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"Jameson Raid are a British heavy metal band. They are usually considered to be part of the new wave of British heavy metal, following their inclusion on EMI's album Metal For Muthas II, although they were established on the Birmingham circuit as a hard rock band several years before this. Career The band can originally be dated back to 1973, when bassist John Ace and guitarist Ian Smith, played together in Spectaté II at the school they attended in Sutton Coldfield. The band members went their separate ways to go to university – aside from Smith who went to sea – at which point Ace formed a covers outfit. When this split, Ace, together with rhythm guitarist Stewart Harrod, persuaded Smith to return and added the drummer Phil Kimberley. Their first gig took place on 26 August 1975, under the generally disliked name Notre Dame. The name Jameson Raid comes from an incident in the Transvaal at the turn of 1895/96. Their roadie Nick Freeman was credited with recalling the event from his school history books and proposing it to the band. With Hoi Polloi singer Terry Dark joining in December 1976, and Stewart leaving a few days later, Jameson Raid's most well-known line-up was complete. Jameson Raid released their first single, the "Seven Days of Splendour" EP in February 1979. "The combination of influences which had given birth to the band’s overall sound was quite difficult to pin down, as there were elements of 70's rock/pop (particularly David Bowie and Mott The Hoople), heavier acts such as Thin Lizzy and the occasional nod towards punk snottiness…" noted author Malc Macmillan,The N.W.O.B.H.M. Encyclopedia by Malc Macmillan, Iron Pages, 2001 and the three tracks on the EP ("Seven Days of Splendour", "It’s a Crime" and "Catcher in the Rye") illustrated Macmillan’s conundrum in terms of an inability to categorise the band’s sound. Described in The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock & Heavy Metal as "cult heroes for the Midland rock circuit… Their music is a poppy form of heavy metal…".The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock And Heavy Metal by Tony Jasper and Derek Oliver, Sidgwick & Jackson,, 1983 The EP was well received and, as Martin Popoff pointed out, showcased "a masterful bit of songwriting throughout these three tracks".The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal Singles by Martin Popoff, Scrap Metal Records, 2005 The first 1,000 copies came in a white sleeve, with a further pressing of 2,000 in a black sleeve; both featured what Popoff called "a spoofed band history" together with the lyrics to all three songs. In March 1980 the band, along with Magnum, played support to Def Leppard at West Midland venues on the latter's On Through the Night World Tour. In May 1980, EMI released the second of its Metal for Muthas NWOBHM compilation albums. Metal For Muthas II Cut Loud, featured the Jameson Raid track "Hard Lines", although the band were unhappy that EMI had, unbeknownst to them, completely remixed the song (which the band had already mixed to their satisfaction) and in doing so pretty much destroyed it. The band were credited as The Raid on this release.'Suzie Smiled: The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal' by John Tucker, 2006 Fighting against a tide of apathy, Smith and Ace handed in their notice and played their final gig with the band in Birmingham in July 1980. A second 7" EP, widely referred to as The Hypnotist but actually entitled End of Part One, was released at this time. Featuring four tracks ("The Hypnotist", "The Raid", "Getting Hotter" and "Straight from the Butchers"), the EP proved to be the band’s vinyl swansong. Kimberley and Dark soldiered on, recruiting guitarist Mike Darby and bassist Peter Green. In 1981 Darby left and was replaced by The Handsome Beasts founder member James Barrett, who in turn gave way to Steve Makin in 1982. The four-track Electric Sun demo cassette (featuring "Electric Sun", "Run for Cover", "Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Getting Hotter") was made available, but later that year Kimberley and Dark quit and the band was effectively over. During an interview for Classic Rock magazine in 2010, Terry Dark said: "We just seemed to be either a year too early, or a year too late... But whatever the reason things never quite happened for us." A green vinyl LP titled Jameson Raid, comprising the End Of Part One EP, the Electric Sun demo tracks, the Metal for Muthas take of "Hard Lines" and the unreleased track "Running Blind" from the final 1983 line-up was released as a bootleg and not an official release, although it has become an expensive collector's item. Both of the EPs featured in the 2010 edition of Record Collector.'Record Collector 2010. Page 264. In 1983, Green and Makin drafted in drummer Roger Simms, and with Makin handling both guitar and vocal duties, they tried to resurrect the band as The Raid, but with no great success nor longevity. Makin went on to front several other bands before being invited to appear on the solo album by Cozy Powell, The Drums Are Back (1992). He joined Slade in 1993. Malcolm Dome wrote: "Jameson Raid are one of the many bands who were definitely contenders for glory