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TheCubical At Mello Mello, Slater Street, Liverpool, England UK

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:02:00 -0700

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The Cubical, a cracking band introduced to me by www.flickr.com/photos/87645524@N04/ Lynne Gavaghan. I Know Lynne through a talk I did at St Helens camera camera club and I am very proud of what she has achieved with her 365 photo project. I have been there myself, I know how hard it is.

This was a cracking gig at MelloMello in Slater St in Liverpool, top respect to them for adding me on the guest list. Some cracking beers on down there and I will be back for the vegan grub.

The band were like a road crash between blues and rock and roll, make sure you catch them if you are local. Track down their Myspace at www.myspace.com/thecubicalthecubical

I will be back at Mello Mello ( catch them on Twitter at @MelloMelloCafe ) for some of those great cakes....

Littlewoods Pools Building, Edge Lane, Liverpool, England UK

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:07:00 -0800

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The Littlewoods Pools Building, Edge Lane is a real Liverpool landmark.

This art-deco building was the headquarters of the Littlewoods Pools company. In its heyday this building held thousands of workers but since the decline in popularity of "doing the pools" the listed building now lies empty, possibly awaiting conversion to apartment. Another victim of the national Lottery. The other was Littlewood's bitter rival, Vernons.

A Liverpool Echo Newspaper Article earlier this year, in May 2012 suggested this iconic building could face demolition if a new use for it cannot be found.

"The huge art-deco complex has been empty for more than a decade and several attempts to regenerate it have failed to get off the ground. The council will now meet with the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to discuss a strategy for a number of sites along Edge Lane.

Sources told the ECHO that the land occupied by the 1930s Littlewoods building, next to Liverpool Innovation Park, will be high on the agenda.

While the HCA said an unnamed developer was keen to put forward proposals, it added there was “limited time” to fund the refurbishment of the building and no formal agreement had been reached.

Cllr Malcolm Kennedy, cabinet member for regeneration, today said he wanted to secure a future for the landmark building.

Heritage experts also said it was surprising the building had never been given listed status, but a new use could be found for the site if its most iconic elements could be saved."

Cllr Kennedy said: “We are looking at all sites up the Edge Lane corridor, including the innovation park, and there will be a concentrated effort between the two organisations.

“The Littlewoods building is not listed, although there have been attempts to do so.

“We would want to keep it because it is quite an iconic building – a Liverpool landmark. But it is going to be a struggle because the building is deteriorating quickly.”

Read more: Liverpool Echo www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/05...

This was a shot taken on Kodak Infra Red Film around 1994 and was a winner in the Mersey River Festival that was organised by the now defunct Merseyside Development Corporation. This was set up by Tory MP Michael Hestletine after the riots of 1981 in the city.

I worked for Littlewoods in The JM Centre, Old Hall Street Liverpool between 1986 & 1989. Unfortunately I never visited this site. Due to the security needed, it was authorised persons only.

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NINE

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:38:00 -0700

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Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3. It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number. Nine is a Motzkin number. It is the first composite lucky number, along with the first composite odd number.

Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting". Indeed, cats are often believed to have 9 lives.

The nine muses in Greek mythology are Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (erotic poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (song), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the digit 9 is called "Novenine".

Nine was also the true number of dwarves, before 'Farty' and 'Pervy' were airbrushed out by Disney in the late 1950's.

Someone dressed "to the nines" is dressed up as much as they can be.

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iPod Shuffle2 - Station To Station [ Liverpool, UK Lime St Station at Dusk ]

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:31:00 -0800

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David Bowie - "Station To Station" - Play this track here.

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Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, Station to Station is also notable as the vehicle for Bowie's last great 'character', The Thin White Duke.

The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the cover featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and recalls almost nothing of the production.

Musically, Station to Station was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, Young Americans, while presenting a new direction towards synthesisers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as Kraftwerk and Neu!.

This trend would culminate in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called Berlin Trilogy, recorded with Brian Eno in 1977–79. Bowie himself has said that Station to Station was "a plea to come back to Europe for me". The album’s lyrics, meanwhile, reflected his preoccupations with Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion.

With its blend of funk and Krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, Station to Station has been described as "simultaneously one of Bowie's most accessible albums and his most impenetrable". Featuring the single "Golden Years", it made the Top 5 in both the UK and US charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

In the early days of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), the Liverpool terminus was located at Crown Street, in Edge Hill, officially opened in 1830. Construction of a purpose-built station began in October 1833, the land being purchased from Liverpool Corporation for £9000. A tunnel was constructed between Edge Hill and the new station (starting in 1832, prior to station construction), and the station was opened to the public in August 1836, although construction was not completed until the following year.

Because of the steep incline between Lime Street and Edge Hill, trains were stopped at Edge Hill, their locomotives removed, and the passenger carriages taken down by gravity, descent controlled by brakemen. The return journey was achieved by using a stationary engine to haul the carriages up with rope.

Within six years, the rapid growth of the railways meant that the original station needed to be extended, and a plan was made to erect an iron roof similar to that found at Euston station in London, ridge roofs supported by iron columns; however, Richard Turner and William Fairburn submitted a design for a single curved roof, which won the approval of the station committee. The work cost £15,000, and was completed in 1849. A second roof was added in the 1880s.

In 1845 the L&MR was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway (GJR); the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway. The station was one of the first to send mail by train. The North Western Hotel designed by Alfred Waterhouse, was built in front of the station - this still stands, having been converted to accommodation for students of Liverpool John Moores University. At 'the grouping' in 1923, the station passed to the ownership of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways.

Lime Street was part of the first stage of electrification of the West Coast Main Line in 1959. In 1966, the station saw the launch of the first InterCity service.

Lime Street was voted the equal worst of the 20 busiest UK railway stations in a 2007 poll but was voted "Station of the Year 2010" at the National Rail Awards thanks in part to a recent reburbishment

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John Cooper Clarke at the Stanley Theatre, Liverpool University UK 02-07-2011

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:34:00 -0700

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The timeless Johnny Clark ('the name behind the Hairstyle'), the Bard of Salford with his ring bound scribblings, on stage at the Stanley Theatre. He was on a bill with 'The Temps' and Mark E Smiths 'The Fall'.

He had changed little since I first saw him at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1978, although he is now pushing 62.

