Marco Simoncelli from Moto GP, RIP :'(
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23102011/58/simoncelli-dies-horrific-crash.html (http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/23102011/58/simoncelli-dies-horrific-crash.html)
First DJ in the world everErrr, no, not by a long stretch.
The world's first radio disc jockey was Ray Newby, of Stockton, California. In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles "Doc" Herrold.
JJJ is _the_ funniest thing on the Internet as far as I'm concerned but I've lost count of number of people who just give me stony look when I play it for them.
RIP Jimmy.
bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-us-canada-15632665 (http://bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-us-canada-15632665)
Rip Joe Fraizer.
RIP Heavy D (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15651013)
JJJ is _the_ funniest thing on the Internet as far as I'm concerned but I've lost count of number of people who just give me stony look when I play it for them.
RIP Jimmy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/30/bobby-farrell-boney-m-singer-dies (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/30/bobby-farrell-boney-m-singer-dies)
I took Bobby and two of the lasses from Boney M waterskiing once. Nice bloke, even when it was wet the 'fro was spectacular.
Christopher Hitchens..... :(
The world just got more stupid today. Fuck.
Heriditary Stalinist Dictator and world's best golfer
http://www.oobgolf.com/content/fore+play/1-211-Kim_Jongil_Best_Golfer_in_the_World.html (http://www.oobgolf.com/content/fore+play/1-211-Kim_Jongil_Best_Golfer_in_the_World.html)
:) That was all I could think about when I heard of his demise.....
Some daft bint off that Essex programme didn't know who he was and posted "RIP Kim Jong Il" on Twitter.
Heriditary Stalinist Dictator and world's best golfer
http://www.oobgolf.com/content/fore+play/1-211-Kim_Jongil_Best_Golfer_in_the_World.html (http://www.oobgolf.com/content/fore+play/1-211-Kim_Jongil_Best_Golfer_in_the_World.html)
Bowled a perfect 300 game first time he did ten-pin-bowling? Impressive.
I also hear he flashed the Ace above a rollmat after cycling in to stanage at 4am have never ridden a bike or been climbing before. He then drove to blackrocks and one of his many wifes held his ropes while he flashed harder faster. Si O' took photos.
Look Mr Logic there's a big difference between me making a Team America joke and someone not knowing who the fuck he is.
:chair:
Shame that this thread has been sullied with any mention of his name. If there is a hell I hope he's currently experiencing the full horror of it from now until eternity alongside the other recent joiners (Sadam, Qadaffi, Bin Laden, Caeusescu, Milosevic.... )
Etta James
Etta JamesFor anyone who doesn't realise what we lost today, have a run through this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jan/20/etta-james-10-classic-performances). Almost Persuaded is joplinesque in parts (though I suppose that really joplin was jamesesque)
:oops: (or aLICErOBERTSfANkLUB)
Works better with a mild racial stereotype though.
Vidal - who expected him to go Sassoon.
Ahem.
OK. Coat got.
Vidal - who expected him to go Sassoon.
Ahem.
OK. Coat got.
Hair today...
Beastie Boys - Sabotage / MCA tribute (http://vimeo.com/42106181)
spend a new years eve in Cornwall dressed up as the Sabotage cops, spend the evening 'raiding' the local pubs, 'arresting' some of the local lovelies
spend a new years eve in Cornwall dressed up as the Sabotage cops, spend the evening 'raiding' the local pubs, 'arresting' some of the local lovelies
Lovelies, Cornwall? Either you had a quiet night, or a large pair of beer goggles on.
Back in the day two mates and I spend a new years eve in Cornwall dressed up as the Sabotage cops, spend the evening 'raiding' the local pubs, 'arresting' some of the local lovelies, so much fun
listening to eddie too eh??
Checked out at 72, Sid Waddell
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19231497 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19231497)
Eric Hobsbawn, RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324)
Eric Hobsbawn, RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324)
Though perhaps seeming slightly obscure this is actually a significant loss.
Eric Hobsbawn, RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13980324)
Though perhaps seeming slightly obscure this is actually a significant loss.
Hmm. I lamented the passing of Edward Thompson and Christopher Hill, but my ability to find a soft spot for unrepentant old soviet apologists seems to have diminished.
(Otoh I was never that familiar with Hobsbawm’s work, whereas in my youth I must have read pretty much everything Thompson & Hill ever wrote)
Tom Sims, snowboarding pioneer.
Thanks for making it all happen.
RIP the original ripper.
my first board was an ex-hire Sims Blade 1710 with almost no side-cut, pointy nose, square tail and bindings about 6 inches rear of centre. Fine in powder. Scary on ice. A good training experience.
Arthur Lowe had it in his contract that he wasn't to be made to appear without his trousers! Great bit of bizarreness.
Arthur Lowe had it in his contract that he wasn't to be made to appear without his trousers! Great bit of bizarreness.
Patrick Moore (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939)
TV icon, but racist, sexist and hated Germans. Dig a little and he had some very unsavoury bigoted views.
Patrick Moore (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939)
TV icon, but racist, sexist and hated Germans. Dig a little and he had some very unsavoury bigoted views.
I once shared a long car journey with an Asian astronomer - who filled me in on some of Mr Moores opinions.. Quite an eye opener.
Indeed. Though women and immigrants didnt. Read his statements Alice.. You wouldn't be surprised if Nick Griffin said the same.. Sorry guys, I won't miss him.
Indeed. Though women and immigrants didnt. Read his statements Alice.. You wouldn't be surprised if Nick Griffin said the same.. Sorry guys, I won't miss him.
I thought it was Tony Howard et al. who designed the modern harnesses, albeit via refinement of the Whillans harness?
Christopher Martin-Jenkins - will be sadly missed.
Cricketer / Commentator Tony Greig was given out on 29 December too. Good innings though! :)
Prepare yourself for a deluge of "calm down dear" based jokes.
actor-peter-gilmore-has-died-aged-1593326
Richard Briers
Exterminated - Dalek designer Ray Cusick
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21563344 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21563344)
The Iron Lady.
The Iron Lady.
Wrong thread, need a RIH[ell] one for the likes of her.
The Iron Lady.
Wrong thread, need a RIH[ell] one for the likes of her.
Surprised they didn't use Galen's portrait, topping out on the Salathe in '67:
(http://www.supertopo.com/photos/8/5/202046_27996_L.jpg)
Richie Havens
Jeff Hanneman (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-dead-at-49-20130502).
I. Am. Gutted.
Jeff Hanneman (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jeff-hanneman-of-slayer-dead-at-49-20130502).
I. Am. Gutted.
Gutted. What a loss.
I think I will blast out reign in blood I drive to the peak this afternoon in memory.