during the halcyon days of the new wave of British heavy metal. Sadly, they never quite lived up to their obvious potential". The classic line-up of Terry Dark, Ian Smith, John Ace and Phil Kimberley re-united in 2008, and their back catalogue album, Just as the Dust Had Settled, was released by Shadow Kingdom Records in March 2010. The band played gigs both in Germany and the UK in July 2010. In February 2011 John Ace left the band. They played the Download festival in June 2011 with a stand in bass player before Peter Green, the bass player from 1980 to 1983, rejoined in June 2011. By 2012 first Ian Smith and then Phil Kimberley had followed John Ace and returned to their day jobs. They were replaced by Kalli Kaldschmidt and Andreas 'Neudi' Neuderth from the band Roxxcaliber. In August 2013 drummer Lars Wickett was recruited due to Neudi's live gig commitments with Manilla Road. Jameson Raid have remained active particularly in Europe with occasional gigs in the UK. MembersCurrent lineup= *Terry Dark - vocals *Kalli Kaldschmidt - guitar, vocals *Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth - drums, vocals *Luud Tilly - bass =Past members= June 1975 *John Ace - bass guitar, vocals *Ian Smith - guitar, vocals *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals *Stewart Harrod - rhythm guitar, vocals December 1976 to July 1980 *John Ace - bass guitar *Ian Smith - guitar *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals *Terry Dark - vocals 1980 to 1981 *Terry Dark - vocals *Mike Darby - guitar *Peter Green - bass guitar *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals 1981 *Terry Dark - vocals *James Barrett - guitar *Peter Green - bass guitar *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals 1982 *Terry Dark - vocals *Steve Makin - guitar *Peter Green - bass guitar *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals 1983 *Steve Makin - guitar, vocals *Peter Green - bass guitar *Roger Simms - drums 2008 to Feb 2011 *Terry Dark - vocals *Ian Smith - guitar, vocals *John Ace - bass guitar, vocals *Phil Kimberley - drums, vocals 2017 *Terry Dark - vocals *Gavin Coulson - guitar, vocals *Brendan O´Neil - drums *Luud Tilly - bass 2018 till now *Terry Dark - vocals *Eric "Kalli" Kaldschmidt - guitar, vocals *Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth - drums *Luud Tilly - bass DiscographyAlbums= *Seven Days of Splendour EP (GBH Records, 1979) *End of Part One EP (Blackbird Records, 1980) *Just as the Dust Had Settled LP (Shadow Kingdom Records SKR030CD, March 2010) *Just as the Dust Had Settled Limited Edition Vinyl LP (High Roller Records HR141, July 2010) *Jameson Raid Live at the O2 Academy Limited Edition Vinyl LP (High Roller Records HR180, June 2011) *The Beginning of Part II Limited Edition Vinyl LP (High Roller Records HRR220, September 2012) =Tracks on sampler albums= *Metal for Muthas II (EMI Records 1980) One Track, "Hard Lines". *NWoBHM Vol. 2 (1992) One track, "It's a Crime". =Compilation albums= *Jameson Raid (Phoenix Records) See also *List of new wave of British heavy metal bands ReferencesExternal links * Official website * Fan website * Jameson Raid on MySpace.com * Rockdetector.com entry * Metal- Archives.com entry * New Wave Of British Heavy Metal entry Category:English heavy metal musical groups Category:Musical quartets Category:Musical groups established in 1975 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1983 Category:Musical groups reestablished in 2009 Category:New Wave of British Heavy Metal musical groups "
"Binka Zhelyazkova (, 15 July 1923 - 31 July 2011), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s. Career Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956 and briefly worked as an assistant director at Sofia Film Studios "Boyana" before directing her first feature, Life Flows Quietly By... (1957). This film established the collaboration with her husband, screenwriter Hristo Ganev, with whom she worked on many of her films. The film explored the lives of the former partisan fighters now in positions of power and was critical of the communist régime in Bulgaria. The leadership of the Bulgarian Communist Party reacted with fury and for 30 years banned the film by Party decree. This marked the beginning of Binka Zhelyazkova's complex relationship with the régime. During her career Zhelyakzova directed seven feature and two documentary films. An active member of the anti-fascist youth movement during World War II, she soon became disillusioned with the post-war realities, which had little to do with her ideals. Her work often reflected her struggles, and four of her nine films were banned from distribution and reached audiences only after the end of the regime. Particularly damaging for her career was the fate of The Tied Up Balloon, an innovative and highly stylized film, which showed the power of Binka's imagination and her potential as a film director. After its success at the 1967 Expo in Montreal the film was seen as an insult to the party leader, when in one of the scenes a group of villagers lift a donkey in the air. Again the communist party issued a decree and stopped the film. The same fate met the two documentary films Lullaby (1981) and The Bright and Dark Side of Things" (1981), about