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bookishbea · 4 years

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Black Friday Reaction

Okay so I’ll be live tweeting Black Friday but none of it will have any sense to it but it’ll just be my reactions

1. The Paul thing is really bothering me

2. I really love the mention of the other characters

3. If Jane is mention is the story about the mom mentioned some more

4. Is the delivery man ted (cause he’s also a sleazeball

5. It’s weird seeing Cory not play a pure bean

6. I love California MIA

7. The little sister (Im sorry I’m bad at names) I self project as autistic and she something else idk

8. Did anyone else noticed Robert’s Australian accent come out?

9. Like I said this is out of order so yeah but I personally think the second song in the show was very shocking as I’m not used to very serious starkid songs

10. When Robert gestures smoking i think its lowkey a refrence to the smoke club

11. I have a crush on lex

12. I love Lauren’s charecter so much

13. I love the name linda becuase it could be like a karen without using that name

14. Not to get poltical but i choose to belive they made an antivax joke

15. Also the marvel nerd in me loves the name becky barnes

16. I know its probaly not on purpose but joeys charecters costume in line looks like the homeless guy’s one

17. Jaimey is great as always

18. The conversation is so cringe i love it

19. I kinda hope torture porn is a fanfic refrence (i know most people would want me to say spies are forever but nope)

20. I love Lauren but shouldnt her accent be included when she sings

21. I love Jeff’s reaction

22. I may get some hate for this but what was bothering me in tgwdlm and i notice in starkid is lack of fan comments in the captions

23. As a theatre fan i love the toy zone song (i am not sure if thats the right name) espcially the do wop becuase it reminds me of older musicals

24. Also since i watched tgwdlm and black friday a day apart its weird to come from songs happening because they are infected to songs happening cause its a musical

25. i love the love the line we are not relaibly to anyone who dies becuase they clearly show in the trailer that someone will die (this is not a spoiler if you watch the trailer for Black Friday)

26. I love Corey but when he dances i notice a bulge (i am not a perv he makes it very obvious)

27. So i rewinded it to make sure i wanst going crazy and realized something as lex says the pepper spray line. She would be good as janis ian

28. I love the touch money part its so cute even if its not supposed to be

29. Jaime plays a perv really well

30. I love Jon’s charecter its hilarious

31. Also i love jon and lauren interactions so it was cool seeing them together not as paul and emma

32. I love seeing more of Jon because although hes reaally good at playing paul paul doesnt have any flavor and its cool seeing jon do something diffrent

33. Jeff’s fuck you

34. Okay I was right it was the homeless guy and i bet the money is paul’s money

35. And this is not a sterotpye as i am jewish myself but i bet Laurens charecter is jewish

36. Its sad that the price thing is true

37. So i am a theatre fan and do not watch got but that music kinda reminds me of got

38. Cant tell if jeff’s charecter is gay and a perv or just a perv (i realzie this could be mmisinterpreted as homophobic i just mean to say that jamie’s charecter just seems like a full out perv where as i cant tell with jeff’s)

39. Obviously you shouldnt be that insane but i do like the lines about how you are in charge of life and dont care about what others think. its goood life advice

39. Looks like Paul’s boss got his wish

40. They are all idiots for holding up the doll when everyone wants to get it

41. Corey’s charecter is like shit, money isnt that imporant

42. Becky why are you a part of this you have moral high ground (yes i am ignorning the fact that cast usually join in dance numbers even if their charecter isnt a part of it)

43. Shouldnt tom get ptsd (see above)

44. Lex you already have one (see above)

45. So i may be overthinking things but how curt says never should settle is in the tune of spies are forever

46. Is it just me or did anyone else notice when the security guard comes in the tune of show me your hands comes in

47. I dont know why but i do love soft bullies because hes like hey im punching you but only for the kid

48. Some may say its schizo or something hannah has but its anxiery or something from how shes expressing it

49. I feel like hannah has a superpower and can tell whats happening

50. Maybe webby is actually wiggly

51. Baby (both hannah and robert)

52. Please tell me my babies not dead

53. Jon’s eee is adorable and silly

54. Wait hes alive

55. Wait no hes dead, im sad liek starkid is supposed to be fun and happy this is the darkest star kid yet. Even oregon deaths were silly

56. I love starkid but this is making me anxious i cant tell if its good anxious or bad anxious

57. Also i relate to the black and white thing not fully but liek whenever i dont feel well sometimes my brain is overstimulating but only in my head its very hard to explain

58. Also i think sometimes kids on the spectrum and im not an expert but i do have it kind of make a friend in their head and i do that too sometimes just to give me advice

59. Also i hope they dont get rid of the black and white as sometimes people go more crazy without the figurative voice in their head

60. Like i said this is going to be random order so i like that emma adopted paul;s Okay and no im not making a tfios refrence

61. Poor Tim

62. Poor becky but even less

63. i thought they were supposed to be mad at g-d but in this and tgwdlm they like g-d

