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Oh Doom! : I Fear This Is The End
Oh Doom!
I Fear This Is The End
(When Humans Are Sad)
Released 26th July
Available on Bandcamp
Every now and again a band / group hit me in the face with some exemplary music like this. Oh Doom! are in that bracket. The best debut EP I’ve heard for a while, taking in early shoegaze, a bit of Mogwai, Pale Saints, you may be getting my drift if you’re a certain age. They certainly know their dynamics! Wayne AF Carey’s radar has gone off the scale with these talented bastards!
First track We Lost Our Friends kicks in with a heavy riff backed by feedback and maudlin keyboard sounds that just batter your brain before kicking in to a massive drumbeat that reminds you of Grandaddy’s classic A.M. 180, especially when it goes all mellow after two and a half minutes in. It’s that good. They’ve lost a lot of friends if the lyrics give you a fuckin’ clue! It ramps up for a massive bit of psych sound to wake up the opiate addicts.
Someone Else Made You Better is the lighter track on this EP. A brilliant piece of music from the newcomers that again sways towards the sound of The Pale Saints and even early Boo Radleys when they were cracking the magic sound of their early input. A tribal drum beat, ethereal bass and guitar, backed by sublime vocals. All Our Songs Are Slow And Sad does what it says on the tin. A slow gothic number that goes into fuck off psych mode in the middle. It’s that special I reviewed it earlier here. Astounding stuff from a virgin band who have found that magic sound.
I don’t know what sort of sewage water they’re drinking in Peterborough at the moment but it definitely doesn’t make you puke up shit. Other People’s Happiness sounds depressing as fuck at the start but lights up your heart when the magic guitar onslaught kicks your brain in. It’s like Mogwai forgetting they’re Scottish and angry and meeting up with Sennen. The best band I’ve heard for a while.
Believe me you’ll not hear anything of this genre better this year! A stone cold classic debut from a band that have everything to be massive in the revival of decent shoegaze.
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Dad of Ron Goldman demands $117million from OJ’s estate for wrongful death
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The father of Ron Goldman is suing OJ Simpson’s Las Vegas estate for $117 million for the wrongful death of his son.
Simpson was ultimately acquitted in 1994 after he was charged with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman. Now, Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman’s father, is trying to collect on a decades-old civil lawsuit he won against Simpson. The former football star who became the infamous defendant died earlier this year.
Goldman’s father won a civil lawsuit against Simpson in 1997, after which Simpson was ordered to pay the elder Goldman $33 million. However, laws protecting Simpson’s pension from his NFL career prevented the payout.
Goldman is trying again, this time in Nevada. He asked to have his claim “domesticated in Nevada to become a valid creditor claim against a Nevada estate.” When he renewed the claim, he asked for $57,997,858 from Simpson’s estate. The new lawsuit includes interest accrued through 2024, according to Fox 5 Las Vegas.
During a 2021 civil hearing, Simpson counter-sued for relief from the judgement, but a jury denied his motion. At that time, the judge also ruled that the claim would continue to accrue interest of $26,402 per day until it was paid out to Goldman.
“I affirm that the amount of the claim, $117,041,675.27 through July 25, 2024, with interest accruing thereafter at the daily rate of $26,402.3630, or the alternative claim amount as explained above, $73,148,948.71 through July 25, 2024, with interest accruing at the daily rate thereafter of $16,638.73, is justly due,” Goldman wrote in his claim. “I also affirm that all payments have been credited and there are no offsets known to the affiant.”
The next hearing concerning Simpson’s estate is scheduled for August 30.
“The only thing I have to say is that today is just a further reminder of how long we have missed my son, how long he’s been gone, and the only thing that is important today are the victims,” Goldman said after Simpson’s death was announced. “That’s it.”
Goldman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was dedicated to making Simpson pay for his son’s death, even after his death.
“He murdered my son!” Goldman told the paper. “He never paid a penny, not one single penny.”
Goldman said Simpson’s property in Nevada may be the last chance his family has to collect on the wrongful death lawsuit from 1997.
