“There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Eat Static is an electronic music project from Frome, Somerset, England formed in 1989 by Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton. Hinton left the group in February 2008 after 18 years to spend more time with his family. Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for Ozric Tentacles, a long-standing psychedelic space rock band from Somerset. Although Ozric Tentacles incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave oriented dance music. In 1988 they collaborated on a project under the name of Wooden Baby which hinted at early rave and techno
sounds as well as numerous other styles, and by 1990, the project had
evolved in to Eat Static. Pepler explained: "There we were in Ozrics
doing all this technically impressive, weird music with mad timings, and
getting really involved with it, and this experiment that became Eat
Static was a good excuse to ignore all that, get the synths out, and be
as stupid as we could!" The duo toured in parallel with Ozric Tentacles for several years until 1994, when they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time. Pepler and Hinton are often joined in the studio by Eat Static's third member Steve Everitt. Pepler is featured on the 2006 Ozric Tentacles album The Floor's Too Far Away, playing percussion on the track "Armchair Journey".
Their first album release, Abduction, immediately established the extraterrestrial/U.F.O. theme which is a running motif in their samples, track and album titles, and release artwork. The band's name is taken from a sample (as found on the track "Eat Static") from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
On 6 February 2008, Pepler announced on the Eat Static website
that Hinton was leaving as "he has had enough of all the travelling and
being away from home and family". However, Pepler stated that he would
continue to perform and produce under the Eat Static name as a solo
project. He also hinted that there would be more scope for
collaborations in the future.
Although most often associated with the psychedelic trance genre, the band actually span almost all forms of dance music, including trance, techno, gabber, drum and bass, and breakbeat. As such they are well-compared to other hard-to-categorise children of the British rave scene, like The Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital, Aphex Twin and Leftfield.
Despite the quote above, Eat Static are also notable within dance music for their frequent use of time signatures other than 4/4.
- Discography
Φωτογραφίααπό τις
μαθητικές κινητοποιήσεις που πραγματοποιήθηκαν νωρίτερα σήμερα, πέντε
χρόνια μετά τη δολοφονία του 15χρονου μαθητή, Αλέξανδρου Γρηγορόπουλου,
από σφαίρα αστυνομικού στα Εξάρχεια, από
τον διακεκριμένο φωτορεπόρτερ, Μάριο Λώλο.
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Six weeks in Iceland in a 150 min video Content: Begin: Geysir 2:32 - Gullfoss 4:40 - Kjölur Trekking 13:12 - Hveravellir 15:58 - (Way to) Akureyri 17:26 - Trekking from Asbyrgi to Dettifoss 27:30 - Myvatn 31:50 - Godafoss 32:19 - Aldeyjarfoss 33:43 - Landmannalaugar 36:05 - Laugavegur Day 1 43:55 - Laugavegur Day 2 47:45 - Laugavegur Day 3 53:47 - Laugavegur Day 4 56:30 - Seljalandsfoss 57:28 - Skaftafell 1:02:00 - Jokulsarlon 1:06:15 - Svartifoss
Trekking from Landmannalaugar to Langisjör and back to Eldgia 1:08:30 - Part 1: Landmannalaugar - Ofaerudalur 1:16:55 - Part 2: Ofaerudalur - Eldgia 1:23:50 - Part 3: Eldgia to the western part of Langisjör 1:30:43 - Part 4: From west end to the east end of Langisjör (south side) 1:37:17 - Part 5: Between the lake and Vatnajökull 1:41:56 - Part 6: Back to the west end on the north side of the lake 1:47:59 - Part 7: Along the Skafta river to Jötnagil valley 1:52:18 - Part 8: From Jötnagil to Eldgia
- Marc Almond is an internationally acclaimed
and successful artist. He has sold over 30 million records worldwide and
is an icon and influence to a generation of musicians.
He was born in Southport, a seaside town in the north of England,
in 1957. After an unsettled childhood of moving to Harrogate, Leeds and
back to Southport, of illness and learning difficulties he finally left
school at 17 with few qualifications. As a teen he worked in Southport
Theatre and on Southport fairground while singing in a local band,
covering hits of the day. After school he spent five years at Art
College including a 3-year Fine Art B.A course at Leeds Polytechnic
where he left in 1979 with a B.A Honors. At Art college he developed his
style of mixing experimental performance and cabaret pop with music and
film studies. He began visiting London and worked in Soho in College
breaks, documenting his experiences in his early performances; Zazu,
Twilights and Lowlifes and Glamour in Squalor. It was at Leeds Poly that
he met David Ball and together they formed the internationally
successful 'electro duo' Soft Cell in 1979.
Soft Cell were signed to Stevo's underground label Some Bizzare and
licensed to Phonogram as part of the new electronic music phenomena.
