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Zoe Thomson

Mini Band - Enter Sandman

Amazing Band!! Special wow to Zoe Thomson (guitarist, left side)

Downton Abbey T4E8

09-12-2013

Charles leaves, Mary having appointed Tim Drewe as pig-man but when Anthony Gillingham's projected visit to Downton is announced Mary detects from Anna's reaction that something is wrong and learns the rapist's identity. The visit passes without incident though Mary turns down a proposal from Anthony, who has broken off his engagement. Later, at Mary's request, he sacks Green. Mary is alarmed when Rose tells her she is marrying Jack Ross and goes to see the singer, who assures her he is realistic enough to know that the union cannot take place. Lady Rosamund plans to take Edith to Switzerland, to have her baby and put it up for adoption but Violet is suspicious and forces the truth out of them. Robert returns for the annual fete and Alfred comes back for a funeral, proposing to Ivy, who declines. Meanwhile Isobel attracts the admiration of Lord Merton and Molesley forms a friendship with Baxter, though he is curious as to her relationship with Barrow.

Foo Fighters bio

The Foo Fighters emerged from the ashes of Nirvana, but the band's true roots lay in the years of personal recordings made by leader Dave Grohl. The former Nirvana drummer had played guitar and written songs since he was a Washington, D.C., teenager, while also playing drums in several hardcore bands. At 17, Grohl became the drummer for the veteran punk act Scream. In 1990 he joined Nirvana, but continued to work on his own material during breaks from the road and studio. After finishing Nirvana's Nevermind, Grohl returned to D.C. to record several tracks, which were released on the cassette-only Pocketwatch. Plans for another cassette release were shelved with Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide.

Later that year Grohl entered a studio with friend and producer Barrett Jones to record what would become the first Foo Fighters album. Grohl played all the instruments himself (with the exception of the song "X-Static," which featured guitar by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs). Though he had written and sung just one Nirvana song (the B-side "Marigold"), Grohl demonstrated a flair for pop hooks and driving guitar rock. (The name Foo Fighters came from what American World War II pilots called unidentified fireballs spotted over Germany.) Grohl signed with Capitol and formed a band in time for a 1995 tour, recruiting bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith from the freshly-broken-up Sunny Day Real Estate. Pat Smear, the former Germs guitarist who had joined Nirvana for its final tour, also joined.

Foo Fighters (Number 23) was released in 1995 and spawned the Modern Rock hits "This Is a Call," "I'll Stick Around," and "Big Me." Goldsmith quit during the making of The Colour and the Shape (Number Ten, 1997), the first Foo Fighters album recorded as a band, and was replaced by Taylor Hawkins (Alanis Morissette). The album contained the Modern Rock hits "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," and "Everlong." Smear quit and was briefly replaced by Franz Stahl (Scream) and then Chris Shiflett (No Use for a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), solidifying the lineup to date. Grohl relocated to Virginia and recorded There Is Nothing Left to Lose (Number 10, 1999) in his basement; the album included "Learn to Fly" (Number 13, 2000).

In 2001 the group began recording its fourth album in Los Angeles, but stopped before finishing. Grohl took a break from band-leading by getting behind the drums again for Queens of the Stone Age's 2002 album Songs for the Deaf. Refreshed, Grohl gathered the Foos back together and re-recorded almost the entire album at his Virginia home studio, released as One by One (Number Three, 2002). The album further consolidated the band's place as the well-loved elder statesmen of alt-rock.
In 2004, Grohl released Probot, the self-titled side project featuring a number of vocalists from heavy metal legends, among them Lemmy Kilmister (Mot örhead), Snake (Voivod), King Diamond, and Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly). Later the same year, the Foos publicly backed John Kerry's presidential campaign, an endeavor Grohl said inspired the title of In Your Honor (Number Two, 2005), a double-CD featuring an acoustic disc and an electric disc. It featured the hit "Best of You" (Number 18, 2005), later covered, to Grohl's great delight and surprise, by Prince during his bravura halftime appearance at the 2007 Super Bowl. (Foo Fighters had covered Prince's "Darling Nikki" on the B-side of the 2003 single "Have It All" and performed it live and on the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards with guest star Cee-Lo.) 
 