64. I cant tell the other pins on joey’s jacket but the first two i notice are mr wiggly and paul

65. I love Lauren’s acting you can see the very sublte sadness in her

66. Lauren and Joey together ahhhh

67. I know its probaly not a big deal but they should give a seziure warning before the tv scene

68. Did they reuse curts spies are forever outfit

69. Really starkid the obama refrence seriously, i cant tell if im mad or laughing

70. How did Bob get one

71. I do realize they are talking irl but i cant help but wonder if the nazis were a spies are forever refrence

72. Does wiggly have a special power or something

73. I think its similar to the metero the closer you are the more power it has over you

74. The starkid special effects we all know and love

75. Also is that mcnamara

76. Also maybe shooting it (the doll) does the same thing that shooting the affceted does. Give them no power

77. I cant tell what the music reminds me of exactly but the tune does kinda refrence a diffrent star kid song

78. Jeff looks so proud of himself for the peeps line

79. I love the purposeful i presume reuse of lines

80. Is peip like men in black

81. Also hatchetfield kind of reminds me of night vale

82. Is the black and white like the upside down?

83. I wonder if the point was purposeful since someone was filming or just choreographed

84. Yes Jon Singing!!!!!

85. I love the act two opener

86. Did his parents really name him christmas?!?

87. Oh hes literally related to santa

88. I love lauren and joey as eleves

89. Noel another christmas name

90. Isnt the little dance move like a genie move or something

91. Its so cute that she insitincitvely went to their seats

92. Also carving is goals

93. Even though its a penis its still goals

94. I know what you are, say it, santa clause

95. Tom dont yell at your girl

96. Poor Tom

97. But also dont make this about you

98. They probaly werent the head of the school since they were nice, i am sorry but thats true

99. Yass girl fight his ass

100. Also the theatre kid in me is picturing all that jazz

101. he ran into my knife he ran into my knife ten times

102. Yes Becky’s husband (i forget the name sue me) is bad but i feel like becky is more sinister then we realize

103. Becky’s line even if it isnt meant to be is so funny

104. The girl who plays Becky could play Barbara

105. I love how Joey and Lauren look into the camera

106. Jamie saying santa awww such a pure bean

107. The person in the wiggly onsie is goals

108. Matrix glasses for the win

109. Is wilbur a refrence to Charelots Web?

110. Its a cult a cult of wiggly

111. I feel like Sherman young is around 30-40

112. I love how its mommy to sound less pervy

113. Oh wait never mind Linda is mom

114. Shit thats fucked up they killed him

115. I am right a jew no non jew says mensch

116. To quote jared klienman kinky (shoe kiss scene)

117. Also i love this song the adore song

118. Why does them picking up Lauren give me Draco vibes

119. Wait he isnt dead?? im so confused

120. Wait he is dead???

121. Also ethan is creepy now

122. But Roberts expressions are goals

123. Robert your proffesor hidgens is showing

124. What the how does he know her name

125. Savage Wiggly

126. Wiggly is more funny than scary

127. But my poor baby dont be scared

128. What the fuck tom

129. Also poor baby number two

130. At first you think becky is made about him hurting a child but no its about the doll

131. What the fuck Becky

132. Also I wonder if thats the same serum that Hidgens used

133. Tom yelling at the audince is hilarious

134. Also Becky singing is giving me little shop vibes

135. Becky are you drunk or something you so stupid

136. But yayy my baby doesnt get hurt

137. More starkid special effects

138. Also the lighting nod to tgwdlm

139. Also why did they take my baby (see i told you random)

140. So the perv is wiggly

141. Also if he can appear in regular formation on earth why does he need to be the doll

142. Oh wait never mind he explains it

143. Joey talking to the audience and making them hold the apple is goals

144. I love Joey’s song

145. MIA = Missing in Action = Made in America

146. Wait im wrong Joey cant be Wiggly unless he has super powers he cant be in two places at once

147. I know they dont mean sex but still wtf

148. Lauren looks so done i cant

149. Seziure warning after mr presidnet leaves the black and white

150. Unless it was purposeful they should have hidden the dolls better backstage

151. Wait didnt hannah say something about two doors earlier?

152. Seriously Sherman ponies

153. I love the going back line

154. My poor baby lex

155. No Lex dont die not you too

156. Haha throwback to tgwdlm

157. Yes baby you got the gun

158. Also die perv die

159. Eagle screeching is goals

160. Yes lex use that logic

161. Also it makes sense only the adults can be brainwashed

162. There were only adults no children, scary (not sarcastic i promise)

163. Seriously starkid Fortnight

164. Thats why you should never fully grow up

165. Woah what Lex says is deep

166. Yessss Tom

167. Wait Tom dont hold the gun

168. Wait is Charolette alive or just a reuse of costume, if so why would they have jaimie wear it

169. No dont take her magic hat

170. Haha stupid hats cant be magic only dolls obviously

171. Does lauren say something like fucking knife in another show too?

172. Lauren screaming gives me my father will hear about this vibes

173. Also give my baby her hat back

174. Yass Lauren get it girl (i do realize shes playing the villian but still)

175. Yass Robert get it

176. Even though shes a viilain i dont like seeing Lauren get killed

177. But also how did they get the bullet wound on her so quick im impressed

178. Haha the way Gary stops everything to talk to gerald is goals

179. Like hes like oh shit money

180. And then hes like oh wait i have to pretend to care

181. I love how exagerated their dying is

182. Thats an impressive quick change

183. Yess Emma Hidgens

184. But also no hell fuck up again

185. Also Paul interupting is goals

186. Haha hannah you go girl

187. First off I love the song

188. Song off Hannah’s voice

189. Is paul scared normal or because of the hive

190. Wait all the tgwdlm charecters are back like nothing happened im confused

191. Haha the Hatchfield band is back

#black friday #starkid #tickle me wiggly #the guy who didn't like musicals

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celsidebottom · 4 years

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Hi, so I have caught up with all podcasts that RustyQuill create, which are all amazing. And I was wondering if you listened to any other podcasts that give a similar vibe to them? So I can consume them in these trying times. Thank you, hope you are doing well.

I’m doing pretty well, all things considered, and I hope you are too!

I can’t say I’ve listened to too many other podcasts, but I’ll list the ones I recommend, and the ones I know other people like too, even if I haven’t listened to them myself

Podcasts I recommend that are somewhat similar to Rusty Quill shows:

Inn Between - if you like the found family shenanigans in rqg then this is for you. The episodes are pretty short (like an avg of 10 minutes) but it follows a group of travelling adventurers in a dnd rpg style quest but without any actual gameplay.

Dungeons and Daddies - this is like the shenanigans of Stellar Firma if Tim and Ben were allowed to be completely unhinged while playing dnd but Alex didn’t care about the rules. It’s the story of 4 dads from our world trying to find their missing sons in the Forgotten Realms. Fair warning, it is pretty nsfw. (The subtitle is “Not a BDSM podcast.”)

The Underwood Collection - a fanmade spin-off of the Magnus Archives set in the Usher Foundation. It’s statement style show with spooky happenings and I would die for Ulysses Bamba (who is essentially in the role of Jon reading the statements)

Zoo Podcast - Think tma but tracking down cryptids and the magical, teleporting zoo that they stay in. Imo the first season was a little longer than it needed to be, but it’s very worth it. Sort of spooky, but definitely not to the extent of tma.

Welcome To Night Vale - you’ve probably heard of this one out there but it’s like the original unsettling spooky vibe set in a town where the weird is the norm. I know it was my first podcast, and I haven’t kept up with it in a while, but I think it has left a very lasting impression on everyone who listened to it

Podcasts I recommend that aren’t really similar to any of the Rusty Quill ones but I still really like:

Death By Dying - I haven’t actually finished this one yet, but I’ve listened to 2 episodes (there aren’t many) and it’s a mix of silly and unsettling that I’ve found enjoyable so far!

Wooden Overcoats - “we put the body in the coffin in the ground on time.” Shenanigans between two competing funeral homes on a very, very tiny island with a very, very small population. One is functional, barely, and the other has expanded to include a juice bar and a monorail to their attached bar and lounge. It’s absolutely ridiculous in a sort of morbid way.

