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Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
New production coming to Northbridge's Studio Underground
At just 22, Netflix's Heartbreak High star Thomas Weatherall is the playwright behind a new original production coming to Northbridge's Studio Underground in May. A one-man monologue, Blue, explores the idea of growing up in the years of early adulthood, following Mark who has just moved away from home for the first time. Thomas Weatherall as Malakai in Heartbreak High S2. Credit: Johan Platt /Netflix / Courtesy of Netflix Delving into themes that explore a young man's struggle to handle his mental health, the play, although not completely autobiographical, is heavily influenced by Weatherall's own experiences. The production has won the 2024 Matilda Award for Best New Australian Work. Weatherall played the lead in the east coast version of the production, but Perth raised, NIDA and WAAPA graduate Owen Hasluck will perform the lead role. 'We're thrilled to welcome Owen to Black Swan,' Artistic Director Kate Champion said. 'Blue is a play full of heart, honest and hope… we know this WA premiere will be something truly special.' The play is directed by Ian Wilkes, another alumni of WAAPA and theatre all-rounder, having been a playwright, performer and dancer throughout Western Australia. Blue will be at the Studio Underground at the State Theatre Centre of WA from May 23 to June 8, tickets can be purchased from
BBC News
05-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Kent close in on victory as Northants collapse
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Northampton (day two)Kent 231 & 171: Evison 52, Compton 36; Weatherall 3-38Northamptonshire 143 & 107-7: Bartlett 54*; Dudgeon 4-32Northants (3 pts) need 153 more runs to beat Kent (3 pts)Match scorecard Kent's South African paceman Keith Dudgeon took four wickets to all but shatter Northamptonshire's hopes of chasing 260 on day two of their County Championship match at Wantage a day which encompassed parts of three innings and saw 20 wickets fall, Dudgeon claimed 4-32, including three in nine balls, as Northamptonshire stumbled to 107-7 at stumps, still requiring 153. Only George Bartlett's battling unbeaten 54 offers the hosts some faint hopes for young Northamptonshire quick Raphy Weatherall again spearheaded a spirited fightback, picking up three Kent wickets in 10 balls, including England opener Zak Crawley (31) who fell to another loose and Ben Compton made batting look straightforward in a half-century stand before lunch, but Weatherall had his tail up after the interval and with the other bowlers keeping up the pressure, Kent lost seven for 49 and rued several careless shots which went straight to fielders. Joey Evison though mounted a determined fightback with had made short work of the Northamptonshire tail first thing, taking the last three wickets and a first innings lead off 88 as the hosts were skittled for 143. Jas Singh who finished with career best figures of 4-35 ended Rob Keogh's valiant resistance on 64, caught low at second picked up his fourth when Dom Leech was trapped lbw, Grant Stewart wrapping up the innings when Liam Guthrie was caught down the batting conditions easing, Crawley and Compton went into lunch with Kent 61 without loss and hopes of building a daunting looked fluent, playing a carefully controlled on drive off Luke Procter and taking advantage when Guthrie strayed, turning him off his legs and playing a silky drive through the covers. Compton meanwhile pulled Guthrie behind square and drove handsomely through extra it was a more energised Northamptonshire that emerged after lunch, claiming three wickets in seven deliveries. Justin Broad struck first, removing Crawley who upper cut straight to Saif Zaib at over Zaib took an even sharper catch at short midwicket when Daniel Bell-Drummond clipped Weatherall firmly off his legs, while Tawanda Muyeye, top scorer in Kent's first innings, advanced to the young quick, falling over slightly as he was adjudged lbw. Weatherall was denied the hat-trick when he drew the edge of Jack Leaning's bat, the ball running just wide of the soon had a third scalp. Bowling around the wicket he sent Compton's off-stump cartwheeling, doubling his first-class wicket tally in two succession of Kent wickets continued, Leaning turned Guthrie off his legs, the ball flying to sub fielder Tiaan Louw on the backward square-leg played a classy on-drive to take Kent into three figures, but they lost a sixth wicket when a fired-up Leech snared Harry Finch lbw, followed by Stewart who hooked Procter to forged an enterprising 36-run partnership with Dudgeon to regain some momentum, before the South African was caught behind off an attempted cut against Zaib. The left-arm spinner then found some turn to trap Singh lbw. Evison finally holed out smiting Leech powerfully to Zaib on the deep-midwicket bowlers made a perfect start as Vasconcelos left a Dudgeon delivery which jagged back and hit off-stump. Bartlett flashed Gilchrist over the slips for two boundaries and pulled Dudgeon over deep midwicket for six, but lived a charmed life, beaten outside off-stump and surviving several appeals and a nick through the the other end, Stewart gave Kent a much-needed breakthrough when he drew the edge of Procter's bat before he bowled Sales shouldering was settling into his work now, but Dudgeon was determined to get the bulk of the work done this evening picking up Zaib, Keogh and Lewis McManus, all caught by Leaning in the slips. To cap a terrible session for Northamptonshire, Broad was lbw to Gilchrist in the final over, the third batter to shoulder Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Yahoo
