text:
Francis Rossi at Whitley Bay Playhouse
Talks Too Much
at Whitley Bay Playhouse
Legendary Status Quo lead singer Francis Rossi will share the extraordinary secrets of his 50-plus years in rock'n'roll when he takes to the stage for an intimate evening.
In Francis Rossi: I Talk Too Much, the founder, lead singer and lead guitarist of Status Quo will talk about his mishaps and adventures of life on the road with one of the biggest and most loved bands ever.
Francis is a true member of British Rock Royalty. He sang the first words at Live Aid in 1985, survived the obligatory rock'n'roll brush with alcohol and drugs, was awarded an OBE in 2010 and has a BRIT for his Outstanding Contribution to Music. His band has sold more than 120 million records globally.
Expect laughter, revelations, tales involving some of the giants of music, exclusive video clips, snatches of classic tunes and a great night out.
Rossi will be joined on stage by award-winning writer and broadcaster Mick Wall, who has sold more than 1 million books.
Tickets are available, priced £25 PLUS BOOKING FEES and £32.50 PLUS BOOKING FEES for VIPs, who get seats in the front rows, an exclusive VIP lanyard and photograph.
Tickets on sale 22/6/18 from our affiliate EVENTIM
Labels: Francis Rossi, I Talk Too Much. Whitley Bay Playhous, Status Quo
WeatheredMan presents a "beautiful car crash of style and influences" in his upcoming release of C-30 Duets
About the new artist on the Jowheretogo roster:
WeatheredMan has been Nominated for "Best UK Solo Act 2018" by Pure M Magazine alongside luminaries such as Zayn Malik, Kate Tempest, Adam Ant and Gaz Coombes.
Band/Artist: WeatheredMan - C-30 Duets Vol. 1
Location: Leeds, UK
Styles: Indie, Alternative
Similar to: Jack White and Alicia Keys, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, Bing Crosby and David Bowie, Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Accolades: SXSW 2017, UK tour completed in autumn 2017 supporting Half Man Half Biscuit
WeatheredMan is a new project from the man who brought you modern mariachi masters Roja. All the tracks are duets with people who are from the other musical side of the tracks. Think Nick Cave and Kylie, Jack White and Alicia Keys or even Bing Crosby and David Bowie. A beautiful car crash of style and influences…
There are not many projects in the history of popular music that bring together a primary school teacher from Leeds and globally recognisable singers and celebrities. How Aaron Paul and several other proper pop stars ended up as the vocalists on the debut EP from WeatheredMan is a story that warrants telling as both inspiration to all those who strive to make music in adversity and the rare dreamers who dare to think big.
Simon Bradshaw, who is WeatheredMan, is happy to recognise he has been around the musical block – hence the project's name. A series of bands and projects that saw him garner critical appreciation but, in his own words, only really added to 'a pile of CDs cluttering up my garage' failed to dim his enthusiasm for making music. Possessed of that unique ability to continue to see positives that is the hallmark of those who do make it, he hatched the idea for this new project whilst holding down a real job, leading to a dual life that got more bizarre as things progressed.
Weathered Man would travel across the landscape of popular music, matching the talents of its vocalists to a clutch of songs inspired, at heart, by soul in its purest sense. The dream cast list, a collection of global Top 10 singers and up and coming UK voices, would contribute to a project that would match Simon's dream duets; the panache of McAlmont and Butler, the style of Nick Cave and Kylie, the soul of Jack White and Alicia Keys. Sat in a bedroom studio in Yorkshire, the call outs were made through a network of contacts collected over the years augmented by some, frankly, arm chancing phone calls. Weeks later an EP was a reality and Simon was sat with 300 vocal takes sent down the wires from New York City, Atlanta, Manchester and Berlin. A series of 3am weekday finishes that would punish anyone, let alone someone confronted by a room full of pre-teens mere hours later, delivered both the completed tracks and the accompanying videos - films which makes both the visual disparity of this collaboration and its artistic closeness apparent.
Quotes about WeatheredMan:
"That was fantastic - it was wonderful, melodic and uplifting. He is actually a songwriter that can move people a lot...and what he has written there is quite rare..."- Peter Hook about Simon Bradshaw on BBC TV's UK's Best Part- Time Band
"The song is so darn excellent…my advice is: check it out. You'll like it. Simply because they're so good…" Randall Radic, The Huffington Post
"Their sound is like none I've ever heard, yet one I want to hear more of…really there is nothing even similar to it out there." Eileen Shapiro, Louder than War
"Full of charisma and stylistic polish." - Mike Mineo, Obscure Sound
"This is a powerhouse alternative rocker that just oozes cool. I am absolutely in love with this cut and hope to hear more from this act." - G.W. Hill, Music Street Journal
"Pulls from diverse influences to create a universe of genre-blending magic." - Jessica Golich, tattoo.com
"If you're familiar with Mariachi El Bronx (or) Mariachi music in general, Roja won't be completely foreign to your ears, but the band really does bring more indie rock, alternative, and even theatrical elements to the formula that essentially sets it apart from any of the aforementioned references." - Substream Magazine
This project features:
WeatheredMan - Frontman and singer/songwriter with mariachi legends Roja. Festivals included South by Southwest (Austin, Texas) with Franz Ferdinand, The Great Escape (UK) with Graham Coxon, Liverpool International Music Festival (UK), UK/European tours including supporting Half Man Half Biscuit at London Shepherds Bush Empire. Finalists in the BBC TV series UK's Best Part-Time Band and mentored by Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order). Nominated for Best UK Solo Act by Pure M Magazine 2018.
Aaron Paul is a pop-dance solo artist who was previously a part of the teen boy pop group Worlds Apart who had a chart run of over 5 top 30 UK singles, including "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel," "Everlasting Love," "Wonderful World," and their biggest hit "Could it be I'm Falling in Love." Simon Cowell was so impressed by his pure voice and natural performance skills, he positioned him as the front man for Worlds Apart. Aaron is now living and rocking the celebrity lifestyle in NYC.
Hailing from the cityscapes of Atlanta, R&B/Jazz and Soul/Pop Recording Artist, Danii Roundtree, has acquired a devoted fan base and made a name for herself throughout the jazz scene. She graced the stage at the 40th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival. She will also be performing at many lucrative shows this year, in support of "Memoirs" (her debut album) official release.
Best known for her hot singles with superstar DJ Paul Van Dyke, Trisha McTeague has worked with a huge range of amazing people as session vocalist, songwriting collaborator and support act, including Neil Finn, Ronan Keating, Natalie Imbruglia, Ricky Ross, Narada Michael Walden, Nile Rodgers, Lionel Richie and many more.
Her song 'One of These Days' ('Onaji Te') is featured on the Number One selling album in Japan by Yuki, 'Ureshikutte Dakiau Yo'.
LeeSun is a indie songstress based in Leeds. Born in Seoul. Grew up in Canada. Now in the UK. Absolutely bonkers (but in a good way). Bonkers in a not-so-good way if deprived of regular times of solitude in beautiful and peaceful spaces.
Kim Jennett - also known as The Voodoo Woman - is the lead singer of Manchester metal band Voodoo Blood. Fresh from playing at Bloodstock, her and the band are due to release their debut single this year.
Band - Robert Hough (drums), Aidan McFall (bass), Jack Chandler (sax), Jon Scully (trumpet)
https://soundcloud.com/weatheredmanduets/sets/c-30-duets-vol-1
https://open.spotify.com/album/0kHLRe4MNnKhRklWrBkhGF?si=m4KQdUAe
Production: Simon Bradshaw and Mark Walker
Tracklisting for C-30 Duets:
1. Hand in my pocket (+ Aaron Paul), 2. Too much to say I love you (+ Danii Roundtree), 3. Salty Dish (+ LeeSun), 4. Party (+ Kim Jennett), 5. Rock Karaoke (+ Trisha McTeague)
www.facebook.com/weatheredmanduets
www.twitter.com/weatheredman
www.soundcloud.com/weatheredmanduets
www.youtube.com/user/rojamusica
www.instagram.com/weatheredman
Artist contact: simon@marlowemusic.co.uk
Press contact: office@jowheretogo.com
Hand in my Pocket
Salty Dish
Rock Karaoke
Link to the trailer for the Roja's appearance on the BBC TV show:
http://bbc.in/1PIfoOt
Link to Simon's writing (published in The Sabotage Times) about some of the most influential Mariachi singers of all time:
http://sabotagetimes.com/music/rroja-the-top-mariachi-singers-of-all-time
Labels: aaron paul, half man half biscuit, jack white, Kim Jennett, kylie minogue, LeeSun, nick cave, roja, sxsw, Trisha Mcteague, weatheredman
Bill Bailey: Larks In Transit
METRO RADIO ARENA, NEWCASTLE SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 2019
"A genuine marvel" The Herald Sun in Melbourne
"Virtuoso…Comedy's Mozart" The Sunday Times
"Joyous, playful, effortlessly funny" Time Out
"A mind to thrill – breathtaking" Metro
"Bailey cuts a world-beating swathe all of his own" Evening Standard
Larks in Transit is a compendium of travelers' tales and the general shenanigans of twenty years as a travelling comedian. With musical virtuosity, surreal tangents and trademark intelligence, Bill Bailey tackles politics, philosophy and the pursuit of happiness. Plus, he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, tells the real story of Old McDonald, and a re-imagines the Stars and Stripes. Two decades of touring larks from a comic described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the brainiest comic of his generation'.
Tickets will go on sale 10.00am Thursday 14th June and are available online, from the booking hotline number 0844 493 6666 or in person from the Metro Radio Arena Box Office. Please note venue facility and booking fees will apply.
Tickets are available from:-
• Credit Card Booking and Information Line 0844 493 6666
• The Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Box Office (Mon – Fri: 10.00am – 4.00pm, Sat: 11.00am – 2.30pm)
• Internet Site:- www.metroradioarena.co.uk
• Group Bookers should call (0191) 260 6006
• Accessible Bookings should call 0333 344 6250 for further details
Labels: Bill Bailey, tickets
Victoria Jones in the role of Cilla performing songs including 'You're My World' and 'Anyone Who Had a Heart'
'Cilla & The Shades of the 60s'
Tuesday 18th September 2018
This stunning and elegant review of the life of Cilla Black soars its way through the 60s.
