I would just be in the corner with beer and zoots.
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One way or another, these are the men who have inadvertently pioneered spliffs, joints, zoots, blunts and quite possibly bongs in the beautiful game.
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Before joining the company he worked in various financial roles at firms including venture capital-backed start-up Zoots and catalog retailer Specialty Catalog Corporation.
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The sunshine days dotting around in shorts, slurping on lukewarm tinnies and lugging on deeply dehydrating zoots all seem transfixed to the distant, unassailable past.
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Unless you're toting a butane oil filled vape, sneaking fat zoots into a club is slightly more difficult than sliding a pinger in the recesses of a sort of hidden jacket pocket.
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But there are other instances, like on "Give Yourself a Try" ("I found a grey hair in one of my zoots"), and "Mine" ("I fight crime online sometimes"), which are less convincing—and yet, nine times out of ten on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, Healy's personal bombast, and his confidence in his project, just about carries even the most brow furrowing of lines off.
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Krasnow co- founded Zoots in 1998 and was co-founder and CEO of Zoots dry cleaning chain across America. He was chairman of Zoots until its sale in 2008. The company's sales in 2000 were $30 million and had 41 retail locations and 124 home- delivery routes with nearly 1,000 employees. In 2008 sold off its operating assets.
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Jitterbugs and Zoots were the real catalyst for the Lindyhop revival in the 1980's and 90's. Ryan Francois and Julie Oram taught Lindy Hop classes followed by DJed music from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Sing Lim, "an extra enthusiastic and energetic dancer", became good friends with Ryan and Julie and in 1991, she started to help run Jitterbugs. Sing Lim taught the dance classes when Ryan and Julie were out of town performing for Zoots and Spangles, as well as helped advertise and promote the club.
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After the first few classes, Ryan Francois joined the classes and later that year became a member of the Jiving Lindy Hoppers. During the 1990s, he was considered one of the most talented modern Lindy Hoppers and travelled internationally to teach and perform the Lindy Hop with his dance company, Zoots and Spangles Authentic Jazz Dance Company (formed in 1986) formed with two other dancers who also left The Jiving Lindyhoppers troupe to form Zoots and Spangles. On 31 October 1987, Simon Erland, a sculptor and dance enthusiast, started Jitterbugs London with Ryan Francoise, the first European Lindy Hop and Swing club to run weekly events with classes that began the social Lindyhop revival. Ryan's troupe Zoots and Spangles were an integral part of the club and performed there regularly as well as in stage shows which grew the popular awareness of the dance.
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In June 2011 free downloads of Live from Death Valley were made available through Deathbomb Arc's Bandcamp page, with cover art for the single made by Mario Zoots. On November 2011, as part of the first year of Deathbomb Arc's "Singles Club" collection; the two tracks were featured on the second half. In late August 2016, Deathbomb Arc issued cassettes for sale on their website, stating that it had "been requested time and again to get some sort of physical release".
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The old Pilot Cinema The Pilot cinema on Pilot Street was built by local builder Ben Culey in 1938. It closed in 1983 and the last film shown according to local memory was Gandhi. Since then it has been a roller skating rink, a garden centre and, lastly, Zoots nightclub which was refurbished at a cost of 2 million pounds before it reopened on 15 April 1999. It closed the doors for the final time on Saturday, 26 January 2008.
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He has worked on stage with artists as diverse as Ben E. King, Ronnie Wood, and Jools Holland, as well as having done numerous live BBC Radio 1 broadcasts and TV appearances. Gilderdale has composed material for the award-winning computer game Broken Sword by Revolution software and regularly has incidental music feature on TV and Radio which he writes with the independent production company MZen When not touring with Acoustic Alchemy, he can be often spotted gigging around the UK with The Blueflies, a funk/blues outfit composed of Miles, ex-Zoots bassist and co- songwriter Gavin Ewing and drummer Paul Stipetic. While allowing Gilderdale to rock-out and improvise, The Blueflies hard-edged funk blues sound is in contrast to his 'smooth jazz' solo work and performances with Acoustic Alchemy.
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