After a stopgap live disc, Skin and Bones (Number 21, 2006), Foo Fighters worked together again with Gil Norton, who'd produced The Colour and the Shape, and recorded the well-received Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (Number Three, 2007). The group scored both Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance at the following years' Grammy Awards, and performed "Young Man Blues" and "Bargain" (with Gaz Coombes of Supergrass) at VH1's Rock Honors concert for the Who. After this whirlwind of activity, Grohl announced the band would be taking a hiatus. A greatest hits album featuring one new song, "Wheels," was released in 2009, and Grohl turned his full attention to another project: his role as drummer in the hard rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, which featured Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. The group debuted with a performance at the Metro in Chicago as part of a Lollapalooza after-party, and then made a series of festival appearances that summer before releasing their first album (Number 12) to generally positive reviews and strong sales in November of that year.
Portions of this biography appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001). J. Edward Keyes contributed to this article.


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/foo-fighters/biography

Downton Abbey T4E7

02-12-2013

Robert is summoned to America to bail out reprobate brother-in-law Harold but, after Mrs Hughes has given her the 'official' version of Anna's rape Mary steps in to let John stay with his wife with his place being taken by Barrow. He is curious as to the change of plan, asking Baxter to find out more, which Molesley overhears. Isobel plans to go with Tom to a meeting addressed by a Liberal MP but stays behind to nurse flu-stricken Violet, and he goes alone, sitting next to Daisy, an attractive young woman. In London Edith discovers she is pregnant but refuses an abortion whilst Rose continues to see Jack Ross. Back at Downton the pigs arrive and Mary takes Charles Blake to view them. He proves invaluable when the animals seem to be in trouble and he and Mary combine to save them, getting covered in mud in the process. Meanwhile Anthony Gillingham returns, with Green, who faces Mrs Hughes' anger.

Domingo, no Maia Shopping...

Downton Abbey T4E6

25-11-2013

 

Robert is perturbed when Mary and Tom suggest intensive pig-farming on his land and Evelyn returns with his superior Charles Blake, to assess the viability of estates such as Downton. Blake does not impress Mary but both men are invited to stay for Robert's birthday party, for which Rose has engaged Jack Ross and his band. Rose's involvement with Ross would seem to go beyond the professional. At the party Isobel dissuades Tom from emigrating to America with his daughter and later she proves to Violet that young Pegg was not a thief, being surprised by the dowager's open-mindedness in reinstating him. Alfred receives good news - he has been accepted at the Ritz after all and Molesley is quick to step into his role but Edith is still concerned as Michael seems to have gone missing in Germany.

 

António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro

António Variações é um dos ícones maiores da música Pop portuguesa, marcou e continua a marcar diversas gerações de artistas portugueses, pela genuinidade e emoção que emprestava às suas criações.

Nascido António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, em 3 de Dezembro de 1944, no Lugar de Pilar, freguesia de Fiscal, em Amares perto de Braga.

 

Filho de camponeses minhotos, desde muito cedo revelou propensão para a música. Em 1957, com 12 anos apenas, abandonou a sua aldeia natal e foi para Lisboa, onde se dedicou a várias actividades profissionais desde empregado de escritório a barbeiro, até ir para Angola, em 1965 para cumprir o serviço militar.

 

Em 1970, parte para Londres e conforme afirma mais tarde, não retira ainda deste contacto com outro país, o pleno proveito, ao contrário do que sucede em seguida, quando viaja, primeiro para Itália, em 1973 e depois, em 1974, para a Holanda.

 

Em 1975 viaja até Londres, onde fica durante um ano e parte, depois para Amsterdão onde aprende a profissão de cabeleireiro. Esta aprendizagem servir-lhe-á para se instalar novamente na capital Portuguesa.

