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can we see little snippets of bandmember!yn in the this is us movie I FEEL LIKE SHED BE SO FUNNY
This Is Us: YN’s Featurette
A/N: there are still so many scenes in this is us that i still wanna go deeper into so there's more to come!
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“She could be our mum one minute and the next she’s our little sister.” Liam chuckles from his seat on the back of the tour bus.
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The band is in their backstage mini changing room as they prepare to head out on stage. 
“Ni, what’ve you got all over yeh face?” The blonde lad tries to dodge out of the way when YN licks her thumb and rubs away at the leftover hot sauce on his cheek.
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“Give ‘em back, you twats!” YN yells as she chases Niall and Louis down the venue hallway.
They were all dressed up—well almost all dressed—and ready to head on stage any minute until her two bandmates quite literally snatched her heels away from her feet while she sat in the dressing room getting some last minute touches on her makeup. 
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“YN and I grew up together so it’s nice to still have that sense of familiarity of home being away from home,” Louis nods from his interview spot in the venue hallway. "She will always be me little sister...which means that I know she can handle a joke every now and then."
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Lou has YN sitting in front of a vanity as she does her hair in one of the venue dressing rooms. Zayn and Louis annoyingly keep throwing gummy bears on her lap. 
When one hits her face, she gives the boys a warning looking with a raise of her eyebrow that makes them stop immediately, looking like school boys who were scolded by their teacher. But it softens when she looks forward again and pops a gummy past her lips.
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“YN is just one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met," Niall explains from his seat in the top nook of the tour bus. "She's super talented with the guitar and that's something we initially bonded over when we first met a couple years ago. And along with Zayn, her voice gives us some edge and range. We'd sound very different without her."
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There’s a clip of the band making their way up the steep, see through stairs on stage as they sing C’mon C’mon. 
As everyone gets strapped in to get ready to be carried to the B-Stage, YN flips her ponytail behind over her shoulder before effortlessly hitting the song’s high notes. She leans her head back as she sings, getting lost in the song and feeling of being on stage doing something she loves. 
The fun part is when all of the boys get to pretend to have shocked expressions on their faces, throwing thumbs her way like they didn’t know she could do what she did.
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It’s one of the crew member’s birthdays and everyone celebrates with a song and cake. It doesn’t take long before a cake fight breaks out and it was an amateur move to think that YN wasn’t going to get Harry back after he wipes frosting over her forehead. 
The camera crew is able to capture the way Harry crawls his way out of one of the green rooms but he can’t escape YN as she’s practically on top of him.
“No! No!” Harry squeamishly yells and laughs when she’s tugging on his red flannel, blindly reaching around to smear her frosted cover hand over his cheek. 
The next clip is him chasing YN down the venue hallway with frosting all over his face. They both let out screams mixed with laughter when he finally wraps his arms around her from behind. He doesn’t really think it through when he grabs her head and presses his cheek against hers. He smears their skin together to transfer the frosting and relishes in the way her laugh sounds—the kind where she lets out an unattractive snort that only comes out on rare occasions like this.
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“I think she really balances us out,” Zayn nods from his spot on the brown leather couch in his art studio. "She keeps us all grounded during the busyness of it all."
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At the back of the tour bus, she and Zayn are sat across from each other with notebooks in their laps, angled so that the other can’t see the other’s paper as they move their pencils across the paper. 
“Think m’the next Picasso.” YN beams when she shows him her attempt of drawing his portrait. It's a poor drawing overall: her lines are too harsh that when she tried to erase them, you can still see the faint lines, eyes are uneven, the nose is crooked—the only likeness she got of him was his hair.
YN's jaw drops into her lap when Zayn reveals his realistic drawing of her. There's shading and resemblance and he even made the crease she was making in between her eyebrows look beautiful.
"So you were just gonna take a picture of me and try to convince me that that's a drawing?"
Zayn's eyes squint shut as he laughs bashfully at her compliment.
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"YN just has one of the most kindest hearts I've ever seen," Harry tucks his hands together from his spot at a dining table. He adjusts his blue beanie before saying, "Like she just adds so much light to the group and I think that's something we just all feed off of, I think."
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YN and Harry sit in the middle of the green room with a guitar on each of their laps. Their conversation isn't picked up by from the camera's position peaking in from the doorway but she tells him something as she rearranges his fingers on the neck of the guitar.
When Harry takes a go at strumming the note, YN's nose scrunches up as she laughs and covers her face with her hands. He can't help but join in with her soon after.
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“I grew up surrounded by a lot of women but I also grew up with Louis.” YN bites down on her bottom lip to keep a smile from tugging on her lips. “...So there’s that.” 
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YN and Louis are both seen skateboarding around the inside of Madison Square Garden.
He leads the way to the snack table by one of the seating areas. He quickly snatches a bag of popcorn while she grabs a handful of mini bags of candy, a few falling behind her from the speed they were going at.
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There’s another clip of the band side by side as their stylist takes some group photos of possible tour outfits. Louis discreetly reaches behind Liam to pull on YN’s ponytail. With a scowl on her face, she punches Liam’s arm thinking it was him.
“Oi! What was that for?” Liam cries out while clutching his arm.
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“Some could say that it’s unprofessional behavior but they’re teenagers with different jobs than other people their age,” Paul explains from his seat behind one of the tables in the green room. “I thought I had a chance with YN being the more responsible one but she’s just as bad as they are. Don’t let the frilly shirts and heels deceive you.”
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“Babe, what happened to your dress?” Emma, her personal stylist, questions when the 19 year old walks down the venue hall. YN has her skateboard in hand, knees scraped and her white dress dirty. “Where are your shoes?” She goes on to ask when she notices the pop star’s bare feet pad on the tiled floor, heels nowhere to be found.
Emma shakes her head, blinking quickly in disbelief as YN just shrugs her shoulders.
“But I’ll go look for ‘em.” Before Emma can get another word out, YN runs down the hallway. She drags the end of her skateboard until she gets enough speed before hopping onto the board, swerving past people walking by. 
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"It's crazy to think that I didn't even want to audition to be on the XFactor in the first place. If Louis hadn't tricked me into it, my life would be so different," YN shakes her head in disbelief. "I can't imagine my life without doing this, without the boys, any of it."
She visibly studders and straightens up her back.
"Just thinkin' about that gives me chills," YN laughs.
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Harry and YN both have matching INSIDER blue bandanas over their foreheads as they keep running away from their security in the back lot of the venue they’re performing at. 
They attempt to maneuver themselves under one of the fences, but they can't do so in time because Paul's pulling at Harry's leg.
YN just stays on the ground—half her body under the wired fence—and puts her hands up to block the sun from her eyes.
“Hi Noah.” She gives one of her personal bodyguards a sweet smile.