It's a shame about Ray
The Ray Harryhausen Creature List (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4#)
Another Ray.
Manzarek this time.
RIP, thanks for some fucking great songs maaaaan.
Iain Banks.
If I dare speak ill of the dead, Steep approach isn't one of my favourites. Felt like a bit of a rehash of the Crow Road, which is very good. I also enjoyed Espedair Street (sp?) and Complicity. Walking on Glass is just plain wierd.
I confess to ONLY reading his Sci-fi stuff....I really should get around to "the Crow Road" et al.
Sad news - he was my favourite writer for a long time.
I loved Wasp Factory, Complicity, Player of Games, The Crow Road and best of all: Use of Weapons. I've been thinking of reading the latter again, although I'm a bit gripped I won't be quite so blown away by it as I was all those years ago.
'I'm the Taildragger from Greenville, Muz-sippi! Ooo-weee, I make the pretty womens jump and shout! They took my gun but I got my knife and I'll cut a motherfucker too. Can't read, can't write, I don't argue with folks about the Bible but I love the womens! I love 'em cause of that little split they got. I got three womens right now and they won't let ol' T-Model alone. I'm a bad man! I can't get around like I used to but if I can reach a motherfucker, look out! I knocked out that Winehead Jones with this.'
Mel Smith, age 60.
JJ Cale (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/27/jj-cale-singer-songwriter-dies)
Lou Reed :wavecry::jaw:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25135934 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25135934)
Bodie has joined Bhodi.
Amongst those (the vast majority) of us who die in old age, almost all have cancer. It's often asymptomatic or not the main or sole cause of death. I'm sure we'll get better at managing it, but it ain't going away.
Gutted. Having been through both the good and the bad side of him I'm glad the good prevailed. I just hope there's no fallout.
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John Ewbank Oz climbing legend
For those who don't know, the Australian route grading system is named after him.
For those who don't know, the Australian route grading system is named after him.
Despite having lived in Perth WA for a year I never realised the Australian grading system actually had a name.
Is it my imagination or ours this year exceptional for well known figures dying?
Two of the (arguably) most well known political figure in recent time in one year is fairly significant though.i
Meanwhile the one who deserves to die (Uncle Bob Mugabe) lives on.
And the line-up for the final of the women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.
Two of the (arguably) most well known political figure in recent time in one year is fairly significant though.i
Meanwhile the one who deserves to die (Uncle Bob Mugabe) lives on.
I'm convinced he and Berlusc(ummi)oni are in fact Vampires and therefore immortal (note Burlusconis' hair style and Penchant for young girls)...
:-\Amen.
I think he was right that he'd have been better of designing a lawn mower. :(
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/westboro-church-founder-dead/ (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/westboro-church-founder-dead/)
Not sure this should be here, but we don't have a burn in hell thread.
Sean Leary (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2370729/Sean-Leary)Another BASE accident. One of two at the weekend in Zion.
https://soundcloud.com/hacienda-records/hacienda-nye-at-the-albert
It's a nice, nice listen. RIP fella.
Sean Leary (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2370729/Sean-Leary)
Really, it was magic (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/17/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alexander Shulgin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin)
Rik Mayall :o :(
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rik-mayall-dead-comedian-and-actor-dies-aged-56-9515603.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rik-mayall-dead-comedian-and-actor-dies-aged-56-9515603.html)
And if you've not seen Bad News and More Bad News then do so.I remember going to see them at St George's Hall in Bradford. I can't have been much older than about 15 as I remember my dad taking me. Even though a lot of it went over my head I still recall it clearly today so must have made an impression
Tommy Ramone. The last one.Tommy Ramone, the last survivor of the group has died at 62.
good morning Vietnam (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuk8AOjGURE)
Cocaine (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tG4W5xk8Fe0)
Nice comment article by Russel Brand about Robin Williams in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/russell-brand-robin-williams-divine-madness-broken-world (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/russell-brand-robin-williams-divine-madness-broken-world)
I guess Mr Paisley finally gets to find out whether he was right about The Pope and His Crew
A notable absence from this thread...
So controversial no one dare mention him?
Even after some of that vitriol when Maggie popped off?
I won't miss him.
He who shall not be named.
The old man :'(
The old man :'(
The old man :'(
The old man :'(Condolences my friend.
Obviously I am far too young to remember the popular culture of the 80s :whistle: but for those who do: wasn't it a bit wank, really?
The old man :'(
Leonard Nimoy :(
Live long and prosper (in the afterlife) :wavecry:
What does the W stand for?
What does the W stand for?
Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
I hope Death spoke spoke to him with caps lock onHe did, it's on his Twitter feed. Which is quite lovely actually, if someone dying can be lovely.
You couldn't put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited.
And this was it.
Fri'it stepped through the glow into a desert. The sky was dark and pocked with large stars, but the black sand that stretched away in to the distance was nevertheless brightly lit.
A desert. After death, a desert. The desert. No hells, yet. Perhaps there was hope.
He remembered a song from his childhood. ... It was a simple little home-made song, terrifying in its simple forlorn repetition:
You have to walk a lonesome desert.
'Where is this place?' he said hoarsely.
THIS IS NO PLACE, said death.
You have to walk it all alone ...
'What is at the end of the desert?'
JUDGEMENT.
There is no one to walk it for you ...
Fri'it stared at the endless, featureless expanse.
'I have to walk it by myself?' he whispered. 'But the song says it's the terrible desert -'
YES. NOW IF YOU WILL EXCUSE ME ...
Death vanished.
Fri'it took a deep breath, purely out of habit ...
Be sensible man. You were a soldier. This is a desert. You crossed a few in your time.
...
A memory stole over him. A desert is what you think it is. And now, you can think clearly.
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, and not according to any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, in the end, more or less turn out alright
What does the W stand for?
W.
Its a trick name... if I have offspring I shall burden them with a middle name that is just an initial. Maybe something odd like an O or a Z.
As in Homer J Simpson?
Yes Slackers I knew that.
I shall burden them with a middle name that is just an initial.
As in Homer J Simpson?
From t'other channel -
I like this quote from the BBC news item:
"And Glenn McGrath dismissed for two, just ninety-eight runs short of his century" ;D
When I saw Keith Harris' picture on the BBC news website my first thought was that it was another one for operation yew tree. Glad it wasn't.
When I saw Keith Harris' picture on the BBC news website my first thought was that it was another one for operation yew tree. Glad it wasn't.
Give it time, I'm sure someone will come forward.
Sad times... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32776686
US daredevil Dean Potter
Not only an actor but a soldier, swashbuckler and singer as well. 93 eventful years.Much like Errol Flynn, he was actually the character he played.
And Count Dooku and Saruman.
And Ron Moody! Bad days.