They went on to record four albums; 3 in New York including the iconic
seminal Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, and had a number of top ten hits
including the international classic Tainted Love. Tainted Love broke all
records as the track that remained the longest in the U.S billboard top
100 and received a Brit award for best single of that year. Soft Cell's
arrangement of the track has been covered many times by artists as
diverse as Marilyn Manson and The Pussy Cat Dolls and has been sampled
by a generation of dance producers for artists, notably Rianna's SOS.
Soft Cell parted amicably in 1984 to pursue solo projects. Marc had
already branched out with Marc and the Mambas, a loose collective of
musicians, and recorded the innovative influential double album Torment
and Toreros which Marc has called 'a nervous breakdown put to music'.
Mambas shambolic and florid musical shows put Marc in a unique musical
place that had one foot in mainstream and the other in the underground.
Marc has always been one of very few artists able to comfortably move
from one to the other. Torment and Toreros was influenced by Spanish
Flamenco, Marc has always used World Music influences in his music from
Turkish torch songs to Brazilian Macumba and Russian folk. The Mambas
use of a full string section inspired a young Antony Hegarty later of
Antony and the Johnsons. Antony has always openly cited Marc as the
person that without whom it would not have been possible for him.
The mambas started Marc on his path as a chansonierre troubadour, a
singer of the songs of others that he would make his own, Jacques Brel,
Scott Walker, Lou Reed, Juliette Greco, Nico, Syd Barrett - all early
influences of Marc. Marc has said that his style comes from Jacques Brel
and Marc Bolan glam with a bit of Aznavour and Johnny Ray thrown in,
add some 60's Joe Meek and Orchestral Pop and some 60's Northern soul, a
pinch of Music Hall and you have something approaching Marc. It is this
mix of styles that have made him hard to pigeonhole, but also totally
unique. He has been called over the years The Judy Garland of the
Garbage Heap, The Acid House Aznavour, Jim Reeves of the Bedsit
Generation, Marc Bolan and Juliette Greco's love child and Britain's own
Piaf.
A diverse and acclaimed successful solo career followed with over a
dozen albums including Vermin in Ermine, Mother Fist and Her Five
Daughters, Enchanted, Open All Night and Stranger Things, and a number
of solo chart hits including Tears Run Rings, Stories of Johnny, A Lover
Spurned, Adored and Explored, Jacky, The Days of Pearly Spencer and
Child Star. In 1989 Marc had another number one, a duet with 60's legend
the late Gene Pitney, a cover of one of Gene's hits Something's Gotten
Hold of My Heart. It was number one in Britain for five weeks. The album
it came from, The Stars We Are, was Marc's most successful solo album
in the USA.
Marc has worked with a number of acclaimed producers including Mike
Hedges, Trevor Horn and Marius DeVries as well as more experimental
producers such as Iceland's Johann Johannsson. He's also had licensing
deals with a number of Major labels including Phonogram, EMI. Warners,
Universal, Rough Trade, Echo, Tres Bis XIII, Sanctuary and Virgin.
In 1987 he recorded two sister albums, one of French Chansons
Absinthe, specially translated songs made famous by Juliette Greco,
Barbara, Leo Ferre, Robert Nyal and poetry of Rimbaud put to music and
an album of Jacques Brel songs, many never sung in English before,
called Jacques. The estate of Brel cited him as being the best living
interpreter of Brel's songs.
In 2000 Marc worked briefly again with David Ball on a Soft Cell
tour and an album, Cruelty without Beauty. Critics and fans were warm
and welcoming, and they even reached the top 40 with a hit, a cover of
Frankie Valli's The Night a song they nearly recorded back in 1981
instead of Tainted Love.
In 2000 Marc went to live in Moscow and was invited to record a
project of music that has become dear to Marc's heart, Russian Folk and
Gypsy Romance. Produced by Russian Musical prodigy Andrei Samsonov,
Heart On Snow features collaborations with some of Russia's biggest
musical legends and stars, the icons of Russian folk Luydmila Zekina and
Alla Bayanova, Boris Grebenchikov, Ilya Lagutenko as well as a the
Russian Naval Choir and the famous Rossiya Folk Orchestra. Although
largely ignored in the West, Marc looks on this album as one of his most
successful records. It was an adventurous and highly creative project
never before undertaken by a Western Artist, and it has taken him back
to Russia many times to perform in public and in private beloved Russian
songs to Russians. He has been dubbed in the Russian press, 'adopted
son of Russia'.
Marc was going through a musical renaissance in 2004. He had
performed a residency of shows at London's Almeida Theatre that had
received unanimous, glowing praise from both critics and audiences
alike, when he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. He was in
a coma for two weeks and sustained near fatal injuries that took the
next few years to recover from. Marc has overcome many obstacles and ups
and downs in his life, including drug addiction, and it was one more
battle, but the motorcycle crash was his hardest fight. He had to learn
to sing again with the help of top vocal coach Mary Hammond, and regain
his shattered confidence. After Antony Hegarty bought him back on stage
as a surprise guest at his London show in 2005, he began to slowly gain
vocal and physical strength and today he is performing and singing
better than ever.
