Lungs Images Biography
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Tommy Tam Fu-Wing, also known as
Ti Lung (simplified Chinese traditional Chinese: Mandarin Pinyin: Dí Lóng;
Jyutping: Dik6 Lung4), or Dik Lung, is a Hong Kong actor, known for his
numerous starring roles in a string of Shaw Brothers Studio's films, particularly
The Sentimental Swordsman and its sequel, and in the classic A Better Tomorrow. He studied Wing Chun under the
martial arts master Jiu Wan. In 1968 Ti Lung responded to an advertisement
placed by the Shaw Brothers and applied at Shaw Acting Course, and upon
completion was awarded a minor role in Chang Cheh's Return of the
One-Armed Swordsman starring Jimmy Wang
Yu. Chang Cheh immediately recognized his potential and offered him the lead in
his next production Dead End opposite Golden Chen Hung-Lieh, a role which would
launch his career as one of the best known faces in classic Wuxia film. He
became a common face associated with David Chiang, Alexander Fu Sheng, Ku Feng,
Chen Kuan-Tai, the Venom Mob, and other Shaw Bros. stars at the time, often
cast as a dashing, noble hero as well as a capable martial artist. Although he left Shaw Brothers
Studios in the 1980s, Ti Lung's career took a turn for the worse until 1986,
when John Woo's A Better Tomorrow cast him opposite Chow Yun-fat in the role of
a Triad member. The movie was a box office success and placed Ti Lung back in
the public consciousness, although it changed his image from the handsome
martial youth to the tortured, would-be hero gangster. After that role, Ti
Lung's next most recognisable appearance would be with Jackie Chan in Drunken
Master II, in which he co-starred as Wong Kei-Ying, father of Chinese folk hero
Wong Fei Hung He also worked with Andy Lau in Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of
the Dragon as the legendary Guan Yu. From there, he has continued to work in
television in a variety of roles. He is the uncle of Jerry Lamb and Jan Lamb.
Lung is a punk band from Vancouver,
B.C. compromised of Mish Way
(vocals), Grady Mackintosh (bass), Kenneth William (guitar) and Anne-Marie
Vassiliou (drums). They have released three 7-inch’s Local Garbage (2007),
Magazines (2008) and Atlanta (2010) as well as two LPs It’s The Evil (2010) and (2012). Their debut LP It’s
The Evil received critical acclaim from MaximumRock n’ Roll, Razor Cake,
CHARTAttack and was named Best Punk Record Of The Year by Exclaim! Magazine.
This year, they released their sophomore effort Sorry to even more praise from
SPIN, Pitchfork, Bitch, Pop Matters, PunkNews, amongst many others commending
mostly on the band’s unique and inimitable yet very classic approach to punk
rock. BLARE magazine named the single
“Take The Mirror” one of the best songs of the summer while many critics have added Sorry to their forthcoming Top
Records lists for the end of the year. The band has toured the US and Canada extensively and embarked on
their first Europe/UK tour in fall of 2012. “[D]espite White Lung’s
threatening devotion to the more venomous corners of rapid-fire punk, Sorry is
compulsively listenable due in no small part to singer Mish Way’s successful
pinning of a sweet spot between snarled yells, curled syllables, and melodic
but equally intimidating, tobacco-tattered verse.” –..“White Lung comes in,
unleashes a couple minutes of post-hardcore brutality, and then retreats before
the listener has become totally exhausted or bored.” –
“Sorry exists in a comfortable
middle-ground between abrasive and poppy, and never commit too heavily to
either side. The manic energy is uncontained and angry, at times, but always
led on a straight path by the pure exuberance and bounciness of the record.” –
Sputnik Music Melodic as it is Sorry also has few discernible pop-music
touchpoints, displaying White Lung’s ability to craft bizarre yet accessible
songs. This, pals, is how apunk rock record should sound in
2012. - Fast Forward Weekly “Sorry is a visceral piece of work and it has a
sense of feelings and opinions being spat out in an attempt to try and exorcise
something that is gnawing away deep within Way. It will be in my top 10 at the
end of the year.”
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