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markdavidwaites · 2 years

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20 years ago today Bombay Dreams opened in London. Here are some really bad quality 20 year old digital photos to mark the occasion.

#Bombay Dreams #Musical #musical theatre #Theatre #Theater #London #West End #a r rahman

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swadhyaaya · 7 months

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GRAMPHONE: HOW IT WORKS LIVE DEMO PRITHVI THEATRE (గ్రామ్ ఫోన్ రికార్డు...

#youtube #GRAMPHONE: HOW IT WORKS LIVE DEMO PRITHVI THEATRE (గ్రామ్ ఫోన్ రికార్డు ఎలా పనిచేస్తుందో తెలుసా?) a Talk in Prithvi theater Bombay- on gram

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centrestagereviews · 2 years

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Interview: Sâmir Bhamra - Bombay Superstar

Interview: Sâmir Bhamra - Bombay Superstar @phizzical 🎭 “Our cultures and languages may be different but our stories, our desires, and emotions are the same. Music, dance and drama have always brought people together and in Bombay Superstar we are marrying Hindi songs in a full bodied English drama to create a celebration of two worlds coming together creating joyful entertainment”

Bombay Superstar will tour between October and November 2022. Award-winning Phizzical Productions are inviting audiences to hit the dance floor with the world premiere of Bombay Superstar, a new Bollywood musical set in the sizzling disco era of the 1970s. This is a glamourous and scandalous story in the heart of the biggest film industry in the world – Bollywood. The show will mark the 50th…

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#Bombay Superstar #Centre STage #Musical Theatre #Sâmir Bhamra #Theatre #theatre blog #theatre blogger #UK Tour

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beguines · 1 year

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In 1942, shortly after emerging from underground activities, communist activists were caught up in redressing the food crisis, and organizing public rallies demanding controlled-priced food as prices rose and shortages became palpable. The worst off was Bengal, which was devastated by famine during 1942 and 1943; nearly four million people are estimated to have perished here from starvation and disease in the following three years. The famine galvanized communists into action, both politically and culturally. In the face of colonial censorship, they were among the first to publicize the disaster. Their analysis of the famine anticipated Amartya Sen's groundbreaking book, Poverty and Famines, which argued that famines are political not natural events, and that they have less to do with shortages offood than its unfair distribution. They spearheaded relief efforts, setting up food kitchens and shelters for those rendered destitute by the famine, while organizing political actions to demand rice at controlled rates.

Communist women were in the forefront of famine relief efforts, and their work catalysed the formation of a new kind of women's political organization—one which moved beyond the ambit of existing nationalist women's organizations, and simultaneously pushed the Communist Party to engage with women's political activities. But famine relief activities also cemented the formation and spread of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) and the Communist Party's Central Cultural Squad, as well as local cultural squads. The Bangalore unit of IPTA was formed in 1941, the Bombay unit in 1942, and the all India organization in May 1943. IPTA was not formally the cultural front of the Communist Party, but in practise it functioned like one. During the famine, the organization came into its own, as activists and artists graphically detailed the suffering the famine entailed, and, in the process, shaped new forms of art, cultural performance, and political outreach. As they did so, they travelled to different parts of the country, forging new political and artistic ties among themselves as well as their viewers. For women activists, singers and actresses, these efforts allowed novel experiences—performing before enormous audiences; travelling to different parts of the country; training, rehearsing and living with each other and male comrades; and becoming part of experimental artistic endeavours that remain important landmarks in the history of public and political performance in India.

Ania Loomba, Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India

#ania loomba #revolutionary desires

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clairdespoon · 6 months

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non-fiction i'd like to read in 2024

The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexuality, Literature and Cinema in India

The Scenes We Made: An Oral History of Experimental theatre in mumbai

Life At Play: a Girish Karnad Memoir

Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys Of Chemould And The Birth Of Modern Art In Bombay

Delirious City: Polity And Vanity In Urban India

Modernism/Murderism: The Modern Art Debate in Kumar

Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

Urban Kitsch

Being Mortal: Medicines And What Matters In The End

Other Minds (Collins Modern Classics)

Seeking Begumpura

My Friend, My Enemy: Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits

In the Making: Identity Formation In South Asia

A Book Of Days

Outside the Fold

The Open-Close Magazine: Issue #14

In the Kitchen

From Subjugation To Emancipation

Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food

Friendship as Social Justice Activism

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales Of Architectural Tragedy