“[Simpson] died without penance. He did not want to give a dime, a nickel, to Fred [Goldman], never, anything, never,” an attorney representing Goldman said after Simpson died.
Simpson’s longtime attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, is the executor the former NFL star’s estate, and said he will “deal with” Goldman’s claim “in accordance with Nevada law,” according to the paper.
‘Papa Smurf’ and flaming pianos – strangest moments of Paris Olympics opening ceremony
The Olympic Games will get under way on Saturday morning following Friday night’s opening ceremony in Paris.
Among the raindrops that fell on the athletes and dignitaries, there were dancers and performers on the boulevards, River Seine and, at times, perched on the side of buildings. Here, Telegraph Sport relives some of the strangest moments from the night.
The Smurf
A giant cloche is raised to reveal a fruit salad topped by a near-naked man covered in blue paint and sporting a bright orange beard and wearing a fruit headdress and sash. Looking like some kind of deranged Smurf, he then begins to sing. According to BBC commentator Hazel Irvine, the man, singer-songwriter Philippe Katerine, is meant to be portraying Greek god Dionysus. It is an image that will remain seared into the memories of all who saw it
A piano on fire
Singer Juliette Armanet and pianist Sofiane Pamart’s water-borne performance of John Lennon’s Imagine – a song with the line ‘imagine there’s no countries’ sung after every nation in the world has sailed past – is completely overshadowed by Pamart’s piano being set on fire for no apparent reason
New band : Sanam
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Perhaps in the same way as Lankum reach into the past to creat a new future Sanam have soaked up the Trad Arabic songs of their Beirut home town and mixed them with a sparse dark energy, industrial clank to create mesmerising post rock soundscapes. Mixing traditional Egyptian songs and Arabic poetry with improvised rock, free jazz, and noise, their first album, ‘Aykathani Malakon’, was recorded in a traditional house in the village of Saqi Reshmaya, and is out on Mais Um Discos.
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High Court schedules hearing of ‘test’ challenge to lack of school places for autistic children
The High Court has fixed the hearing of a âtestâ challenge where primary school places are being sought for children with autism.
Several judicial review challenges against the Minister for Education and the State have been brought before the court in recent weeks by the families of children with autism who claim they have been unable to secure primary school places for their children.
In each of the actions the parents claim that despite contacting dozens of schools, no suitable places are available.
They say this amounts to a breach of the childrenâs rights including their constitutional rights to be provided with an adequate education.
They seek various orders including orders compelling the Minister to provide the children with suitable school placements.
The families of the children involved also fear their children will regress if they remain outside of the school system.
When several of these actions came before Ms Justice Niamh Hyland on Friday, the judge accepted that the matters were urgent.
The judge put a timetable in place with a view that one of the cases, which the judge nominated to be the test action, would be heard by the court in mid-November.
The judge heard from Tony McGillicuddy SC, for the Minister, who said extra classes and places, in the relevant geographical area, for children with autism have recently been sanctioned.
Counsel said that any decision to enrol a child in any of those schools was a matter for the schools themselves and was not something that the Minister could not get involved in.
It was hoped that the schools will begin to accept applications for the new places as soon as possible.
However, counsel said that further delays may be caused by the fact that at this time of year many school principals, members of school boards of management and other relevant people are away on holidays.
Counsel added that the Minister, who will be filing a statement of opposition about the test action, is aware of the situation the children and their families find themselves in and is trying to do the best for all concerned.
In reply, Joe Jeffers SC, for the applicant families, said some of his clients have been seeking places since March.
The Minister has been contacted about the matter and his clients only received generic responses.
Counsel said the families are aware extra places for children with autism have been sanctioned but they are unaware of specific details about these new places and when they will come on stream.
Expressing his clientsâ strong desire to have the test case listed for hearing by the judge, and the other similar actions heard as soon as possible, counsel said that as things stand his clients remain without a suitable school place.
The judge expressed her hope that the disputes could be resolved between the parties.
She adjourned all the various proceedings to a date in October, when the new legal term commences to see how matters are progressing.
