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With vampires on everyone's mind lately, Good Brews Bad Views turns to another period piece with Dracula 2000. Max, Ryan, and James, enlist Dracula expert and multi-time returning guest Jordan to watch several familiar faces get staked, bitten, beheaded, etc.Dive into a blood induced waking dream at 1:36:25 for the post movie wrap up on all things Dracula 2000, what makes a good Non Alcoholic Beer, and the gangs favorite vampire movies. Like what we're doing? Want to choose future episodes? Want to fund our trip to the Virgin Megastore to pick out hte latest Nu-metal jams? Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodbrewsbadviewsOpening theme: Tha Silent Partner – Prohibition Brew and Pork Chops

This week, we talk to DANIEL RACHEL, the author of TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG, THE 2 TONE RECORDS STORY,  about the 1981 2 Tone concert film DANCE CRAZE. We discuss the film's volatile production, how the film's genesis started at a swimming pool in L.A., Jerry Dammers unwavering work ethic, seeing people skanking in the aisles at the movie screening, the short life span of The Selecter and The Body Snatchers, how the film sneaks in concert footage shot in New Jersey vs. the UK, the moment Daniel noticed that 2 Tone had swept the playground, the dimantleing of the scene by the British music press, the skinhead movement and the violence within the scene, the genius of Terry Hall and Pauline Black, the non-Ska bands that continued on the 2 tone label, how the ska bands had the best band logos, the fashion of the scene, seeing a multi-racial band on TV, tribal musical groups moving across the British musical landscape, The Mods, the short time span of pop music movements, stealing lyric sheets from a Virgin Megastore, how original director Joe Massot was kicked off the film and also screwed up his intitial shoot of Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same movie, Garvick Losey's involvment with the film, how Jerry Dammers and Madness were initially wary of making the film, how the soundtrack contains recordings that were not from the movie (or even the same band lineup), the punk vs. ska astecthic,The Specials' tour with The Clash and how the band found their idenity on it, how the inventor of the Steadycam was one of the cmaera opperators for this film, how the bands would fake violence on stage to stop the violence in the audience, Rock Against Racism, The Stranglers, then negative response from the bands when the film was initially releaesd, what it was like figuring out the More Specials LP, Funboy Three & Special AKA, and Chris breaks Daniel by asking his final question.So lip up fatty and get into this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!DANIEL RACHEL:https://danielrachel.com/Book tour w/ Daniel Rachel:https://danielrachel.com/events/REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday. If you like the show, please subscribe, rate, and review it on your favorite podcast app.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieX, BlueSky: @revpermovieTHEME by Eyelids 'My Caved In Mind'www.musicofeyelids.bandcamp.comARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Click here to get EXCLUSIVE BONUS WEEKLY Revolutions Per Movie content on our Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we have been mostly talking about Bahrain. Highlights include: - We set a new progress record on Apollo! - Next week, we pretend we're in a house... - Bahrain has a Virgin Megastore. Fact.

The Middle East is booming, with new ventures opening every day. More and more people are considering changing their careers and leaving corporate jobs to embark on their journeys as entrepreneurs, hoping to gain more freedom. This is exactly what happened with my guest, Nisreen Shocair, former CEO Middle East of Net-a-Porter and Virgin Megastore. She left her stable and successful corporate career to become an entrepreneur, realising that it is not as easy as it seems and finding joy in supporting people through her businesses and public speaking. This episode is full of insights for everyone setting up or growing their businesses, especially those entrepreneurs who have just left the corporate world for their ventures.______Visit our website Brands Through StoriesSubscribe on platforms to get new episodes early: YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify

