Andrew Candish
@andrewcandish.bsky.social
Character actor. Used to be an aid worker.
Terrible sense of direction.
Coffee not tea.
Spotlight 8730-1276-2637
Home studio.
Terrible sense of direction.
Coffee not tea.
Spotlight 8730-1276-2637
Home studio.
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Whizbangs active. Saxons throw
parcels of fags across.
Cold & frosty. Interview with
Saxon. Corporal educated
Dresden University. Only for
war would have been at Cambridge.
More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...
parcels of fags across.
Cold & frosty. Interview with
Saxon. Corporal educated
Dresden University. Only for
war would have been at Cambridge.
More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...
28 November 1915
Whizbangs active. Saxons throw parcels of fags across. Cold & frosty. Interview with Saxon. Corporal educated Dresden University. Only for war would have been at Cambridge. CommentaryOver three…
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November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Whizbangs active. Saxons throw
parcels of fags across.
Cold & frosty. Interview with
Saxon. Corporal educated
Dresden University. Only for
war would have been at Cambridge.
More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...
parcels of fags across.
Cold & frosty. Interview with
Saxon. Corporal educated
Dresden University. Only for
war would have been at Cambridge.
More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...
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UK arts funding over the last 15 years:
2010:
Arts Council cut by 30%
Culture funding cut by 50%
UK Film Council closed
2022:
London arts funding cut by £56m
2025:
DMCS budget cut by 15%
Yet last year the Arts generated £126b for the UK economy, making them the UK’s fifth largest industry.
2010:
Arts Council cut by 30%
Culture funding cut by 50%
UK Film Council closed
2022:
London arts funding cut by £56m
2025:
DMCS budget cut by 15%
Yet last year the Arts generated £126b for the UK economy, making them the UK’s fifth largest industry.
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 AM
UK arts funding over the last 15 years:
2010:
Arts Council cut by 30%
Culture funding cut by 50%
UK Film Council closed
2022:
London arts funding cut by £56m
2025:
DMCS budget cut by 15%
Yet last year the Arts generated £126b for the UK economy, making them the UK’s fifth largest industry.
2010:
Arts Council cut by 30%
Culture funding cut by 50%
UK Film Council closed
2022:
London arts funding cut by £56m
2025:
DMCS budget cut by 15%
Yet last year the Arts generated £126b for the UK economy, making them the UK’s fifth largest industry.
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A HUGE THANK YOU
Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity.
Please share.
Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity.
Please share.
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A HUGE THANK YOU
Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity.
Please share.
Archive legend, and a trustee of the Film is Fabulous! Trust, Sue Malden, has a message for everyone who has supported the team with donations, pledges, and positivity.
Please share.
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At the height of Dalekmania, Daleks would have to arrange elaborate travel plans, including decoy vans and body doubles, to keep throngs of screaming fans at bay. Some days, the crowds outside Riverside Studios were so large, Daleks would have to film their scenes at home.
October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
At the height of Dalekmania, Daleks would have to arrange elaborate travel plans, including decoy vans and body doubles, to keep throngs of screaming fans at bay. Some days, the crowds outside Riverside Studios were so large, Daleks would have to film their scenes at home.
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Another Film Collection
Over 1,000 films from a former industry professional are being collected by the Film is Fabulous! team on Tuesday. These will be catalogued and preserved.
More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-...
Over 1,000 films from a former industry professional are being collected by the Film is Fabulous! team on Tuesday. These will be catalogued and preserved.
More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-...
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Another Film Collection
Over 1,000 films from a former industry professional are being collected by the Film is Fabulous! team on Tuesday. These will be catalogued and preserved.
More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-...
Over 1,000 films from a former industry professional are being collected by the Film is Fabulous! team on Tuesday. These will be catalogued and preserved.
More Info: filmisfabulous.org.uk/documenting-...
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Film is Fabulous are doing such vital work. They need support from people like us who care about preserving media, to help assess, transport, catalogue, store and acquire film collections.
Donate if you can afford it! 🙏 filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... ⬇️
Donate if you can afford it! 🙏 filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... ⬇️
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Film is Fabulous are doing such vital work. They need support from people like us who care about preserving media, to help assess, transport, catalogue, store and acquire film collections.
