (B-side to Weight of Gold, Sydney Australia indie rock) The Stroppies – Burning Bright (Look Alive!, new, Melbourne jangle pop) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cameo (new, Sideways to New Italy, Melbourne indie rock) Break 2 SPC ECO – When You’re Alive (6月LP June EP, new, UK dark wave) IST IST – Black (new, Architecture, Manchester post punk) Red Mishima – Marion (s/t album, Swiss dark wave) The Chameleons – Monkeyland (Radio 1 Evening Show Sessions, UK post punk, orig. from 1983 album Script of the Bridge, a classic of the genre) Key Out – Chorus (new, Anthropomorphia, Sydney dream pop, reminds of The Sound on this track) Life on Venus – It’s Alright (new single, Moscow dream pop) Soft Kill – Stuck to The Ceiling (Memory Loss single, Portland OR post punk) Ciel – The Shore (Movement EP, new, Brighton UK dream pop) Jules in Trouble – Where/When? (Dark Jewels, new, Queens NY bedroom pop) Peel Dream Magazine – Kaaterskill Trailhead (digital bonus track, Modern Meta Physic) Lake Ruth and Listening Center – Law and Disorder (new single from this NYC collaboration, cosmic dream pop) Break 3 Slowdive – Altogether (Souvlaki, 1993, UK dream pop) Secret Shine – Ember (new single, Bristol UK shoegaze) Juliper Sky – Waves (new, Visions of a New Age EP, Manchester UK shoegaze) Superdrone – Walk Away (new, Solargaze, Southampton UK psych gaze) Laveda – Better Now (new, What Happens After, Albany NY shoegaze) To the Wedding – Light (new, PLIGHT / LIGHT split with Nervous, Brooklyn dream wave) The Kestrels – Grey and Blue (new, from forthcoming Dream or Don't Dream, feat. J Mascis on lead guitar, Halifax shoegaze) New Age Healers feat. Katie Haley, Jim Biggs & My Young– In Dreams (free song but asking free will donations for Creative Justice, a Seattle based non-profit that uses an “innovative arts-based approach to ending racial disproportionality and youth incarceration.”) Eep – Hogar (new single from forthcoming Death of a Very Good Machine, out in July, El Paso dream gaze) Vast Asteroid – Champagne Ambassadors (new single, LA space rock) Break 4 The Hollow Men – Louder Than God (Cresta, UK indie pop, 1990) The Vickers – Senseless Life (new, Ghosts, Florence Italy psych rock) Spotlight Kid – Space Race (new, Nottingham psych gaze, From the Archives Part 2) The Proper Ornaments – You Shouldn’t Have Gone (Mission Bells, UK indie rock, James Hoare and Max Oscarnold)
Kitchen Sink # 101 Playlist Curve – Unreadable Communication (Cuckoo Expanded Edition) Mint Julep – Still Waters (Stray Fantasies, new, Portland synth pop) HYLA – Take Eyes (new single, Melbourne dream pop) Spectres – Dreams (Nostalgia, new, Vancouver cold wave) The Psychedelic Furs – You'll Be Mine (brand new single, fine return to form) Cathedral Bells – Ephemeral (Velvet Spirit, new, Florida dream pop) Break 1 Summer's Cauldron / Grass – Bertling Noise Laboratories (Garden of Earthly Delights- An XTC Celebration, new from Futureman Records, Indiana indie rock) Game Theory – Inverness (Across the Barrier of Sound: Postscript, collection of demo recordings, out now on Omnivore, band includes Michael Quercio of Three O'Clock, song appeared as a studio recording for Loud Family) A Girl Called Eddy – NY Man (Been Around, indie pop from US by way of UK artist Erin Moran) The Beatles – Old Brown Shoe Take 2 (Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Edition) The Proper Ornaments – The Wolves at the Door (played last show, but love tune, Mission Bells, James Hoare and Max Oscarnold, UK indie pop) Strawberry Generation – Kitchen + Crisis (Recollections, indie rock from Providence) Bebopalula – Vanishing Girl (Garden of Earthly Delights- An XTC Celebration, LA psych pop) Dropkick – I'm Over You, Goodbye (The Scenic Route, UK jangle pop) the black watch – Brilliant Failures (LA indie rock, new single) Nada Surf – Live, Learn, and Forget (Never Not Together, NYC indie rock) Break 2 Bathe Alone – Tarot Cards (2019 single, GA dream pop from Bailey Crone, multi-instrumentalist) Why Bonnie – Voice Box (Voice Box EP, out April 10th, Austin dream pop) Film School – Don't You Ever (B-side to Is this a hotel single, LA shoegaze) Gaarden – Orange Flowers (The Fall, new, Sydney dream pop) MOANING – Ego (new, Uneasy Laughter, LA indie rock) Postcards – Lights Out (The Good Soldier, new, Beirut dream pop) My Ugly Clementine – Who (Vitamin C, new, Australian punk pop, reminds me of Pixies) The Francine Odysseys – Hide Your Eyes (What if We Were Wrong EP, new, LA dream pop) Jeanines – Less and Less (Things Change EP, NYC indie