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New book documents Bristol's music and youth culture from the 80s
A photographer who has documented a city's street music and youth culture since the 1980s is publishing a double picture album of his real name Andy Beese, 60, from Bristol, worked with the likes of Pulp, Paul Weller and Vivienne Westwood and is highlighting some of his most poignant images from his 16 he was given a camera while studying audio visual at Brunel College and said it became "a continuation of my teenage years".The double album Until Now is being released on the 7 July through Bristol publisher PC Press. Beezer previously published a book called the Wild Days which included scenes from Bristol and said he was "very young" when he started taking photos in 1982, but it was an amazing time."There was music going on every night of the week and I always went out with my camera," he said."I was heavily into reggae and sound systems and it was so good to be able to go out and photograph the things that you enjoyed.'However, he said there was a "really dire, really dank atmosphere at the time', and "everyone was skint"."It was Margaret Thatcher, everyone was moaning and we had less but looking back on it now it felt like we had more at the time," he said. The double album includes pictures of St Paul's Carnival and Glastonbury Festival, and artists Mark Stewart, The Wild Bunch and Massive Attack."So a wide variety of people in gigs, [and] there's a huge social documentary section on different things going on in the city or protests," he said."It was very raw what I was shooting but it was anything going on."An average day [could be] photographing the manager of Bristol Rovers doing a Sikh protest on Nelson street then photographing a gig or an event in the evening."But words like 'youth culture' didn't exist then and the kind of stuff I shot, there were very few outlets for it because it just wasn't popular – especially on the music front."He said popular bands at the time were Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Simply Red, so "more sculpted bands". He said his main focus when he went anywhere with his camera was trying to get that "one Glastonbury shot that covers the weekend, that sums it all up… it was totally unrehearsed".And for anyone interested in photography, he said "use it as a tool'. "If there's something you're interested in and you're not confident, it could be dancing or anything like that, a camera's a good way to get up close and personal with it and see where you could fit in with it," he said he is "so proud with this double book. So many people [in my archive] have passed and it's really sad. People aren't around forever, but images are".
New York Times
09-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Flyers enter 4 Nations break after ‘really weird' and ‘bizarre' week
PHILADELPHIA — From the moment they sign their first professional contract, every hockey player is aware that there's a business element to the league. But that doesn't diminish the human element when certain decisions are made, particularly when it involves saying goodbye. When Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee were dealt to the Calgary Flames about a week ago on Jan. 30, it was the first time many of the young Flyers experienced losing a close friend in the dressing room. And in this case, it was two of them. Advertisement Tyson Foerster was 'really upset' by the news, as Farabee was his former roommate in Old City. 'Beezer took me in right away from Day 1 when I got here, said I could live with him. He meant a lot to me,' he said. Cam York has been around a bit longer than Foerster so he's seen a a few teammates depart. But Frost and Farabee were essentially his peers. The trade, for York, was 'really hard. The word I've used was devastating. The first time I've kind of dealt with that.' The deal took a toll on the ice, too. The Flyers were miserable in losses in Colorado and Utah, the result of a weakened lineup and mounting injuries, but there was undoubtedly some spiritual deflation, too. They started to shake out of it on Thursday in a 4-3 loss to the Eastern Conference-leading Capitals in which they played fairly well but were let down by backup goalie Ivan Fedotov. On Saturday, they snapped a five-game losing streak by getting by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2 at Wells Fargo Center, but it was far from a perfect effort. They were fortunate to still be in the game at all after the first period, as the Penguins had a 36-5 edge in shot attempts, but they prevailed on goals by Scott Laughton, Garnet Hathaway and Travis Konecny, and 32 saves from Sam Ersson. It was the culmination of what coach John Tortorella on Friday called 'a really weird week,' with the departures of two beloved teammates, the absence of regulars like Ryan Poehling, Owen Tippett, Egor Zamula and Rasmus Ristolainen due to injury, and the late arrivals of newcomers Jakob Pelletier and Andrei Kuzmenko because of immigration paperwork. 'It's a bizarre one,' Hathaway said of the week that was. 'We lose Frosty and Beezer, two huge parts of our locker room. We don't see the other side of that trade. I think that took something out of us. It took from the group.' Advertisement Kuzmenko played on Saturday and was one of the Flyers' better forwards, registering an assist on Laughton's goal (on his first shift), and setting up teammates York and Matvei Michkov for scoring chances in dangerous areas. Pelletier was still forced to watch, though, as his paperwork apparently wasn't resolved in time. And now, the two-week break for the 4 Nations Face-Off is here. The Flyers won't play again until they host the Edmonton Oilers in a matinee on Saturday, Feb. 22. The standings suggest that they're already buried. Even with the win over the Penguins — who were without both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin — the Flyers remain in last place in the Metropolitan Division. The recent skid probably ruined any thought of making a playoff run. But Tortorella doesn't see it that way, He's hopeful, as every NHL coach surely is, that coming out of the break the Flyers will be healthier and rejuvenated. And he's not throwing in the towel just yet. 'I want us to try and put a run together,' he said on Friday. 'Other than six, seven (or) eight teams, it is a .500 league. We're below .500 now (24-26-7), but you have a good run, you're right back in the thick of things. That's the way we're approaching it. I still think we have a lot of meaningful games left.' The coach took the opportunity to again mention something he's frequently bemoaned over the years. 'I'm sure everybody around me wants us to tank,' he said. 'I'd like someone to give me a definition — how to I tell an athlete to tank? … I'll never go down that road.' Tanking might be impossible anyway considering how Ersson has played lately. The goalie followed up what was arguably his best game of the season on Tuesday in Utah with another standout performance against the Penguins. Since Christmas, Ersson is 9-4-1 with a .920 save percentage and 2.26 goals-against average in 14 games. Advertisement Tortorella mentioned that Ersson, who will be the third goalie on Team Sweden in the upcoming tournament, will get the 'lion's share' of the final 25 games of the Flyers' regular season. 'I want to see how he stands in there,' said the coach. 'He just keeps on improving.' Said Ersson: 'There was a stretch of five or six games before Christmas when I came back from an injury that I was not happy with; other than that, I think I've been pretty consistent with my game.' Whether Ersson can help the Flyers string enough wins together when the season resumes, well, we'll see. But the primary focus of the rest of the season is still more about individual player evaluation than team performance — which was reinforced by that trade with the Flames last week. Additionally, a consequence of that deal is that it probably opened up the eyes of the other young players. If Briere can deal Frost and Farabee — both still in their mid-20s and with the potential to still get better — he could deal anyone. For his part, York acknowledged that there was 'a little confusion' when it came to the trade, 'just because those are young guys and we are in the rebuild stage.' At the same time, Flyers management 'has an image of what they want the team to look like and be, and those two guys weren't a part of it,' York continued. 'Sometimes you've just got to trust the guys upstairs, and hope what they envision comes to life.' Said Tortorella: 'We're forecasting as we're building here. All the players in the room, as we try to get to that team that hopefully in a couple years is a really competitive team, need to be thinking about that. It's not to be threatening. It's pro sports.' (Photo of Cam York: Kyle Ross / Imagn Images)
