Joe Stilgoe 🎹
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The life story of Joe Stilgoe, as written by Billy Wilder. New album THEATRE out now Rep by @neilobrienents and @TheCBG_
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Huw Edwards has been absolutely brilliant there. Quite the hardest job in broadcasting and from what I saw he did it perfectly.
@thehuwedwards
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He was part of my actual childhood
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Great day filming today with
@adrianbliss
and
@JacksGap
for an exciting new project for
@guardian
. Mouth zipped for now, all to be revealed.
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Last night. I had the great honour to be asked to arrange and play for the In Memoriam section at the BAFTAs with the glorious
@hanwaddingham
She sang my arrangement of Time After Time, a tribute to the truly great actors who we lost last year.
Thank you
@bafta
for having me
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Last night
#Oliviers
We opened the show with my new arrangement of Anything Goes, delivered impeccably by
@hanwaddingham
, featuring
@LCGCtweets
and the
@BBCCO
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Rehearsing for the
@OlivierAwards
with
@hanwaddingham
. Band
@BBCCO
led by
@GarethValentin3
sounding fantastic - all beautifully directed by the great Anthony Van Laast.
Watch, ITV, Sunday 10.15pm.
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Waddingham be the boss
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Very sneaky peak into what we’re cooking up here
@RoyalAlbertHall
for
@OlivierAwards
tonight.
Finally I get to work with the glorious
@LCGCtweets
again. And of course the dynamite
@hanwaddingham
and
@BBCCO
#Oliviers
#AlbertHall
#bts
#pianoshot
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In a moment of madness
@jazzfm
have given me my own show. We started recording it this week and I have LOVED getting cracking.
I interviewed Vince Mendoza yesterday. He was brilliant.
All will be revealed…
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When every night
The set that’s smart is
Out crashing the after parties
At the Larry O’s
Anything goes…
#Oliviers
#HannahWaddingham
#alberthall
@YamahaPianos
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A sad day today. My musical mentor and Dad's best friend Peter Skellern died this morning. The loveliest, most brilliant man.
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I’m going to start doing some online shows from my shed. So, if you have a favourite song, or a song you’d like to hear me try not to butcher, please start shouting now.
I’ll announce when the first show will be live.
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Well at least Jurassic Park is on. A film about a fantasist with a silly accent who is in charge of a tiny island whose inhabitants are now all very angry and want to eat him.
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I can finally, and very excitedly, announce that I'm writing the songs for the adaptation of this lovely David Walliams book. It's a cracker. Will be on from October.
Dale Rooks directs a world premiere for all ages in the Festival Theatre: the delightful
#TheMidnightGang
by
@davidwalliams
, adapted by Bryony Lavery, with music & lyrics by
@joestilgoe
#Festival2018
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Well, last night my rather wonderful wife
@katievbeard
ACTUALLY WON best choreography
@GBPantoAwards
. Completely in awe of her, and thrilled to be there to share the joy. WHOOOP!
@YvonneArnaud
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Sir Dad has just been on
@BBCTheOneShow
with students from
@orpheuscentre
. He was absolutely brilliant, and he should do this every week (as should they). Stilgoe back on telly - the campaign starts now!
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Absolutely agree. What a brilliant comment.
In my opinion, no politician is allowed to walk on stage to music if they’re continuing to remove it from school curriculums.
#justsaying
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This is a heavily Stephen Sondheim centred tweet.
I wrote a piece about Sondheim, about Being Alive, for the new
@MusicalsMag
.
Did I tell you I love Sondheim?
@SondheimSociety
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In tribute to my Dad (Richard Stilgoe) who used to do this so brilliantly, I thought I’d try some anagrams of the names from the
#LeadersDebate
Tom Tugendhat: Bum Bumbumbum
Penny Mordaunt: Bumhole Bumdaunt
Rishi Sunak: Bummy Bumhead
Kemi Badenoch: Bum Bumbottom
Liz Truss: Bum
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Much fun on Front Row tonight with
@SamiraAhmedUK
and lovely to meet the brilliant Taron Egerton and
@raifarafiq
. So pleased I could play December Lights on air.