Jules BianchiA really sad loss of a promising young driver
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/33578770
Wes Craven. Thanks for the Screams and Nightmares.completely missed this wow. what a shame
Harold Drasdo: climber, writer, educationalist, anarchist. A great loss.
I think of him every time I look in the mirror and realise I am of an age where my eyebrows need "doing"....
I think of him every time I look in the mirror and realise I am of an age where my eyebrows need "doing"....
Diane CharlemagneIt'd be rude not to include:
Philthy Animal Taylor (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/former-motorhead-drummer-phil-taylor-dies-aged-61)
Remy Bergasse. Fa of "le toit d'Orsay" 8B+/8c+, 9a climber, 2nd rank member of the French lead team.
Also known as a brilliant student and young math teacher.
Author of a rather funny tongue in cheek climbing training video.
Apparently committed suicide, which is vert puzzling and troubling from very distant perspective...what kind of darkness can be stronger than an apparently very successful life?
Heard joke once:
Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up."
Man bursts into tears. Says "But Doctor... I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
One of the most powerful athletes ever.That's some crazy wattage there.
196 cm tall, 118 kg, 10.8" 100 meters sprint.
Absolute legend. Sad news.
The Sunhouse album is one of my all time favs, if you like melancholic bluesy folk rock I can't recommend it highly enough.
I just found out that Gavin Clark of Sunhouse and others died earlier this year.That is sad. His vocals are on a few Unkle tracks too. Agree with the Sunhouse album recommendation.
A classic tortured soul, but what a voice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunhouse
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/gavin-clark
The Sunhouse album is one of my all time favs, if you like melancholic bluesy folk rock I can't recommend it highly enough.
Doug Tompkins businessman, ecology activist, and handy alpinist, in a canoeing accident in Patagonia (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/business/douglas-tompkins-72-north-face-founder-dies-in-kayaking-accident.html?_r=0).
Tompkins got into climbing in the late 50s and spent a few years as a ski/climbing bum in Colorado, Europe and South America. He founded The North Face in 1964 in San Francisco (where else?) as a specialist climbing and backpacking company. In the days before they made puffa jackets to the masses he designed and sold one of the first working dome tents. He was part of the legendary 1968 "funhogs" trip/expedition, Chouinard and friends, driving a VW bus down to Patagonia surfing and climbing new routes on the way. With his then wife he started Esprit clothing on his return. He sold both companies and poured much of this money into buying, protecting and preserving land in Patagonia.
A fully lived life.
Contributions from friends and contemporaries on the thread in supertopo (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2731760/Doug-Tompkins-TNF-founder-dies).
Really sad. If you've not watched 180 degrees south it's available on Netflix and is highly recommended
http://www.180south.com/
I just found out that Gavin Clark of Sunhouse and others died earlier this year.
A classic tortured soul, but what a voice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunhouse
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/gavin-clark
The Sunhouse album is one of my all time favs, if you like melancholic bluesy folk rock I can't recommend it highly enough.
Jimmy Hill (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35141430), legendary chin owner.
Lemmy.
Lemmy.
I MAY BE WORKING OFF THE WRONG LIST, SORRY ABOUT THAT
Quote from: T G ReaperI MAY BE WORKING OFF THE WRONG LIST, SORRY ABOUT THAT
I've been reliably informed Rob's funeral is to be held in the woodland section of Hope cemetery on the 25th at 11.00 am.
(Apologies if this is incorrect, btw. Either I or someone else will correct this if I'm wrong)
I've been reliably informed Rob's funeral is to be held in the woodland section of Hope cemetery on the 25th at 11.00 am.
(Apologies if this is incorrect, btw. Either I or someone else will correct this if I'm wrong)
The information above isn't strictly accurate.
11.00 am service in Hathersage Church.
12.00 noon, Hope Cemetery.
(then adjourn to a local hostelry)
Apologies for duff gen, I had relayed the info I received)
I've been reliably informed Rob's funeral is to be held in the woodland section of Hope cemetery on the 25th at 11.00 am.
(Apologies if this is incorrect, btw. Either I or someone else will correct this if I'm wrong)
The information above isn't strictly accurate.
11.00 am service in Hathersage Church.
12.00 noon, Hope Cemetery.
(then adjourn to a local hostelry)
Apologies for duff gen, I had relayed the info I received)
do you need a lift?
I'll be driving over - thereby significantly reducing the chances of drinking loads of alcohol and making a twat of myself
probably picking Big Bern up as well
anyone else need a lift from Sheffield?
Sad news about Eco. One less functioning brain in Italy.I think I should have said "one functioning brain less in Italy". First option seems that his brain was functioning less. Or not?
Sad news about Eco. One less functioning brain in Italy.I think I should have said "one functioning brain less in Italy". First option seems that his brain was functioning less. Or not?
'less functioning' makes no sense. Either it functions or it doesn't. 'Less functional' would imply degree though you did not say that of course.
I prefer the clarity of the second formulation, but think both are fine.
'less functioning' makes no sense. Either it functions or it doesn't. 'Less functional' would imply degree though you did not say that of course.
I prefer the clarity of the second formulation, but think both are fine.
Should have been "one fewer" not "one less", come on.
Father Jack.Feck :(
George Martin.
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer at 71.Not really my cup of tea but another creator of the soundtrack of my youth has gone. RIPELP were introduction into more serious music which I'm will be open to much ridicule.
Phife Dawg
Fuck. This year is nuts
It's all a bit bonkers.
It's all a bit bonkers.
We missed Percy Sledge going last week too
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-b-great-percy-sledge-dead-at-74-20150414
Prince. OMG!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36108133
Quite interesting article trying to explain all the deaths we're seeing
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
Muhammad AliQuoteHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. Last night I cut the lights out, was in my bed before the room was dark. I'm bad. Real bad.
I have no quarrel with the Viet-Cong. No Viet-Cong ever called me n**ger.
Sometimes, I feel like this country is full of racist dickheads, Daily Fail Nimbys and I despair.
Then you see the respect and outpouring for a Black, Muslim, Anti-war activist and I have hope.
Seems like a perfect time to scan some articles into the "Quality Articles" thread.
Seems like a perfect time to scan some articles into the "Quality Articles" thread.
Might be worth checking your ethics align with the copyright holder (http://v-publishing.co.uk/blog/v-publishing-blog/2015-11-18---ken-wilson-an-eye-for-class-a-nose-for-bullshit.html)*.
* Nice piece by Jon Barton on Ken Wilson from last year.
But total respect for a man prepared to think though his ethics clearly and be prepared to take a stand for them.
Or you could just see it at the bottom of the previous page :)
But total respect for a man prepared to think though his ethics clearly and be prepared to take a stand for them.