The Penumbra Podcast - (you’ve probably seen this one around but just in case) There are two main storylines in this one (one of which I still haven’t finished). The Juno Steele stories follow a futuristic private eye on Mars, and the Second Citadel is a fantasy adventure with knights and magic. There is so much LGBT rep in this one it makes me really really happy

Skyjacks (part of the Campaign Podcast channel) - I’m only on episode 4 but I love it so far. It’s an rpg podcast about steampunk-esque air pirates with magic and shenanigans.

Podcasts I know other people who like Rusty Quill shows like but I haven’t listened to myself:

Critical Role - obviously the big one out there in terms of rpg shows, I just haven’t had the time or spoons to watch 4 hour episodes (also it’s not just a podcast, it’s got video too I believe)

Wolf 359

Fantasy High

Not Another DND Podcast

Friends at the Table

If anybody has any other recommendations, please feel free to add on!

#Anonymous #inn between is very very good #like peak found family #and dungeons and daddies is absolutely hilarious #like it can be serious #but I have cried laughing from it so #also shameless plug I wrote the statement in ep 6 of the underwood collection #👀#please let me know what you think of things as you listen!

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cancatervation · 6 years

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favourite music 2017

The affording of enormous weight to barely concealed fragility and vulnerability; when I pore over the contents of my iTunes from the last twelve or so months it’s plainly apparent that this is the hill I’ve elected to die on. Almost all the albums I found myself infatuated with at some point or another in 2017 meditated upon desire, the transience of romance, and the anguish that often accompanies its pursuit.

I’m acutely aware of how oddly this contrasts with my own life, which for the past almost-two-years has been romantically fulfilling in the way that my previous 25 absolutely weren’t. On this, I would say two things. First, that stability is elusive even (maybe especially?) for the most outwardly rose-coloured of us, and that maintaining relationship hygge takes compromise and is not easy, and for those reasons feelings of vulnerability are never far from the front of my mind; and, second, that it’s testament to the skill of certain songwriters and performers that their work was able to make this gay-ass conventionalist really feel something every now and again last year.

I wouldn’t want to suggest that I only just worked out that the theatrical presentation of desire is something I’m drawn to, but certainly there were some things in the past year that I really did begin to understand. Theatricality is often used in a critical sense as pejorative; something that is too extra, that goes too far, that is all tell and no show. Despite its predisposition towards excess, musical theatre has, for instance, always played out as sterile and spurious to me. (Sorry. And look at it this way, you don’t ever need to worry about getting me tickets to Hamilton). It’s so dramatic that it becomes too dramatic; your self-awareness isn’t allowed the chance to be suspended, even for a moment. An album like Lorde’s Melodrama makes its intentions apparent before you’ve even heard a note of it, but its theatrics (and there are many - think of the wailed chorus of “Writer In The Dark”, the gory car crash of “Homemade Dynamite”, the bridge in “Supercut” that accelerates like you’re on a bike rushing down a hill) are as easily consumed by sitting silently in tears as they are dancing, or walking, or lifting heavy weights, or running up a hill (to make or not to make a deal with God), or lying in blissful supta baddha konasana. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that hyperemotional vulnerability is for all seasons and for all hours of the day and I am now happy to welcome it into every aspect of my life.

I wrote over fifty blurbs for various songs on the Singles Jukebox last year. Some I loved, some I hated, what’s new. I wrote a blurb for “Praying”, Kesha’s first solo single in nearly five years, which turned out to be both the highest scoring song on the site for 2017 and the champion of my personal “list”. I sort of said all this already on the Jukebox, but my love for “Praying” lies nearly entirely in the way Kesha leans so heavily into her aphorisms, finding new ways to bring profundity to ostensibly simple lines like “I’m proud of who I am”. (Contrast this with most of Taylor Swift’s 2017 work, which forewent specific detail in favour of portentously loaded maxim, but forgot about nuance and came up mostly dry). When Kesha punctuates her sermon with a thunderous kick drum, it’s basically game over. As the stories of survivors of sexual assault, abuse and harassment began to dominate news media in the second half of the year, the song only gathered further resonance.

Lorde’s album held court as my favourite for most of the year. A promo image released by Kelela at the beginning of August threatened a coup. The odds shortened a few days later upon the release of its lead single and the arrival of the full album at the beginning of October marked the tangible takeover. Take Me Apart is all juxtaposition, which when applied to albums is often code for jumbled quagmire, but here there’s too much attention to detail, steadfastness of narrative, and, er, feeling, to get mixed up in anything like that. It see-saws between playful flirting, introspection, self-acceptance, control, loss of control, falling slowly through the sky, and falling fast through the abyss. I love it so much. It’s also very queer and very Black. Support Black queer art! Especially when it’s this well crafted.

Aside from all THAT, my favourite things in music last year were Moses Sumney’s Tiny Desk Concert, attending the Lorde show in the Botanic Gardens, the line “every single day I fight another war; every single night I feel more powerful!” in Rina Sawayama’s “Take Me As I Am”, and Rihanna telling Diplo his music sounded like a “a reggae song at an airport”.

My ten favourite songs of 2017 were:

1. Kesha “Praying” - as above and here;

2. Lorde “Green Light” - see here. The score given, however, is wrong. Add another point.

3. Sigrid “Strangers” - see here. I can’t wait until she’s everywhere and everyone knows her; her potential to me scans as “unlimited / infinite / fucking enormous, if it must be quantifiable”.

4. MUNA “I Know a Place”. The album version is acceptable but I’m also partial to this live one, which involves some changes to the lyrics.

5. Tove Lo “Disco Tits”. Like a wonky, filthy Kylie B-side played underwater.

6. Kelela “Turn To Dust”. Refer also to the first set of songs below. She didn’t play this at her concert this week, which is lucky, because otherwise its title may have proved prophetic.

7. Nilüfer Yanya “Baby Luv” - see here. See also dirgey diatribe above re: vulnerability.

8. Rae Morris “Do It” - I’ve become more and more besotted with this as time has passed and am not sure whether I’m most impressed by a) the wordplay b) the ping-ponging percussion in the second verse c) the subtle yet giant switch-up halfway through d) the soaring vocals or e) managing all of the above in less than 3 and a half minutes.

9. Rina Sawayama “Alterlife” - it did not take me long to request for lamination of a stan card for a popstar who loves key changes and here deftly incorporates influences as diverse as the Need For Speed soundtrack, Samantha Mumba and Madonna at her glassiest.