Crime Stoppers seeking tips on 2022 Champaign murder
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Champaign Police Department and Champaign County Crime Stoppers are asking the public for tips that could lead to an arrest in a murder investigation that's gone cold. The murder happened the night of October 4, 2022, during a birthday party near Third Street and Beardsley Avenue. Investigators determined that Rashaud Weatherall, 25 of Danville, was attending the party and around 5:47 p.m., he was standing near the street with two other men. It was at that time that a car drove past them and someone inside opened fire. All three men were hit. Weatherall's two companions were able to go to the hospital on their own, where they were treated and released. Weatherall, who had been shot multiple times, was still at the scene when officers responded. RELATED: 'One shooting is one too many:' community leader reacts to latest Champaign violence Despite officers' efforts to save his life, Weatherall died 20 minutes later at the hospital. Champaign Police officials said they've followed multiple leads over the last two years, but they have not identified Weatherall's killer(s). They are again asking for help from the public in solving his murder. Anyone who has information on this crime is asked to contact Champaign County Crime Stoppers and submit a tip. Tips can be submitted by calling 217-373-8477, visiting Crime Stoppers' website or using the P3 Tips app. Any tip submitted to Crime Stoppers is anonymous, and the organization will pay up to $5,000 to a tipster if their information leads to an arrest for murder. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘It was wonderfully innocent': Boy's Own, the fanzine that defined the acid house generation
When Andrew Weatherall suddenly died in February 2020, the outpouring of grief was monumental. The DJ and producer was a revered figure, known for producing and remixing indie-dance crossover acts such as Primal Scream, as well as being a curatorial guru on everything from thumping techno to deep dub via obscure rockabilly. His status as an influential and beloved music figure even garnered him the nickname the Guv'nor. But prior to this he went under another name: the Outsider. This was his nom de plume as a writer for the fanzine Boy's Own, which launched back in 1986. In the first issue Weatherall set out its intentions: 'We are aiming at the boy (or girl) who one day stands on the terraces, the next stands in a sweaty club, and the day after stays in bed and reads Brendan Behan while listening to Run-DMC.' Founded by Weatherall, Terry Farley, Steve Mayes, Steve Hall, and Cymon Eckel, the intention was to document their own world, a predominantly working-class one, in a way that they didn't see being covered by the music weeklies or glossy monthlies. It was a boisterous and scrappy mixture of football, fashion, music, clubbing, politics and biting humour. Almost 40 years on from that first issue, and five since the sad passing of Weatherall, the collective have reprinted a hardback collection of all the fanzines, as well as launching a new line of Boy's Own clothing. Initially, Boy's Own was sold in pubs, clubs, warehouse parties and football terraces but 'nobody bought it', recalls Farley. 'It was very niche – just us talking about our mates.' The gang had all bonded growing up on the outskirts of London, in Slough and Windsor, as a hodgepodge suburban crew of soul boys, football casuals, clothes obsessives and ardent clubbers. Every Friday they took acid at 9pm and hit London – a tradition known as 'the nine o'clock drop'; years later this would also be the name of a compilation album Weatherall released. It would take a widespread youth culture phenomenon for things to really blow up for Boy's Own. 'A few people identified with it but it didn't kick in until acid house happened,' recalls Eckel. 