pop) Midpoint Union – New Turn (New Turn, new, Portuguese dream pop) Easy – Crystal Waves (Radical Innocence, new, Swedish indie pop) Break 3 Ringo Deathstarr – Nagoya (s/t, new, Austin shoegaze) Sulk – No Illusions (No Illusions, 2016, UK psych pop) Pia Fraus – You're Not in Love (Empty Parks, new, Estonian dream pop) Pendant – Name Around My Neck (Through a Coil, Oakland artist Christopher Adams) Deserta – I'll Be Gone (Black Aura My Sun, new, LA post punk) Cigarettes for Breakfast – Daylight (s/t, new, Philly shoegaze) Vivienne Eastwood – Afterall (Home Movies, new, Brooklyn dream pop) Draag – Cee (Clara Luz, new, LA dream pop) Laveda – Ghost (What Happens After, new, Albany NY dream pop) topographies – Open Up (Difference and Repetition, new, SF dream pop) SPC ECO – If You Like (March EP, new, UK dark wave) Break 4 Quivers – Videostores (new single, Australian indie pop) Reb Fountain – Quiet Like the Rain (s/t, new, Auckland alt folk) Sunset Canyoneers - Alcohol in a Gamblin' Town (s/t, new, Oakland cosmic country) The Choir – Anyway I Can (Artifact: The Unreleased Album, Omnivore reissue, featuring members of The Raspberries, not Eric Carmen) The Hanging Stars – Lonely Rivers (A New Kind of Sky, new, UK psych pop) Theatre Royal - Until The Morning After (Riley's Basement), UK indie pop, B-sides and other cuts)
Kitchen Sink # 99 Playlist COSme – Upside Down (Lost Generation, 2018, Moscow shoegaze) Distressor – Rainshine (Away, Sydney shoegaze) Flyying Colours – Big Mess (new single, Melbourne psych gaze) Goon – CCLL (Heaven is Humming, LA indie rock) Real Estate – Friday (new, The Main Thing, Brooklyn indie pop) Break 1 Pastel Coast – Galanterie (Hovercraft, new, French dream pop) White Poppy – Broken (from forthcoming Paradise Gardens, Crystal Dorval, British Columbia dream gaze) Meltway – From Blue (Everytime EP, new, Danish dream pop) Midpoint Union – Tangled Portraits (New Turn, new, Portugal jangle pop) Lake Ruth – Easy to Leave Me (new, Brooklyn baroque pop) I Break Horses – Death Engine (from forthcoming Warnings, new single, Stockholm dream pop) Black Books – Goodbye Cool (Cheer Up, new, Austin dream pop) Mint Julep – No Regret (Stray Fantasies, new, Hollie and Keith Kenniff, dream pop out of Portland) Film School – Is This a Hotel? (new, Swim EP, LA shoegaze) Break 2 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars in Space (new single, Melbourne indie pop) Tidal Rave – FOMO (new, Heart Screams, Fishrider band from Wellington) Pale Lights – You and I (new single, Brooklyn indie pop) East Village – Strawberry Window (Hotrod Hotel, reissue out on Slumberland, orig. 1994 from this English indie band) Corrections – Seven Hanged (new, Simply Activity, London new wave) Nada Surf – Ride in the Unknown (Never Not Together, new, Brooklyn indie rock) Pikal – Balik Sa Trabaho (Music for Girls, 2017, Alaskan power pop) Game Theory – Forget All About It (Home Recording, Across the Barrier of Sound: Postscript, out 3/20 on Omnivore Recordings) Peter Hall – Blood Flow (new, There's Something Wrong with Everyone EP, Nottingham indie pop) ThunderStars – Ride (new, Number Stations, Austin dream pop) The Proper Ornaments – The Wolves at the Door (Mission Bells, just out, James Hoare and Max Oscarnold. London indie rock) Break 3 Wilsen – Ruiner (new, Ruiner, Brooklyn dream pop) Palm Ghosts – Lorelei (new, Wide Awake and Waiting, Nashville shoegaze) Un.Real – Lovely one / Islands (P.R. Dream gaze, new single) Draag – Alternative Privilege (Clara Luz, new, LA dream pop) Animal Ghosts – Wane (Wane, new, Portland OR shoegaze) Mundy's Bay – Wash Over Me (new, Lonesome Valley, Montreal dream pop) Nossiennes – Microcosm (new, Vivere EP, UK shoegaze) Give up to Failure – All I Wanted (new, Polish dark gaze) Vyva Melinkolya – Ugly IRL (new mix, Violet EP, Louisville dream pop) Citrus Clouds – A Pastel Sky (new, Phoenix dream pop) Break 4 Rain Parade – What She's Done to Your Mind (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, 1983, Paisley Underground, RIP David Roback)