He returned to the studio to record Stardom Road, an album of songs
that had been part of his life and, in a way, told his story. Produced
by long time friend Tris Penna and Marius de Vries and with guests
Antony, Sarah Cracknell and Jools Holland. Marc, still not back to full
strength at the time of recording, looks on this album as his recovery
album. It was well received by critics and fans and Marc's music was
re-discovered and re-appraised. Marc undertook a number of short
appearances, at Patti Smiths Meltdown performing Brecht, Marc Bolan the
celebration where he performed with legendary producer Tony Visconti,
and made an appearance for the first and only time with original Tainted
Love singer and Marc Bolan's partner Gloria Jones on a duet of the
classic song, tribute shows to Sandy Denny the late great folk artist
and one of Marc's favourite singers, and Dusty Springfield for the BBC
backed by a 70 piece Orchestra, and with Current 93. Marc was also a
special guest singer on Jools Holland's 2006 and 2008 tours. Marc is a
regular guest and collaborator with Jools and his Rhythm and Blues
Orchestra. He gave a lifetime achievement award to The Doors at the 2007
Mojo Awards. He also made various D.J and P.A club appearances - all to
help build his stamina and confidence after his crash. 2008 saw him
back performing full sell-out shows in Britain, Europe and Russia. To
celebrate his full return to the stage he performed a retrospective show
on his fiftieth Birthday to ecstatic fans.
Marc has enjoyed Many diverse collaborations during his career,
Nick Cave, Siouxsie, Nico, Jools Holland, Bronski Beat, Rosenstolz, John
Cale, David Johannson, Kelli Ali, Current 93, Coil, PsycicT.V, Antony
and the Johnsons, Baby Dee, Little Annie, Matt Johnson, Jim Thirwell,
Ferry Corsten, 60's icons Gene Pitney and P.J Proby who he produced an
album for in 1998 entitled Legend. He has written many songs but prefers
to sing songs by other writers and artists, saying it frees him from
his own baggage allowing him to express the things he wants to, in
sometimes a better way than he can write himself.
He still enjoys occasionally working in electro Dance music,
collaborating with underground Dance producers, though his true heart
lies in the marathon Chanson, folk and 'twisted pop cabaret' shows he
calls the Sin Songs Torch and Romance Shows. These shows have been
recorded in 2004 at London's Almeida Theatre and in 2008, the double
live album/DVD, Marc Almond in Bluegate Fields Live at Wilton's Music
Hall, was released showcasing Marc back at his best as a live performer
and curator of song. These recordings along with 1992's Twelve Years of
Tears at The Albert Hall are the best testaments to Marc in concert.
2009, saw the release of another set of Russian Gypsy Romance and
Folk songs, a collaboration with Russian producer, arranger Alexei
Fedorov - Orpheus in Exile, the songs of the late Russian Gypsy Romance
singer, dissident and now gay icon Vadim Kozin. The album sold in
excess of 45,000 copies and received rapturous reviews. Marc is also
collaborating with Musician and arranger Michael Cashmore on a series of
limited singles, decadent poems of Count Stenbock and Jean Genet
amongst others, set to music. The project, Feasting With Panthers, will
be released in the future on the Durtro label.
As well as a huge body of recordings, Marc has also had two best
selling autobiographies, Tainted Life and In Search of The Pleasure
Palace, as well as three books of verse; The Angel of Death in the
Adonis Lounge, A Beautiful Twisted Night and The End of New York.
In 2010 Marc recorded a brand new mainstream album, Variete, which
was released in June to much critical acclaim. Variete celebrates Marc's
30th year as a recording artist and it is his first complete album of
self-written songs since Open All Night over a decade before.
2010 was a milestone celebration year for Marc, his thirty years in
music as a recording artist, with his most successful tour to date, All
The A's, Hits And A Sides. 2010 Also saw Marc presented with the Hero
Award by Mojo Magazine. The year ended with a special one off concert
at the beautiful Wilton's Music Hall.
In 2011 the album Feasting with Panthers, a collaboration with
musician and arranger Michael Cashmore, was released. It featured poems
of Count Eric Stenbock put to music as well as decadent and homoerotic
poems by Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Paul Verlaine and Rimbaud. Marc took
part in the unique music-theatre work Ten Plagues held at Edinburgh's
Traverse Theatre from 1–28 August 2011. Ten Plagues is a one man song
cycle based on Daniel Defoe's journal of the Plague Year (which dates
back to 1665), with metaphors of Aids and epidemics. It was a
collaboration between Marc, theatre director and designer Stewart Laing,
libretto author Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell. The show
won the Scotman's Fringe First Award.
