The RIP thread...

My parents were country singers, and we had Kristofferson's early albums on constantly in my childhood (as well as Johnny, Willie, Dolly, Emmylou - what I regarded as embarrassing back then turns out to have been pretty solid). What a talent, what a life.

He’s one I’m glad I got to see on stage.

A righteous dude. The covnersation at 3:37 in this video
has been doing the rounds.

Frank Fritz of American Pickers. RIP

Excellent cartoonist McLachlan.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/04/ed-mclachlan-obituary

Good guy, he used to draw cartoons for a couple of the magazines I art edited. RIP, Ed! 🖤

No mention of John Amos? Unbelievable actor. Roots. Good Times. A ton of other stuff.

Admiral Fitzwallace to most.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8U-TSbfwE

DJ Jack Revill AKA Jackmaster only 38. RIP.

Awful

I know, that really hit me.
Used to love his mixes and numbers / wireblock. Always seemed like a nice guy from interviews I read.

RIP

Paul Lowe, 61.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/03/a-girl-plays-in-the-street-during-siege-sarajevo-paul-lowe-best-photograph

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Yeah hit me hard. Going out in Glasgow in the late 00s, warehouse nights, soundhaus, into the 2010s, Numbers parties at off Sonar, his "30th birthday party" at SWG3 which was absolute bedlam, then circoloco coming after that, including on my honeymoon. So many memories.

No chat about Alex Salmond?

Politically a great Scottish statesman but all the handsy stuff ruined his rep

If you don't have anything nice to say...

I remember him boasting during the independence campaign that Scotland had a higher percentage of working age population that anywhere else in the UK.

Or in other words worse life expectancy, which he's just lowered very slightly.

Did he say how many of them were alcoholics or drug addicts?

Did he say how many of them were alcoholics or drug addicts?

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/16/paul-lowe-death-stabbing-california-san-gabriel-mountains-hiking-trail-war-photographer-ntwnfb

Jesus what an awful story.

Fuck him (ymmv)

https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2024/1016/1475685-general-mike-jackson/

One of the more surreal things about the Paul Greengrass film on Bloody Sunday was the former army officer who played Jackson's then CO, Lt. Col Derek Wilford. Simon Mann did a decent job of it, and I remember reading an interview with him at the time, where he said something like "I may be ex-army but that was an arrogant, incompetent fuck-up and we should cough to it." Two years later: "Hang on, I recognise that face. You what? Mark Thatcher too?"

That’s terrible. I wonder what the story behind it is.

Sarcastic tone

Didn't he claim to stop world war 3 starting by refusing an order while in Kosovo?

EDIT: is what happened that day (in Ireland) classed as a conspiracy theory?

Him and James Blunt