Donate if you can afford it! 🙏 filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... ⬇️
Donate if you can afford it! 🙏 filmisfabulous.org.uk/the-film-is-... ⬇️
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Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Happy International Coffee Day! A German word that describes a coffee substitute, usually made from barley malt, is Muckefuck. It essentially means "rotting wood mulch" and can also describe any weak coffee. So next time someone makes you a bad coffee feel free to say "What the Muckefuck is this?"
Glorious
✈️CLEARED FOR TAKE OFF!️✈️
Here’s your first chance to listen to a song from #TheHighLife: The Musical, with Air Stewards Steve and Sebastian reunited in the sound booth and hitting those high notes🎶
Here’s your first chance to listen to a song from #TheHighLife: The Musical, with Air Stewards Steve and Sebastian reunited in the sound booth and hitting those high notes🎶
September 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Glorious
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"It's terrifying."
🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI
This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard.
Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...
🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI
This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard.
Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"It's terrifying."
🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI
This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard.
Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...
🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI
This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard.
Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...
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“That’s a whole different kettle of fish” in other languages...
5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish)
2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)
5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish)
2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“That’s a whole different kettle of fish” in other languages...
5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish)
2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)
5. This is flour from another sack (Spanish)
4. That’s another pair of sleeves (French)
3. These are another pair of wellies (Polish)
2. That’s a cousin from a different auntie (Malay)
1. This is a different dish of cabbage (Hungarian)
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"You must come and see our dugout. It is a treat as we have a wooden floor in it and cover the ceiling and walls with canvas to prevent the mice throwing soil on us."
For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...
For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...
Letter: 18 September 1915
By the Lake,In The DugoutFlanders,18 Sept ’15 My dear Jimmy Thanks so much for your fine letter which arrived yesterday. We are very busy just now building dugouts for Head Quarters to live in for …
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September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"You must come and see our dugout. It is a treat as we have a wooden floor in it and cover the ceiling and walls with canvas to prevent the mice throwing soil on us."
For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...
For the rest of this letter from George in a #WW1 #WesternFront #dugout see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/l...
In the last few years my workplace has lost a lot of staff with international heritage. It’s less interesting, less delightful.
September 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
In the last few years my workplace has lost a lot of staff with international heritage. It’s less interesting, less delightful.
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"Whistling for London taxis was banned, people were forbidden to loiter near bridges, it was an offence to buy alcoholic drinks for other, and fines were issued for making white flour instead of wholewheat." More on crime in #WW1 georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/9...
9 September 1915
The Liverpool Scottish were not all heroic – sometimes the soldiers did ‘silly things’. This from the West Sussex Gazette.Bernard Price, a big lad, of the Liverpool Scottish, did a sill…
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September 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"Whistling for London taxis was banned, people were forbidden to loiter near bridges, it was an offence to buy alcoholic drinks for other, and fines were issued for making white flour instead of wholewheat." More on crime in #WW1 georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/9...
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Letter from George in the trenches to his seven-year-old brother "The Huns sent a few shells over this afternoon searching for our artillery and smashed our ration cupboard and dirtied our clean plates." georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...
Letter: 12 August 1915
In the Trenches 12 August 15 My Dear Brother, We are still up in the trenches but are to be relieved tomorrow night. We have had lovely weather while we have been up here the only fault is that the…
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August 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Letter from George in the trenches to his seven-year-old brother "The Huns sent a few shells over this afternoon searching for our artillery and smashed our ration cupboard and dirtied our clean plates." georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/l...
Acting is mostly auditioning, so turn yer phone off…
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Acting is mostly auditioning, so turn yer phone off…
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'On reaching the German trenches, the British were naturally pleased to find coffee, which had been kept hot in a huge Thermos flask, as well as cognac, cigars and cigarettes.'
More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/3...
More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/3...
3 August 1915
[George’s diary for this period has not survived, so this blog post focuses on what the Liverpool Scottish were doing at this point.] The Penrith Observer of 3 August contained a detailed acc…
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August 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
'On reaching the German trenches, the British were naturally pleased to find coffee, which had been kept hot in a huge Thermos flask, as well as cognac, cigars and cigarettes.'
More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/3...
More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/3...
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An English phrase for describing two things (or people) that are completely different is “like chalk and cheese.” A similar phrase in Czech is jako nebe a dudy. It means “like heaven and bagpipes.”
July 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An English phrase for describing two things (or people) that are completely different is “like chalk and cheese.” A similar phrase in Czech is jako nebe a dudy. It means “like heaven and bagpipes.”