His early work, including the essential 'Disguise In Love' used backing from 'The Invisible Girls', which featured Martin Hannett, the producer. Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1949. His first job was a laboratory technician at the University of Salford. He began his performance career in Manchester folk clubs, where he began working with Rick Goldstraw and his band The Ferrets. His first releases were on the independent label Rabid, starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. He toured with Bill Nelson's band Be-Bop Deluxe in 1978 and was signed by Epic Records, who issued the Nelson-produced debut album Disguise In Love in 1978.

Sadly, he spent much of the 1980s addicted to heroin, living in a "domestic partnership" with singer and fellow addict Nico (of the Velvet Underground). He made an appearance in two UK adverts for Sugar Puffs in 1988, taking second billing to the Honey Monster. Quite often these days he takes second billing from MES and The Fall.

His set included Beasley St, the updated Beasley Boulavard (now the poem has had some investment from Urban Splash), Chicken Town, Hire Car and the brilliant 'Bongos Trousers'. This is a satirical take on the effects of U2's Bono struggling to save the world and have an audience with the pope minus his kecks.

Brilliant Stuff! - Listen to it here, live from the gig (Adults Only).

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Innassence at the Band on the wall, Manchester

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:49:36 -0700

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Indie sounds at the Swan street music venue.

I covered a wide selection of local unsigned bands playing live on stage from 1995 onwards.