The test case will be heard by the court in mid-November, the judge added.
Kamala Harris the ‘soul-destroying bully’: Former staff expose shock details of degrading tirades, decades-long ‘toxic’ behavior that left people in TEARS – and saw them quit at unprecedented levels
Kamala Harris was all smiles when she arrived at Joe Biden‘s former Delaware campaign headquarters on Monday.
She was there to lift the spirits of blindsided staffers, who after 15 months of toiling to re-elect the president, suddenly found themselves working for her.
‘It is my great honor to have Joe’s endorsement in this race,’ she boasted to cheers from a crowd who were now on her payroll.
But as the assembled readily applauded, some must have harbored private concerns.
For, behind the recent public self-branding of Harris as a kindly, jovial ‘Momala‘, she has earned a nasty reputation as an alleged ‘soul-destroying’ workplace ‘bully’.
Only four of the initial 71 staffers hired by Harris during her first year in office still remain in a job. The rest either quit or were fired, according to analysis by non-partisan watchdog Open The Books.
Behind the recent public self-branding of Harris as a kindly, jovial ‘Momala’, she has earned a nasty behind-closed-doors reputation as an alleged ‘soul-destroying’ workplace ‘bully’.
Kamala Harris was all smiles when she arrived at Joe Biden ‘s former Delaware campaign headquarters on Monday.
That translates to a 92 percent staff turnover rate – and, say critics, is a likely sign that the issues on Team Harris have more to do with her than anyone else.
During research for my recent Harris biography (‘Amateur Hour’, published in January), the horror stories I heard from many of her former employees and read about in numerous reports – shocked me.
As far back as the 2010s, when Harris served as California’s Attorney General, she was allegedly known for running a ‘toxic’ workplace.
Barbara O’Connor, a professor at California State University, Sacramento claimed that students who worked for Harris as interns frequently came back to her crying and saying that they ‘felt they weren’t valued.’
After Harris was elected in 2017 to represent California in the US Senate, working conditions reportedly did not improve.
Analysis showed her office had the ninth-highest staff turnover rate out of the 114 senators who served between 2017 and 2020.
Congressional sources told the Mail that she would berate subordinates in expletive-laden tirades.
Even those working for Republican lawmakers allegedly got caught in the crossfire.
In one instance, reported in my book, sources described how Harris lashed out at a room full of Senate staffers during the highly contentious 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh.
On September 28 of that year, as Kavanaugh’s nomination moved forward despite liberal outrage over allegations he’d sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford three decades earlier, Harris and her colleagues staged a walkout from the hearings.
Harris lashed out at a room full of Senate staffers during the highly contentious 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Barbara O’Connor (above), a professor at California State University, Sacramento claimed that students who worked for Harris as interns frequently came back to her crying and saying that they ‘felt they weren’t valued.’
Later, Harris was said to explode in anger outside the main Judiciary Committee room.
Witnesses recalled Harris cursing and ordering around staffers who did not even work for her.
‘Anyone who’s staff, get the f*** out of here!’ she allegedly yelled.
Harris’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment on these allegations.
Years later, amid the dramatic and rapid collapse of Harris’s 2020 presidential bid, this allegedly troubling behavior began to be leaked to the public.
In a sensational resignation letter shared with the New York Times in November 2019, Harris’s then State Operations Director Kelly Mehlenbacher slammed her boss, saying: ‘I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.’
She continued: ‘It is not acceptable to me that we encouraged people to move from Washington, DC to Baltimore only to lay them off with no notice.’
‘Morale has never been lower,’ she added, saying there was no ‘real plan’ for how Harris might win, but that she hoped her departure ‘might result in some serious consideration of […] our internal communications’.
In a sensational resignation letter shared with the New York Times in November 2019, Harris’s then State Operations Director Kelly Mehlenbacher slammed her boss, saying: ‘I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.’
But as Harris’s failed campaign then descended into nasty blame-shifting and finger-pointing, Biden threw her a political lifeline, tapping her to be his running mate and effectively saving her skin.
Just a few months into Biden’s administration, troubling stories about her management style surfaced once again.