Let's go off to the Virgin Megastore!Beth and David are joined by the best-selling author, Doctor Who: Redacted creator, and all-round gorgeous icon Juno Dawson to explore the joy that is The War Machines.There's a revelatory fact about EastEnders star Steve McFadden, a horrific throwback to THAT phonecall between King Charles and Queen Camilla, and a chat about everyone's favourite topic - AI!You can pre-order Juno's latest book, Queen B, from Waterstones, or your other book providers!Plus, you can listen to both seasons of Doctor Who: Redacted on BBC Sounds if you're in the UK, and on other platforms around the world.And you can follow Juno on the Instagrams - @junodawson.Massive thanks to Common Press for hosting us - they do amazing work to highlight and support LGBTQIA+ people in their bookshop and cafe. We were very lucky to be able to use their podcast and event space for this recording - go support them here with a membership, or by buying from their store just off Brick Lane in East London.Beth and David are back on Saturday with more from their chat with Juno!In the meantime, you can get in touch via @whowatchpodcast, or send them some love via email - thewhowatchpodcast@gmail.com.UK friends - the general election is on the 4th July - please register to vote here.Plus, the gang are asking a favour - send this podcast on to three of your Who loving mates, and they'll be forever grateful!You can also tip The Who Watch Podcast via Ko-Fi, if you'd like!Find socials, the Song Of The Story playlists, and other fun things here, including Beth in the New York Times, and David on friend of the show Christel Dee's YouTube channel chatting all things Dot and Bubble.Music by Haydn WynnArtwork by Reece ConnollyPhotos from The Black ArchiveAll clips belong to their respective copyright holders and are used purely for parody purposes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a bonus episode! Join Craig as he sits down to talk with Dale Robertson a 30-year veteran of the Canadian Music Industry.Transcript:Track 2:[1:06] Hey there listeners, this is Craig and today on Discovering Downey I am joined by Dale Robertson. Dale is a 30-year veteran of the Canadian music industry and he is here to share a few stories about Gord and the Hip. Welcome Dale, how's it going?Track 2:[1:22] Thank you Craig, it's going very well, I'm happy to be here. This is, you know what, my first podcast participation ever. Oh wow, Wow. Okay. Well, I'm pretty new to this too. So we'll just see how it goes. But I have you on today to talk a little hip because I know you're a big fan and that's how I met you is talking about the hip. And your name was a name that would come up over and over through our mutual friend, Matt Pinch. And I thought I'd just share a quick story about how I met Matt that you probably don't know. So it was grade seven for me and Matt was a year younger in grade six, but we were in a class together and my good friend had moved out of town that summer and so I was without a close friend at school and one day we were seated next to each other and Matt started talking to me about WWF wrestlers and he was very enthusiastic and I didn't know too much but I went home and made sure to watch that you know Saturday night and came back to school the next week with a little bit more knowledge about wrestling and and we would spend our days drawing wrestlers on on blank pieces of paper and then we would take our compass and one at a time drop the compass on each of the wrestlers and if it hit we would make a little tally and after 10.Track 2:[2:46] Hits that that wrestler would be eliminated from the the battle royale and so that's how that's how we met and then we ended up you know matt was the first person i ever met who played guitar he He got a guitar for his birthday, I believe, and I would pick it up and I just fell in love right away. And so I, you know, started playing shortly after that. And we ended up actually starting our first band together and, you know, started playing cover music. And within a year we were playing all original. And yeah, that was my first band experience with along with our buddy Blair, who you know, and our friend Bob on drums. And yeah, how about you? How did you get to know Matt?Track 2:[3:23] So i met matt when he joined bmg while i was working there um here in vancouver and he came on board as a street team member i think it was around 1998 or so um he then became our street team leader uh which you know the really cool thing about the street team pro programs that the labels were utilizing was that it was a great sort of starting ground for uh somebody getting into the music industry and to get hired from there because typically as a street team member you're volunteering you were out there you know putting stickers on bathroom walls or um putting posters up on either walls where you're allowed to or in street corner you've seen those you know uh let's say uh the new trouble charger album at that time coming soon blah blah blah so So Matt was part of that. And then he ended up moving into the radio promotions department within BMG until 2004 when he was an unfortunate victim of the Sony BMG merger. Right. And that was phase one. You know, it's very typical for these mergers where, you know.Track 2:[4:38] You become a victim to the downsizing you know it affected me eventually in 2007 where we had an office of 11 and the next day there were only two left i was one of the nine wow um but yeah it's just you know that's the nature of the beast and and uh the music industry is volatile it's just that crazy you know you love it and you can also kind of despise it at the same time because of some of the um debris that it can leave in its wake but uh you know you're in it for the music you know it's um i would have to say that the hip were probably a major catalyst for me in terms of my love for music and you know seeing them play live it's you know you've seen them it's the band that i saw the most in my live music experience i've never seen any musician more than or artists it's more than the hip i think i've seen spirit of the west maybe one or two times more um being out west my whole life and so they were just playing around this area a lot but yeah the hip burn number two for me and when i met you uh through matt it was actually at his wedding or the lead up to and i remember i had some some interesting stories so um so you actually met the hip way back i believe you said way back in the early days yeah it was it was really kind.Track 2:[6:01] Of a wild thing because um so in 1990 i started working for this company based in winnipeg who were basically the exclusive contract for catering through i think was periscope promotions at the time which became i believe house of blues it's now live nation never heard of them yeah this little company that you know might make it big one day um might even have a monopoly one day you never know but the um so yeah we were doing these uh we would cater these shows and then in winnipeg at the time there was this theater that had been renovated um it's now called the burton cummings theater at the time it's called the walker um and the hip were playing there they were i believe the first band to reopen that venue and um so as part of the catering you're there all day long. So it's a long hours, you know, it's, it's you're there from 6.00 AM until usually load out at 2.00 AM, 2.00 AM. Yeah. But anyway, got to meet the hip. The first time I got to actually meet Gord, I'm standing beside him as you're watching the sky diggers open up for the, for the hip that night. Yeah. So which is just surreal. It's a surreal experience.Track 2:[7:22] In itself because you know here's me this giant hip fan and there's gourd downy literally right beside me shaking and grooving away to the skydiggers yeah and he was known for that to um totally watch the opening bands i know i know he was uh you know the artists love him for that absolutely a passionate music guy you know he's he's um that was his his thing and and i think that respect that he showed the musicians followed him right throughout his entire career which is, it's pretty incredible to have, um, met him after the show. Uh, he signed my, um, backstage pass, which was stuck on my baseball hat. And it, uh, so, and he would sign something super unique to every single person that wanted an autograph. So, um, there was this one poster that, uh, it was a picture of Gord and it was one of the, the brand new posters for the, uh, road apples album and on the one of the posters it he just wrote i'm the motherfucker from around the way pardon my language and then there was another poster again he's got that you know he's.Track 2:[8:32] It's a picture of him singing and then the rest of the band are underneath him, and on that one he said i'm singing solely for you naive guy you know he just had these little quips right on mine he wrote because it was on my hat he wrote this the outer brim and then you you know, signed his name to it. So, and I still have it to this day, obviously. And it's one of those bizarre little prized possessions. Yeah, no, that's very cool. So when did you first get into the hip?Track 2:[8:59] I got into the hip in 89. So I, the first time I ever heard them, um, blow it high dough is being played on much music. And you hear that riff, I come ripping out of my bedroom and there's this amazing song. I just stood there. I couldn't remember it vividly me just kind of stopped in my tracks as this song came out um and then you've seen that video it's i to this day it's one of my favorite videos right um it's such a it's you know it's a great great song and that was my intro that was my um my intro to the hip and the the catalyst that basically started me off and then i never missed a tour nice and on you know every single tour that that band did, I was able to see, I was super lucky in a lot of times where, you know, they're playing Richards on Richards and I was able to get in there for, you know, a, um, those little sort of exclusive when to get in type things. So, yeah, but that's my very first vivid memory of becoming a hip fan. Okay. Yeah. That's around the same time as me. I think I told the story on the first episode of this podcast, but, but I heard, um.Track 2:[10:11] Uh, New Orleans and I, and I enjoyed it. And then it was actually 38 years old that I heard on the radio at Matt's house. And I can picture it like on the radio. And I actually told the guys this, that I thought it was Tracy Chapman. Cause I, she was, she was at the time and I just, and then they said it was the hip and I'm like, wow, that's, that's two songs I like. And so I, I, you know, got the album and just, yeah, I fell in love right away and I didn't get to see them until 93 so roadside attraction and um out here at seabird island it was was my first show yeah so were you out in how long were you in winnipeg for then so i moved to calgary in 92 because i started working at a record store i was around 1990 91 the same time i was working with that catering company uh in winnipeg there was a chain called the record baron and um i guess their equivalent would be a and B sound only in terms of the way they had their pricing, you know, how Andy would get their aggressive pricing and bringing people into, you know, buy the hardware.Track 2:[11:14] Um, but the record Baron just had these great prices on, you know, all their, their stock. So, um, I was a customer first and I was super loyal to that company. And um for whatever reason likely because the prices fit my uh pocketbook at the time and um so i started working with them and then uh they opened up a shop in calgary and um at that time there were seven major labels so in calgary the cool thing was all of the labels are coming through because we're a new store and you know they're bringing us posters they're bringing us play copies to play in store you know um i remember when the mca rep at the time claudia neff, brought in uh the advance for fully completely and then a bunch of artwork that we put up on the walls and uh um you know fully completely is probably my favorite hip album right but um.Track 2:[12:11] So fast forward to 93 where I started working with BMG because the labels are coming in and visiting us and I'm getting to know the reps and the branch managers and all that sort of thing. I started with BMG as a customer service rep which is an entry-level position, and then I was transferred to Vancouver in 95 in a sales capacity and at that time I had I had the Future Shop account, all the HMVs, Virgin Megastore. I had everything but A&B Sound, Stan the Record Man. So that was my way to get to Vancouver. I was essentially transferred here. I loved the city so much, I wasn't going to say no.Track 2:[12:59] It breaks my heart a bit to hear all those record stores you mentioned. Oh, yeah, totally. Not a lot around anymore. more although uh sunrise is starting to pop up quite a bit around here yeah yeah sunrise bought all of the hmv look not all the hmv locations but quite a few of those hmv locations so you know the only thing they don't have a downtown presence which is fine you know you've still got some great independent shops there are yeah yeah a few years later i believe you had the chance to meet gourd again um when he was uh doing some solo uh solo work and and that's you know what this podcast is really about. So I'm not sure if you even know the premise is that this is a show about some diehard hip fans, myself included, who have never really given Gord's solo work much of a chance. And so we are, as of this recording, we are about halfway through and, and all of us have just fallen in love with, with this music. I'd heard certain songs before I knew Secret Pathwell and I knew, you know, a single here and there, but I cannot believe how, how strong this work is. So So what was your experience with Gord as a solo artist?Track 2:[14:08] It was phenomenal. He, um, so I got to work with Gord on the Grand Bounce tour. Um, and, um, which is my favorite solo album of his only because I, I guess being able to work with him, but, uh, I just love a lot of the music on there as well. It is a great album. Yeah. The East wind is probably one of my favorite songs of his, but, um, so he came through for that tour i knew that i was going to be working with him he he um was such a huge part of my dna my music dna as a kid that you know i've got him on this massive pedestal yeah so i barely slept the night before um i go and pick both him and his manager up at uh at their hotel his manager at the time was Bernie Breen, who they were also working with the Sam Roberts band at the time. Bernie is a great, great guy. One of these managers that really gets it. So anyway, you know, I pick up Gordon and our first stop is that, sorry, Gordon and Bernie, and I picked them up and we, our first stop is at Seafox.Track 2:[15:17] And at their, where their building is, there's a great sort of private elevator. It's essentially the service elevator. So we get in there and We ended up stopping at one of the floors and this mother, new mother comes in the elevator with her newborn and the baby is crying and you can tell she's a little bit, you know, it's just rattling her for sure. Right. Gord kind of motions to her and asks, you know, can I pick up your baby? Which he does. And the baby immediately stops crying. and he's got this sort of rocking you know it's just gourd being a human in fact it really humanized him baby stops crying it's our turn to get off the elevator he hands the baby back to the mom i don't even know if she knew who actually held her baby but uh you know that was one of those really endearing things with gourd and you know me being so nervous and that actually helped cut a little bit of the tension for me not that there was tension it was just my nerves yeah um you know it's just you know not many people made me that nervous but he was definitely one of them only because they had him on the pedestal but he could not have been a nicer man he was just super casual we did talk a little bit of hockey i tried to find some sort of a.Track 2:[16:40] Um a commonality something that is not going to be just music music music to him you know we talk talk about the bruins um you know we can always talk about the weather but people do that all day long so um you know his favorite uh venues and all that sort of thing so it was just a great.Track 2:[17:00] Experience for me and then at the end of the day we finish up and i'm taking him and his manager um back to the venue they're playing the vogue so gordon's got to go and do sounds check and I finally get up the nerve to ask for a photo and he says yeah no problem and I passed my.Track 2:[17:18] I don't know if it was my stupid little iPhone at the time or if it was a it might have even been a digital camera somebody Bernie's got the camera and all of a sudden I feel this knuckle drag up the back of my spine and and I smile and it's it's kind of like makes makes somebody laugh. So apparently that's something that he did just to get a smile and a reaction out of somebody. Because I was asked by Neil Morrison, who had done the interview with Gord at CFOX, did he run his knuckle up the back of your spine?Track 2:[17:53] And, you know, he did the exact same thing to Neil. So, you know, it's just one of those really.Track 2:[17:59] Somewhat intimate in in a certain regard because yeah yeah here's somebody literally dragging their knuckle off your spine you know and it's no no one has ever done that other than my wife when i when i get my my back scratched you know that sort of thing so it seems like a very gourd gourd thing to do exactly so that um you mentioned you were at seafox that day so that must be the neil morrison interview i actually remember about a month or so ago that the gourd downey social media people put a clip of that up online so yeah so you were there for that yeah that's exactly what that would have been yeah yeah and being able to facilitate that that sort of thing and you know even see the behind the scenes thing it was a that's one of my favorite takeaways from you know having been a promotions rep for quite a while you mentioned your favorite hip album is fully completely yeah and your favorite gourd solo album is the grand bounce easily yeah so how about a couple of top tracks from the hip and from gourd solo yeah you know what that's it's so tough with the hip because they've got so much but locked in the truck of a car has always been one of my favorites because live it's such a special you know moment in the show or when they played it live. And the really cool thing about that song is if you know the live version of Highway Girl, so, you know, as well.Track 2:[19:28] So a lot of the bits and pieces from that song end up in lock.Track 2:[19:33] And that was very common for them where they would have that middle sort of stanza in certain songs where you'd be spewing lines and they would show up. You know, I remember that happening during, I can't remember what the live song would have been, but, uh nautical disaster which you know again is another one of my favorite hip songs um and then nautical disaster became one of those things where they would get into a little bit of a jam and i think during um the saturday night live performance when they did that song they, i believe if it's not on saturday night live it's on the on the um that first live record but they start doing some skydiggers you know things you know escape at hand for the traveling man is one of my favorite tunes by them because it's just a really cool story in that song.Track 2:[20:22] Yeah. That's one of the songs I actually remember him wood chopping. I believe in the middle of nautical and I think it was one of the roadside attraction tours and there's that idle conversations bit at the end and then the next album comes out and there it is. Exactly. And that also happened for Scared, where at the end it's not scared it's something off of day for night where you do the rolling, yeah thugs thugs that's right so they you know the one line where you do the rolling i do the detail or i think i've just messed that up so it might be so anyway um i would always look and listen for those during live sets and then i couldn't wait to hear what would happen for the the next record and how he would implement that stuff. So that was kind of like that thing you would chase for the next record once you experienced something and you knew it so well in the live setting. I would imagine they've got that song, Depression Suite, which is another amazing tune, which is their longest tune.Track 2:[21:33] I would like to think that some of those bits and pieces have come from jams as well. My favorite hip tracks are always changing daily, but nautical is always up there for me. And also the Depression Suite, which you mentioned. And I actually remember the first time I heard that was, if you remember the album release for that, they, George Strombolopoulos actually hosted a show, you know, that they put in theaters across the country. Yeah. And I remember walking in a couple minutes late and I think my son had just been born that year and it was, you know, I didn't get out that often and get to the theater and sit down and they just finished the first little bit. And, you know, of course that song is like basically three songs in one. Yeah. And I remember hearing that song and just being blown away and, and really actually got back into the hip big time because of that, because of that show. Do you remember seeing that? I did. In fact, I was, I helped, you know, with what I used to do with Universal.Track 2:[22:43] That was one of the things that we would do. we'd set up that kind of contesting and um and you know the additional exposure and that i think that, uh launch was really cool because you also got to see the bathhouse studios and their pool room upstairs and yeah they they played bob cajun while shooting a game of pool yeah exactly yeah yeah and they i remember they set up a drum kit in the kitchen for thompson girl and they're like yeah yeah, this is exactly where the drum kit was when we recorded this song. Yeah, and all that kind of stuff. I could watch that all day long. It's hard to find, too. You can find little snippets here and there online, but I would love to see a re-release of that one day.Track 2:[23:25] Like I said earlier, it really... Got me right back into the hip you know I was at a bit of a low point before that and just brought me back big time yeah and I think it kind of rejuvenated my love as well because now for plan a it's not something that I put on a lot there's a some great songs on that record but it's just not something that I that I listen to that often so um you know and I I ended up loving um um, their last record, um, only because of, you know, they got back into some tempo and some great rock stuff on there. And, uh, you know, the interesting thing about that album is that it was going to be originally called, um, I think it was going to be called Ziggy, uh, Dougie Stardust. And if you remember the little baby, uh, with, with that wig, it's a Bowie wig. So, um, yeah, I believe it was going to be called Dougie Stardust before they ended up, renaming it but anyway that's a tangent that I don't think I meant to go on but you know that happens with bands that you're you can be a huge fan of is that you know if you look at a band like Pearl Jam sometimes you have some.Track 2:[24:39] Ebb and flow in terms of the music that you'll gravitate more towards as opposed to some of the releases you know you can't love it all it's just kind of hard so you can say that about so many legacy acts that are out there now um and then on gore's last solo record that was released with bob rock there's some amazing music on there i think in the field is probably one of my favorite tunes off of that record and i like that one that album in particular because it was a sort of a return to the tempo as well there's some great mellow stuff on the solo records but this one felt like it really seems a bit more concise in fact compared to some of the other things that he had been doing in the solo side, Okay, well, thanks for taking the time to talk with me today. Yeah, thanks for having me a part of this. I'm really quite honored to be a part of this. So it's very cool you to reach out to me, Craig, and I hope everything goes really well with this. Yeah, thanks. And maybe I'll give a quick shout out too, since Matt was the one who brought us together. So I should mention Matt, our friend Matthew Pinch is a newly published author.Track 2:[25:49] If you're into, I'm really sorry, Matt, if you're hearing this, I have not listened to your book yet or read your book yet, but I promise I'm going to this summer. I believe it's called Taste by Matthew Pinch. You can find it on Amazon.Track 2:[26:01] It's a horror slash thriller. Have you read it? I have started it and I read it with Matt's voice in the background, basically. So it's, you know, I think that's kind of natural for that to happen. But I'm excited that Matt had finally got that book out there. And I jumped online and got it on Amazon right away and it showed up, I think, the next day. So, yeah, it's great to see that Matt's following that passion of his as well. Yeah, he tells me there's a sequel this summer, so it'll be perfect timing. I can do both at once. yeah but anyways um yeah so thanks for coming on and uh take care thanks craig you too let me know that if there's anything else you need okay sounds good take care talk to you soon.