Recent listings are shown below. If you were in any of these bands, please get in touch and make contact.
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2002-08-07 Blurred Vision
2003-02-20 Jevara
2003-02-20 Liquid Sky
2003-02-20 Lukash
2003-03-26 NR
2003-03-26 ProductionG
2003-03-26 The Drive
2003-03-26 Think fast Charlie
2003-03-28 Concrete Penguin
2003-04-25 Bad Hair day Banned!
2003-04-25 Like I Care Banned!
2003-04-25 No right Turn Banned!
2003-05-09 banned For the money
2003-05-09 Concussion
2003-05-09 Concussion Banned!
2003-05-09 For the money and bungle Banned!
2003-05-09 The Edge Banned!
2003-05-16 Hilda Strange Vics
2003-05-17 like i care vics banned
2003-05-17 Monkey Harris Poynton
2003-05-19 Still life night
2003-05-02 05 Purgatory State The Palace Levenshulme
2003-05-23 Delaney The Palace Levenshulme
2003-05-23 Distophia
2003-05-23 Gecko The Palace Levenshulme
2003-05-23 PTA The Palace Levenshulme
2003-05-23 Silverscreen Levenshulme Palace
2003-05-23 The Palace 02 The Fix
2003-05-26 01 Headwire - Vics
2003-05-26 Annali Haywood
2003-05-26 Dark Star
2003-05-26 Fall Out
2003-05-26 Guilty Party
2003-05-26 Luke Humphrys
2003-05-26 Parkses band
2003-05-26 Plants mainly
2003-05-26 Scott Thompson
2003-06-07 Looking For Treasure MID
2003-06-27 Bad Hair day
2003-06-27 Saving Grace
2003-06-27 Twisted Bishop
2003-07-04 TwelvePlus One
2003-07-04 Sectioned
2003-07-04 Think Fast Charlie
2003-07-05 BANNED! at Northwich carnival
2003-07-06 powys castle
2003-07-10 Concrete Penguin Middleton Civic Centre Manchester
2003-07-10 Flamingo50
2003-07-10 gecko Middleton Civic
2003-07-10 Neva Say Neva
2003-07-10 The Bluetones Middleton
2003-07-10 The Short Cuts
2003-07-25 Nation of Alcoholics
2003-07-25 Nutonic
2003-07-25 Seratonin
2003-07-26 Munky Fest Zen Baseball bat
2003-07-26 MunkyFest
2003-08-01 Neva Say Neva
2003-08-01 Winnington Grown at Home
2003-08-01 Winnington Rendezvous
2003-08-08 No Right Turn
2003-08-08 The Kirkz
2003-08-18 Bad Hair Day
2003-08-18 Lounge Kings
2003-08-18 Think Fast Charlie
2003-08-22 For The Money and Bungle
2003-08-22 Nation of Alcoholics
2003-08-24 Moss Farm New Age Porn
2003-08-24 Moss Farm BOB Neva Say Neva
2003-08-24 The Edge Moss Farm BOB
2003-09-01 Winnington Gortama
2003-09-05 SpaceTrain
2003-09-05 The Parma Violets
2003-09-19 DeponEye BANNED!
2003-09-19 PSP BANNED!
2003-09-19 Redbank BANNEd! Northwich
2003-09-26 Barbara Rucksack
2003-09-26 Exhibit A BANNED Winnington
2003-10-11 Lymphnode BANNED!
2003-10-11 Monkey Shuffle BANNEd! Northwich
2003-10-11 TFC BANNED
2003-10-17 FallOut
2003-10-17 Lounge Kings
2003-10-17 The Edge
2003-10-24 Evo Devo
2003-10-24 Guilty Party
2003-10-24 Headwire
2003-11-07 Evo Devo
2003-11-07 ProductionG
2003-11-07 Saving Grace
2003-11-14 Call of Duty
2003-11-14 Kite
2003-11-14 Naked Ape
2003-11-22 For the money and bungle
2003-11-22 Sixways Sunday
2003-11-22 Twisted Bishop
2003-11-28 BANNED Headpress
2003-11-28 BANNED! Gl jevara
2003-11-28 Brothers with different mothers
2003-12-05 banned! Catch22
2003-12-05 banned! Tidy
2004-01-02 Barbara Rucksack
2004-01-02 Gortama
2004-01-02 Uberfunk
2004-01-16 Guilty Party
2004-01-16 Monkey shuffle
2004-01-16 The Kirkz
2004-01-30 Dead or american
2004-01-30 Grown at home
2004-01-30 Ocea
2004-01-30 Dead or american
2004-02-06 GG-1 Adept
2004-02-06 GG-1 Blue Chevron
2004-02-06 GG-1 El Mason
2004-02-06 GG-1 El Quinnel
2004-02-06 GG-1 Evo Devo
2004-02-06 GG-1 Jeff Wooton
2004-02-13 Dave Speakman
2004-02-13 Mushroom Fish
2004-02-13 Naked Ape
2004-02-13 The Great Sugaro
2004-02-27 Chemikill
2004-02-27 Crouch Mog
2004-02-27 Js
2004-02-27 nemo-J
2004-02-27 Wolverine
2004-03-05 The edge + Sketcher
2004-03-05 Tidy
2004-03-05 wayswest
2004-03-12 akefic
2004-03-12 Beyond Our Means
2004-03-12 Js
2004-03-12 OnSetCold
2004-03-13 Monkey Harris Poynton
2004-03-19 The chase YGG
2004-03-19 The Hustle YGG
2004-03-19 The Jam restart
2004-04-02 AHuman
2004-04-02 For tomorrows
2004-04-02 Manhole
2004-04-02 Tintern Abbey
2004-04-16 Business Owls
2004-04-16 The Short Cuts
2004-04-16 The Wayriders
2004-04-23 Away From Home
2004-04-23 DJs
2004-04-23 Saving Grace
2004-04-23 Stretton Church Night
2004-04-23 The Owls
2004-04-30 Fall Out
2004-04-30 Long Time dead
2004-04-30 Razorwire
2004-05-07 Depon eye
2004-05-07 Icon
2004-05-07 The lounge kings
2004-05-22 Monsoon GYCA
2004-05-31 Beyond Our Means
2004-05-31 Lymphnode
2004-05-31 Monkey shuffle
2004-05-31 New Jack Swing
2004-05-31 UnDunUp
2004-06-04 All But true
2004-06-04 Guilty Party
2004-06-04 Rinse
2004-06-25 Orinoco shores
2004-06-25 The Blends
2004-06-25 The Randoms
2004-06-27 Saving grace
2004-06-27 The Mags
2004-07-02 HeadPress
2004-07-02 HeadStorm
2004-07-02 InPainDie
2004-07-16 Guilty Party
2004-07-16 Headrush
2004-07-16 Requiem
2004-08-20 Rinse
2004-08-20 Trip
2004-08-27 Order of Mandamus
2004-08-27 The Austins
2004-08-30 Crouch Mog
2004-08-30 Djevara
2004-08-30 Enemo J
2004-08-30 Wolverine
2004-09-10 Cadium
2004-09-10 Day with Mary
2004-09-10 Kite
2004-09-17 Censa Faye
2004-09-17 El Quinnell
2004-09-17 Fonetics
2004-09-17 Nowhere Near The Ga
2004-09-17 Soul City Exile
2004-09-24 8 days late
2004-09-24 Away From Home
2004-09-24 For Tomorrows
2004-09-24 Monkey Shuffle
2004-10-01 Immune
2004-10-01 LAP
2004-10-01 TFC
2004-10-08 Hiatus
2004-10-08 Production G
2004-10-08 The Short Cuts
2004-10-28 Fallen Friend
2004-10-28 Long time dead
2004-10-28 The Redneck Zombies
2004-10-31 Concrete Penguin
2004-11-05 Ephasus
2004-11-05 Saving Grace
2004-11-05 The Kirks
2004-11-19 19th Century
2004-11-19 Jaded
2004-12-03 Blindsight
2004-12-03 Flynch
2004-12-03 OnsetCold
2004-12-17 New Jack Swing
2004-12-17 Orinoco Shores
2004-12-17 Production G
2005-01-06 Grip
2005-01-06 The Kirkz
2005-01-06 The Letgo
2005-01-07 Seratonin
2005-01-07 Smokers Die Young
2005-01-07 TFC
2005-01-13 Man made Mayo
2005-01-13 Multipurpose Chemica
2005-01-13 Patchwork Grace
2005-01-20 Abigails Mercy
2005-01-20 Absent in August
2005-01-20 Clockwork Angst
2005-02-04 Jaded
2005-02-04 Obsessive Compulsive
2005-02-04 The Kulaks
2005-02-11 Dry Riser YGG
2005-02-11 Gecko YGG
2005-02-11 Lander YGG
2005-02-11 MinusOneRaver YGG
2005-02-11 Phonetics YGG Levenshulme Palace Nightclub
2005-02-11 YearZero YGG
2005-02-18 Dangerlust
2005-02-18 Five long days
2005-02-18 Monkey Shuffle
2005-02-25 Liquid Sky
2005-02-25 Locus of control
2005-02-25 Smokers Die Young
2005-03-01 Snow drops
2005-03-04 19th century
2005-03-04 Die So Fluid
2005-03-04 Ji
2005-03-11 Call of duty
2005-03-11 Think fast Charlie
2005-03-11 Zombina + Skeltones
2005-03-18 YGG2005Final DryRiser
2005-03-18 YGG2005Final Skyline
2005-03-18 YGG2005Final theHigh
2005-04-15 Not In Columbia
2005-04-15 Not Shibby
2005-04-15 The wayriders
2005-04-15 Weed
2005-04-21 Blast stereos loud
2005-04-21 Mandtra
2005-04-21 OnSetCold
2005-05-13 Displacement
2005-05-13 Multipurpose Chemical
2005-05-13 Neanderthal
2005-06-12 Salt Tellers
2005-06-17 Crouch Mog
2005-06-17 Exhibit A
2005-06-17 Sakurai
2005-06-24 A Cult called Karrianna
2005-06-24 Guilty Party
2005-06-24 Pinups & pullouts
2005-07-08 Die So Fluid
2005-07-08 Ending Credits
2005-07-08 Multipurpose Chemical
2005-07-21 Agile thought
2005-07-21 Allerjen
2005-07-21 Exit State
2005-07-29 2 minute warning
2005-07-29 Locus of control
2005-07-29 OnSetCold
2005-08-01 Flowers
2005-08-26 Allerjen
2005-08-26 Odd Shaped Head
2005-08-26 Weed
2005-09-02 Backwash
2005-09-02 Lounge Kings
2005-09-02 The Wayriders
2005-09-09 Helsinki Seven
2005-09-09 Saving Grace
