fellow tfota lover: I was re-reading all of cardan's letters to jude 😞😞

me: *understanding* I see how deep in the trenches you were and I support you.

The defiant queen | Art & Culture | thenews.com.pk Neelo, who died recently, was an actress of great potential. She was introduced to films in the early years of the Pakistani film industry and helped it find its feet. The most distinct feature of her performances was her ability to dance. She was a good dancer at a time when the leading heroines were not really known for this talent. Noor Jehan could barely dance, Sabiha Khanum and Musarrat Nazeer only went through the rounds. No one really had the experience or training of being a dancer on screen. Dance had a particular role to play in the films produced in the sub-continent. The heroines, too, could be dancers and they did express their love and attraction through dance but it was the vamps and professional seductresses who specialised in the art form. Usually working in the cabarets and dance clubs, these vamps played the role of dancers or used dance to beguile and distract the hero away from the love of his life. Asha Posley, Amy Minwalla and, a little later, Panna were cast in the role of dancers. The dance was to entice. Neelo’s dance, so to say, played a more central role in the film and was used in an affirmative manner where the intention was not to beguile but to express true emotion – it could be anything from hate to annoyance to rebellion. In India, too, dancers were seen in typecast roles while the leading ladies only made the moves and gestures without being lauded for their great talent and training. In the early days, due to the absence of playback, the leading men and women had to sing while acting and it appeared that their talent as vocalists was more valued. Many appeared on screen only because they could sing well. A similar distinction ruled the world of cine dance. Madhubala, Meena Kumari and Nargis could hardly cross the bar of approval and barely did the needful as part of the role to charm and be attractive. It was only with Vijantimala that the dancer became the heroine and the form was separated from its traditional associations. Now, the dancer could play positive roles and it was part of her armory to attract and woo the audience. In the films that were being made then, the form was used as message of what was traditionally associated with it. There was a great deal of type casting and the filmmakers did not really rock the boat and challenge the presumptions. Though film was seen as a great breakaway from the traditional value system and therefore was not placed at the same level as poetry and music, it was meant to go along the values to strengthen those rather than look beyond their enervating stranglehold. The men hardly ever danced and the women were seductresses, fallen creatures taking men away from the path of rightful emotional responses. Gradually, with the passage of time and with greater loosening of the meanings associated with the forms, the directors started playing around and get beneath or on the other side of the conventional framework. Only later were these associations turned on their head and seen as gestures of affirmative action or open defiance. Neelo’s greatest act came when she was forced to perform for a foreign dignitary. She had the courage to say no and then had to face severe consequences. In the days when the media was firmly controlled, it was only the rumour mill that leaked news and one had to sift chaff from the grain in an atmosphere of extremely oppressive silence. In a film made later on the Palestinian struggle, she put a similar dance to great artistic virtue. This dance was seen as an act of ultimate defiance, even rebellion. The symbol was thus dissociated from its traditional meaning of seduction and lure and made into one of great defiance. It was an about turn accepted by the audiences as Zarqa, the film in which this was employed, became a super hit. One of the most popular and highest-grossing films, it subverted the meaning of dance and Neelo’s role and talent as a dancer had a huge role to play in it. Had she been a mediocre dancer, the act of defiance would have only been a slogan but her talent made the act of defiance a lived experience and one of the greatest moments of dance in the history of Pakistani films. Her husband Riaz Shahid was one of the more sensitive film directors of the industry and she flowered under his directorship. Unfortunately, she soon lost him to cancer. From then on it was a long and lonely struggle, but she was able to groom her son Shaan to become one of the leading heroes of the Pakistani films. The writer is a culture critic based in Lahore https://timespakistan.com/the-defiant-queen-art-culture-thenews-com-pk/10118/

March 8-14

It’s International Women’s Day this week, celebrate by going to see some badass ladies live on stage making tunes! New format for venues this week! Click through the links at the top if you want to know more info about any of the places in the Guide.