Starring Victoria Jones in the role of Cilla performing songs including 'You're My World' and 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' while the Shades trio swing through a decade of hits by Cilla's friends and co-stars such as 'I Only Want to be With You' and 'River Deep Mountain High'.
The effervescent Victoria & the gorgeous Shades trio rediscover one of music's most defining eras. They follow the life & career of the iconic Cilla Black while their stories reflect on some of the biggest 60s stars.
Featuring brand new arrangements of music from artists including the Beatles and Dusty Springfield. An unforgettable show that journeys its way through Cilla's life and brings audiences to their feet in celebration.Relive the 60s in style and come to see the girl power show that is delighting audiences all over the UK.
Tickets cost £21.00 full price, £19.00 concession & are available now.
Tickets can be purchased from the Box Office, open from Monday–Friday 10am- 4pm, Saturday 10.30am–2.30pm plus until show start on event days. Tickets can also be purchased on the booking hotline 0844 248 1588* or online at www.playhousewhitleybay.co.uk.
*Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company's access charge.
BLACK STONE CHERRY ANNOUNCE UK HEADLINE TOUR METRO RADIO ARENA, NEWCASTLE FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2018
ANNOUNCE UK HEADLINE TOUR
METRO RADIO ARENA, NEWCASTLE FRIDAY 7TH DECEMBER 2018
Hot on the heels of their special guest slot to Guns n' Roses at Download Festival this weekend, BLACK STONE CHERRY are excited to announce a UK headline tour for this December.
The Kentucky boys tell us, "As many people know, the UK holds a special place in the hearts of BSC. The culture, the history, the music, and most importantly THE FANS! We absolutely cannot wait to come back to what we consider our second home this winter to play some music for y'all! We'll be turning up the heat across 8 different arenas and we plan to bring a musical experience that we hope inspires you as much as you all inspire us! Joining us on this tour are our buddies in The Cadillac Three and Monster Truck. So, needless to say it's gonna be a southern fried, rock n' roll revival! See ya soon!"
Tickets will go on sale 9.00am Friday 15th June and are available online, from the booking hotline number 0844 493 6666 or in person from the Metro Radio Arena Box Office. Please note venue facility and booking fees will apply.
Labels: black stone cherry
One Month until the Tall Ships Races, Sunderland
ONE MONTH TO GO UNTIL THE TALL SHIPS RACES SUNDERLAND 2018
The final countdown has begun for The Tall Ships Races Sunderland 2018.
From 10-14 July, the city of Sunderland will host the UK's largest, free family event: a five-day festival of beautiful ships, circus, theatre and music.
And with just one month to go, organisers have revealed the scale of the event in numbers – and the economic impact it is expected to have on the city.
Fifty-five ships from 16 countries are now making final preparations before setting sail for Sunderland – with one ship, the Tarangini, facing a 3,600-nautical mile journey.
One of the largest ships taking part is Christian Radich from Norway, at 73m long and 33.6.m high, which featured in the BBC TV drama The Onedin Line in the 1970s, while the smallest is the Wyvern at just 13m.
Along with their crews of 466 experienced international sailors, 152 young sail trainees from Sunderland will join ships on Friday 13 July.
They will also join the 1000-strong Crew Parade through Sunderland on Thursday 12 July from 3pm to 4.00pm and later take part in the first leg of the Races, to Esbjerg, Denmark, gaining a raft of practical and personal skills and the experience of a lifetime.
As host port for the event, Sunderland has laid on its biggest ever, free public festival – spread across four event zones; the Port of Sunderland (Zone A), the Town Moor and East End (Zone B), St Peter's Riverside (Zone C) and Roker and Seaburn Seafront (Zone 4).
There will be a massive 200 performances of theatre, circus and music – from school choirs, brass bands and local bands such as The Lake Poets and Smoove and Turrell to international performance artists and a high-wire spectacular from Cirque Bijou.
233 Wearsiders have signed up as volunteer Event Makers advising the estimated 1.5m visitors what to see, where to see it and how to get there.
And 250 bars and catering concessions will be on hand selling everything from coffee and crepes to pints and pizza.
Among the many businesses supporting The Tall Ships Races Sunderland 2018 is Tyne and Wear Metro operator Nexus. Customer services director Huw Lewis, said: "I'm looking forward to a party atmosphere that extends up from the docks and right through the city.
"The Tall Ships Races is about opening Sunderland up to visitors from all over the world and celebrating the city as a meeting place of cultures.
"We'll be playing our part by bringing visitors from across North East England on Metro throughout the event."
Councillor John Kelly, Sunderland City Council Portfolio Holder for Communities and Culture agreed the event is a superb opportunity to showcase the city to a wide audience – and it is also expected to generate £30m for the city's economy.
"The city has absolutely pulled out all the stops for this," he said. "It is a hugely prestigious international event and we intend to make the region proud."
For full details of the event programme and more information about The Tall Ships Races Sunderland 2018, visit www.tallshipssunderland.com follow on Twitter @TallShipsSund or Facebook at: Tall Ships Races Sunderland.
With so much to see and enjoy, planning is essential and here are some top tips for visitors.
1. We are expecting the Park & Ride and Park & Walk sites to be very busy in the evening when the days' events are finished so please allow for possible delays in your return journey.
2. When travelling back to the Park & Ride sites, ensure that you are at the correct pick-up point to get you to the correct car park.
3. For regular traffic updates throughout the Tall Ships event listen to BBC Newcastle 95.4FM and Sun FM on 103.4FM.
5. If you are travelling by rail, please check the timetables to make sure you don't miss your last train.
6. As there is a possibility of congestion on the roads, be prepared and make sure you bring along water, food and other essentials and allow plenty of time for your journey.
Entertainment Tips
1. There are two nights of fireworks, at 21.30hrs on 11th and 12th July, which will fire from the East side of the Port. Fireworks will also be incorporated into the artistic performance taking place 2100-2200hrs on 13th July, which will take place over the river just East of Wearmouth Bridge – this will be best viewed from Event Zone C.
2. All events and exhibitions are free unless otherwise stated.
General Tips:
1. Travel light and leave big bags at home – people may be searched by stewards on entry.
2. Dogs are not permitted in Event Zone A (except for assistance dogs). Well behaved dogs, on a lead, are allowed on Event Zones B and C.
3. If the weather is hot don't forget to bring sun screen and drink plenty of water.
4. The Official Souvenir Event Guide and Official Merchandise are available to purchase throughout the Event Zones at the merchandise trailers.
5. The event zones cover a large area of the city, stay comfortable with appropriate footwear, and the event is expected to be very busy, so there is likely to be queues in a number of places.
Access Tips
1. A British Sign Language Interpreter will be available at the Information Point on Event Zone A.
2. The Class A ship Lord Nelson is specifically built to provide access throughout for people with disabilities including wheelchair users, it has flat wide decks and powered lifts. There is also a speaking compass and bright track radar, induction loop and vibrator alarms. Lord Nelson is moored at QE2 Berth at the South of Hudson Dock – visitors with limited mobility should be advised to that this is the only ship that can offer them the opportunity to attend 'open ship'.
3. Accessible toilets are available in each toilet location around the Event Zones. National Glass Centre located in Event Zone C has an adult changing facility, as does Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens in the City Centre.
Review: Toyah at O2 Academy Newcastle 09/06/2018
Review: Toyah at The O2 Academy 09/06/2018
Stephanie Clift opened the show with her country pop that harkened back to a Stevie Nicks style. As a three piece they were joined by Larry Love and Nick Reynolds of Alabama 3 for some songs and this was clearly lots of fun onstage. Slow Dance, written by guitarist Mark revealed a real fragility in Stephanie's voice. Stephanie has a good set of catchy country pop songs, definitely worth checking out.
Toyah emerged covered in gold. Good Morning Universe was the opening number, an ageless classic. Toyah had a sparkle in her eye and energy that belies her 60 years.
Next, from album Anthem: We Are. Toyah's introduction suggested it should have been a single. Very in the vein of 8th Day, by Hazel O'Connor.
Her cover of Echo Beach was, in our opinion, better than the Martha And The Muffins original.
Inroducing Thunder in the Mountains, Toyah mentions the mad 80s videos. This song got some early audience participation. Toyah told us about Neon Womb, which was written 40 years ago whilst filming with Katherine Hepburn. Being lonely in hotel rooms as a young woman inspired this claustrophobic track. Next was Rebel Run and then a song for those who got into trouble with their mothers for dying their hair pink: Be Proud Be Loud ( Be Heard). Toyah is wonderfully eccentric and loved by the appreciative audience as she twirls and takes a bow at the end.
She described the next song from the album Anthem, as being for the dispossessed: Jungles of Jupiter. She followed Brave New World with the Nancy Sinatra cover. These Boots Are Made For Walking, from her time in The Humans. This was a song she used to sing to get out of washing up when she was six.
Toyah is now a Dr of media. Dr Toyah Willcox: giving lectures in university, she told us. More from Toyah's vast back-catalogue: Our Movie, Race Through Space and Obsolete: song written to keep punks on board. Quite a high pitched vocal but Toyah easily copes. We were loving the small chats between each song setting the scene behind it.
From Anthem, the song that changed her live for ever: Its a Mystery prompting a big sing along
From touring Vampires Rock on stage Toyah covered Billy Idol Rebel Yell. With audience singing "more more more".
From the In the Court Of The Crimson Queen album was the classic Sensation exploiting Toyah's admirable vocal range.
The song banned in Belfast: Danced had the audience moving their feet enthusiastically, and the set ended wit the hugely popular I Want To Be Free.