“Come on, hun. We don’t have time for this. Yeh gonna be late.” The hefty man sighs out, surely tired from all of the running around the lot, and puts his hands on his hips.
“But Noah,” She counters in a cocky tone. “A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply earl—” 
“I’ll give yeh a ride back if yeh listen.”
“Deal.” 
Once she gets herself up from the concrete, she patiently waits until he’s turned around and crouched so she can grab his shoulders and promptly hop onto the man’s back.
Noah and Paul walk side by side back into the venue with pop stars on their backs—one bandmate propped up on their back more gracefully than the other. 
As Harry slides his feet against the tiled floor, YN happily stays on her security guard's back until she’s dropped off in the band’s designated green room.
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“How do you do that thing where it looks like you’re touching the top of it?” Harry questions, pointing vaguely in front of the Eiffel Tower. 
“You’ve got to get low, I think.” Niall crouches down a good distance away from Harry and brings his phone to his face.
“Does it look good?”
“Yeah, it looks like you’re holding it up.”
Harry puts on a bright smile at his band mate’s words and he poses with his hand out, palm up thinking it looks like he’s holding up one of the world's famous monuments. 
The camera pans over to YN who has her arms crossed with a confused look on her face as she chews on her gum. She looks at the camera before closing her eyes and shaking her head at how bad the positioning is.
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“I’ve gained five brothers which could be the best or worst thing in the world. Depends on what day it is.” 
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YN leans against the wall of the venue hallway with her eyes squeezed shut as she laughs at the sight before her.
After walking into the band’s green room with her shoulders slumped, muttering to herself and falling face first into one of the couches, the boys immediately question what happened. 
“All I wanted was some bloody M&M’s but the stupid machine ate me dollar; it even made me work for it because the bill wasn’t straight enough. Now m’left snackless and without cash.” YN pouts with her eyes closed, but they quickly flutter open and her eyebrows furrow when she hears rustling. 
She eyes the boys as they quickly walk out of the room. She’s up and out of her laying position at the sudden sound of banging. When she runs out to see what all the commotion is about, she bursts out in laughter as the boys work together to shake the heavy vending machine. 
The next clip shows Paul entering the hallway, his arms out by his sides and he shakes his head in confusion, “What are yeh guys doing?”
YN and the rest of the boys quickly scurry back into the green room, everyone’s arms filled with a plethora of the vending machine’s snacks and laughs tumbling past their lips.
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A YEAR AFTER evacuating Ukraine for safety in Sosnowiec, Poland, a woman, her 13-year-old daughter, and her daughter’s friend were able to enjoy a stress-free night on Sunday, thanks to Harry Styles. The pop star invited the trio to his Love on Tour gig in Warsaw, according to the International Rescue Committee, an organization that helps people affected by humanitarian crises rebuild their lives. The IRC has been working with Maryna, her daughter Daria, and Daria’s friend, Daria Kathina; the organization did not provide full names for the women but included photos of them at the concert.
“Since being forced to leave our home in Ukraine last year, it’s been a challenge adjusting to life in a new country — especially for my daughter, Daria, and my 10-year-old son,” Daria said in a statement. “I’m so grateful to Harry Styles and the IRC, which has supported me to pursue my dream career in Poland, for giving us the chance to forget our worries for a night and sing and dance at the concert.”
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This week the European leg of Harry Styles's much-publicised Love on Tour concludes in Lisbon. It's the final stop on a trip promoting the now Mercury Prize-nominated album, Harry's House, which has seen the singer turn his concerts into a space that holds a mirror up to his audience, making the show as much about them as him.
In and amongst the wide-leg trousers and wild-eyed dancing there have been stories of Styles helping to orchestrate marriage proposals and gender reveals from the stage, consoling fans who have been cheated on or helping others come out in a ceremony officiated under a rippling rainbow flag. For the thousands who have bought tickets, Love on Tour has been a travelling circus filled with the kind of innocent joy that pop music can inspire, as well as a place where Styles's young fans can come as they are and, for a few hours, unburden themselves from the weight of the world.
As one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, Harry Styles's repeated signposting of his concerts as a place of progressivism has served as a powerful antidote to the ongoing culture wars around identity politics. The tour has been punctuated with moments of the singer proudly demonstrating his beliefs, holding up flags borrowed from members of the crowd to pledge his allegiance to everything from Black Lives Matter to bisexual visibility. Following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas in May, Styles announced he would be donating $1M from ticket sales to gun safety group Everytown, and in the wake of landmark American abortion legislation Roe v Wade being overturned the following month, Styles plucked a fan's sign that read My Body My Choice from a crowd member, carefully placing it in front of his drummer's kit.
These incidents can be easily waved away as cheap ploys for viral moments and trending stories, but Styles' brand of pop-timisim has a ring of authenticity that is central to his appeal. On matters of identity, sexuality and even love, he clearly shares the open-minded liberalism of his young fans. The fact he's celebrated it with many of their parents present has made that all the more powerful.
These moments of on-stage activism have become increasingly prevalent as young fans look to musicians to reflect their views and be a champion for the social causes of their generation. This shift in expectations means that silence on the news of the day is read at best as ignorance and at worst as complicity. At Glastonbury this year, artists including Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo loudly aligned themselves with the pro-choice movement when performing; calling out Putin and standing with Ukraine has been a recurrent theme at concerts since Russia's invasion. In 2022, it's hard to believe that just over five years ago Taylor Swift kept tight-lipped about her views on Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2016 election, fearing speaking out could alienate some of her fanbase.
For Styles, who graced the cover of Vogue in a dress, and has launched his own line of iridescent male-polish, championing progressive ideas about identity is hardly a surprising move. Here is a star whose boundary-pushing style and transgressive gender expression has earned him comparisons to the likes of Prince and David Bowie, but like those pioneers before him his chameleonic style has also allowed him to be a blank canvas that fans can project ideas onto. Thanks to stylist Harry Lambert and an array of Gucci garms, his tour wardrobe has been a fantastical mishmash of oversized proportions and trippy patterns, giving his shows a wild, permissive atmosphere perfect for the messages he is trying to communicate.