Don’t forget you can get the whole Guide a day early and you can choose our feature gigs if you support us on PATREON! We’re powered by coffee and your encouragement on Facebook, twitter and instagram. And you can submit gigs through any of those places or though our FORM or via email! Hit us up at [email protected]

Venues: the Back Room, Barbara, The Bearded Lady, Black Bear Lodge, Boundary Hotel, Brightside, Brisbane Powerhouse, Can You Keep A Secret, Crowbar, Empire Hotel, The Foundry, Greaser, Greenslopes Bowls Club, The Haunt, HeYa Bar, JMI Live, Junk Bar, The Menagerie Cafe, Milk Factory, New Globe Theatre, Press Club, QLD Conservatorium, Rics Bar, Sonny’s House of Blues, The Stock Exchange Hotel, The Triffid, Woolly Mammoth, the Zoo

Wednesday 8

[JAZZ] Shannon Marshall Band feat. Angela Fabian at the Press Club: Free entry, from 9pm. More info on FB   

[JAZZ] 3 Down with Dan Quigley at Rics Bar: Free, 8:30-10:30pm. FB

Rob Moir (CAN) at the Triffid: Free entry, from 6pm. More info at V

Lesa Lou plus live art and auction at the Stock Exchange Hotel: Tickets $10, from 6:30pm. More info on FB

Thursday 9 March

The Iron Eye, Interim, Faux Bandit and Love Hate Rebellion at the Foundry: Tickets: $12.75. Doors at 8pm, more info on FB

Cookies & Cream: Chief Weapons, The Plastic Fangs and Empanic at the Zoo:  Tickets $8.20, $10 on the door. Doors at 8pm, more info at V FB

Baltimore Gun Club, Monsters of the Midnight Sun, Snake Bite Whisky, LOCUS and Dead Hand Blues at the Brightside: $5 entry, doors at 8pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Charlotte Mclean Quartet at JMI Live: $10 entry, jams from 6pm, band from 8pm. More info on FB

Cobra, Three Wise Monkeys, Indica and Mobius at Crowbar: $10.20, from 8pm. Tickets $10.20, doors at 8pm. More info on FB

Franké at Can You Keep A Secret: Free, from 8pm. More info on FB

Jamie Hogg , Belrose and Elliot Cox at the Black Bear Lodge: Tickets $12, $15 on the door, opening at 7pm. More info on FB  

Domini Forster and O' Little Sister at the Milk Factory: Tickets $11.75, doors at 7:30pm. More info on FB

Drawn From Bees (acoustic) at The Menagerie: Free, from 7-8pm. More info on FB

M.E. Baird, Hannah Jayne and Sky Staniford (of We All Want To) at the Junk Bar: Tickets $11.75, $15 on the door, from 7pm. More info on FB

Domini Forster and O’ Little Sister at the Milk Factory: Tickets $11.75, 7:30-11:30pm FB

Joint Relief at Barbara: $5 entry, from 9pm. More info on FB

Lagerstein Acoustic Set at Crowbar: Free, 9pm-midnight, more info on FB.

Friday 10 March

Outside The Academy, SPACE HØRSE, Papperbok and Omegachild a the Empire Hotel: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Bec Sandridge at the Foundry: Tickets $17.85, doors at 8pm. More info on FB

MissChief and Skankstarz at the Boundary Hotel: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Carly Minjoy Trio & Quintet at JMI Live: $10 entry, jams from 6pm, band from 8pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Trichotomy at the Queensland Conservatorium: $10/$15 on the door, from 6pm. More info on FB

Captain Cake, The Fin and Kelton Show, Shane Fell - The One-Man Street Band and Chris Nance at the New Globe Theatre: $10 entry, doors at 7:30pm. More info on  FB

The Gutterbirds and Adam Nigro at Crowbar: Free, from 7pm. More info at V FB

Magnertron, Lavidius, Therein and Harvey Djent at the Back Room: $10 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB V

Various Asses, FOREVR, Ultra Material, Pulloutkings at the Woolly Mammoth: Tickets $10, from 8:30pm, more info on FB

Crimson Nights at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 8:30pm. More info on FB

Blues Arcadia at Sonny’s House of Blues: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Muswellbrook, Skrub and Syntax Junkies at a location to be confirmed in Forest Lake: $5, 8-11pm. FB

The Treehouse Children, Average Art Club, Vanilla Gorilla and Meggan Macdonald at the Bearded Lady: Cost unclear, 6-10pm. FB

Various Asses, FOREVR, Ultra Material and Pulloutkings at the Woolly Mammoth: $10, 10:30-half past midnight. FB