As a kind-of encore Toyah performed a strange song written at that strange time of life, 50: Little Tears Of Love, and the final song, and early single Ieya.
While other 80s star were doing short sets in front of assembled deckchairs in South Tyneside, Toyah held court for at least 90 minutes. Still full of energy, Toyah puts the young stars of today to shame.
Words and photos: Joanne Oliver for Jowheretogo and Carliol Photography
All part of www.jowheretogo.com
Labels: Alabama 3, Stephanie Clift, Toyah
Tony Iommi to attend the Whitley Bay Film Festival for screening of "The End of The End"
Black Sabbath Legend Headlines Film Festival Rock Weekend.
Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath's acclaimed lead guitarist, will be the guest at a screening of Black Sabbath's landmark documentary 'The End Of The End' on 19th August 2018. The movie's celebrated director Dick Carruthers will also be a guest. The Rock Music weekend takes place at The Exchange in North Shields, hosted by the Whitley Bay Film Festival and presented by music historian and author Chris Phipps.
Selling over 100 million records worldwide, the Black Sabbath guitarist has forged his place in music history as the "Master of Metal." Festival Director Ema Lea said, "We're hugely honoured to welcome such a legend as Tony Iommi. His music has been massively influential and popular, particularly to people in the north-east. Tony will be talking about his life and times and the importance of the documentary which captures the band's homecoming final gig".
Chris Phipps said, "The band took their name from the Boris Karloff 1963 horror classic film "Black Sabbath". directed by Mario Bava. They were intrigued by the fact that people actually paid to be frightened - as would their audiences for decades to come!." (also scheduled to be screened during the festival).
Led Zeppelin, who debuted as The New Yardbirds in Newcastle 50 years ago, get the big screen treatment on Saturday 18th with their reunion epic "Celebration Day" following an exclusive interview and Q and A with its director Dick Carruthers , whose C.V. includes work with The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and many other music greats.
The Whitley Bay Film Festival is no stranger rock stars. In 2015, they screened Ken Russell's' Tommy' at the Whitley Bay Playhouse and were joined by a guest appearance from The Who singer Roger Daltrey. The full festival programme, now in its ninth year, will be announced at the start of July.
Tickets for the Film Festival Rock events (18th and 19th Aug) are available to buy online from 4th June on the Whitley Bay Film Festival website
www.whitleybayfilmfestival.co.uk
Further ticket outlets will be announced on the website shortly.
The Whitley Bay Film Festival 2018 17th August – 1st Sep
(The full 2018 programme to be announced beginning of July)
Ema lea, Director, Whitley bay Film Festival 0191 2904126 / 07951 403559
Simon Fitzpatrick, Assistant director 07951 719614
Email: info@whitleybayfilmfestival.org
Labels: black sabbath, Heavy Metal, tony iommi, Whitley Bay Film Festival
Paul Young No Parlez 35th Anniversary Tour
Paul Young: 35 Years of 'No Parlez' Tour
Wednesday 10th October 2018
Everyone's favourite 80's crooner Paul Young is back on tour, performing his much loved album No Parlez in celebration of 35 years since its release. Paul will visit Newcastle's Tyne Theatre & Opera House on Wednesday 10th October.
No Parlez was Paul's debut album. It reached number 1 in the UK charts in 1983 for 5 weeks and fast became triple Platinum. The album produced Paul's first UK number 1 single – The Marvin Gaye cover of Wherever I Lay My Hat and hits Come Back & Stay & Love of The Common People. The album also features a cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Originally in early 80's band Q-Tips, Paul Young went solo in the 80's and his career took off with No Parlez and further top 10 hits such as Everytime You Go Away & Everything Must Change.
He is also a Brit Award winner for Best Male vocalist, sings the opening lines on the original Band Aid Single Feed The World and performed at Live Aid in 1984. Paul is a keen chef, biker and fan of all things Mexicana! A family man, always happy to be touring his classic hits as a solo artist or with his Tex Mex/ Americana band 'Los Pacaminos'
Further information on Paul Young & his career can be found here: http://www.paul-young.com
Theatre Director Joanne Johnson says: "Paul Young joins an ever-expanding music programme at Tyne Theatre, our line-up also includes the likes of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, The Feeling, Afro Celt Sound System and loads more. I'm especially excited to see Paul Young – he was one of my favourites when I was growing up!"
Tickets are priced £43 platinum, £30.50 standard, £20.50 restricted view
Friends of the Theatre have access to a ticket pre-sale now. The Friends Club can be joined via the Tyne Theatre website: www.tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk
Tickets on general sale Monday 4th June from 9am
• The Tyne Theatre & Opera House Box Office is open 10am-3:30pm Monday to Friday and event days
• Booking and Information Line: 0844 2491 000 (10am – 6pm Monday to Friday)
• More information at our Website: www.tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk
• Facebook: Facebook.com/tynetheatreandoperahouse | Twitter: twitter.com/tyneoperahouse
• Theatre Address: 109 – 119 Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AG
Labels: 80s Music, No Parlez, Paul Young
JONATHAN TOUBIN'S NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN / SOUL CLAP & DANCE OFF UK TOUR BEGINS THIS WEEK FEAT. DADDY LONG LEGS - LIVE!
JONATHAN TOUBIN'S
NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN / SOUL CLAP & DANCE OFF
UK TOUR BEGINS THIS WEEK
FEAT. DADDY LONG LEGS - LIVE!
Playing to more people in more markets than any other, THE NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF is the 21st Century's most popular and prolific soul party and hits the UK for a run of shows throughout June. Full dates as follows:
Fri 1 Lewes (Brighton)- The Con Club
Sat 2 Euston-Red Rooster Festival
Sun 3 Southend-The Railway Hotel
Wed 6 Glasgow-Broadcast
Thrs 7 Newcastle-TheCluny
Fri 8 Leeds-The Brudenell Social Club
Sat 9 London-The 100 Club
Tickets available here: http://bit.ly/SoulClapDanceOff
THE NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF
A night of dancing to Jonathan Toubin's original 60s raw soul 45s interrupted by a short but elaborate dance contest in the middle determined by a collection of local judges, The Clap is also unique because of its flamboyant DJ, its rambunctious aesthetic, and its anomalous audience. Incubating his party in 2007 far removed from the constraints of typical soul subcultures at Williamsburg's Glasslands Gallery, Toubin and his art/punk audience organically learned together how to play and dance to soul 45s in their own way and in the process developed a new approach to the music in their monthly sessions.
By 2008 strangers were discovering The Clap as it developed into a sold out monthly local tradition. By 2009 it was an international party. And through the years of appearances at dozens of major music festivals, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Park, and hundreds of nights in dozens of worldwide markets, the Soul Clap has grown to play to over a thousand revelers monthly at its current residency at Bushwick's Elsewhere and to headlines large venues everywhere from LA's Regent and DC's Howard Theater to Syndey's Town Hall and Athens' Stavros Niarchos Park Great Lawn.
Last March the party celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a Toubin-curated soul revue featuring Irma Thomas, Archie Bell, David Johansen, John Batiste, King Khan, Joe Bataan Orchestra, Maxine Brown, Young Jessie, Baby Washington, Ural Thomas, and Nick Waterhouse and continues this to feature performances by the likes of Sun Ra Arkestra, Miss Lavelle White, La Luz, and Kool Keith.
WATCH FOOTAGE FROM THE EVENT AT THE BROOKLYN BOWL EARLIER THIS YEAR - HERE
FEAT. DADDY LONG LEGS
Jonathan Toubin and Daddy Long Legs befriended one another in the mid-2000s as fixtures on the punk edge of the rapidly gentrifying but fertile Williamsburg/Downtown music scene. By the end of the decade Toubin was turning his roughest toughest sixties 45s and throwing sweaty New York Night Train underground parties like the Soul Clap and Dance-Off across a spectrum of North Brooklyn art spaces and warehouses. At the same time three members of Electric Shadows and Stalkers joined forces to explore the primal edge of the electric blues as Daddy Long Legs.
Both entities employed their punk approach to soul and blues territories respectively to create something new. As escalating rent and cultural blandness sent the majority of their friends and lovers packing for LA, upstate New York, or back home, Toubin and Daddy Long Legs stayed planted in the city they love – consistently working and playing all over town year after year from dusk 'til dawn to keep the subterranean spirit, wild aesthetic, and raw power of rock and soul alive for a new generation.
While the two voraciously touring entities have been co-billed dozens of times in the tri-state area, in Nashville, and at South By Southwest (where The Clap is the annual official closing party), their May/June 2018 European invasion marks the first time they've combined forces on a tour. Since Daddy Long Legs' four full-lengths and Toubin's five "Souvenirs of the Soul Clap" compilations appeared on the legendary Norton Records, the label's larger-than-life much-missed co-proprietor Billy Miller initially suggested a Norton caravan featuring both entities. While their king has since departed, his knights, at the peak of their powers from years of relentless globetrotting, get in the van to take the loud sound on the road and give fans a glimpse of how they do their thing back home.
Watch Motorcycle Madness by Daddy Long Legs (Live on Canal +)
f/ https://www.facebook.com/PunkRockBlues
f/ https://www.facebook.com/newyorknighttrain
f/ https://www.facebook.com/officialdaddylonglegs
Labels: daddy longlegs, dance-off, Soul
IMPERIAL LEISURE: still average and on tour to celebrate 10 years since The Art Of Saying Nothing
Imperial Leisure Are Still Average - Back on tour in 2018
New Tour! New Album! New Video!
...and here it is, the first headline tour from Imperial Leisure for almost three years hits the UK this autumn. It has been an intrepid time for the band in recent years, marred by serious illness while also dealing with the pressures of family life but as ever when duty calls Imperial Leisure bring the fire.