Matt and Luke jump aboard the TV Time Machine to travel to February 1999. Luke has moved to California and has joined his school newspaper, spotting celebs at the Virgin Megastore. Matt is rehearsing for the school show. Meanwhile, on television, Russell T Davies breaks new ground with Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk. Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash resurrect Mrs Merton for her own sitcom. Then, ITV adapt hit US comedy, That 70's Show, which was adapted by two then unknown writers named Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong for Days like These. Finally, Matt tests Luke on what was big in the UK charts in February.

I'm not going to bury the lede—2023 was not a great year for me, especially financially. In fact, I think it was one of the worst years I've had since I became a solo creative, and for the most part, it was nobody's fault but mine. One of my favorite movies is High Fidelity (get the book here) and in it, there's a scene where Rob (played by John Cusack) is going through a particularly frustrating time and says, “I'm sick of the sight of this place. Some days I'm afraid I'll go berserk, throw the "Country A through K" rack out on the street and go work at a Virgin Megastore and never come back.” I can definitely relate to that and it's kind of where I was at the end of 2022. But I thought I would give it one more year to see whether I could come up with some new ideas and new work and maybe figure out a way to navigate the changing landscape of trying to eke out at least a partial living by being creative. And I know that phrase “being creative” is pretty loaded and it means different things to different people. For me, by and large it means painting, writing, and podcasting, or some combination of the three. Photography is in there somewhere too, but I'm still not really sure where.If you enjoyed this Iteration, I would love it if you would share it with a friend or two. And if it resonated with you on some level, I'd love to know why. Email me at talkback@jefferysaddoris.com.CONNECT WITH MEWebsite: https://jefferysaddoris.com  Instagram: @jefferysaddorisEmail: talkback@jefferysaddoris.comSUBSCRIBESubscribe to Almost Everything with Jeffery Saddoris in your favorite podcast app. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on Substack.MUSICMusic For Workplaces by Jeffery Saddoris

Voici l'histoire de Richard Branson, un entrepreneur britannique, qui va défrayer la chronique par ses prises de risques et ses idées. Dans ce 1er épisode, Richard lance Virgin, un label de musique. Malgré ses problèmes d'apprentissage et des moments difficiles, il se forge un caractère indépendant et gagne en persévérance. À 16 ans, il quitte l'école et, malgré les prédictions cyniques de son proviseur, il entreprend des projets audacieux. Il lance le magazine "Student" pendant les manifestations contre la guerre au Vietnam. Le magazine prospère temporairement, mais les sponsors se retirent à cause de son contenu contestataire. Richard rebondit en créant Virgin Musique dans une crypte d'église, vendant des disques par correspondance. Après des débuts difficiles, Virgin Musique prospère, mais une nuit en prison et des dettes menacent l'entreprise. Richard, persévérant, persuade la banque d'accepter une maison de disques comme remboursement. Ainsi démarre Virgin Records, qui connaît un succès rapide grâce à des artistes tels que Mike Oldfield et les Sex Pistols. Virgin Records permet à Richard de rembourser ses dettes rapidement, devenant millionnaire à 23 ans. Il diversifie ensuite ses activités avec Virgin Megastore et Virgin Atlantic. Le texte se termine sur un épisode où Richard survit à un accident de montgolfière, mettant en avant son flair pour attirer l'attention sur ses entreprises.

This week on Just Jack & Will, Sean & Eric are all-singin', all-dancin' when Debbie Reynolds returns as Bobbi Adler. They talk about daylight savings, The Music Person, the Virgin Megastore, Death Of A Salesperson, Nash Bridges, and taking suggestions from the floor. Then, Will & Grace art department staple, and lead set decorator for the reboot, Peter Gurski joins them to talk about the work that went into creating new sets every week, and to show off his collection of Will & Grace access passes. Relax, stop doing it. Relax, stop doing it.Have a question about Will & Grace, especially Season 2? We want to hear them! Email us at JustJackAndWill@gmail.com, call or text to 818-308-4012, maybe the guys will answer your question on the show!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

“College Boy” Greg Harrington started working at Tower Records Burlington MA and did so well on his first day of register, they threw him back in receiving to do pricing. Not the usual path to working in the receiving department, but our guest this week didn't have a conventional career at Tower Records.Burlington MA, the big store on Boston's Newbury Street and the Cambridge store were all part of Greg Harrington's Tower journey. But in between all of that were stints at The Boston Phoenix, the Virgin Megastore and when Tower shut down, a considerable stint at FYE.Through it all Greg Harrington handled his Tower gigs with a positive outlook, a keen sense of humor and a pair of Oakley sunglasses wrapped around his head.On this week's episode of “2500 DelMonte Street” Greg Harrington, a Star Wars nerd, recalls ringing up Natalie Portman in Cambridge, an incident of a never solved, inside job robbery at the Newbury St. store, visits from New York Yankee coach Willie Randolph, regular visits to all three locations from Boston legend Peter Wolf, once with Van Morrison in tow and a whole lot more.Join us for a hilarious conversation with Greg Harrington on this week's episode of “2500 DelMonte Street: the Oral History of Tower Records”. 