A cynic might ask whether Harry Styles, or indeed any pop star, proclaiming their beliefs in front of a rapt audience is genuinely meaningful, but watching the reaction to his actions in the crowds has been undeniably powerful. The young people forming conga lines and arriving in a mass of pink cowboy hats and feather boas have seen many of the values and causes they care about ridiculed and questioned in the wider culture for years. Love on Tour has been a rebuttal to all that: proof that acceptance and tolerance are not hollow ideals, and a welcome reminder that sometimes the best way to kill your critics is with kindness.
via GQ Magazine. (28 July 2022)
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‘We were gagging to experience life’: Foals on booze, becoming a trio and their love for Kyiv
Dave Simpson | photos by Linda Nylind/The Guardian
Now one of the UK’s biggest bands, the trio talk about the impact of losing two founder members, fighting pandemic gloom with a euphoric seventh album, and why the climate crisis won’t stop them touring
Shortly before Christmas, when Foals were discussing potential places to shoot a new video, Ukraine topped the list. Frontman Yannis Philippakis had gone travelling there alone when he was 18 and still has a “kind of map of what it was like then permanently in my head”. In more recent years, when Foals had played some shows there, Kyiv had been just as he remembered it: a beautiful, peace-loving city that loved a party. The band were keen to work with Tanu Muiño, an acclaimed Ukranian-Cuban director who has worked with Lil Nas X, Cardi B, the Weeknd and Harry Styles – she turned out to be a Foals fan, and so an old industrial courtyard workspace was scouted for the shoot. At that point, Russian tanks had just started gathering on the border but, as Philippakis remembers, “the idea of it turning into a full-scale war seemed pretty remote”.
They shot the joyously choreographed video for 2am in January, after which they watched some ice skating, visited bars, hung out with the crew and talked politics. A perfect day ended with hugs and group photos. “The optimism that day was captured in the video,” says the singer, wistfully. “It’s strange to think how quickly that’s been brutalised.”
Since the Russian invasion – after which Foals cancelled upcoming shows in Moscow and St Petersburg – the band have found it difficult to contact the Ukrainians they spent time with. “There are people in our video who are now having to shelter for their lives or pick up rifles to defend their city,” Philippakis says. “The choreographer left a message saying that she and her husband were having to hide from shelling.”
I meet Foals in March at their small rented studio, rehearsal room and writing space in Peckham, London, cradling coffees. “It certainly feels weird to be doing promo,” admits guitarist Jimmy Smith, his newly dyed blond hair reflecting his current status as an Englishman who lives in Los Angeles. Nor is it lost on them that the album we’re here to talk about – the seventh and best of their career – is a euphoric party record, worthy of a band whose last album reached No 1 and are billed high in this summer’s Glastonbury and Latitude lineups, warming up with four sold-out nights in London’s Olympia this weekend.
Life Is Yours – full of sunny, motorik disco/house-influenced dancefloor fillers such as Wake Me Up and the sublime upcoming single 2001 – is being compared to Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and 80s Duran Duran. With more keyboards and fewer guitars, its ecstatic, air-punching vibe couldn’t be further from the horrors of Ukraine, the pandemic, climate change or economic crisis.
Philippakis expains that when they made 2019’s brace of socially conscious albums, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Parts 1 and 2), “the climate crisis suddenly seemed upon us and there were books coming out about the sixth mass extinction. It felt right to engage with the threat on the horizon.” However, while Life Is Yours is also a response to the post-Covid world in which there’s what he describes as “an everyday jeopardy or darkness now that’s impossible to ignore”, this time the mood is uplifting.
“It was written in the midst of lockdowns,” the quietly wellspoken singer explains, sporting a DH Lawrence beard and wearing the same sort of loosely fitting shirt he wears on stage. “Winter, grey, no life on the streets. So we’d come here and shelter from all that by writing music that felt escapist and joyful, but also hopeful for the future to come back.”
When the pandemic struck, Foals managed to do one date of an Asian tour in February 2020 before concerts suddenly started being cancelled. “We didn’t know what the fuck was going on,” says Philippakis. “You think: ‘Oh, this will soon blow over’, but it didn’t.” After making it back to the UK it was nice to spend unexpected time at home – the band had kept them from seeing partners – but the singer remembers the “surreal strangeness” of the first lockdown. “We’ve all grown up on apocalypse movies like Contagion, World War Z or whatever. So there was that aspect of engaging with something we’ve all been worried about.”
The very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people
Yannis Philippakis
Jack Bevan, the band’s well-groomed, amiable, gently self-effacing drummer, was one of the very first in the UK with Covid. On returning from Asia, he came down with “basically the worst flu I ever had. After about 10 days I started to feel a bit better, but then had pneumonia symptoms for a week and then this sort of extreme fatigue for about a month. This was well before lockdown, when Covid was a mystery to people here. I was just watching the news, with all these horrifying statistics and cases from abroad. So there was no reassurance of how this thing would go.”
Smith, meanwhile, escaped to LA to see his girlfriend, got stuck there during lockdown (hence his now full-time US residence) and contracted Covid too. “It was in my lungs for a month,” he says. “It was certainly enough of a shock to make me quit smoking.” When the band eventually regrouped in Peckham, playing for hours every day became a way of blocking out what was going on outside.
Foals made Life Is Yours as a trio. In 2018, co-founding bassist Walter Gervers, the band’s most stable “father figure” and counsel in times of strife, left suddenly to start a family. Last year’s exit of another founder, keyboard player Edwin Congreave, was less unexpected but equally significant. He had been doing an Open University degree with a view to studying at Cambridge and, as Philippakis explains, was finding it hard to reconcile the boozing and adrenaline of a touring lifestyle with academia.
“Poor Edwin,” Smith says, chuckling. “We’d come tumbling on to the bus at 3am and he’d be in the back lounge with his papers, trying to study for a 9am exam.” The remaining members insist the departures have strengthened their own bonds, but such lineup changes can play havoc with a group’s dynamic, especially losing people they’ve played with for 15 years.
“It can be destabilising,” Philippakis admits as we’re on a second round of coffees. “And you miss them as a social presence. Getting to spend your life with your friends is a beautiful way to spend your time, so when anyone goes you think: we’re never going to spend that much time with that person again.”
This partly explains why Life Is Yours occasionally has a more wistful undercurrent. All Foals albums are different – whether the “career gamble” of 2010’s ambitious Total Life Forever or the heavier terrain of 2015’s What Went Down. In a way, Life Is Yours recalls the giddy energy of their 2008 debut Antidotes, but viewed through a rear-view mirror.
“We were thinking back to when we started,” Philippakis, who is now 35, reflects, referring to their days (after originally meeting in Oxford) as a math-rock band living in a Peckham squat dubbed Squallyoaks, sharing takeaways and playing “feral parties” in the squat scene. “There was optimism that isn’t really around any more. It was a golden era of nightlife: great clubs, house music, pre-social media and smartphones, all the cross-pollinations in music, art, dance. I think on songs such as [Life Is Yours track] Looking High there is a wistfulness, now that clubs are closing down. When we were making the album we were gagging to experience life, so you find yourself thinking about old parties and times when you could lose yourself in a moment.”
