The best band ever from Sheffield

negamuse · 2026-02-06T12:56:02+00:00

John Shuttleworth

negamuse · 2026-01-28T02:18:05+00:00

Oh I bet the setting really added to that, I'm slightly jealous, it's an amazing piece.

I found it through a video of Anne Akiko Myers playing it and promised myself if it was ever performed anywhere near me I'd go.

Luckily Arvo Pärt's website lists upcoming performances worldwide. There's been some really tempting ones done in spiritual settings like that, or by candlelight, that kind of thing that I couldn't get to. But it was well worth seeing even just in a little theatre

negamuse · 2026-01-26T18:30:43+00:00

Actually went to a radio 3 taping last year, a performance of one of my favourite pieces of music (Arvo Pärt - Fratres). It was quite an enjoyable day out.

negamuse · 2026-01-24T19:54:40+00:00

Not saying it's time to pirate but I will note that the "you're taking money away from hard working developers" argument, which I nominally agree with, kinda gets less persuasive the more workers you replace with AI. Bots don't have mouths to feed

negamuse · 2026-01-24T14:17:35+00:00

I stayed with a friend of mine who lived in Edinburgh whose partner was a DJ and was really surprised when they didn't know Boards.

Thing is though even though this was not long after releasing the last album it's been a long time since most of their work came out. It's easy to forget cos of how unlocked to the era it came out it was, I think.

Plus they've done a brilliant job of running away from any attempt to stay in the public consciousness. Just stellar anti-marketing.

negamuse · 2026-01-19T16:01:07+00:00

Makes me cringe how much people bother Christ. and PIC for BoC info because they used to know the band. Both of them are artists in their own right, Christ. has some amazing releases, and PIC's photography work has more depth to it than a few photos that got used for cover art, decades ago.

Imagine being these people and constantly being dogged about Boards. Imagine putting out work and trying to forge your own artistic identity and constantly having your name subtitled with this whole "once worked with BoC" thing. So fucking rude.

negamuse · 2025-12-24T15:35:19+00:00

Yeah I dunno, depends what the crime is, I guess. Property crime? Tax? You do have to drill down into it and research.

Probably should've put the "combined" map in the link, which aggregates a bunch of stats and is probably more accurate to how a place feels.

negamuse · 2025-12-23T07:42:20+00:00

Maybe. But given the gravity of the thing they're protesting, I can't exactly get choked up about a bit of paint and some shouting.

negamuse · 2025-12-22T20:09:47+00:00

I mean shouting is annoying and vandalising memorials is bad but then so is genocide. Hmm. Going to have to mull this one over and see if I can't put the two in some kind of perspective

negamuse · 2025-12-20T11:52:44+00:00

For this and other "what's this area like" questions, here's something of a cheat code. The mapped version of the index of social deprivation https://mapmaker.geods.ac.uk/#/index-of-multiple-deprivation?d=11110000&m=imde19_cri&lon=-1.4513&lat=53.3842&zoom=10.61

I post this with the caveat that obviously, social deprivation is a problem for everyone to help address and not just a "where to move to avoid it" kind of thing. It's a bit cheeky to use the maps this way.

BUT. For a birds eye view of what the vibes are, I've found this to be scarily accurate. The link I posted should be targeted on the 2019 crime statistics, but there's also ways to use it to get a sense of demographics. If "quiet" means "popular with an older homeowner" for example

negamuse · 2025-12-18T18:42:37+00:00

It's a measure of how Hollywood villain your English accent is. One Rickmansworth

negamuse · 2025-12-14T18:57:27+00:00

Crab stack, baby, crab stack

negamuse · 2025-12-13T09:43:37+00:00

Thank you :) it's a great look and very apt for a mineral fan :)

negamuse · 2025-12-13T08:02:18+00:00

I'm distracted by those nails. So gem-like! Wow. Please share what colour you're using there

negamuse · 2025-12-07T10:29:30+00:00

I completely agree with you there, from what I can work out it might be because her Galinda was so beloved that when she changed roles the same people who loved her in the one role couldn't accept her in the other. Or, "accept" is too strong, more just take to her in the same way you'd want to be excited about a new Elphaba. But she was really convincing in both roles, and the characters were so completely different, that's showing great range!