10. Tove Styrke “Mistakes” - see here. I’m ready for her to run away with 2018, in or out of a wedding dress.

Aside from those, here are some other songs I enjoyed in 2017, variously categorised and (with the “top 10″) collected in a Spotify playlist, located here:

Songs that can make you feel like you’re floating slowly heavenward

Björk “Arisen My Senses”

Charli XCX “Track 10”

Julie Byrne “Natural Blue”

Julien Baker “Appointments”

Moses Sumney “Quarrel”

Rae Morris “Do It (Nico Muhly Dance Remix)”

Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

Sevdaliza “Loves Way”

Slowdive “Slomo”

St. Vincent “Slow Disco”

Susanne Sundfør “Undercover”

Dance music that I barely pay any attention to throughout the calendar year and then become unusually enthusiastic about come end-of-year-list season

Bicep “Vale”

Gerd Janson x Shan "Surrender”

Honey Dijon “Catch The Beat”

Jad & The “Strings That Never Win”

Kink “Perth”

Minor Science “Volumes”

Octo Octa “Adrift (Avalon Emerson’s Furiously Awake Version)”

Shanti Celeste “Make Time”

SW. “Untitled B2”

The xx “On Hold (Jamie xx Remix)”

Yaeji “Raingurl”

Songs for the summer gloaming

Charlotte Day Wilson “Doubt”

Daniel Caesar “Blessed”

Frank Ocean “Chanel”

Jessie Ware “Stay Awake, Wait For Me”

Ladi6 “Guru”

Rachel Foxx “Happen To Me”

Sampa The Great “Bye River”

Sevyn Streeter “Before I Do”

Syd “Body”

Tyler, The Creator “Garden Shed feat. Estelle”

Plaintive songs for grey afternoon walks

Alvvays “Dreams Tonite”

Amandla Stenberg “Let My Baby Stay”

HAIM “You Never Knew”

Kehlani “Advice”

Khalid “Winter”

Lana Del Rey “Love”

Laura Marling “Next Time”

Paramore “Forgiveness”

Perfume Genius “Die 4 You”

St. Vincent “Happy Birthday, Johnny”

SZA “Prom”

Taylor Swift “New Year’s Day”

Best bangers

Amber Mark “Heatwave”

Charli XCX “Lipgloss feat. Cupcakke”

Charli XCX “Porsche feat. MØ”

Charlotte Gainsbourg “Deadly Valentine”

Charly Bliss “Glitter”

Drake “Get It Together feat. Jorja Smith & Black Coffee”

Dua Lipa “New Rules”

Haiku Hands “Not About You”

Ibibio Sound Machine “Give Me A Reason”

ionnalee “Samaritan”

J. Balvin x Willy William “Mi Gente feat. Beyoncé”

J. Hus “Did You See”

Jessie Ware “Your Domino”

Jorja Smith x Preditah “On My Mind”

Kah-Lo “Fasta”

Kelela “Truth Or Dare”

Kendrick Lamar “LOYALTY. feat. Rihanna”

Kllo “Last Yearn”

Leikeli47 “Miss Me”

Lorde “Sober”

Maliibu Miitch “4AM”

Miguel “Banana Clip”

Nite Jewel “2 Good 2 Be True”

Paramore “Hard Times”

Phoenix “J-Boy”

Rina Sawayama “Take Me As I Am”

Ronika “Better Than Ever”

Rose Elinor Dougall “All At Once”

Sigrid “Don’t Kill My Vibe”

Stormzy “Big For Your Boots”

The Horrors “Something To Remember Me By”

Tove Lo “Shedontknowbutsheknows”

Whethan “love gang feat. Charli XCX”

Wolf Alice “Don’t Delete The Kisses”

Finally, here are thirty albums I loved last year. Onwards and upwards!

1. Kelela Take Me Apart

2. Lorde Melodrama

3. SZA Ctrl

4. Fever Ray Plunge

5. Charly Bliss Guppy

6. Wolf Alice Visions Of A Life

7. Rina Sawayama RINA

8. Jessie Ware Glasshouse

9. Tove Lo Blue Lips

10. Charli XCX Pop 2

11. MUNA about u

12. Moses Sumney Aromanticism

13. Sevdaliza ISON

14. St Vincent MASSEDUCTION

15. Susanne Sundfør Music For People In Trouble

16. Ibeyi Ash

17. Sampa The Great Birds & The Bee9

18. Kink Playground

19. Daniel Caesar Freudian

20. Bicep Bicep

21. Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy

22. Miguel War & Leisure

23. Laura Marling Semper Femina

24. Ibibio Sound Machine Uyai

25. Jen Cloher Jen Cloher

26. Dua Lipa Dua Lipa

27. The xx I See You

28. Honey Dijon The Best Of Both Worlds

29. Kesha Rainbow

30. Leikeli47 Wash & Set

#music #musicwriting #2017 #2017music

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podcake · 7 years

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Week Five: Big Data Review

I like to think that the concept of innovative art only really reached its peak when the internet came along. I mean, there were people drawing on cave walls and writing with quill feathers and clattering on typewriters a little before that, but it was when the world wide web came to surface that the way we processed media truly changed. As a technology obsessed, sugar gargling millennial, I couldn’t possibly define myself today without a sweet, sweet machine able to give me immediate access to the art form of choice: podcasts.

But let’s, for one very terrifying minute, imagine what it would be like if the internet was plucked away and whatever phone, tablet, or laptop you were reading this from was obsolete. Hell, I’m entirely obsolete. Your collection of cat photos on Facebook, your favorite recipes on Pinterest, your favorite Let’s Play channels-just slipped out of your fingers because seven thieves with seven keys to the internet had something else in mind.

This is the general premise of Ryan Estrada’s first audio drama, the nine episode long Big Data. In this crime caper comedy, the entire world gets thrown into a frenzy when the ultimate source of information and privacy is taken away and we all get to know these thieves personally and decipher why they committed their crime before the internet is gone for good. Hilarity ensues.

Big Data is all around a show about the internet for the internet and has pretty big ambitions as an audio drama despite just how niche and personable the whole project feels. Despite it being the otherwise visual artist Ryan Estrada’s first real attempt at audio drama, at least as far as I’m concerned, Big Data has a certain level of polish that’s noticeable from a distance.

For starters, it’s presentation is pretty solid, namely due to the cast of talented voices working for it. Big Data has the kind of acting that sounds incredibly natural, making listening to it sound similar to peeping in on an actual conversation. This is especially helped by the use of everyday sound effects like buzzing phones and rustling clothes being played over silence that makes everything sound like a recording device was sneaked into someone’s bedroom.

A whole episode sometimes just feels like an uncut piece of improvisation, especially with the only occasional sound transition and long winded conversations taking place in every other moment. For this reason, Big Data mostly consists of very long scenes that are based around roughly two to three characters at a time which is only a fraction of the absolute clusterfuck of people introduced through the series alone.