Greetings, bonjour, what's happeningWelcome to Lager Time. For the second week running, I'm putting this out on a Saturday, which is today, for me. There was some real Lager Time last night, been a while. Enjoyed seeing the boys. Been a busy week this week, been all over London doing workshops, not had a great deal of time to put this together. Can't complain though, it's been good, mate. I've been trying to write this second part to the 405 story, in between jobs and on trains. So it's probably a bit scrappy, but a lot of the stuff I'm putting up on here, are in differing states of development. That's the idea I guess. It's odd though, I suddenly feel a bit of an obligation to put it up. Though I think that's merely down to my own idiosyncrasies, wanting to keep this up, than any particular demand, because as far as I know, it doesn't exist.I'm enjoying doing these stories though and I think I'm going to run with them for a bit. I've got a list of ideas, I want to write about, I'm also enjoying introducing little bits of sound design. I mean, it entails me going on to Freedsound and downloading bots and bobs, nothing out of this world but it's a direction I've wanted to go down for some time.Large up everyone who read, listened, and downloaded the first part of the 405 story last week. I was listening back, and realised the bit where I stopped the story, was where the Mo character encounters some casual racism form the driver; which unfortunately, was not that uncommon back them. Only reason that I stopped it there, is because that's where I stopped writing it, as that's where I ran out of time. That was it. Listening back, it reminded me a bit of those American Sitcoms that I used to like watching as a kid, like the Fresh Prince, where every now and again they, do a serious episode, rolling the credits at the end with no music; really driving home the poignant on-the-nose moment and the moral message. That's the last thing I'd ever intend to do with any of this stuff. That kind of moralising is not my cup of tea, at all, and if I'm being an honest, it puts me off from going to a lot of spoken word events. Back when I was more active, there was loads of it. However, the thing with the driver, did happen, and happened all too often. Along with the likes of me, who sat there silent and did nothing, though I did once almost get my head kicked in, in London bridge MacDonalds, tying to stuck up for someone, for similar reasons but that's for another time. I think that says enough. Roll credits, no music. Boom.It's coming up to almost a year, since I started Lager Time. I think I'm only just starting to find my feet with it. I must say, I do enjoy it and I enjoy the freedom of it. There seems to be a small number of you who are engaging with it, and its slowly growing, so thankyou. It means a lot. Either this week, or next, I'm going to do another Not Quite Live edition again, I enjoyed that one last time, even if no one else did. Not quite sure where this is all going, had a thought at some point in the future, I could put on a night, I dunno. I'm a performer, I like performing but at the moment, there aint a lot of that and I'm enjoying doing my own thing, so the Lager march continues.Enjoy part 2 of the story, hopefully I'll have something new for next week. Blimey, pressures on.Having a banging rest of the weekendPaulThanks for reading Lager Time (audio)! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.The 405 part 2BOSH. After the long, arduous and perilous journey across the Towns and villages of Surrey, we finally arrived into Kingston, and just like that we all became energised again and the al the banter and bravado we left Crawley with was back. BOOM.It's like we were re-connected, spirally realigned to our purpose again (even though I doubt any of us quite knew what that was.) New life was breathed into the firm, like those occasions when I bothered to reconnect the long-since-fallen, algae-ridden filter system in the fish tank, at home. Everything was fresh and gold like my fish. We were in a whole new town, with new opportunities but more importantly, about to enter the utopian-dystopian world of Lazer Quest.Of course this meant we had to be on our guard a bit. Instinctively, shoulders arched back and as we bowled though the bus station into the town-centre, I made sure I dropped a couple of swear words, extra loud, like WANKER, letting the locals know,  we had a bit about us.Kingston was an upgrade on Crawley and definitely Horley. It was similar but everything just seemed, a lot more, like, nicer. The neat paving bricks in the pedestrianised high-street, the river, the olde-worlde buildings, even the windows looked cleaner, the girls prettier, the geezers somehow more flash, suddenly I felt like we were tatty in comparison.Despite the Royal status, there was only one jewel in Kingston's crown. Croydon had the Water Palace, Guildford had the Ice rink and Kingston the Lazer Quest; despite all the flashness of some of the locals, Crawley was not yet swinging in the big boys league, with these lot; though there were rumours at the time, that a Virgin Megastore was opening in the Country Mall.We never arranged to meet the splinter-group, we just assumed they'd be at the Lazer quest when we got there and vice versa. We had a to ask a couple of people to find it. This was a moment when larey pricks like Granger actually came of use, he didn't care who he talked too. Everything was amusing to him.We'd all seen that episode of Byker Grove, where they went to ‘Quasar Laser' and it looked sick! All dark with neon lights, metal grids, bunkers, netting and dry-ice; I hadn't been this excited since Steet Fighter The Movie..We finally reached our destination, this sort of non-descript sixties grey building, with a corrugated roof, looking like a glorified second hand tyre shop. But the all important Lazer Quest sign, on the outside of the building, was using a sick, lightning-like font, in electric-red and I was reassured about techno-futuristic-utopia-dystopia I was about to enter.The splinter group were sat in reception, all stood up, except for Veejay who was sat down looking miserable. They stunk of fags. Smoking?! Rich explained they'd had to jump a wall at Kingston station to avoid the ticket office and Veejay had done something to his ankle in the process. I knew Veejay should've been with us. A mid forties women with curly, dyed red hair and glasses, wearing a black polo top showing some faded tattoos on her arm, was behind the counter with a monitor above her head, showing some scores, in mad futuristic writing, like the bowling alley, but, like, way sicker. Some cheesy Euro trance was playing in the background, it wasn't Speed Garage but this place was already pissing on the AMF.‘Where the fuck have you boys been, we've been here proper time'‘Bus was fucking long'‘fuckng hell man'‘mind your language boys, not in ere thankyou'The red head had spoken, with authority. She looked like she'd beaten up a few men in her time. Kells, with his back to her, and facing us, protested in a way that only he could‘shutup you fucking bitch'‘What did you just say?'Kells was grinning at us and then immediately turned his face to a scowl, tuted and turned round‘what, I didn't say nothing, chill out innit'He turned back to us and grinned again. Kells was a liability but I was kind of glad he was here. We were far away from home, so it was good to have someone in our ranks who went afraid to mix it, even if it meant him doing stupid shit like thatRedhead took the L.‘I don't want any lip from any of your boys when you go in there, if you mess about, you're out, understand?'A few ‘yea, yea, yeas' emerged, half-heartedly from the group.‘We need to get you signed up and then have your safety briefing, you're in the next game, they'll be some others in there with you'A safety briefing?! This was just getting better and better. I thought for a sec about some of those mugs from my class, like Chris and Ramo, probably at the ABC cinema, back in Crawley. Pussies. They weren't man enough for this shit.We all bowled up to the counter, paid up and registered. Whilst I was in the que, I looked up at the screen and noticed some new names had appeared with a score of 0. These must've been the other players. There were names like ‘Dark Lord'  ‘Excalibur' and ‘Colbolt 3000' these names were sick.  I then saw ‘Tony's Mum and Fish Fingers ‘ had appeared on the  screen, and clocked Granger and Kells were at the front adding their esteemed alias's to the cannon. Red-head didn't looked impressed but I guess she had to let these through on a technicality, I heard Kell's arguing with her that ‘Mum' was his surname.We stood outside these black-double-doors, which had more of the sick, electric red font on them. I could hear cheesy Euro-Trance pumping through and the sounds of people running around. I was nervous but I could barley contain my excitement. We got kitted out in these mad-looking Ghostbuster type, packs that slotted over our heads, with a holster for this massive lazer-gun thing. Red head came over to administer her best war address.‘If you get shot, your pack will freeze and you'll have to wait till it unfreezes. Aim of the game to get as many hits as you can. Three hits and you're eout the game. The other team you'll be facing, are already in there and if you mess about boys, you're out, understand, I'm not taking any crap today?!'The moment we'd all been waiting for. Redhead opened the door. No dry-ice seeped through? Where's the dry-ice? The cheesy Euro-trance was superloud and we entered into this sort of small-ish-dark-ish room with these wooden walkways, with some neon-graffiti on them which sort-of-looked cool.We entered in and immediately ran off, Kells turning round to shoot as many of us as he could. We were meant to be on the same team! The wooden walk-ways were really noisy, it was putting me off. It also weren't that dark so we could see everything. Where were the futuristic metal-grids with the futuristic dry-ice?! This just wasn't very cool.My pack suddenly vibrated and flashed red. I tuned round to see this podgy mid-thirties-looking guy, with long greasy hair guy and hiking boots, with a pack on, I assumed he worked there.‘I've been shot, mate, what do I do?'He shouted ‘Alpha-two-one, repeat alpha two-one, let's go'He then turned around and rolled off into a corner, and I heard him tramping up one of the walk-ways. The fat prick had shot me. As he tuned, I saw ‘Dark Lord' written on the back his t-shirt. That was the Dark Lord?! He looked like he worked in the Games Workshop.‘What are you doing you dickhead, you're just standing there.'Mo grabbed me and suddenly we were under one of the wooden walkways. I noticed on the floor an empty Ribena carton, a few empty crisp packets and a discarded copy of The Daily Express. I could hear Kells and Granger laughing somewhere in the room, but in truth it was hard to hear anything, as the Cheesy Euro Trance was blasting so loud and the with the stomping on the wood, I could barley hear myself think.Fuck this, I thought. I stepped into the void, looking for that fat nerd, looking for revenge. BANG. I'm vibrating again and I tuned round to see another one of these socially awkward-looking-podgy-older guys. Must've been Cobalt 3000. I hadn't even got my gun out he holster yet and I'd been shot twice. Two more if I included the bus journey.Me and Mo ran up onto another platform where we bumped into Doyle.‘These peedos keep shooting everyone, I'm almost dead. Veejay got taken out within five minutes.'‘Where is he now?'‘He's over there.'I looked over in the direction Doyle was pointing and saw Veejay sat on an Orange plastic-chair, like we have in school, reading a copy of Shoot Magazine. What?! Surely they wouldn't have crap orange plastic chairs, in the sick dystopian-utopia-future?! The drapes were rapidly coming down on my lifelong dream, well, my dream, from as far back as the morning; when I actually thought a bit about what we were doing. This place was shit.‘oi, how many lives you got left'I tuned round to see Kells and Granger, grinning.‘One'‘BANG. Not any more'I vibrated. Game over. They ran off, I'd love to say into the smoky darkness but I could see clearly where they were going, and hear them too. This place was small and shit, reminding me of Horley. I headed over to where Vejay was. He was reading an article about Andy Cole's favourite type of pizza.Even with the Cheesy-Euro-Trance at full-blast, Red-head must've got on the PA system, booming over the music to tell us the game was finishing. I wanted to get out. Predictably, Andy Cole preferred a Margarita, I had to agree with him on that one but it was no substitute for the disappointment that I felt.We ‘de-briefed' back in the foyer, looked up on the screen to see that team ‘Alpha-Flight'  has whipped team Crawley Boys, something ridiculous. A few of team Alpha-Flight were de-briefing in what they called the ‘ante-chamber' with us and I overheard them referring to each other in their codenames. Really? Grow-up boys.We managed to find a McDonald's and at least enjoyed that. Spat some paper through the starws in the shopping centre. Took in the glorious sights of Kingston and trudged bakc to the 405, with a hobbling Veejay. He was never a bad boy. The others seemed to have enjoyed themselves, and lots of the chat on the bus back was about the fun they'd had. Mo's was reputation was still in-tact.Most of them had fallen asleep when the bus rolled into Horley and I got up to get off. It was dark by this point. Dark and dul,l with the few half working street lamps pitifully attempting to illuminate Horley's crap town centre. It was fitting. I looked at Mo.‘See you later, mate'‘Yea, see you later, mate.'I left the conversation, the bus and the town centre,  awkward as ever.Thanks for reading Lager Time (audio)! 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This week Casey and Dave kick off 2022 Shitemare month with our resident Horror-hound Zombie Joe to look back on Dimension Film's golden era of horror with the less than stellar Dracula 2000.The trio have many issues with this movie-length Virgin Megastore commercial but one issue isn't Gerard Butler. Joe's talking Christopher Plummer, Casey's unimpressed with Dracula's brides outfits and Dave hates Shane West.so crank the second rate Nu-metal, head to your local virgin megastore and enjoy this early 90's sexy take with Dracula 2000 Listen to us on itunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.or direct download the mp3 from the link belowhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/186739/11418433-dracula-2000-aka-virgin-vampires-with-zombie-joe.mp3?download=trueFollow Zombie Joe at the folllowing:https://www.facebook.com/groups/adelaidehorrorpodcast/https://youtube.com/channel/UCr8fLRHcIiJIE52YHYwf84ghttps://instagram.com/adelaidehorrorpodcast

40 Years Of ‘The Dreaming' - Reminiscences. Darrell and Paul (The Bush Telegraph Podcast) have a three-part series all about ‘The Dreaming', as we celebrate its 40th anniversary. In the first episode they discuss the excitement of its release when they were young teenagers, including the first time they met Kate at the Virgin Megastore album signing. Each track is discussed, as well as quotes from Kate about the album and reviews from the press.