Kitchen Sink # 99 Playlist Meadowlake – I Won't Let You Down (single, Nov 19, Netherlands based dream pop) Pendant – Through a Coil (Through a Coil, Oakland-based musician Christopher Adams). Superdrone – Freedom (Creation EP, Southampton UK psych gaze) Theatre Royal – Down South With the Chameleons (B-Sides & Other Cuts, Rochester UK indie pop) Break 1 SPC ECO – All in Time (February EP, Dean Garcia and Rose Berlin, UK electronica) Cerulean Veins – Fell in Love (Blue, San Diego coldwave) Black Swan Lane – Condannare (Vita Eterna, Atlanta dream pop, Jack Sobel and John Kolbeck) Schonwald – Inner Sin (new single, Italian post punk) Alienbaby Collective – Degenerate Moon (Fishbowl / Terrestrial double EP, Liú Mottes, Netherlands noise pop) Pure Hex – Fall (Pure Hex EP, SF based dream pop) Honeymoan – Still Here (Weirdo EP, Cape Town bedroom pop) Chromatics – Touch Red (Closer to Grey, Portland OR synth pop) Lake Ruth and Listening Center – How I Hear You (The Sunday Experience EP, released as a benefit for music writer Mark Barton) Stephen Fellows – Not Going Down (Slow Glass, Sheffield UK post punk from ex-Comsat Angels vocalist) Break 2 Smashing Orange – Something You Said (from Collide / Something You Said dual release with The Sunflowers, Clawfist Singles Club, Wilmington, Delaware shoegaze) Peel Dream Magazine – Pill (Agitpop Alterna, forthcoming, NY based indie rock) Grrrl Gang – Love Song (Here to Stay!, Indonesian pop punk) Jeanines – Been in the Dark (Things Change EP, out March, Brooklyn indie pop) Postcards – Spiderwebs (The Good Soldier, Beirut Lebanon dream pop) The Fast Camels – Blissful Serenity (Full of Strange, Glasgow psych pop) Eyelids – At Sea (The Accidental Falls, Portland OR indie pop, band members’ second-to-none pedigrees earned from time spent in Guided By Voices, The Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus and Elliott Smith. Featuring lyrics written by poet and frequent Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett that span over four decades and produced by REM iconoclast Peter Buck). Records – Held Up High (Shades in Bed, 1979 UK power pop with Will Birch and John Wicks RIP) Nada Surf – So Much Love (Never Not Together, Feb 7th, NY indie rock) Go Betweens – You Tell Me (Australian indie pop, Tallulah, 1987) Dropkick – Feeling Never Goes Away (The Scenic Route, Andrew Taylor, Scottish jangle pop) Lost Ships – All of the Pieces (title track from EP, Portsmouth UK jangle pop) Gaarden – The Fall (from The Fall, Sydney dream pop) Mundy's Bay – Goodbye (Lonesome Valley out March, Montreal dream pop) The Proper Ornaments – Black Tar (Mission Bells out 2/28, James Hoare and Max Oscarnold, London UK indie pop) Break 3 Chapterhouse – Something More (Ambient Version), C90 box set, Reading UK dream pop, song in original version from 1991’s Whirlpool) Flyingpool – Orange Sky (Flyingpool Demo, Belgian dream pop) Pale Saints – True Coming Dream (Woodhouse Studio Demo), 30th anniversary of The Comforts of Madness Indoor Voices – Heart (Animal, new, not announced, missed by accident) Seasurfer – Lovers Breakdown (single, German dreamgaze) Dead Horse One – Lost (The West is the Best, French shoegaze) Galaxina – Iris (new single, Andalusia Spain shoegaze) Magic Shoppe – Doppelgänger (A side to exclusive vinyl release of Doppelgänger / S.F.O., Boston psych) Flyying Colours – Goodtimes (new, Melbourne psych gaze) Radio Supernova – Kyyti (Tähtiin, Finnish shoegaze) Purple Heart Parade – Starwheel (Desolation Angel EP, new, UK psych reminds of The Verve) Break 4 Pastel Coast – La Nuit (Hovercraft, French jangle pop) Deserta – Save Me (Black Aura My Sun, LA dream pop) Iress – Shamed (new single, LA shoegaze)
The Loft & The Weather Prophets special with Pete Astor in conversation with David Eastaugh Pete Astor was born in England, in 1960.The Loft formed in 1983, the band signing to Creation Records and releasing two singles, "Why Does the Rain" and "Up the Hill and Down the Slope". The band split at the Hammersmith Palais in 1985. Astor then formed The Weather Prophets, continuing to be managed by Creation founder, Alan McGee, and signing to his short-lived Elevation label under the auspice of WEA4 releasing the album Mayflower in 1987. Returning to Creation for Judges, Juries and Horsemen, the band split in 1989. Astor then embarked on a solo career with the albums Submarine (1990) and Zoo (1991) on Creation. Finding success in France, Astor moved to the Danceteria label to release Paradise (1992, as Peter Astor and the Holy Road), and God and Other Stories in 1992. After becoming disillusioned with the music business, he disappeared from view for a number of years, returning in the late 1990s with his Ellis Island Sound and The Wisdom of Harry projects, both releasing music on 7", 12" and 10"[5][6] for a variety of emerging independent labels such as Static Caravan Recordings,Wurlitzer Jukebox and Astor's own label, Faux Lux. The Wisdom of Harry eventually signed to Matador Records, while Ellis Island Sound, Astor's collaboration with David Sheppard, signed with Heavenly