 

Com a ajuda do amigo e colega Fernando Ataíde, Variações foi admitido no Ayer, o primeiro cabeleireiro unissexo a funcionar em Portugal. Ataíde era igualmente seu amante e Variações assumiu dessa forma a sua orientação sexual. Depois do Ayer, passou ainda por um salão no Centro Comercial Alvalade.

 

António fazia questão de sublinhar que o que lhe interessava mais era o corte e não o penteado. E é também o corte que marca a sua personalidade, o corte com os preconceitos, com o que é comum e consensual.

 

Abre a Barbearia É pró Menino e prá Menina na Baixa Lisboeta, onde o seu visual excêntrico é notado pelas roupas invulgares, associadas à aparente serenidade do barbeiro.

 

Entretanto, deu igualmente início aos espectáculos com o grupo Variações, atraindo rapidamente as atenções. O seu estilo musical combinava vários géneros, como o rock, o pop, os blues ou o fado. Em 1978, apresentou-se à editora Valentim de Carvalho e assinou contrato, mas passam 4 anos, algumas viagens mais, vários concertos e apresentações, até gravar o primeiro disco.

 

É em 1981 no programa O Passeio dos Alegres de Júlio Isidro que António se apresenta ao grande público, sem ter até aí editado qualquer música. Os temas que cantou nessa emissão chamavam-se Toma O Comprimido e Não Me Consumas e ainda permanecem inéditos, uma vez que nunca foram registados em disco.

 

 

A sua música e o seu estilo inconfundível fizeram com que depressa alcançasse uma fama razoável.

 

Em 1982 gravou o primeiro trabalho, o single Povo Que Lavas No Rio, imortalizado por Amália Rodrigues e Estou Além. Amália era, aliás, uma das suas referências, que teve direito a uma canção de Variações (Voz Amália de Nós).

 

O seu primeiro longa duração Anjo da Guarda, é também dedicado à popular fadista. Com dez faixas, todas de sua autoria, onde se destacaram os êxitos É p´ra Amanhã e O Corpo É que Paga. Neste disco participam Vítor Rua (com o pseudónimo Vick Vaporub) e Tóli César Machado, músicos dos GNR.

 

Durante o Verão de 1983 Variações é muito solicitado para espectáculos ao vivo, sobretudo em aldeias por este país fora.

 

Em Fevereiro de 1984, António Variações entra em estúdio com os músicos dos Heróis do Mar para gravar o seu segundo longa duração que se intitulará Dar e Receber. O tema mais conhecido deste disco é, sem sombra de dúvidas, Canção De Engate que, posteriormente, se tornará um imenso sucesso numa versão dos Delfins.

 

Dois meses depois, a 22 de Abril, Variações daria um concerto, na aldeia de Viatodos, concelho de Barcelos, durante as festas da Isabelinha. Depois disso, aparece pela última vez em público no programa televisivo A Festa Continua de Júlio Isidro. Será a única interpretação no pequeno ecrã das faixas do novo disco, usando o mesmo pijama com ursinhos e coelhinhos que usou na sua primeira aparição televisiva.

 

Variações cantou na Queima das Fitas de Coimbra de 1984, no dia 17 de Maio, na Noite da Psicologia, já gravemente doente, sendo que os seus amigos e familiares deixaram de receber notícias do cantor, que ficou hospedado por alguns dias em casa de um amigo até ter sido levado para o Hospital Pulido Valente no dia 18 de Maio devido a um problema brônquico-asmático.

 

Quando Canção de Engate invadiu as rádios, já António Variações se encontrava internado no hospital. Transferido para a Clínica da Cruz Vermelha, morreu a 13 de Junho, dia de Santo António, vítima de uma broncopneumonia bilateral grave, provavelmente causada pela SIDA. O actor holandês Jelle Balder, com quem também manteve um relacionamento amoroso, foi o seu companheiro até à morte.

 

Será sepultado, dois dias depois, no cemitério de Amares (Braga), perto da sua aldeia natal, com a presença de poucos músicos acompanhando o funeral.

 

Com a sua morte desaparece um dos maiores renovadores da canção portuguesa das últimas décadas.

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