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  1. The idea that the terrifying Tommy Shelby would choose to live out his latter years as a wannabe writer is so ludicrously flattering to writers that it can only have been dreamed up by a writer. #PeakyBlinders

  2. The Original Peaky Blinders Jazz Band

    I’ve been greatly enjoying the boxed set of six seasons of Peaky Blinders that I received as a gift recently. I may do a sort of review when I get to the end, but until then I thought I’d throw in a few tangential things. This post is an example. Here’s another one. This clip is from Episode 2 of Series 1, when the Shelby family are celebrating the reopening of the Garrison pub after it was destroyed by a firebomb earlier on. Listen to the music at the start.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEGYbaEew1A

    The music being played is Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, a record I blogged about here. Released in 1917, it is no exaggeration to say that this was the first every commercial jazz record; I blogged about the 100th anniversary of its release.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kI

    The band was originally called the “Original Dixieland Jass Band“. A few months later they changed the “Jass” to “Jazz” – it is claimed because people kept defacing their posters by removing the letter “J” – and the new name stuck. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band is usually referred by Jazz buffs as the ODJB.

    Led by cornettist Nick LaRocca and clarinettist Larry Shields, the ODJB was a group of white musicians from in and around New Orleans who had picked up their musical ideas from listening to musicians there, including playing for the pioneering mixed-race band led by Papa Laine, before moving to Chicago which is where they were spotted by representatives of the Victor label. Although the sound quality isn’t great, it gives a good insight to what ealy jazz drummers were like and shows Larry Shields was a dab hand at glissandi

    Series 1 of Peaky Blinders is set in 1919 (mainly in Birmingham but also with scenes in London). Not a lot of people know that the ODJB actually visited England in 1919. They performed in review at the Hammersmith Palais and then did a command performance in front of King George V, who (apparently) particularly enjoyed their version of Tiger Rag. There is no evidence that they visited Birmingham, but we get a glimpse before the above clip of a band decked out to look like them, laying live in the Garrison pub. I very much enjoy little details like that!

    #GarrisonPub #Jazz #ODJB #OriginalDixielandJazzBand #PeakyBlinders
  3. Peaky Blinders has heavy Disco Elysium parallels, and same energy. Corrupt police, severe power imbalances, part of the city being effectively policed and managed by a gang, a bar with a special room where the gang hangs out, industrial union organizing, communism, blonde femme fatale spy, only one phone for a whole neighborhood.

    #PeakyBlinders #DiscoElysium

  4. Peaky Blinders'ın devam dizisi yolda! Netflix ve BBC, ilk görseli ve oyuncu kadrosunu duyurdu. Önemli bir karakterin oyuncusu değişiyor. Bu sürpriz gelişme hakkında ne düşünüyorsunuz?

    🚩 #PeakyBlinders #Netflix #Dizi #TV

  5. Any #PeakyBlinders fans here? Just watched the movie. It was a satisfying end. Won’t spoil!

  6. i've been binging on #PeakyBlinders since friday. i feel a little shame bc i enjoy it so much.

    youtu.be/Ruyl8_PT_y8?

  7. I have to admit I subscribed to Netflix for a month to watch it and was disappointed. Great cinematography and some of the original sets, and some good set pieces, but a weak narrative and not what I had hoped for. So that leaves me with a month of the subscription - what to watch? Actually probably not a lot, it all appears to be dross on an initial exploration.

    A big budget I assume, wasted.

    #PeakyBlinders #Movie #Netflix #Disappointing #Film #Review

  8. Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #PeakyBlinders 4 Years Later, Cillian Murphy's Netflix Comeback Shatters Expectations With Blockbuster 'Peaky Blinders' Movie Debut dlvr.it/TRcv2D