![]() ![]() The Sky Pool garnered huge attention after opening this summer The Sky Pool gained huge attention after being launched in June, as aerial footage of it being enjoyed by residents on a hot, sunny day went viral.īut the facility came in for heavy criticism over the fact that affordable housing residents at Embassy Gardens are not allowed to access it, with the Financial Times' architecture critic Edwin Heathcote branding the Sky Pool "a disaster that’s already happened".Īrchitecture studio HAL, which designed the Sky Pool and claims it to be a world-first, previously told Dezeen it wanted to provide "a swim like no other". ![]() It's understood that the Embassy Gardens Residents Association plans to ask Ballymore at their next meeting to close and cover the Sky Pool for the rest of winter, with the water warmed just enough to prevent freezing.Įnergy prices in the UK are set to rise dramatically next year amid record wholesale costs for suppliers and the raising of a government-enforced cap on bills, meaning that heating the pool could be even more expensive in 2022. The pool is usually covered at nighttime to mitigate heat loss but has been left uncovered for the past fortnight after the cover became damaged and was removed for repairs. but it's been billed as a year-round facility that we're paying to be open and staffed by two people." "Not that I'd normally rush to swim in an outdoor pool 13 floors up in the winter. ![]() "The water was barely warm enough to stay in the water for more than 5-10 minutes, even at the far end where the warm water jets are," a recent post on an Embassy Gardens residents' Facebook group said. Rev your engines and catch the sermon on the road as it’s preached by everybody’s favorite Reverend.ĭon’t forget to keep an eye out for the 11th studio album from REVEREND HORTON HEAT, boldly titled Rev, due out January 21st.Read: Watch a swimmer in London's fully transparent Sky Pool For twenty-five Psychobilly years, they have blazed an indelible, unforgettable, and meteoric trail across the globe with their unique blend of musical virtuosity, legendary showmanship, and mythic imagery. Jim Heath & Jimbo Wallace have chewed up more road than the Google Maps drivers. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll.įrom the High-Octane Spaghetti-Western Wall of Sound in “Big Sky” - to the dark driving frenetic paranoia of “400 Bucks” – to the brain-melting Western Psychedelic Garage purity of “Psychobilly Freakout” - The Rev’s music is the perfect soundtrack to the Drive-In Movie of your life. These “itinerant preachers” actually practice what they preach. The Reverend’s commandants are simple.Īnd no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950′s that’s currently taking place in the future. ![]() Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots slamming the night away. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950′s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand-Up Bass. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. Littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. ![]()
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