Ken calling competition climbers "barbarians"* and that as a consequence of the BMC supporting comps The Nose# would be bolted within a few years is hardly well thought out ethics.
Documented in the AC Journal 1993.
* he was referring to people like Fliss Butler
# I assume he meant Dinas Mot
So with hindsight, some of his predictions turned out to be wrong. There are still bolts in the mountains today in places most of us would never have dreamed of (Brown slabs, Broad stand) and the wedge is still being pushed.
So with hindsight, some of his predictions turned out to be wrong. There are still bolts in the mountains today in places most of us would never have dreamed of (Brown slabs, Broad stand) and the wedge is still being pushed.
Is that correct? Where is the bolt on Broad Stand? There's an in situ chain/tat station at the top of Crowley's Direct which people use to abseil to Mickledore but this is a world away from a bolt.
So with hindsight, some of his predictions turned out to be wrong. There are still bolts in the mountains today in places most of us would never have dreamed of (Brown slabs, Broad stand) and the wedge is still being pushed.
Is that correct? Where is the bolt on Broad Stand? There's an in situ chain/tat station at the top of Crowley's Direct which people use to abseil to Mickledore but this is a world away from a bolt.
My bad, they've been removed. The point stands that they were installed at all though.
http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=358401
Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36550304
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Little known fact: I was once asked if I wanted to edit Mountain.
Little known fact: I was once asked if I wanted to edit Mountain.
That's funny Andy. So was I!
Ken tracked me down to Jon de Montjoye's chalet in the alps where I was on holiday. I seem to remember I was somewhat taken aback, but he was clearly desperate, having already been turned down by at least one luminary....!
I declined the offer, and Mountain sadly folded within a matter of weeks.
Neil
... if he thought people like me were capable of editing Mountain....
I'm not sure I've ever met anyone so passionate about climbing. A sad loss.
I'm here due to the chain of fate leading from his survival, and this makes me think about the other lives, families, peoples worlds were snuffed out then.
Aftermath
Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked a while at the crossing of city ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same,—and War's a bloody game....
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz,—
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench,—
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, "Is it all going to happen again?"
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack,—
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads, those ashen-grey
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the green of the Spring that you'll never forget.
Agreed+1
Excellent Ken Wilson tribute from Ed Douglas (http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web16b/newswire-remembering-ken-wilson-by-ed-douglas) in Alpinist, a journalist and a magazine that both owe a huge debt to him.
(http://alpinist.com/media/web16b/kenwilson-1973.jpg)
Photo: Chris Bonnington
Violet (Ma) Weston of Bosherston (http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/14629517.Violet_Weston_MBE/) :wavecry:
Watched CatCF with the kids only last week.
Watched CatCF with the kids only last week.
As an aside, am I the only person who hates the 1971 film?
(I like musicals, a bit)
they say "candy" instead of chocolate for christ sake
Prince Buster
Jonesy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20239694
The Great Barrier Reef:
http://www.outsideonline.com/2112086/obituary-great-barrier-reef-25-million-bc-2016
It makes me quit sad that we're actually living through the age of human-led destruction of the planet. It's like a bit, slow, pre-apocalyptic film playing out in front of our eyes. We know the causes, we know the solutions...yet we drag our heels, we but barriers up, we refute the science. All in the name of making a bit more money...
A sad day for humanity. :'(
To be fair to Chris, we now live in a post-fact world, where true or false no longer exists, it's simply a matter of stating something and maintaining that position. If Chris says he died this week then I think that's a refreshing viewpoint we need to respect. He's telling it like it is, not what the establishment wants you to believe.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/10/junko-tabei-obituary
Never heard of Junko Tabei before. I have now.
An open letter to the climbing media:
Junko Tabei was the first woman to scale Mount Everest and to ascend the highest summit of every continent. She died from cancer on Oct. 20 at the age of 77. Yet even with these amazing accomplishments, I am disappointed that I didn’t learn of her death in one of the major climbing magazines I read regularly. I learned it from the New York Times.
Not a single US-based climbing publication, Alpinist Magazine, Rock and Ice magazine or Climbing Magazine has bothered to cover her death. Do the people running the climbing media not read the news? Did they not hear about her passing on NPR? Or see one of the many articles honoring her on CNN, ABC, LA Times, Washington Times or Denver Post?
She was the first woman on the Seven Summits! And not one of our climbing publications shared the news of her passing. Not even one tweet. Just silence.
I’m not a huge follower of mountaineering news and I had never heard of Tabei until the other day. But here was an amazing person, an amazing climber who happened to also be a woman and a mother and the climbing media seems to be ignoring her life and what she did for female climbers.
From the NYT: “The feat was hailed not only as a triumph of physical fortitude but also as a milestone for women — both in a field dominated by men and in a society in which, Tabei said, “Even women who had jobs, they were asked just to serve tea.”
On her ground breaking ascent of Everest, Tabei led a group of 15 women up the slopes as she did on other notable alpine ascents. She was buried in an avalanche on her way up and still continued to the top. She could have been serving tea at home in Tokyo. Instead, she was making history.
Tabei's life is a triumph of the human spirit and a role model for women around the world. It’s a shame that our climbing media doesn’t see it the same way.
Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
Not sure if he is ex-military, or if it was an honorary rank bestowed on him
Colonel Abrams - his real name - was born in Detroit, the home of Motown, in 1949.
Greg Lake :(
Dave Brubeck died four years ago!
George Michael. Not a huge fan but a big influence on music when I was growing up. 2016 is doing it's best to close out by finishing off as many musicians as it can.
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George Michael. Not a huge fan but a big influence on music when I was growing up. 2016 is doing it's best to close out by finishing off as many musicians as it can.
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I remember Zips describing everyone at the Limit chorusing that rap...sounded like an entertaining night.
RP (https://www.mountainproject.com/v/rip-rp-the-death-of-a-climbing-pioneer-and-the-original-micronut/112457031)
RP (https://www.mountainproject.com/v/rip-rp-the-death-of-a-climbing-pioneer-and-the-original-micronut/112457031)
RIP, but no idea who she really was, I only know she gets mentioned in a Weezer song.Yeah that's also my only cultural reference point for her name, think she was the US equivalent of Felicity Kendal.
That "Winston Smith" should give up the ghost at this time is irony of the most epic proportions.