Amour: How The French Talk About Love

The RTI Story: Power To The People

A Nomad Called Thief: Reflections On Adivasi Silence

The Algebra of Infinite Justice

The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012 (Vol-1)

Marginal Zones: Development-Induced Displacement in Mumbai

No Laughing Matter: The Ambedkar Cartoons, 1932 To 1956

Conservation Kaleidoscope: People, Protected Areas And Wildlife In Contemporary India

Conversations With Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar Memorial Lectures

#books #nonfiction #reading list

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spotsandsocks · 8 months

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Ok so no one asked but I was thinking about musicals and what I’ve been able to see over the years so I made a list. So this has taken over thirty years and most organised by other people and pretty much always in the cheap seats which are never actually that cheap anyway. I do live close enough to a big city and some big local theatres too so I’m a lucky spot and there’s more than I expected. Under the cut for anyone whose vaguely interested.

Professional Productions

Joseph and his amazing technical raincoat when I was ten - first musical I listened to the cassette (I know!!what’s that?) over and over for years I know pretty much every word

Les Miserables good songs - but like it says miserable

The Lion King it’s was ok but too much like the film to be exciting (sorry)

Frozen missed the first 20 minutes cos got the time wrong - the sets and the dress change are magnificent! Not too much like the film

Hairspray one of my favourites

Waitress had no idea what it was about but I loved it

Hamilton the most expensive tickets I’ve ever bought - took my daughter and her friend because they were obsessed

Chicago (on Broadway for 30th birthday trip)

Blood Brothers made me jump at end and then cry

The King and I with Trixi from call the midwife- amazing production. Cried again

9-5 in the underground theatre of the Savoy which was cool

Bugsy Malone a favourite film from my childhood took my kids

Bombay Dreams had to Google the name cos I’d forgotten seen in early 2000s but it was fantastic

The Rocky Horror Picture Show -dressed up for it when I was at uni very fun. Some people left at intermission not sure what they we’re expecting!

Anything goes or possibly Crazy for you- no memory of it really

Miss Saigon seen it twice, once from ‘the gods’ and couldn’t really see anything.

Guys and Dolls- had Ewan MacGregor in it which is why I went

Wicked reasonably good seats for this one excellent

Local amateur productions

Hairspray

Calamity Jane

Shrek - the strangest thing I’ve ever seen

Oklahoma

Little Shop Of Horrors

Singin in the rain was great and it rained on stage in my local theatre

West side story more than once

Local School Productions

The sound of music

West side story

My fair lady

Grease

Wizard of Oz

And finally Would Like to see

Six

Moulin Rouge booked for sept

Book of Morman

Mamma Mia

Everyone’s talking about Jamie

#musicals #me #spotty things

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scotianostra · 1 year

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O H Mavor, known as James Bridie, the physician and prolific playwright, was born in Glasgow on January 3rd 1888 in Glasgow.

Bridie studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating in 1913, he was editor of the University Magazine and contributed drawings, light verse and stories, his influence at the University is still felt to this day in the end-of-term ball he instituted, “Daft Friday” which in recent years has featured guest acts including CHVRCHES, Newton Faulkner, Bombay Bicycle Club, Arcade Fire and Frightened Rabbit. If you’ve been paying attention to my posts, Daft Days will be familiar to you, as the period between Christmas and the New Year in olden times in Scotland.

Back to the old man himself, he co-founded Glasgow Citizens’ theatre and produced over 40 plays ‘The Anatomist’,produced in 1930, and based on the lives of nineteenth century vivisectionist Dr Robert Knox, and the West port murderers, Burke and Hare, was his first major success. In all, Mavor was to write some forty plays, under the pseudonym James Bridie Bridie worked with the director Alfred Hitchcock in the late 1940s on three films.

As well as being a prolific playwright Bridie is perhaps best know for the founding of a Glasgow Institution, as the main founder of the Citizens Theatre in 1943. Originally called the Citizens’ Company it was based at first in the Glasgow Athenaeum. It moved in 1945 to its present site, the then Royal Princess’s Theatre, where it became the Citizens Theatre.

During the founding of the Citizens, Bridie briefly returned the the medical corps during WW2 serving on a Hospital Ship in Norway.

Bridie’s influence in Scottish Drama and arts cannot be understated, he was instrumental in the founding of a College of Drama in Glasgow in 1950 (the forerunner of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama) . He was chairman of the Scottish committee of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, the precursor of the Arts Council and also a Director of the Scottish National Theatre Society.

