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Peter Hook & the Light at First Avenue, Minneapolis (02 Nov 2019)
Peter Hook at First Avenue
Technique Set
Fine Time
Love Less
Guilty Partner
Mr. Disco
Dream Attack
🖭 Your Silent Face
Republic Set
Ruined in a Day
Everyone Everywhere
Young Offender
Times Change
🖭 Avalanche
Exercise One
Touched by the Hand of God
World in Motion
Peter Hook's last Minneapolis show at the Fine Line Music Café in November 2014 remained one of my favorite shows of that year. He played THREE sets (well technical two full sets and ...
DJ Jake Rudh
This is billed as a Transmission (aka DJ Jake Rudh) / BNLX release show, but music fans may want to take note that at nearly midnight, The Ocean Blue is scheduled to appear. …
It's so good to have Peter Hook (billed as Peter Hook & the Light) , back in town to play some classic Joy Division and New Order songs. As you know, New Order has yet to make their way here, so the original bassist is filling in a much-needed love and celebration of those early New Order hits.
Prior to Peter Hook taking the stage and playing music between sets was DJ Jake Rudh, from Transmission. As you know, Rudh is a big fan of New Order and Joy Division, naming his radio show after a Joy Division song.
After Hook finished his show, Rudh would close out the show with a dance party, playing music videos of UK bands from the 80s and 90s.
If you were keeping up, Peter Hook was previously playing Substance throughout 2016 and 2018.
With 2019, Hook decided to revisit and play every song from New Order's albums Technique and Republic… both albums were very popular in the UK (having hit #1 on the UK charts in 1989 and 1993 respectively). There's also an interesting story behind those two albums, Technique was possibly the last album that Factory issued for New Order before they went bankrupted… while Republic was picked up by major label Qwest/Warner Bros Records - making it the most popular New Order album in America (thanks mostly to terrific hits like "Regret" and "Ruined in a Day").
Like many Americans, Republic was really the first New Order album that I bought, so it's a little special to hear the album played live… not just the hits, but the weird album tracks.
As I've previously mentioned, it's challenging for bands to play entire album from start to finish, mostly because of constantly re-tuning or playing with different instruments… plus, many times, when bands put songs in certain order for their albums, they don't think that those songs can be played live.
I don't know Technique quite as well, but I can tell that the last song on Republic, "Avalanche", was played from a tape (since it was an instrumental track closing out the record).
All the songs were played expertly, and was how I remembered them sounding from the albums. Sometime bands would "mix it up" live, but thankfully, Hook kept it faithful to the studio recordings.
The "encore", or rather the third Peter Hook set, started with all Joy Division songs… before returning to New Order's "Ceremony" and "Touched by the Hand of God". The encore songs were bonus, and they were songs fans wanted to hear… although it would've been nice to hear "She's Lost Control" (which they didn't play). Still no complaints here, "Isolation" was just as good to hear live.
What made the show special was hearing "World in Motion". The official 1990 England national football song was on the setlist because Peter Hook said, "because I f***** love it." It is really a wonderful song, especially when the audience screams back, "En-ga-land!"
The rap portion was handled by a fan (singing the part of England footballer John Barnes). After the song, the fan proposed marriage to his girlfriend, who came on stage to accept the ring.
Overall, a very special show, especially for the newly engaged couple.
Peter Hook ended strong with a double-whammy of New Order's "Temptation" and Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". The latter song has always been a favorite to end his set, and you can tell when you hear everybody on the dance floor singing back the lyrics.
Remaining tour dates:
11/04/2019 Venue, Vancouver BC
11/05/2019 Neptune Theatre, Seattle WA
11/07/2019 Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR
11/08/2019 The Fillmore, San Francisco CA
11/09/2019 The Wiltern, Los Angeles CA
11/11/2019 Emo's, Austin TX
11/12/2019 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
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Minneapolis: November 1 to November 5, 2019
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from November 1 to November 5, 2019.
PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT
+ DJ Jake Rudh
Sat 11/02/2019 (8pm/$27.50)
Former Joy Division and New Order bassist, Peter Hook (billed as Peter Hook & the Light) will be returning to Minneapolis this November 2nd.
As with Hook's previous appearances, there's a theme to his set. In May 2018 and Oct 2016 he played Substance from Joy Division and New Order. In Nov 2014 he played a collection of early New Order, Brotherhood and Low-Life.
This 2019 tour, Hook will revisit New Order's albums Technique and Republic. We're very excited about Republic, because the record spawned some massive hits for the American audience.
DJ Jake Rudh (from Transmission), will DJ before the show.
10/24/2019 Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA
10/25/2019 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY
10/26/2019 Paradise Rock Club, Boston MA
10/28/2019 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON
10/29/2019 Fairmount Theatre, Montreal QC
10/31/2019 St. Andrews Hall, Detroit MI
11/01/2019 Metro, Chicago IL
11/02/2019 First Avenue, Minneapolis MN
Tiffany Young at First Ave
Devendra Banhart 2019 Tour
Magic Sword at 7th Street
Tyler Childers at First Ave
Lisa Phrank at 7th Street
Devendra Banhart
Back in 2004, Acid-folk god Devendra Banhart compiled a collection of folk music for some magazine. Much like Nostradamus before him, he managed to predict some of the leading lights of modern folk music …
Magic Sword's electronic fantasy epic "In the Face of Evil" (I recently used it in my D&D campaign to introduce a new villain). …
TIFFANY YOUNG
Fri 11/01/2019 (6pm/$30)
Girls' Generation's Tiffany Young will be headlining First Avenue this November 1st. Young is an American, but was discovered by South Korean entertainment agency SM Entertainment at the age of fifteen. She moved to South Korea to join Girls' Generation (later Girls' Generation-TTS).
10/25 San Francisco, CA
11/09 Washington, DC
10/27 Vancouver, BC
11/10 Brooklyn, NY
10/28 Portland, OR
11/12 Raleigh, NC
10/29 Seattle, WA
11/13 Atlanta, GA
11/01 Minneapolis, MN
11/15 Houston, TX
11/16 Dallas, TX
11/04 Toronto, ON
11/18 Denver, CO
11/06 Philadelphia, PA
11/20 Phoenix, AZ
11/08 Boston, MA
11/21 Los Angeles, CA
+ Black Belt Eagle Scout
Varsity Theater
Sat 11/02/2019 (7pm/$28)
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Venezuelan/American songwriter Devendra Banhart will be stopping by the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis this November 2nd.
We last saw Banhart in May 2016 and said, "The Saturday night would also have a similar setup, Devendra Banhart, this time with a full electric band, would open up the show. As described by Banhart, there were no established setlist for his band and some sets were entirely improvised and some old songs are completely redone in a different direction. Whatever they decided to play, it was clear that Banhart was absolutely giggly about the whole thing. You can hear it in his voice and his mannerism, he was extremely excited to perform these songs for us."
10/19/19 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
10/20/19 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
10/22/19 - Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
10/24/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre
10/25/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Yost Theater
10/26/19 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
10/27/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
10/30/19 - Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
11/01/19 - Omaha, NE @ The Slowdown
11/02/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
11/03/19 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
11/05/19 - Memphis, TN @ The Hi Tone
11/07/19 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs (Levitation)
11/23/19 - Leon, Guanajuato Mx @ Tecate Bajio
11/25/19 - Mexico City, Mx @ El Plaza Condesa
11/30/19 - Detroit, MI @ Museum of Contemporary Art
12/01/19 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
12/03/19 - Montreal, QC @ The Olympia
12/04/19 - Boston, MA @ The Wilbur
12/05/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
12/07/19 - Washington, D.C. @ 930 Club
12/08/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
+ Droid Bishop
Wed 10/30/2019 (8pm/$15)
Magic Sword is touring in support of their new EP Awakening (Joyful Noise Recordings). Expect an LP sometime in 2020.
31 Oct Summit Music Hall, Denver (CO)
01 Nov The Riot Room, Kansas City (MO)
02 Nov 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (MN)
03 Nov Beat Kitchen, Chicago (IL)
05 Nov The Drake, Toronto, Ontario (CAN)
06 Nov Theatre Fairmount, Montreal, Quebec (CAN)
07 Nov Great Scott, Boston (MA)
08 Nov Mercury Lounge, New York City (NY)
09 Nov Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia (PA)
10 Nov Songbyrd, Washington, D.C.
12 Nov Pioneer, Indianapolis (IN)
05 Dec The Echo, Los Angeles (CA)
06 Dec The Casbah, San Diego (CA)
07 Dec Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco (CA)
12 Dec Doug Fir Lounge, Portland (OR)
13 Dec Hollywood Theatre, Vancouver, BC (CAN)
14 Dec Barboza, Seattle (WA)
+ Courtney Marie Andrews
Mon 11/04/2019 (7pm/$31)
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Tyler Childers will be playing First Avenue on both November 3rd and November 4th.
10/20—Portland, OR—Crystal Ballroom
10/22—Vancouver, BC—Commodore Ballroom
10/24—Bend, OR—Bend Concert Series
10/25—Seattle, WA—Paramount Theatre
10/26—Spokane, WA—Knitting Factory Concert House
10/29—St. Louis, MO—Stifel Theatre
10/30—St. Louis, MO—The Pageant
10/31—Chicago, IL—Aragon Ballroom
11/2—Milwaukee, WI—Riverside Theater
11/3—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue
11/12-11/15—Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
12/05—Indianapolis, IN—Murat Theatre
12/06—Detroit, MI—The Fillmore
12/08—Toronto, ON—Rebel
12/10—Boston, MA—House of Blues
12/11—Philadelphia, PA—The Fillmore
12/13—Washington, DC—The Anthem
12/14—Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn Steel
12/18—Raleigh, NC—The Ritz
12/19—Charlotte, NC—The Fillmore
12/21—Atlanta, GA—The Tabernacle
12/27—Pikeville, KY—Appalachian Wireless Arena
LISA PRANK
+ Kitten Forever, Real Numbers
Tue 11/05/2019 (7pm/$12)
Seattle pop-punk royalty Lisa Prank (not to be confused with sticker queen Lisa Frank) is headlining 7th St Entry in support of her new album Perfect Love Song.