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My fav drummer:
http://pitchfork.com/news/71067-can-drummer-jaki-liebezeit-dead-at-78/
Hans Rosling, fellow countryman and teacher
Hans Rosling, fellow countryman and teacher
Steve Hewlett of the BBC. I never particularly enjoyed the Media Show but am a PM listener and was moved by his professionalism in reporting his own demise. You can find the series of interviews from PM here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04p07t7
It's shocking to look at a picture of Steve because he is basically a carbon copy of my dad. Near 60, overweight, tatty fleece. To me he looks the epitome of a middle class male of retirement age. A reminder that we should never take our loved ones' health for granted.
am a PM listener and was moved by his professionalism in reporting his own demise. You can find the series of interviews from PM here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04p07t7
Noah’s influence on snowboarding is every bit as important as Craig Kelly’s. No snowboarder has had as wide ranging of an influence on the sport as Noah. He was the first to bring true skate style to freestyle, then freestyle into freeriding and finally freeriding to spines. His Super Spines descent may be the most game changing descent in skiing and snowboarding history. At that point we considered them unridable. Since then both sports have been on the search for dream spine walls and amazingly Super Spines is still the gold standard.
Noah Salasnek[emoji26]
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/photos/noah-salasnek-retrospect/Quote from: Jeremy JonesNoah’s influence on snowboarding is every bit as important as Craig Kelly’s. No snowboarder has had as wide ranging of an influence on the sport as Noah. He was the first to bring true skate style to freestyle, then freestyle into freeriding and finally freeriding to spines. His Super Spines descent may be the most game changing descent in skiing and snowboarding history. At that point we considered them unridable. Since then both sports have been on the search for dream spine walls and amazingly Super Spines is still the gold standard.
Chris Cornell!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/18/chris-cornell-former-soundgarden-singer-dies-aged-52
RIP. Thanks for some incredible songs!
Gutted about Chris Cornell. One of the finest voices in music. I had tickets to see Soundgarden at the Liverpool Empire in 95 but they cancelled. Never got the chance again :wavecry::(
Roger Moore
I thought I might be one of the few old enough to truly get this.
Marcus Intalex
I thought I might be one of the few old enough to truly get this.
I thought I might be one of the few old enough to truly get this.
David Axelrod - Composer, guitarist, musician and heavily sampled by hip-hop greats died on Sunday...
I’d climbed up at Stoney Point [in Chatsworth, California] on that route so many fuckin’ times that my mind was wandering. I was just not concentrating at all. The next thing I know, I was peeling off—which is a hell of a feeling. It’s like a bungee jump except the rope is tied around the waist. It really fucked up my back badly. I didn’t have it tied good and it went up underneath my arms. It was about a forty-foot pitch. I was breaking in a new pair of shoes.
from
http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/ring-david-axelrod-interview-part-2/QuoteI’d climbed up at Stoney Point [in Chatsworth, California] on that route so many fuckin’ times that my mind was wandering. I was just not concentrating at all. The next thing I know, I was peeling off—which is a hell of a feeling. It’s like a bungee jump except the rope is tied around the waist. It really fucked up my back badly. I didn’t have it tied good and it went up underneath my arms. It was about a forty-foot pitch. I was breaking in a new pair of shoes.
Nick Bond - former BMC NW Chair and Lancs quarries enthusiast has died of cancer. Climbed with him a fair bit and had interestingtrip with him to Montserrat. Earnest guy. Probably early 50's. :wavecry:
Gutted.
Musically, these past couple of weeks suck.
I stop for a quiet pint in the Barn Owl and this gets dropped on me.
Chester Bennington.
This takes a moment to start, don't think it's not working:
http://loudwire.com/linkin-park-chester-bennington-isolated-vocals-numb/
ttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/18/bruce-forsyth-king-of-uk-gameshows-dies-aged-89Yes, very sad, but in the best way. Don't forget to throw in a "Brucie" today everyone, in appreciation for the great man. Nice to see you.. :wave:
Brucie
I didn't know Hayden but I knew Inge Perkins his girlfriend, who died in the avalanche. She spent a year as an au pair with some friends of ours and I met her when our families shared a house and climbed together in Mallorca in 2013. She was a very talented climber and a lovely person. The story of their deaths is particularly tragic - Hayden survived the avalanche that killed Inge and in his devastation he took his own life the following day.
Sean Hughes, 51 :(For those who remember the Sean Hughes Show, we just turned down the jazz in our house. A sad loss indeed.
Pete KirtonI have some great memories of Pete which as I recollect used end up with him sandbagging everyone.
Legendary 80's strongman. Developed the Bowderstone with Moffat. Never met him. Sure plenty on here did
Article by him of FA of Working Class here: http://theshortspan.com/features/petekirton.htm
I suspect many younger climbers won't have heard his name but in some ways he was one of the creators of bouldering as a distinct, valid sub-set of the greater game of climbing in Britain.
Pete Kirton
Legendary 80's strongman. Developed the Bowderstone with Moffat. Never met him. Sure plenty on here did
Article by him of FA of Working Class here: http://theshortspan.com/features/petekirton.htm
No fucking way. That's ruined my evening..just the end
One for the skiers. Warren Miller, Ski Film Pioneer.
https://www.downdays.eu/articles/ski-film-colossus-warren-miller-dead-93/
I found him a very intimidating character!
Ray Jardine invented Friends. But Mark Vallance and Wild Country played a vital role in successfully bringing them to the market, a key part of any innovation.
Somewhere I have an old Mountain magazine with a great interview with Jardine, in part about his climbing (he was of course one of the top climbers of his day, doing the FA of The Phoenix etc.) as well as about inventing friends (he was an engineer in his professional life). He used to climb with the homemade prototypes on a bandolier under his shirt so that others couldn't see them. I have a vague memory of him taking the idea to American gear manufacturers and being rejected, before taking the idea to Wild Country. I have no idea if that's my memory playing tricks though.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45706667
Plus Geoffrey :(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45706667
Plus Geoffrey :(
Me and W went to see Aznavour at the Royal Albert Hall four years ago around the time of his 90th birthday - it was reallly special. She tells me he was on tour now in Japan aged 94. What a life!
Carlos Ezquerra who created and drew Judge Dredd also passed away today. I spent my junior school and some high school years bored at school waiting for Saturday morning and 2000AD to arrive through the letterbox.
Carlos Ezquerra who created and drew Judge Dredd also passed away today. I spent my junior school and some high school years bored at school waiting for Saturday morning and 2000AD to arrive through the letterbox.
Carlos Ezquerra who created and drew Judge Dredd also passed away today. I spent my junior school and some high school years bored at school waiting for Saturday morning and 2000AD to arrive through the letterbox.
Likewise. Dredd was never one of my favourite characters, but he did other brilliant things too.
I used to have a copy reserved for collection at the local newsagent, was the highlight of my week.
Funny how the year 2000 seemed an eternity away in 1980.
Nic Roeg filmmaker (Performance, Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, The Man who Fell to Earth) passed away today.
Nic Roeg filmmaker (Performance, Don’t Look Now, Walkabout, The Man who Fell to Earth) passed away today.