2005-09-09 The Fractions
2005-09-16 A cult called Karina
2005-09-16 Hinterland
2005-09-16 The Teenage Casket Co
2005-09-23 Effervescent
2005-09-23 Flinch
2005-09-30 Blowback
2005-09-30 Chaos Undivided
2005-09-30 San Andreas
2005-10-07 Koopa
2005-10-07 Man made mayo
2005-10-14 Everything for someone
2005-10-14 Not Shibby
2005-10-28 Monkey Shuffle
2005-10-28 The Kirkz
2005-11-11 Headspeed
2005-11-11 Neanderthal
2005-11-11 The Austins
2005-11-18 Fallen Friend
2005-11-18 Flat back four
2005-11-18 Nightmare Vision
2005-11-25 Clockwork Angst
2005-11-25 Odd Shaped Head
2005-11-25 Trepidation
2005-12-09 Grown at home
2005-12-09 Lodestone
2005-12-09 The Five O's
2005-12-23 Fallout
2005-12-23 Toast Alphabet
2005-12-26 Edinburgh Science
2005-12-26 Roselyn Chapel
2006-01-01 Steam train
2006-01-27 Annas Jukebox
2006-01-27 Kamikaze Sperm
2006-01-27 TMTT
2006-02-03 Redneck Zombies
2006-02-03 The Hyperjazz
2006-02-03 Wrongly Accused
2006-02-10 After the disaster
2006-02-10 Psylence
2006-02-10 Wizard Beard
2006-02-17 Back Wash
2006-02-17 Death can dance
2006-02-17 Soup Shop
2006-02-24 Blowback
2006-02-24 Mindfold
2006-02-24 Music industry day
2006-02-24 seven second Burn
2006-03-03 Amenti
2006-03-03 Jinx
2006-03-03 The New Fear
2006-03-04 Wind Farm
2006-03-08 Cottsway golive
2006-03-10 Multipurpose chemical
2006-03-10 TATL This all time low
2006-03-10 The Elderly
2006-03-17 A2M
2006-03-17 Cooky
2006-03-17 Fall Out
2006-03-30 Avantix
2006-03-30 Crimson Blade
2006-03-30 Demo
2006-03-30 Nightmare before Xmas
2006-03-30 Remesey
2006-03-30 The Ceraphim
2006-03-30 The Uncensored
2006-03-30 Zebra Theory
2006-03-31 Alma Terrace
2006-03-31 James Warner Prophecies
2006-03-31 Souls Vibrating in the Dark
2006-04-07 Flatbackfour
2006-04-07 Obsessive Compulsive
2006-04-07 Skinless Finger
2006-04-21 A story at three
2006-04-21 Agile thought
2006-04-21 Escape from alcatraz
2006-04-25 Jeans
2006-04-28 Koopa
2006-04-28 Nineteeth Century
2006-04-28 Skinless Finger
2006-05-05 Chaos Undivided
2006-05-05 Exhibit A
2006-05-05 Grown At Home
2006-05-12 Solar Flair
2006-05-12 Teenage Casket Co
2006-05-12 The Erotics
2006-05-19 Fuelled by fortune
2006-05-19 Red Element
2006-05-19 Saving Grace
2006-05-26 Allerjen
2006-05-26 Blindsight
2006-05-26 Man Made Mayo
2006-06-02 Black Rose Falls
2006-06-02 LAP
2006-06-02 The Five Os
2006-06-03 Erdig
2006-06-16 Amalfi
2006-06-16 Effervescence
2006-06-22 Harrogate
2006-06-23 Clockwork Angst
2006-06-23 Patchwork Grace
2006-06-23 Tidy
2006-06-30 Lymphnode
2006-06-30 Out from Animals
2006-06-30 Sons of Median
2006-07-14 Helsinki seven
2006-07-14 The Bedheads
2006-07-14 The Mumps
2006-07-21 Hinterland
2006-07-21 Projekt Mayhem (Project Mayhem)
2006-08-04 Amenti
2006-08-04 The (Monkey) Shuffle
2006-08-11 Acid Pope
2006-08-11 Jinx
2006-08-11 The Final Threat
2006-08-24 Five O's
2006-09-15 Multipurpose chemical
2006-09-29 19th century
2006-09-29 Black rose Falls
2006-09-29 Man made Mayo
2006-10-27 Alma Terrace
2006-10-27 Carnival
2006-10-27 Postmortum
2006-10-27 Swabian League
2006-11-03 James Warner Propheces
2006-11-03 Koopa
2006-11-03 Rosa Park
2006-11-10 Choas Undivided
2006-11-10 interlock
2006-11-10 OnsetCold
2006-11-16 PDA
2006-11-17 3days til 2moro
2006-11-17 Ephesus
2006-11-17 Graeme Lloyd
2006-11-17 The Shallow call
2006-11-24 Blindsight
2006-11-24 Fall out
2006-11-24 Thor
2006-12-01 Backwash
2006-12-01 The Last days
2006-12-01 Virus
2006-12-22 Man Made
2006-12-22 Patchwork Grace
2006-12-22 The Bed Heads
2007-01-05 Five O's (5Os)
2007-01-05 Rosa Park
2007-01-05 Secrets of the dead
2007-01-13 Alerjen
2007-01-13 Smudge
2007-01-13 Uranium Lake
2007-01-19 Choas Undivided
2007-01-19 The Kirkz
2007-01-19 The Shuffle
2007-01-26 Bleached Wail
2007-01-26 The De-Coded (Wiggy and the Decoded)
2007-01-26 The Shallow Call
2007-02-18 Sterlingl
2007-02-23 Rosa Park
2007-03-04 Blue Planet Aquarium
2007-03-15 The Devastated Fan
2007-03-15 The Last Days
2007-03-15 Virus
2007-03-23 Genevas Lab
2007-03-23 Multipurpose Chemical
2007-03-23 Sakless Jack (Sackless Jack)
2007-04-13 I am Meyricks Revenge
2007-04-13 The (Monkey) Shuffle
2007-04-27 Dolls House
2007-04-27 Jinx
2007-04-27 The Bedheads
2007-05-04 Original Cast
2007-05-04 Science vs Romance
2007-05-07 Man made Mayo
2007-05-07 Smudge
2007-05-07 The Shuffle
2007-05-11 Black Top
2007-05-11 Final threat
2007-05-11 Skinless finger
2007-05-18 Alma Terrace
2007-05-18 Black Rose Falls
2007-05-18 The Kirkz
2007-05-25 Bleached wail
2007-05-25 Exit State
2007-05-25 Helvelyn 2
2007-05-28 4R25
2007-05-28 Anti chamber
2007-05-28 Connecting Flight
2007-06-09 Chaos Undivided
2007-06-09 Roughneck Riot
2007-06-09 Secrets of the dead
2007-06-11 Lymm Prep
2007-06-15 Abigails Mercy
2007-06-15 Backwash
2007-06-15 Red Element
2007-07-06 Blast Stereos loud
2007-07-06 Man Made
2007-07-06 The Shuffle
2007-07-07 DAD2007
2007-07-13 Effervescent
2007-07-13 Never Say Die
2007-07-13 Paycheck
2007-07-13 Stash Pocket
2007-07-20 Robolint
2007-07-20 Roughneck Riot
2007-08-03 Codeca
2007-08-03 Helsinki 7
2007-08-03 Jinx
2007-08-10 Burnt
2007-08-10 Obsessive Compulsive
2007-08-10 Pinups & Pullups
2007-08-24 Final Threat
2007-08-24 LAP
2007-08-24 Not so Pretty
2007-08-27 Clockwork Angst
2007-08-27 Dancefloor
2007-08-27 Five O's
2007-08-27 Multipurpose Chemical MPC
2007-08-27 Pretty Victim
2007-09-14 Bad Hair Day
2007-09-14 Lucid
2007-09-14 The Disguised
2007-09-21 Black Rose Falls
2007-09-21 Laffin
2007-09-21 This devastated Fan
2007-09-28 Five O's
2007-09-28 Metro Manilla
2007-09-28 Our Lives
2007-10-12 Disarm
2007-10-12 Fandangle
2007-10-12 Genevas Lab
2007-10-26 4R2S
2007-10-26 Audience Fancy Dress
2007-10-26 Our Innocence Lost
2007-10-26 Smudge
2007-11-02 Bleached Wail
2007-11-02 Helsinki 7
2007-11-02 Skinless Finger
2007-11-09 Koopa
2007-11-09 The Kirkz
2007-11-09 The Shuffle
2007-11-16 Adi Equipment
2007-11-16 Helvelyn 2
2007-11-16 Looker (from New York)
2007-11-23 Fallout
2007-11-23 James Warner Prophecies
2008-01-04 Asleep in Panama
2008-01-04 Fallout
2008-01-04 Revenge of the Psycot
2008-01-11 Barely Legal
2008-01-11 The Decoded
2008-01-11 Wolf Cry Wolf
2008-01-25 Black rose falls
2008-01-25 Hades Chariot
2008-01-25 New Beginning
2008-01-25 Patchwork Grace
2008-02-01 Amenti
2008-02-01 Crash Course
2008-02-01 LAP
2008-02-08 Bleached wail
2008-02-08 Onset Cold
2008-02-08 Trigger the bloodshed
2008-02-22 Burnt
2008-02-22 This hope lays ruin
2008-02-22 Transmit distrupt
2008-02-29 OnSet Cold
2008-02-29 Skinless Finger
2008-03-07 Black Mesa Incident
2008-03-07 Last Words
2008-03-07 Snakeskin
2008-04-25 Alum
2008-04-25 Ame Norwood
2008-04-25 New Beginning
2008-04-25 Ward Corner
2008-05-09 I left you for summer
2008-05-09 Minions of Jeffrey
2008-05-09 SFR
2008-05-23 Hades Chariot
2008-05-23 Jinx
2008-05-23 Kevin Campbell
2008-05-30 Dyinise
2008-05-30 Patchwork Grace
2008-05-30 Skinless Finger
2008-06-20 Birth of a hero
2008-06-20 Red Orchestra
2008-06-20 This is Turin
2008-07-18 Angel range
2008-07-18 Five Os
2008-07-18 Smudge
2008-07-26 Hill Valley High
2008-07-26 Last man down
2008-07-26 Phatboy
2008-08-08 Asleep in Panama
2008-08-08 Bigtop
2008-08-08 Severenth
2008-09-04 Gomez
2008-09-12 Lonelady
2008-09-12 Wire
2008-09-29 Fandangle
2008-09-29 Sectioned
2008-09-29 Skeleton Gun
2008-10-03 Charlatans
2008-10-26 Datsuns Night+Day
2008-10-26 Sons of Albion Nig+Dy
2008-10-27 Nitin Sawney
2008-11-07 Forth by Day
2008-11-15 House Building
2008-11-24 Ladytron
2008-12-12 Primal Scream
2008-12-12 RTX