In June 2021, Politico spoke to 22 individuals familiar with Harris’s VP office who all claimed that her team was experiencing ‘low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials.’
‘It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s***,’ one source said.
A Biden administration official claimed Harris was responsible: ‘It all starts at the top.’
That sentiment was shared by Gil Duran, an ex-aide to Harris who worked in Harris’s Attorney General’s office and quit after five months.
‘What is the common denominator through all this,’ he said, ‘it’s her.’
Harris’s then-press secretary, Symone Sanders, tried to defend her boss, accusing complaining staffers of being soft.
‘We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day,’ Sanders told Politico. ‘What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like “welcome to the club”.’
Just five months later, Sanders, a political veteran who had once worked for infamously cantankerous Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (no relation), left Harris’s office as well.
‘I’m so grateful to the VP for her vote of confidence from the very beginning,’ Sanders said.
‘We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day,’ Sanders (above, right) told Politico. ‘What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club’.’
But then the dam broke.
Multiple staffers who worked for Harris before she was Vice President told the Washington Post in December 2021 how she’d reportedly refuse to prepare for public appearances and blame her aides when she then underperformed.
‘It’s clear [with Harris] that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,’ one ex-aide said. ‘With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.’
In the summer of 2021 – and reported by CNN – Harris was said to have been ‘prepped extensively by her team’ on how she could respond to questions about why she’d not yet visited the southern border, despite her role as White House ‘border czar’.
But when the time came to deliver her answer, Harris botched her interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.
‘We’ve been to the border,’ she told Holt in June of that year.
‘You haven’t been to the border,’ he replied.
‘I haven’t been to Europe,’ Harris clapped back with an awkward laugh. ‘I don’t understand the point that you’re making.’
The flippant response resulted in one of the most damaging public appearances of her entire White House tenure. She didn’t do another one-on-one interview for nearly a year.
‘I haven’t been to Europe,’ Harris clapped back with an awkward laugh. ‘I don’t understand the point that you’re making.’ (Above) Harris’s interview with NBC News in June 2021
A Biden administration official claimed Harris was responsible: ‘It all starts at the top.’ That sentiment was shared by Gil Duran (above), an ex-aide to Harris who worked in Harris’s Attorney General’s office and quit after five months.
At other times, and perhaps as a result of the Holt disaster, Harris reportedly began to over-prepare for some events.
In April 2022 – having been invited to a salon-style dinner at the home of David Bradley, a heavyweight DC media mogul – she was said to be so anxious about that she held a ‘mock dinner’ with staffers who acted out the roles of dinner guests, Axios reported.
Speaking exclusively to the Mail, political strategists who have previously worked for Harris say the root of her problems is that she overly relies on a trusted, though under-qualified inner circle that includes her sister Maya Harris and brother-in-law Tony West, a former Obama Justice Department official.
Neither are professional political strategists.
Team Harris appears to now be leaking to the media that attempts are underway to bring former Obama adviser David Plouffe and ex-Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on board.
But, in truth, I’m told the efforts appear to be more wishful thinking to reassure donors rather than a reality.
On Monday, Harris announced that Biden campaign chief Jen O’Malley Dillon would remain on duty – as would senior Biden advisor Julie Chavez Rodriguez who previously worked for Harris in her Senate office and on her 2020 presidential race.
In a May interview on actress Drew Barrymore’s talk show, Harris played the magnanimous boss.
‘It’s really important to be around people who love you, who are about you and who are going to be honest with you,’ she said.
As she now prepares to tackle the monumental task of running a presidential campaign in just four months, the question for Harris will surely be whether she’s prepared to listen to that honest feedback.
John Lewis gets planning permission to build homes in Bromley
John Lewis has the green light to build homes in a ground-breaking first for the department store chain.
Bromley Council approved the plans for a block of 353 rental flats above an existing Waitrose shop in the London borough on Thursday.
It is a milestone for the company, which has been trying to get permission to develop housing for years as it looks for new ways to bring in money.