I just saw this today and came here to post. A great director.
Harry Leslie Smith.
Pete Shelley lead singer with the Buzzcocks aged 63
Fuck, fuck'!!!!!!!!!
Sad news being reported on UKC and Lancashire Rock Revival (Facebook) that Al Evans has died.
I think funeral details are to be posted on Lancashire Rock Revival.
Al's article "Slippery Slope" has always stuck in my head and I know a few people who appreciated it
I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it :no:.
I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it :no:.
Might be apocryphal, but the way things were back then, it wouldn't surprise me. Bit like the early formula 1 days, looking round the paddock thinking who's going to buy it this time, and to a certain extent, the I.O.M TT must still be like that a bit.
I remember Bob Dearman telling me that they once met a group of Japanese climbers in the alps one time in the 60s/70s. There were (I'm paraphrasing a little) say 10 of them, but they'd only bought 8 plane tickets back safe if the knowledge that not all of them would make it :no:.
Might be apocryphal, but the way things were back then, it wouldn't surprise me. Bit like the early formula 1 days, looking round the paddock thinking who's going to buy it this time, and to a certain extent, the I.O.M TT must still be like that a bit.
There are two old ladies, who come to the Bunker to workout and climb a few V1’s; every Thursday. Maggie is 69, Romey is 74.
They lay into the rowing machine and the Xtrainer as if they have personally offended them.
After an hour, they sit down with their coffee and tell stories of their exploits in the 60’s and 70’s. They were both “Magazine” journos, of the trendy fashion variety, but also Alpanists and Himalaya vetrans. Invariably the convo swings to some epic, where X was crippled or Y bought it. I mean, I thought I had a few tales, but these old biddies would make a 20 year SAS vetran, blush.
Ed Drummond (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/3195076/RIP-Edwin-Drummond)
Mirror Mirror (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/771326/Mirror-Mirror-Ascent-73-Your-Favorite-Short-Climbing-Story)
“Lovely boy Crew, arrow climber. Wall without end.”
Drummond wrote the first book about climbing I bought: the Avon Gorge guide. I admired him because I was unlike him: poet to my engineer, new routes to my early repeats, performer to my audience. I played by the rules, he invented his own. A whole new grading system! Bolts on Cloggy! Skyhooks on Curbar! His attempt to (aid) solo El Cap. inspired mine. We both came unstuck.
I loved his route names and his writing, Mirror Mirror (http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/771326/Mirror-Mirror-Ascent-73-Your-Favorite-Short-Climbing-Story), about an epic new route in Norway, is probably my favourite climbing story. “To climb is to know he universe is All Right.” Fortunately I never got closer to the Troll Wall than buying the Romsdal guide, but it was there in the back of my mid when headed up on Kjerag for my own climbing nightmare.
Ray Wood has written a few (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5SRp1DBD_/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=z13kl6aw2fk1) lines about meeting him. I never did.
Lovely post Ben, thank you.
Jake Phelps - Skateboarder, editor of Thrasher. 56 yrs old. One of a kind.... RIP
Johnny Brown shared this great profile on him a couple of years ago https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher (https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher)
Yes, stunning.
(https://i.imgur.com/gwIjL4r.jpg)
It's in Hard Rock.
Yeah, there's some weird grading splits between the books. There's plenty of stuff in Hard that gets E2 - E4 or whatever, but Extreme Rock goes as low as E1.
Jake Phelps - Skateboarder, editor of Thrasher. 56 yrs old. One of a kind.... RIP
Johnny Brown shared this great profile on him a couple of years ago https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher (https://story.californiasunday.com/jake-phelps-thrasher)
There's some great / hilarious episodes of Epicly Latered ( or however you spell it) featuring him. All on Youtube on on the Channel 4 catch up thing with all the Vice TV stuff on there - all free.
Ah shit. I loved Exile on Coldharbour Lane.
Sven Lindqvist is dead.
News over on the caving channel that Ian Cummins died suddenly on Tuesday.
I didn't know him personally, but was aware of his caving exploits. However it seems he was a boulderer and climber, active in the NE and NY Moors (Slipstones and Goldsborough Carr) so thought some on here might have known him.
Sven Lindqvist is dead.
Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/03/sven-lindqvist-obituary
Dr John - one of the last great originals
Rutger Hauer...........The Hitcher was one of the most terrifying films of the 80s
I cannot express adequately how pissed off I am, that I don’t have a flying car.
I cannot express adequately how pissed off I am, that I don’t have a flying car.
Franco Columbu...
:strongbench:
:(
Robert Mugabe (maybe not RIP as such). Excellent obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/robert-mugabe-obituary
My one criticism, is that the obituary understates his oppression of the M’atabele.
All I ever wanted to be was a short Jewish psychopath.
I'm feeling a little guilty for never having read him.
Oh man, that's awful. Abbed off the end of the rope.Nuts isn’t it.
Brad gobright seemed like a great human. Very sad news.
You’d think you’d never do anything like that.
Neville Drasdo: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/28/neville-drasdo-obituary
I love the picture of the two teenagers about to set out for a route on Skye.
Neville Drasdo: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/28/neville-drasdo-obituary
I love the picture of the two teenagers about to set out for a route on Skye.
Seriously inspirational figure.
And what an advert for the Welfare state, had he been born even ten years earlier, that story might never have been written.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50752089
I think we missed David Bellamy
Loved not only in this country, but around the World, Nicholas Parsons aged 96.
:wavecry:
Loved not only in this country, but around the World
Nicholas ParsonsI'm afraid that's repetition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023
seemed like a decent chap..
we ended up listening to Higher than the Sun over and over and over again.
Tim Brooke-Taylor :'(
that's a big chunk of my childhood memories. Curse this virus.
Paul Morley wrote a great book called Words and Music (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/16/music) that traces an alternative canon of pop music [...]That sounds like it's right up my alley. Acquired.
Looks like he was carved from an old tree stump
Peter Green.Amen to that.
One of the all time greats, hopefully finally at peace.
Sir Ken Robinson, proponent of more creativity in education https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/26/sir-ken-robinson-obituary
This is the talk that made him famous, it’s very engaging
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity#t-4543 (https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity#t-4543)
Toots
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toots-hibbert-maytals-dead-1053716/
Toots
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/toots-hibbert-maytals-dead-1053716/
Gutted.
Just discovered he was going to be a secret guest at shambala this year (that I had tickets for) too. What a voice.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
:slap: Yeah, ten years ago today it would seem. I didn’t know that, saw a tribute post and thought it had just happened. :sorry:
snogging Isabelle Patissier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qh_9vH1Ww
I remember the video from before I even knew what rock climbing was. RIP.
Eddie Van Halen’s not on that track or in that video though.