Tony Q Band at Johnny Ringo’s: Free, 9pm-midnight. FB

Izania at Lock and Load: Free, from 10pm. FB

RVLR, Buzzkillers, ROO and Will & The Dealer at the Greenslopes Bowls Club: Free entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Jouk Mistrow and Simi Lacroix at HeYa Bar: Free entry, from 8:30pm. More info on FB

Saturday 11 March

Schoolfight and Sun in Alchemy at the Boundary Hotel: Free, 7-11pm. FB

Jesswar, Average Art Club, Baby Mama and The Gutter Birds at the zoo: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Damian Cowell’s Disco Machine at the Woolly Mammoth: $20/$18.40, from 8:30pm. More details on FB.

Laura Mardon and Millie Ivaschenko at Crowbar: Free, from 7pm. V FB

Hidden TreasureZZZ - ROO, The Schwifties, June Low and Ultra Material at the New Globe: Gold coin donation, 1:30-6pm. FB

Ceres, Jess Locke, PLTS and Brief Habits at Crowbar: Tickets $18.40/$20, from 8pm.

She Cries Wolf, Staunch , Life’s Ill , Season Unending and The Name of a Ghost at the Brightside: $15, music from 8pm. FB

The Byzantines, Mary Handsome and Youngsmith at the Milk Factory: unclear, 8-11pm. FB

Will Day at Johnny Ringo’s: Price unclear, 7-midnight. FB

Nikolaine & Band at LocknLoad: Free, from 10pm. FB

[Wrong End of The Valley Festival Fundraiser] Pinion, Atticus Chimps, the Watsanames and more TBA at the Back Room: $10, music 7:30pm, FB.

Phat Sauce and Samuel Ayling at Rics: Free, music from 9pm. FB

SixFtHick (official), Concrete Surfers, Future Haunts, sweater curse and more at Greaser: Doors at 6pm, more info on FB

The Double Happiness with Asha Jefferies at the Junk Bar: Tickets $13.30, doors at 7:30pm. More info on FB

The Mayhem County Boys and the Floyd Family Breakdown at the Bearded Lady: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Huntly, Kaylah Truth, May Lyn and G Elenil at the Empire Hotel: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Sunday 12 March

Snake Oil Sundays: Hell and Whiskey, Suicide Country Hour, Sue Rayl and Jackson Dunn at the Haunt: $5 entry, free if you’re a 4zZz subscriber, from 1pm. More info on FB

Jordan Merrick at Junk Bar: $10, 4-8pm, FB

Amela, Asha Jefferies and Family Jordan at Sonny’s House of Blues: Tickets/$15 at the door, music from 7pm. FB

Georgia Rose, Hannah Rosa and Monique Clare at the Bearded Lady: $10, 7:30-10pm. FB

Ofa Fanaika and Aine Tyrrell at the Powerhouse Turbine Stage: Free, 3:30-5:30pm V

[JAZZ] BOJAC presents: Kayleigh Pincott Chamber Ensemble at the Juggler’s Art Space: $10 entry, from 4pm. More info on FB

Monday 13 March

Benjamin Perrin and The Sook at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Tuesday 14 March

Abaddon Incarnate, Mammöth, The Dead and Awful Noise at the New Globe Theatre: Tickets $15, $20 on the door. Doors at 7pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Brad McCarthy Trio at Black Bear Lodge: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

"'I have not made myself easy to love,' he says, and I hear the echo of his mother's words in his."

- Cardan Greenbriar, The Queen of Nothing

(most of) tfota fandom at the mention of -

locke / taryn / lady asha

cardan: wanna ban-

jude: *unbothered* no.

cardan: I was about to suggest we banish my mother but you're the queen, power before prejudice and such. *leaves smugly*

jude: *looks up in realisation* WAIT-

my toxic trait is thinking jude will somehow see the lost letters from cardan (lady asha burned each and every one of them, each and every time)

me when I think about how jude and cardan could've been together if it wasn't for lady asha interfering and destroying the letters to jude from cardan, meaning jude could never see them even if she tried and so could never truly acknowledge how much cardan lay himself bare for her emotionally:

lady asha burning the letters to jude from cardan:

me finding out what happened and imagining it cos it's sad af:

what if I just took a knife to lady asha's heart and plunged it deep within... that's if jude hasn't slit her throat before then because I HATE HER