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Apple Music - Web PlayerFinal by Jacob Sturtridge on Apple MusicPlaylist · 41 Songs

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Got a placeholder, might switch, will see if it grows on me or not.

:nocheer: I should not have read the odds thread. At least some of my votes are doing better than I expected. :o

About time I update this: Owl City; Mathew Koma (Heaven, London: 25th Oct 2012) The Hoosiers; The Carnabies (O2 Islington, London: 2nd Dec 2013) Clean Bandit; Years & Years (Great Hall, Exeter: 26th Oct 2014) Backbeat Soundsystem/ Imperial Leisure; Joe Biddle (The Hub, Plymouth: 12th Dec 2014) Muse; Marmozets; Moriarty (Great Hall, Exeter: 20th March 2015) Coldplay; Reef; Lavana La Havas (Wembley Stadium, London: 16th June 2016) The Hoosiers (2nd time); [No support] (The Watering Hole, Perranporth, Cornwall: 2nd July 2016) Against The Current/ As It Is; Beach Weather (Shepherd's Bush Empire, London: 30th September 2016) Bastille; Rationale (The Eden Project, Cornwall [Eden Sessions]: 15th June 2017) Meadowlark; Martyn Crocker (The Junction, Plymouth: 11th October 2017) PVRIS; COIN; Tyne (O2 Academy, Bristol: 22nd November 2017) Paramore; MewithoutYou (Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff: 11th Jan 2018) Bjork; Klein; Lanark Artefax (The Eden Project, Cornwall [Eden Sessions]: 7th July 2018) Death Cab For Cutie; The Beths (O2 Academy, Bristol: 30th January 2019) The Midnight; Savior Adore (Scala, London: 6th March 2019) Lights; Lizzy Farrall (Thelka, Bristol: 27th May 2019) The Midnight; Violet Days (Roundhouse, London: 12th Nov 2019) The Midnight; Goose (O2 Academy Brixton, London: 7th May 2022) [Rescheduled From March 2021] My Chemical Romance; Placebo; Starcrawler; Charlotte Sands (MK Stadium, Milton Keynes: 22nd May 2022) [Rescheduled From June 2020] Green Day/ Fall Out Boy/ Weezer; Amyl and The Sniffers (London Stadium / "Olympic Park Stadium", London: 24th June 2022) [Rescheduled From June 2020] Death Cab For Cutie; Slow Pulp (Royal Albert Hall, London: 29th March 2023) MUNA, Rina Sawayama, Declan McKenna, Becky Hill, Imagine Dragons, Billie Eilish (Reading Festival 2023: 27th August 2023) Proms, Various (Royal Albert Hall, London 2022 - 2024) Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra [Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure] (Royal Albert Hall, London: 28th April 2024) Within Temptation; Annisokay (Wembley Arena, London: 16th November 2024) Upcoming: Linkin Park; TBC (Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany: 8th July 2025)

Also missing FSR Rontvia.

Oh gosh, the month I miss confirmations (not intentional, I was just swamped last week and didn't manage to find an entry & submit in time) one of my favourite BJSC entries of all time has a sequel. Hope this does well Rollo. :wub:

The Democrats won't win by default, it's true- they really need another Sanders or someone who really stands for something more than "not them". The saving grace with Trump is that he's a narcissist, which makes him unpredictable with only a propensity for doing awful things as opposed to really intentionally systematically implementing awful things; that said I feel like this term will be worse than the last with fewer milquetoast old Republicans around to hold him back and more MAGA fascists to encourage him or to try to push their ideas through. What I'm most worried about in the short term is Ukraine and the future security of Europe if he completely mishandles Putin, which he probably will. I am hopeful though that assuming he makes it through this term alive, they don't completely destroy democracy and the above Vance scenario doesn't kick in that Republicans will just pick the wrong leader, if someone like DeSantis actually got the nomination they wouldn't make anywhere near the same waves Trump has. Then again, they could pick a charismatic young MAGA nut/ Nazi, who knows. :nocheer:

Well quite, establishment Dems attempting to moderate and dilute messages to make them sterile and safe for the corporate interests who are going to prefer corporation tax cutting Trump over Democrats keeping things the same anyway. This needs to be a real wake up call for the Democrats, they've been running on Obama era messaging (or even Bill Clinton era messaging) for far too long now and it just doesn't work any more. They need to remember their base of voters is or should be the workers and create messaging accordingly.