Falling Down’s anecdote about beating Kurt Albert in an arm-wrestling contest remains unbeaten IMHO, unless anyone wants to raise it with an account of going fly-fishing with George Mallory, snogging Isabelle Patissier, or working at the greengrocer where Malc used to buy his broccoli...
Sean Connery, apparently (haven't yet seen a definitive report).
Robert Fisk. A great reporter, and his book The Great War for Civilisation is enlightening and rather sickening in equal measure.
He was a great journalist. I avidly read his Middle East coverage in the Independent for many years.
He was a great journalist. I avidly read his Middle East coverage in the Independent for many years.
And yet, and yet, Oz Kateji and his liberal journalist pals in the Middle East are absolutely howling about Fisk's cover up of war crimes in Syria, for instance, https://twitter.com/N_Waters89/status/1323018622214823936,
Oz Kateji and his liberal journalist pals in the Middle East
excusing war crimes is a big, big deal.
I wouldn't have posted about Fisk again (I carry no brief for him) but I thought this was a hugely shitty and unprofessional piece of work that shames the Guardian.
Raise a glass to Hamish MacInnes (https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/hamish-macinnes-scotlands-greatest-ever-climber-dies-90-3044746). An amazing life: climber, inventor, writer, photographer, and mountain rescue innovator. Modern climbers will admire the cheek of bolting Dinas Cromlech!
I really enjoyed the BBC Scotland film Final Ascent (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hp3m), partly a biography.
Maradona.
Raise a glass to Hamish MacInnes (https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/hamish-macinnes-scotlands-greatest-ever-climber-dies-90-3044746). An amazing life: climber, inventor, writer, photographer, and mountain rescue innovator. Modern climbers will admire the cheek of bolting Dinas Cromlech!
I really enjoyed the BBC Scotland film Final Ascent (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hp3m), partly a biography.
Himalayan legend Doug Scott.
From Pete Trewin on the Friends of Pex Facebook group
"Amazing as it may seem, Doug Scott was once a pekkie and was involved in a well-known rescue there when Gary Smith fell from the top of The Abort soloing and fractured just about every bone in his body. Two elderly climbers ran over, made Gary comfortable and called the ambulance. Doug Scott and Ken Wilson. Months later when Gary had recovered, he invited the pair to his house for a thank-you party. Gary's mum, carrying a tray of drinks, tripped and deposited the lot in the Ogre crawler's lap. 'Aye,' said Doug, as calm and as dry as you please. 'I see it runs in the family.' Thanks to Steve Boote for the story and blame him for any inaccuracies."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/08/chuck-yeager-obituary
Anyone pick this up? Redefines the word bold. Uberwad, still flying supersonic in his 90s.
Yep, and seen the film several times, which spookily is being made into a series, and started on Disney+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(TV_series)
Bonfire of the Vanities. And (the unfairly maligned) A Man in Full.
Bonfire of the Vanities. And (the unfairly maligned) A Man in Full.
A veteran journalist on twitter - can’t remember who - said Fisk was steeped in the 1970s newsroom culture of embellishing stories. I thought the obit was a little catty but excusing war crimes is a big, big deal.
Harold Buddhis music has been a big help this year (and most others) rip
The series oddly completely misses Yeager out of the story and is poorer for it.
I don’t want to be the one to call it, keep hoping it’s just a rebrand like ziggy stardust or some shit. But a lot of outlets saying that
DOOM has died.
Wether it’s true or not I just want to say that after I got into MF I gradually stopped listening to any other rappers. Maybe one or two here and there still make it on now and then. Some will say I’m missing out. I doubt it. All else pale.
There is only DOOM.
DOOM has died.
Phil Spector - genius and monster.
Cesare Maestri:wavecry:
https://www.corriere.it/cronache/21_gennaio_19/morto-cesare-maestri-ragno-dolomiti-aveva-91-anni-0bb04672-5a67-11eb-89c7-29891efac2a7.shtml
Phil Spector - genius and monster.
I agree that Spector was a monster, but I take umbrage with calling Spector a genius.
Phil Spector - genius and monster.
I agree that Spector was a monster, but I take umbrage with calling Spector a genius.
Fair enough, some unnecessary hyperbole.
Phil Spector - genius and monster.
I agree that Spector was a monster, but I take umbrage with calling Spector a genius.
Fair enough, some unnecessary hyperbole.
Today's Jewish Chronicle obituary has the title, Phil Spector: musical pioneer and murderer
Cesare Maestri's death is closing a massive chapter of mountaineering.
Id assume that as he has told the same story about what happened in 1959 there was no deathbed confession.
Sabine Schmitz :'(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308
F*$£ing Cancer
I lived in vans for two decades ;-(
Says he died 18 June?
Da Bull
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/greg-noll-big-wave-legend-and-surfing-icon-has-passed-away/
Da Bull
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/greg-noll-big-wave-legend-and-surfing-icon-has-passed-away/
Oh, wow.
Da BullThat hurt.
https://www.theinertia.com/surf/greg-noll-big-wave-legend-and-surfing-icon-has-passed-away/
This will mean nothing to the vast majority of people here, but today saw the funeral of 80s Merseyside/North Wales legend Tom Jones
This will mean nothing to the vast majority of people here, but today saw the funeral of 80s Merseyside/North Wales legend Tom Jones
Oh Andy - that’s devastating news. What happened…?
Neil
This will mean nothing to the vast majority of people here, but today saw the funeral of 80s Merseyside/North Wales legend Tom Jones - a great wit and classic character in the style of the age. And also in the style of the age, a man who was quietly, steadily climbing E5 and E6 forty years ago.Shit.
In a later, more successful, foray into academia, I ended up working with people from the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research whose offices were built where Western Works used to be.
The Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle double-bill at Sheffield Uni. c.1980 was a real ear-opener!
Loved walking down Portobello early in the morning in the 70s, late for lectures again, hearing the banging and clanking coming from Western Works.
In a later, more successful, foray into academia, I ended up working with people from the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research whose offices were built where Western Works used to be.
The Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle double-bill at Sheffield Uni. c.1980 was a real ear-opener!
that I used to watch on an old VHS taped off Snub or the Chart Show.
Steveri - yeah Chris Watson has done some amazing work since. His Ravens chattering is something else.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and climber.
https://youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs
QuoteSteveri - yeah Chris Watson has done some amazing work since. His Ravens chattering is something else.
I went on a field recording workshop with Chris a few years back, predictably excellent and an absolute bargain considering he is the world's best.
