Carbon Based Life Form. Worshipper at The Church Of David Bowie.
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Nearly ten years ago, I first approached the David Bowie estate about creating “STAGE”—an immersive, multimedia arena show that would let audiences of up to 17,000 experience one of David’s finest filmed performances in a room full of like-minded fans. It seemed destined to be one of those ideas that arrive and vanish almost in the same breath.
But for some reason, this one stayed.
DAVID BOWIE “STAGE” will have its world premiere on February 14 at the Uber Arena in Berlin as part of the Berlin Film Festival.
What is it? It is not a movie screened in an arena. It is a curated multimedia experience designed specifically for arenas and presented on screens so large they require an arena setting. There is not one screen but several, each with its own image and perspective, inviting the audience to look where they want—more like theatre than cinema. Expect the unexpected.
We began our first assembly in 2018 and have been refining the sound and color grading since completing Moonage Daydream in 2021. The sound was designed and mixed by the team that collaborated on Moonage Daydream, led by Academy Award winner Paul Massey and three-time nominee David Giammarco. The sound design was created by Academy Award winners John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone and will be presented in 7.1.
The Lighting for the show has been designed by OBE Patrick Woodroffe, who collaborated with the Rolling Stones for decades. The lighting is as much a part of the experience as the sound and will be choreographed and integrated with the film elements in a way we’ve never seen. Hopefully, it will all work together seamlessly. One wonders. I suppose Berlin will be a bit of a high wire act.
This show was built for 2027 and would not have been possible without recent technological advances.
I am so grateful to the David Bowie Estate for entrusting me with this once in a lifetime opportunity. And am beyond grateful to Tricia Tuttle and her staff at the Berlin film festival for providing us with the most apropos launching pad.
And to the Bowie community who have been so supportive throughout this 10 year journey, this one is for you.
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I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…
Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)
Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.
It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!
The poppy isn’t for you!
It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.
The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.
And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.
The poppy is about love and loss. For you!
So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!
Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.
So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.
So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.
Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.
Best
The ordinary people.
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If your religion wants you dead for leaving it, you’re not a follower, you’re a prisoner. Islam calls itself a "religion of peace", but apparently cancelling your membership requires a funeral. Insecure Allah has a customer retention problem. I'm so glad I escaped this cult.
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Voici François-Louis Artois d’Hauteville, 15 ans, un jeune Français issu d’une ancienne lignée normande.
Il manifeste contre le manque de professeurs de philosophie dans son établissement — sa matière de prédilection. L’an dernier, un remplaçant a dû condenser en un seul semestre, à marche forcée, l’ensemble du programme consacré à Hegel et à Kant.
François a été le seul de sa classe à tenir le rythme : il avait déjà lu La Phénoménologie de l’esprit. Ses camarades, eux, peinaient à suivre, découvrant à peine cette œuvre en parallèle de la Critique de la raison pure.
Il a bien tenté de les aider après les cours, mais ces séances empiétaient sur ses engagements bénévoles dans une maison de retraite et sur ses leçons de violoncelle.
Voilà pourquoi, sur cette photo, il consulte sur son téléphone un cours consacré à la lecture des partitions et aux fondements de la musique classique.😇🇫🇷
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"The first word you need to remember is Kill."
That’s what James Roosevelt told the Marine Raiders during WW2 before dropping them into the Pacific theater. They trained for two strikes. Lethal, fast, absolute.
Frank Wright, the last living original Raider, pulls back the curtain on what combat actually demanded
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WWII Marine Raider Shares the Brutal Reality of Surviving Iwo Jima
“Fired the first round, crossed my chest, crossed my lungs. It came out on my left side... A big hole on my left side ... took all the muscle out of my left arm.”
“One doctor said, ‘Well, we're going to have to take it off.’ ... That woke me up. ... He started grabbing for the saw. ... About that time, I woke up real good."
-Frank Wright
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This was one of the most PAINFUL CAR CRASH interviews you’ll ever see with Labour foreign minister Stephen Doughty on @GMB about Andy Burnham saying Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
Susanna Reid grows increasingly frustrated as he refuses to answer her questions, and even Ed Balls eventually tears into him for the “embarrassing waffle”.
Doughty is asked again and again about the Prime Minister’s claims but he just keeps ignoring the questions and repeating the same empty line: that Russia has been attempting to interfere with our democratic processes for many years.
Susanna tries to force him onto the 2016 vote itself. She asks what Russia actually did, whether it influenced voters, and whether it affected the result. He refuses to give any specifics and just repeats the line.
When she asks “Why are you not getting into specifics when the Prime Minister has just got into the specifics?”, he claims Burnham was only speaking more broadly.
She keeps pressing. He keeps repeating the line like a robot. She asks if the Prime Minister was wrong.
Doughty: “The PM has been very clear about Russian attempts to interfere in our democratic processes.”
By now Susanna is openly angry and accuses him of “muddying the waters not clarifying them”.
He almost laughably says the same thing again. He isn’t listening. He might as well have come on just to read a statement.
Susanna points out that if the result of such a huge decision was influenced, the public deserves answers about what the interference actually was.
Doughty claims the PM only said “attempted to interfere”. Susanna cuts in immediately: “He doesn’t say ‘attempted to interfere!’”
They play Burnham’s actual comments. Doughty goes straight back to the identical line. Susanna tries one final time. Same response.
It is at this point that Ed Balls, clearly fed up, lays into him:
“This is EMBARRASSING. It’s really bad for politics when you just blatantly don’t answer the question on something so important and go back to a nonsensical line, which is contradicted by what the Prime Minister just said!”
He goes further: “Either answer Susanna’s question or just say I’m not going to. This waffle is embarrassing!”
Doughty: “It’s not waffle at all Ed!” Then repeats the line yet again.