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Last night before the show we heard John Motson had died. I sat at the piano and had a play of this…
#MatchOfTheDay
#JohnMotson
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We’d already been playing Raindrops Keep Falling in every show but tonight we’re REALLY going to play it.
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I have a new home! 🏡🎶
Excited to announce I’ve signed a publishing deal with the exceedingly brilliant Music Sales group
@MSClassical
@mscreativeuk
. So excited to work with them on all my new projects (including an opera called ‘remembering to take my cap off indoors’).
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Fireworks going off in Hove. I’m actually despairing. And also you’re waking up everyone’s children for the worst reason ever.
#Brexit
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There's nothing else for it. Today I start writing my first musical.
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Thrilling rehearsals for the Oliviers today. We can't reveal WHAT is happening, but IT IS happening.
Olivier Awards. This Sunday.
@ITV
@WhatsOnStage
#HannahWaddingham
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This is my new BEST THING ON THE INTERNET.
Martin Roberts playing air piano is the centre of my life’s venn diagram. (Left circle piano, right circle Homes Under The Hammer).
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Right. I’ve officially started writing the songs for The Midnight Gang. There’s no turning back now...
@ChichesterFT
@davidwalliams
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I’m sure nobody was waiting for my take on this, but I have this platform and I have to say it. Racism is completely abhorrent and should never be tolerated. Also, while I’m here, Trump is awful.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Well well well, what a lovely thing. The new album arrived today. And it’s that guy’s birthday! (Mine)
#TheHeatIsOn
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I’m with Gary Lineker the
@BBCSingers
and the
@BBCSO
and
@BBCCO
and currently pretty sad about what the BBC is doing (and those little Rumpelstiltskins pulling their strings).
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Watching An Audience With Victoria Wood from ages ago. Good lord she was good. The stand up is so assured, surreal and brilliant but then the songs. The songs!
Caveat - this is not a new revelation. I’m a massive fan, but it’s good to be reminded.
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Please tell me we don’t have ANOTHER culture secretary who has no knowledge or appreciation of culture and its importance to the UK. The theatre and music industries need a rescue package urgently.
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The cat (not Phil Tufnell) is out of the bag. Thrilled beyond measure to announce (after Aggers did this morning) that I'll be appearing on View From The Boundary
@bbctms
on sept 11th at Old Trafford.
🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🦗
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Good morning campers!
This Wednesday at 8pm the shed will be open once more. We're going to do 20 shows and get to 100. Then everything will be fine.
I've missed you.
See you there.
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Here’s the first Shed Duet with
@DickLeFenwick
. It must be said that not only is he brilliant and has the best voice in the business, he also fitted the pianos together.
#HighSociety
#ShedDuets
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BREAKING NEWS (*not about the election)
Calling all campers! Stilgoe In The Shed is starting again! We'll be doing a special album launch show this Friday 6th at 1pm, and then continuing the fun from Monday all through the mockdown.
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Also wonderful to see lots of pals and bump into
@RobBrydon
as he tried to leave.
#OlivierAwards
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An England cricket result like the one from Lords today is incredible and wonderful, but also awful, for two reasons.
1. I should have been there
2. I was at Hello Kitty World
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Some happy news. Copies of my 8th album arrived in my shed today with a satisfying THUD. First look at the tracklist too. It’s a lovely thing indeed, and I just hope you’ll like the music as much as I loved recording it. Out on Nov 6th!
@SilvaScreen
@SilvaScreenUSA
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As someone who tries to stay positive at all times I’d just like to say...
Oh shit.
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We watched the
#SondheimsOldFriends
concert and it was BRILLIANT. So many to mention but I wanted particularly to highlight the band, arrangements and the fabulous conducting of
@alfonsocasadot
.
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Just to say,
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
are very welcome to use any of my music and if they want to use it all the time that would be fine too.
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A bit of Sondheim in rehearsal for your morning coffee/ smoothie/ oat sludge/ wine.
@BBCCO
conducted by
@wakeuptom
arranged by
@callumaubigband
at Battersea Arts Centre.
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Last night was a bit of a dream, performing
@expo2020dubai
to 8000 people with my band under the stars. Just your usual Christmas Day, really...