Oct 31 - Spokane, WA @ Lucky You Basement
Nov 01 - Missoula, MT @ Zootown Arts
Nov 02 - Bozeman, MT @ The Labor Temple
Nov 04 - Sioux Falls, SD @ Total Drag
Nov 05 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry
Nov 06 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
Nov 07 - Detroit, MI @ Trumbullplex
Nov 08 - Toronto, ON @ The Rec Room
Nov 09 - Boston, MA @ O'Briens
Nov 11 - Richmond, VA @ Gallery5
Nov 12 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
Nov 13 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd Vinyl Lounge
Nov 14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
Nov 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
Nov 16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto Project
Nov 17 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
Nov 18 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups
Nov 19 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
Nov 21 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas
Nov 22 - Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street OKC
Nov 23 - Kansas City, MO @ miniBar
Nov 24 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
Nov 25 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Nov 26 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic
Nov 30 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
Dec 01 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
Dec 02 - Arcata, CA @ Outer Space
Dec 03 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
Dec 05 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater
Dec 06 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
Dec 08 - Reno, NV @ Holland Project
Dec 09 - Corvallis, OR @ Mudville Stadium
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Peter Hook & the Light at First Avenue, Minneapolis (07 May 2018)
Peter Hook at First Ave Poster
New Order Set
Lonesome Tonight
Everything's Gone Green
Thieves Like Us
The Perfect Kiss
True Faith
-- Intermission --
Joy Division Set
From Safety to Where?
Leaders of Men
She's Lost Control
The great Peter Hook & The Light's "Substance" show just took place last Monday at First Avenue's mainroom. The idea behind this show is that the entire New Order and Joy Division's Substance albums would be played back to back by Peter Hook (who happened to be in both bands).
This is really the ultimate playlist, as Substance were singles compilations... which meant it is sort of a "Greatest Hits" for both bands. Yes, you get the "True Faith" and the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" songs. No fillers, only hits, as some fans put it.
Opening up the show was DJ Jake Rudh, who has a radio show/dance night called Transmission. The name is borrowed from Joy Division's song, so Rudh's taste in music is heavily influenced by Joy Division. The music videos on Rudh's set included plenty of the usual alternative British bands (70s-90s), including Stone Roses (and always including David Bowie on all of his playlist).
Peter Hook and his band The Light (bassist Jack Bates, drummer Paul Kehoe, guitarist David Potts, and synths Martin Rebelski) took the stage at 8:15pm, as scheduled.
If you saw the Peter Hook & The Light's "Substance" show in October 2016, this 2018 show sounds eerie familiar - down to the Prince dedication for "Atmosphere"!
However, there are some subtle differences: instead of three plus hours, the two sets were shortened by dropping a few songs from the playlist: New Order's "Cries and Whispers" and "1963" and Joy Division's "No Love Lost", "Isolation", "New Dawn Fades" and "These Days".
For the lack of "1963", I can totally stand with this decision, as it's incredible hard to follow New Order's most well-known double-whammy singles of "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith". For the Joy Division songs, let's be honest, Joy Division's earlier singles, while a cult favorite, were really not that well-known... and dropping those songs speed up closer to their later favorites like "She's Lost Control".
The dropping of these songs actually resulted in a tighter and more enjoyable show, in my opinion. You want the entire audience to sing along to the last few songs, which is how each set ended. Just watching the joy of the entire crowd singing back the words to "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was just a wonder. Even Hook had to comment, "You guys know the words better than I do!"
At the end of the show, Hook took off his sweaty "I♥MCR" (I Love Manchester) and threw it into the audience. This is a man who worked very hard to play for us, and truly loved his time in Joy Division and New Order.
Say what you will, but seeing as you're never going to see Joy Division or New Order in Minneapolis, this is really the next best thing. Let's hope we see Hook again when he comes back playing the beloved Republic and Technique album that he promised to do on the next tour. Very excited to see how this can be pulled off.
05/14/2018 Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, NV
05/17/2018 The Van Buren Phoenix, AZ
05/18/2018 The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA
05/19/2018 House Of Blues San Diego, CA
05/21/2018 Ace Of Spades Sacramento, CA
05/22/2018 Granada Theater Dallas, TX
05/23/2018 The Mohawk Austin, TX
05/25/2018 Cat's Cradle Carrboro, NC
05/27/2018 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
05/29/2018 Exit / In Nashville, TN
05/30/2018 The Paper Tiger San Antonio, TX
05/31/2018 Warehouse Live Houston, TX
06/03/2018 Plaza Live Orlando Orlando, FL
06/04/2018 State Theatre Saint Petersburg, FL
06/15/2018 Middlewich FAB Festival
07/21/2018 Rewind Scotland
08/11/2018 Kubix Festival
09/01/2018 Cool Britannia
Trivia: Bassist Jack is Peter Hook's son!
Posted at 07:03 PM in DJ Jake Rudh, First Avenue, Joy Division, Minneapolis, New Order, Peter Hook, Transmission, Vu | Permalink | Comments (0)
Minneapolis: May 06 to May 07, 2018
Peter Hook 2018 Poster
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 06 to May 07, 2018.
You know we love New Order, and Peter Hook & The Light will be fulfilling our love for the UK band. He'll be playing a double set of Substance from New Order and Joy Division. If you missed his show in October 2016, here's your second chance to see this unbelievable setlist.
Once again DJ Jake Rudh from Transmission to open.
5/1/18 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
5/3/18 Royal Oak Music Hall, Royal Oak, MI
5/4/18 Metro, Chicago, IL
5/7/18 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
5/8/18 Venue, Vancouver, BC
5/10/18 Neptune Theater, Seattle, WA
5/11/18 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
5/12/18 Warfield, San Francisco, CA
5/14/18 Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas, NV
5/15/18 Metro Music Hall, Salt Lake City, UT
5/17/18 Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ
5/18/18 Wiltern Los Angeles, CA
5/19/18 House Of Blues, San Diego, CA
5/21/18 Ace Of Spades, Sacramento, CA
5/22/18 Granada, Dallas, TX
5/23/18 Mohawk, Austin, TX
5/25/18 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
5/26/18 Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
5/27/18 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
5/29/18 Exit / In, Nashville, TN
5/30/18 Paper Tiger, San Antonio, TX
5/31/18 Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
6/3/18 Plaza Live, Orlando, FL
6/4/18 State Theater, St. Petersburg, FL
Dr Dog 2018 Poster
Olden Yolk 2018 Poster
Tricky 2018 Poster
Peelander-Z 2018 Poster
The show was very upbeat, and they seemed to be having a lot of fun playing. They seemed to have a good dynamic with each other and seemed to play off each other's energy and such. …
Superhero Japanese punk band Peelander-Z is currently on tour in support of their latest album, Metalander-Z, stopping by the Turf Club in St Paul last night, September 19th. …
+ Son Little
Bluegrass/Americana band Dr. Dog will be back in town on Sunday, May 6th, at the Palace Theatre.
Show up early to check out Philly's Son Little. He's touring in support of his latest album New Magic. We previously caught him in Nov 2017 and wrote, "The music of Philadelphia's Son Little simmers with a slow burn, an ideal elixir to warm the enraptured crowd on a chilly weekend evening."
5/2 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
5/4 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
5/5 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
5/6 – St. Paul, MN – The Palace Theatre
5/8 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
5/10 – Tulsa, OK – Cain's Ballroom
5/11 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
5/12 – Austin, TX – Moody Theater
5/13 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
5/14 – San Antonio, TX – The Rustic
5/16 – New Orleans, LA – Joy Theater
5/17 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
OLDEN YOLK
Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
Sun 05/06/2018 (7:30pm/$10)
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NY-based Olden Yolk will be stopping by Bryant Lake Bowl on Sunday, May 6th, in support of their debut album Trouble In Mind. Olden Yolk is the project of Shane Butler (of Quilt) and Cait Shaffer.
May 1 - Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo
May 2 - Toronto, ON @ The Smiling Buddha
May 3 - Cleveland, OH @ Happy Dog
May 4 - Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
May 5 - Milwaukee, WI @ Milwaukee Psych Fest
May 6 - Minneapolis, MN @ Bryant Lake Bowl
May 8 - Bloomington, IN @ The Blockhouse
May 9 - Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
May 10 - Raleigh, NC @ Neptune's Parlor
May 11 - Washington, DC @ DC9
May 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Everybody Hits
May 19 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
+ Young Magic
Mon 05/07/2018 (7pm/$28/Sold Out)
Finally! We've been waiting for Tricky forever. Originally, he was scheduled to appear in October 2013 (as we previously announced), but unfortunately, due to some troubles in his youth, the U.S. refused to grant him a working Visa.
It seemed to have all been sorted out for this 2018 tour, just in time for his new album ununiform (False Idols). The Minneapolis show is sold out.
Young Magic to open. The group was last seen in town in May 2016, and we said, "The music of Young Magic had a much more ambient feel than that of the headliner. Singer Melati Malay had a very haunting vocal style which can only be described as spooky."