In 1987 L.A.'s rock scene was thriving thanks to bands like Lions & Ghosts. Now Michael Lockwood, original guitarist of Lions & Ghost, accomplished music producer, and musician, has digitally remastered and made available for streaming for the first time, Lions & Ghosts' debut album, "Velvet Kiss, Lick Of The Lime." Listen to Michael and I bond over reading liner notes, visiting Times Square's Virgin Megastore, and how CDs are slowly making a comeback. That's right kids, everything comes back around in time. You can follow Michael Lockwood on social @michaellockwoodthemusician Lions & Ghosts @lionsandghosts And website to Michael Lockwood's record label www.sparkleplentyrecords.com Follow us on all socials @sinistergirlz The podcast is available on Stitcher, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Audible, and most streaming platforms

Twenty-six years before it existed, Trash Compactor got its greatest "get." And, friends, blow it we did not. We're confident you'll agree once you finally hear, straight from the source, the answer to the burning question that's been on everyone's lips—is Mark Hamill good at the 1996 PC game Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom? But let's back up for a minute. In the mid-'90s, a 12-year-old JOSH and his similarly prepubescent pal SAM snagged a shockingly lengthy phone interview with Mr. Mark Hamill. (The rest of us at TC assume this may have been the result of a questionable deal Josh or Sam brokered with then-up-and-coming horror trickster Wishmaster. They both remain tight-lipped about it). But what came of this? We'll tell you: a cassette recording of a no-holds-barred encounter between two sixth-graders and a movie legend. And by "no holds barred," we mean a gracious Hamill gives thoughtful answers to literally every question, shakes off a few unintentional low blows only a kid could inflict, makes a timely Sinead O'Connor reference, politely ignores a lot of excited whispering between the interviewers, and clearly considers it his duty to talk to a pair of preteens for a solid 20 minutes. Breaking news: Mark Hamill is a very nice man. Join us as Josh and Sam react to this unearthed interview for the first time ever. With a little help from their friends/emotional support animals TIM and FREY, they bravely take on the grueling but highly entertaining task of listening to their 12-year-old selves shoot the shit with Luke Skywalker IRL. (Psst—just kidding about the Wishmaster thing. Didn't mean to scare you. We won't spoil the real story here in the notes, but it involves Z-100, Virgin Megastore, and collect calls. The 90s, baby! Check out some photos from the event that set it all in motion). NEXT WEEK: Revisionist History with the Special Editions! RATE US podchaser.com/trashcompod FOLLOW US instragram.com/trashcompod twitter.com/trashcompod1 EMAIL US trashcompod@gmail.com TRANSCRIPTS AT trashcompod.com Support TRASH COMPACTOR: A (Mostly) Star Wars Podcast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/trashcompod

Good morning, Baltimore babies. We are delighted to be joined by actress, singer, and Tony-winner Marissa Jaret Winokur on this week's show. You Might Know Her From American Beauty, What We Do in the Shadows, Celebrity Big Brother, Fever Pitch, Stacked, Dancing with the Stars, Retired at 35, and Hairspray on Broadway. We had a total romp with Marissa Jaret Win-oh-kurr chatting about her historic win on the inaugural season of American Celebrity Big Brother, her career-defining performance as Tracy Turbnlad, cutting her teeth as Jan in Grease in the ‘90s revival and befriending now-best friends Adrian Zmed and Lucy Lawless, and her decision to expand her career as a host and personality. We also got into her iconic scene in American Beauty (“You are so busted”), getting to don animal prints and a New York accent as Charmaine in What We Do in the Shadows, and why we believe she should play Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. This one was just, timeless to us!  Follow us on social media @damianbellino || @rodemanne  Discussed this week Disappearing NYC: Chat N Chew, The Coffee Shop, Around the Clock Diner, Virgin Megastore, Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble, Colony Records “The Sunscreen Song” Baz Luhrman Michelle Yeoh's Everything Everywhere All at Once Therabox  Boudreaux's Butt Paste Won first ever American season of Celebrity Big Brother Won a Tony for Best Supporting Actress for her performances as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray  Did Hairspray at the Hollywood Bowl with Nick Jonas  Maddie was the Tracy from Hairspray Live!  (Ricki & Marissa were Mr Pinky's Girls) Made semi-finals for Dancing with the Stars, hosted Dance Your Ass Off (created by former guest Lisa Ann Walter) Should def step in to play Fanny Brice in Funny Girl on Broadway Played Jan in 90s Broadway revival of Grease “Come Look at the Freaks” from Side Show @ Easter Bonnet Adrian Zmed in Blood Brothers on Broadway Stacked, 2005 FOX sitcom co-starring Pam Anderson, current star of Chicago Plays a version of herself  in Feel the Beat where she references Rupaul because she was a guest judge in Season 2 for the Jujubee / Tatiana  Appeared in sitcoms: Moesha, Hot In Cleveland, Mellssa and Joey,  Fight with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm  Plays Charmaine, neighbor to the vampires in What We Do in the Shadows  Was a correspondent on the first season of The Talk (buddies with Julie Chen Moonves) Iconic drive-thru scene with Kevin Spacey in American Beauty Played ice skater in comedy On Edge  Had small roles in Never Been Kissed, Fever Pitch, Scary Movie, Teaching Mrs.Tingle Elijah auditioned for the fictional White Men Can't Jump musical in Girls and Marissa was the casting director Andrew Rannells was a Link Larkin understudy God we love Marc Shaiman (Sister Act, Beaches, Hairspray, Sweeney Sisters, Addams Family, South Park) Abigail Breslin vs Ariana Grande We can't forgive Abigail for ABC'sDirty Dancing the Musical Debra Messing in Birthday Candles The Commons of Pensacola starring Blythe Danner & SJP (written by Amanda Peet) The Brothers McMullen / The Sisters Rosensweig Outside Mullingar a play starring Messing written by John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) BD Wong posted this picture last week Bill Macy & Felicity “Flicka” Huffman friends with David Mamet (Atlantic Theatre) Patti LuPone wrote this about her friend David Mamet in her memoir Ann Miller talking about Judy and Mickey

Dracula 2000 (2000) Presented by Virgin Megastore features a solid cast from this era including Gerard Butler as Dracula. But wow, does this era of movies (especially horror ones from Dimension) not hold up. A Real Stinker 2000. This episode was previously premium Patreon content which originally posted on October 5th, 2020. The post BMFcast Extra 196 – Dracula 2000 first appeared on Bad Movie Fiends Podcast - The BMFcast.

Listen as show hosts Russ Macumber & Gabriel Grossman talk with Mateen Agha from Virgin Megastore about his SEO journey.

Dave Cronen's career reads like a Pyramid stage Sunday line up. Involved in the management and direction of Beastie Boys, PIAS, iMusic before setting up Trust Management (Johnny Marr, Ash, We Are Scientists, Blanck Mass, Howler, Splashh). Dave talks to us about how it all started in a Virgin Megastore, escaping small town life for the bright lights and brighter prospects and living alcohol free! Simon also sheds some light in his first ever job in retail and how he made the competition very well off! This one isn't to be missed! Enjoy the show! Mindset Musings Message Thank you so much for supporting Series 2 of our Podcast. In such a crowded space, we really are trying to bring you something different. Make sure you have subscribed to Mindset Musings on iTunes, Spotify, or any platform where you listen to your Podcasts. If you have found value in our show, or we have made you think about something differently, then please tell a friend, and more importantly, leave a review or 5-star rating. Socials Our preferred platform is Instagram, please feel free to Follow and DM us, we will respond to everyone! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindset.musings/ Our personal Instagram handles are below, we often invite listeners to follow and DM us personally too, please do so. Ben Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirbenmills Simon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/si.gardiner.mm/ You can find us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/mindset.musings As well as all of the usual mainstream Podcast platforms, you can listen to our Podcast on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnX_20kHuJdUvwz6sUAmv5A

Bienvenue sur le premier épisode de Story Mode. Une nouvelle série qui vous raconte des histoires & faits divers marquants autour du jeu vidéo. Car derrière ce monde virtuel se cache des personnes et des histoires bien réelles. Aujourd'hui nous allons repartir dans le passé, il y a 21 ans pour revivre une soirée folle qui aurait pu très mal finir. Nous sommes le 23 novembre 2000, au coeur du Virgin Megastore des Champs-Élysées, quelques minutes avant le grand lancement d'une des consoles les plus attendues de l'année voire de la décénnie, la Playstation 2.  Tous les ingrédients étaient là pour que cette drôle de soirée se transforme en véritable drame... Bonne écoute !  Crédits :  - Hip Hop Beat Piano Instrumental  Memories by OZsound  - Pub Lancement PS2  - Extrait du reportage vidéo de PlayZone 

Cet épisode est à marquer d'une pierre blanche : Arnaud et Anthony ne sont pas d'accord. Anthony pense que l'outil n'a pas de volonté propre. Arnaud pense qu'il a parfois des intentions… maléfiques. Mais comme toujours, leur désaccord ne dure pas très longtemps.RéférencesLes ordinateurs sont le reflet des hommes qui les ont développés. Et les hommes qui les ont développés vivent entièrement dans cette partie de leur corps (il montre sa tête). Donc l'acte physique d'utiliser cet objet (il montre la souris) me dégoûte. Ça me rend malade de l'utiliser, je pense que c'est une horrible machine. Quand je dis que les ordinateurs ne sont pas assez africains, je veux dire qu'ils n'impliquent aucune partie de notre corps dans un rythme physique, de façon excitante… Vous savez, nous avons ce truc ici qui s'appelle notre corps, qui a mis trois millions d'années pour arriver où il en est aujourd'hui et qui fonctionne vraiment bien. Et maintenant voilà qu'on arrive à cette machine qui n'a que 25 ans derrière elle et qu'on abandonne complètement cet outil-là (en montrant son corps). C'est complètement idiot. Je travaille tout le temps avec des ordinateurs et ça m'insupporte. Je me sens mourir quand je les utilise. Vous savez la raison pour laquelle les gens qui travaillent en permanence sur des ordinateurs pratiquent toujours des sports extrêmes ou bien sont sado-masochistes ? C'est parce qu'ils n'utilisent pas leur corps au quotidien. (rires dans l'assistance) Vous ne saviez pas ça ?— Brian Eno, lors d'une interview au Virgin Megastore des Champs-Élysées le 5 novembre 1998 (merci Théo C.).Stratégies obliques (Wikipédia)« Des audinateurs » (Zinzolin)« About this website » (Low Tech Magazine)G. K. Chesterton (Wikipédia)Designed by Apple in CaliforniaSuivre le podcaaastApple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubePocket CastsOvercastCastroPodcast Addict Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In conversation with singer/songwriter Danny Aridi. Danny is a Canadian/Lebanese multi-award winning singer and songwriter, signed to Universal Music. He has been performing for more than 10 years and recently won the "Best local Band Award 2019" by WhatsOn magazine, as well as the “Best Artist” Award with Virgin Megastore. He also and won the Emerging Talent Competition in the UAE which saw more than 250+ singers compete from around the region. He has already opened concerts for internationally known artists such as Calvin Harris, P!NK, Fifth Harmony, Katy Perry, The Backstreet Boys, Guns n Roses, and Post Malone. With a soulful and raspy voice, he adds a unique touch to a variety of genres with his singing. From classics to pop songs and radio hits, he has a wide range of cover songs and originals that are sure to create a unique ambiance and entertain guests at any venue. He is professional, easy to work with, and able to adjust to the needs or theme of the venue when necessary. His latest single, When We're Together: https://youtu.be/FH9HaK-ejlA #DannyAridi Follow and support Danny: Website - https://www.dannyaridi.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/DannyAridi/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dannyaridi/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DannyAridiii/ VIDEO AVAILABLE @ https://youtu.be/5rgfn2cS71E --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/963podcast/message

Instagram’s own The Man in the Chair is here all the way from London to talk about the Papermill production of possibly the greatest Broadway musical ever written. Topics include: Cameron Mackintosh, Virgin Megastore, subjective flashbacks, the trouble with the “Follies” portion, and moving house with so many CDs. The Man in the Chair on Instagram Featured recordings: Follies - The Complete Recording (1998) • Follies - Original London Cast (1987) DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! Our latest Sondheim-excursion has Logan Culwell-Block (Little Shop of Horrors) and Sophie Schulman (Funny Girl) digging into Sondheim’s fabled TV-mini-musical Evening Primrose (1966). Patreon • Twitter • Facebook • Email

Nu-Movie Month continues this week with the soundtrack to the film Dracula 2000, a movie set almost entirely in a Virgin Megastore. Take a listen as Jenny, Lorin, and Matt discuss how often Dracula has sex in this film(often), the rules of killing a vampire, and whether Jenny remembers Slayer. Can a song sound like beer?Also in the episode:-CMFT reactions-The 20th Anniversary of Hybrid Theory-The Big Five?Rate and review Roach Koach on iTunes! We'd appreciate it! Questions about the show? Have album recommendations? Just want to say hi? We'd love to hear from you! Contact the show @RoachKoach on Twitter, Roach Koach on Facebook , Roach Koach on Instagram, or send an email to RoachKoachPodcast at Gmail.

