Dance Cards

August 3, 1979

ßénchplayer · LOCKDOWN DECEMBER 1

So the swimming pool, Gym and Libraries are back open. That leaves only Gigs:Theaters: Saunas and Movies to tick off my dance card.....(probably other things also, that i have simply forgotten!)

Rave On : John Steinbeck and Miles Davis

 

So i took this photo at a Christmas Bash at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club 5 years ago.

 At the time it looked so "old and Great Depression Era" Looks fairly contemporary  now....... 

I guess we dress up in the clothes we really want to wear?

ßénchplayer · 1971

7.5.1971 Fillmore West

The Top Of Scout Rocks

I took a nice walk up to Scouts Rock this afternoon .

 Here is a photo I took of the ßénch at the top of the walk up there .

 The sun was just going down..... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_Rock 

 

Some of my recent "Walking Pictures"https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/INNOVATION/

 

Lockdown Two

𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘦, 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘢, 𝘊𝘈; 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 18, 1989.

ßénchplayer · Lockdown 2

𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒆 ~ 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒎 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅 : video:

 

Trump was right

 

Nigel Farage! who knew?

𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 : 𝑳.𝑨. 1946

 

ßénchplayer · 1946

'Strange Fruit' the second song here........

'Lockdown Eve': always my favourite time of the year........

 

ßénchplayer · Mr Bojangles

Walker said he was inspired to write the song after an encounter with a street performer in a New Orleans jail. 

While in jail for public intoxication in 1965, he met a homeless man who called himself "Mr. Bojangles" to conceal his true identity from the police. Mr. Bojangles had been arrested as part of a police sweep of indigent people that was carried out following a high-profile murder. 

The two men and others in the cell chatted about all manner of things, but when Mr. Bojangles told a story about his dog, the mood in the room turned heavy. Someone else in the cell asked for something to lighten the mood, and Mr. Bojangles obliged with a tap dance.

 The homeless "Mr. Bojangles", who was white, had taken his pseudonym from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), the best-paid Black entertainer of his era........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bojangles_(song)

𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆

 

A black & white photo of a Native American girl.In 1894 (photographer unknown) So beautiful .I colourised it. Looks good!

In Occupied Manchester

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/MANCHESTER-22-October-2020/ 

White Riot

  

Try and catch the excellent movie "White Riot" on SKY ART tomorrow (Friday 16th October) at 10 pm . 

Lots of great rare live footage (eg The Clash) of the birth of Rock Against Racism . 

Heavily featured is Red Saunders it's founder. 

Here is Red with Cath a couple of years ago.

in future !

books I'm reading atm.......

"Richard Carter: On The Moor" 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/the-sunken-land-begins-to-rise-again-by-m-john-harrison-review-brilliantly-unsettling 

in future .check this sidebar icon for previous audio played here: https://soundcloud.com/benchplayer

 

ßénchplayer · Benchplayer

meeting new and interesting people from Queensbury behind perspex in Halifax

 

Drinking in Halifax today.

Play Detectives ( in Kerkira )

 

Big shout out to Julie who helped me this week with my old Family Photos. https://www.facebook.com/QueenOfClean

 

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/This-week/   

I seem to have cold (again) but unlike some people, I don't make a song and dance about it. I have refused a helicopter and everytime CNN ring me up, I just 'em to "Piss Off"...........