But it faces backlash for not delivering the number of affordable homes initially promised.
It said the “energy efficient” flats in the 24-storey Bromley development would include a mix of one to three bedroom units.
The existing Waitrose will be renovated.
However, campaigners complained that less than one tenth of the homes would be classed as ‘affordable’.
This means that the rental rates for those homes will be set at 80% of market value. The rest will be rented out at market value.
John Lewis had said last year that 35% of homes in the Bromley development would be affordable, in line with Bromley Council and the London Mayor’s target.
It has since rowed back on this, citing profitability issues.
Local Liberal Democrat councillor Julie Ireland called the amount of affordable homes in the development “frankly derisory”.
Ms Ireland also criticised the John Lewis scheme’s height and said extra residents would worsen road traffic and clog up the train network.
John Lewis has said it expected council tax and “local spend” to increase by £70m in the development’s first decade.
It added that it had received 147 letters supporting the scheme, more than the number which opposed it.
Investment firm abrdn, which is working with John Lewis on the development, said the housing would be “an anchor for town centre regeneration and wider community investment”.
Eventually, John Lewis and abrdn plan to build 1,000 new homes across three sites, including the Bromley one.
John Lewis first revealed plans to start building homes in 2020 in a bid to diversify its revenue.
The company, like other traditional retailers, has struggled with shop closures and job cuts because of the rise of online shopping.
It wants 40% of profits to come from outside of retail by 2030.
The Hundred: Andrew Flintoff's Northern Superchargers fall to defeat against Trent Rockets in men's competition
Andrew Flintoff’s first game as Northern Superchargers head coach ended in defeat as they went down by 47 runs at home to Trent Rockets on Friday.
The Rockets made 185-5 in their innings after being made to bat first at Headingley, with Tom Banton leading the way after clattering 66 from 38 balls, including nine fours and one six.
Despite a fine all-round display from Ben Dwarshuis, former England captain Flintoff’s side struggled to get going in their reply as three wickets from Chris Green, to go with his cameo 25 with the bat, helped restrict them to 138-8 in their innings.
Banton and fellow opener Adam Lyth put on 44 for the first wicket before Dwarshuis dismissed the latter for 12, and Alex Hales only made six before being caught by Adam Hose off Matthew Potts.
But Banton and Sam Hain helped propel the Rockets to a challenging total from their 100 balls thanks to a third-wicket stand of 65 which was ended when Banton was trapped lbw by England seamer Potts (2-37).
Hain fell one short of his half-century as well after becoming Australian seamer Dwarshuis’ second victim as he finished with figures of 2-28 from his 20 balls, but Green – who was making his sole appearance in The Hundred – blasted 25 from just seven balls at the end of the innings.
Chasing 186 for victory, the Superchargers’ reply got off to a decent start thanks to an opening stand of 41 between Ollie Robinson (25) and Graham Clark (17).
After Clark was bowled by Imad Wasim, though, wickets fell at regular intervals as seamer Lewis Gregory (2-21) and spinner Green (3-14) did most of the damage.
A sparkling 40 from 20 balls, with two fours and three sixes, from No 8 Dwarshuis was a rare bright spot in the Superchargers’ innings, but ultimately the hosts were well short of their target.
Player of the match – Chris Green
“I’ve loved my time with the Rockets – short but sweet. Luckily it came off for me tonight [with the bat], and I had a lot of fun.
“I enjoyed bowling out there tonight, that was conducive to spin. We had a lot of runs to put them under pressure and that was a fun wicket to bowl on.”
What’s next?
The Hundred continues on Saturday with London Spirit facing Birmingham Phoenix in a double-header at Lord’s.
The women’s game is live on Sky Sports Mix from 2.30pm (first ball 3pm), followed by the men’s game on Sky Sports Mix from 6pm, Sky Sports Cricket from 6.30pm and Sky Sports Main Event from 7pm (first ball 6.35pm).
Sky Sports will show all 68 games in The Hundred live this summer, while you can also watch selected matches via free streams on Sky Sports’ digital platforms and Sky Sports Cricket YouTube channel.