2018 sees the ten year anniversary of the release of The Art Of Saying Nothing, the debut album from these ska embracing hiphop-punksters. The band will be celebrating the milestone of its acclaimed release with an extensive UK tour spanning long weekends throughout October and into November. The tour will be preceded by some spot appearances on the festival circuit this summer and will coincide with the release of a new album featuring brand new tracks along with previously released and unreleased classic material remixed and mastered for your listening pleasure - we hear they might even throw in a few live recordings in for good measure.
And there's more! Imperial Leisure are currently working hard, putting the finishing touches to their next official music video Rrrrrollin, shot in most part at The Ski World Championships in Norway. The video plays out around the snowy mountain top resort of Kvitfjell Norway, featuring mermaids, snowboarding, jacuzzis and beer pong, what else?? The video and single download available later this spring.
Working with O2 Academy and live agents Diplomats of Sound, we present to you the Imperial Leisure 10 year anniversary tour, coming to you in 2018.
FULL TOUR TICKETS AND DETAILS
IMPERIAL LEISURE ARE STILL AVERAGE
4th October - Guildford - The Star Inn: http://bit.ly/ILBANDStar
5th October - Oxford, O2 Academy: O2 Priority Customers: https://priority.o2.co.uk/tickets/5ab10954d60180003d5f17e1
Ticketmaster : http://bit.ly/ILBANDOxford
6th October - London, O2 Academy Islington : O2 Priority Customers : https://priority.o2.co.uk/tickets/5ab10b3dd60180003d5f1861
Ticketmaster : http://bit.ly/ILBANDIslington
7th October - Kent, The Junction: https://www.ticketweb.co.uk/search/?keyword=the+junction+ashford
11th October - Glasgow, Nice 'N' Sleazy
http://bit.ly/ILBANDnicensleazy
12th October - Birmingham, O2 Academy Birmingham : O2 Priority Customers: https://priority.o2.co.uk/tickets/5ab10ab6cff47e003c52b07a
Ticketmaster: http://bit.ly/ILBANDBirmingham
13th October - Newcastle, O2 Newcastle: O2 Priority Customers: https://priority.o2.co.uk/tickets/5ab53857cff47e003d60f412
Ticketmaster: http://bit.ly/ILBANDNCL
14th October - Leeds, Hi Fi : https://www.facebook.com/events/295191051011737/
19th October - Exeter, The Cavern: http://exetercavern.com/
20th October - Winchester, Railway Inn: https://www.railwayinn.pub/show/imperial-leisure/
26th October - Cheltenham, Frog and Fiddle: http://bit.ly/ILBANDfrogfiddle
9th November - Bristol, The Exchange: http://bit.ly/ILBANDExchange
Booking agent – cat@diplomatsofsound.org
Publishing – Sue@indiesonics.com
Radio - emma@plugginbaby.com
All other enquiries – Band@imperial-leisure.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/imperialleisure/
Labels: hip hop, imperial leisure, punk, Ska
Chainska Brassika coming to Newcastle and ON TOUR
ANNOUNCE NOVEMBER UK TOUR
"Well, they got me going in the studio, I can tell you… I think that is absolutely brilliant" - David Rodigan MBE on BBC Radio 2
"Chainska is one of the most impressive and promising upcoming acts in the Reggae/Ska genre that I have seen or heard in a while" - The Skatalites
CHAINSKA BRASSIKA are hitting the road this November for a UK headline tour.
Chainska Brassika are pleased to announce they will be heading out on a UK tour in November. The band will be visiting some of their favourite cities and bringing their trademark good time vibes with them.
London based 8-piece Chainska Brassika are firm party-starting favourites, rocking crowds from Glastonbury to Notting Hill Carnival and Rototom Sunplash to Outlook. Regularly found opening for 2-Tone legends Madness, Chainska are at the forefront of the new UK Ska movement. Their high-energy live show has taken the band to some of the Ska & Reggae world's biggest stages, spreading their contagious horn driven anthems across the UK, mainland Europe and and even on a full blown tour of Jamaica.
Their latest album 'Harry J Business' was recorded at Harry J Studios in Kingston with double Grammy award winning producer Stephen Stewart. The album featured a rare guest performance from reggae legend Toots Hibbert of Toots & The Maytals, and has gained major airplay across BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 6 Music & BBC Radio 1xtra. The album gained a 6-page review in the world's biggest Reggae magazine 'Festiville' and got them invited to showcase at SXSW Festival in Texas.
With their classic Ska sound backed up by a dynamite brass section, Chainska Brassika continue to win over new fans and delight their faithful following with their undeniable crowd pleasing formula.
Chainska Brassika, finish their November UK tour on a high with an extremely special home coming show at Islington's The Garage.
November 10th will see a celebration of the 21st century Ska and Reggae scene with a line up brimming full with todays stars. Alongside Chainska Brassika are Essex's own Death of Guitar Pop whose current single features none other than the original rude boy, Neville Staple. Kicking off the live performances will be the Chainska tour support and festival favourites, Bare Jams, with their "organic and freshly brewed party vibes".
It wouldn't be a Roots party without some mighty fine selectors playing the finest cuts and the deejays spinning are worthy headliners in their own right. Josh from London's own Reggae band The Skints will be joining the party. As will Island Records artist and yet another Londoner, KIKO BUN. Finishing the bill are Ska Beat Soul playing strictly original heavyweight Jamaican vinyl to make sure we all remember where it all started.
A celebration of 21st Century Ska & Reggae
Death of Guitar Pop
Bare James
DJ Sets:
Josh fro The Skints
KIKO BUN
Ska Beat Soul
Saturday 10th November 8pm-2am
The Garage, Highbury & Islington - London
UK Tour Dates
01/11 - Newcastle Cluny
02/11 - Glasgow Hug & Pint
03/11 - Birmingham Castle & Falcon
04/11 - Manchester Deaf Institute
06/11 - Southampton Joiners
07/11 - Brighton Hope & Ruin
09/11 - Norwich Arts Centre
10/11 - London The Garage
Website: http://www.chainskabrassika.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chainskabrassika/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chainskabrasika
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChainSkaBrassika
Tom Robinson on Tour 2018
TOM ROBINSON: 18-date tour in October
18-date UK tour now confirmed, performing the 1978 debut TRB album Power In The Darkness all the way through. As usual the band lineup is Adam Phillips (gtr), Andy Treacey (drums), Professor Jim Simmons (keys) and TR (bass) - wth Lee Forsyth Griffiths as special guest on all dates.
Wed 03 Oct NORWICH: Epic Studios
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Norwich
Thu 04 Oct GREAT TORRINGTON: Plough Arts
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Torrington
Fri 05 Oct LYME REGIS: Marine Theatre
http://bit.ly/PITD2018LymeRegis
Tue 09 Oct BARTON ON HUMBER: Ropery Hall
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Barton
Wed 10 Oct BIRMINGHAM: Glee Club
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Birmingham
Thu 11 Oct MANCHESTER: Band On The Wall
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Manchester
Fri 12 Oct DUBLIN: Whelans
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Dublin
Sat 13 Oct BELFAST: Elmwood Hall
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Belfast
Tue 16 Oct LEEDS: Brudenell
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Leeds
Wed 17 Oct GATESHEAD: Sage
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Gateshead
Thu 18 Oct GLASGOW: King Tuts
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Glasgow
Fri 19 Oct LIVERPOOL: Philharmonic
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Liverpool
Sat 20 Oct SOUTHAMPTON: The 1865
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Southampton
Tue 23 Oct CANTERBURY: Festival
https://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk
Wed 24 Oct BRISTOL: The Fleece
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Bristol
Thu 25 Oct CARDIFF: The Globe
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Cardiff
Fri 26 Oct OXFORD: Bullingdon
http://bit.ly/PITD2018Oxford
Sat 27 Oct LONDON: Shepherds Bush Empire
http://bit.ly/PITD2018London
The Tom Robinson Band's debut album Power In The Darkness was first performed 40 years ago in Victoria Park, London in front of 80,000 people at Rock Against Racism's Carnival Against The Nazis alongside Steel Pulse, The Clash and X-Ray Spex. The album was certified gold resulting in a landmark UK tour supported by Stiff Little Fingers in the Autumn of 1978. To mark the 40th anniversary of those shows, Tom will once again be performing Power In The Darkness on an 18-date UK tour – culminating in a headline gig at Shepherd's Bush Empire on Saturday October 27th.
Tom Robinson first became known in 1977 as a musician, LGBT activist and anti-racist campaigner with the Tom Robinson Band (TRB) whose debut release 2-4-6-8 Motorway became one of the landmark singles of the UK punk era. Other well-known songs at the time included Glad To Be Gay, Up Against The Wall and Too Good To Be True.
Tom later co-wrote songs with both Peter Gabriel and Elton John and had further solo hits in 1983 with War Baby and Atmospherics: Listen To The Radio. His 15th studio album Only The Now (2015) included guest appearances by Billy Bragg, Nadine Shah, John Grant, Ian McKellen, TV Smith, Lisa Knapp and Martin Carthy.
As a radio broadcaster Tom hosts three shows a week on BBC Radio 6 Music, served for 10 years on the Ivor Novello Awards committee and was awarded a fellowship of LIPA in recognition of his support for new music with BBC Introducing.
Hope & Glory T-shirts
T-shirts with either TRB fist logo or War Baby: Hope and Glory sleeve can now be ordered anywhere worldwide for £13.99 + shipping from http://bit.ly/trtshirts
There's one festival appearance for the band this summer:
Sat 04 Aug WICKHAM:Festival
https://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/artist/tom-robinson-band
And tthe War Baby: Hope & Glory album has been temporarily removed from Spotify and iTunes. The reason for this is that all my solo albums 1982-2015 (including Home From Home) are due to be launched on all streaming services this summer. In the meantime, they are all still available on my Bandcamp page. We will also be announcing a new live double album for release this Autumn. Watch this space....
Finally, in case you know anyone who might be struggling with depression or other mental health issues in these difficult times, I've posted an article on this subject (with a link to Mind, the mental health charity) at Fresh On The Net here: http://freshonthenet.co.uk/depression-mental-illness
Get Checkout7 "Have a Nice Day" on Amazon
Labels: anniversary, power in the darkness, Tom Robinson Band
WeatheredMan presents a "beautiful car crash of st...
Victoria Jones in the role of Cilla performing son...
BLACK STONE CHERRY ANNOUNCE UK HEADLINE TOUR METRO...
Tony Iommi to attend the Whitley Bay Film Festival...
JONATHAN TOUBIN'S NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN / SOUL ...
IMPERIAL LEISURE: still average and on tour to cel...