In terms of innovation, it’s readily apparent as to why I found Big Data to be the crème de la crème for this month’s theme. Big Data is a weird show, bordering at the brink of absurdist at times. The show never goes full Serial Experiments Lain on us, though the concept is just complex enough for a lot of opportunities for creative and downright bizarre conflict. Not really in the abstract sense but more out of the sheer heights its dialogue is willing to peak to get a point across.

To its core, Big Data is a heist story that’s actually based off a real life practice created by something called ICANN. According to Estrada as well as an article by the Huffignton Post in 2014 and a more recent document earlier this year by ICANN itself, the seven keys to the internet holds a pivotal role over the internet. These are mostly measures for security, though Estrada seemed to do what most artists do and draw inspiration from some of the more strange practices of the real world for his own project.

And it doesn’t stop there. There’s also mentions of other real life concepts thrown into the mix, including such things as cyber police, relay calls, and photocopier black boxes that are creatively woven into an otherwise fictional story. Estrada takes the “reality is stranger than fiction” route to heart here which is a road less traveled for many audio drama creators and what he does with these ideas makes for some very one of a kind scenarios.

Big Data could be best described as...big. Everything about it seems to take up space from its thirty minute run time for episodes to its long scenes of dialogue to its combination of varying issues that are embedded into each element of the story from hacking to journalism to media consumption.

Even the setting itself seems to reside somewhere in the middle of other preexisting audio drama, the second episode including in-character commentary from the likes of Greater Boston and Welcome to Night Vale, to name a few.

I don’t know if there’s a widespread podcast multiverse theory that exists anywhere, but a helpful dose of that opening scene and that one mini episode with The Bright Sessions and Ars Paradoxica around the same time never fails to get me grinning. And if Big Data is the center of it all as the result of some sort of combination of the hadron rift and whatever drugs The Meat Blockade universe is on, I would not be that hard pressed to believe it.

Big Data may just be too much of a puzzle for people looking for something a little more straight forward. With a lot of characters to follow who have varying goals and personality quirks to keep up with as well as the broad premise at stake here, Big Data, as the name implies, can be a lot to process in one sitting. And with the long, single takes making up the majority of episodes, there’s a lot of time spent peddling around dialogue that may or may not be relevant or getting any sort of real point across.

Big Data tends to mistake swearing for humor if it doesn’t mistake long and awkward arguments for humor. And there’s at lest one per episode moment where one wonders how many minutes are left of a heated conversation before it wraps up. Not that it doesn’t have its clever and witty moments, though they’re often weighed down by scenes that don’t quite lay out the jokes as quickly as they could.

If the abstract necessity of the internet and an aesthetic that borrows from educational nerdy shows-think the PBS Idea Channel and Wisecrack and the like-is too weird a combination to your liking then the show probably won’t appeal to you in any personal or artistic way. It’s a look and feel that’s very genuine and unique and not a vibe I regularly get from audio dramas that are almost always variations of horror or sci-fi with some type of new scripted comedy every blue moon.

For that reason alone, Big Data is quite the novelty if you’re looking for a slightly more grounded comedic setting that is still rife with drama and action and I personally don’t think there are a enough of those that aren’t just improvisation groups.

In the end of the day, Big Data is a lot like an old and cluttered computer jam-packed with family photos, bookmarked news stories, student films, and whatever software it needs to run an indie game for you-lovingly constructed and planned out though often times messy with a tendency to lag.

It feels like its biting more than it can chew at times and there’s often moments where it seems like things are all being cobbled together more on a desktop than a folder, but it’s all done out of sheer sentimentality and a true love for both audio drama, the internet, and the wackiness of real life manipulated into something very grand and exciting.

Big Data is adventurous and able to take some risks with its kitchen sink of ideas that make for a fast paced and fun exploration riddled with some pretty memorable hi-jinks and characters you grow to like pretty quickly. Even if the taste itself was pretty small with only nine episodes to take in, if you don’t include mini episodes, it was at least as big a punch as Big Data should be.

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solasulad · 5 years

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Two Weeks Worth.

Feb 1st recap

And I can’t believe the lies that I went though

Thought you where mine but you decided to be with him tho

You took my feelings and just through them out the window

Feels like it’s too hard to fall in love again no

On some nights like this shorty I can’t help but think of us

I been reminiscing simply missing ya

Can you tell me what’s with all this distance love?

If I call would you pick it up?

On some nights like this i just want to text you but for what?

You gon say you want me then go switch it up.

Just gon play with my emotions just because..

You gon get my hopes high boy.

How am I feeling?

I cried my eyes out last night because of josh. (Jan 26)

Did a 13 hour shift and closer to 9ish I messaged him asking how he was with his girl? And he replied back saying that

“I decided to say with her and see how things go, I don’t want to ruin anything because of our anniversary and that would break her. So I’m just going with the flow”

I read that message at work and sink in my seat. I felt bad all over again. Like wow.

I don’t know what i was expecting with him tbh. Like he fed me the idea that he was unhappy with his girl, and that’s what i kinda took and ran with it.

I cried so much last night, both eyes tearing when i normally cry form my left only.

I felt my chest getting heavy and my breathing was barely there. Like I was hurt bad. Then i started thinking about all the other guys who’ve put me last.

He wants to protect her and her feelings okay, but also look at mine, I had sex with you, I hung out with you, I make stupid moves and showed you who I was.

I shouldn’t be catching feelings but, once you been shown something that feels so good it’s kind of hard to forget about it.

I asked myself this question last night:

When are these guys going to look at me and see me. When are they going to be like damn I really hurt her. When? Cause I’m giving up at this point.

Even hair.

I went to see him Thursday Jan 26 @ night. Had back and forth messages through text. I made plans to see him Thursday at 6.. but I was running late and there was traffic.. he asked me to come by his ends.. okay.. but when I got there he was in a white van, light tints, parking in an open space.. so i was kind of shocked how low he thought of me. He said he couldn’t hang up the call cause he was on a conference “meeting” call.. so he put it on mute and fucked me right there in the open space next to a church. I felt disgusted with myself afterwards. Like I can’t believe I allowed myself to want that.. met up with Marisa after that didn’t tell her it was Thursday we had sex but told her we fucked Wednesday. I feel no ways towards hair at this point either, cause josh was bigger than him but also how he didn’t care tbh. Like you finger me that’s just it. He doesn’t even eat. And I was doing the most on his dick. Like the fucking most deep throating it, back and forth holding it there for a bit then going on. I don’t even know if he came from head cause he switched me over like 5 mins into it. We fucked, I felt space between his dick I think I got bigger but 🤷🏾‍♀️.

