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Lily Vera Errington, 1922-2011
My grandmother died a couple of weeks ago on the 9th of October. Her funeral is today. Unfortunately it hasn’t been possible for me to make it over to England at short notice. I would like to write her life … Continue reading
RIP Trish Keenan from Broadcast
Out of the blue today, some sad news. As reported here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and especially here Trish Keenan, singer in Broadcast has died of Pneumonia at the age of 42. Broadcast have been one of my … Continue reading
RIP Captain Beefheart
This is pretty rubbish news. Tributes from Andrew Hickey and Meatbreak here. I don’t have anything to say except “listen to Kandy Korn.”
RIP Ari Up of The Slits
Ari Up’s death at the age of 48 was announced yesterday. I can’t write anything more incisive about her than Jon Savage so read this instead. I’d just been getting into The Slits over the past couple of months, and … Continue reading
RIP Alan Plater
Alan Plater died last weekend. Not an incredibly well-known name, or a fashionable one, but one that had been somewhere near the top of my TV heroes list since I first saw The Beiderbecke Affair in the mid 1990s. Writing … Continue reading
RIP Kurt Vonnegut
1923 – 2007 http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2055622,00.html
RIP Syd Barrett Maybe you recognise the face or the name, maybe you heard the stories – the ultimate psych burn-out who blew it all and spent the majority of his life as a recluse while his former band went … Continue reading
RIP Link Wray
Saw him in 1997 by accident more than anything. One of the best shows I’ve seen. And he was 68 at he time.