5/2 - Boston, MA @ Paradise
5/3 - New York City, NY @ Irving Plaza
5/5 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
5/6 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Longue
5/7 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
5/9 - Denver, CO @ Marquis
5/12 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
5/13 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
5/14 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
5/16 - San Francisco, CA @ Mezzanine
5/17 - San Diego, CA @ Music Box
5/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
+ Bug Fix, Koo Koo Kanga Roo
Mon 05/07/2018 (7:30/$13)
The always entertaining band Peelander-Z will be headlining the Turf Club in St Paul. The Japanese/New York's latest Go PZ Go is out now.
Two animal bands Bug Fix (featuring Red Pens and Birthday Suits members) and Koo Koo Kanga Roo to open.
05/01/2018: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
05/02/2018: Ft. Collins, CO @ Hodi's Half Note
05/03/2018: Denver, CO @ Streets Of London
05/05/2018: Sioux Falls, SD @ Bigs Bar
05/06/2018: Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
05/07/2018: Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
05/09/2018: Tulsa, OK @ Mercury Lounge
05/10/2018: Norman, OK @ Opolis
05/11/2018: Denton, TX @ Dan's Silver Leaf
05/12/2018: Austin, TX @ Barracuda
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Peter Hook and the Light at First Avenue, Minneapolis (30 Oct 2016) (Updated)
Cries and Whispers
New Dawn Fades
11/07/16 Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
11/08/16 House Of Blues, San Diego, CA
11/11/16 Granada Theatre, Dallas, TX
11/12/16 The Mohawk, Austin, TX
11/14/16 Republic, New Orleans, LA
11/15/16 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA
11/17/16 Plaza Live, Orlando, FL
11/18/16 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, FL
11/19/16 The Ritz Ybor, Tampa, FL
11/21/16 The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
11/22/16 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
11/23/16 Howard Theatre, Washington, DC
11/25/16 Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
11/26/16 Sinclair, Boston, MA
11/27/16 Theatre Fairmount, Montreal, QC
11/29/16 Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, ON
12/03/16 Porto Alegre, Brazil Opiniao
New Order played by an old friend, and the darkness of Joy Division somehow shining bright and almost happy- Peter Hook and The Light played their Substance: New Order and Joy Division to a packed Mainroom last week at First Avenue.
Playing music videos of the era for the pre-show, and music for the intermission, was local DJ Jake Rudh of Transmission. It should be no surprise that Rudh was there, as the title of his dance club night and weekly radio show, is named after Joy Division's single.
Music videos from Rudh usually played are typical late 70's/early 80's MTV and underground artists... but he always works in a lot more David Bowie videos in his recent programming (this was also the case when he DJ'ed for The Faint last month as well), still a major influence on him.
Peter Hook and The Light (Jack Bates, Paul Kehoe, Andy Poole, and David Potts), as promised, played the two Substance albums by New Order and Joy Division in their entirety. These two releases were singles compilations (which also included some rare b-sides), so essentially, it was a two-set greatest hits show covering his former bands.
Turnout for the show was pretty incredible for Sunday night, with mostly fans in the 30s and 40s range. For New Order and, especially Joy Division fans, seeing Peter Hook & the Light is possibly the only way for them to hear some of these classic songs live. With a simple, "Evenin" spoken by Hooky, the ninety-minute first set was off and running with 1984's 'Lonesome Tonight'.
Though the band has only been in existence for six years (after a non-so-pleasant breakup with New Order), Hooky plays with very familiar company as Kehoe, Poole, and Pottsy all were with him in previous band Monaco and Bates, who played the majority of basslines, is Hook's own son.
Hooky himself sang most of the songs in a mid-range voice that lent itself well to both band eras, though less nuanced than Bernard Sumner, less goth and dark than Ian Curtis. He played bass like a master butcher, slicing the most choice cuts, or a sought-after surgeon, stepping forward to make the biggest impression with a solo, then backing off and letting the band finish up.
No one plays bass like Hook and it was obvious from those first few songs that New Order probably needs him, than vice versa, though he seems to be doing just fine, as-is and the sixty-year old still has remarkable stamina to play a three hour show regularly.
Hook's signature high bass lines were evident early, from first single 'Ceremony' to the classic 'Temptation'. As the musical time machine moved forward into New Order's more electronic periods, drummer Kehoe often excused himself as a drum machine took over the beats and Hook's basslines moved higher and more melodic, to compete with all the electronica.
The last half of the first set, got the most crowd response, as that represented the time period when New Order's music was most on the radio, in films, and other media, and most accessible to mainstream audiences. The one-two punch of 'Bizarre Love Triangle' and 'True Faith' was faithful to their originals and stunning to hear live back-to-back, with somewhat deep cut, '1963' (a b-side to True Faith) ending the first set.
Though the show's tone changed dramatically after the intermission as the band re-emerged to cover the Joy Division portion for the next hour, it was no less danceable and darkness never held so much light, as the songs unfolded one after another.
Opening with the brooding 'No Love Lost' which started slowly before exploding into a post-punk blackness, Hooky's voice became more fierce and playing more pronounced as he re-created the somewhat simple basslines he first played forty years prior. Two other tracks from An Ideal for Living, their initial 1978 EP would soon follow, and with similar effective results.
The darkness would prove too inviting for anyone to resist as the last half of the set was filled with one classic from the next—from the howls of "dance, dance, dance to the radio" on 'Transmission', to Hooky's signature bassline anchoring 'She's Lost Control', to cries of "they keep calling me" on 'Dead Souls'.
A rumbling 'Atmosphere' was dedicated to the late Prince by Hook, fully aware he was standing in the same spot so much Minneapolis music history was made, with its "walk in silence, don't walk away, in silence, see the danger" taking on new meanings.
With an early "Happy Halloween" greeting from Hook, he huffed a final deep breath and turned the page on his music stand notes to "play something spooky", ending the show with 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', and Hook pointing at various crowd members during each of the choruses as that signature bass riff echoed through the former bus terminal.
Taking us all on an almost three-hour time trip, covering over thirty years, Peter Hook and the Light reminded everyone of why he is the legendary bassist he is, and why there is still substance in his music. This is a show not to be missed, if it plays anywhere near your town.
Peter Hook & the Light at First Avenue, Minneapolis (30 October 2016)
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Vu's Best Of 2014 Concerts
Shoegaze band Slowdive are currently on a reunion tour, stopping by Minneapolis' Fine Line Music Café, after being absent from the city in twenty-two years! ....
Never miss a beat. It had been a long seven years since their last appearance in Minneapolis (the band skipped us in 2012), but Leeds, UK band Kaiser Chiefs re-stormed the city and stage for an animated, back-to-glory performance ....
The Modfather Paul Weller is currently on a tiny US tour heading to Riot Fest in Chicago. For some reason, Minneapolis is just one of four US non-festival dates, and so naturally, the Varsity Theater show last night, September 10th, was sold out. ....
Canadians Stars and Hey Rosetta! are currently on tour together, supporting new albums, stopping by First Avenue in Minneapolis, last night, November 19th. For fans who couldn't make it, you can watch the show streaming online
Lily Allen is currently in the US, touring in support of her latest album, Sheezus (Regal, Parlophone), stopping by the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis last night
Of my 113 live shows I personally attended in 2014, these are my top ten.
1. Slowdive at Fine Line (31 Oct 2014)
An absolutely unforgettable show. After a 22 year absent, the band is back, healthier, happier, and dressed for the occasion (Halloween). Played all the hits, completely professional and absolutely a treat (like the candies they handed out) to finally see live.
2. Kaiser Chiefs at First Ave (13 June 2014)
WOW, these guys are amazing live. They did some things on this show that I've never, ever seen done at First Avenue (climbing owner's box rafters).
3. Paul Weller at Varsity Theater (10 Sep 2014)
Speaking of 20+ years absent from Minneapolis, the Modfather Paul Weller returned to the city. Fans of British music could not absolutely miss this sold out show.
4. Stars at First Avenue (19 Nov 2014)
Maybe it was because they were filming this live show for Yahoo, but this was a great show. I've criticized the band before when they only played new songs... but not this 2014 show. They played a lot of old stuff, including some hits and they did it because of the fans.
5. Lily Allen at Skyway (01 Oct 2014)
I love it when a band put on a show, and that's exactly what I got when I saw Allen. Sure, the setlist is the same every night, but the routines (including three costume changes) were absolutely fun to watch.
6. Peter Hook at Fine Line (15 Nov 2014)
I'll probably never see New Order live, so seeing Peter Hook play some classic New Order songs were good enough for me. Plus, bad snowstorm and sold out environment and three-hour music set, made it for a memorable show.
7. Buzzcocks at Varsity Theater (11 Sep 2014)
Legendary punk band... absolute blast to see them still at it.
8. Tori Amos at O'Shaughnessy (03 Aug 2014)
My first time seeing Tori, and it was everything I expected! Her set is different every night, thanks to fan requests... so you never know what she is going to play!
9. Pixies at State Theatre (11 Oct 2014)
This is one of those bands on my bucket list... I can finally cross them off the list. Really tight show, the band played all the hits and showcased their new songs.
10. Festival Palomino (20 Sep 2014)
Although the Americana music thing isn't my cup of tea, I have to give big thumbs up for this incredibly well-organized first-ever music festival of its kind. The event sold so well that they've already announced a second Festival Palomino... so obviously I'm looking forward to 2015.