Recordings. In 2005, Astor released Hal's Eggs, a solo album including radical reworkings of folk standards on Static Caravan Recordings. At around the same time, Cherry Red released compilation albums featuring his work: The Weather Prophets' Blues Skies and Freerides (The Best Of, 1986–1989),Injury Time (Solo 89–93), a selection of solo work from his two Creation and Danceteria albums. The label also re-issued The Loft's Once More Round the Fair, a collection of their Creation recordings and session tracks. As well as reforming The Loft at this time for a limited number of shows, Astor continued to write, perform and release records with Ellis Island Sound on the Peace Frog label. The solo album, Songbox was released on the Second Language label in 2011, featuring an extra disc of cover versions of the albums' songs by Let's Wrestle, The Raincoats, Darren Hayman, Comet Gain, The Proper Ornaments, Mathew Sawyer, Dollboy and Piano Magic. He works as senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, where he teaches, researches and writes about music; in 2014, he published his study of Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation, as part of Bloomsbury's 33⅓ series. At the beginning of 2015, Astor signed to Fortuna Pop, releasing the single "Mr Music", followed by an album, Spilt Milk, recorded with James Hoare of Ultimate Painting, Proper Ornaments, and Veronica Falls.
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Back after a hiatus for *reasons*, James Hoare explores the gruesome battlefield rituals of Zulu warriors, the role of magic medicines and war doctors, and how a snuff box filled with semen killed a king.
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In the second episode of History of Gore, James Hoare reveals the East Slavic answer to Vlad the Impaler, a Medieval prince locked in a Russian Game of Thrones. His advantage? Sorcery and shapeshifting as he takes to the battlefield in the form of a wolf...
In the first episode of History of Gore, James Hoare explains how Otto Rahn, remembered as the "real Indiana Jones", let his quest for the fabled Holy Grail blind him to the horrors of the Third Reich. Seduced by SS leader Heinrich Himmler, Rahn's researched was used to further the hateful creed of the Nazi party... but was he really an innocent or was he willing accomplice?
For over a thousand years the Korean Peninsula was one nation, with a unique identity and character. So what caused it to be divided into two countries that have become so radically different, culturally, economically and politically? Bridget Kendall is joined by Namhee Lee, associate professor of modern Korean history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun, curator of the Korean Collections at the British Museum; and Dr James Hoare, a former diplomat who set up the first British Embassy in North Korea, and is now a Research Associate at the Centre of Korean Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (SOAS). Photo: Korean dancers perform a traditional dance. (Getty Images)
From the notorious serial killers of the Age of Aquarius to the ruthless mob bosses of the Jazz Age and beyond, Real Crime is the first high quality true crime magazine on the newsstand. Every issue of Real Crime reveals the untold stories behind the world’s most gripping cases, the breathtaking experiences of investigators and survivors, and blow-by-blow accounts of how lawbreakers were finally brought to justice.Delivered with the same icy intensity and forensic detail of popular documentaries and TV shows, Real Crime uncovers blow-by-blow accounts of how notorious criminals have been brought to justice. Every issue will be packed with ground-breaking interviews, original research and the incriminating pictures behind the world’s most infamous cases. With breath-taking accounts from investigators, survivors and the criminal masterminds themselves, the magazine opens up the world of serial killers; ruthless mob bosses; organised crime; unsolved cases and beyond.James Hoare, editor-in-chief at Real Crime, said, “We are always looking for new ways to meet our readers’ need for intelligent, trusted reporting and opinion. The first edition takes readers on a fascinating journey into the minds of some of the most notorious serial killers, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Fred and Rose West. It also includes a special interview with the woman who shot footage of the O.J. Simpson car chase, on the 20th anniversary of the contentious trial. REAL CRIME-James Hoare