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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
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shame Announce New Album Cutthroat, Release Title Track: Stream
The post shame Announce New Album Cutthroat, Release Title Track: Stream appeared first on Consequence. The UK post-punk band shame are back, and have announced their fourth studio album, Cutthroat. Listen to the lead single and opening track, 'Cutthroat,' below. Due on September 5th via Dead Oceans, Cutthroat is the follow up to shame's 2023 album Food for Worms, and spans 12 new songs produced by John Congleton. Speaking about the album in a statement, frontman Charlie Steen, said, 'It's about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let's face it, there's a lot of them around right now.' Get shame Tickets Here The band expanded on that attitude in a longer joint statement, hinting at a restless drive beneath the record's surface. 'It's driven by hunger,' they said. 'Hunger for something better. For something you've been told you don't deserve. It's primal. It's raw. It's unapologetic. It's the person who turns up to the party uninvited. 'Cause when you've been pushed down, there's nowhere to go but up. When you ain't got nothing, you ain't got nothing to lose.' To that end, Steen likened the album to the band's live performances. 'This is about who we are,' he said. 'Our live shows aren't performance art — they're direct, confrontational and raw. That's always been the root of us. We live in crazy times. But it's not about 'Poor me.' It's about 'Fuck you.'' The lead single, 'Cutthroat,' is built around a driving arrangement with a psychedelic tint, and introduces the album's conflation of arrogance and insecurity. In a statement, Steen said, 'I was reading a lot of Oscar Wilde plays where everything was about paradox. In 'Cutthroat,' it's that whole idea from Lady Windermere's Fan, 'Life's far too important to be taken seriously.'' 'Cutthroat' arrives with a music video directed by Ja Humby. Watch it below. Along with the announcement of Cutthroat, shame also unveiled a run of UK and European tour dates, beginning in September and wrapping in November. According to a press release, 'US dates will soon follow, so stay tuned.' See the full list of their upcoming tour dates below, and grab tickets here. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Cutthroat 02. Cowards Around 03. Quiet Life 04. Nothing Better 05. Plaster 06. Spartak 07. To and Fro 08. Lampião 09. After Party 10. Screwdriver 11. Packshot 12. Axis of Evil shame 2025 Tour Dates: 09/28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale 09/29 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX 09/30 – Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9 10/02 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg 10/03 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje 10/04 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust 10/06 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumphuset 10/07 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret AS 10/08 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan 10/10 – Helsinki, FI @ Korjaamo 10/11 – Tallinn, EE @ Paavli Kultuurivabrik 10/12 – Riga, LV @ Palladium 10/14 – Vilnius, LT @ Kultūra 10/15 – Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO 10/16 – Berlin, DE @ SO36 10/18 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory 10/19 – Bratislava Nova, SK @ Cvernovka 10/20 – Vienna, AT @ Chelsea 10/22 – Zagreb, HR @ Club Mochvara 10/23 – Belgrade, RS @ Zappa Baza 10/24 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5 10/26 – Istanbul, TR @ Blind 10/28 – Bucharest, RO @ Control 10/29 – Cluj, RO @ Atelier 10/30 – Budapest, HU @ A38 10/31 – Munich, DE @ Strom 11/02 – Zurich, CH @ Plaza 11/03 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali 11/05 – Lyon, FR @ L'Epicerie Moderne 11/06 – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie 11/07 – Lille, FR @ L'Aeronef 11/09 – Southampton, UK @ 1865 11/10 – Leeds, UK @ Project House 11/12 – Dublin, IE @ National Stadium 11/13 – Cork, IE @ Cypress Avenue 11/15 – Manchester, UK @ New Century 11/16 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage 11/17 – Bristol, UK @ SWX 11/19 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk 11/20 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town Popular Posts King of the Hill Revival Gets Hulu Release Date, New Opening Sequence Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence Are Now In-Laws Dave Mustaine: Metallica Stole "Enter Sandman" Riff from Another Band David Lynch's Personal Archive Going Up for Auction Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest Jonathan Joss, Voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, Shot and Killed by Neighbor Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Telegraph