He was considered to be the first Scottish dramatist, since J M Barrie, who managed to live comfortably by the pen. He died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 29 January 1951 of a brain haemorrhage and was buried in the western necropolis in his native Glasgow on 1 February.

Following his death, Mavor/Bridie has continued to be recognised for his enormous contribution to Scotland’s arts scene. In 1955 Glasgow University Union purchased a bronze head of Mavor/Bridie by Benno Schotz. The Bridie Dinner, also introduced that year, became a feature of the aforementioned Daft Friday at the Union. In addition the Union’s Library was renamed to become the Bridie Library.

Likewise the work that he did in bringing about ‘theatre for all’ was recognised when on the 17th September 1956, J. B. Priestley unveiled a bronze plaque in memory of Mavor/Bridie at the Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre. The proposed vote of thanks at the ceremony was given by his son Dr. Ronald Mavor. The RSMAD awards the James Bridie medal to outstanding students.

#scotland #scottish #playwright #physician #writer #history #glaswegian #glasgow

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theimpossiblescheme · 1 year

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... oh, just let them be little.

I’ve had these cooking for a while, and now I’m finally ready to share them--my playlists for Tumblebrutus and Etcetera, my present for the fandom and especially @the-cat-at-the-theatre-door. Thank you for everything this year, Jemi, and I hope you all enjoy these!

#I was late for any of the gift exchanges but here you are anyway--happy holidays! <3 #I had a burst of inspiration after you answered that question about Tumble's future as a singer. :D #cats the musical #tumblebrutus #etcetera #if music be the food of love play on

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bishh-kanya · 2 years

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Just a list for a smoother trip

It's kinda incomplete i got more posts to arrange (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

Mood boards and complications :

Sanskrit words meaning love , Draupadi and Sita , Akka Mahadevi , Rekha and guns , Bombay Velvet , एक दिन आप यूं हमको मिल जाएंगे | , Kathak mood board , Apsara Tilottama , Vanity fair , i heed you like i heed fire and thunder , Green theatre aesthetic , grunge mood board , Bollywood actors .

Poetry:

Dil-e-Naadan , deserted bride

Web weaving:

1 2 3

Specials:

Saraswati mantra

Indian indie songs

Story of chudala

Failed an exam

Photography (there are more i can't find em)

Chaotic Academic , pt1 , pt 2 , pt 3 , sky 1 , sky 2 photo dump

Original Poetry

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮

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jemmo · 1 year

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Hi Jess! 1, 11 & 31 for the tag game :)

ahhh hello my lovely!!! 😊😊 thank you for the ask and apologies in advance for my long, nonsensical answers

1. who is/are your comfort character(s)?

if i think about it, i think my comfort characters, from bl anyways, fit into like 2 distinct categories: there’s characters that i can feel fully relaxed around, like they aren’t too much, im not gonna be scared they’re gonna do something or act up and cause chaos, they’re just chill, nice, giving, make me feel whole. the type of people that are go to the ends of the earth with how much they care and look out for someone. so like… ayan from the eclipse, togawa from old fashion cupcake, dawon from blueming. but also there’s a category that is just my certified best boys and I get comfort from seeing them get everything they’ve ever wanted and just being happy. so like… kiyoi from utsukushii kare, heart and li ming from moonlight chicken, siwon from blueming, jihyun from the eighth sense.

11. favorite extracurricular activity?

hmm… idk i didn’t exactly do extracurricular activities as a kid. definitely not anything sport related, or like… theatre or anything like that. maybe art?? and I think I used to do science club and maths club as a kid, so i usually did stuff that was basically more learning. I mean if my school had a knitting club I would’ve been there like a shot.

31. what type of music keeps you grounded?

just anything vibe-ey. i gravitate to music for like the actual music of it, like i can’t tell you how much i don’t really care for actual lyrics most of the time, like the tone of voice and way it’s sung matters more to me than what they’re saying (but if it had to be lyric-wise, stuff that’s kind of existential or bittersweet, see next year or remember my name by two door cinema club). music-wise, my go-to’s are the so long see you tomorrow album by bombay bicycle club, the 10 stories album by kim sunggyu and i can’t tell you how much the opening song for the eighth sense, you n me us by wetter is so up my alley, just my ideal musical soundscape, low base, a slow, lazy riffing guitar, it just sounds like a walk on a beach when you look out and see how vast it is out there.