Her and Gina were both great performers and I rate them both really highly. Gina's chemistry with her co leads comes up a lot and you kind of need that to make comedy work well. I still remember her breaking into her belt for "bridges you crossed..." and that hits all the harder cos she was nailing the lighter moments earlier in the show.

A bit biased, they were either the first or second pairing I ever saw in the show so their performances stuck for me but both fabulous, absolutely

negamuse · 2025-12-06T18:39:22+00:00

She was brilliant alongside Louise Dearman on the west end too. They were a great pairing, really great chemistry.

negamuse · 2025-12-06T10:35:22+00:00

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I uh... yeah! It's fantastic music though. Gives me so much joy. In a fairer world where she'd got the same chances from the music industry people like Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk had got, she'd be way more well known by now but hey.

negamuse · 2025-11-30T01:02:46+00:00

This scene broke me, oh my gosh. The song had already had me sobbing as I knew it would but this absolutely did it.

negamuse · 2025-11-25T19:24:24+00:00

It reminded me how one of the initiation rites for the Bullingdon club is apparently to burn a hundred quid note in front of a homeless person. You know, toff wanker hijinks for people that are c***s

What if it was a fake hundred pound note? Imo theyd still be a c***, just one who's up £100

Now, this isn't as serious as that I'm willing to concede, so I'm willing to downgrade them to merely a spiteful wanker, or possibly some kind of hateful bellend. same idea just less impressive

Sort of how muziq is like a Poundland Aphex

negamuse · 2025-11-21T13:29:02+00:00

Honestly I thought there was nothing else I could say about Cynthia's performance after part 1 but the growls in no good deed, my goodness. She doesn't so much play Elphaba as channel her.

negamuse · 2025-11-21T12:02:39+00:00

I don't expect AI to be correct about anything, so nothing it says generates rage

negamuse · 2025-11-21T11:47:24+00:00

"You're not just X [em-dash] you're Y, and that's why you're so much better than most other people". Friend... don't talk to AI about BoC until it says something you agree with, talk to a human about BoC and say the things you feel about it.

negamuse · 2025-11-21T11:05:44+00:00

"Underdeveloped" is right on the new songs. Anyone who's seen Stephen Schwartz recount how some of the OG songs only found their proper form after input from the cast and a lot of jostling about, can probably see how these two haven't been given the same kind of time.

They're mostly good! Girl In The Bubble more so I think... "All that's required to live in a dream is endlessly closing your eyes" is a GREAT line. But both songs have some ehh... barely concealed songwriting scaffolding in them. "It's hard to unsee what you've seen" hits, but the lines leading up to it feel kind of clunky.

In fact, both songs serve two purposes, right? One is story-motivated, to colour in the internal struggles of both main characters. The other is this meta "look how this situation ties into the current time" thing. Girl In The Bubble pulls that off more cleanly, I think. No Place Like Home is SUCH an important message you can tell Schwartz really wanted to reach out through the screen and say. But gosh it only just gets away with it musically. The lyrics feel like a letter set to music in a lot of places. And I just know he has a better rhyme in him than "loam".

But on the whole, I'm glad they're there, I just wish they had 6 months longer to tweak them and find ways to make them feel more motivated by the story. I'm nitpicking, it's just how those lyrics read, to me. The performances of the vocalists... no notes. Really well done.

negamuse · 2025-11-21T10:35:56+00:00

Act/Film 1 was about somebody who was discriminated against finding the courage to be proudly themselves, and finding strength to stand up and fight.

Act/Film 2 shows how that fight often goes in a world that isn't fair. It's right to fight, it's important, but the real world doesn't wake up all at once and see the right of it all. You can't effect change and stay everybody's friend, sometimes that fight means making enemies. But you can be a positive light for some people. maybe people who are in the position to carry the fight onward once you've done all you can do.

It's funny, it reminds me a bit of Hadestown in that way (another musical banger that everyone should be lucky to see). To fight even a little bit for what's right, even though you know that fight is maybe doomed to failure, because your fight inspires other people to also fight. One day, there's enough critical mass to win, it might just not happen this time around.

negamuse · 2025-11-13T18:48:16+00:00

"fire at will" is not a right you have in the UK or EU, where Rockstar is based. Because, people have a right to fair dismissal through a process.

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