women in prison, a rear and uncompromising look at women's treatment in the socialist society, which were never released to the public. Despite her difficulties at home her films won numerous awards outside of Bulgaria. We Were Young (1961) was awarded the Golden Prize at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1962. The Attached Balloon (1967) had a successful run at the 1967 Expo in Montreal. The Last Word (1974) for which she also wrote the screenplay was in competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival along with films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlos Saura, Ken Russell and Liliana Cavani. Her 1977 film The Swimming Pool was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. In the 1980s Binka Zhelyazkova became the director of the Bulgarian section of Women in Film, an organization created in 1989 after the international women in film conference, KIWI, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She stopped making films after 1989, which coincided with the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria. For some time after that she remained active in the Women in Film organization, but soon completely withdrew from public life. Since 2007 renewed interest has arisen in Zhelyazkova's work mainly due to the documentary Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence by the New York based Bulgarian film maker Elka Nikolova. http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl;=bg&u;=http://www.binkadoc.com/bg/The%2520Film.htm&ei;=V7WtScqiApGksQPLgoXHBA&sa;=X&oi;=translate&resnum;=1&ct;=result&prev;=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.binkadoc.com/bg/The%252520Film.htm%26num%3D30%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG Style Binka Zhelyazkova's style was influenced by Italian Neo-Realism and the French New Wave, as well as by Russian cinema. The poetic and metaphoric imagery of her films often prompted critics to compare her to Federico Fellini and Andrey Tarkovski. Her distinctive directorial style along with her perfectionism and nonconformism won her the label "the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema". Despite the many interruptions, her work always reflected what was going on in the world at the time: the personality cult and the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the war in Vietnam and the waves of protests that swept many countries in the 1960s, the feminist movement in the 1970s and the 1980, and the stagnation of the last years of socialism. Feature films as director * Life Flows Quietly By... (1957) * We Were Young (1961) * The Tied Up Balloon (1967) * The Last Word (1973) * The Swimming Pool (1977) * The Big Night Bathe (1980) * On The Roofs at Night (1988), TV * Life Flows Slowly By (1988) * Lullaby (1981), documentary film * The Bright and the Dark Side of Things (1981), documentary film Notes * Nina Hibbin, Eastern Europe: Screen Series, Zwemmer Barnes (1969) * Mira and Antonin J. Liehm, The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Cinema After 1945, University of California Press (1977) * Ronald Holloway, The Bulgarian Cinema, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1986) * Dina Iordanova, Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture, and the Media, British Film Institute (2008) References External links * * https://www.amazon.com/Binka-Tell-Story-About- Silence/dp/B006LA6JIK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid;=1333027045&sr;=8-3 * Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence *https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/BINKA-TO-TELL-A- STORY-ABOUT-SILENCE-documentary-film/318330879341 *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siEfWhMw0v0 *http://liternet.bg/publish26/evgenia-garbolevski/bylgarsko-kino.htm *http://www.fishpond.com.au/Books/Conformists-Evgenija- Garbolevsky/9781443829700 Category:1923 births Category:2011 deaths Category:Bulgarian film directors Category:Bulgarian women film directors Category:People from Svilengrad "
"James Meston (born 1975) is an Adelaide, Australia-based radio producer, announcer and podcaster. He has produced and co-announced the 'Arch D Radio' show on 1079 Life FM since 2011, and produced a number of series of podcasts related to Catholic education and Catholic spirituality since 2019. From 1993 to 2017 he was a Blues guitarist with the stage name "Sweet Baby James" who was named as Official Ambassador of the 2007 Australian Blues Festival. He has played onstage with Jeff Healey and Sue Foley. In 1997, he moved to London, England and regular worked with David Hadley-Ray, Pete Brown and a short stint with "The Big Town Playboys", filling in for regular guitarist Andy Fairweather Low while he was on tour with Eric Clapton in 1998. James worked as both a trio and, from 2002, as a duo with drummer Rob Eyers in "Sweet Baby James and Rob Eyers". They released a 2005 album "Rhythm 'n' Blues" (Black Market Music (record label)), followed in 2010 with "Double Voodoo Blues". References Category:Australian blues guitarists Category:Australian male guitarists Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Adelaide Category:21st-century guitarists Category:21st-century Australian male musicians "