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Do you often feel ashamed? Maybe you should
Do we live in a 'post-shame culture'? And whether we do or not, should we? In A Philosophy of Shame, a neat and erudite little book, Frédéric Gros tackles the paradoxes of this most excruciating of feelings. On the one hand, progressives argue that the shame someone might feel at being, say, gay or overweight is a legacy of historical accusations of deviancy or intemperance, and we should sweep it all aside. 'There is a pride in being oneself,' Gros writes. On this side is everyone from lifestyle gurus ('stop being ashamed of yourself!') to feminist campaigners against male sexual violence. Think of the emotion captured in 'the shame isn't ours to feel, it's theirs', as Gros's countrywoman Gisèle Pelicot recently declared of herself and 'all other women who are victims of rape'. Many conservatives, while accepting some of this, nonetheless suggest that there's value in everyday shame: that people in the 21st-century West have become too shameless in their dress and manner, their selfish and anti-social behaviour. On this view, the gradual erosion of shame, a consequence of individualism, has resulted in a degeneration of culture, and the damaging display of unbounded behaviour, particularly online, where one's public image, Gros writes, 'can now be quantified and fluctuate up and down like share values'. Gros understands this conservatism as the desire to return to the 'ethics of antiquity, where shame (aidos, pudor) was a lever of political obedience, a social watchword and a part of people's inner make-up.' Gros beautifully describes how modernity has rendered us members of 'societies without honour'. 'Channels of private vengeance', predicated on family and clan codes, have conceded their power to 'a public body of laws (the state), commercial transactions (capitalism) and the interplay of individual freedoms (liberalism).' In this post-honour culture, in which we live today, shame becomes impossible to avenge: when we're wronged, vigilante action remains unacceptable, because we're all supposedly equal in the eyes of the judicial system. Most of us frown, for instance, on families who for religious reasons murder their daughters in the name of some lapse of 'honour'. Even so, we can't fully transcend the fear of social shame, or the allure of schadenfreude. Think of the glee when a celebrity is caught overstepping some invisible hedonistic line, or of the demonic revelry of a good internet mobbing. Shame is alive and well, then, but we don't know exactly where it lives – and so it falls awkwardly somewhere between inward opprobrium, post-religious hangover and political battering-ram. Gros, crisply translated by Andrew James Bliss, wears his learning lightly, but he draws on an extraordinary range of literary, religious, historical, cinematic, psychoanalytic and philosophical descriptions of shame, from John Cassavetes to Franz Kafka, the rape of Lucretia to Primo Levi's exploration of the shame of surviving the concentration camps. Gros breaks shame down into three kinds: shame after an event, the shame of 'why me?', and shame for the world. Like Marx, who declared that 'shame is a revolution in itself', Gros sees in the third type, shame for the world (as exemplified by Levi), astonishing potential. Yes, shame, being a mixture of 'sadness and rage', can lead us into depression, self-resentment and 'solitary resignation'; but Gros argues that it can also forge 'a fiery and luminous path that transfigures us and fuels collective anger'. For those castigated for their identity, and made to feel ashamed of their poverty, race or sex, shame can reveal the outline of a potential political community. 'We need imagination,' he writes, 'to be ashamed.' But while Gros makes a great theoretical case for the revolutionary potential of shame, it didn't leave me any more sure that, in reality, alchemically converting one's shame into collective anger is the most effective mode (or mood) for bringing about social change. At one point, he suggests, rightly, that shame is often simply 'the expression of a desperate, naked desire to be liked'. In which case, having the courage to speak freely and to defend the truth, however unpopular it might make you, is the best way to confront shame – and any individual with sufficient bravery already has the power to do that.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Sport
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Complainant in hockey players' trial pushes back during tense cross-examination