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W♥M227: Reissues Reissues Reissues
W♥M227: Reissues Reissues... (46 mins)
Velvet Underground singer and songwriter Lou Reed passed away yesterday (October 27th) at the age of 71. Having heard a cover version of "White Light/White Heat" by Those Darlins, the Velvet Underground were still fresh in mind .…
Vu and Emily on W♥M Podcast:
YouTube Musickey is here. You can use it for free, but for $10 a month you get ad-free music listening. Although this sounds great (as we all know most young people uses YouTube to listen and make playlists), sometime the audio on YouTube are not the greatest.
Reissues (UMe's six discs sets!)
Smashing Pumpkins' Adore came out as a six-disc box set, totaling over 100 tracks, from Universal Music Enterprises; review here.
Tears for Fears's Song From the Big Chair is also getting a 6-disc Super Deluxe Box Set; out now on Universal Music Enterprise. To help celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Song From the Big Chair, Spotify will host Tears For Fears' first-ever LIVE Spotify Landmark Session! You can listen to it here.
Velvet Underground's self-titled is also getting a 6-disc box set called 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition; out 11/24 on Polydor/Universal Music Enterprise.
Reissues (Vinyls!)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl
Gene reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl in 2013 (for UK only)
Belle & Sebastian reissued their entire back catalogue on vinyl via Matador Records.
The Afghan Whigs reissued Gentlemen at 21 21 years later on vinyl
Rare November shows
11/01 Mary Lambert at Fine Line Music Cafe
11/04 Blonde Redhead at Varsity Theater
11/12 New Pornographers at First Ave
11/13 Judah & the Lion at 7th Street
11/13 James Vincent McMorrow at First Ave
11/14 FKA twigs at Fine Line Music Cafe
11/14 Interpol at First Avenue
11/15 Peter Hook and the Light at Fine Line
11/16 Amanda Palmer at the Cedar
11/17 Julian Casablancas at First Ave
11/17 My Brightest Diamond at Cedar
11/19 Stars at First Avenue
11/20 Better Than Ezra at Varsity Theater
11/24 Death From Above 1979 at First Avenue
Upcoming December Shows
12/01/14 Allah-Las and Tashaki Miyaki at Turf Club
12/04/14 Cracker at Varsity Theater
12/11/14 Alvvays at the Turf Club
12/17/14 Soul Asylum at 7th Street (Sold Out)
The Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Polydor/UMe
More details about Polydor/Universal Music Enterprise (UMe)'s release of The Velvet Underground – 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition below. I have a digital copy for review, so hopefully, it will be done soon-ish. Just quickly looking over the tracks, many of these tracks already exists in one form or another on their previously two albums, so a lot of familiar songs.
The 65-track, 6-CD package is housed in a case-bound book and features several different mixes including the remastered stereo mix by MGM house engineer Luis Pastor "Val" Valentin, a set of 1969 recordings, many of which were previously unreleased, from the Record Plant in New York City that were supposed to be the band's fourth album, several of which ended up on Loaded and Reed's first two solo releases, and unreleased live recordings from The Matrix in 1969.
The remastered Valentin stereo mix of The Velvet Underground will also be made available as both a single-disc CD, and as part of the two-CD Deluxe Edition version with a 12-track audio bonus disc featuring the best of Live At The Matrix, taped on November 26 & 27, 1969. Digital versions of both the single disc "Valentin mix" and the six-CD, Super Deluxe Edition will also be available through other digital partners including MFiT and HD Audio formats.
Big massive snowstorm at Peter Hook's show... Vu loves New Order.
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W♥M225: Party Line
W♥M225: Party Line (40 mins)
We've been very excited about news of the new Belle & Sebastian 2015 album for a while now, but the band recently made things official: It is called Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance …
Sally is back on W♥M Podcast, talking about some Sydney, Australia, things:
Yes I'm Leaving (21 Nov 2014)
Yes I'm Leaving is playing this Friday (21 Nov 2014) at Petersham Bowling Club with The Holy Soul, Avoid Island, Small Town Incident and Garry David.
Newtown Social Club (newtownsocialclub.com) is a new music venue in Sydney. They are booking some excellent bands:
Hurray for the Riff Raff (26 Nov 2014)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks (3 Mar 2015)
Gruff Rhys (6 Mar 2015)
Sydney Festival is taking place most of January 2015... The Clean from New Zealand, and How to Dress Well are two of the bands playing at the Sydney Festival shows.
Johnny Marr is on tour for his second album Playland, stopping by Sydney's Enmore (05 Feb 2015)
Belle & Sebastian is playing in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre on Jan 29th and also at the Taronga Zoo on January 31st.
God Help the Girl film, Vu doesn't like, but Sally doesn't care.
B&S is releasing Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance for 2015, we previewed their new single, "The Party Line".
Harper's Bazaar (Dec 2014)
Photographer: @simonlekias
Peter Hook played over three hours at a "no re-entry" sold out show.
Leichhardt Wind Orchestra's Summer Concert 2014 is taking place this 15th December 2014 at the Leichhardt Town Hall in Leichhardt, Australia.
Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue on the cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine.
Roxette's got the look.
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Peter Hook & the Light at Fine Line, Minneapolis (15 Nov 2014)
Day of the Lords
Something Must Break
The Eternal
Brotherhood Set
As It Is When It Was
Broken Promise
Every Little Counts
Low-Life Set
Love Vigilantes
This Time of Night
Sooner Than You Think
11/17/14 Venue, Vancouver, BC
11/18/14 Nuemos, Seattle, WA
11/20/14 Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
11/21/14 Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
11/22/14 Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
11/24/14 Pomona, CA - Glasshouse
11/25/14 Los Angeles - Roxy
11/26/14 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
11/28/14 Honolulu, HI - Republik
New Order fans rejoice, Peter Hook & The Light will be performing New Order's third and fourth albums, Low-Life and Brotherhood for the first time in the United States and Canada across the first three weeks of November 2014. …
For the first time in America, Peter Hook & the Light are performing New Order's Low-Life and Brotherhood start to finish all across North America. We were lucky enough to enjoy the live rendition at the sold out Fine Line Music Café show in Minneapolis, last night.
Local British music fan DJ Jake Rudh played some music, getting fans pumped up for Peter Hook. We like the same bands and music, so it's not surprising to see him working with these artists. The next show that is on our radar is Rudh will be at the Ocean Blue/BNLX EP release party on November 29th.
If you're not familiar with the story of Joy Division, they were lead by singer Ian Curtis. After Curtis committed suicide, the rest of Joy Division (Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Peter Hook), went on to form New Order. While the band members were mostly the same, there is a definite shift in the direction of music... with New Order being on more synthesizer, happier, and more upbeat.
Peter Hook and his band The Light took the stage a close to 9:30pm, which was a lot earlier than what First Avenue's Twitter list Hook to be on at "10:20pm". And as advertised, Hook played selections from Joy Division. After the last Joy Division song was played, "The Eternal", the band went off stage for a quick ten minute break.
When they came back, they started into a few New Order songs and then worked their way to playing Brotherhood from start to finish. You can really hear the evolution of music - from somber, moody Joy Division songs to sunnier and uplifting New Order songs (even though some of their lyrics are hateful and dark!).
Hook is visibly annoyed by someone shouting out song requests. Several time he shot the fan down, "It's my show I'll play what I want", and later "Did you not read the f****ing poster? Shut up and let me get on with it." Hook is really unhappy with these distractions; you have to understand that the setlist they made (including all the guitar changes) were probably timed perfectly to fit into their allotted time on stage.... which in total would give us over three and a half hour of pure New Order and Joy Division classic songs. And who can argue with that?
The third set (after another brief break) would be for New Order's Low-Life album. I have to say that it felt like a live listening party, only you are sharing the room with fans, giving you feedback by singing or dancing along.
Personally, the highlight was the encore. For dedicated fans who stayed until the very end, we were treated to hits after hits ("5 8 6", "Shellshock", "True Faith", "Temptation", "Love Will Tear Us Apart"). For "Shellshock", Hook dedicated the song to Prince. Then after sing-along classics "True Faith" and "Temptation", Hook had one last statement to declare. He tells us that the drummer wanted them to play "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and he said, "NO!".... only the song started playing and Hook started to sing the beloved song. To end it, Hook took off his shirt and then said, "Tell Prince I said 'Hello'!" This was a very satisfying ending to a lengthy three set concert.
Peter Hook & the Light will be taking their Low-Life and Brotherhood show to Vancouver, Canada, next. They'll be playing the west coast in mid to late November, ending in Hawaii, which I suspect will be a lot warmer than Minneapolis.
* PS, Prince was probably in Paisley Park with FKA twigs last night.
Peter Hook & the Light at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (15 Nov 2014)
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W♥M223: Rocktober to Snowvember
W♥M223: Rocktober to Snow... (64 mins)
Lily Allen is currently in the US, touring in support of her latest album, Sheezus (Regal, Parlophone), stopping by the Skyway Theatre in Minneapolis last night. …
Vu and John recaps Rocktober 2014, plus news/rumors, and November show previews.
Macaulay Culkin is not dead. He's in a cover band The Pizza Underground (a Velvet Underground cover band... but the subject matter are all replaced by pizzas). The Pizza Underground was recently in Minneapolis, playing a show with Har Mar Superstar... currently in Texas.
Rumor: Could Liam and Noel be getting back together? With Beady Eye's break up, via twitter.com/liamgallagher, the rumors are coming fast and furious. Noel, on the other hand has a new Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds coming out early 2015 called Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records).
Robert Plant apparently kiboshed a Led Zeppelin reunion guaranteeing $800 mil. from Richard Branson. 35 dates in 3 cities (London, Berlin, NJ).
Artists and digital music sites: U2 uploading new album Songs of Innocence to all iTunes users, Morrissey's music is not online, Taylor Swift pulls hers from Spotify, Garth Brooks self-distributing...