Spoke about josh with Marisa she says he’s a pussy. Which he is. Didn’t tell Marisa about hair cause she would look at me crazy.

Who wouldn’t look at their friend and think of them as a thot or hoe? After fucking a guy in a open space next to a church? Damn.

Feb 7th cont. recap

It’s been 2 weeks so far since I fucked hair..

Didn’t speak to him afterwards or anything, after I left the car he asked me a question saying basically how I want sex but I don’t get it as much as I want. Told him yah and something along the lines of I got a guy but my sex drives on high lately... idk wtf I said but when I left that car I had no intentions of linking him up again.

Josh.

After crying my eyes out, our snap streak died. I also decided to just let it be. I worked that pervious night on the 27th of Jan. So we been just sending memes on insta and Snapchat was pretty dry, on Sunday feb 2nd he has the nerve to message me a snap with 1 second.. I was busy doing school work and replied back along the lines of “you sending 1 second snaps might as well send a nude cause I can’t see shit” so.. he send a dick video.. I sent back a twerking vid (someone I sent to hair) and then.. that was it. He saved the video and nothing else. I went to sleep woke up seen a meme and we never spoke about the video afterwards.. that following week, he messages me saying come by his place and we can go swimming. Uhm.. I did want to go but honestly.. it’s just conflicting cause I’d be holding myself back knowing he has a girl and wants to fuck. So I just lied and said I was busy. On Wednesday night that week, the fuck it in me went thru but instead it was just to “kick it” didn’t bring a bathing suit, went there just to smoke and leave it as is. We smoked in his parking lot basement, felt that all over again, he was talking about my body telling me i got thicker, i just wanted to hang as friends but honestly we could’ve, but i felt his vibe and I left. Now I’m high as fuck and went home. He sends me a message asking when is he gonna see me again. I told him when the weather ain’t shit & that convo died.

Fast forward now to second week of February..

Past Monday he sent a snap with 👀 eyes.

I replied back wassup? He’s like I’m tryna see you.. alright, bam.. I was on the phone with Valentina and then replied back saying what you wanna do? He’s like you... so I let the convo go until he said he wanted to fuck. I paged him saying “you confusing as fuck, don’t be saying one thing and do another” he replied back saying sorry and alright. So fucking short and quick. Wow. I was on the phone with vale during that time and then later on in the night I sent him a snap saying “I just wanna fuck no confusion just fuck?” And he replied back saying the same thing.. then told me to pull up it was like 10 ish at night or so I had shit to do the next morning told him nah can’t but tomorrow...

Now fast forward to yesterday aka Tuesday feb 5.. he messages me in the evening around 5ish saying he finishing up with his lawyer, told him come by my ends. He comes by my ends but I’m paranoid cause my older bros out and i don’t want him seeing me. I pick him up from the station with the quickness. Ended up just driving down the Main Street all the way until I reached downtown. Smh my dumb ass was literally in the heart of the city and I didn’t know what to do. So the car ride was pretty chill we just talked about nothing pretty much. His girl friend wasn’t brought up, his feelings wasn’t brought up but he kept saying things like you cute, sexy ass. Etc to show he was into me. I went in dressed as a niggah. No make up, hair tied back, black sweats and a grey hoodie. Wtf am I looking cute for tryna get some dick?

Anyways. We leave downtown go to a park next to the lake and smoke. The ground is filled with Ice and I’m sliding all over the place in my A1’s. smh. We smoke it’s pretty outside but cold a fuck, we get back in my car & I think the biggest mistake I did that night was giving him the keys to my car. I was high but fuck, I should never allowed him to drive. He drove back to his ends and we said fuck it went into his parking basement and fucked right there. I gave him some head and then said it was time to fuck, he goes in to put it in and I’m like where’s the condom??????!!!!!! He said he didn’t have one and forgot when we went to 7/11.. smh he said he’ll pull out but I was so scared then he went in to give me head tryna get me wet.. like wow this guy is a fucking goof, he knows what he’s doing. After I said I was kinda iffy he went in to get me horny.. smh

We fucking how he’s going in hard and I’m digging my nails into his thigh, I’m pretty sure I left marks.. he pulls out and I felt a drip. He asks me to finish him off by giving him head so I go in. I’m sucking it deep throating it until he says that it’s painful.. okay, so I’m just sucking the tip and moving my hands with his dick.. he kept saying “oh shit” and I didn’t know what was going on thought I was hurting him but after I pulled up he told me he came.. wtf I swallowed it and I didn’t even know?? Kinda disrespectful tbh, like let me know when you coming so I can catch it. Anyhoo, I swallowed and sat up, he said that this was the short amount of sex he had but the most intense ever, lol okay? We leave the parking spot and he drives us out. I don’t want to be seen tbh. So.. we get outside have a cig and then I leave him off. He was paranoid his moms would see him from the window. Smh okay whatever.

I’m ashamed with myself big time but at the same time I wanted that dick so badly. Like confusing as fuck how you want to say one thing then do another...

We fucked and that was that. Wednesday he had to do that immigration stuff so he didn’t really message me or anything, Thursday now; I asked him how it went and he said he got accepted. Okay... wow..

But shits not gonna change. I’m dead ass just leaving it as that, like I caught myself wanting dick again just thinking about Tuesday night smh. Now I have to wait until my period comes to make sure I’m not pregnant. Smh my periods due sometime this week or next week. But woowerz.

Let’s just be friends?

And with being friends you can’t be all sexual towards me. Gotta have boundaries. No hand holding, back grabbing or kissing.

Let’s just fuck?

And with fucking we can’t be friends cause that’s just going to lead to wanting it more than we should. Wanting more than each other’s time.. peeping what we doing and who we with?

Let’s just dead it?

Cause fucking or being friends is just too much at this point. We can both just do our own thing and not worry about each other?

Who knows what’s next cause it feels like at this point shit just happens randomly in life.

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peckhampeculiar · 6 years

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Reigning supreme

Landlord Clement Ogbonnaya is celebrating one year in business at the Prince of Peckham this week. He tells us how he turned the once beleaguered boozer into a buzzing pub that promises a warm welcome for all

Words: Emma Finamore; Photo: Lima Charlie

“For south London, by south London.” It’s a simple statement, but one that means a lot to Clement Ogbonnaya.

Since taking on the Clayton Arms and reopening it as the Prince of Peckham in May last year, Clement has transformed the boarded-up boozer into a busy pub, with south London at its heart.

