The RIP thread...

And not that fucking ladbaby shit or whatever it is called .

Very sad about Shane MacGowan, he wrote some lovely songs

They’ve fortunately announced they’re not doing one this year.

They've called it quits this year apparently. I can confidently say I've not heard any of their 'songs' before. Happy to have survived.

Former Chancellor, Alistair Darling

Really sad about McGowan.

https://thequietus.com/articles/09277-mark-e-smith-nick-cave-shane-macgowan-nme-interview

The website is down atm, but this interview with Shane MacGowan, Mark E Smith & Nick Cave is well worth a read.

Aw Shane, a truly brilliant talent.

Very, very sad about the death of MacGowan. The music of my youth. Growing up Irish in London in the earl eighties the Pogues were a revelation to me. Profoundly different but linked to the show bands and old records my dad would listen to on a Sunday afternoon after the pubs had shut.

As the President of Ireland has said;

“His words have connected Irish people all over the globe to their culture and history, encompassing so many human emotions in the most poetic of ways.”

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

This Shane MacGowan interview has lived rent free in my head for more than twenty years.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/11/biography.features2

Sticky Vicky, 80

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67564925

She quickly became one of the resort's best-known entertainers for her X-rated show - which involved her pulling different objects from her vagina, most famously ping pong balls.

Always surprising to see the BBC being so candid, you'd expect them to leave it at x-rated show. You can only ready that line in the voice of a middle aged Blue Peter presenter.

I read that interview earlier this year after seeing it mentioned in the James Brown bio, really hilarious. Amazing that Shane lived to the age he did. RIP

Darling, busy day.

Elliott Erwitt.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2016/aug/14/elliott-erwitt-photographer-home-around-the-world-pictures

Came here to post Erwitt too. Great photographer.

Pontins - Camber Sands. Once a classic British holiday destination. Once travel restrictions were lifted…

I went to camber sands in the february just before lockdown. Great fun until some bored kids nicked my eldest's change bag and stole/used her epi pen.

Great photographer, was a real benchmark for that era.

Founder Fred Pontin ran the company from 1946 until its sale in 1978, it then passed through various owners before it was saved from administration by current owners Britannia Hotels in 2011.

Not surprised they have gone to the wall if Britannia Hotels are involved. Worst hotel I have ever stayed in.

Had the misfortune of staying in one near Manchester airport the day after our wedding before going on honeymoon.

There was blood on one wall, the headboard was screwed to a different wall to where the bed was and there was a tiny portable TV on top of a 6ft wardrobe.

I was too hungover and broken to do anything about it though and just sucked it up.

Lol

https://www.thecaterer.com/news/britannia-hotels-which-uk-worst-chain

They also had a little fire in Brighton a few months ago.

Haha! Good to see they haven't changed their business model!!

Scottish writer and artist, John Byrne died yesterday, which was missed.

Oh, that's a real shame. Tutti Frutti was amazing TV.

Indeed, I think that and Your Cheatin' Heart were both seriously underrated.