You’d see Yannis hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’
Jack Bevan
Foals re-emerge into a very different climate from the one that they started out in in 2004, one of the print NME, CD singles and a thriving circuit of live bands and smaller venues. “There’s loads of positives to social media and the internet,” says Philippakis, idly strumming a Spanish guitar, “but one thing that has been destructive has been the ravaging of the geographical architecture around music: local venues, record stores, affordable rehearsal spaces and studios. It’s affected the way people make music communally, or the idea of making friends and making music together. Everything has migrated online, but if you walk around our cities, there’s no record shop, nowhere to make a racket. It’s all a bit bereft. When I was still at school I’d go to [club night] Trash in London every week and the Horrors or Arctic Monkeys or the Klaxons would be there, and it felt like everyone was part of something.”
The idea of music as a communal experience is central to Foals and, ironically, partly why Congreave left. Having started touring in an old Royal Mail van, the keen environmentalist had become uncomfortable with the band’s carbon footprint. Foals do offset their carbon, but Smith argues that if a band wants to sustain a life and income – even one who unfurled a banner reading No Music on a Dead Planet at the 2019 Mercury prize – it’s impossible to avoid some environmental impact. “It’s not just income, though,” Philippakis says. “For me, the very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people.”
He remembers a particular discussion with Congreave on the tour bus prior to their cancelled Asia tour. “He was saying: ‘We shouldn’t do these shows’ – not because of Covid, but because of the impact of a band flying thousands of miles. “We had a very frank and reasonable discussion, but in the end we said: ‘We want to be musicians.’ I’m more than happy to offset, but I wouldn’t want to be in this band if we weren’t playing shows.”
The singer has become one of modern pop’s great livewire frontpersons – known to leap from high balconies into crowds or battle with security men trying to prevent him. “I actually stopped drumming at one gig because of what Yannis was up to,” Bevan chuckles. “You’d see him hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’” For the singer, who grew up on “provocative, high-wire” hardcore bands such as the Jesus Lizard, performing is a way of escaping his “everyday self. It’s really charged, and on stage the energy from the crowd and the physical volume and the booze becomes like a cyclone.”
Foals read a recent Guardian article about how “hard-partying” bands have become outliers, but for them alcohol remains a part of touring. Philippakis has never done a show sober – Smith did, once – but has certainly seen peers fall by the wayside owing to the lifestyle. However, he points out that people who find making music cathartic or therapeutic might also have “certain psychological issues that make them more attracted to getting fucked up”.
Bevan explains that the industry’s “high-pressure environment” can cause social drinking to become a “coping mechanism. If you were hungover at home, you’d spend the whole day under a duvet, but on tour you might have to play to 40,000 people. You have to power on and maybe have a few drinks to get through.” The drummer always performed sober until a panic attack on stage at the Faversham in Leeds in 2006 led him to reconsider, so now he allows himself “a couple of beers before a show”. Philippakis is upfront about enjoying drinking, but explains that it’s also a creative tool, especially with lyrics. “I tend to become quite unhealthy in the later stage of writing,” he admits, “and that usually continues until the end of tour. I couldn’t do a show without drinking.”
Foals’s ideal is to keep the party going without risking the band. In 17 years, none of them has had a drug problem, and while they certainly enjoy a tipple, or several, Smith counsels: “It’s fundamentally a bad idea to drink your band into ruin.”
So much has changed around them. When Antidotes came out, the UK had a Labour government and was in the EU. Philippakis – who has a Jewish South African mother and a Greek father – explains that Greece sees the EU as “an oppressor, something that was very punitive to the Greek people, but I understand that Brexit has been disastrous for the UK”. He despairs of the “rampant corruption” in parliament and argues that people are “waking up to the fact that we have a rightwing government” and expects a “bigger fury”. On Life Is Yours, Foals perhaps represent a generation – or several generations – who remember the good times, are bewildered and angered by the world today, and just want to be able to look forward with optimism once again.
The idea was that Life Is Yours would coincide with the beginnings of a post-pandemic, brighter world, which – with war raging and prices soaring – seems further away than ever. “The spirit of an emerging new future isn’t here yet,” admits the singer, “which does add a weird extra poignancy to the album. But if it just never arrives, then hopefully we’ve made a great record that people can hide in and take solace in.”
The Guardian | 29th April 2022
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Now one of the UK’s biggest bands, the trio talk about the impact of losing two founder members, fighting pandemic gloom with a euphoric seventh album, and why the climate crisis won’t stop them touring
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Shortly before Christmas, when Foals were discussing potential places to shoot a new video, Ukraine topped the list. Frontman Yannis Philippakis had gone travelling there alone when he was 18 and still has a “kind of map of what it was like then permanently in my head”. In more recent years, when Foals had played some shows there, Kyiv had been just as he remembered it: a beautiful, peace-loving city that loved a party. The band were keen to work with Tanu Muiño, an acclaimed Ukranian-Cuban director who has worked with Lil Nas X, Cardi B, the Weeknd and Harry Styles – she turned out to be a Foals fan, and so an old industrial courtyard workspace was scouted for the shoot. At that point, Russian tanks had just started gathering on the border but, as Philippakis remembers, “the idea of it turning into a full-scale war seemed pretty remote”.
They shot the joyously choreographed video for 2am in January, after which they watched some ice skating, visited bars, hung out with the crew and talked politics. A perfect day ended with hugs and group photos. “The optimism that day was captured in the video,” says the singer, wistfully. “It’s strange to think how quickly that’s been brutalised.”
Since the Russian invasion – after which Foals cancelled upcoming shows in Moscow and St Petersburg – the band have found it difficult to contact the Ukrainians they spent time with. “There are people in our video who are now having to shelter for their lives or pick up rifles to defend their city,” Philippakis says. “The choreographer left a message saying that she and her husband were having to hide from shelling.”
I meet Foals in March at their small rented studio, rehearsal room and writing space in Peckham, London, cradling coffees. “It certainly feels weird to be doing promo,” admits guitarist Jimmy Smith, his newly dyed blond hair reflecting his current status as an Englishman who lives in Los Angeles. Nor is it lost on them that the album we’re here to talk about – the seventh and best of their career – is a euphoric party record, worthy of a band whose last album reached No 1 and are billed high in this summer’s Glastonbury and Latitude lineups, warming up with four sold-out nights in London’s Olympia this weekend.
Life Is Yours – full of sunny, motorik disco/house-influenced dancefloor fillers such as Wake Me Up and the sublime upcoming single 2001 – is being compared to Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and 80s Duran Duran. With more keyboards and fewer guitars, its ecstatic, air-punching vibe couldn’t be further from the horrors of Ukraine, the pandemic, climate change or economic crisis.
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Foals live at Usher Hall, Edinburgh, April 2022. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns
Philippakis expains that when they made 2019’s brace of socially conscious albums, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Parts 1 and 2), “the climate crisis suddenly seemed upon us and there were books coming out about the sixth mass extinction. It felt right to engage with the threat on the horizon.” However, while Life Is Yours is also a response to the post-Covid world in which there’s what he describes as “an everyday jeopardy or darkness now that’s impossible to ignore”, this time the mood is uplifting.