Pre-Rocktober: Lykke Li and La Roux
Rocktober Highlights: Lily Allen, Paloma Faith, Vintage Trouble, Placebo, Pixies, Augustines, and Slowdive.
Honorable mentions: of Montreal, Kooks, and Agnes Obel
Here is a list of all the shows we covered in October:
10/01 Lily Allen at Skyway
10/01 Phantogram at Myth
10/02 Paloma Faith at Triple Rock
10/02 Agent Orange at 7th St
10/04 Kooks at First Ave
10/05 Vintage Trouble at Varsity
10/06 of Montreal at Cedar
10/07 Lucius at Electric Fetus
10/07 Tennis at Fine Line
10/07 Belle & Sebastian at Theatre
10/08 Screaming Females at Triple R
10/08 Banks at First Ave
10/09 We Are Scientists at Turf Club
10/09 Allen Stone at Terminal 5
10/10 Sloan at Turf Club
10/11 Augustines at Turf Club
10/11 Pixies at State Theatre
10/14 Communion Clubnight
10/15 Kina Grannis at Varsity
10/16 Kat Edmonson at Dakota Jazz
10/17 Placebo at Mill City Nights
10/17 Iggy Azalea at TCF Stadium
10/18 Angus & Julia Stone at Cedar
10/22 Dum Dum Girls at Fine Line
10/24 Minus the Bear at Triple Rock
10/27 Ray LaMontagne at Saenger
10/29 Bear's Den at Fine Line
10/30 Agnes Obel at Dakota Jazz
10/30 Kimbra at Fine Line
10/31 Slowdive at Fine Line
10/31 Alt-J at Myth
November Shows Highlight
FKA Twigs at Fine Line (11/14)
Interpol and Hundred Waters at First Avenue (11/14)
Peter Hook and the Light at Fine Line (11/15)
Amanda Palmer at Cedar (11/16)
Suzanne Vega at the Dakota Jazz Club (11/18-11/19)
Stars at Minneapolis (11/19)
Better than Ezra at the Varsity (11/20)
Death from Above 1979 at First Avenue (11/24)
Song of the show is Morrissey's "November Spawned a Monster".
Synthpop Lovelife (previously Viva Brother) and their relationship to Morrissey.
Joe Perry and Steven Tyler (both from Aerosmith) and their rivalry.
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The ninth season of "Double Down," WCNY's award-winning high school academic quiz show, debuts Nov. 3. The show airs weekly at 6 p.m. Sundays on WCNY and repeats at 8 p.m. Mondays on World.
Students from 32 schools will compete to win the coveted blueRock Energy Scholastic Award trophy. Teams include last season's champion, Whitesboro. Other competitors include Fayetteville-Manlius, Bishop Ludden, Cato-Meridian, Christian Brothers Academy, Chittenango, Clinton, Cooperstown, Dolgeville, East Syracuse-Minoa, Gilbertsville-Mount Upton, Ithaca, Jamesville DeWitt, Jordan-Elbridge, LaFayette, Laurens, Manlius Pebble Hill, Mount Markham, New Hartford, Northern Onondaga LEAH, Nottingham, Oneida, Oriskany, Port Byron, Pulaski, Solvay, Southern Cayuga, Union Springs, Vernon Verona Sherrill, Westhill, Westmoreland, Whitesboro and Whitney Point.
Popular WCNY on-air host Bill Baker will moderate each session, challenging the students with questions in the categories of English language, arts and literature; history and geography; math; science; sports and 2013.
Underwriting for "Double Down" is provided by blueRock Energy, The College of Saint Rose, St. Bonaventure, the State University of New York College at Morrisville and WCNY members.


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"utterly bonkers" – Anthony Karr, journalist
"it does make you feel utterly alive." – Chris Harris, race driver
"the British luxury brand's most intense and exhilarating creation to date" – Aston Martin
you probably deduced by now that what we are talking about is a car. and you might have noticed that we are not discussing just any ol' regular roadster, either. it's the beauty and the beast brought together under the same hardtop. ladies and gentlemen, let's chat a bit about the Aston Martin Vulcan.
up until this year, I would have called myself a moderate car enthusiast. my love for automobiles was purely sentimental: I loved my family's old Pontiac Grand Am from back in the '90s, because Romania's post-communist times didn't have so many American cars. that made the Pontiac truly special. I appreciated the Dacias that followed for their reliability and getting me around whenever I wanted. but my respect and appreciation for the automotive industry reached a whole other level when I got introduced to the Aston Martin Vulcan (on a personal level, owning a roaring Miata and having a partner who wants to break into the motorsports industry also helped a bit in expanding my passion).
right off the bat: this car is amazing.
I mean, just listen to this:
the hypercar designed to eat tarmac on racing tracks has seen the light of day for the first time in 2015. there are only 24 models in the whole world, each car being priced at $2.3 million. British race driver, Chris Harris from Top Gear, has been smitten with the raw driving experience of the Vulcan. he magnificently lays out this car's product story during one of the show's episodes, justifying the hype around this track phenomenon:
"this is the Aston Martin Vulcan, named in honor of Britain's legendary Cold-War bomber, which is quite a bold name to give a car. the Vulcan, after all, was one of our finest engineering feats of the 20th century. calling your car Vulcan is like naming your child Ace or Elvis. it's got a lot to live up to." cue the roaring, thunderous sound of the V12 engine, parading on the famous Abu Dhabi race track.
"the Vulcan is the fastest, most powerful, most extreme Aston Martin that was ever built", concludes Chris Harris, while trying to talk into the camera at a speed of 320 kph or 200 mph.
two main points fascinate me about this supercar.
its evident power and prowess;
its story.
if you search for articles, videos, or just chats about the Aston Martin Vulcan, there are two main emotions that prevail: awe and giddy-excitement. whether you'll catch engineers talking about the loud V12 engine (which was created, by the way, by putting 2 old Ford Mondeo engines together), car fans who say how much they love the roar and fury of the car, or people who just see and hear the Vulcan for the first time – those two feelings come directly from the gut in each case. they instinctively take over. even if you are not a fan of loud cars, subconsciously, you will react in the same way you would if you saw a great, roaring, gorgeous beast in front of you (minus the immediate life-threatening danger part). all of this helps make the first contact with the Aston Martin supercar a deeply somatic, memorable moment.
what also helped in further developing the product story is adding strategic, relevant story layers to the product itself. the Aston Martin branding team did not only have what to work with from a purely physical perspective (thinking about the car and its specs), but they could also create an even bigger story around it. the iconic motor craftsmanship is the perfect example in this case. high-performing engine, like the V12, are almost expected on race-ready cars like this one. but what makes the Vulcan engine so special is that it embodies the idea of technological innovation from a different angle. instead of hyping up a futuristic innovation effort, it goes back to the basics and embraces a "working-with-what-you-have" mentality – a truly British attitude. like I mentioned earlier, the Vulcan V12 is actually a rethought frankensteinian combination of two V6 engines, taken from 1990s Ford Mondeo cars. being able to say that the most powerful Aston Martin car is powered by "leftovers from two old family saloons", as Chris Harris put it, makes for a great story.
the words used around the product are also important in creating the product story. first, to get to the product, you must go through its nomenclature, which, in the case of the Aston Martin Vulcan, gives the car an iconic aura. but the strategic word use doesn't stop there.
for example, one of the most commonly used phrases for the Aston Martin Vulcan (the custom road edition) is "road-legal". the constant repetition of this idea has two main effects on people. firstly, the supercar generates an arousal feeling in the brain. this stimulus is similar to the one sparked by cigarette warning labels, which was found to excite the craving part of the brain, rather than repel the smoker. the reasoning behind this phenomenon is that the underlying message (that engaging with this experience is dangerous, exhilarating, and adrenaline-packed) actually presents itself as intriguing to the person. the "road-legal" positioning describes the driving experience concisely and effectively in this direction. it primes you to crave for just a little (or a lot) of danger. especially those with a bad-boy bone in their body respond positively to this feeling, either via brand fascination or even by ultimately purchasing such a car. another frequently-used term for the Aston Martin Vulcan is "supercar" or "hypercar". this prompts you to understand that what you will experience with this car will not be your average cruise, but a super-drive – something special and out of the ordinary. these are just some of the clever word pairings that confer this particular meaning to the Vulcan brand.
speaking of which, we need to talk about the most important puzzle piece in this brand success story. the best part about the Vulcan brand is that nothing seems out of place. the product's performance, the design, and, of course, the product narrative, all make sense. the Vulcan, on its own, could tell a story that fully encompasses and embodies the Aston Martin experience. advertising professionals wouldn't need much to create hype around the product. that is because the Vulcan is the living example of a great story – simply from it being built in the spirit of the company culture and brand.
when you digest the full Vulcan identity, you can understand the brilliance of the Aston Martin branding team. with this product, they successfully accessed all three layers of the human brain – the instinctual, emotional, and rational sides, aka the reptilian complex, limbic system, and the neocortex. thus, they managed to create an iconic, hard-to-forget brand.
which makes me wonder: when was the last time that a product left such an impression on you? or better yet, has a product, any product on the market, made you feel as much as the Vulcan?
here is a trickier question: what about your product? what narrative does your creation tell on its own?
your story, of course, doesn't need to be laced with adrenaline or craziness like in the case of the Vulcan. the advantage that the supercar has consists in it being a car – thus, the beast on wheels easily engages all the senses, and is an experience in itself. but every product has a purpose and owns a storyline. your product's story might be quieter, more comforting, like a sweet bedtime tale. or maybe it is bold, adventurous, and full of moments of bravery.
every story serves a purpose. this also applies to your product's development, or it should.
after watching the Aston Martin Vulcan in action, even if just online, I can say that the British company has found a new fan in me. if you fall in love with this car and its story, will you be more prone to loving Aston Martin as well, as a brand? yes, yes you will. welcome to the club! and now check how you can inspire the same story power in your product and brand.