text:
Learning from the 'lifeworld'
Joanna Brooks introduces a range of approaches to phenomenology in qualitative psychology.
The term 'phenomenology' is perhaps not well understood by those less involved in qualitative research. It has developed and diversified to encompass a bewildering array of different traditions and methods. This article provides a whistle-stop tour of its history, key figures and applications in psychology. Leading qualitative psychologists then explain the particular ways in which they understand and draw upon the principles of phenomenology and apply these in their own work. Phenomenological psychology may be thought of as an umbrella term encompassing a variety of rich and useful approaches, and this article showcases just some of the ways in which a phenomenological stance is being used by qualitative psychologists in the UK today.
Although different branches of phenomenology have developed, with their own particular variations and emphases, all are usually acknowledged as stemming from the work of the founding father, Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). Husserl was concerned with developing phenomenology as a rigorous alternative to methods traditionally used by the natural sciences. These existing methods were, Husserl believed, inappropriate for the examination of human experience. In contrast to notions of an objective reality, Husserl suggests that it is in fact only our experience of the world – namely, direct and subjective human experience – that is 'knowable'. We can, Husserl argues, only really know and understand concepts when they are grounded in concrete experience.
A fundamental concept is the lifeworld, the world of lived experience inhabited by us as conscious beings, and incorporating the way in which phenomena (events, objects, emotions) appear to us in our conscious experience or everyday life. Husserl conceptualised the lifeworld as pre-reflective – that is, our focus is on what we are perceiving rather than how we are perceiving it. Husserl's project was to isolate 'essences' – invariant features and structures of phenomena – and to describe these as precisely as possible. By isolating such essences from a range of experiences, Husserl argued that it might be possible to identify the qualities giving a specific experiential phenomenon its distinctiveness. Husserl believed that to do this, it was also necessary to adopt a specific attitude, to suspend – or 'bracket' – presuppositions and judgements so that a clear and unblinkered view of the lifeworld could emerge. This attitude is known as the epoché.
How far it is possible to fully engage with and transcend the epoché is a topic of contention for different phenomenological traditions – and it was in fact a pupil of Husserl's, Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), who first developed an alternative to Husserl's original descriptive or transcendental phenomenology. Heidegger is associated with the development of existential or hermeneutic phenomenology. For Heidegger, we are, as human beings, inseparable from the world in which we live and exist – we exist in the world, rather than next to or outside of it. If this is the case, then notions of achieving the epoché as advocated by Husserl become more problematic. Rather than focusing on how we know what we know, Heidegger was instead interested in exploring what it means to live in and among a world that is experienced by each individual in their own way. Heidegger saw our relation to the world as being always both interpretive and relational – we are always situated in context. This means that to understand reality, we need to understand both detailed experience and the bigger picture, and thus factors such as language, temporality, history and culture become important. Neither the whole nor the individual elements can be really understood without reference to the other – this is known as the hermeneutic circle. The extent to which the bracketing of presuppositions is possible, and the appropriate balance between description and interpretation in phenomenologically informed work, continue to provoke considerable debate to this day.
Heidegger's writings inspired many other theorists and writers and for phenomenological psychologists, the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) is often highlighted as particularly influential. Merleau-Ponty radically challenged accepted dualist notions prevalent at the time, arguing that as people are embodied beings, we cannot, when considering human experience, meaningfully detach mind from body, nor subject from object ('There is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself' – Merleau-Ponty, 1945/1962). Much of Merleau-Ponty's work originates from empirical psychology studies (he held a Chair in Child Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Sorbonne in Paris and was succeeded to this post by Jean Piaget), and the productive amalgamation of phenomenology and psychology continues today. Phenomenology has been an important source of reference for the development of qualitative psychology as it provides a philosophical rationale for focusing on the study of human experience.
However, a considerable array of different traditions and methods is covered by the umbrella term of phenomenology. We turn now to a number of leading qualitative UK psychologists to reflect on some of the thought-provoking ways they personally draw upon phenomenological principles and approaches in their work. Rosie Morrow, Alison Rodriguez and Nigel King outline Colaizzi's (1978) descriptive approach to phenomenology – little known in psychology but widely used in other fields – using an example from a study on the experience of camping; Jonathan Smith uses two examples from his recent research into depression and chronic pain to demonstrate how his approach to experiential research (interpretative phenomenological analysis or IPA) draws on a range of phenomenological thinking to capture lived experience whilst recognising research as a dynamic and necessarily interpretative process; Darren Langdridge uses an example from his research on sexualities to describe how his 'critical narrative approach', with its explicit focus on narrative, works with language, power and politics within a phenomenological framework; and Peter Ashworth reflects on how his use of a descriptive lifeworld approach to phenomenological psychology can reveal 'taken-for-granted' meanings in everyday life experience, using the example of gift giving.
This is just a glimpse of the wide variety of approaches available, but we hope that these concise exemplars give some idea of how phenomenology is being used in psychology today.
- Dr Joanna Brooks is at the University of Huddersfield
Descriptive phenomenology is concerned with revealing the 'essence' or 'essential structure' of any phenomenon under investigation – that is, those features that make it what it is, rather than something else. By far the best known descriptive approach in psychology is that of Amedeo Giorgi (1985), who is widely credited as a pioneer in bringing phenomenological thinking into psychology. Giorgi's method can be seen as a form of distillation, in which the analyst step by step sifts away everything that is not essential to an adequate description of the phenomenon. It is, however, not the only descriptive phenomenological method in the social and human sciences. We focus here on a method proposed by Colaizzi (1978), which is little-known in psychology but widely used in other disciplines, such as the health sciences. We argue that the method has considerable potential for qualitative psychologists, especially those coming fresh to descriptive phenomenology.
Colaizzi's (1978) distinctive seven-step process provides a rigorous analysis, with each step staying close to the data. The end result is a concise yet all-encompassing description of the phenomenon under study, validated by the participants that created it. The method depends upon rich first-person accounts of experience; these may come from face-to-face interviews, but can also be obtained in multiple other ways: written narratives, blogs, research diaries, online interviews, and so on. The stages are as follows:
1. Familiarisation: The researcher familiarises him or herself with the data, by reading through all the participant accounts several times.
2. Identifying significant statements: The researcher identifies all statements in the accounts that are of direct relevance to the phenomenon under investigation.
3. Formulating meanings: The researcher identifies meanings relevant to the phenomenon that arise from a careful consideration of the significant statements. The researcher must reflexively 'bracket' his or her pre-suppositions to stick closely to the phenomenon as experienced (though Colaizzi recognises that complete bracketing is never possible).
4. Clustering themes: The researcher clusters the identified meanings into themes that are common across all accounts. Again bracketing of pre-suppositions is crucial, especially to avoid any potential influence of existing theory.
5. Developing an exhaustive description: The researcher writes a full and inclusive description of the phenomenon, incorporating all the themes produced at Step 4.
6. Producing the fundamental structure:The researcher condenses the exhaustive description down to a short, dense statement that captures just those aspects deemed to be essential to the structure of the phenomenon.
7. Seeking verification of the fundamental structure: The researcher returns the fundamental structure statement to all participants (or sometimes a sub-sample in larger studies) to ask whether it captures their experience. He or she may go back and modify earlier steps in the analysis in the light of this feedback.
Morrow (2013) used Colaizzi's method to explore the lived experience of camping, with a particular interest in its impact on relationships. While there is a substantial literature on the use of structured camping-based interventions as a form of therapeutic intervention (e.g. Desai et al., 2013), there is very little about how people experience everyday unstructured recreational camping. Four participants were recruited on the basis that they had recently embarked on an unstructured camping trip. Through using Colaizzi's method, five themes were identified: 'Getting away', 'Relationship maintenance', 'Tranquillity and relaxation', 'Appreciation of the natural environment' and 'Freedom and adventure/exploration'. Following the seven-step process, an exhaustive description was created, which was then condensed into a fundamental structure of the lived experience of camping:
Camping provides the ideal escape for friends and couples alike. The tranquil and relaxing environment provides the ideal setting for relationship maintenance and reinforcement with friends and partners, whether there are issues to resolve or otherwise. The freedom experienced by individuals encouraged adventure and exploration, which in turn allowed them to appreciate the natural environment. (Morrow, 2013, p.49)
While the fundamental structure is the end-point of the analytic process, the main themes from which it is derived are themselves useful to explore and present. Thus in Morrow et al. (2014) we focused particularly on the theme of 'Relationship maintenance'.
The final step in Colaizzi's method, returning the results to the participants, is a controversial one, criticised by Giorgi (2006), who stated that the researcher and participant inevitably have different perspectives – the researcher from a phenomenological perspective and the participant from the 'natural attitude' (our everyday taken-for-granted perception of the world). This echoes a wider debate in qualitative research as to the value of 'respondent validation' or 'member checking'. We would certainly agree that any notion that participants can simply rubber-stamp an analysis as 'correct' is untenable. Nevertheless, given the aims of descriptive phenomenology, it is not unreasonable to expect that they should be able to recognise their own experience in the fundamental structure.
Descriptive phenomenology is especially valuable in areas where there is little existing research, as was the case in the example we have given of the experience of recreational camping. For psychologists, Colaizzi's method offers a clear and systematic approach; its thematic nature may be more familiar and accessible than the 'distilling' style offered by Giorgi.
- Rosie Morrow, Alison Rodriguez and Nigel King are at the University of Huddersfield
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was developed and articulated as a particular approach to conducting experiential research in psychology (Smith 1996). Since then it has grown enormously and is now one of the best-known and most frequently used approaches in qualitative psychology. IPA aims to provide an in-depth and nuanced analysis of participants' accounts of their lived experience. For much of IPA, the experience in question is one of major significance or existential importance to the participant. Much of the early work was in health psychology, but IPA is now used to address questions in a wide range of areas both within and beyond psychology. While IPA originated in the UK, it is increasingly being used in many countries.
IPA represents an attempt to put some of the philosophical principles of phenomenology into practice in the form of a methodology that can be used for empirical research in psychology and related disciplines. It does not privilege any one phenomenological theoretical position but draws on the range of phenomenological thinking. It tries, as far as possible to go 'back to the things themselves' (Husserl, 1900–1901/2001, p.168), to capture personal lived experience in its own terms, as opposed to those prescribed by existing scientific or personal presumptions. However, IPA recognises this process as an interpretative process and is therefore influenced by hermeneutics and Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology.
IPA is meticulously idiographic, requiring the in-depth examination of each case in its own terms before moving to the next case. What comes out of this process is a detailed and nuanced analysis of convergence and divergence in participants' accounts of experience. IPA is not in principle averse to moving to more general claims, but such a move for IPA will be a slow, painstaking one. Following from IPA's micro-lens is a particular concern with the value of the gem (Smith, 2011), the small extract that offers powerful illumination of the topic under investigation. IPA is described as involving a 'double hermeneutic', as it recognises both researcher and participant as intrinsically sense-making creatures. Therefore 'the researcher is trying to make sense of the participants trying to make sense of their world' (Smith & Osborn 2003, p.51).
There is not a single right way of collecting data in IPA. Any method that allows a participant to give a detailed account of their personal lived experience can be used. Thus IPA has been conducted with diaries and other personal written accounts. However, by far the most common way of collecting data is through the in-depth, semi-structured interview. The popularity of the interview lies in allowing the researcher to hear the participant's unfolding account and decide, in real-time, where and when to probe further. There is not a prescribed process of analysis. However, to help the newcomer to IPA, a guided step-by-step approach is offered – beginning with the close examination of the first case, leading to the extraction of micro-experiential themes and then a careful examination of patternings across the cases in the corpus. This primarily linear process is accompanied by a parallel operation of the hermeneutic circle, whereby pieces of text are seen as parts and wholes offering mutual illumination. Good IPA presents a stimulating and coherent analytic account evidenced with vivid quotes from participants and with some detailed interpretative commentary. For a detailed presentation of IPA, including coverage of the theoretical underpinnings as well as practical guidelines, see Smith et al. (2009).
In a recent paper (Smith & Rhodes, 2014) we present an in-depth analysis of the experience of first-episode depression. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven patients from a mental health service in London. We interpreted the participants' depression as involving a three-fold existential depletion in the relational, corporeal and temporal domains. Along with this diminution, participants experienced occasional intensified emotional reactions and frenzied thinking. The paper gives a detailed interpretative presentation of these features of depression illustrated with extracts from participants' accounts. We point to the value of examining these existential features in the early stages of therapy.