“It was written in the midst of lockdowns,” the quietly wellspoken singer explains, sporting a DH Lawrence beard and wearing the same sort of loosely fitting shirt he wears on stage. “Winter, grey, no life on the streets. So we’d come here and shelter from all that by writing music that felt escapist and joyful, but also hopeful for the future to come back.”
When the pandemic struck, Foals managed to do one date of an Asian tour in February 2020 before concerts suddenly started being cancelled. “We didn’t know what the fuck was going on,” says Philippakis. “You think: ‘Oh, this will soon blow over’, but it didn’t.” After making it back to the UK it was nice to spend unexpected time at home – the band had kept them from seeing partners – but the singer remembers the “surreal strangeness” of the first lockdown. “We’ve all grown up on apocalypse movies like Contagion, World War Z or whatever. So there was that aspect of engaging with something we’ve all been worried about.”
The very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people - YP
Jack Bevan, the band’s well-groomed, amiable, gently self-effacing drummer, was one of the very first in the UK with Covid. On returning from Asia, he came down with “basically the worst flu I ever had. After about 10 days I started to feel a bit better, but then had pneumonia symptoms for a week and then this sort of extreme fatigue for about a month. This was well before lockdown, when Covid was a mystery to people here. I was just watching the news, with all these horrifying statistics and cases from abroad. So there was no reassurance of how this thing would go.”
Smith, meanwhile, escaped to LA to see his girlfriend, got stuck there during lockdown (hence his now full-time US residence) and contracted Covid too. “It was in my lungs for a month,” he says. “It was certainly enough of a shock to make me quit smoking.” When the band eventually regrouped in Peckham, playing for hours every day became a way of blocking out what was going on outside.
Foals made Life Is Yours as a trio. In 2018, co-founding bassist Walter Gervers, the band’s most stable “father figure” and counsel in times of strife, left suddenly to start a family. Last year’s exit of another founder, keyboard player Edwin Congreave, was less unexpected but equally significant. He had been doing an Open University degree with a view to studying at Cambridge and, as Philippakis explains, was finding it hard to reconcile the boozing and adrenaline of a touring lifestyle with academia.
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Foals in 2010. Edwin Congreave (far right) and Walter Gervers (bottom left) have since left the band. Photograph: Andy Willsher/Redferns
“Poor Edwin,” Smith says, chuckling. “We’d come tumbling on to the bus at 3am and he’d be in the back lounge with his papers, trying to study for a 9am exam.” The remaining members insist the departures have strengthened their own bonds, but such lineup changes can play havoc with a group’s dynamic, especially losing people they’ve played with for 15 years.
“It can be destabilising,” Philippakis admits as we’re on a second round of coffees. “And you miss them as a social presence. Getting to spend your life with your friends is a beautiful way to spend your time, so when anyone goes you think: we’re never going to spend that much time with that person again.”
This partly explains why Life Is Yours occasionally has a more wistful undercurrent. All Foals albums are different – whether the “career gamble” of 2010’s ambitious Total Life Forever or the heavier terrain of 2015’s What Went Down. In a way, Life Is Yours recalls the giddy energy of their 2008 debut Antidotes, but viewed through a rear-view mirror.
“We were thinking back to when we started,” Philippakis, who is now 35, reflects, referring to their days (after originally meeting in Oxford) as a math-rock band living in a Peckham squat dubbed Squallyoaks, sharing takeaways and playing “feral parties” in the squat scene. “There was optimism that isn’t really around any more. It was a golden era of nightlife: great clubs, house music, pre-social media and smartphones, all the cross-pollinations in music, art, dance. I think on songs such as [Life Is Yours track] Looking High there is a wistfulness, now that clubs are closing down. When we were making the album we were gagging to experience life, so you find yourself thinking about old parties and times when you could lose yourself in a moment.”
You’d see Yannis hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’ JB
Foals re-emerge into a very different climate from the one that they started out in in 2004, one of the print NME, CD singles and a thriving circuit of live bands and smaller venues. “There’s loads of positives to social media and the internet,” says Philippakis, idly strumming a Spanish guitar, “but one thing that has been destructive has been the ravaging of the geographical architecture around music: local venues, record stores, affordable rehearsal spaces and studios. It’s affected the way people make music communally, or the idea of making friends and making music together. Everything has migrated online, but if you walk around our cities, there’s no record shop, nowhere to make a racket. It’s all a bit bereft. When I was still at school I’d go to [club night] Trash in London every week and the Horrors or Arctic Monkeys or the Klaxons would be there, and it felt like everyone was part of something.”
The idea of music as a communal experience is central to Foals and, ironically, partly why Congreave left. Having started touring in an old Royal Mail van, the keen environmentalist had become uncomfortable with the band’s carbon footprint. Foals do offset their carbon, but Smith argues that if a band wants to sustain a life and income – even one who unfurled a banner reading No Music on a Dead Planet at the 2019 Mercury prize – it’s impossible to avoid some environmental impact. “It’s not just income, though,” Philippakis says. “For me, the very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people.”
He remembers a particular discussion with Congreave on the tour bus prior to their cancelled Asia tour. “He was saying: ‘We shouldn’t do these shows’ – not because of Covid, but because of the impact of a band flying thousands of miles. “We had a very frank and reasonable discussion, but in the end we said: ‘We want to be musicians.’ I’m more than happy to offset, but I wouldn’t want to be in this band if we weren’t playing shows.”
The singer has become one of modern pop’s great livewire frontpersons – known to leap from high balconies into crowds or battle with security men trying to prevent him. “I actually stopped drumming at one gig because of what Yannis was up to,” Bevan chuckles. “You’d see him hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’” For the singer, who grew up on “provocative, high-wire” hardcore bands such as the Jesus Lizard, performing is a way of escaping his “everyday self. It’s really charged, and on stage the energy from the crowd and the physical volume and the booze becomes like a cyclone.”
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Foals: ‘Hopefully we’ve made a great record that people can hide in and take solace in,’ says Yannis Philippakis (far right). Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian
Foals read a recent Guardian article about how “hard-partying” bands have become outliers, but for them alcohol remains a part of touring. Philippakis has never done a show sober – Smith did, once – but has certainly seen peers fall by the wayside owing to the lifestyle. However, he points out that people who find making music cathartic or therapeutic might also have “certain psychological issues that make them more attracted to getting fucked up”.
Bevan explains that the industry’s “high-pressure environment” can cause social drinking to become a “coping mechanism. If you were hungover at home, you’d spend the whole day under a duvet, but on tour you might have to play to 40,000 people. You have to power on and maybe have a few drinks to get through.” The drummer always performed sober until a panic attack on stage at the Faversham in Leeds in 2006 led him to reconsider, so now he allows himself “a couple of beers before a show”. Philippakis is upfront about enjoying drinking, but explains that it’s also a creative tool, especially with lyrics. “I tend to become quite unhealthy in the later stage of writing,” he admits, “and that usually continues until the end of tour. I couldn’t do a show without drinking.”