To share the same stage as the great
@MsLeaSalonga
also a great thrill. Thanks for having us Expo.
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To all professionals in the film, television, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. Copy the text and post a pic.
#SaveTheArtsUK
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Afternoon campers!
Here's the 3rd shed duet, with hirsute hunky hero
@hadleyfraser
. If you are experiencing any symptoms, it might not be THAT, it might be THIS.
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So, we’re going for, it wonderful people. You choose the songs, I’ll play them. See you back here at 1pm. The link will take you live to YouTube, but if you can’t make it each show will be available to watch later.
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Last night:
Really too big to process today, so just to say
AEEEYYYYYIIIAEEERGGGGHHHHIIIA!
Also:
Thank you everyone who came. Thank you
#TomRichards
@BBCCO
@BarbicanCentre
Amazing. More coherent words later…
📸Steve Gregson
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@julianvelard
If only someone would do a similar documentary about the Guildford Jazz Festival 2017, which was the same as Fyre but not in the Bahamas and nobody bought any tickets.
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I'm retraining as someone who thinks Dominic Cummings hasn't destroyed the country.
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Well, the quite frankly painful 5.30am start has made way for some good news. Article in
@thetimes2
is out, and we’re number 1 on
@iTunes
!
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Rehearsals in full swing for tomorrow’s
@LondonPalladium
show
@BBCRadio2
with the wonderful
@SheenCaroline
@LouiseDearman
and
@michaelxavierUK
. It sounds INCREDIBLE. Can’t wait.
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Anyone else feel like this is the week you would have got your hair cut?
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Today I started an exciting new adventure
@jazzfm
. All to be revealed…
A good omen that broadcasting idol Simon Mayo was in the next door studio.
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Very excited to announce that tonight is the night for my annual watching of Four Weddings.
#AsLongAsYouHaven
’tForgottenTheRings
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I went to Me And My Girl last night
@ChichesterFT
. A complete joy of a show, made more remarkable by the understudy to Matt Lucas,
@ryanpidgen
. 2 hours notice and he absolutely smashed it, as did everyone else. Very moving, very wonderful, and very well done
@DanielEvansCFT
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Here’s what I’m doing in my shed.
Today’s 1pm show will be a takeover for
@ChestnutSussex
, dedicated to the children and staff of this absolutely wonderful charity.
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Very enjoyable photoshoot for Guys & Dolls with this esteemed bunch.
🎶 Let’s keep the party polite... 🎵 🎶
@AdrianLester
@JasonManford
@RoyalAlbertHall
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Happy birthday Dad. I’ll be seeing you in the shed later, with your request (for me to stop playing the piano).
JOKES. 🍾🎂🎉
#Today
in 1943 Birth of English
#composer
and pianist Richard
#Stilgoe
.
#MusicHistory
#classicalmusic
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The jumpers! I’m pretty sure Richard Whiteley’s suit is actually a jumper too....
I believe the grey piano one is still in Dad’s drawer (not a well used drawer, I should add).
Ah, Countdown.
(Every picture tells a story. Let’s not dig too deep to find what this one tells.)
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A nation waits. History holds its breath. Legends will be created, heroes will be crowned and "I was there" stories told across the land.
Gardeners World. Tonight. 8pm. BBC2
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Happy Birthday Mr Matcham 🎈
Frank Matcham, born 22.11.1884
Here’s your 🎁
#THEATRE
#MrMatcham
@frankmatchamsoc
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If this is true this is ALL down to people in the arts showing they won’t lie down and take being ignored and patronised by their own government. Fingers crossed...
Big package of government support coming for the arts tomorrow - very welcome and just in time
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Well I can't say I'm not excited. At the
@RoyalAlbertHall
, in the snow, first time singing here and an amazing cast - Guy Barker's Big Band with strings,
@clareteal
@MicaParisSoul
@tonymomrelle
@Giacomomoney
and Georgie Fame.
#CHRISTMAS
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Today is the day. I’ve had a beautiful jog through St James Park (and just avoided being entered into the London 10k) and now having a coffee and going through tonight’s show. I can’t wait to see you all there. Give a cheer!