Show Notes In this episode I sat down with one of MENA's best known singer songwriters, Danny Aridi. Danny Aridi is a Canadian/Lebanese multi-award winning singer, songwriter based in Dubai and signed to Universal Music. He has been performing internationally for more than 10 years. He recently won the “Best Local Band Award” with What's On magazine. He also competed in The Emerging Talent and The Virgin Megastore talent competition where he competed with a combined total of more than 500 artists to earn the title of Best Artist. His singing, songwriting, personality, and professionalism has helped him become the artist he is today. He has already opened concerts and performed for internationally known artists shown below. In this episode we talk about where Danny gets inspiration from, his songwriting process, the power of social media and the importance of music videos to his brand. Social Media Instagram @dannyaridi More about Ma'ana Learning Lab Musiqaa More about Ma'ana Website Click Here Please contact tobie@maanamusic.com if you need any help with your music career

By popular demand, Lindsay and Kaveh take a (virtual) trip to a pineapple under the sea, where they give bottom-feeding theater critics a bad review and reminisce about the good ol' Virgin Megastore days.

Stablecoins are some of the most misunderstood financial instruments. Today we are going to discuss Tether, Anchor and other Stablecoins and their importance.   IN 100 words or less, if you could invest a fictional $100,000 in one or two cryptos, what would they be and why? 50% Bitcoin and 50% Anchor  Reach Olya at  @olya_newyork BIO Based in New York City, Olya Moskalenko brings over a decade of experience in communications and business development spanning the globe working with multinational corporations, iconic brands, and innovative startups. As Chief Communications Officer of Anchor, Olya develops strategy and oversees the implementation of all public relations, media activities, brand messaging, strategic partnerships, events, and business development. Prior to Anchor, Olya was the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Wachsman, a top blockchain-focused PR firm, leading global business development and public relations. Before joining Wachsman, Olya worked across a diverse portfolio of industries and clients at Rubenstein PR, Edelman, Porter Novelli, as well as led the PR and Events at Virgin Megastore in Dubai, the largest entertainment brand in the Middle East region.

How do you prefer to listen to your hip hop? Would you rather listen to your music digitally via a streaming service or do you prefer vinyl or CD? This week, the fellas discuss the pros & cons of both having their music available physically and digitally on streaming services. Episode highlights include Alfred describing how much he has had to spend hunting down out of print albums on CD that aren't on Tidal & Apple Muisc, Q.G. being frustrated that only half of the tracks of one of his favorite albums are available on Apple Music, T.O. reveals which Mobb Deep lyrics he got in trouble for reciting, and the fellas reminiscing about going to Tower Records, Virgin Megastore, & J & R Music World.Follow the Rap Lab Hosts on IG:Alfred - @Soulja_SmoothQG - @rainbreaker187T.O. - @bkcitylegend89Rap Lab IG: @raplabpod

In the final months of 1998, Lou once again found himself surrounded by CDs. There was heartbreak, a bomb scare, a non-disclosure agreement, a potential ghost sighting, and a smattering of celebrity meet-cutes. Today Lou tells Chris about his 24th job, Virgin Megastore.

in this episode, Dennis connects via Skype with Dave Quantic, creator and host of the new podcast Fruitbowl, an Oral History of Queer Sex. He talks about where the idea came from, the queer humor and self-compassion he discovers in his subjects and the questions he asks in his interviews, like 'What's your best move in the bedroom?' and 'What's the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you during sex?' He also talks about living in Seattle vs. Los Angeles, the award-winning movie that led to the podcast, the interviews that move him, being called a sissy as a kid and getting called out at school for wearing the same jeans as a girl in his class. Other topics include: the swagger of Erik Estrada, going to a boarding school in Austria, why he's frustrated with Facebook, the horrible roommates who never bought toilet paper and that time he embarrassed himself in front of Tobey Maguire at the Virgin Megastore.  https://www.fruitbowlpodcast.com/

This week, we unpack what led to the death of the record store and how it can be saved, the case for data-driven A&R and general industry buzz.

Ireland in the eighties with mysterious North Koreans checking out our Border... condomania in the Virgin Megastore...and Gollywogs get the boot...

Episode 59 of the Real Reading Podcast in which Rachel Nemeth, Hugh Fort and Tom Canning discuss the much missed Virgin Megastore in a new as yet unnamed feature, the taboo subject of Reading as a city is broached and Fort Explains It All discusses the departure of Prudential from Reading's landscape, before plummeting to the depths of late 1980's television adverts. Let prattle commence! Follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. If you like our new intro music, it's Real Life by Reading's own Twin Sun. More on them here.Visit our new podcast website here at realreadingpodcast.co.ukRead more: Prudential 1989 advert - Arthur Weasley in a Pru ad For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Episode 2 of Remember The First Time. In this episode of the podcast, Charlotte, Mark and Paul get to grips with arguably the quintessential Britpop album, Parklife. It's been 25 years since Blur released the album, so how does it hold up in the 21st century, compared to 1994? Also, we welcome Angie Main to the podcast to discuss managing Virgin Megastore and Ourprice stores during the 90's, plus after the a̶m̶a̶z̶i̶n̶g̶ shocking results of the previous episode's quiz, Paul takes the quizmaster reigns in this episode's Blur based quiz business! We know the audio isn't perfect, but it is better than episode 1! ***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to this show. It would mean so much to us and will make it easier for others to find and enjoy the show. Thanks!*** --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rememberthefirsttime/message

Jason's joined by Allyson June Smith this week and here's what's in Da Pod (we've gone street, FYI): - Terrible Starts - Man Toilets - Officially The Best Sausage Roll - Roundabout Birthdays - Richard and Judy's (Free Holiday) Book Club - Banksy Shreds - Casino Creche - Driving Test High-Five - Bon Jovi Working in a Virgin Megastore

Jen is also the founder of Lift Strategies, a company that helps business owners put effective systems in place so that their business has the best tools to succeed. Her proven 5-Step Strategic Marketing Process, the LIFFT® Process, has helped thousands of businesses in boosting their bottom line.Jen delivers these tools via her Lift Strategies book, consulting, in-person training programs, virtual-training programs, and interactive keynotes at conferences and conventions.With over 25 years of strategic marketing and business experience working for and with businesses, she has taken this knowledge and developed a number of interactive and engaging keynotes.Prior to business ownership, Jen DeTracey was the VP of Marketing working with Sarah McLachlan’s record label Nettwerk Records for five years, then joined the Virgin Entertainment Group and launched Canada’s first Virgin Megastore in Vancouver. With Jen at the helm of marketing for three years, Vancouver’s Virgin Megastore was a profitable and sustainable retail operation during this time.Jen believes business owners struggle with fears which can negatively impact their bottom line. These fears often prevent business owners from being able to step outside of their comfort zone and into the growth zone. Jen’s action-oriented and supportive approach is a winning combination for those business owners who want to be more profitable while effectively retaining and growing their customer/client base

Let's get this out of the way - thanks to the ridiculous nature of regional rights and legal mumbo-jumbo surrounding album releases, we are occasionally stuck reviewing the edited and inferior US release of an album rather than the original UK or Australian version that the artist intended. That's what happened when one of our Patreon patrons selected the sophomore album Six by Mansun for us to check out. The original 1998 UK release features extra songs, a different track list and mixes, and is overall considered to the superior to the chopped-down and rearranged US version released in 1999. Back in the day, we would have made a visit to the local Virgin Megastore and dropped twenty to thirty bucks on an important version, but that option is long gone, so we're playing the hand as dealt. While the band made no secret on their debut Attack of the Grey Lantern that straight-up Brit-pop was of no interest, the band managed to craft radio-friendly pop melodies with twisted instrumentation and odd embellishments. Six takes it one step further, honing the pop songs while doubling-down on the twisted and odd, taking long divergences into instrumental passages, drastic tempo shifts and, uh, The Nutcracker? Intro - Six 14:23 - Negative 20:23 - Legacy 26:06 - Anti-Everything 34:48 - Being A Girl Outro - Fall Out Facebook / Twitter / Instagram   Zazzle Merch Store   http://www.digmeoutpodcast.com

Let's get this out of the way - thanks to the ridiculous nature of regional rights and legal mumbo-jumbo surrounding album releases, we are occasionally stuck reviewing the edited and inferior US release of an album rather than the original UK or Australian version that the artist intended. That's what happened when one of our Patreon patrons selected the sophomore album Six by Mansun for us to check out. The original 1998 UK release features extra songs, a different track list and mixes, and is overall considered to the superior to the chopped-down and rearranged US version released in 1999. Back in the day, we would have made a visit to the local Virgin Megastore and dropped twenty to thirty bucks on an important version, but that option is long gone, so we're playing the hand as dealt. While the band made no secret on their debut Attack of the Grey Lantern that straight-up Brit-pop was of no interest, the band managed to craft radio-friendly pop melodies with twisted instrumentation and odd embellishments. Six takes it one step further, honing the pop songs while doubling-down on the twisted and odd, taking long divergences into instrumental passages, drastic tempo shifts and, uh, The Nutcracker? Intro - Six 14:23 - Negative 20:23 - Legacy 26:06 - Anti-Everything 34:48 - Being A Girl Outro - Fall Out Facebook / Twitter / Instagram   Zazzle Merch Store   http://www.digmeoutpodcast.com

Do you love the aggressive melodies of today’s pop punk bands? Do you expel all of your excess energy in the mosh pit? Have you ever taken to a tallboy to the face during a rambunctious punk show? Well then “only other girl in the pit” - this episode is for you! On today’s episode of Guilty Pleasure hosts Amanda Salvatore and Jackie Rae Aubel chat with Christina Cola, an LA-based comedian and writer whose guilty pleasure is the punk band PUP!