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365-243 Liverpool Pier Head At Dusk Panorama

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sat, 21 May 2011 06:56:00 -0700

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The three graces on the Liverpool mersey waterfront at dusk, after rain showers.

These important architectural landmarks are:

The Royal Liver Building, built between 1908 and 1911 and designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas. It is a grade I listed building consisting of two clock towers, both crowned by mythical Liver Birds. The building is the headquarters of the Royal Liver Friendly Society. Now Deutsche Bank.

The Cunard Building, constructed between 1914 and 1916 and a grade II* listed building. It is the former headquarters of the Cunard Line shipping company.

The Port of Liverpool Building, built from 1903 to 1907 and also grade II* listed. It is the former home of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

Added to this left and right is the new Beatles exhiition and the museum of Liverpool life.

Work commenced in 2007 to build a canal link between the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and the South Docks. The £22 million pound 1.6 mile extension to the Leeds-Liverpool Canal was officially opened on 25 March 2009. It opens to boaters at the end of April and links the 127 miles of the existing canal to the city’s South Docks, passing Pier Head and the famous Three Graces. The Pier Head was in this form for the 2008 city of culture celebrations.

At first, the Prince's Landing Stage was situated at the Pier Head to serve the trans-Atlantic liner service. There were many stages built during Liverpool's history, the most recent opened in the 1890s and was joined to the neighbouring George's Landing Stage, situated to the south. After further lengthening took place in the early twentieth century, the combined structure originally measured nearly 3,000 feet, almost half a mile. Both were scrapped in 1973, following the termination of trans-Atlantic services from Liverpool.

In the three years or so I worked in Liverpool, Pier Head served as a major bus interchange. There was also a very poor Beefeater / Berni Inn pub at the Pier head too, where the Beatles exhibition is today.

Goldfrapp live in Liverpool www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3077807669/

A pier head joiner www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4281002771/

A dusk shot with similar treatment www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4259536947/

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iPod Shuffle - Colours Fly & Catherine Wheel

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:05:00 -0800

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Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel - "Simple Minds" - Play this track here.

¿Whats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here

After a Welsh track as my last upload, I have had some comments that Scotland has not had a fair crack of the whip. So in the spirit of the 'United' Kingdom, completing the tradition of 'an Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Welshman' in a good joke or story, heres a Simple Minds track.

New Gold Dream is the fifth studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds. The album was released in 1982 and was a breakthrough point for the band.

Simple Minds are Jim Kerr on vox, Charlie Burchill on guitars, Michael MacNeil keyboards and effects and Derek Forbes on bass. A mixture of session drummers were recruited for the album.

A mistaken origin of the name "Catherine Wheel" is often assumed to come from David Byrne or Twyla Tharp. In 1981, Byrne partnered with choreographer Twyla Tharp, scoring 'The Catherine Wheel,' a ballet prominently featuring unusual rhythms and lyrics. Productions of "The Catherine Wheel" appeared on Broadway that same year." Although interesting, this is wrong. The Byrne/Tharpe catherine wheel refers to the medieval torture instrument of the same name. The Simple Minds track refers to a type of firework (see the catherine wheel disambiguation page for more).