Having grown up in the area, it’s a place he knows like the back of his hand. He went to school at St Thomas the Apostle College, just a 10-minute walk from the pub we’re sitting in now.

He was a “kind of geeky” kid (his words) who loved football, and got dragged from shop to shop by his mum on Rye Lane every Saturday. Morley’s was the main hangout on the walk home after school, and Desmond’s was his favourite TV show.

It sounds like a very British, very south London, childhood, but Clement was actually born in Nigeria.

“My parents came in 1986,” he says. “My main memory of first coming here is chips – I remember seeing chips and thinking they were amazing. I remember going to primary school in Brockley, and me and my sister saving money to buy chips.”

Many of his early memories revolve around food, so maybe he was always destined to own a place that serves up great grub. However, his journey to becoming a pub landlord wasn’t straightforward.

First he went to university. “That’s when everything changed for me socially,” he says, “learning about other people, coming from this south-east London bubble and meeting people different to me and the people I grew up with.”

After this he worked in retail for brands such as Armani, where he realised his love of people.

“I just wanted to chat,” he laughs. “I’m a great believer in talking, I’m a massive sponge. You can’t sell to someone if you don’t know them. That’s what I really liked about retail.”

He went on to work as a salesman, learning about the sales cycle, and at a photography studio – during the Myspace and Facebook boom – where he realised the importance of data.

“All this time I knew that roads would lead to something bigger,” he remembers. The experience played a part in his next move: promoting club nights and organising parties.

He would put on events in West End hotspots like Chinawhite, as well as running corporate bashes like New Look’s 40th birthday party, and organising the official after-parties for events at places like the O2.

Then The Westbury – a pub in Wood Green – approached him and asked him to manage it. “By this time I knew I loved venues,” he says.

“I was getting more and more interested in running my own venue. I agreed to take that on in 2012 and it was a pretty steep learning curve. But it was the best education I could have had.”

It was obviously one he enjoyed, too – because his next venture was yet another step up: his own nightclub, Love & Liquor in Maida Vale. “We smashed it,” Clement laughs.

But he’s not kidding: the club was a hit with celebrities like Jay-Z, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, P Diddy and Nelly, as well as regular punters, and the team even managed to bag A-lister Idris Elba for an eight-week DJ residency.

When Clement and his business partner sold Love & Liquor, he’d already developed the ethos that would help when building his new pub in Peckham. “It’s all about win/win relationships,” he says.

“If the venue wins, everyone wins. My thought process had totally changed. If you’re going to have a venue, it first and foremost needs to work for the community and the residents in its immediate vicinity.”

Next on his colourful CV was managing The Paradise By Way of Kensal Green. “That’s when I really fell in love with pubs,” says Clement.

“All I wanted to do was give it back to the community – we got involved with Carnival and sound systems, we put on community fairs, but all alongside big name DJs on Fridays.

“When I finished there I knew I had to have a pub, and I wanted it to be in south-east London – the community I knew best.”

Walking through Peckham one day, Clement noticed the pub on Clayton Road was up for sale, and started setting the next stage of his career path in motion.

He looked at the original Clayton Arms, which was damaged during the 2011 London riots and sat boarded up until 2015; the short-lived Dead Dolls House, and the equally short-lived reopened Clayton Arms.

He looked at what they got wrong as establishments and what they got right – and used it along with his own business acumen and hospitality experience to build a clear picture of what he wanted and how to do it. “The business plan for this place was the most thorough bit of work I’ve ever done,” he says.

The work paid off, and on March 17, 2017 he took over the building. “I remember thinking, ‘Shit, I’m tied to this place for like, 25 years!’” he laughs. “It’s been like school every day. Every day I come in and learn something new. But I love it. I love my staff, I love the customers… it’s a love affair right now.”

His enthusiasm shines through in the dynamic, eclectic schedule and the food and drink offering the Prince of Peckham now boasts.

Musically, there’s something for everyone, whether it’s high-octane party vibes at Saturday’s Culture club night – think hip hop, R&B classics and Afrobeat – or the regular Pull Up Dat Fam night, featuring grime, dancehall, soca, rap and everything in between.

There’s also Cross the Tracks with JRust and Lavan, playing funk, disco, house and garage; Jay Jay Revlon’s Let’s Have a Kiki feel-good voguing dance parties; chilled-out Sundays with all-female DJ collective Sisters of Reggae, and nights with Peckham-based creative collective Born n Bread.

Most of the people Clement works with on this busy schedule are locals, in keeping with his ethos for the pub. For example, last month’s Vegan & Vinyl Feast was a celebration of vinyl and tasty vegan food from Zionly Manna Vegan Rastarant in Rye Lane Market. the owner, Jahson Peat, grew up on the North Peckham Estate.

The pub’s food is also sourced locally wherever possible, and the weekly menu gives a nod to Peckham’s longstanding Caribbean community, putting an island twist on pub classics: jerk sausage and mash, curried mutton shepherd’s pie, Red Stripe and jerk spiced fish and chips, as well as snacks and sides like patties, saltfish fritters, wings brined in Red Stripe, and jerk fries.

There are great deals to be had too: Street Feast favourites White Men Can’t Jerk run a Saturday bottomless brunch featuring Red Stripe fried chicken and waffles among other lip-smacking goodies, as well as limitless prosecco.

Hot Mess Mondays offer visitors a huge stack of chicken wings in a range of flavours for just £10, and every Tuesday, Mates & Dates means guests can bring a mate (or a date) for two buns and fries to share for £15.

Other events include disco yoga, the University of Peckham quiz night, swing dance classes, hip hop vs grime karaoke, and spoken word and poetry nights. Your average local boozer this is not.

“I feel like we’ve seamlessly moved into the Peckham landscape,” says Clement, reflecting on the first year in business, and his hard work to create a place that is genuinely welcoming for everyone.

“Desmond’s was my favourite show growing up – a local barber shop where everyone went. It was welcoming to everyone but unapologetically Caribbean. In the same way, I’m in Britain but I’m Nigerian, and I want this place to reflect that mash-up of cultures.

“I think it’s important for young black people to see me behind the bar. This is our community, if we’re in this community why aren’t we running the pubs? I’ve got a little girl too, and it’s important for her to see me owning something. It’s not about the self, it’s about creating a legacy.

“Just like the ‘Peckham Prince’ in Desmond’s [aka Lee Stanley, the local wheeler-dealer who was like a son to Desmond and Shirley], it’s about that mash-up of cultures in one person.

“When we were kids, everyone thought they were the ‘Peckham Prince’, that’s what inspired the name here. I think whatever part of Peckham you are from – black, white, middle class, working class, whatever – you deserve to be treated like royalty. We give people a good time.”

