gareth lawrence

Drummer in Valhalla Awaits @VAriffs, ex drummer of @TheBlackout, i like to talk a load of nonsense! Mostly about football, my girl and music

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.

But he didn't.

Don't RT 🤣

[Nik Postinger @nikpostinger]

#LIVMCI

[The Blackout @TheBlackout]

TICKET UPDATE: Manchester is low!

We are very excited to take @hyrothehero & @Delourband out to celebrate the 15th anniversary of HOPE & the 20th anniversary of our debut EP “The Blackout The Blackout The Blackout”

Tickets available here: https://t.co/1mPx0MhHB2

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Her name is Sister Rosetta Thorpe.

Known as the "Godmother of rock", she was a major influence on many early rock musicians, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley.

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

@kat__writes I lost my Mötley 18 months ago and I fear I will never be the same again. Sorry for your loss. 🖤💔

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

@erin_m00re Stoked for you. What a day 👏🏼🤙🤙🤙🤙

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

What a knob. No where near the best ever

[𝙏𝙤𝙗𝙮 @toby_fcb]

Xabi Alonso was begging Ronaldo to let him take the penalty since he had not scored a goal for Madrid yet.

Alonso took the ball from him and placed it on the spot, Ronaldo stepped all the way back to the edge of the box and watched. He refused to celebrate with his teammates after the penalty kick was converted, he simply turned around and walked back toward the halfway line for kickoff.

Madrid were already winning 6-2 against Villarreal. 😭

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

@erin_m00re 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

What a game. Was watching this in a cafe just around the corner from the Melkweg in Amsterdam on the day of a @TheBlackout show. Class. 😍😍😍

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

On this day 18 years ago 🔙

Fernando Torres scores twice as the Reds beat Everton at Goodison Park ✊

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

On this day 18 years ago 🔙

Fernando Torres scores twice as the Reds beat Everton at Goodison Park ✊

[The Blackout @TheBlackout]

The line up for our December shows to celebrate the 15th anniversary of HOPE…

@TheBlackout
@hyrothehero
@Delourband

Dec 4th - @XOYOBirmingham
Dec 5th - @EBallroomCamden
Dec 6th - @MancAcademy 2

https://t.co/hMsiIW07qy

It’s also the First EP’s 20th anniversary. 👀

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

I was watching this in a pub in Tokyo, after playing a show with @TheBlackout 😍😍😍😍

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

On this day in 2008 🔙

Ryan Babel scores at The Kop end to win it for the Reds against Man U 🤩

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[gigsandtours @gigsandtours]

To celebrate 15 years of 'Hope', @TheBlackout have announced a special anniversary tour in December! ✴️

Tickets on sale via https://t.co/MAy6mZTtsK

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

Come on en!!!!!!!!!! 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[The Blackout @TheBlackout]

On sale now. https://t.co/auNhSM5BvF

[The Blackout @TheBlackout]

On sale now. https://t.co/auNhSM5BvF

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

@shinjukutheif1 My favourite. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[gareth lawrence @snozisawesome]

@TravisReilly 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[megz w @megzwootton]

What an amazing way to spend a night. Let’s do it again in Birmingham in December?