Another current paper (Kirkham et al., 2015) is concerned with understanding the experience of chronic pain. It does this through an analysis of patients' accounts of their own visual representations of their condition. Participants are seven women, aged between 36 and 52 years, from southern England. The pictures offer striking portrayals of the pain. In some the pain itself becomes a sinister punishing object; in others the picture is of the self in relation to pain. The artworks also vividly capture the biographical context for the pain with representations of self before and after it had begun. Some images look ahead to a hoped-for pain-free self in the future. We discuss the valuable role pictorial representation can play in helping the expression of difficult conditions and experiences.
- Professor Jonathan Smith is at Birkbeck University of London
The method of critical narrative analysis (CNA) that I have been developing was created to serve a specific purpose in my own research programme on sexualities, and also to resolve some of the epistemological tensions that I saw with other similar methods (Langdridge, 2007). It draws heavily but not uncritically on the hermeneutic phenomenological philosophy of Paul Ricoeur (1970, 1981) and is an attempt to work with language, power and politics within an overarching phenomenological framework. It is distinct from other forms of phenomenological analysis, firstly through the explicit focus on narrative. Whilst this is not commonly seen amongst the better-known methods of phenomenological analysis featured here, it is common to a number of phenomenologically informed narrative methods (e.g. Polkinghorne, 1988). This theoretical focus on narrative reflects a Ricoeurian (1971, 1991) stance where meaning is appropriated through the critical interrogation of the stories we tell of our lives.
The second distinctive element to this method is the inclusion of a moment of critique, engaging with two analytic moments in a hermeneutic arc. The first moment is what Ricoeur would refer to as a 'hermeneutic of empathy', and is that descriptive mode of understanding common to all phenomenological methods. The second moment involves the use of specific methods of interpretation – or in Ricoeur's terms 'hermeneutics of suspicion' – to critically interrogate the social imaginary, the world of stories into which we are all immersed and that allows and limits our ability to understand and narrate our experience. Ricoeur (1970) identifies Freud, Marx and Nietzsche as the 'three masters of suspicion', but here I depart somewhat from Ricoeur and argue that we need to turn to critical social theory for our critique rather than, if we take Freud as our example, engaging in an archaeological trawl through the unconscious for hidden meaning. For me, the key to using hermeneutics of suspicion is to draw on social theory like queer theory or post-colonial theory as 'imaginative hermeneutics of suspicion'. This enables us to critique the ideology of the social worlds of researcher and participant alike for how it allows and limits understanding and narrative expression.
Studies using this method are likely to be idiographic, with a focus on individual stories of particular life experiences. This need not be solely about the case study, as data from participants can be combined (see, for instance, the studies of ethnicity and sexuality conducted by David Mair, 2010a, 2010b). But the data collection method does often involve a life story interview of some kind designed to encourage the telling of a story or stories. So, for instance, I conducted a piece of case-study research with one of my therapy clients in which we worked together to examine his life as it related to being a sexual slave (Langdridge, 2009). Several hours later and with few interventions from me we stopped, with me having the privilege of considerable new insight into his 'lifeworld' through the stories he told me. I suggest a number of analytic stages for CNA, but these are open to modification: (1) a critique of the illusions of subjectivity; (2) identifying narratives, narrative tone and rhetorical function; (3) identities and identity work; (4) thematic priorities and relationships; (5) destabilising the narrative; and (6) synthesis. These stages guide the researcher around a hermeneutic circle of analysis such that there is a critical but also ethical examination of the stories being told of the life, or lives, in question.
Where the topic is notably inflected with power and politics, as we see with minority sexualities or ethnicities, and is also amenable to understanding through the stories told of personal experience, then CNA is likely to be appropriate. Should your research interests lie elsewhere, then other methods from the phenomenological family may better suit your needs. CNA should be understood as 'open source', amenable to modification, to be used – or not – as you see fit. We need to avoid rigid adherence to methodological guidelines and dogmatic fights. That is not to say 'anything goes', not at all, but rather we should avoid the debates and politics so often associated with the marketing and branding of methodologies. Instead, we should focus our energy on achieving our shared research goals as phenomenologists, notably our desire to improve our understanding of the human condition.
- Dr Darren Langdridge is at the Open University
Phenomenological psychology does not aim at discoveries of precisely the kind experimental psychology seeks. Experimental psychology uncovers the causal conditions of human behaviour, where the individual is seen as an intrinsic part of the objective system of mechanisms of the natural world. Phenomenological psychology, instead, aims to reveal the taken-for-granted meanings by which our experience is constituted. For example, when giving a gift (Ashworth, 2013) what are the meanings involved for the giver and the recipient? What constitutes 'giving a gift'? Such meanings are by no means always explicitly known but are usually lived through, and these are to be brought to light. I will use the phenomenology of gifting below as an example, mentioning four principles of analysis.
First, keep in the realm of experience by the epoché. Husserl (e.g. 1913/1983) insisted that to seriously scrutinise an experience purely as experience, an epoché is required, a setting aside of the presuppositions with which we approach it. William James (1890/1950) made a similar point specifically for psychology, showing how easily a researcher can unintentionally impose their own meanings onto research participants' accounts or actions (for James's psychologists' fallacy, see Ashworth, 2009). Following Giorgi (2009), I regard it as imperative to adopt the discipline of the epoché, even though it can never be complete… in any case, the researcher has to start trying to understand by using their own categories of thought. Be this as it may, the researcher must continually, self-critically question the accuracy of their understanding to minimise the danger of the psychologist's fallacy.
For example, in investigating giving a gift, the scholarly literature (e.g. Mauss, 1925/1990, and Derrida, 1992) almost unanimously argues that the recipient experiences an implicit obligation to reciprocate. (Gifting is thus reduced to the structure of economic exchange.) The presupposition that the obligation to reciprocate is part of the experience must, however, be subjected to the epoché. What is the experience itself like? Of course such things may reappear in the findings (gifts might indeed evoke a sense of obligation). But these are not imposed prior to the description of the experience.
The difficulty of the epoché has led some qualitative researchers to downplay its importance and to emphasise the role of interpretation. The danger of this move is that of succumbing to the psychologist's fallacy, and is only justifiable if the research plainly remains within the phenomenological realm – experience.
The second principle is to notice both what is experienced and how it is experienced. The realm of experience uncovered in the epoché has two thoroughly interdependent parts. In being conscious, one's mode of approach to the experience (the noesis) will entail some elements of memory, imagination, perception, and so on, as well as various emotion-tones. At the same time what is experienced (the noema) is affected by, and affects, the noesis. Both aspects of intentionality (the approach of consciousness to its object) must be studied. The phenomenon entails both.
Third, idiography alternates with essential structure. An individual's 'noematico-noetic' experience of a phenomenon is not free-floating or abstract, but is set in that person's specific lifeworld. A phenomenological research report will seek the essential 'conditions of possibility' of such-and-such an experience – the features without which the experience would not be one of this kind. But in any particular personal instance, the experience will be thoroughly linked with other aspects of the individual's lifeworld. Research therefore alternates between the idiographic understanding of an individual's experience within the lifeworld, and the description of the essential features of a specific experience.
Finally, to help grasp the idiography of an experience some features essential to any lifeworld should be noted (Ashworth, 2006 – developing especially Merleau-Ponty, 1945/1962). Then those aspects which are bound up with the conditions of possibility of gifting can be sought. For example, consider:
I Selfhood: How does the situation implicate identity, the person's sense of agency, their feeling of their own presence and voice in the situation, etc?
I Sociality: How does the situation affect or depend on relations with others? When accounts of giving and receiving are used to describe the conditions of possibility of gifting in general, the lifeworldly elements self and other predominate. The giver assumes for themselves the right to give, and by the act of giving defines a relationship with the other. The recipient may or may not accept the gift; gifting may then not be 'fulfilled'.
I Embodiment: How is our body implicated in the lifeworld? For instance, since our projects are pursued through bodily action, illness, gender, age, etc. can have personal reality in the thwarting of our activities and our ability to give.
I Temporality (and its events): How is the meaning of time, duration, or biography intrinsic to the situation? How is the past echoed and the future anticipated in giving?
I Spatiality (and its things): Consider the meaning of the staging of giving and the form of the actual gift.
I Project: How does this event of giving relate to activities to which the person is fundamentally committed?
I Discourse: The gift relationship is surrounded by social conventions and linguistic formulas. However, important though it is, gifting discourse is by no means fully determinative or limpid. How the person speaks and enacts gifting must be carefully analysed.
I Mood-as-atmosphere: A feeling-tone is an essential element of any situation, and in gifting the mood dynamics of the expression of gratitude are extraordinarily sensitive: gratitude seals the meaning of the gift as an affective affirmation. (Not, it is clear, as an economic exchange.)
I have mentioned four principles of analysis. For more detail, Giorgi's (2009) approach is to be recommended. The key perspective is this: The material of phenomenological psychology is precisely the intentional realm under the epoché, and the taken-for-granted meanings by which our experience is constituted. Research participants' idiographic accounts are investigated, embedded in each personal lifeworld. Taking such evidence together, a description of the features without which the experience would not be of the kind under scrutiny is achieved. Such a description is phenomenological.
- Professor Peter Ashworth is at Sheffield Hallam University
Ashworth, P.D. (2006). Introduction to the place of phenomenological thinking in the history of psychology. In P.D. Ashworth & M.C. Chung (Eds.) Phenomenology and psychological science. New York: Springer.
Ashworth, P.D. (2009). William James's 'psychologist's fallacy' and contemporary human science research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Health and Well-being, 4, 195–206.
Ashworth, P.D. (2013). The gift relationship. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 44, 1–36.
Colaizzi, P. (1978). Psychological research as a phenomenologist views it. In R.S. Valle & M. King (Eds.) Existential phenomenological alternatives for psychology. New York: Open University Press.
Derrida, J. (1992). Given time: 1 Counterfeit money (P. Kamuf, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dessai, P., Sutton, L., Staley, M. & Hannon, D. (2013). A qualitative study exploring the psychosocial value of weekend camping experiences for children and adolescents with complex heart defects. Child: Care, Health and Development, 40(4), 553–561.
Giorgi, A. (2006). Concerning variations in the application of the phenomenological method. The Humanistic Psychologist, 34(4), 305–319.
Giorgi, A. (2009). The descriptive phenomenological method in psychology. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Giorgi, A. (Ed.) (1985). Phenomenology and psychological research. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Husserl, E. (1983). Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy: First book (F. Kersten, Trans.). Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Original work published 1913)
Husserl, E. (2001). Logical investigations, Vol. 1 (2nd edn) (D. Moran, Ed.). London: Routledge.
James, W. (1950). The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1. New York: Dover. (Original work published 1890)
Kirkham, J.A., Smith, J.A., Havsteen-Franklin, D. (2015). Painting pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of representations of living with chronic pain. Health Psychology, 34(4), 398–406.
Langdridge, D. (2007). Phenomenological psychology: Theory, research and method. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Langdridge, D. (2009). Relating through difference. In L. Finlay & K. Evans (Eds.) Relational centred research for psychotherapists. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Mair, D. (2010a). Mind the gap? Unpublished doctoral thesis, Metanoia/Middlesex University.
Mair, D. (2010b). Fractured narratives, fractured identities. Psychology & Sexuality, 1(2), 156–169.
Mauss, M. (1990). The gift: Forms and functions of exchange in archaic societies. London: Routledge. (Original work published 1925)
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of perception. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1945)
Morrow, R. (2013). A study to explore the lived experience of camping and associated effects of escapism: A green exercise approach. Master's thesis, University of Huddersfield. tinyurl.com/pv66pmr
Morrow, R., Rodriguez, Al. & King, N. (2014). Camping: A tool for relationship maintenance? International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, 35(2), 48–55.
Polkinghorne, D.E. (1988). Narrative knowing and the human sciences. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Ricoeur, P. (1970). Freud and philosophy. (Trans. D. Savage). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Ricoeur, P. (1971). The model of the text. Social Research, 38, 529–562.
Ricoeur, P. (1981). Hermeneutics and the human sciences (J.B. Thompson, Trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ricoeur, P. (1991). Life: A story in search of a narrator. In M. Vlades (Ed.) A Ricoeur reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Smith, J.A. (1996). Beyond the divide between cognition and discourse. Psychology & Health, 11, 261–271.
Smith, J.A. (2011). 'We could be diving for pearls': The value of the gem in experiential qualitative psychology. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 12, 6–15.
Smith, J.A., Flowers, P. & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, method, research. London: Sage.
Smith, J. A. & Osborn, M. (2003). Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In J.A. Smith (Ed.) Qualitative psychology. London: Sage.
Smith, J.A. & Rhodes, J. (2014). Being depleted and being shaken. Psychology and Psychotherapy [Advance online publication]. doi:10.1111/papt.12034
Vol.28 (pp.)
Crossing into the digital realm
Rhetoric and resistance
Breaking out of the silo mentality