'Then it went fucking wild.' By their spring 1988 issue – featuring a front cover of a bunch of young kids, one in a Boy's Own T-shirt, in front of a brick wall with graffiti reading 'drop acid not bombs' – they were publishing articles such as Bermondsey Goes Balearic by Paul Oakenfold, exploring the burgeoning scene in London around clubs like Shoom and Future, as well as chronicling his adventures in Ibiza. Two to three thousand copies of each issue were printed and the publication quickly became something of a scene bible, complete with its own in-jokes, digs and unique lexicon, so much so that by 1989 Weatherall even wrote a handy guide to the definitions of commonly used slang, such as 'Log: If you don't know what one is, you are one.' Its tagline – 'The only fanzine that gets right on one, matey' – soon became a staple saying for those in the know around drug culture. The message even spread overseas, with German outfit the Beat Pirate releasing the acid house track Are You on 1 Matey? 'It was just a bit of humour and fun,' says Hall. 'But it became the language that kids were using to explain this new experience.' In 1988, with the second summer of love around the corner for a new generation, Boy's Own was about to graduate from making DIY magazines to throwing legendary parties. That spring Eckel was working as a carpenter on a video shoot for George Michael when he had an industrial accident and lost a finger. While he was in a specialist reconstructive surgery ward he became friends with another young person there who had trapped his fingers in a credit card machine. They bonded 'over music and drugs' and would sneak a spliff every Friday at the back door of the hospital. Through this connection, Eckel learned of a guy who owned a studio in a barn that he also threw parties in. Soon enough the Boy's Own crew, operating as the Karma Collective 'because we didn't do branding then', were throwing their own. They landed in the Berkshire countryside and laid out hay bales, blew up a bouncy castle and set up a pumping sound system. The end result they describe as 'part-rave, part-punk gig and part-garden party', which brought together 'football lads, punks, fashionistas and the wide-eyed ravers who were discovering ecstasy for the first time'. It was a combination that few had experienced before. 'It was definitely the first time I'd been to an acid house party that was outdoors,' recalls Hall. Boy George could be heard singing a cappella in the early hours as the sun rose and when the police arrived at about 8am – to find a group of smiling, dancing young people in smiley face-covered bright clothes and bandanas listening to squelchy electronic sounds – they didn't have a clue. 'They just told us to keep it down and be careful when driving home,' recalls Farley. 'It all looked quite innocuous to their eyes – no alcohol and just people lounging about in a beatific sort of way.' Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion The parties continued and the crew was soon in huge demand. Such was their growing reputation for spinning killer records and having their finger on the pulse that Weatherall and Farley started to be hired as producers and remixers for the likes of Happy Mondays, New Order, the Farm and Primal Scream. Between 1990 and 1993 London Records gave them their own label to play with, on which they released music by Bocca Juniors, Jah Wobble, DSK and Denim, but the success didn't match up to the work the crew had done for other labels and they became fed up with one another. They wrapped up the fanzine in 1992, the same year that Hall and Farley started their own independent label, Junior Boy's Own, which signed the Chemical Brothers and Underworld before the label was split into two in the late 1990s, before things wound down in the mid-2000s. In hindsight, Boy's Own was something of an all-encompassing lifestyle brand before such a thing was commonplace: a magazine spanning music, politics, fashion and their own subculture, that released records, signed artists and threw parties. But all they wanted to do at the time was be creative and have fun. 'I'm proud that we did it for the sake of doing it, as opposed to for commercial ends,' says Eckel. 'It was wonderfully innocent. We could have been Cream or Ministry of Sound, but we just did things we believed in.' It still takes Farley by surprise how a bunch of working-class lads, made up of gas fitters and carpenters, created something that connected on such a profound cultural level. 'This guy recently pulled his sleeve down and he had a Boy's Own tattoo,' he recalls. 'And he's like: 'I love you guys'. I didn't know what to say. I smiled, it made me laugh, but it also made me kind of go: 'Fuck! This was important to people. A lot of people. And if we in any way influenced other people to do better things in their lives then it was more than worth it.' When Weatherall wrote the introduction to the final ever issue of Boy's Own, he was able to write his own obituary. 'It's with sadness (and a slight smirk) that I must announce the death of The Outsider,' he began, before painting a scenario of a body discovered around a pile of King Tubby records and Boy's Own back issues. Sadly, Weatherall didn't get to plan out his own ending in such detail, but being surrounded by music, words and his own creative output feels like a fitting, and symbolic, closing chapter. 'We miss him,' says Hall. 'But I think he'd be proud to this day of what Boy's Own achieved.' Boy's Own clothing and fanzines are available from
