After years away, The Verve returned in 2008 with "Love Is Noise," a comeback single built around one of the band's strangest hooks: a heavily processed vocal loop Richard Ashcroft created during a jam on another track. Featured on their reunion album Forth, it gave the band a modern, restless energy rather than simply recreating the past. At Glastonbury that summer, it became a statement that The Verve still had something unpredictable left in them.
10 early 90’s rave classics in the mix. If you love music like this, come join me on June 20th, Network Sheffield for a 4 hour “RAVE” onslaught! #90srave#housemusic#techno#hardcore
This door in Westminster Abbey is older than most modern nation-states. Made in the 1050s from an English oak, it's the only surviving Anglo-Saxon door in Britain.
Jürgen Klinsmann: “Stadyumda 70.000 kişi vardı ve Maradona sahaya çıktı.
Biz ciddi bir şekilde ısınıyorduk. ‘Live Is Life’ çalarken Maradona top sektirmeye başladı. Biz ısınmayı bıraktık, çünkü onu izlemekten başka yapacak bir şeyimiz yoktu.”
A relatively unknown (in the U.K.) MICHAEL J. FOX gets his first big interview on the BBC (when such a thing actually mattered) ahead of the opening of a Movie that would change his life —
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
The Shawshank Redemption flopped in theaters, $16 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, opening weekend just $727,000 in 1994, it disappeared almost immediately.
It lost all seven Oscar nominations to Forrest Gump, no awards, no box office, the studio labeled it a failure and the director walked away devastated.
Then something quiet started happening, VHS rentals, cable reruns, someone watching it alone on a Tuesday night and calling a friend the next morning.
People who watched it told their friends, their friends told more people, it spread slowly, one recommendation at a time, no marketing push just genuine word of mouth.
By 2008 it reached number one on IMDb, the audience voted it the greatest film ever made and it has stayed there ever since.
It took 14 years to get there, a box office bomb turned into the highest rated film in history, built entirely by viewers long after the studio had already moved on.
It’s important to pause every now and again from the hustle and bustle of modern life, to stop and take in how truly beautiful our city really is. 😍
The Old Town is filled with layers of the past, and every corner has a story to tell. Centuries gone by blend into the present day perfectly.
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Castle Tioram, Loch Moidart, Scotland 🏴
Nestled on a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Castle Tioram (pronounced Cheerum) is a wild & scenic Highland ruin that looks & feels timeless. Built in the late 13th or early 14th century, it became the traditional seat of the Macdonalds of Clanranald, a powerful branch of Clan Donald. The castle sits on Eilean Tioram - meaning “dry island” - which you can reach on foot across the sand at low tide.
For centuries it served as a stronghold for the clan in this remote corner of the Rough Bounds. In 1715, during the Jacobite rising, the chief Allan Macdonald of Clanranald ordered it to be set alight so it couldn’t fall into Government hands. It has remained a dramatic ruin ever since.
These days the castle itself is closed to the public for safety reasons, but you can still walk right up to the outside and take in the incredible setting. The views across the loch are stunning, especially when the tide is out and the island feels connected to the mainland. Its a lesser known spot but just as scenic - perfect for photos, hikes and family trips.
President Trump just brought tears to millions
“I am PROUD to join Christians around the world to celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection.”
God is Good! 🙏
Haworth, England is where the Brontë sisters wrote Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Walk the cobbled main street, then step onto the windswept Yorkshire moors that shaped their imagination.