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


You can travel the 135 journey between Selby and Stevenage on our two Sunday services all year round. Climb on board and then stretch out and relax in your extra comfy Hull Trains seat. It makes sense to book early with prices the lowest when you book 12 weeks ahead.
Hull Trains offer a range of features and services on our trains from Selby to Stevenage, you can expect to find on board: free WiFi throughout your journey, at-seat power plug and USB sockets, bicycle storage, a fully stocked café bar, and a First Class carriage with a dedicated First Class Host.


An ab initio time-dependent convergent close-coupling approach to describing antiproton collisions with molecular hydrogen or the hydrogen molecular ion has been developed. The approach accounts for all possible orientations of the molecular target. Averaging over the molecular orientations is performed fully analytically. For the molecular hydrogen target calculated orientation-averaged total cross sections for single ionization and proton production are compared with several experiments over the energy range of 1-2000 keV. Results for single ionization are in good agreement with experiment, except for the region around the experimental maximum. For proton production reasonable agreement with experiment is observed above 40 keV.
Abdurakhmanov, I. and Kadyrov, A. and Fursa, D. and Avazbaev, S. and Bray, I. 2014. Close-coupling approach to antiproton-impact breakup of molecular hydrogen. Physical Review A. 89: pp. 042706-1 - 042706-10.


text:
You are here: Home / News / Truckers celebrated at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree
Truckers celebrated at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree
July 11, 2019 By Matt Kelley
Trucks on display at the Iowa 80 Truckstop
A celebration of the American trucking industry is being held in eastern Iowa with the 40th annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree, underway at the Iowa 80 Truckstop, which boasts being the world's largest truckstop.
Spokeswoman Heather DeBaillie says they're expecting 45,000 visitors today through Saturday at the sprawling facility northwest of Davenport. "We have a pork chop cookout, a supertruck beauty contest which is all the latest and greatest rigs on display," DeBaillie says. "We have an antique truck display. We have concerts every evening, a Trucker Olympics, 150 different exhibits and all kinds of fun."
The truckstop sits on 80 acres of land with parking spaces for 900 trucks. It features eight restaurants and a convenience store, a chiropractor, a dentist, a barber, a movie theater, a trucking museum and much more. The jamboree puts the spotlight on the vital trucking industry and big rigs themselves with at least 150 antique trucks and another 100 so-called supertrucks on display.
"These rigs are decked out with chrome and lights and really cool paint schemes and their interiors are all completely redone to match," DeBaillie says. "They're all competing for trophies in their various classes." A pair of century-old vehicles are being featured this year, a 1919 International and a 1919 Pierce Arrow.
DeBaillie says it'll be a family reunion-style atmosphere, especially when it comes to the Trucker Olympics for the drivers.
"We have a tire roll competition where they have to roll a tire straight through cones," DeBaillie says. "We have a strong man/strong woman contest where they pull a 12,000-pound cement truck. We have an obstacle course they have to run with a cup of water and not spill it."
There's also a pet contest, which includes best trick, best dressed and a competition to decide which animal looks the most like its owner. Find the Truckers Jamboree at the Iowa 80 Truckstop, Exit 284 on Interstate 80 in Walcott. Parking and admission are free.
Filed Under: News, Recreation / Entertainment Tagged With: Transportation


Starting from the ideal result, you better keep same colors combined collectively, or possibly you might want to disband actual colors in a odd style. Give specific focus to the correct way antique white sideboards correspond with others. Huge sideboards and dressers, important pieces must be healthier with small to medium sized and even less important pieces.
Most of all, it would be sensible to grouping objects determined by theme also style. Switch antique white sideboards if needed, until you believe that they are really lovable to the attention so that they seem right naturally, based on their features. Go for a place which is appropriate in dimensions and angle to sideboards and dressers you need to put. If perhaps its antique white sideboards is a single item, loads of components, a feature or possibly an emphasize of the room's other highlights, it is important that you put it in a way that remains according to the space's proportions also design and style.
Pick and choose the ideal place and then set the sideboards and dressers in a space that is really nice measurements to the antique white sideboards, which can be strongly related the it's requirements. For instance, in the event you want a big sideboards and dressers to be the point of interest of an area, next you will need to keep it in a space which is dominant from the room's access places and never overload the piece with the home's design.
It really is necessary to make a decision in a style for the antique white sideboards. If you do not completely have to have an individual style and design, this will help you decide everything that sideboards and dressers to obtain and exactly what various color styles and models to try. You can look for suggestions by searching on some websites, reading furnishing magazines, coming to various home furniture marketplace then taking note of illustrations that you want.
Determine your antique white sideboards this is because creates a section of character on your room. Your selection of sideboards and dressers often displays your individual characteristics, your preferences, the aspirations, bit think now that in addition to the decision concerning sideboards and dressers, and so its positioning should have several attention. By using a few of tips, there are actually antique white sideboards that matches all your requires together with purposes. You will need to check your accessible room, create inspiration at home, then evaluate the things you'd select for the perfect sideboards and dressers.
There are various spots you could set your sideboards and dressers, in that case think about position areas and also categorize things in accordance with dimensions, color style, subject and layout. The dimensions, appearance, variety also number of pieces in your living area are going to establish the correct way they will be positioned in order to achieve visual of the ways they correspond with others in size, appearance, area, design and style and also color choice.
Show your current main subject with antique white sideboards, choose depending on whether you are likely to like its choice a long period from these days. If you currently are on a budget, think about managing what you by now have, evaluate your current sideboards and dressers, then be certain you possibly can re-purpose these to suit your new design. Decorating with sideboards and dressers is an excellent alternative to provide the house a special look. Combined with unique plans, it can help to understand or know some suggestions on enhancing with antique white sideboards. Keep to all of your appearance in the way you take into consideration several conception, decoration, also accessory possibilities and then furnish to have your living area a warm, comfy also inviting one.
Additionally, don't get worried to enjoy a mixture of color, style and even design. Even when the individual piece of differently vibrant furniture would typically look odd, you can find a solution to combine home furniture to one another to create them accommodate to the antique white sideboards completely. Even while messing around with color and style should be made it possible for, please ensure that you do not make a location without persisting color scheme, as this can make the room or space look and feel inconsequent also disorganized.


