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n. (plural of mother English)
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Mothers (formerly the Carlton Ballroom) was a club in the Erdington district of Birmingham, West Midlands, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mothers opened above an old furniture store in Erdington High Street on 9 August 1968. The club, run by John 'Spud' Taylor and promoter Phil Myatt, closed its doors on 3 January 1971. Between these times, more than 400 acts performed there, many of whom went on to greater success.
Well known live recordings that took place in Mothers were the recordings that Pink Floyd released on Ummagumma, recorded on 27 April 1969., and parts of "Facelift" by Soft Machine, released on Third, recorded 11 January 1970.
The Who performed Tommy and Traffic's world debut took place at Mothers along with fledgling heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath playing some of their earliest gigs there.
Some of the other well known rock bands and artists to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row (with Gary Moore), The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat (there is a reference to the club in the sleeve notes of their 1969 compilation Canned Heat Cookbook) and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Karakorum featuring Martin Chambers later with The Pretenders.
While returning home to London from a performance at Mothers on 12 May 1969, Fairport Convention's van crashed on the M1 motorway, killing drummer Martin Lamble, aged only nineteen, and Jeannie Franklyn, guitarist Richard Thompson's girlfriend. The rest of the band suffered injuries of varying severity.
Mothers was voted number one rock venue in the world by America's Billboard magazine and John Peel, a regular DJ at the club, was quoted as saying: "People are amazed to hear that for a few years the best club in Britain was in Erdington."
Roy Harper later told Brum Beat magazine:
On 13 July 2013 a Blue Plaque was unveiled at the former Mothers building
Mothers is a 2010 Macedonian drama film directed by Milcho Manchevski. The film was selected as the Macedonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it didn't make the final shortlist. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Panorama section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
Mothers is an American band from Athens, Georgia.
Mothers is the second studio album by British indie rock band Swim Deep, released on 2 October 2015 on Chess Club, a subsidiary of RCA. Mothers peaked at number 55 on the U.K. charts and received generally positive reviews.
Following the success of their debut album, Where the Heaven Are We, Swim Deep began to record Mothers in London and Brussels in late 2014. Mothers was originally scheduled for release on 19 September 2015, but was pushed back until 2 October.
Mothers is the plural form of mother. It may also refer to:
- Mothers (album), 2015 album of British indie rock band Swim Deep.
- Mothers (band), 21st-century American music band.
- Mothers (music venue), former music club in Birmingham, England.
- Mothers (2010 film), Macedonian drama film.
Usage examples of "mothers".
Some of the mothers in our groups have become so conflicted at the thought of leaving their babies to return to work, they begin a vicious routine of trying to do two jobs without any help.
There was concern at the outset about how we would find mothers willing to take part in a study that required them to come with their babies four times a week to be observed, especially since we made it clear we were not going to give them advice about child care.
But very often mothers of colicky babies experience exhaustion and defeat which sometimes can be followed by depression.
As boys, we learn to betray our future wives by mastering the subtle ways out mothers can be broken by our petulance and disapproval.
They fought their asses off for equal rights in the workplace, went to law school, became doctors, fought the corporate fight, and managed to raise children in a much nicer way than our mothers did.
When are we going to have mothers who will rejoice in sending their children even to death?
The fathers and the mothers looked at their children with mingled sensations, in which the skepticism of parents toward their children and the habitual sense of the superiority of elders over youth blended strangely with the feeling of sheer respect for them, with the persistent melancholy thought that life had now become dull, and with the curiosity aroused by the young men who so bravely and fearlessly spoke of the possibility of a new life, which the elders did not comprehend but which seemed to promise something good.
The mayor read their names amid the sounds of mothers ssshusshing their children and one little girl wailing loudly, the sound fading, like an ambulance turning a corner, as she was carried away into darkness.
It was that thick gray chilly rain that sometimes grips the northeast in August and sends the children of summer colonies and beach towns into sporadic fits of Monopoly, bowling, Old Maid, hide-and-seek in the closets and the basements of houses pungent with damp, sends them finally to driving their parents crazy, until their mothers let them play in the rain as one last desperate diversion.
Daughters who adore their mothers and would lay down their lives for them.
Years after, I remember, I read a monograph on grieving that studied bereaved children and found that many thought their mothers had moved away, gone to a new house, a new life, new children.
Wisdom and Reassurance from Other Mothers on Your First Year with Babu JEAN kunhardt, MA.
Participant- observers moved about freely, interacting with both mothers and children.
The needs of new mothers have been met in an important and special way by Lisa Spiegel and Jean Kunhardt, who have been conducting mother-baby groups for nearly ten years.
In a safe and supporting environment, they have encouraged new mothers to speak freely about their fears and concerns.