helen saunders

beachin..😎

[Nantwich Town FC @TheDabbers]

🎂 Happy birthday to Dabbers forward Callum Saunders!

📸 Jonathan White

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

Hi there, This month, I’m walking 62 Miles for Dementia UK – a cause close to my heart. I’d love your support to help more families facing dementia. Thank you! https://t.co/FUsNyIpCuS

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

Bexleyheath, England. 1958.
A girl is born into a house where sound never stops. Piano keys under her father's fingers. Folk music from her mother's record player. Brothers filling every room with instruments and noise. This isn't a family that tolerates creativity. This is a family that breathes it.
By eleven, Catherine Bush is writing songs that make no sense for a child. Death. Longing. Gothic literature. Her melodies don't sound like the radio. They sound like something pulled from another century, another world.
At fifteen, her brother passes a demo tape to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. He listens as a favor. What he hears stops him cold. This teenager from the suburbs has written something he's never encountered before. He pays for studio time himself. Gets her in front of EMI Records. At seventeen, she signs one of the biggest deals in music.
Then EMI does something almost unthinkable. They don't rush her. They give her three years to grow, to write, to become who she needs to be.
1977. Kate reads Wuthering Heights. The ghost of Catherine Earnshaw crying out across the moors for Heathcliff. She doesn't just read it. She inhabits it. She writes a song from the ghost's perspective, her voice climbing into ranges most pop singers won't touch.
Her label hates it. Too strange. Too theatrical. Radio will never play it.
Kate is nineteen years old, completely unknown, and she draws a line: Release this song, or I won't release the album.
A teenage girl threatening a major record label. In 1977, women didn't do this. You compromised. You smiled. You let men decide.
EMI blinks first.
January 1978. "Wuthering Heights" hits the airwaves. Radio hosts are baffled. Listeners are obsessed. Within weeks, it's number one. Kate Bush becomes the first British woman to top the charts with a song she wrote herself.
Then, after one theatrical tour in 1979, she vanishes from the stage for 35 years. She retreats into her studio, releases music when she wants, refuses interviews, ignores industry pressure.
Decades pass. She becomes a legend by disappearing.
2022. Stranger Things features "Running Up That Hill." Thirty-seven years after its release, it goes viral. At 63, Kate Bush becomes the oldest female artist to hit number one with her own song.
The same woman. First and oldest. A ghost haunting her own industry.
via the History Drop
#KateBush #StrangerThings #FeministFriday

[Nantwich Town FC @TheDabbers]

📆| 𝗙𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗨𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦

6️⃣ games for the Dabbers this month, including that Cheshire Cup semi-final 👊

#UpTheDabbers💚

[Nantwich Town FC @TheDabbers]

Ball drops nicely for Callum in the box and he slots it away!

[Nantwich Town FC @TheDabbers]

18' | GOALLL! Saunders flicks in the first Dabbers league goal of the season!

(0-1) | #HANNAN

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

ELBOW - huge outdoor concert at Audley End 4th Aug 2024: https://t.co/1XRHsNKvkH

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

I entered the Hamilton Lottery for £10 tickets on @TodayTix! Tap here to enter: https://t.co/Hwou9lTK0X

[Nantwich Town FC @TheDabbers]

✍️ | Nantwich Town are thrilled to announce the return of Callum Saunders to the club

Further information regarding Cal’s return can be found 👉 https://t.co/xGmEvMFfXf

It great to have to you back in South Cheshire, @callum_saunders 👊

#UpTheDabbers💚

[Debora Robertson 🦀 @lickedspoon]

Agnès Lassalle was a teacher, fatally stabbed by a pupil in her school. She loved to dance. As her coffin left the church, the man dancing so beautifully on his own is her partner. Then, their friends join in. 💔🖤

[Stafford Rangers FC @SRFCofficial]

We are delighted to announce the signing of prolific striker Callum Saunders from Ashton United. Welcome to the BORO Callum ⚫️⚪️
https://t.co/jNBWzdJRXu

[Jo Whiley @jowhiley]

Horrid news💔
Have always been a fan. So many songs of Terry Hall that I’ve loved throughout my life. Specials. Fun Boy Three. Colourfield ❤️

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

damn it Cracker … you gone and left us !! RIP Robbie Coltrane .. another gem ❤️

[moreglitter @moreglitter2]

@Bethany_Eng15 Ahh @bethany_Eng15 how disappointing… how petty .. what’s worse calling on twitter to incite a bully crowd to bring a good pundit to his knees and I think with the intention of getting him the sack .. just low very low

[Dawn French 💙🔴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Dawn_French]

This is who I’m thinking about on International Womens Day today

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

@emilieKMmurphy Bloody lovely 🥰

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

@BBCSport At last! Well that took too long !!wonder why ?? 💰

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

It's been confirmed that Fifa and Uefa have suspended Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions.

More ⤵

[helen saunders @helen_saunders]

@sarahbeeny where is your cupboard in utility ? Loved tonight’s episode .. what a talented, creative, inspiring family you have!! An absolute joy to watch 😍

[Witton Albion Football Club @WittonAlbion]

GOALLLL! Brilliant run by Joe Ferguson and his cross is superb to find Callum Saunders at the back post to fire home an equaliser!

COME ON LADS!!!

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