For more Simple Minds, checkout the "Live - in the City of Light" album recorded at the Paris Olympia during the 1986 'Once upon a time" tour. Oh, and tell 'em I sent you :-)

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Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James' Mount in the city centre of Liverpool, England and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool. Its official name is the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool but it is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin. It is the largest cathedral in Britain and the fifth largest in the world which ultimately makes it the largest Anglican cathedral in the world, although this title is disputed with the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York USA.

At 67 metres (220 ft) above floor level, the bells of Liverpool Cathedral are the highest and heaviest ringing peal in the world. The bourdon bell "Great George" was cast by Taylors of Loughborough. At 14.5 tons, Great George is the second most massive bell in the British Isles. (Only the 16.5 ton "Great Paul" of St Paul's Cathedral in London is heavier.)

It is connected to the Catholic cathedral (often referred to as Paddys Wigwam by the cities comedians) in the city by 'Hope St'. It takes its name from William Hope, a local merchant whose house stood on the site now occupied by the Philharmonic Hall, and was named long before either cathedral was built.

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iPod Shuffle - Ice Cream

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:36:44 -0800

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Ice Cream - "New Young Pony Club" - Play this track here.

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New Young Pony Club are a five-piece rock band from London, UK. They consist of now London-based vocalist Tahita Bulmer and producer Andy Spence. They shared a love of punk rock and dance music. The founding pair began writing together, originally only for Bulmer to perform.

Spence later assumed a larger role when they decided to form a proper band, so the duo recruited the single-monikered Lou on keyboards, Igor Volk on bass, and Sarah Jones on percussion. The band formed in 2005, and released two limited edition 7" singles ("The Get Go" and this track "Ice Cream") on indie label Tirk Recordings. Later that year they were discovered by more established Australian label Modular Recordings, and signing a worldwide deal.

The band's name came from lead singer Bulmer's desire to be a part of a club or team at school. Her original idea for the band name was the more concise "Pony Club", which she describes as "quirky and kinky and fun". A pre-existing Irish band had already claimed the name, and the prefix "New Young" was added to reflect that the band are "a newer, younger and kinkier Pony Club". So now we know.

For more, checkout NYPC's debut album, 'Fantastic Playroom'

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The Pier Head in Liverpool has gone through some transformations over the years. When back in the mid 1980's when I worked in the city centre it was part bus station and ferry terminal. The latter are mostly now for tourists, most locals taking the subway. Its now got a nice water feature and the concrete beefeater is now a swish Chinese eatery. A change for the better. On a sunny day, a nice place to enjoy an ice cream.....

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iPod Shuffle - Theme From Sparta FC

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:16:13 -0700

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Theme From Sparta FC - "The Fall" - Play this track here.

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This music you may remember from BBC Saturday Sport was composed by MES (Mark E Smith) and The Fall. To get a feel for the show, check this out. Unfortunately, his beloved Man City had managed a "Hopeless as usual performance" in their 0-0 draw against Blackburn.

The Fall are an English post-punk group, formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976. The group has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. First associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years.

However, The Fall's music is often characterised by repetition, an abrasive guitar-driven sound, and is always underpinned by Smith's vocals and often cryptic lyrics, described by critic Steve Huey as "abstract poetry filled with complicated wordplay, bone-dry wit, cutting social observations, and general misanthropy (sometimes more implied than clearly stated, but apparent nonetheless)."

The group's output is prolific. As of September 2010 they have released 28 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but have maintained a strong cult following. The band were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different, they are always the same.". The Fall were the only band who merited a seperate section in John Peel's record collection.

MES does manage the band like a football team, bringing in new talent and mavericks (many he encounters in the pub in Prestwich) acting as foreman. Dave Simpson's book 'The Fallen' is a great guide to the world of The Fall.

The last time I saw them was in Liverpool 2008 when MES had just turned 50. The band's Peel sessions were finally released recently by Castle Records in the six-CD box "The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004". This is a good starting point for getting to know the varied music of the band. The lastest album "Your Future, Our Clutter" is also worth a listen to wet your appetite. Tell 'em I sent you.....

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This is quite an old shot. In the current climate I may not even have attempted to take it.

I have heard it said that many classic shots from the likes of Cartier Bresson and others would not be able to take many of their classic images these days. Very sad.

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iPod Shuffle - Porcelain Gods

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:49:52 -0700

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Porcelain Gods - "Paul Weller" - Play this track here.

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I remember discovering this on the Stanley Road album when Weller was being confirmed in Q etc as 'The Guvnor'. His Style Council days were thankfully by then behind him. This is pretty much a perfect album. Collaborations from Steve Winwood, Noel Gallagher and Steve Cradock of OCS (that's Ocean Colour Scene, not Office Cleaning Services in case you were wondering) pepper the album and (hope you like the link), the classic cover was designed by Peter Blake, designer of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album.

Paul Weller was actually born 'John William Weller' 25th May 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey. Weller was born into a working-class family. His father worked in the building trade as a scaffolder and a bricklayer, and his mother worked as a cleaner. Weller was brought up in Stanley Road, Woking in a Victorian council house, which had an outside toilet but neither hot running water nor central heating.

Woking is the town in which the Martians first land in H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. If you have ever been there you will realise why.

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The Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool, England is situated on the junction of Hope Street and Hardman Street, diagonally opposite the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Locally it is referred to as the Philharmonic Pub or simply the Phil. Designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas for the brewers Robert Cain & Company, it opened in 1898. The exterior is in the Art Nouveau style.

As requested here is a shot of the famous Adament urinals. These can be visited by women by request. No trip to Liverpool is complete without a visit here. The architect of the Phil, and other pubs was Walter Thomas.

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Albert Dock Panorama At Dusk, Liverpool UK

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:25:55 -0700

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One of my favourite evening strolls with a view is along Wapping/Strand Street in Liverpool when dusk draws in. You can almost imagine the sea shanties from years gone past wafting up from the old clippers and other boats that must have plied the Mersey river to make this the great city that it is.

Shanties go way beyond the stereotype of a song about the sea that simply ends "..never to return". In the days when human muscles were the only power source available aboard ship, sea shanties served a practical purpose: the rhythm of the song served to synchronize the movements of the sailors as they toiled at repetitive tasks. They also served a social purpose: singing and listening to songs is pleasant; it alleviates boredom and lightens the burden of hard work, of which there was no shortage on long voyages in those days.