#I’m not sure how much sense these make esp the music one #I kinda just prescribe meaning to music with no rhyme or reason my brain just does it #and from then on it just serves that purpose #and I have been listening to wetter non stop so it’s hard to not think about them or the eighth sense #ask game

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vajracchedika · 2 years

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Thursday I had nada . Maybe a kiss or two of the Ketel one throughout the day when I stopped in my house and saw it. maybe

Friday certainly Ketel one for fortification . Sips

Saturday nada till 3 boneyards and a fernet . Ate some good deal of cigarettes

Sunday many many cocktails at oma's. Scotch cachaça thing, boozy pumpkin pudding shot, the charity cocktail, some bitterish one, maybe 1 more all of the menu. Then beer at movie theatre :3 pfriem ipa. More cig

Monday aquavit cocktail and dill aquavit 3/4oz shot at bröder. Campari at the bar waiting for a burger to go that I was splitting w sum1 . Then later at the pub next to bröder coincidentally (Haha) Tecate w lime I dropped in the gutter a lil bit went in, some mid shelf Blanco tequila I can't remember which, 3 or 4 more hams , then another Blanco tequila . Even more cig

Tuesday finished Ketel one. for fortification during the day w Kahlua (mouth mixed), last of Ketel one cooking din, good deal of Tito's with lime (once with improperly fizzed (sodastream) water -- so very bad) and soda, also just taking pulls for fortification / sanity (I realized I was getting gently hammered and switched to the soda water w lime :) ). Bugsy's karaoke: boneyard , g&t (Bombay), boneyard, boneyard & shot of jack . Some cig

Wednesday nada till 2 boneyards :) at dinner. 1 cig 👍😅 . Desired vodka while writing this

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k-18-news · 2 years

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14 Bollywood Artists who didn’t finish college and decided to join the film industry

We have been captivated by some well-known Bollywood stars. We are intrigued by their early years, as they made a lasting impression on B’Town. It’s surprising to discover that these celebrities who are highly paid have not graduated from college

We have compiled a list of Bollywood stars who achieved great success despite not having attended college.

1. Alia Bhatt

Alia Bhatt started her movie career shortly after graduating from Mumbai’s Jamnabai Narsee School. In 2012, Alia Bhatt became an actor in the film Student of the Year. She didn’t go to college. Alia didn’t receive any education beyond High school.

2. Aamir Khan

Aamir finished his 12th Grade at Narsee Monjee College and then dropped out. The actor soon joined a theatre company, and he began full-time acting. As a 16-year-old, he appeared in Paranoia and was an assistant director for his uncle Nasir Hussain. This celebrity hasn’t looked back since then.

3. Deepika Padukone

Deepika was a model, and she stopped playing badminton. She attended Mount Carmel High School, her hometown. After graduating from Mount Carmel High School, she went on to study sociology at the Indira Gandhi Open University (IGNOU) and has a Bachelor of Arts. To help her modeling career, she dropped out of college.

4. Priyanka Chopra

Former Miss World wanted to become a criminal psychologist. Bareilly’s Army Public School was where she completed her education. Priyanka had to leave Jai Hind College, Mumbai in order to pursue her modeling career.

5. Akshay Kumar

Akshay completed his education at Mumbai’s Don Bosco High School. He was enrolled at Guru Nanak Khalsa College but left to become a chef and learn the martial arts. He returned to India and began acting.

6. Kangana Ranaut

Kangana graduated from DAV Chandigarh. Kangana wanted to become a doctor and pursued a career as a physician. After failing an exam, she decided to change her mind and go into modeling. Then she landed in B-town as an actress.

7. Katrina Kaif

Katrina’s mom was involved in social services and the family had to travel to different countries and migrate on a regular basis. The actress was home-schooled with a number of tutors and never went to school. She started modeling at a young age and was never able to finish school.

8. Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir was awarded 54% in his 10th Grade. Ranbir walked up and told his parents that he did not want to continue his education. Ranbir didn’t graduate high school. However, he did spend some time studying filmmaking in New York. It was his diploma that mattered.

9. Kareena Kapoor Kan

Bebo attended Mumbai’s Jamnabai Narsee School, and later Welham Girls School. She had hoped to study law at Mithibai College but decided to model instead.

10. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Aishwarya originally intended to study medicine but changed her mind and enrolled at Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture. She gave up on her plans to become an architecture professor in favor of modeling.