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Tony Roberts for Lunch; Estelle Parsons Directs; Elizabeth Swados Atones; Laura Bell Goes Country; Judy Kuhn On Stage and CD; High School Musical Chills; Mickey and Judy Boxed; More
Tony Roberts is on the menu Thursday at Food for Thought's lunch time play reading series at the Players Club [16 Gramercy Park South, between Park Avenue and Irving Place]. The bill of fare will be O'Henry's A Municipal Report and The Pirates by Susan Charlotte and Pascal Aubier.
Two-time Tony nominee Roberts is currently starring in Broadway's sleeper hit musical Xanadu with Kerry Butler, Cheyenne Jackson, Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa.
The O'Henry adaptation is the story of a reporter's encounters with mendacity [The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof kind] and murder in Nashville. The Pirates involves two storytellers at a dinner party where a murder has taken place. Both are set in the 20th Century, early and end. Antony Marsellis will direct.
Lunch is from 12:30, with the performance at 1:30. An up close and personal Q&A and reception follow. Charlotte is founder and artistic director of FFT.
Tickets are $75. To reserve, call (212) 362-2560 or (646) 366-9340. For more information, visit http://www.foodforthoughtproductions.com/.
Monday night, Roberts was feted by his fellow Friars with a dinner and musical tribute that featured Hoffman, Testa, Lucie Arnaz, Veanne Cox, Jim Dale and Penny Fuller. Friar Dean Freddie Roman was emcee. Randie Levine-Miller produced.
Parsons Goes Latin
Oscar-winning and four-time Tony-nominee and Drama Desk-winning actress and director Estelle Parsons joins forces with INTAR Theatre, which produces Latin-influenced plays in English, to direct a 75-year-old classic of Pulitzer Prize-winner Maxwell Anderson, Night Over Taos, to inaugurate the theatre's 42nd season. The play runs through October 20 at Theater for the New City [155 First Avenue].
Produced on Broadway in 1932 by the legendary and revolutionary Group Theatre, Night Over Taso was directed by Lee Strasberg with a cast that included Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and Clifford Odets.
It's set during the U.S.-Mexican War, when Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, including what is now New Mexico, and tells the story of freedom fighter Pablo Montoya.
INTAR artistic director Eduardo Machado says, "Night Over Taos is a play from America's rich past that talks intimately to us today who are struggling with issues of immigration and the Iraq War. Maxwell Anderson tells how the west was really won. We are thrilled Estelle Parsons was attracted to this project and to have the privilege of working with her."
The cast of 25, the largest of any INTAR production, includes Jack Landron, Shawn Elliott, Peter Jay Fernandez, Mercedes Herrero, Mickey Solis, Erin Wagner and Miriam
Colon.
Anderson, widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific American playwrights of the years between World Wars I and II, was a rival to Eugene O'Neill. He wrote poetry, screenplays and for theater. He received the Pulitzer in 1933 for Both Your Houses. In 1937, he received Drama Critics' Circle Awards, then Broadway's highest honors, for Winterset and High Tor.
Tickets are $10 - $35, $10 for students/seniors, and can be purchased by calling (212) 254.1109, or online at http://www.theatermania.com/. For more info, visit http://www.intartheatre.org/.
Swados Takes a Spirtual Path
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine [1047 Amsterdam Avenue at West 112th Street] will present the premiere of Atonement by composer Elizabeth Swados on Monday at 7 P.M. Tickets are free on a first-come, first-served basis. You'll be asked to make a donation to Artists Striving to End Poverty.
Atonement will be performed by eight soloists, a chorus of more than 30 singers and musicians.
Swados describes the work as a concert with liturgical underpinnings written as an interfaith Yom Kippur offering. "The tone of the music goes from the intimate solo of prayers for forgiveness," says Swados, "to the explosions of our dangerous lives and evolve into the celebration and joyousness of life itself."
The writer/composer/director, known for her political satire and edgy work [Doonesbury], added, "I wanted to examine the horrors our world is facing, as well as the destitution of many of its citizens, and to look into ourselves and recognize our complicity, active or passive, in this chaos."
Swados' Runaways debuted at the Public and went on to become a Broadway hit and put her in the theater history books. She garnered five 1978 Tony noms, including Best Musical, Book, Choreography, Director and Score - a still unmatched feat. There was also and Obie win for Direction.
The piece will also be performed at St. Marks Church's Church in-the-Bowery [Second Avenue at East 10th Street] as part of the Holy Wow! festival on October 14 at 7:30; and at Manhattan's Jewish Community Center [334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street] on October 27 at 8.
From the Palace to the Cutting Room
Legally Blonde's Elle Woods, Tony and DD-nominated star Laura Bell Bundy will drastically change personas Tuesday night, October 2, one of her nights off from Broadway.
Taking a break from her Harvard challenges, she'll become Laura Bell and channel her country side in anything but pink at Chris Noth and Steve Walker's Cutting Room [19 West 24th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue]. Showtime is 8 P.M. She'll be appearing with her band.
Dynamo Bundy, who originated Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and portrayed the good Glinda in Wicked, was greatly influenced by Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and, among others, Aretha Franklin growing up in her native Kentucky.
Her Cutting Room appearance will showcase her songwriting talents and tunes from her new CD, Longing for a Place Already Gone [LAB Records; SRP $15], which features 17 tracks, from uptempo to waltzy ballads, written by Bundy and Larson Paine.
Laura Bell, wanting to use a name that would distinguish her from the actress/singer playing Elle, says, "My music is a throw back to the fifties and sixties, what I've coined 'y'alternative,' a sort of indie country meets Dixie-flavored rockabilly meets Top 40. The songs have the quality of a song Patsy Cline would have recorded or that Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash would have written." If Bell's vocals bear a resemblance to Cline, "it's because I've tried to capture the essence of her vocal styling."
The CD, recorded on the West Coast with top fiddle, dobro, mandolin and peddle steel players just prior to going into Legally Blonde, contains a colorful booklet of lyrics and some decidedly non-Legally Blonde photos [button a couple of those buttons, Laura!]. It's available at Amazon.com, where you can catch vocal samples, and http://www.labrecordsmusic.com./ At iTunes.com, you can do download purchases.
Bell, who describes her current life as "work heavy but one where I'm having a wonderful time," decided to do her album on her own label "because I felt it would be hard for an industry label to understand what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. It's a little new and different. In order for me to do it quickly, capture the traditional sound and maintain control, I just needed to do it myself."
Anyone getting an early start on holiday shopping can visit the LAB Records site to purchase of Laura Bell Bundy's I'll Be Home For Christmas, with proceeds benefiting the Kreative Kids Foundation.
Bundy, Christian Borle, Orfeh, Michael Rupert and the Legally Blonde company can be heard singing Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin's show tunes on Ghostlight Records. The just-taped performance of the musical will be broadcast on October 13 on MTV.
Keep in mind, when entering the artist's name on Search lines, that you are now dealing with two personalities: Laura Bell and Laura Bell Bundy. For much more on the many facets of Bundy/Bell [and to purchase a purse or two], visit http://www.lauraashleybellbundy.com/ and http://www.laurabellbundy.com/.
Tickets for Laura Bell in concert at Cutting Room are $15 and available at SmartTix.com. There's an additional $10 food or drink minimum.
Judy Kuhn Returns
Three-time Tony and DD-nominee, acclaimed actress/singer Judy Kuhn, star of stage and screen, has a new CD and will soon be joining the cast of the Les Mis?rables revival as Fantine.
Twenty years ago, in the original production, she played Cosette. She joins the show on October 23, succeeding Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, whose final performance is October 21.
In addition to her Broadway outings, Kuhn has performed on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. Her new CD Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro [Ghostlight Records; SRP $19] celebrates the work of one of the pioneering singer/songwriters of the 60s and 70s.
The CD is based on Kuhn's January sold-out Lincoln Center American Songbook Series concert, which followed her Obie-winning performance Off Broadway in Eli's Comin' at the Vineyard.
Music Director Jeffrey Klitz leads an eight-piece band on 14 known ["Stoney End," "Sweet Blindness"] and rarely-recorded compositions.
This Monday and on October 8, 15 and 22, Kuhn will be performing at Joe's Pub. The Kennedy Center in Washington follows on October 26.
The Musical That Went Out in the Cold
Disney's huge break-out hit High School Musical arrives in New York September 29 and 30 for four performances only, but not to a theatre near you. This is Feld Entertainment, helmed by Tony-winning producer Kenneth Feld, and Emmy-winning Kenny Ortega's ice show adaptation in association with Disney Theatrical Productions chief Peter Schumacher.
As even a hermit in the vast wilderness will tell you, High School Musical is an international phenom first as a giga-rated Disney Channel TV movie, then quadruple-Platinum cast CD, concert tour and chart-topping DVD. Now, High School Musical is hitting the ice. The venue is Madison Square Garden and all the rah-rah Wildcat team-spirit will be intact.
The director is Tony-nominee Jeff Calhoun [Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun, Big River]. Peter Barsocchini has scripted from his Disney Channel originals. There's razzle dazzle choreography by Charles Kaplow and Cindy Stuart.