Lana Crooks loves the antique, the creepy, the cute and the mysterious. Constructing creatures from fabrics and found objects, she is a purveyor of faux specimens and soft curiosities that are a blend of science and fantasy. Sought after for her pattern-making abilities, she frequently teams up with other artists to breathe three dimensional life into their illustrations, earning her two Designer Toy Awards. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/lanacrooks In this episode, Lana discusses: -The “convoluted” artistic path that she took. -Some of the many variables that came together to make her decide that she didn’t want to continue being an illustrator. -How an “escape from people” at her job at Virgin Megastore led to a new creative job. -How she started making her felt creatures and skeletons. -Having two unique styles and not being afraid to pursue both at the same time. -Her advice for people who spend too much time in the “incubation period” and allow themselves too much time to let doubt creep into their heads. -This Is What I Do Now moments. -Some of the other things that hold her back, like wanting to be “good enough,” being a perfectionist, and sometimes being too close to her pieces for too long. -Her “box of sadness” and “box of happiness.” -How she handles her monthly calendar and occasionally needs to catch up by having a “beast week.” -The idea of needing to force yourself to get out of the house in order to give yourself time to be inspired by things that are outside of yourself. -Her experience of studying bones at museums. Lana's Final Push will inspire you to pursue your creative inclinations, whether you jump in the deep end or start out in the shallow end!   Quotes: “Basically my whole creative career is a series of whims and tests.” “It was perfect for me.  It blends illustration with the costume design and the sewing, tactile part of it with the crazy things in my head.” “You have to see where it takes you.  You can’t pretend that the idea never crossed your mind because it won’t ever become anything.” “Every couple years I have a This Is What I Do Now moment.” “Having a lot of things to work on at one time is good for my morale.  I get to banish pieces to the closet until I can have a strong enough will to see them again.  And then sometimes I’ll pull it out and think that is great and wonder how I did it.” “Once you’ve resigned the piece to its fate, that’s when you can start seeing good in it.” “These pieces of art are basically like my children, but they’re just jerks.  I love being able to create them, but they give me such hell that I get emotionally attached to them, either good or bad.” “If you’re waiting for someone to hand you an opportunity, you’ll be waiting a very long time.” Links mentioned: Max Bare & Melissa Sue Stanley on Your Creative Push Gary Ham Connect with Lana: Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / Patreon On the next episode: Shane Madden : Website / Illustration Lighthouse What have you created this week?  Share it with the Facebook group!

One of the most celebrated entrepreneurs in the Arab world, Nisreen Shocair, has grown Virgin Megastore MENA to be one of the most well respected customer-centric brands in the region. In this podcast Nisreen explains how she needed to disrupt both the brand and her customers’ thinking to get there, which has included promoting unconsumption – the somewhat controversial move of telling customers to consume less. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

July 13th, 2016  •  On this triumphant episode of Song Buzzards, our heroes return from a 3-week bender/vacation with their patriotism intact and a slew of new music for ya’ll to enjoy! As Devon belts out “God Bless ‘Merica,” they reminisce about trips to Broadway to see musicals and visit the Virgin Megastore, profess their undying love […]

Join us this week on a very special episode! On Sunday, the 31st of January, our cohost Irshad moderated The Future of The UAE Music Industry, organized by Deniece Wheeler & Brown Book at the Intersect by Lexus in Dubai. The panelists were: Mike Fairburn, General Manager of Sony Music Entertainment Middle East Vartivar Basmajian, Regional Product Manager of Virgin Megastore Lee Charteris, Vice President of Operations at Flash Entertainment Nerses, co-founder of White Cube Studios Simon Coates, founder of TseTse Fly Middle East, the regions first platform for sound artists and experimental musicians DJ Mocity, music entrepreneur, international A&R agent, and DJ Grab a seat and tune in to the conversation.From Dubai to the world. *Be sure to rate, review, and let us know what you think.----Hosts: OT ( twitter.com/OTofficial  / instagram.com/OTofficial ) Toofless ( https://soundcloud.com/feras-ibrahim ) Irshad ( twitter.com/irshad_ini ) / ( instagram.com/irshad_ini ) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, J&R unceremoniously closed its store in Lower Manhattan after 43 years in business. The iconic electronics and music retailer is vowing to reopen “totally reimagined and redeveloped.” But for now at least, it has gone the way of Tower Records, HMV, Virgin Megastore, Sam Goody and other brick-and-mortar shops that used to make New York City a music superstore haven. Steve Smith, a freelance music critic for the New York Times, believes that online shops have filled much of the void, but the communal aspect of record-buying has largely gone by the wayside. "What's really missing now is the social element of shopping for CDs,” he tells Naomi Lewin in this week's podcast. “That's a very real thing. If you went to a show any given night at Lincoln Center, you could tell whether it was a success or not by going over to the Lincoln Center Tower Records afterwards and see how many people were hovering around the bins in the classical section." Saturday is Record Store Day, an annual retail promotion started in 2008 to help struggling independent stores. The event’s organizers – a consortium of independent stores and trade groups – hope that it can trumpet the benefits of stores where opinionated clerks give advice and point you to special deals. As in past years, this Saturday’s event brings collectible rarities and limited-edition pressings to serve as draws for shoppers at some 1,200 stores around the country.   “Record stores don't sell food, they don't sell water, and things you need to live,” said Record Store Day co-founder Carrie Colliton. “But there's something that makes life a lot better when you love it. I think it's best to have a physical place for human interaction." Colliton isn’t discouraged by J&R's closing, or of Rizzoli's plans to leave its longtime 57th Street location (the bookstore carried a small selection of music). “Of course it's tough,” she said of the real estate environment. “And the larger you are in a more expensive city, the more difficult that can be, no matter what it is that you sell inside the store.” So where does Smith suggest shoppers go to find classical music? For used product, Academy Records satisfies the urge to “get carried away by the experience of flipping through CDs." There are small but select offerings at the Met Opera Shop and the Juilliard Bookstore. And if you’re not too picky, the Barnes and Noble locations on East 86th Street and in Union Square in Manhattan still have modest selections. For deeper tastes? "Arkivmusic.com caters to a clerk-like mentality,” said Smith (disclosure: Arkivmusic has a retail partnership with WQXR). But often, Facebook, Twitter and blogs are the best places to seek advice on recordings, something you can't find as much on iTunes. "I think you are looking at a scenario that's split in two, where you get your advice in one place and then you go shop in another place." Listen to the full podcast above and subscribe to Conducting Business on iTunes. And tell us below: where do you go most often to buy recordings?

For our 1 year anniversary week show we invited to close the 5 day live broadcasting at COCO.FM, one half of Black Nation Recordings artist “Ds and Cs”, Mr Dj Nova (Miami). The last show lasted 0ver 4 hours and we have 2 hrs for you this week!! Check out Nova’s Bio and enjoy the episode! Nelson Fernandez , also known as DJ Nova ,has been involved in Miami’s underground scene since the early 90s , And began djing in 1996 . Shortly after , he began spinning at local clubs such as Nikki Beach, Mission, Bash, BarRoom, Liquid, The Marlin Bar (Thursday Night Resident DJ ’99-‘02) and Meza(Coral Gables), and most recently: Nocturnal Terrace, and the Techno Loft @ Space – Miami. From 1997-‘99 Nova Hosted his own weekly internet radio show at The Womb (107.1FM , www.thewomb.com) a “REAL AUDIO” preset. Special Guests on his show included :Juan Atkins, John Acquaviva, Terrence Parker, Glenn Underground, Mike “Agent X” Clark, Boo Williams, Stryke, Christian Smith, and Mistress Barbara. On the show he had various World Premiers (first time broadcast) such as Transmat’s Time:Space Compilation, in March 1999 , as well as several releases from Hybrid Records and the Cari Lekebusch crew. He also makes guest appearances on several internet radio shows, such as Andrew Duke’s “Cognition Audioworks”, Radio Maestrals (Croatia) “Musika Na Struju”, and DJ Reversive’s “Bangin’ Grooves” show on Techno.FM . Nova has also been a regular on WVUM 90.5 FM(Univ. of Miami) on Friday nights Underground show since 1997. His bookings in the U.S. run up the East Coast including NYC, and to the Midwest including Columbus , OH in clubs such as Mecca , and The Redzone, and Detroit, MI in clubs such as The Works, Forans, and Panacea. His love for music has found him bookings internationally as well, spinning all over Central America and South America including Tango India and Club Oxygen in San Jose, Costa Rica. Club Morocco,Club Gotika, and Barfly in Bogota, Carnival in Medellin Colombia and Club Casbah in Antigua, Guatemala. Most recently , DJ Nova performed at the World Recognized , Movement Festival 2004 (formerly known as DEMF) on the historical Music Institute Stage, and Ultra Music Festival 2006, on the Beatport Techno Stage, alongside Pjay, Agent Orange, Marco Carola, DJ Hell, Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Mistress Barbara, Christian Smith, Mauro Picotto, and Richie Hawtin. Nelson’s Commitment to music comes from early in his childhood years , when he began playing guitar and percussion while involved with various rock , punk, funk, and jazz bands. Much of his deep knowledge of music comes from years of working at local record stores Such as Spec’s , Uncle Sams Music Cafe , and Virgin Megastore. It has all carried over to the present , as he is now working on his own exclusive DJ-tracks and using Traktor Scratch with over 4,000 records on file . All this while being the creator and event coordinator for the highly successful Miami Meets Detroit WMC BBQ , held annually during the Miami Winter Music Conference (1999-2005), showcasing artists such as Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Stryke, Phoenecia (aka Soul Oddity) , Sean Deason , Terrence Parker, DJ Minx, Alton Miller, The Beatdown Sounds Crew, DJ T-1000 , Matthew Dear, DJ Rolando “The Aztec Mystic”, Murk (Oscar G & Ralph Falcon), and Magda. “Pornograph Events”, Nelson’s vision for Miami’s local scene went a step further, by showcasing artists such as: Derrick May, Stacey Pullen, Bryan Zentz, DJ Rolando, Kevin Saunderson and Lee Burridge outside of the “WMC” week. In a Market driven by TOP 40, Hip Hop, and Mash Ups, Pornograph Events, was one of THE FIRST and ONLY outlets for UNDERGROUND DANCE MUSIC in South Florida! Showcasing DJs & LIVE PA’s (A FIRST FOR A PROMOTER TO BOOK “Techno” LIVE PA’s IN A “MAINSTREAM Venue – DREAM NIGHTCLUB” outside of the WMC week-For A WEEKLY PARTY), such as: MARC ANTONA (LIVE), SHONKY, JONAS BERING (LIVE), MAZI, STEWART WALKER (LIVE), TOUANE (LIVE), KEVIN SAUNDERSON and JOHN ACQUAVIVA. Nelson’s latest partnership brings him together with a bright young prducer from Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles based Luis Rosario and Miami based Nelson Fernandez (DJ Nova), have come together to form Ds and Cs. A derivative from their heritage, Dominicans and Cubans. Both shared similar influences as Detroit Techno bridged the gap between their coasts. Both share over a decade of DJ experience crossing dance venues coast to coast. As solo production artists, they continue to push their growing sound, Ds and Cs music production however, is a mix of old school and nu school creating a unique but modern day sound. With obvious ties to Detroit, their sound digs into those influences and creates a new feel. Keep your eye on this young DJ/Producer as he propells Miami to the cutting edge of electronic music!!

