''Music is my biggest source of inspiration. I can go years without stepping into a museum or gallery but I can’t go a day without music! It both calms my soul and makes me more creative. If I have writer’s block, I'll listen to music. If I’m depressed, I'll listen to music. If I have to make a ten-hour drive in my car to a photo shoot, I’ll listen to music. My taste is eclectic. For the long road trips, I use music instead of caffeine. So I listen to The Jam, Verve, Beirut. Always Bowie. His live concerts are the best.''

''Imagination is the most important aspect of photography. Nobody is interested in a cliché. I have images in my head that I don’t know how to execute. But I keep trying. That’s the fun and frustrating part of the journey. Ideas for images swirl my head all day long. Sometimes I scribble thoughts on my notepad in the middle of the night.'' - Randi Lynn Beach

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''Along with the niches of more counter-cultural inspired Evangelicals releasing more and more #music through the 80s, artists tried to keep up and create or come into the amorphous sounds and scenes of what came to be called “#grunge”

''Grunge can be defined in various social, musical, aesthetic, and political ways, with its roots in punk and that scene(s)’ diversity of expression and ideology.

Grunge made suburban kids able to access really cool shit they never would have come across otherwise, as experimentally expressive entertainment or philosophically. They could move to the city and reinvent themselves, or do it in their basements with less fear of getting their asses stomped on the way to the record store (which happened to me, again and again, in 1979).'' - Chris Estey

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''Along with the niches of more counter-cultural inspired Evangelicals releasing more and more #music through the 80s, artists tried to keep up and create or come into the amorphous sounds and scenes of what came to be called “#grunge”

''Grunge can be defined in various social, musical, aesthetic, and political ways, with its roots in punk and that scene(s)’ diversity of expression and ideology.

Grunge made suburban kids able to access really cool shit they never would have come across otherwise, as experimentally expressive entertainment or philosophically. They could move to the city and reinvent themselves, or do it in their basements with less fear of getting their asses stomped on the way to the record store (which happened to me, again and again, in 1979).'' - Chris Estey

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THE HIVES | LEEDS| 27/03/2024

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THE HIVES | LEEDS| 27/03/2024

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''At the time it was a bummer to see the PNW scene sullied by its exposure to the rest of America. I mean Kurt hated it so much because he lost his home which were his bearings from which he looked out at the world. Corporations only have one thing in mind and it ain`t art. So he struggled as he circled the drain. I think his idealism and youth got him. It was tragic. Musically some of the music had ass and fighting spirit so I liked that. We played with a lot of those bands coming up especially in Seattle (like at Washington Hall and the Central Tavern) and Portland (Satyricon) and the scene in its early days was more amorphous and accepting as far as genres were concerned. I definitely was trying to provoke from inside. We had tatted up tough flapper chicks that would dance on stage then stage dive into the audience. We were trying to say there is not only one way to do this. But as usual we were too strange. We did make it into Singles as a visual joke, however.''- Steve Perry, Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

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Gordon Raphael is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington, currently living in Hebden Bridge, UK. Raphael has worked with The Strokes, Regina Spektor, The Libertines and The Psychelic Furs. He has produced songs with Hinds, Skunk Anansie and Mexico's top band, Fobia. He is known for his work with The Strokes, whom he met while attending an early show at Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street, New York City. He produced The Strokes EP The Modern Age (2001), as well as Is This It (2001) and Room On Fire (2003). He also produced some of the songs on Green River-Dry As a Bone (1987) and they are considered one of the first grunge bands.

He formed two bands in Seattle, synth-driven Mental Mannequin and Colour Twigs. During the grunge revolution he was the keyboardist for the psychedelic band Sky Cries Mary. He released his book : The World Is Going To Love This: Up From The Basement With the Strokes in 2022. You can check out more of his work by visiting his official website or following @gordonraphael on Instagram.

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Gordon Raphael is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington, currently living in Hebden Bridge, UK. Raphael has worked with The Strokes, Regina Spektor, The Libertines and The Psychelic Furs. He has produced songs with Hinds, Skunk Anansie and Mexico's top band, Fobia. He is known for his work with The Strokes, whom he met while attending an early show at Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street, New York City. He produced The Strokes EP The Modern Age (2001), as well as Is This It (2001) and Room On Fire (2003). He also produced some of the songs on Green River-Dry As a Bone (1987) and they are considered one of the first grunge bands.

He formed two bands in Seattle, synth-driven Mental Mannequin and Colour Twigs. During the grunge revolution he was the keyboardist for the psychedelic band Sky Cries Mary. He released his book : The World Is Going To Love This: Up From The Basement With the Strokes in 2022. You can check out more of his work by visiting his official website or following @gordonraphael on Instagram.

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‘‘Looks like Kurt Cobain’’ in relief the band expressed when they saw their new singer (Mazvērsīte, 2018, p 50). Not only did Freimanis look like Cobain at the time, with his bleached hair but their debut album ‘‘Putni’’ (1998) [transl. ‘‘Birds’’] was influenced by Nirvana and Whitesnake. Whilst grunge was mainstream in the United States in the 1990s, it`s influence also extends to Latvia.

In 2004, Freimanis wrote the song ''The War Is Not Over'' and gave it to Latvian beloved musicians Valters Frīdenbergs and Kārlis Būmeisters, known as Valters & Kaža (members of Putnu Balle). The song won the Latvian National selection and represented Latvia in the international Eurovision contest in 2005, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, fisnishing in the 5th position.

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‘‘Of course, my paintings are political. All art is political one way or another. The greatest challenge for myself is to not make propaganda art. Art that defines one way of looking at something or one idea that is easily interpreted is not always interesting art. While this kind of art might be agreeable it is also dangerous art. When art has become a marketing tool I doubt that it can any longer be a critic.’’ - Greg Lukens

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Robert McParland and Alex DiBlasi conclude that the emergence of Christian punk during the early 1980s and the first term of the Reagan presidency, was ‘‘likely in response to the candidate`s courtship of the Religious Right’’(McParland and DiBlasi, 2019,p.69). Christian punk challenged self-appointed authority.

Poor Old Lu : ‘‘No less energetic than their fellow Seattleites Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, and nearly as melodic and accessible as Nirvana, the Lu gang used their talents to encourage hope rather than frustration.''

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In the 1960s and 1970s televangelist figures such as Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts and Rex Humbard ‘’entered first-run syndication by each purchasing airtime on more than 300 local stations and attracting weekly audiences of between 1 million and 7 million viewers’’(Murray, 2018,p.135). At the same time, religious radio stations tripled to thousand outlets during the 1970s (Murray, 2018,p.135).

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Cro-Mags is one of the most influential New York hardcore punk bands and was the first to combine hardcore punk with heavy metal. Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) credited the band with having had a primal influence on their development. Before joining Nirvana, Grohl was in the punk band Scream and opened for Cro-Mags at CBGB.

Krishnacore was ‘‘the first time that hardcore and straight edge punks had to deal specifically with religion on an intellectual and personal level’’(Stewart, 2017,p.52).

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‘‘Bobbie Gentry doesn't really fit into any comfortable history of country and western’’ - Lucinda Williams

‘‘Fancy’’ is my strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for—equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights’’ - Bobbie Gentry

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