It is waffle, and I never thought I’d say this but well done Ed Balls for bluntly calling him out. It was embarrassing.
Andy Burnham should never have said it. We’ve been through all this. Russia did not in any way, shape or form influence the outcome of that referendum. Dragging this nonsense back up is reckless and a disgrace.
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Today, I’m swallowing my pride and asking for your help to save my restaurant.
Running a restaurant is more than a business to me. It’s my passion, my livelihood, and something I’ve worked incredibly hard to build.
We’re facing one of our hardest times. Right now, @Google is accepting only 1-star fake reviews, while genuine 5-star reviews from customers are not being accepted. You can try posting a 5-star review and see for yourself. This is seriously affecting our business. With outstanding rent and our landlord threatening court proceedings, the pressure is unbearable.
I never imagined making a post like this, but sometimes you have to set pride aside and ask for help. 🙏
Please book a table at Singh’s Dining. Come enjoy our food, experience our hospitality, and see what we’re all about.
We’re proud to be a non-Halal restaurant and want to keep serving our community for years to come.
If you can’t visit, please share this post with friends and family. Every booking, share, and bit of support means more than you can imagine.
❤️ Please help us keep Singh’s Dining open. ❤️
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has supported us. We need you now more than ever.
🙏 Please book. Please share. Please help us survive.
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As Douglas Murray said, would a proportional response be to invade an Arab music festival and kill and rape all the young people attending it?
People like @piersmorgan who don't know (or pretend not to understand) the proven facts about the war in Gaza and the number of civilian deaths are always quick to claim Israel's actions are "massively disproportionate" and that they should show more "restraint".
But they never answer this key question:
What would be the PROPORTIONATE response by Israel to the savage invasion by Hamas on October 7 to murder, rape, torture and kidnap hundreds of Israeli civilians?
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Thinking today about what happened in Israel on October 7, three years ago.
Jews hunted-down, gang-raped, burned alive, beheaded. Babies and elderly alike. For no other reason than they were Jews. I keep being told Israel ‘over-reacted’. By fighting back against a war of extermination it didn’t start?
As a Christian, who was formerly based in Jerusalem as a journalist, I always considered myself a friend of Israel. Now, having spent the last three years watching a wickedly contrived attempt to forget what really happened on October 7, and in spite of anything our Green Party says, I’m proud to call myself a Zionist.
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On the 3rd anniversary of October 7, it’s important to remember the full hideous horror of what Hamas did that day to the Israeli people - and to condemn it, unequivocally.
Those who still refuse to condemn it are complicit in supporting terrorism.
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It's October 7th
One of the most harrowing, ghoulish, Satanic massacres this century has seen.
The wicked murder, dismemberment, rape and terrorising of Jews.
The unedited footage I was shown last year haunts me to this day.
And what have we learned 3 years on?
The BBC calling Hamas 'fighters' on air, like some noble honorific
In France, mobs of feral migrants and their idiot native accomplices torching schools and singing along to a rap song glorifying the Bataclan massacre where 90 young people were torn down by bullets, some dismembered, many slaughtered at point blank range
In the UK the Pro-Palestine marches 'commemorating' the start of 'the war on Gaza' - attempting to erase from history the sick slaughter by a deranged people who are lying in wait in terror cells around our land, planning to do the exact same to us, aided by a naive complicit Government who summon their boats to our shores in droves. An Armada of fomenting evil.
The Barbarians are laughing as they plan their massacres and invade our land that they claim as their own, having built not a brick of it.
They tell us to our faces what they are. They boast of their sick intentions out loud. They brag on social media, march through our streets shouting jihad, they corral in secret in sites we have allowed them to build in our towns and cities, they train to kill us behind our backs.
And like traumatised captives with Stockholm Syndrome, our young people wave their flags, join them on our streets, while we pay their housing and food and for them to propagate, right out of our own pockets.
Soon - we will pay with our lives.
The West has to wake up. I pray.
History shouts loudly. The Barbarians, the Philistines, the Saracens...They were never our friends. They have long raped our women, pillaged our cities, enslaved our children and murdered our parents.
Why would 2026 be different - when history has shown time and time again, for almost 2 millennia, what these ghouls are.
They are many in number, funded by terrorist states and gangster families with oil wells, and pipelines of cash from dubious charities.
They lie in wait, watching their idiot quarry blindly ceding more and more to their faux grievances and audacious demands.
They will strike when they can inflict the most pain, seize the most territory, take the most lives. When they believe they can subjugate us - once and for all. The new 9/11.
Make no mistake. Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah, Isis, Al Qaeda, Mujahadeen, Al Shabab, the Muslim Brotherhood...all of them.
A giant sprawling network of unfettered evil now spreading throughout Europe, thirsting to eliminate anything that is not part of their Satanic cult.
Today is October 7th. It's a day that should have taught us to wake up.
Perilously few of us have.
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Today we remember the atrocities of October 7. This is the Nova festival site where 378 young people were slaughtered by Hamas, many of whom were also raped and tortured. 44 were taken hostage to Gaza with only 25 returning home alive. Never forget the brutal savagery of what Hamas terrorists did that day 🧵⬇️
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37 days later….
Just stopped for breakfast before the ferry home to the uk
37 long days, so much learnt, experienced and more importantly the story has spread far beyond my imagination
More people who see the reality the better
Change will come
I’m even more excited now for a very big project that I hope to put in place soon
Needs planning, some investment from myself and maybe a huge story
Fingers crossed I don’t get hassle going back to the uk
Can’t wait to see my kids, wife, mother and my incredible dog
Over and out from France
Adrian 🇫🇷🚣🏻🇬🇧
Footage from yesterday at Hardelot beach