Foals’s ideal is to keep the party going without risking the band. In 17 years, none of them has had a drug problem, and while they certainly enjoy a tipple, or several, Smith counsels: “It’s fundamentally a bad idea to drink your band into ruin.”
So much has changed around them. When Antidotes came out, the UK had a Labour government and was in the EU. Philippakis – who has a Jewish South African mother and a Greek father – explains that Greece sees the EU as “an oppressor, something that was very punitive to the Greek people, but I understand that Brexit has been disastrous for the UK”. He despairs of the “rampant corruption” in parliament and argues that people are “waking up to the fact that we have a rightwing government” and expects a “bigger fury”. On Life Is Yours, Foals perhaps represent a generation – or several generations – who remember the good times, are bewildered and angered by the world today, and just want to be able to look forward with optimism once again.
The idea was that Life Is Yours would coincide with the beginnings of a post-pandemic, brighter world, which – with war raging and prices soaring – seems further away than ever. “The spirit of an emerging new future isn’t here yet,” admits the singer, “which does add a weird extra poignancy to the album. But if it just never arrives, then hopefully we’ve made a great record that people can hide in and take solace in.”
Life Is Yours is released on 17 June on Warners. Foals tour the UK to 8 May.
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cyberbenb · 9 months
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Harry Styles unfurled the Ukrainian flag at his concert in Warsaw during the song ‘Sign of the Times’
British singer Harry Styles unfurled the Ukrainian flag at his concert in Warsaw on July 2, 2023, during the performance of ‘Sign of the Times’ in support of the war-torn country. The singer constantly expresses his support for Ukraine. During the year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Harry Styles unfurled the Ukrainian flag on stage more than once.
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fast-phobia · 1 year
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SNL made a skit about how it's kind of funny that for the last two weeks, SOLIDLY, the internet has been set absolutely aflame because a dude who is a member of the 'try guys', a group of some of the blandest buzzfeed-era epic win millennial men of all time who eat pizza hut til they shit out their pants for views, cheated on his wife with someone at work, something that happens.... well, OFTEN, sort of constantly, in literally every workplace context imaginable, and, yes, cheating is always a shitty thing to do to someone you love, and it's possible that there were some bad workplace dynamics here, but importantly, nobody is alleging that: the other person involved in the cheating didn't come out and speak out about it; rather, fans just outed the fact that they were cheating. i mean, it's still bad, nobody's denying that, but like, we live in an era where we regularly find out that celebrities are sort of slightly cannibals on the side, or like, their name was on epstein's plane or something. this was like, a dude kissing a female employee at a harry styles concert. lmao. and anyway it's good gossip, great gossip even, but it's rare and strange to see a simple cheating scandal like this turn into a social media meltdown, let alone a MAELSTROM to the degree that even someone like me, who has never spared a passing glimmer of a thought to the mustachioed millennial men who make videos like "try guys giant spaghetti pool 1,000 LBS"—even i have been unable to avoid a constant barrage of tweets, tiktoks, youtube deep dives, conspiracy theories, and hours-long compilations of 'moments that didn't age well' from apparent fans who are stoking the flames and digging their fingers in the wounds, which—these fans have apparently existed all this time? there were really try guy stans out in the wild that i never knew about? actually, apparently, i'm in the vast minority, i'm actually one of the only people on earth who ISN'T a try guy stan, apparently EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET cares about these random bland ass white dudes (not eugene he seems cool) a LOT and i just didn't know about it. suddenly i find myself watching the hour-long podcast video where two indistinguishable white guys (keith and, i literally don't know the other guy's name i think his name is toby) talk for an hour about how they are going to digitally remove all traces of the asshole from their videos, which like, damn, okay, fair enough, he fucked up, but like... it's kind of funny, right?? i mean, it's a little absurd, the whole thing, you know???? it's kind of like, what the fuck? huh? so snl made a skit about that 'wtf' feeling where a cnn reporter who is trying to talk about ukraine and iran keeps getting interrupted by the try guys, and it's a pretty funny skit if you empathize with that feeling of like, "why does everyone care about this SO MUCH," and in response to this skit, the internet collectively responded: kill yourself.
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Musical director Adam Blackstone wants to take Dr. Musical director behind Dr Dre's Super Bowl show wants to take it on the road Wednesday, 7 September 2022 17:04:01.Rita Ora will "never forget" performing in Tirana after being awarded the Naim Frashëri order by the President of Albania. Rita Ora will 'never forget' performing in hometown of Tirana Wednesday, 7 September 2022 18:39:00.Lainey Wilson leads this year''s nominees with six. Blake Lively lands CMA Awards nomination for directing Taylor Swift music video Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:31:00.They discussed his latest release ‘Hold Me Closer’ Music legend Elton John joined Fleur East today on The Hits Radio Breakfast Show. Elton John: 'I’m trying to get her back to what she does.Last night, multi-platinum, award-winning sensation Lil Nas X kicked off his long-awaited Long Live Montero tour in Detroit, MI. Lil Nas X's Long Live Montero tour off to a flying start in Detroit Thursday, 8 September 2022 00:26:00.The Since U Been Gone singer filed for divorce from husband Brandon Blackstock in June 2020. Kelly Clarkson wasn't sure if she would release 'angry' divorce album Thursday, 8 September 2022 01:31:36.Opening the show with “Talk Of The Town,'' from his latest album COME HOME THE KIDS MISS YOU, Harlow brought his electrifying Jack Harlow kicks off Come Home The Kids Miss You Tour Thursday, 8 September 2022 04:10:00.Courteney Cox jokes 'old Kanye thought Friends was funny' after rapper takes aim at show Thursday, 8 September 2022 12:31:00įriends actress Courteney Cox responded on Tuesday to a since-deleted Instagram post by Kanye West slamming the show as “not funny”.Michael Monroe, who turned 60 in June, will celebrate the milestone with a bang at the Helsinki Ice Hall on September 23rd. Michael Monroe to reform Hanoi Rocks original line up Thursday, 8 September 2022 12:59:00.Pop star Kelly Clarkson has revealed she's preparing to release her first album in five years which will detail the breakdown of her relationship with Brandon Blackstock. Kelly Clarkson to lift lid on Brandon Blackstock split in 'divorce' album Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:04:01.The Libertines are mourning the loss of their first drummer, Paul Dufour. The Libertines in 'shock' as former drummer dies Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:19:01.Sir Elton John has revealed he plans to stop making music for a little way to figure out what he'll do next after retiring from touring. Sir Elton John to take 'little hiatus' after final tour to decide 'what's next' Thursday, 8 September 2022 15:04:00.Sir Paul McCartney and Rolling Stones' guitars auctioned for Ukraine relief Thursday, 8 September 2022 15:04:00Ī huge Gibson guitar sale of instruments owned by music legends will raise funds for Ukraine's relief efforts.Harry Styles played a gig at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Wednesday night. Harry Styles jokes about viral 'spitting' video during concert Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:31:00.Ricky Martin claims his nephew has continued to contact him and threaten to ruin his reputation. Ricky Martin files $20 million lawsuit against nephew following domestic abuse allegations Thursday, 8 September 2022 16:31:00.Meghan Trainor will release her next single from 'Takin' It Back' on Friday (09.09.22). Meghan Trainor releasing new song on Friday Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:04:01.The Beatles' iconic 'Revolver' album has been mixed and expanded for a new special boxset. John Lennon's acoustic rendition of Yellow Submarine featured on new Revolver boxset Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:05:00.Stewart Copeland compared Taylor Hawkins' son Shane's "musical stance" to that of his late father. Stewart Copeland 'cried' through Shawn Hawkins' Taylor tribute rehearsal Thursday, 8 September 2022 17:06:00.Roger Taylor is to release a recording of 'The Outsider Live' as an album and wants fans to "enjoy" it after such dark times. Roger Taylor to release The Outsider Live album Thursday, 8 September 2022 20:39:00.