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Killing children. Starvation as a weapon of war. Targeting aid workers. These are all RED LINES. Many more have been crossed by Israel.
As the UK gvmt breaks for summer, we demand it takes action to end its complicity in these atrocities in #Gaza bit.ly/RedLine__Mosaic
📸 Andy Aitchison / Oxfam
As the UK gvmt breaks for summer, we demand it takes action to end its complicity in these atrocities in #Gaza bit.ly/RedLine__Mosaic
📸 Andy Aitchison / Oxfam
July 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Killing children. Starvation as a weapon of war. Targeting aid workers. These are all RED LINES. Many more have been crossed by Israel.
As the UK gvmt breaks for summer, we demand it takes action to end its complicity in these atrocities in #Gaza bit.ly/RedLine__Mosaic
📸 Andy Aitchison / Oxfam
As the UK gvmt breaks for summer, we demand it takes action to end its complicity in these atrocities in #Gaza bit.ly/RedLine__Mosaic
📸 Andy Aitchison / Oxfam
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Left London 23rd 5am
At Lpool 10am
George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...
At Lpool 10am
George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...
23 July 1915
Left London 23rd 5am At Lpool 10am [This entry was added to 22 July rather than forming a complete entry.] Commentary At 8am on 22 July, George was in a trench. A little more than 24 hours later he…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Left London 23rd 5am
At Lpool 10am
George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...
At Lpool 10am
George is home on leave for the first time since November – hoorah! More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/2...
Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid
July 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid
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Equity President, Lynda Rooke, shares some wise words outside the High Court this morning.
We now wait for the judgement in the coming weeks.
Win or lose, Equity will always keep fighting for our members.
We now wait for the judgement in the coming weeks.
Win or lose, Equity will always keep fighting for our members.
July 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Equity President, Lynda Rooke, shares some wise words outside the High Court this morning.
We now wait for the judgement in the coming weeks.
Win or lose, Equity will always keep fighting for our members.
We now wait for the judgement in the coming weeks.
Win or lose, Equity will always keep fighting for our members.
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Today is the day.
We're at the High Court as Equity's case against Spotlight's fees is heard.
Read about the case: tinyurl.com/EquityCourtCase
We're at the High Court as Equity's case against Spotlight's fees is heard.
Read about the case: tinyurl.com/EquityCourtCase
Equity challenges Spotlight's fees in High Court
Equity’s legal challenge against casting directory Spotlight is officially listed to be heard at the high Court on 15 and 16 July 2025.
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July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Today is the day.
We're at the High Court as Equity's case against Spotlight's fees is heard.
Read about the case: tinyurl.com/EquityCourtCase
We're at the High Court as Equity's case against Spotlight's fees is heard.
Read about the case: tinyurl.com/EquityCourtCase
Lovely info here on how British soldiers used local place names in the trenches
Fine morning after
the night’s rain. Have
look round our quarters.
Our redoubt is a collection
of underground bomb proof
dug outs connected by
passages fine having boarded
floors not the least sign
of dampness. The various
passages [...]
More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/1...
the night’s rain. Have
look round our quarters.
Our redoubt is a collection
of underground bomb proof
dug outs connected by
passages fine having boarded
floors not the least sign
of dampness. The various
passages [...]
More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/1...
15 July 1915
Fine morning after the night’s rain. Have look round our quarters. Our redoubt is a collection of underground bomb proof dug outs connected by passages fine having boarded floors not the least sign…
georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Lovely info here on how British soldiers used local place names in the trenches
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Why are Spotlight's fees a 'tax on hope'?
Ahead of our upcoming legal case against Spotlight, Equity Vice-President Jackie Clune breaks down exactly what the ‘tax on hope’ is and why we’re fighting for fairness in our industry.
Ahead of our upcoming legal case against Spotlight, Equity Vice-President Jackie Clune breaks down exactly what the ‘tax on hope’ is and why we’re fighting for fairness in our industry.
July 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why are Spotlight's fees a 'tax on hope'?
Ahead of our upcoming legal case against Spotlight, Equity Vice-President Jackie Clune breaks down exactly what the ‘tax on hope’ is and why we’re fighting for fairness in our industry.
Ahead of our upcoming legal case against Spotlight, Equity Vice-President Jackie Clune breaks down exactly what the ‘tax on hope’ is and why we’re fighting for fairness in our industry.