In 2012 Marc took the role of the Greek Stoic philosopher Seneca in
the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet's experimental rock adaptation of Poppea
based on Monteverdi's original 17th century opera The Coronation of
Poppea also starring ex-Libertines Carl Barat, Benjamin Biolay, Fredrika
Stahl, Valerie Gabail and Anna Madison.
On 9 August 2012 Marc performed at Antony Hegarty's Meltdown Festival
in London's Southbank. He sang the whole Marc And The Mambas Torment
and Toreros album for the first time live. Some of the original
musicians on the album also performed: Gini Ball, Anne Stephenson,
Martin McCarrick, Jim Thirlwell and Lee Jenkinson. Hegarty sang "My
Little Book Of Sorrows" with Marc. At the end of 2012 Marc took time off
for an operation and subsequent recovery from Spleen and Gall bladder
removal.
In May 2013 Marc revived the Ten Plagues play for a month at Wilton's
Music Hall in London. Based on Stewart Laing's original direction and
the Edinburgh Traverse Theatre's production with new direction by Hester
Chillingworth. The production was a success both with audiences and
critics. Also in May of that year he received an Ivor Novello
inspiration award presented by Vicki Wickham. Marc recorded tracks with
legendary producer and orchestrator Tony Visconti for an EP The Dancing
Marquis for later release. He also recorded vocals for a project with
acclaimed composer John Harle called The Tyburn Tree for a February 2014
release. He set up a production company Lab Entertainment (The name
made from the initials of people involved) for development of films,
television, music and books. Lab's first project is a DVD of Ten
Plagues. In October Marc was awarded an Icon Award by Attitude Magazine. http://www.marcalmond.co.uk/history/
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- Motörhead are an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Ian Fraser Kilmister, professionally known by his stage name Lemmy,
who has remained the sole constant member. The band are often
considered a precursor to, or one of the earliest members of, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which re-energised heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
To October 2013, Motörhead have released twenty-one studio albums,
ten live recordings, twelve compilation albums and five EPs. Usually a power trio, they had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Top 40 chart. The albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, cemented Motörhead's reputation as a rock band. As of 2012, Motörhead have sold more than 30 million albums worldwide.
Motörhead are typically classified as heavy metal, and their fusion of punk rock into the genre helped to pioneer speed metal and thrash metal.
Motörhead's approach has remained the same over the band's career,
preferring to play what they enjoy and do best; their appreciation of
early rock and roll is reflected in some of their occasional cover
songs.
Motörhead's lyrics typically cover such topics as war, good versus
evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, and, most
famously, gambling. The name "Motörhead" is a reference to users of the
drug amphetamine. The band's distinctive fanged-face logo, with its oversized boar's tusks, chains, and spikes, was created by artist Joe Petagno in 1977 for the cover of the Motörhead
album and has appeared in many variations on covers of ensuing albums.
The fanged face has been referred to variously as "War-Pig" and "Snaggletooth". The band is ranked number 26 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot%C3%B6rhead
Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for Ozric Tentacles, a long-standing psychedelic space rock band from Somerset. Although Ozric Tentacles incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave oriented dance music. In 1988 they collaborated on a project under the name of Wooden Baby which hinted at early rave and techno
sounds as well as numerous other styles, and by 1990, the project had
evolved in to Eat Static. Pepler explained: "There we were in Ozrics
doing all this technically impressive, weird music with mad timings, and
getting really involved with it, and this experiment that became Eat
Static was a good excuse to ignore all that, get the synths out, and be
as stupid as we could!" The duo toured in parallel with Ozric Tentacles for several years until 1994, when they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time. Pepler and Hinton are often joined in the studio by Eat Static's third member Steve Everitt. Pepler is featured on the 2006 Ozric Tentacles album The Floor's Too Far Away, playing percussion on the track "Armchair Journey".
Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for Ozric Tentacles, a long-standing psychedelic space rock band from Somerset. Although Ozric Tentacles incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave oriented dance music. In 1988 they collaborated on a project under the name of Wooden Baby which hinted at early rave and techno
sounds as well as numerous other styles, and by 1990, the project had
evolved in to Eat Static. Pepler explained: "There we were in Ozrics
doing all this technically impressive, weird music with mad timings, and
getting really involved with it, and this experiment that became Eat
Static was a good excuse to ignore all that, get the synths out, and be
as stupid as we could!" The duo toured in parallel with Ozric Tentacles for several years until 1994, when they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time. Pepler and Hinton are often joined in the studio by Eat Static's third member Steve Everitt. Pepler is featured on the 2006 Ozric Tentacles album The Floor's Too Far Away, playing percussion on the track "Armchair Journey".