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Cate Blanchett Stylishly Supported Ukraine
The actress put on a yellow and blue suit to sell it at auction and donate money to Ukrainians affected by the war
Celebrities worldwide have launched an unspoken flash mob in which they dress up in Ukrainian designer clothes and outfits in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Michelle Pfeiffer, Harry Styles, Mila Jovovich, Julia Roberts (in a boho-chic dress of the Ukrainian brand Overthesea), and even Ursula von der Leyen appeared on the red carpets, summits and concerts in blue and yellow suits on the day Ukraine was declared a candidate for EU membership.
Elizabeth Stewart, Cate Blanchett's stylist, shared a photo of the actress and UN goodwill ambassador wearing a blue suit with a yellow stripe. Elizabeth Stewart called on other famous people to support Ukraine in style - to wear clothes of Ukrainian brands.
It is known that Cate Blanchett is wearing the LA Grayscale brand costume from a capsule collection of clothes in support of our state. The ensemble from the shoulder of the actress will be sold at a charity auction, and the proceeds will be used to help those who suffered from the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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Sent Putin off the stage: the famous British rocker supported Ukraine
Sent Putin off the stage: the famous British rocker supported Ukraine
British rock musician Yungblud supported Ukraine at his concert in Vienna and sent Putin straight from the stage British musician sent Putin and supported Ukraine / Photo: Collage: Today Another British singer spoke out against the war in Ukraine. Following Harry Styles, who performed with the Ukrainian flag, rock musician Yungblud entered the stage with a blue and yellow canvas. During his…
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Singer Harry Styles waves Ukrainian flag at New York concert, fans get emotional
Singer Harry Styles waves Ukrainian flag at New York concert, fans get emotional
English singer and songwriter Harry Styles showed his support for Ukraine by carrying the war-torn country’s flag during his concert on Friday, in a gesture that soon went viral and touched thousands of fans.  The ‘One Night Only’ concert, in which Styles played songs from his newly released album Harry’s House, took place at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on the night of May 20. Towards…
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Singer Harry Styles waves Ukrainian flag at New York concert, fans get emotional
Singer Harry Styles waves Ukrainian flag at New York concert, fans get emotional
English singer and songwriter Harry Styles showed his support for Ukraine by carrying the war-torn country’s flag during his concert on Friday, in a gesture that soon went viral and touched thousands of fans.  The ‘One Night Only’ concert, in which Styles played songs from his newly released album Harry’s House, took place at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on the night of May 20. Towards…
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Pink Floyd reunited for a song called Hey Hey Rise Up for Ukraine.** How many times in history do we have to watch a crazy person get a hard on for war?
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The White House Correspondents dinner was back and hosted by Trevor Noah.
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Is bowling in again?? Football is too rough, racing seems to be full of hot heads. It seems just as bowling alleys are becoming a thing of the past, I have been seeing a lot of interest in the game. CBS has even given us a situation comedy. ** Sidenote about Nascar , announcers have been talking at the races about all the different kinds of employment they offer. I guess they have staffing issues like everywhere else. **BTW, what is up with this Gibbs fellow who started beating on a guy without a helmet as he still wore his?? What a pussy!** P.S. Why is God always brought onto sports?
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The public hearings about Jan. 6 should be here by the beginning of May. At the ‘event’, 150 officers were injured or killed. Most charges seem to center around the constitution and seditious conspiracy. The committee has done about 800 interviews so hopefully we will get some clarity. Is the tide turning? Can the hate subside and give way to love and peace? ** Some are calling the Watergate-like missing time on Jan 6 as 7 hours of darkness. There are gaps in the official white house record for that day. The Trump administration was known for being sloppy. Eye witnesses say that Trump was known to grabbing any phone, including interns unsecure cell phones to make calls. ** Members did say that Jared was friendly and helpful. ** “Donald Trump is fucking crazy.” - Gov. Sununu of New Hampshire** Kevin McCarthy whole heartedly denied that he wanted Trump out. Of course, this was before the recordings of him wanting Scary Clown out were revealed. There is said to be many more tapes to come.
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James Corden will be leaving his show in a year.
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Madison Cawthorn was stopped at the airport in Charlotte with a loaded 9 MM handgun.
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It was great to see Bob Odenkirk on Real Time but he did seem a bit pushy about wanting applause for Mr. Show. We love it, with or without applause, let it go!
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I find myself thinking that Harry Styles and Donald Glover are about the most talented performers alive today. The jumpsuit Style* wore at Coachella is so Jagger ‘72 and between his music and the fabulous show, Atlanta, Glover brings this old world yet new age vibe to his art. The men give us their own style. In a world where so many want to copy others, these artists stand out.
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I don’t watch Fallon much but I did see him telling the world that he hates mayo. I am with ya all the way buddy.  
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Days alert: Why are they pushing Days off screen for a NY story? Nearly the entire Days was cut when the NY subway shooter was caught so police could pat themselves on the back. We are glad that people did their job. The guy called and turned himself in so I think they could have told us that on any news outlet and the nightly news. Why break in and destroy a whole show when most concerned were repeating themselves about the dude getting caught. ** Anyway..  Who will inherit the devil next?? The Devil is becoming the tar of the show. ** And, they just have to kill off Coates? Right? That seems like a good summer mystery.