Peckham is clearly very dear to Clement, as he talks about community, building a network of local friends and fellow businesses. New Year’s Eve was one of the few moments he let himself have a moment of reflection: “I stood back, looked at all our regulars from the area, and thought, ‘We’ve done alright’. I want to have the same feeling every day.”

And – forever the entrepreneur – he’s already putting plans in place for that to happen. The next 12 months at the Prince of Peckham are “all about getting quality and consistency”.

This means continuing to welcome everyone from Peckham and beyond with warm, open arms, and ensuring the excitement and buzz of nights like Culture are replicated every single evening. There’s also a collaboration with the hugely popular Trap Kitchen – from Prince “Shakka” Owusu – in the pipeline.

Clement is already looking in Peckham for a second site, too. “It could be a pub, it could be a bar, but it will be similar vibe,” he says. “A really cool boozer, a home-from-home vibe.

“One of the good things about growing up in Peckham was that everyone wanted to be better and do more.”

With his community-focused pub, working with a roster of local businesses and young creatives, Clement is not only realising this dream himself, but helping others realise it for themselves, too.

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theseventhhex · 7 years

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The Big Moon Interview

The Big Moon

London four-piece The Big Moon are pleased to announce details of their forthcoming debut album. Recorded in London throughout last summer, ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’ is a 11 track LP showcasing what this young band brimming with confidence is capable of. The band spent twelve joyous summer days in the studio experimenting, shredding and hitting things until all the right noises happened at once. The thrilling debut release showcases a wide-ranging dynamic that delivers a high energy, combining elements of punk-pop and grunge, alongside soaring guitar leads, alluring vocal harmonies and infectious melodies… We talk to Juliette Jackson and Celia Archer about working with Catherine Marks, performing for BBC Radio 1 and Pret a Manger…

TSH: During the forming of your debut record nothing felt stressful, rushed, or difficult…

Juliette: It was so satisfying to finally commit all our songs to record, knowing that the way we made them then would be the way they were forever.

TSH: From your point of view, how would you personally characterise the mood and intent of ‘Love In the 4th Dimension’?

Juliette: I'd say the mood of the album is energetic and passionate with occasional slow jams, plenty of mucking around and a lot of epic feelings. It's a box of Fox's family favourites. There's something delicious for all the family.

TSH: Talk us through the valuable nature of having Catherine Marks on board to nurture the sound…

Juliette: Catherine is just a fucking boss. Without her there'd be no album. Well, we'd do one but it'd be 17 times more rubbish.

Celia: Precisely 17 times.

TSH: What lead to the decision to playing with more dry and distorted sounds?

Juliette: Choosing sounds isn't really a decision making process, it's an instinctive thing, you just knob twiddle until it sounds good to you.

TSH: In what way was the track ‘Formidable’ an articulation of a feeling you felt you got right?

Juliette: I wrote that song in about 2 hours very late at night and it all just splurted out, those moments are so special and sort of divine, it's like you're not even there and all this stuff is just kind of travelling through you.

Celia: Getting that song from Jules was very exciting. We learnt it very quickly and it came together super naturally. The first time we played the whole thing all the way through and made all the right noises at the right time felt incredibly special.

TSH: With regards to ‘The Road’ – did you draw from certain time spent at parties and not feeling too good?

Juliette: Yeah, the end of the night and that moment when you have that realisation, like a revelation, you're drunk enough to feel bold and make a big decision, like, I'm done with this and I can see that clearly now.

TSH: What resonates with you most about a track like ‘Sucker’?

Juliette: The shredding.

Celia: Apart from our second gig, we've always closed our set with ‘Sucker’ and jumping around on stage with the others and playing the outro of that song live at the end of a show is one of my favourite things to do in the whole world and I feel so lucky that I get to do it all the time. I also love the way that even in songs where Jules is coming from a more vulnerable position, like this one and ‘Nothing Without You’, there's still this strength that comes out and she's still in control.

TSH: Did the tropical theme in the studio give out positive vibes?

Juliette: It was quite nice to cuddle the inflatable banana during times of anguish.

TSH: What kind of contrast do you gravitate towards with your songwriting?

Juliette: I think songs are all about contrast. A beautiful bit of harmony sounds ten times better if it's surrounded by a cacophony. And likewise, a beautiful quiet bit feels quieter next to a loud bit. Those kind of jarring moments make everything more potent.

TSH: What are the main incentives that you bear in mind with The Big Moon’s live offerings?

Juliette: We offer free dessert and BYOB with every show. Subject to terms and conditions.

TSH: Speaking of playing live, how was the experience of doing a BBC Radio 1 live session with Huw Stephens?

Juliette: So cool! It as a dream to go to Maida Vale and do that.

Celia: That was one of the coolest things I've ever done.

TSH: Moreover, what did you enjoy mostly in touring with Blaenavon?

Juliette: Ben's eyebrows.

Celia: Frank's bass face.

TSH: What kind of vibe did Kit Harrington give off after he walked past you in a bar after a gig?

Juliette: Brooding.

TSH: What was your reaction to hearing The Big Moon in Pret?

Juliette: I got so over excited the man at the counter gave me a free cup of tea and told me to sit down.

Celia: I haven't been lucky enough to experience it yet. I'll probably lose my shit though. Hopefully I'll be with a pal. Oh wait! A friend literally just texted me to say she's in Pret and they're playing us! We should totally get a discount. Do Pret have the equivalent of a Nando’s black card? If so, I would like that please.

TSH: Is unwinding via watching Bob’s Burgers satisfying during your downtime?

Juliette: Yes!

Celia: Very. Also, I'm also eagerly awaiting season 3 of Rick and Morty. That always helps.

TSH: What’s been getting played mostly on your YouTube binges?

Celia: I get into holes watching interviews on late night American chat shows - mainly with Emma Stone, Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lawrence. I find myself laughing along as if we're actually friends or on a date. This is sounding much lamer now I'm typing it out in an interview. I probably should reassess this behaviour. But honestly there's this one segment from a Jenny Slate interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers that I've watched about a hundred times and every time I find it hilarious and am convinced that if we met in real life we'd really hit it off!

TSH: Finally, what’s the band ethos as you look ahead?

Juliette: I'm ready to grow out my fringe.

Celia: I'm hoping that this interview will circulate the internet in a way that enables me to get a Pret black card for free sandwiches and mac and cheese and also become best friends with Jenny Slate!

The Big Moon - “Formidable”

Love In the 4th Dimension

#Interview #The Big Moon

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