Most shanties are "call and response" songs, with one voice (the shantyman) singing the line and the chorus of sailors bellowing the response (compare military cadence calls). For example, the shanty "Boney":

Shantyman: Boney was a warrior,
All: Way, hey, ya!
Shantyman: A warrior and a tarrier,
All: Jean-François!

Shanties can be split into a number of catagories. Long-haul or "halyard" / "long-drag") sung when hauling a long rope rope. Short-drag - as before, but a short rope. Capstan Shanties: Raising the anchor on a ship. Pumping Shanties, for pumping out the bilge hold. By now you probably realise how hard sailing used to be!

Sailors reputed to be good shantymen were valued and respected, although were expected to do their proper jobs too.

In recent times, the shanty style has been recycled by artists as wide afield as the Sex Pistols ("Frigging in the Rigging") and the Decemberists ("Mariners Revenge Song").
The theme song for the television show SpongeBob SquarePants (a version of "Blow the Man Down") is one. Even the song "Reise, Reise" by the german metal band Rammstein is based on a shanty.

A number of sea shanties mention Liverpool and the Mersey. have a look at Ron Smiths excellent site and connect with some seafaring history!
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Gothic at the Ferry, Dusk

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:14:00 -0700

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Sarah. Birkenhead, Wirral with Mersey ferry behind. Mild winter late afternoon sun already dupped below the horizon.

Another gothic portrait later in the night - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3875568806/in/photostream/

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365-271 Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Cheshire UK At Dusk

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:49:32 -0700

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Fiddlers Ferry has been a landmark visable from Runcorn, Warrington and Widnes since the early 1970's. Its a coal fired power station on the banks of the Mersey River, which supplies all its cooling water. In recent years it has been adapted to also burn bio-mass. It can generate nearly 2,000 Megawatts.

Living in Glossop I remember massive freight trains of coal trucks coming over Woodhead and the Dinting viaduct headed for Fiddlers Ferry. Many trains overnighted at the sidings at Gamesley. Fuel for it these days comes mainly from Liverpool docks. Sulphur emissions are reduced by a new FGD plant installed in 2008. Carbon Dioxide is still pumped out of the chimneys as before though to be added to our delicate climate.

Its eight towers can be seen from various high points, including here at the cemetary at Pewtersspear, above Stockton Heath. A modern pub called the Eight Towers (not one of my usual haunts), is located only a short distance away.

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I've seen it in your eyes, I've read it in books

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:00:00 -0800

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A tattoo being born at at the Manchester 2010 GMEX (Manchester Central) convention.

There are some cracking books on tattooing around. They are great for inspiration and like this chap, if I was having a large scale piece of work done it would be the ideal coffee table book to be browsing. Tat history is over 5000 year-old as proved by a tattooed mummy found in modern day Egypt. there are many fine books that document and illustrate it.

Here are some of my favourites that I have read, owned, enjoyed, had stolen or lost during the years.

The Sketchbook: 80 Unique Designs by the World's Finest Tattoo Artists.
A perfectly tattooed body requires the skills of a professional and talented artist, who creates a unique and personal design. These designs are often inspired by one or more of the various tattoo styles of Japanese, Maori or other tribal origin. "The Sketchbook" offers the reader a selection of 80 of these unique designs by well-known and less famous, but very promising, tattoo artists from around the world. Each artist was requested to create a sketch unrestrained by commercial demands and which reflects their own personal interests.

Bodies of Inscription : A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
this is a pretty academic book. The new tattoo community described here is demographically quite different from the old. It is more female, more middle-class, and more educated, whereas the earlier society of tattoo collectors was primarily working class and male. DeMello lays out some of the social history of tattooing to prepare for her discussion of the changes in tattooing in the past 20 years. From handpicked prison tattoos to the latest in today's "tribal" design, from gang symbols to feminist ones, tattoos themselves have changed to meet changing demands and fashions.

The Tattoo Encyclopedia: A Guide to Choosing Your Tattoo
As they should, tattoos continue to move into the mainstream and grow in popularity. For people pondering getting a tattoo, however, the choice of images can be overwhelming. A comprehensive, informative exploration of the colorful world of tattoos, The Tattoo Encyclopedia presents concise descriptions of symbols both common and unusual and sheds light on their historic, religious, and cultural significance.

Bushido; Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo. This includes over 200 cracking photos by the classic tat2 photographer Jai Tanju. The text is based largely on Takahiro Kitamuras experiences as customer and student of the famed Japanese tattoo master, Horiyoshi III.

Tattoo Art Tribal Vol.II
Tattoo Art has been producing high quality tattoo designs for over a decade. Professional tattoo artists worldwide have used Tattoo Art's wide assortment of designs to satisfy all their customer needs. The quality and variety of the tattoo designs produced by Tattoo Art has placed them among the industry leaders. Its a great index of proven designs.

Also, call me a luditte, but if it was a choice between an electronic version of one of these books (ie Kindle download), or shiny paper, i would go for the latter every time. When my Billy bookcase sags, it actually smiles. :-)

Some more tattoo's and piercing here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4407631870/ and www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4271674913/

Another from Manchester 2010 here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4427429577/

(2010 week 9)

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365-218 I Am The Egg Man

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:01:43 -0800

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John is the egg man on Winsford town market. Mondays, Thursdays & Saturday. Believe me, his eggs are the best!

A friemd called Jane, now resident on the Wirral who I know through photography, although shamefully I have not seen for ages, used to live in \Winsford (overspill estate for scousers as it was) and she swore she saw the Beatles at the civic hall in her youth. I wish she did as I will never now have the chance.

Did she hear these lyrics sung by the fab four?........

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister City Policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying.
I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.

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Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ The King, Liverpool, UK in Infrared

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:57:00 -0700

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For quite a few years I worked in Liverpool and got a great liking for the place. It often gets a bad press, but its changing attitudes since the 'City of Culture' celebrations a few years back.

The catholic cathedral, which stands at one end of Hope St, is older than the gothic revival anglican cathedral at the other end. Its a proper testiment to the 1960's, when concrete was king.

The cathedral's architect was Englishman Frederick Gibberd, the winner of a worldwide design competition. Construction began in 1962, and took five years. Earlier designs for a Catholic cathedral in Liverpool had been proposed in 1853, 1933, and 1953, but none was completed.

Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) was originally commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott-designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then being built further along Hope Street. In 1956 work recommenced on the crypt, which was finished in 1958. Thereafter, Lutyens' design for the cathedral was considered too expensive and so was abandoned with only the crypt complete.

The present cathedral was designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd (1908–84). Construction began in October 1962 and less than five years later, on the Feast of Pentecost 14 May 1967, the completed cathedral was consecrated. Soon after its opening, it began to exhibit architectural flaws. This led to the cathedral authorities suing Frederick Gibberd for £1.3 million on five counts, the two most serious being leaks in the aluminium roof and defects in the mosaic tiles, which had begun to come away from the concrete ribs.

The focus of the interior is the altar which faces the main entrance. It is made of white marble from Skopje, Macedonia, and is 10 feet (3 m) long. The floor is also of marble in grey and white designed by David Atkins. The benches, concentric with the interior, were designed by Frank Knight. Above is the tower with large areas of stained glass designed by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens in three colours, yellow, blue and red, representing the Trinity. The glass is 1 inch (3 cm) thick, the pieces of glass being bonded with epoxy resin, in concrete frames.

It is certainly worth a visit. A contrast to the concrete of Coventry cathedral if you have ever been there.

IR image taken with an adapted 720nm sensor.

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iPod Shuffle - Respectable Street

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Respectable Street - "XTC" - Play this track here.

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A track from Swindons finest, XTC. You might know them best from 1979's 'Making Plans for Nigel' and the later 'Senses Working Overtime'. The core of the band was Andy Partridge (guitars & vocals) and Colin Moulding (bass & vocals). Their style was described as hyperactive pop fused with art rock.

'White Music' was the debut album and it received favourable reviews and entered the British top 40. Lead single "Statue of Liberty" was banned by the BBC however for making allegedly lewd references to the famous statue ("in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt"). How very 'British!'.

On 4 April 1982, XTC were scheduled to play at the Hollywood Palladium. Before the show began, it was announced that XTC would not take the stage due to Andy Partridge's illness. XTC never played another tour date. XTC would, however, perform several acoustic sets for radio only in 1989. So a come back tour is unlikely!

For an appreciation of XTC, track down 'Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92'. Tell 'em I sent you.

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This is a twenty odd image analog joiner / panorama of dusk at the top of Lord Street, Castle St and James Street in Liverpool. Straight ahead is the new Liverpool One open air shopping complex.

It has moved the main shoppping axis in Liverpool from Church Street where Lewis's, Blacklers and John Lewis used to be an easy walk away. How times change!

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iPod Shuffle - Rescue

nobody@flickr.com (Hotpix [LRPS] Hanx for 1.5M Views) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:19:55 -0800

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Rescue - "Echo And The Bunnymen" - Play this track here.

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"First I want a kiss, then I want it all......"

Well its been a few weeks in arriving, but seminal Scousers Echo and the Bunnymen have finally arrived on my iPod.

Echo was the name given to the bands original drum machine (in legend, although maybe not in fact), that backed up Ian McCulloch (vox), Will Sergeant (guitar) and Les Pattinson (Bass). By 1980 a permanent drummer, Pete de Freitas was installed. He was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1989.

Ian McCulloch back in 1977 was one third of the 'Crucial Three', a bedroom band which also featured Julian Cope (Teardrop Explodes) and Pete Wylie (Wah Heat).

I have the first single (from Bill Drummond and David Balfe's Zoo label) 'The Pictures On My Wall' (b-sided with 'Read It In Books') with 'The Revenge Of Voodoo Billy' scratched in the run out groove, up in my loft. Its pretty much played to death. I think I bought it at 'Probe' the original record shop that was up in what is now known as Cavern walks in Liverpool. It stocked all the indie vinyl and sold tickets to Erics, the local punk band venue. Echo & the Bunnymen made their debut at Liverpool's Eric's Club in November 1978.

The band were influenced by the same artists as their other North West contemporaries Joy Division, The Doors and Velvet underground. Like them, they often play Doors covers live.

For the ultimate resource on the band, checkout www.villiersterrace.com , to get a feel for the band, checkout the live album 'Never Stop: Live in Liverpool'.

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The RAF Search and Rescue Force (SARF or SAR Force) is the Royal Air Force organization which provides around-the-clock aeronautical search and rescue cover in the United Kingdom, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands.

Although established with a primary role of military search and rescue, most of SARF's operational missions are spent in its secondary role, conducting civil search and rescue. This entails the rescue of civilians from the sea, on mountains, from flooded regions or other locations on land.

The aeronautical search and rescue roles are complemented by the related Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service whose trained mountaineers also conduct search and rescue in hilly terrain. SARF helicopters and RAF mountaineers often work together on mountain rescue incidents.

The SAR Force headquarters is situated at RAF Valley on Anglesey, North Wales and this helicopter is probably from 'C Flight' based there.

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365-335 The Blue Boat, West Kirby Marine Lake, Wirral, UK

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West Kirby contains a large man made coastal lake, the 'Marine Lake'. The structure is large enough to hold sailing events. Swimming is discouraged due to the presence of weaver fish with sharp poisonous barbs. Some of the creatures can be caught by a piece of meat on a cord. I remember yonks ago catching crabs off Cromer pier in Norfolk. If you were lucky then, you got two or three all fighting for a cube of pork! Happy days.

West Kirby is a town on the north-west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England, at the mouth of the River Dee across from the Point of Ayr in North Wales.

The name West Kirby is of Viking origin, originally Kirkjubyr, meaning 'village with a church'. The form with the modifier "West" exists to distinguish it from the other town of the same name in Wirral: Kirkby-in-Walea (now the modern town of Wallasey). The earliest usage given of this form is "West Kyrkeby in Wirhale" in 1285.

On the lake most days and it must be said in all weathers, you can see windsurfing and many more water related activities including: canoeing; kayaking; and occasional power-boating. In early 2009 it was reported that the lake had undergone structural damage, most likely due to estuarine erosion. Since this report a £750K refurbishment has taken place to help restore the lake, and is now back to holding water sport activities.

In October 1991 the World Windsurfing Speed Record was set on the West Kirby Marine Lake at 42.16 knots. It was held for two years until it was beaten in Australia.

Notable locals from West Kirby include Daniel Craig, the actor who played James Bond in the 2006 version of Casino Royale, who attended Hilbre High School and Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby. Glenda Jackson, actress and politician, attended West Kirby Grammar School.

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