@BarbicanCentre
@BBCCO
@guildhallschool
@BBCRadio2
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If you want to see me dance, and wear a hat, you should probably come to see Guys & Dolls
@RoyalAlbertHall
this weekend. The Crapshooters dance is worth the ticket price alone (probably because I’m not in it).
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About to have my first ever tap lesson. This is what you wear on your feet, right?
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Well, we did it. 100 shows. Notwithstanding the bit where I shut down the internet after being distracted by getting to £20k on the Justgiving page, it was ok. Not too bad. Room for improvement.
You can watch again here.
Thank you EVERYONE.
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Had a lovely morning telling our 3 year old daughter about Aretha and playing her songs. Now feeling pretty heartbroken after that BBC tribute - all she stood for and sung for...
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Back with the master
@RobBrydon
tonight. What a joy.
Obviously don’t retweet this Rob but the voice is incredible - THIS MAN CAN SING.
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Thrilled to be nominated this year. The shed is also quite pleased.
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Everyone! Thank you for tuning in earlier- slightly overwhelming but lovely experience, and great requests. If you'd like to catch up, here you go. Episode 2 will be 1pm tomorrow, Thursday 19th.
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Character matters. Being a good person matters.
The reaction of Van Jones to the Joe Biden news is worth two minutes of your time
#Election2020
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Thrilled to share this year's confirmed line-up for my week
@LiveAtZedel
in May. And, yes, I will tag them all (for fun).
@Deejanie
@MeowTopia
@rachelparris
@GavinSpokes
@dannymaconline
@JasonManford
@HarryHill
@DanielEvansCFT
@kittylaroar
@lianecarroll
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I did a shed show last night. Worried about the technology for almost the whole show I was finally scuppered by… the phone running out of battery. 🤦
This is how it ended, with eternal buffering. In the middle of the last song. Still, leave them wanting more eh?
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A total joy to interview my pal Guy Barker today for
@jazzfm
. All to be revealed soon, but this man has stories and wisdom for miles.
(And about Miles, while you’re there…)
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
I am releasing a BRAND NEW ALBUM on the 28th June: THE HEAT IS ON! - SWINGING THE 80s.
Featuring huge songs from the great 80s blockbusters from Karate Kid to Batman, reinvented for swinging big band.
#TheHeatIsOn
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Very excited, at last, to be able to announce this. Three shows only
@RoyalAlbertHall
. Can’t wait.
Exclusive: Casting announced for Guys and Dolls at the Royal Albert Hall
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Now THIS is a gig.
Totally thrilled to announced that I will be performing
@OlivierAwards
on Sunday. Good luck to all nominees!
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Rather thrilled to announce officially that I'm writing the songs for Julia Donaldon's ZOG. Parents, you know what I'm talking about. Everyone else, it's an orange dragon. You can still come. It will be fun. Touring all next year.
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Oh. Yes.
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Happy birthday to my dear Dad, my dear nephew Leo and, well, to my shed.
100 today. Everyone coming?
#StilgoeInTheShed
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Dear Campers,
As you might have heard, after 60 shows I'm having a bit of time off, so there won't be a shed until we start a new weekly show next Saturday.
Saturday Night Shed will now be HUGE, obvs.
Until then, here's the 60th.
#Shed
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9th wedding anniversary today. That was a GREAT December 22nd…
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Back to the most perfectly festive venue IN THE WORLD tonight
@RoyalAlbertHall
to sing for Guy Barker’s Big Band Christmas along with the the rather wonderful
@clareteal
@tonymomrelle
@livwarfield
@Giacomomoney
Who’s a ding dong coming? 🎄
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Is it appropriate to use a year 2 parents WhatsApp group to publicise your new album?
Asking for a friend…
#THEATRE
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Freddie Mercury would have been 72 today. There’s still quite a large part of me that wanted to be him.
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This is actually very good news for me. I still get night terrors thinking of having to play this song in my piano bar days.
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Well well well...
I'm doing a gig. AN ACTUAL GIG. WITH PEOPLE WATCHING.
July 31st. Brighton. Only 200 tickets. COME.
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