It's a crazy world when the serial adulterer and convicted felon is more popular in the midwestern bible belt than the married baptist former District Attorney. Unfortunately, 90-95% of people don't care about policy when it comes to choosing who to vote for. They might care about the impact of policies after the fact- how much money they have, how public services function etc but ultimately when it comes to voting they want a good narrative with punchy soundbites, whether policies feature there or not is irrelevant, it just needs to sound good. There's no room for nuance in electoral politics, by all means parties should 100% should put all the nitty gritty details in paperwork and manifestos and the like, and expand on it in if asked in interviews, but people want to hear certain, simple, clear messages. As abhorrent as Trump is, he can do this remarkably well (building walls, deportations, ending wars - doesn't say how because he has no clue, but it's simple and cuts through) despite often being completely incoherent (especially recently) he's very brash and confident about it. Bernie Sanders was capable of cutting through the bullshit and offering people a real alternative, speaking to the needs of the people when it came to the things they cared about, he offered something both popular and effective- universal healthcare, better working conditions and higher minimum wage for example. I genuinely think if he had been selected in either 2016 or 2020 he would have won, and if we were living in the good timeline, we would just be coming to the end of an 8 year Sanders presidency that would have transformed politics for the better, not just in America but internationally. I've read "It's Ok To Be Angry about Capitalism" and genuinely, it's incredible- I strongly recommend. Sadly, we're here. Harris had some good lines, attacking republicans for being "weird" (though that was more Walz, one of the best parts of the campaign), "not going back" was good, but all the momentum died before the summer did when she stopped. Calling Trump a fascist, while accurate, just feeds the narrative that the median voter has of "the left calling everyone a nazi" (nevermind such ideologies are actually on the rise but I digress)- and she didn't offer a meaningful alternative. The nail in the coffin was completely failing to distance herself from Biden, who has become increasingly unpopular with the left over Gaza amongst other things, and trying to cosy up to the right on immigration and promising to create bipartisan committees if she won, alienating the left and attempting to appeal to Trump leaning voters by going Trump lite on those issues.. but if they liked those ideas why wouldn't they just go for the full version? Trump ran a terrible incoherent campaign but it didn't matter, he offered "change" from the unpopular status quo and has an extreme core of cultish voters who would crawl through glass to vote for him to make their lives worse. Frankly, Labour has a lot of the same issues as the Dems, they just got lucky that a) they weren't the incumbent party, the Tories were supremely unpopular after Truss' budget directly and obviously destroyed the economy and voter's confidence, b) they were viewed as the main opposition and therefore were the main opposition and c) Reform split the right wing vote because of our system, finally restoring the balance of the left wing vote always getting split between Lib Dems, Labour and Greens (and SNP in Scotland). LD and Greens also learnt to target seats really effectively instead of just diluting the left wing vote, leaving other seats open for Labour. Point is, like lots of people have said, Labour weren't popular, the main thing they had going for them was "not Tories" which isn't sustainable long term. I really hope that over the next few years they can not only improve things but learn to present their ideas in a way that really appeals to voters, or maybe another left wing party does and we get a coalition. That said, I don't see Badenoch winning any elections any time soon, especially with reform diluting the Tory vote, but then people said Trump was unelectable in 2016- you don't have to be competent to win. Side note, I remember when May was in when Trump was last time and the one time she said him retweeting Britain First was "wrong" and Trump had a meltdown in response, amazing how far they've moved over since with Badenoch now ecstatic at this result. May was hardly an inspiration but you really don't know what you've got until it's gone I guess, at least within the confines of that awful party. If there is indeed an election in 2028 and the USA doesn't become an oligarchy/ plutocracy (well, more of one than it already is) the Dems should win in theory with Trump unable to run again as the only real figurehead the Republicans have, but 4 years is a long time and who knows what damage will have been done in the meantime.

Hell yeah, what a great winner!

This is just mean. :lol: Terra Avium plz. x

Consider yourself lucky, I started at 1 and look at me now. Actually about what I expected haha, thanks for all the points everyone. x

Yes at Terra Avium and Trifoski in the top 5! :o Also- an 18! Thanks Dobbo. :wub: quite a few other lovely points coming through, cheers. :arrr:

Aand it's my first free evening this week, going to be smashing through a listen of my semi now, Apple Music links are here:

Same songs missing.

Love it, sounds so much like classic Linkin Park guitars and can hear Shinoda's recent solo stuff having an influence, absolutely banging. They've announced a limited tour with more to follow in 2025, going to try my best to get tickets for the one in late Sept but if not (because I don't have a presale code :( ) really hope I can get them for next year, been wanting to see Linkin Park for years and thought I'd never get a chance. Emily sounds great and I think it was the perfect move to go to a female vocalist because with a male vocalist there would always be more comparisons to Chester, plus Mike is sounding great on his vocal parts.

Missing Semi 1: 21 ◾ Scotland 2 ◾ dj something 'american dreamer' 22 ◾ FSR Rontvia ◾ Victor Le Masne