Portraying Gabriella, Troy, Taylor, Ryan, Chad and mean girl Sharpay in the 35-strong cast of world class skaters [some a few years removed from their alma maters] are, respectively, Lane Walker, Jordan Brauninger [a U.S. double Gold Medalist in Senior Freestyle], Tetona Jackson, Peter B. Muck/Vyacheslav Chiliy [Russian Junior Singles champ and the Ukraine's first Men's Singles champ], Simon Hanks, and Sandy Rucker [2005 U.S. Junior National champ]/Helena Gundberg [two-time Swedish National Figure Skating champ and a member of the 1998 Olympic team].
High School Musical: the Ice Tour features the chart-topping songs that are close to every young gal's heart: "We're All in This Together" and "Start of Something New" by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, "You Are the Music in Me" and "When There Was Me and You" by Jamie Houston, "What I've Been Looking For" by Andy Dodd and Adam Watts, plus 14 more songs by various composers and music from Disney's High School Musical 2.
Tickets are $15 to $125 for VIP Gold seating and available by calling Ticketmaster at (212) 307-7171, at www.ticketmaster.com or http://www.highschoolmusicaltheicetour.com/.
Met Musuem Honors Brooke Astor
This weekend all programs at the Metropolitan Museum ó gallery talks, lectures, tours, films and family programs ó will be free with admission in honor of their generous benefactor Brooke Astor.
Friday night at 7 P.M., Met director Philippe de Montebello and Lord William Astor will introduce Brooke Astor's Love Affair with Asian Art in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Current must-see exhibitions include The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through January 6, which puts on display the museum's 20 Rembrandts and its entire Dutch Paintings Collection - 228 works; and Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection through February 3. The Met is closed on Mondays.
Inside Broadway's 25th Anniversary
The children's theater organization founded in 1982 by Michael Presser to create the audiences of tomorrow, Inside Broadway will celebrate its 25th Anniversary with a benefit concert and awards presentation on October 15 at 7:30 P.M. at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium [Rockefeller Center, West 49th Street and Sixth Avenue].
This year's honorees include Tony-winning Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart [Young Frankenstein], and Broadway couple Rebecca Luker [Mary Poppins] and Danny Burstein [Drowsy Chaperone]. Entertainment will be by the casts of several Broadway shows. Pia Lindstrom will emcee.
Cocktails will be served at six with the org's annual Broadway Beacon Awards, honoring theater industry advocates who help develop young audiences for Broadway. The benefit chairs include Harry Coghlan, president and GM of Clear Channel Spectacolor.
Benefit tickets are $350 and available by calling (212) 245-0710, or online at [email protected] For more information, go to http://www.insidebroadway.org/.
This Fall, Inside Broadway is presenting Creating the Magic, a behind-the-scenes look at Broadway shows, in schools as well career workshops. The season culminates in the Spring with a production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. The org began in 1982 at the request of late Shubert Org president Bernard Jacobs, by creating the first Broadway student ticket program in conjunction with Cats.
Coyote Innovation
Coyete REP this week introduces the premiere of three recorded sound plays from their 2007 Sound Play Series on the web at http://www.coyoterep.org/ and available for listening through iTunes.
The plays are the survival drama Coyote Rising by Tira Palmquist, The Boy at the Window the comedy by Douglas Braverman that revisits the kids from Peter Pan and Patriot Act (An Occurrence at Yankee Stadium) by Robert Emmet Lunney which reflects on real-life incidents.
The casts are large - directed by, respectively, Jeanne LaSala. Olivia Mora and Teresa K. Pond and Richard Romagnoli. Coyote REP's recorded sound plays are made possible in part by the donation of studio space by WNYC. Download info is available on the org's web site.
Scottish Wolves
The National Theatre of Scotland and London's Obie and Olivier Award-winning Improbable theater company are presenting The Wolves in the Walls, a 75-minute, multimedia "musical pandemonium" adapted from the best-selling book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, for 16 performances October 5-21 at the New Victory Theatre.
This is the New York debut for the recently-created NTOS. The company will visit Brooklyn in the Fall, bringing its acclaimed production of Black Watch to St. Ann's Warehouse.
The award-winning, hit U.K. show is conceived for the stage by NTOS A.D. Vicky Featherstone, Improbable's Julian Crouch and musician Nick Powell and described as "comic book-scary, spooky fun for adults and children alike [seven and up] with live music, projections and eerily lifelike puppets." Improbable and Crouch debuted Shockheaded Peter at the New Vic in 1999.
Tickets $12.50 - $35 and available at the box office, by caling (646) 223-3010 and online at http://www.newvictory.org/. With the purchase tickets to TWINW and at least two other New Vic prods, buyers can save 30% on tickets to all shows this entire season. The Wolves in the Walls is being supported with a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
Tony Bennett on CD and DVD
Tony Bennett Sings The Ultimate American Songbook, Volume 1 [Legacy/RPM/Columbia Records; SRP $18] has arrived in stores with 15 songs covering three decades of his repertoire with Columbia.
Tunes include Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from the revue Seven Lively Arts; Vernon Duke's "Taking A Chance On Love" from Cabin In The Sky; Sondheim's "You'll Never Get Away From Me" from Gypsy; Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "That Old Black Magic" [accompanied by the Dave Brubeck Quartet] from the film Star Spangled Rhythm; and "Moonglow," a duet with k.d. lang.
The Music Never Ends, a two-disc DVD doc [Warner Home Video; SRP, $25] that captures Bennett's Monterey Jazz Festival concert will be in stores in November. Clint Eastwood executive produced the video for debut recently on PBS' American Masters.
Ghouls, Goblins and Coasters
ëTis the season to scream! And weekend and holidays through October 28, you can holler your lungs out at Six Flags Great Adventures' Fright Fest, the tri-state area's largest Halloween party, in Jackson, NJ.
If the two daunting, monster roller coasters Kingda Ka and El Torro aren't enough to give your lungs a good workout, you can raise some cain with the Creatures of the Night [not to be confused with the music of the night] at the nightly Parade of the Walking Dead and Winn's Thrill Circus. Not enough? Well, you can be "mealworthy" for a bunch of creepy critters in the Coffin of Fear.
For calmer pleasures, there the new Wiggle's children's section, meet and greet opts with Looney Tunes characters, Dolphin Discovery, a rumble in the jungle with gigantic Bengals at the Temple of the Tiger, Halloween-themed shows and dance parties galore and fireworks.
Saturday, October 6, Six Flags hosts their fifth annual American Red Cross blood drive. Those who donate at least a pint receive Fright Fest tickets. On October 14, the park will host its first 5K run/fitness walk Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists.
One of the highlights of a Six Flags daylight visits is the drive-through Animal Safari, one of the biggest and best in the U.S. For directions, pricing and information, visit http://www.sixflags.com/.
Mickey and Judy Boxed
Mickey and Judy are ready to put on that show. And what a show! Actually, a whole bunch of ëem.
The five-disc DVD boxed set The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection: Ultimate Collector's Edition has arrived in stores [Warner Home Video; SRP $50]. The M-G-M musical classics, all remastered, finally making their first DVD appearance are the duo's Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy - four "backyard" extravaganzas that cemented the duo's reputation as one of Hollywood's beloved screen teams.
Disc Five contains nearly three hours of bonus material, including Private Screenings with Mickey Rooney, an in-depth, deeply personal interview by TCM's Robert Osborne, and The Judy Garland Songbook, 21 complete Garland movie musical numbers.
These four films were produced by M-G-M musicals legend Arthur Freed. Rooney earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Babes in Arms, considered the quintessential Mickey-Judy musical. It was quite freely adapted from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart Broadway hit. Busby Berkeley directed and lavishly choreographed.
The boxed set print restores a cut removed after World War II of the stars impersonating Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Studio head Louis B. Mayer felt the public wouldn't want to see the recently deceased F.D.R. parodied. Footage of the deleted sequence was lost until it was discovered on a collector's print.
Strike up the Band [1940] features famed big band leader Paul Whiteman and the outrageous Berkeley production number "Do the La Conga." One of the songs, "Our Love Affair," was Oscar-nominated.
Girl Crazy [1943] is based on George and Ira Gershwin's 1930 Broadway hit and has a sublime score, highlighted by "Embraceable You," "Fascinating Rhythm," "Bidin' My Time" and the poignant Garland solo "But Not for Me." Berkeley, once again helmed. His colossal dude-ranch "I Got Rhythm" finale is still talked about today. June Allyson and Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra also appear.
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Jon Snow's Penis Size Was That Way For A Reason, According To Game Of Thrones' Showrunners
By Mick Joest
Tormund's line about Jon Snow's penis size was a burn so great, Melissandre would probably worship it as the Red God. That said, it was a bizarre line to throw down an insult to our hero's manhood after such a big moment in the series. The Game Of Thrones showrunners say there's a reason behind Jon Snow's penis size, and they share it below:
There has to be some downside to being Kit Harington, right? It seems only fair. He's handsome, talented, smart, and so decent to the core that it's impossible not to like him. Maddening. The one thing we can do is saddle his character with a tiny pecker.
So, basically, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss gave Jon Snow a tiny penis in Game Of Thrones to knock Kit Harington down a peg! Esquire offers no details regarding Harington's actual endowment, but they do say the actor gets ribbed on lovingly quite a lot by the cast for his dashing good looks and overall likability. The male actors joke about how annoying it is that he draws all the female attention when he enters the room, and Daenerys Targaryen actress Emilia Clarke states that his hair is even better than her artfully handcrafted wigs. Davos actor Liam Cunningham seconds the hair remark, adding that his hair has "its own trailer." How does Harington stand up to all this on-set abuse?