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There seems to be some things in this country that could have a fairly easy fix. Can we work on scalpers, resale sights and credit card companies to stop ruining our concert going experience? Can we help Ukraine a little more to get them out of this mess? Can we put food in the right hands so there will be less waste? Can we give the very poor some dignity with Yang’s idea of $1000 a month?  
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Remember: Touchy feely = good/ touchy feely in comedy = bad
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Season 2 of Feud is coming: Capote’s Women will star Naomi Watts as Babe Paley.
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Dustin Hice, who sued Don Lemon, has been ordered to pay $77,119.33 in attorney fees and costs due to violation of court rules.
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The house voted to decriminalize marijuana with the Move (Marijuana opportunity reinvestment and expungement) act. The Senate will surely vote it down.
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Jason Bateman will direct Project Artemis with Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans.
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Fred Armisen and Natasha Lyonne have split. Darn, I had high hopes for that one.
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The Razzies rescinded the Bruce Willis award after his aphasia diagnosis, deeming it “not appropriate.”** They also revoked Shelley Duvall’s from 42 years ago for the Shining. They cited “extenuating circumstances due to the treatment of her throughout the production.”
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The Grammys came and went, the Foo Fighters canceled their appearance.  For some unknown reason, Louis CK was nominated and won a Grammy.  
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Kareem Abdul-Jabar was honored for being the all- time leading scorer.
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Annette Bening and Jodie Foster are filming Nyad.  
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Countyline : All in is coming with Tom Wopat, William Shockley and Patricia Richardson.
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There is a new film about the Queen Mary which will explore the paranormal side.
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A man in England was finally busted after quite possibly 5 years of collecting stolen bikes. The pile could be seen from satellite images.
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It’s unfathomable how since the dawn of civilization so few evil men have created hell on earth for so many millions of loving people. -Richard Lewis  
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Will Smith resigned from the Academy and they banned him for 10 years. He is now running around India.** Rosie Perez claims Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes weren’t joking about being high on the Oscar stage. 3** According to Michael Feinstein, Liza Minnelli was not supposed to be in that wheelchair at the Oscars. She had agreed to be there and it was agreed that she could sit in a director’s chair. At the last minute, the powers that be said that she had to sit on a wheelchair which she refused. Liza finally agreed but it made her nervous and discombobulated.  
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Lily- Rose Depp, Hoyeon and Renate Reinsve will star in The Governess.
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The Emmy’s will broadcast on Sept. 12 on NBC.
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Sean Penn and Leila George have finalized their divorce.
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If certain people had a little more honest self-awareness, these ‘dummies for Trump’ t-shirts would be flying off the shelves. - Michael Mckean
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Norah O’Donnell has inked a deal to stay at the CBS Evening news thru 2024.
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If one didn’t have to look at the problems the world is facing right now and just knew that Atlanta, Bridgerton and Better Call Saul had new shows out, things would be great!
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Vanity Fair headline: The Washington Post checks in on Donald Trump, finds he’s still a lying sociopath.
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Rainn Wilson, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Faison, Peter Macnicol and Joe Pantoliano will star in Home Delivery.
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The First Lady boasts quite a cast. Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson, Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, Dakota Fanning, Regina Taylor, Lily Rabe, Judy Greer, jayme Lawson, O-T Fagbenle, Ellen Burstyn and Jackie Earle Haley are bringing the stories of 3 first ladies to life.
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The Subway shooter bought his guns legally despite his criminal record.
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Elon Musk? Twitter? Really?** The Dems have been taken over by extremists. -Elon Musk
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Nearly 2 dozen candidates are running for Secretary of State that insist Trump won in 2020.  In 37 states, the Secretaries of state are the chief election officers. - Robert Reich
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Ewan McGregor is set to wed Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
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Zachary Levi and Cole Sprouse are working on Undercover, a film that they say has been in the works for years. As early as 2010, the story of a Dad in a custody battle that joins a band, the project was associated with Jim Carrey.
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Jack White married Olivia Jean.
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Blind Psychosis is in post –production. People gather for a séance in Maine then lose touch with the outside world. A blind detective starts to figure out the clues once the murders start. The film stars Missi Pyle, Lesley Ann Warren, Deidrich Bader. Chris McDonald, Curtis Armstrong, John O’Hurley, Yvette Nicole Brown and Tony Hale.
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Rand Paul was a dick and delayed the Jackson Supreme Court vote for 25 minutes and voted in the cloak room as he wasn’t wearing a suit.  
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Baseball is back!** And in football, word is that the Raiders have offered a spot to Colin Kaepernick.-*
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So glad that Grace and Frankie is back, even if it is for the end. Best line: Grace to Frankie: Did you put mescaline in my cereal again? ** So excited to see Martha Kelly on there this season!!
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Frank Langella was fired from the Fall of the House of Usher for unacceptable conduct. He has been replaced by Roderick Usher.  
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-------R.I.P. Gilbert Gottfried, victims of the Sacremento shooting, CW McCall, Bobby Rydell, Nehemiah Persoff, Eric Boehlert,  Rio Hackford, Robert Morse, Andrew Woolfolic, Naomi Judd, David M. Jones, Kathryn Hays, Dwayne Haskins, Joanna Barnes, Cynthia (plaster caster) Albritton, Estelle Harris and Elizabeth Sheridan.
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Raffle tickets will sell for $10, and the WHO Foundation pledges to put all proceeds toward supporting Ukraine's health care system.
The World Health Organizationfoundation announced the launch of an e-store and celebrity raffle Saturday (Sept. 24) that will feature items from the likes of Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding. Fans can win donated one-off personal items in addition to concert tickets, as well as merch sold under the foundation’s Human Kind brand.
Examples of items available to win are a signed Styles vinyl LP, a tour brochure and signed T-shirt from Sheeran, and a signed merchandise bundle from Goulding. Swedish House Mafia and Annie Lennox also have items in the raffle, along with two VIP tickets to Coachella 2023. Raffle tickets will sell at just $10, and the WHO Foundation pledges to put all proceeds toward supporting Ukraine’s health care system.
The announcement of the Human Kind store marks seven months since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on Feb. 24. The blow-up of a longtime military buildup has created a European refugee crisis on a scale not seen since World War II.
Since the country’s invasion by Russia, around 12 million Ukrainians have either fled Ukraine or are internally displaced, according to the United Nations.
This partnership isn’t the first time these celebrities have expressed concern for Ukraine.
Back in May, Styles flew the Ukrainian flag during his “One Night Only in NY” concert at Belmont Park’s UBS Arena while singing his debut solo single “Sign of the Times.” Goulding performed the Ukrainian song of resistance “Chervona Kalyna” at Kyiv’s First Ladies Summit as a guest of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Sheeran teamed up with Ukrainian band Antytila to release a remix of his single “2step.” The track’s accompanying music video focuses on scenes of war and the bandmates’ experiences after the invasion was announced.
(24 September 2022)
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