My husband Chuck is going to kill me. Yesterday we went to Vons Supermarket and spent $143.00 on groceries. We eat at home most of the time, and — aside from his beloved El Monterey Frozen Chimichangas — we eat food mostly cooked from scratch.
After our trip I told him I would need to make a small Trader Joe's trip for some staples like olive oil, eggs and butter, all relatively cheaper there than at the supermarkets. I told him I would wait until today though, as I had everything I needed for the time being, including dinner that night.
A light went off in my head as I savored the delightful curd, and there was no question that I would be hitting Sprouts on my way to Trader Joe's — just for cheese curds.
Let me back up by saying that being the avid Foodie that I am, going to the grocery store equals the artist hitting the art supply store. And like most people, I enjoy getting the most bang for my buck, so I will base a whole week of meals on what is on sale.
So after the gym this morning I bee-lined over to Sprouts, which, for those that aren't familiar, is (to me, at least) the poor man's Whole Foods. Instead of spending $1.29 for a voluptuous bunch of green onions, I will spend a dollar on two or three average-looking bunches.
As I look over the potted herbs outside the store, I wonder if it's cheaper to buy the potted plant, take a few snips for a particular dish, then take a chance on my brown thumb not killing it; or simply buying already-cut fresh herbs. I don't see dill anywhere, and that's what I need for the Penne with Smoked Salmon and Vodka Sauce I plan to make either tonight or tomorrow. Remembering that Chuck isn't a big fan of dill anyway, I opt for the dried stuff they have in the bulk department; just a pinch of that in the dish should do it, plus I have some extra dried for something down the road.
I start thinking about homemade hummus. Tahini Paste! Need some! $6.49! Okaaaay. Roasted Garlic Hummus sounds enticing, so at 5 heads for $1.00 let's do it! Oh yeah, what did I come here for? Cheese curds! After searching the cheese counter I finally find some…the last pack of the ones like I tried this morning. Plenty of the Cajun ones, though, but I pass on those.
I'll be making a wheatberry salad this week, which always tastes a little more edgier with some crumbled feta, so into my basket goes a small block of that cheese.
My stomach is growling, so I look over the ready-made salads in the deli. I see a Mediterranean-style orzo salad, so I get a small container of that to eat in the car between markets.
I briefly peruse the meat and fish counter and I see a great deal on jumbo scallops, so I order a pound. The gentleman working the counter asks if I planned to wrap them in bacon. I said I loved that idea, and have tried it (with pancetta instead of bacon — the two cook more evenly that way), but I confess that my plan is to sear the scallops, then whip up a butter, white wine and cream sauce, and add that to the seared scallops, then serve it all over roasted-garlic mashed potatoes.
$33.00 later I am sitting in my car in the Sprouts parking lots taking a few bites of this amazing orzo salad. I check out the ingredients and decide I must learn to make it.
Trader Joe's is right next to a Ralphs Supermarket so I head into Ralphs first for orzo and garbanzo beans. I'm thinking about other salads, ones that Chuck particularly likes, and I decide to throw in some multi-colored rotini for a pasta salad for him, since he's not a fan of some of the orzo salad ingredients, and I have a stick of good pepperoni at home that would go well in it.
At Trader Joe's I not only seek out the previously mentioned staples, but I also meander over to their cheese department for some mozzarella to throw into Chuck's pasta salad, plus some St. Andre cheese — because you just never know when you might get a craving, but even more so, it is one of Chuck's favorites to have with a baguette.
I collect a few more items, including jars of sun-dried tomatoes and pitted Kalamata olives (for the orzo salad) plus (on a whim, as I hardly ever eat it) some tofu to perhaps make some sort of miso soup with (since I have had a tub of miso paste sitting in my fridge the past 3 weeks). Pine nuts aren't cheap, but they go a long way, so I grab a bag, with the thought of topping my homemade roasted garlic hummus with a few of those nuts.
I hold off on any breads this trip, as I doubt I'll be making anything requiring bread within the next day or so. I broke a tooth on a pita chip a couple years ago (almost prompting me to write a letter to the company), and although I have no problem with pita bread, I recently found that there is nothing quite so delightful as a sourdough baguette for schmearing fresh hummus with.
So I come home, unload all the groceries in my cluttered, messy kitchen; then I decide a clean kitchen may help to buffer the extra $80 I spent on groceries just today, so I get busy.
An hour later — with Boz Scaggs' Dig CD playing 2½ times during — I have a clean kitchen and plans for a plethora of great meals (that we'll both enjoy) to make this week.
I decide baked chicken breasts and thighs would be a better dinner tonight — with roasted potatoes — as I can chop up leftover chicken breasts to make him chicken salad sandwiches for a couple of his lunches.
Chuck and I disagree on plenty, but he tends to lay a lot of trust in me when it comes to meals. I pride myself in that trust.
The chicken and potatoes are ready. Bon appétit and goodnight!


text:
Women's International Center Living Legacy Awards 2012
View our complete Event Program Here in PDF, 4mb
2012 Living Legacy Award Honorees
Patricia West Del Ruth and Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC - Cinema
Lucy C. Lin
Chairman Heng-Tzu Hsu
Leadership Mary Lyons, Ph.D. Education
Ashley Gardner
Tribute:
Mary B. Maschal
Velina Hasu Houston, Ph.D., Literature
David Straus Architecture
Randal Malone, Co-Emcee Southern California Motion Picture Council
Lee Ann Kim, Emmy Award-winning
Co-Emcee from SDAFF
Special Guest Appearance by
Legendary Actress from Little Women
Our Celebrity Host
Gloria Lane, Ph.D.
President, WIC
Sally B. Thornton
Co-Chair WIC LLA
Bridget McDonald, Ph.D. CEO WIC
Marianne McDonald, Ph.D. Co-Chair WIC LLA
In Support of Women's International
Center (501c3) Education and Sistership Programs
WIC President Gloria Lane
andCEO Bridget McDonald
Welcome You!
27th Annual Living Legacy Awards
World-Class Music, Brief Retrospective Videos, Star-Studded Evening with Highlights of the Birth, Growth and Future of WIC
Always in Honor of Past and Current LLA Honorees
Who Inspire New Legacies...
at Crowne Plaza Hanalei, San Diego Hotel Circle
5:30-8pm including four-course Dinner
For over 27 years the Women's International Center has honored ground-breaking individuals from around the world who are making a big difference. We bring together hundreds of people to celebrate the accomplishments and lasting contributions of women, men, and organizations. Our honoree list of over 300 people is a veritable Who's Who of global innovators and humanitarians. Please join us this year for an unforgettable evening.
Celebrity Hosts: Legendary Actress Margaret O'Brien
(Little Women) and Film Star Randal Malone President, Southern California Motion Picture Council, Co-Emcee with Emmy Award Winning Lee Ann Kim, San Diego Asian Film Festival
Co-Chaired by Sally B. Thornton and Marianne McDonald, Ph.D. - Each to Receive Founder's Award
Presenting our 2012 Living Legacy Award Honorees:
Ashley Gardner and Tribute to Mary B. Maschal
Womens Museum of California
Trailblazing Shaper of Taiwan: Sports, TV, Organic Farms, Policy
Velina Hasu Houston, Ph.D.
World Renown Playwright
International Vocal and Musical Arts
Mary E. Lyons Ph.D.
Rhetorician, Educator, Community Leader
Patricia West Del Ruth and Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC
Pioneers in Cinema Arts
David Straus
Premier Architect of San Antonio's River Walk / Paseo del Rio
And Down from Hollywood and Here in San Diego...
Legendary Animation Vocal Artist
Mary Cain Youngflesh
Face of Rosie the Riveter in 1942, Inspiring Millions
Featuring Bel Canto Ensemble from A Touch of Opera Studio led by Lucy C. Lin
including Chinese Dulcimer performance by Weiping Wang
Attire: Black Tie Preferred
This Year's Scholarship Recipients include:
White Rainbow Project (Aiding Widows in India)
Emem Okon (Organizing Women in Nigeria)
Berta Caceres Flores (Human Rights in Honduras)
Little World Community Organization (Crafts Creating Education in Pakistan)
WIC Congratulates the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS) for their 100th Anniversary
10 Million Girls from 145 Countries: Largest Voluntary Movement Dedicated to Girls and Young Women in the World
To volunteer, please contact WIC Executive Coordinator
Sarah Quincy: sarah.m.quincy [@] gmail.com
Please support our Education Outreach with your donations or by contributing silent auction items or gift bag fillers.
Ashley Gardner and Tribute to Mary B. Maschal Mary B. Maschal (1912-1997) founded the Women's History Reclamation project in 1983, which has grown to become the Women's Museum of California, one of only FIVE museums of women's history in the country. Currently under the leadership of the dynamic Ashley Gardner, former NBC TV host, producer, and Founder Earth Vision Productions. Ms. Gardner served for 11 years on the County Commission on the Status of Women and is now shaping the Women's Museum to be a world center for Women's History.
Heng-Tzu Hsu Maverick Shaper of Taiwan, Heng-Tzu Hsu is one of the premier personalities in Asia for her many roles in government -- alongside the President and VP of Taiwan -- in international sports management (particularly golf), organic tea farming, national television broadcasting, and business leadership. We hope that women around the world follow her inspiring and bold example.
Velina Hasu Houston, Ph.D. Internationally acclaimed playwright of over twenty plays as well as a published poet, essayist, and screenwriter. She published the first anthology of plays by Asian American women. Dr. Houston is a Commissioner for the US Department of State's Japan-US Friendship Commission. In her own words, she is "polytheistic, was educated globally in the kitchens and hearts of immigrant women from around the world, and is of Japanese, Blackfoot Pikuni Native American Indian, and African American heritage with historical ties to India, Cuba, and China."
Lucy C. Lin World renown Coloratura Soprano, Lucy Lin has brought together disparate cultures through music. Her performances have brought her to the Glyndebourne Opera in England, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, and South Africa. In Guam, she regularly hosted a Classical radio program, and in California, she founded the international "Touch of Opera Studio," now based in San Diego, with a history in Guam, Maui, Portland, and San Francisco. Recipient of many international prizes, Ms. Lin exquisitely mixes Asian and Western, traditional with modern, and classical with contemporary in a brilliant multi-cultural celebration of the musical arts.
Mary E. Lyons, Ph.D. Dedicated teacher, professor, rhetorician, administrator and community leader. Dr. Lyons has been an Academic Dean at the Franciscan School of Theology, as well as Rear Admiral in the US Maritime Service, and is currently President of the University of San Diego, a national leader in education that also provides R.A.D., a national program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques taught for women only.
Patricia West Del Ruth and Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC Two pioneering personalities in film and television. Ms. Del Ruth has produced Creative Café and Cinema Scene to promote education in the film industry by focusing on many prominent female personalities. She has worked on or in General Hospital, Hill Street Blues, LA Law, Crazy and Quicksilver, among many other credits. Two-time Emmy Award winner, Mr. Del Ruth ASC (whose director father has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) is most well-known for his innovative cinematography in over 72 films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tora Tora Tora!, The Breakfast Club, Stand by Me, The X Files, ER, The Running Man, and The West Wing.
David Straus Premier architect of the River Walk / Paseo del Rio along the historic San Antonio River helping to create harmony between nature and city, benefitting everyone, at what would become the number one tourist destination in Texas, after he added more than 17,000 trees, uniting a sprawling urban center. Accepting on his behalf is General McGonagle.


text:
/* Create few records in this table */

INSERT INTO ProductType (name) VALUES('alcohol');

INSERT INTO ProductType (name) VALUES('sweets');

INSERT INTO ProductType (name) VALUES('vegetables');

INSERT INTO ProductType (name) VALUES('dairy');

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('berezka', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'alcohol'), '2017-12-18', 500);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('korovka', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'sweets'), '2017-12-19', 200);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('potato', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'vegetables'), '2018-01-11', 100);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('carrot', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'vegetables'), '2018-01-11', 150);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('cheese', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'dairy'), '2017-12-28', 550);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('milk', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'dairy'), '2017-12-28', 650);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('ice_cream_cake', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'sweets'), '2017-12-28', 50);

INSERT INTO Product (name, fk_type_id, expired_date, price) VALUES('cake', (select type_id from ProductType where name = 'sweets'), '2018-01-31', 50);

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub