The RIP thread...

Tax dodging billionaire Sir David Barclay had died.

Have always been a bit jealous of the Barclay brother's island if i'm honest. Would quite like for that to be my home.

Barclay along with Sheldon Adelson, aren't ones I'd be wishing a peaceful eternity.

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Barclay brother's island

When one helipad isn't enough.

One is the tradesmens helipad.

You can see my place in that!

You can see my place in that!

Oh yeah !

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Oh yeah !

Sadly no longer there.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/blackheath-tea-hut-woman-trapped-biker-customers-a4330176.html

There is hope that they are going to rebuild though. Used to love popping out for a cup of tea and slice of cake when I couldn't sleep.

Chuck Raudman founder of Skyway and inventor of Tuff Wheels; he walked so Arrospok could run.

https://cyclingindustry.news/chuck-raudman-founder-of-skyway-passes-away/

Sylvain Sylvain

Aw, too bad... RIP, Syl, thanks for all the licks!

So good they named him twice. I can still recall seeing the New York Dolls on some rerun of the Old Grey Whistle Test in the 80s. All the music kids at school the next day were like did you see that band last night, so good.

And Johansen is the last of the gang to die...

well that sucks.

#whitefalcongang

Yeah their performance of Jet Boy is awesome

https://youtu.be/Cbd-BcuPvLA

Did you ever come across Blur/Seymour in their early days? I think they had some Senseless Things crossover, and indeed one of them ended up in Gorillaz

I bet he came across a lot of people back then.

No, I didn't... We shared a lawyer with Blur, that's about as close I got...

Aw no. skyway mags the best looking non spoke wheels ever. Esp in black or pink.

Phil Spector. He was so fucking good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWK7v0gIHLo

Nasty little cunt though

Yeah he was pretty fucking bad as well.

Duke Bootee died on Wednesday.

https://youtu.be/PobrSpMwKk4

RIP the legend Phil Asher! WAY too early! 🙁

Yeah. So sad. 😥 Great producer and DJ.

Am gutted, used to spend a lot of time with Phil.

First came to know him when Alex Attias told me to get down to NHAC for Inspiration Information. It was great, at the time the office I worked at was nearby, I’d go straight there and it’d be Phil, Patrick Forge, possibly myself and a few others for the first couple of hours as they played spiritual jazz music. The night would gradually build up and the crowd was a cosmopolitan mix of west London people, music producers, singers, trust fund kids, gangsters, models soundtracked by house music, soul, boogie, hip hop, broken beat and more. For me it was a musical education and you’d hear tracks from the likes of Bugz in the Attic, De Lata, Neon Phuzion, Kadi, Dego et al being worked and edited week in week out to see how the crowd responded. The club loved and loathed us, on quiet nights the headz kept the atmosphere up, but we had a permanent guest list of about 60 people which would eat profits on busier nights.

Later on I was working in Ladbroke Grove and he used to record at Fluidity Studios over the road, and I’d pop over in my lunch breaks and after work. Phil really was the Don of West London house, he was always aware of what people were up to, not for gossip but because he cared. So many friends were given guidance on their careers and music. He always had time to share his wisdom, he was always a wise considerate head. We clashed on occasions but were still in contact after I left London, we chatted last autumn and he was in good spirits, he’d settled down in a new relationship and was still getting requests for nice DJ gigs. He was so proud that his son Marvin was making tunes and that Marc’s godfather Dego had done a remix for him. West London was a proper family thing and that is what I’ll miss about Phil, he was pater familias. I’ll also miss his stories, eclectic DJ sets, nights dancing to a sweaty mess, needing to take three of four shirts with me (the mark of a good night was how many sweat soaked t shirts I had in my bag at the end of proceedings).

Fuck I will miss that Restless Soul.