A woman pushed back Friday after a defence lawyer suggested she felt embarrassed and ashamed for the choices she made the night she alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team. The heated exchange between the complainant and defence lawyer Daniel Brown capped off a day of cross-examination that focused on what happened at a downtown London, Ont., bar where the woman first met some of the players in June 2018. Court viewed a series of messages between the woman and one of her co-workers while they were at the bar that night and the following morning. In the morning messages, the co-worker mentioned seeing the woman "having a blast with those guys" and feeling that she was "in good hands," to which the complainant responded that the men were "funny." "That was the end of your conversation on June the 19th, correct? The guys were funny?" Brown asked Friday. "What do you want me to say? Something horrible just happened to me and I'm gonna tell this kind of a stranger what just went down?" the complainant replied. "I was really embarrassed. I felt so much shame. I was just messaging her as if nothing was wrong." "Shame and embarrassment for the choices you made," Brown said. "I made the choice to dance," she began to reply. Then, as the defence lawyer started to speak again, she continued: "No, I'd like to finish. I made the choice to dance with them and drink at the bar, I did not make the choice to have them do what they did back at the hotel." Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter that took place at the Delta hotel in the early hours of June 19, 2018. McLeod has also pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of being a party to the offence of sexual assault. The woman has testified that she and McLeod left Jack's bar together and had sex in his hotel room, an encounter that is not part of the trial. She was drunk, naked and afraid when men she didn't know started coming into the room afterward, she previously told the court. She described going on "autopilot" and feeling like she was watching herself from outside her body as she engaged in sexual acts with the men. CAUTION: The following paragraphs contain graphic content some readers may find disturbing. McLeod, Hart and Dube are accused of obtaining oral sex from the woman without her consent, and Dube is also accused of slapping her buttocks while she was engaged in a sexual act with someone else. Formenton is alleged to have had vaginal sex with the complainant without her consent inside the bathroom. Foote is alleged to have done the splits over her face and grazed his genitals on it without her consent. The Crown alleges McLeod also vaginally penetrated her without her consent at the end of the night. The defence has suggested the woman asked McLeod to call his friends into the room because she wanted a "wild night," and that she later invited the men to have sex with her. The woman said she has no memory of saying anything like that, and that if she had, it would have been an indication of her level of intoxication. The players should have known better, she said earlier this week, adding they would have known how much she drank at the bar before coming to the hotel. McLeod and several other members of the 2018 world junior team had gone to the bar that night after attending a gala celebrating their championship victory, the trial has heard. Formenton was not with them, however, because he was only 18 and too young to get into the bar, court heard. Brown, who represents Formenton, suggested Friday his client would not have known how much the complainant drank. The woman agreed, but said he "would have seen how out of my mind I was in the room after." Earlier in the trial, the woman told the court she'd had two coolers at home before going to the bar and two shots immediately after arriving, but that a group of men including some of the players bought most of her drinks after that. In total, she told the court, she had about eight shots at the bar, most of them Jagerbombs, as well as a vodka soda and a beer. She felt drunk and not fully aware of what was going on around her as she danced and interacted with the group, she said, and was still mentally "all over the place" as she left with McLeod. Under cross-examination Friday, the woman agreed she bought herself five shots and a vodka soda before interacting with any of the players or their entourage at the bar. "This is something that you drank and before you even met the players you were already too drunk to be able to comprehend," Brown suggested. "And that was something you did to yourself, a choice you made." "Correct, I had already had a lot of alcohol," the woman said. "So it wasn't any of the players (that) got you drunk. It was that you got yourself drunk," Brown said. "They continued to get me drunk though, there were still shots after all that. So if anything, it just shows that I had more than I even thought initially," the complainant replied. Brown suggested her alcohol intake may not have been as high as her drink tally implied because the Jagerbombs at Jack's contained a half ounce of liquor rather than a full ounce. Cross-examination is expected to continue Monday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 9, 2025. Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press