This week we've invited Deb Wills from AllEars.net back to the show to talk more in-depth about one of Disney's newest DVC properties in Walt Disney World, the Animal Kingdom Lodge Kidani Village. We're going to really dig in deep with this resort and give our thoughts on everything from the look and feel to the convenience and how it fits in with the other Disney Vacation Club properties. Also this week we begin Round 2 of the Disney Feud with Those Darn Cats and Steve Swanson from the Muppetcast returning. In the news this week: Stitch's Supersonic Celebration is officially being closed for good, a Princess Di exhibit comes to Downtown Disney in the old Virgin Megastore space, Holiday Inn moves into Walt Disney World, The Disneyland Hotel gets a facelift and much, much more. And we had such a great time with last week's Mousecall that we decided to do it again this week. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Galaxy Nexus VS Motorola RAZR : c'est le duel de la semaine dans LE 360 HI•TEK, alors que la sortie du Galaxy Nexus, qui était prévue jeudi, vient de nouveau d'être décalée par SFR. Egalement au sommaire de ce N°15 : la sortie, mardi, de Star Wars The Old Republic (également disponible en sublime coffret collector), et la soirée d'avant-première où nous étions, mercredi soir, au Virgin Megastore des Champs Elysées. Au rayon des nouveautés : le nouveau casque signé Beats, le Mixr, et la toute première Swatch digitale : la Swatch Touch qui, comme son nom l'indique, est aussi tactile. Les première images tournées par nos soins du MAVERIO BT-100, ce système de lunettes 3D mobiles et translucides qu'Epson se prépare à sortir en février. Qui promet la révolution du numérique pour le 10 janvier 2012 ? A ceux qui ont avancé Free, nous répondons : Numericable... 2012 : une année qui sera aussi marqué par le lancement d'Adobe Creative Cloud, tout Adobe - même les applis pour tablettes - pour l'équivalent de 49 $ par mois. LE 360 HI•TEK évoque un retour : celui de Panasonic dans la téléphonie mobile en Europe, avec des smartphones annoncés sous Android. Et puis, longue vie à DSL, le nouveau magazine digital de la vie numérique, sur iPad, signé par deux confrères. Retrouvez LE 360 HI•TEK avec les voix de Benjamin VINCENT (TEKNOLOGIK) et Anh Phan (Le Journal du Geek), tous les vendredis ! Podcast également disponible en version SD pour iPhone, iPod et iPod Touch d'anciennes générations

Galaxy Nexus VS Motorola RAZR : c'est le duel de la semaine dans LE 360 HI•TEK, alors que la sortie du Galaxy Nexus, qui était prévue jeudi, vient de nouveau d'être décalée par SFR. Egalement au sommaire de ce N°15 : la sortie, mardi, de Star Wars The Old Republic (également disponible en sublime coffret collector), et la soirée d'avant-première où nous étions, mercredi soir, au Virgin Megastore des Champs Elysées. Au rayon des nouveautés : le nouveau casque signé Beats, le Mixr, et la toute première Swatch digitale : la Swatch Touch qui, comme son nom l'indique, est aussi tactile. Les première images tournées par nos soins du MAVERIO BT-100, ce système de lunettes 3D mobiles et translucides qu'Epson se prépare à sortir en février. Qui promet la révolution du numérique pour le 10 janvier 2012 ? A ceux qui ont avancé Free, nous répondons : Numericable... 2012 : une année qui sera aussi marqué par le lancement d'Adobe Creative Cloud, tout Adobe - même les applis pour tablettes - pour l'équivalent de 49 $ par mois. LE 360 HI•TEK évoque un retour : celui de Panasonic dans la téléphonie mobile en Europe, avec des smartphones annoncés sous Android. Et puis, longue vie à DSL, le nouveau magazine digital de la vie numérique, sur iPad, signé par deux confrères. Retrouvez LE 360 HI•TEK avec les voix de Benjamin VINCENT (TEKNOLOGIK) et Anh Phan (Le Journal du Geek), tous les vendredis ! Podcast également disponible en version HD (720p) pour iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch à écran Retina Display, iPad, iPad 2, tablettes 720p, Mac et PC.

Voici le sommaire de ce n°2 du 360 HI•TEK : Windows 8, star de la conférence BUILD de Microsoft de Los Angeles, avec notamment les premières images de la tablette Kal-El à base de processeurs ARM quadri-coeurs ; la grande soirée organisée au Virgin Megastore des Champs-Elysées à Paris, pour la sortie historique de la saga Star Wars en Blu-Ray ; FIFA 12 arrive le 29 septembre et nous avons essayé cette nouvelle version qui repose aussi sur l'iPad et l'iPhone ; les quatre nouveaux BlackBerry de la rentrée sous BlackBerry 7, nouvel OS ; Stéphane Richard, électron libre dans les médias dès qu'il est question d'Apple. Cette fois, c'est la date de sortie probable de l'iPhone 5 que le PDG d'Orange a lâché sur BFM Business ; la suite de la bataille judiciaire entre Samsung et Apple, autour de l'iPad 2 et de la Galaxy Tab. Apple a gagné la première manche en Allemagne. Chez Samsung, on parle maintenant - en off - d'escalade et de guerre totale ; Battlefield 3 qui promet de vous en mettre plein les yeux et plein les oreilles ; les nouveaux vidéo-projecteurs Epson avec le MG-850 HD, un premier modèle avec dock iPod/iPhone à moins de 700 €, et les premiers vidéo-projecteurs Full HD et 3D (à partir de 1.150 € TTC) de la marque, dont deux modèles sans fil ; enfin, Sphero, une boule radio-commandée depuis un smartphone : ce sera sans doute l'une des futures stars de Noël. Sur tous ces sujets mais aussi sur LE 360 Hi•TEK lui-même, nous attendons vos messages, vos remarques, vos souhaits, vos envies, vos regrets, vos critiques. Exprimez-vous !

Voici le sommaire de ce n°2 du 360 HI•TEK : Windows 8, star de la conférence BUILD de Microsoft de Los Angeles, avec notamment les premières images de la tablette Kal-El à base de processeurs ARM quadri-coeurs ; la grande soirée organisée au Virgin Megastore des Champs-Elysées à Paris, pour la sortie historique de la saga Star Wars en Blu-Ray ; FIFA 12 arrive le 29 septembre et nous avons essayé cette nouvelle version qui repose aussi sur l'iPad et l'iPhone ; les quatre nouveaux BlackBerry de la rentrée sous BlackBerry 7, nouvel OS ; Stéphane Richard, électron libre dans les médias dès qu'il est question d'Apple. Cette fois, c'est la date de sortie probable de l'iPhone 5 que le PDG d'Orange a lâché sur BFM Business ; la suite de la bataille judiciaire entre Samsung et Apple, autour de l'iPad 2 et de la Galaxy Tab. Apple a gagné la première manche en Allemagne. Chez Samsung, on parle maintenant - en off - d'escalade et de guerre totale ; Battlefield 3 qui promet de vous en mettre plein les yeux et plein les oreilles ; les nouveaux vidéo-projecteurs Epson avec le MG-850 HD, un premier modèle avec dock iPod/iPhone à moins de 700 €, et les premiers vidéo-projecteurs Full HD et 3D (à partir de 1.150 € TTC) de la marque, dont deux modèles sans fil ; enfin, Sphero, une boule radio-commandée depuis un smartphone : ce sera sans doute l'une des futures stars de Noël. Sur tous ces sujets mais aussi sur LE 360 Hi•TEK lui-même, nous attendons vos messages, vos remarques, vos souhaits, vos envies, vos regrets, vos critiques. Exprimez-vous !

iTunes Posts Red Cross Donation Page to Aid in Earthquake and Tsunami Relief / Lines Abound for iPad 2 on Day One / Macworld: iPad 2 Orders Slip from Days to Weeks / CNET: iPad 2 Orders Slip from Weeks to More Weeks / Piper Jaffray Analyst Says As Many as Half-a-Million iPad 2s Sold Friday / Creative Startegies, Gleacher and Co Call for Roughly Half-a-Million iPad 2s Sold Over Weekend / Ticonderoga Securities: Apple Could Sell One-Million iPad 2s Over Launch-Weekend / Munster Excited by Number of New Buyers of iPad / iFixIt Breaks an iPad 2 (for the Greater Good) / iSuppli Says Dell Regains 2nd Place in PC Sales from Acer Thanks to iPad / iPhone 4 Falls in Pwn2Own Competition (Not Updated to iOS 4.3) / Apple Pulls Post from Forum Calling for Continued Security Support for Older iOS Devices / Apple VP Schiller Rekindles Talk of White iPhone / Apple Opens Shop-in-a-Virgin Megastore in UAE This Wednesday 16 March / Virgin Founder Praises Apple CEO

WDW NewsCast - March 9, 2011 The WDW News Cast - Interactive Walt Disney World news from Lou Mongello of http://WDWRadio.com Topics this week include: - Peter Pan's Flight - New queue! - Skyway building in Fantasyland - Club 626 Character Dance Party in Tomorrowland starring Stitch - Storybook Circus - Via Napoli - Grad Night in Walt Disney World - Ridemakerz and the Virgin Megastore in Downtown Disney ---------------------------- Join us each week for a LIVE interactive news show covering the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida. Be a part of the broadcast and discussion and discuss the news real-time in the chat room. Join us every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. EST at http://WDWNewsCast.com Please keep the conversation going by subscribing to the WDWRadio channel on YouTube channel at http://YouTube.com/user/WDWRadio Visit WDWRadio.com for daily blog posts, the weekly Disney podcast, Disney photos, Disney videos, discussion forums, Disney store and more! You can email the show at lou@wdwradio.com or call the voicemail TOLL FREE at 888-703-2171. Join the fan page on Facebook: http://Facebook.com/WDWRadio Follow Lou on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/LouMongello Get some Disney magic delivered right to your door! Subscribe to Celebrations Magazine at http://CelebrationsPress.com Thanks for listening! Be sure to tune in next week!

Amerie made a special in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore back in 2005 to celebrate the release of "Touch", where she performed and signed copies of her album.