Perhaps not surprisingly, Harington takes his ribbing during Game Of Thrones in stride and holds no ill will over the slander of his character's ding-a-ling. The shenanigans between the showrunners and Kit Harington go both ways, as Theon actor Alfie Allen recalled Harington stealing their phones and sending the lewdest messages imaginable to their contacts. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss also sent a fake script to Harington in which Jon Snow was horrifically disfigured in a fire and told him HBO thought his character was too similar to Harry Potter. With all the pranking and ridiculousness happening behind the scenes, it's a wonder these guys finished Season 7 as quickly as they did!
So, what sleight will the staff throw Jon Snow's way in the new season? Will they go so far as to disrobe Kit Harington and CGI a small wang on his body? Can you imagine being the special effects guy who lists that on his resume? That would almost be as great as saying you worked on the dragons! If anything negative and unnecessary regarding Snow's character comes to light in the new season, just know it's likely due to some writer being jealous that they aren't as fantastic as Kit Harington.
Game of Thrones Season 7 premieres July 16th at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. Stave off that month and a half of waiting with a host of new and returning television that can be found on our summer premiere guide. If you're still caught up in some shows that are currently on the air, make sure you've cleared your schedule for any finales with our other handy guide.
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Mick likes good television, but also reality television. He grew up on Star Wars, DC, Marvel, and pro wrestling and loves to discuss and dissect most of it. He's been writing online for over a decade and never dreamed he'd be in the position he is today.
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h = commsrc.pattern constructs a pattern generator object, h.
The pattern generator object produces modulated data patterns. The object can be used to inject jitter into modulated signals.
h = commsrc.pattern(Name,Value) creates a combined jitter generator object with the specified property Name set to the specified Value. You can specify additional name-value pair arguments in any order as (Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN).
A pattern generator object includes these properties. You can edit all properties, except those explicitly noted.
Type Type of pattern generator object ('Pattern Generator'). This property is not writable.
Sampling frequency of the input signal in hertz.
SymbolRate The symbol rate of the input signal. This property depends upon the SamplingFequency and SamplesPerSymbol properties. This property is not writable.
The number of samples representing a symbol. SamplesPerSymbol must be an integer. This property affects SymbolRate.
The type of pulse the object generates. Pulse types available: return-to-zero ('RZ') and non-return-to-zero ('NRZ'). The initial condition for an 'NRZ' pulse is 0.
Amplitude levels that correspond to the symbol indices. For an 'NRZ' pulse, specify as a 1-by-2 vector. The first element of the 1-by-2 vector corresponds to the 0th symbol (data bit value 0). The second element corresponds to the 1st symbol (data bit value 1). For an 'RZ' pulse, specify as a scalar and the value corresponds to the data bit value 1.
The duty cycle of the pulse the object generates. Displays calculated duty cycle based on pulse parameters. This property is not writable.
Specifies 10% to 90% rise time of the pulse in seconds.
Pulse duration in seconds defined by IEEE STD 181 standard. See the Return-to-Zero (RZ) Signal Conversion: Ideal Pulse to STD–181 figure in the Object Functions. Applies when PulseType is 'RZ'.
Fall time of the pulse in seconds, specified as a percentage from 10 to 90.
The bit sequence the object uses, specified as 'PRBS5', 'PRBS6', …, 'PRBS15', 'PRBS23', 'PRBS31', and'User Defined'.
User-defined bit pattern consisting of a vector of ones and zeroes. Applies when DataPattern is 'User Defined'.
Jitter characteristics, specified as a commsrc.combinedjitter object. Use this property to configure Random, Periodic and Dual Dirac Jitter.
A pattern generator object has five object functions, as described in this section.
where h is the handle to the object, N is the number of output symbols, and x is a column vector whose length is N multiplied by h.SamplesPerSymbol.
This object function resets the pattern generator to its default state. The property values do not reset unless they relate to the state of the object. This object function has no input arguments.
The object function sets the appropriate properties. The IEEE STD-181 Return-to-Zero (RZ) signal parameters are shown in this figure.
where h is the pattern generator object handle, tr is the ideal 0% – 100% rise time, tf is the ideal 0% – 100% fall time, and pw is the ideal pulse width. The ideal pulse non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal parameters are shown in this figure.
Use the property values for IEEE STD-181 specifications.
The computedcd object function computes the duty cycle distortion, DCD, of the pulse defined by the pattern generator object h.
The software calculates DCD given tR, tF, Tsym. This formula assumes that the symbol boundary level is zero.
Where Th is the duration of the high signal, Tl is the duration of the low signal, and DCD represents the ratio of the duration of the high signal to the low signal.
Create a commsrc.pattern object. Display the default object property values.
 IEEE Standard for Transitions, Pulses, and Related Waveforms, STD-181-2011. Piscataway, NJ. 6 September 2011.


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Anton Pietrowicz Brinski (ros. Антон Петрович Бринский, ur.  we wsi Andrijiwka w obwodzie chmielnickim, zm. 14 czerwca 1981 w mieście Gorki) – radziecki wojskowy, pułkownik, Bohater Związku Radzieckiego (1944).

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Urodził się w ukraińskiej rodzinie chłopskiej. Skończył 9 klas, leśną szkołę techniczną i w 1927 radziecką szkołę partyjną w Kamieńcu Podolskim, od 1927 należał do partii komunistycznej. Był sekretarzem rejonowego komitetu Komsomołu i przewodniczącym komitetu wykonawczego kamienieckiej rady rejonowej, od 1928 służył w Armii Czerwonej, 17 września 1939 brał udział w aneksji Zachodniej Ukrainy (agresji na Polskę).

Od czerwca 1941 uczestniczył w wojnie z Niemcami jako komisarz batalionu, który znalazł się w okrążeniu i podjął działalność partyzancką. Działał w obwodzie witebskim i mińskim, wykonał rajd na Ukrainę i nawiązał łączność z podziemiem komunistycznym w obwodzie wołyńskim i rówieńskim. Po zjednoczeniu z miejscowymi grupami partyzanckimi i działaczami podziemia, został zreorganizowany w brygadę partyzancką specjalnego przeznaczenia pod dowództwem Brinskiego, która przeprowadziła, według oficjalnych danych, ok. 5 tysięcy akcji przeciw Niemcom na terytorium okupowanej Białorusi, Ukrainy i Polski. Jako dowódca partyzancki miał stopień podpułkownika.

Po wojnie, w 1945 ukończył kursy "Wystrieł", a w 1952 kursy dowódców dywizji, w 1954 został zwolniony do rezerwy w stopniu pułkownika. 7 października 1971 otrzymał honorowe obywatelstwo Łucka; 29 sierpnia 2018 pośmiertnie mu je odebrano. Jego imieniem nazwano ulicę i dziecięcy dom kultury w Niżnym Nowogrodzie, do 2011 jego imię nosiła również jedna z ulic w Łucku.

Odznaczenia
 Złota Gwiazda Bohatera Związku Radzieckiego (4 lutego 1944)
 Order Lenina (trzykrotnie, w tym  20 stycznia 1943 i 4 lutego 1944)
 Order Czerwonego Sztandaru
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 Biogram na stronie warheroes.ru (ros.) [dostęp 2019-03-11]

Pułkownicy Sił Zbrojnych ZSRR
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Radzieccy wojskowi narodowości ukraińskiej
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Gilbert "El Nino" Melendez, a Mexican- American Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA) fighter based in San Francisco, will fight Edward "Eddie" Alvarez on Saturday, June 13 in Mexico City, Mexico.
The fight will be a part of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 188 event with the fight between Cain Velasquez and Fabricion Werdum as the main event.
At 5'9" and 154 lbs., Melendez fights in the lightweight division of the UCF. He is a two-time Strikeforce Lightweight Champion, and a former World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) 10 Lightweight Champion who defeated Olaf Alfonso in 2004.
Melendez was born in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, where he used to watch the Julio Cesar Chavez boxing fights with his father. His protective and concerned mother influenced Melendez to go into wrestling.
She does not watch her son fight but instead stays home and prays for him.
While in Santa Ana High School, Melendez twice became a state qualifier: He won him a scholarship to wrestle at San Francisco State, where he briefly competed before fighting professionally.
Melendez has trained extensively with Jake Shields, Cesar Gracie, Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, and David Terrell.
Melendez is tough and ready to go the total distance in his fights. His defense is outstanding, and he is strong in taking down his opponent.
In preparing for his fight with Alvarez, Melendez told the media he wants to become stronger and will work both on his boxing and strength.
"Sometimes you become strong but slow. Sometimes you want to be fast and be lighter. It is a hard thing to do perfect," says Melendez. "But I do want to focus on my strength and boxing a lot."
Melendez had a good start as a MMA fighter, having competed in wrestling at San Francisco State University. And he knows that he must perfect his skills to fight against others in a sport whose fighters incorporate other fighting styles and wrestling, such as boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jeet Kune Do, Judo, Karate, Muay Thai, Sanshou, and Tae Kwon Do.
Melendez, with a record of 22 wins, 4 loses, and 0 draws, is currently ranked as the number three fighter in official UFC lightweight rankings and by Sherdog, an authority on MMA.
Eddie Alvarez, with a record of 25 wins, 4 loses and 0 draws, is currently ranked as number eight.
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Named after a city renowned for its delectable beer, stylish structures and generous hospitality, this beverage centre will not disappoint the modish entertainer. The bold contemporary black stainless steel finish with matching handle shines and brings chic sophistication to any décor. With the ability to store up to 138 cans and 6 bottles of wine your guests will never be wanting.
The Silhouette Select SSBC056D2B-S comes with a 24-month in-home warranty on parts and labour. Installation and yearly maintenance (cleaning) of the fridge are not covered under thewarranty.