11. Salman Khan

Salman was educated at Scindia School, Gwalior, and then St. Stanislaus High School Mumbai. He enrolled in St. Xavier’s College Mumbai but later dropped out for personal reasons.

12. Tiger Shroff

Junior Shroff graduated from the American School of Bombay. He didn’t want to go to college. The actor ended his 12th Grade and began modeling immediately.

13. Arjun Kapoor

Arjun attended Mumbai’s Arya Vidya Mandir School for his education. After failing his 12th-grade board exam, he dropped out of school.

14. Kajol Devgan

Kajol graduated from St. Joseph’s High school in Panchgani. At the age of 17, she began her career as an actor. The actor was unable to finish her high school education.

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bollywoodirect · 2 years

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Remembering #AsitSen, the famous Hindi film comedian of Yesteryears, on his birth anniversary.

Starting his film career in 1951 at the New Theatre in Bombay as an assistant to Bimal Roy, Sen acted in over 200 films between 1953 and 1993 until his death.

Asit Sen and #Kanhaiyalal in a still from #BimalRoy's Parakh (1960).

What are your favourite Asit Sen films?

#bollywoodirect #bollywood #asit sen #kanhiyalal #bimal roy #parakh (1960)

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mi4012thesandukandevidanalage · 3 days

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali Research

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, also known by his initialism SLB (Gujarati: [ˈsəndʒeː ˈlilɑː ˈbʱəɳsɑliː]; born 24 February 1963) is an Indian filmmaker, producer and music composer, who is known for his work in Hindi films. He is the recipient of several awards, including 7 National Film Awards and 12 Filmfare Awards (of which five were for Best Director), in addition to a nomination for a BAFTA Award. In 2015, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award. Critically acclaimed for his use of aesthetics, musical vision and Period dramas, Bhansali is regarded as one of the best filmmakers of Indian cinema.

Bhansali's directorial debut was the romantic musical Khamoshi: The Musical (1996). He gained both mainstream and critical success with the romantic dramas Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002), the latter of which was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. He won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi for directing the drama Black (2005). His subsequent releases Saawariya (2007) and Guzaarish (2010) were box-office flops. The latter film marked his debut as a music composer. He also began producing under his banner Bhansali Productions.

Bhansali reinforced his status with the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013), and the top-grossing period dramas Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmaavat (2018). He won the National Film Award for Best Direction for Bajirao Mastani and the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Padmaavat. He has since directed the biopic Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), winning further National and Filmfare Awards. In 2024 Bhansali has launched his own music label called Bhansali Music.[1]

Sanjay Leela Bhansali with Gangubai Kathiawadi

The art and production design in every Sanjay Leela Bhansali film is a whole mood in itself. Whatever the setting or the story, audiences have come to expect that signature look—dripping with rich detail and the maximal use of Indian textile, artwork, colour and texture.

His latest, Gangubai Kathiawadi is no exception. Visually, it plays out almost like a painting come to life. But it goes a step further, in that this is probably his most personal work yet. But more about that in a bit.[2]

Sanjay Leela Bhansali shared the inspiration behind his portrayal of strong female characters. He said, “We come from a land where we worship the goddess. I have seen some very, very strong women all my life. Women need to be heard, women need to be seen, and their stories need to be told. They are the creators of mankind. We are all born to women-kind.”[3]

[1].Sanjay Leela Bhansali - 维基百科，自由的百科全书 (wikipedia.org)

[2].How the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi recreate 1950s' and ‘60s’ Bombay | Architectural Digest India(By Anita Horam, 24 April 2022)

[3].Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ screened at Los Angeles' Aero Theatre - India Today

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shippersark · 3 months

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#Anupamaa #RupaliGanguly

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thelastmixedtape · 3 months

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Gigs of the Week

Tuesday, January 30th Bombay Bicycle Club – 3Olympia Theatre Dorian Electra – The Academy Tickets Wednesday, January 31th Siights – Whelan’s Upstairs Dorian Electra – The Academy Bombay Bicycle Club – 3Olympia Theatre Live & Rising Fanning At Whelan’s – Pillow Queens Tickets Saturday, February 3rd Milk – The Academy Jake Carter – The Academy 2 Depeche Mode – 3Arena The Psychs –��

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#Irish #Irish music #Music #music news #news #playlist #Spotify #The Last Mixed Tape #TLMT

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