His recorded output is well worth a deep dive, although a lot of it appears on a casual listen to be more-or-less straight field recordings, they're almost all highly sculpted compositions of cinematic scope. On his masterpiece El Tren Fantasma several sections transition fully to music concrete, El Divisadero being the jam (headphones strongly recommended):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQZTXz2-7o
Definitely heard that tune used in ambient mixes before, it's an absolute banger...
edit: ah yes this one, astrangelyisolatedplace's reinterpretation of the KLF Chill Out: https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2019/10/24/portals-the-klfs-chill-out-a-new-dimension
70s music photographer and video director Mick Rock.
David Craig, academic, climber, mountaineer, poet and writer passed away this week. I stumbled across him via a second hand copy of his wonderful ‘Native Stones’ in the early 90’s. His book Landmarks is a brilliant collection of climbing related nature writing. These two and his other works and books are well worth reading.
Robbie Shakespeare, a musical giant in several ways, one half of the Rhythm Twins, and bassist underpinning hundreds of great records. Best live memory was on the Taxi Gang tour in 1986 or 87. This was like an old soul review with a bunch of different soloists backed by the same band. All was not well backstage and the show was running late. Whilst business was being taken care of, Shakespeare, Sly Dunbar, Dean Frazier and the rest of the gang gave us 90 minutes of blistering improvising over rock-solid rhythms. Masters at work.
Robbie Shakespeare, a musical giant in several ways,
Saw this last night... Gutted! His importance to reggae and dancehall music just can't be overstated... Guy was a proper legend!
Mike Nesmith, coolest member of the monkees. Probably not cool to admit that the monkees were a big part of my childhood, but I have headquarters on vinyl.
Listen to the band..
I mean the name is similar but the music isn't. You cant remember the track Matt? Joy Division Oven Gloves?Pretty sure it was the piss-take of a Trumpton (or similar) kids song. “Time flies by”.
Edit:1989 so no, must have been something off the debut. At least one track used as a route name on there....
One last, little, OT thought, sparked by the death of a Monkey.
One last, little, OT thought, sparked by the death of a Monkey.
Did you hoy it in the sea?
Bogdanoff twins! If you have never heard of them, which i hadn't, a google search will reveal...
They climbed too!
Bogdanoff twins! If you have never heard of them, which i hadn't, a google search will reveal...
They climbed too!
Igor's Instagram has plenty of pictures of him in Font
Marvin Lee Aday aka Meat Loaf. RIP Meat.
Tony Moulam: if nothing else (and there are actually many good reasons) he deserves remembering for the FA of the peerless Mur-y-Niwl:It would also appear that Tony had the gift of time travel as in the picture of the FA of Green crack he is wearing EB’s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/tony-moulam-obituary
Tony Moulam: if nothing else (and there are actually many good reasons) he deserves remembering for the FA of the peerless Mur-y-Niwl:It would also appear that Tony had the gift of time travel as in the picture of the FA of Green crack he is wearing EB’s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/tony-moulam-obituary
A sad loss but a great life.
Bamber Gascogine
Father of Paul*
Joining his mum in heaven after she was tragically shot by that hunter (old Young Ones joke)
*not really
I think old age just lets you see the similarities. Two sides of the same coin, both ultimately pursuing a romantic notion of “honour”; they just dress up the act in different colours.
Of course, we’re right and defending civilisation and they are completely deluded dreamers, but, in a certain light, if you squint, well…
Shane Warne!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/04/shane-warne-australian-cricket-legend-dies-aged-52
What??? Terrible. Also amazed he's my age.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60487917
Thought someone would have mentioned Mark Lanegan. RIP.
Geoff Fuller, publican at the Three Stags and (and I'm ashamed I never knew this when I used to go in there) significant craft potter:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/19/geoffrey-fuller-obituary
Probably the most unique / best pub in the country IMHO. Still is.
Every time I go in with my mates we laugh and talk about the experience for weeks afterwards!!
Not a music, art or culture RIP (although he did write a book) but this obituary is worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/29/ray-hill-obituary
Not a music, art or culture RIP (although he did write a book) but this obituary is worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/29/ray-hill-obituary
I received the following from Mo Overfield over the weekend, who wanted to share the message on UKC, as he - much like I - suspect that there'll be many who knew (or had come across) Stef over the years.
“This morning I heard the very sad news that Stefan Gallagher had been found dead by the police last night at his home. I don’t have any details, but it seems certain that his passing would have been a result of his struggle with alcoholism. Stef was well known in the Sheffield climbing community and was a regular at the Foundry. He was a super keen climber and photographer and lived for his days on the hills.
Those that knew him will remember his quick wit and his sense of fun, all topped off with his Geordie accent. He was a truly excellent guy, and will be missed by many. The world is a poorer place without him.
These brief, scant words do him no justice, but I wanted to let people know of his passing, and if others want to write more below, then please do so.”
My own experiences of both working and socialising with Stef were universally fun filled, as he had a big smile and an energetic character, coupled with a keen sense of humour, which made him an entertaining person to be around.
It's a great shame and a huge loss to hear of his passing and I've no doubt he'll be missed by many - including myself.
...if you want to read the life and times of America’s top outlaw biker...
Hells Angel founder Sonny Barger - https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/30/sonny-barger-hells-angels-dead/
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I've just seen on Andi Turner's FB page that Doug Moller, Lord of the Roaches, has died. Andi reckoned him to be somewhere in his very late 80s. I'm sure the name means nothing to most here, but a true legend of the Peak, and a good friend to climbers (once he'd got past the chasing them with an axe stage).
I've just seen on Andi Turner's FB page that Doug Moller, Lord of the Roaches, has died. Andi reckoned him to be somewhere in his very late 80s. I'm sure the name means nothing to most here, but a true legend of the Peak, and a good friend to climbers (once he'd got past the chasing them with an axe stage).
That's sad Andy. I loved the odd story I could glean from guidebooks but sadly never climbed at The Roaches when he was living at the house. Well before my time.
Is it true that he responded to someone stranded soloing Elergy begging for a rope by dropping an old of rope down the crag next to them?! It wasn't attached to anything of course...
Thanks for confirming Neil. And now you mention it, I remember that line about Doug thinking it was Ron. There used to be a lot of rivalries back then but I don't know if there was any between Phil and Ron.When you name a route Gillted after your girlfriend Gill has gone off with Ron.
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Is it true that he responded to someone stranded soloing Elergy begging for a rope by dropping an old of rope down the crag next to them?! It wasn't attached to anything of course...
I believe so. Buried somewhere in my memory is the idea that it was Phil Burke - but seeing as he was supremely competent and bold that seems unlikely.
Dougie was quite a complex character and once over a cup of tea in Rock Cottage he explained that when he and Annie bought the cottage it was as an escape from the everyday world. They’d first visited in winter, not realising the area was a honeypot must visit destination and hence his initial aggression. He also probably saved my life, when soloing Elegy I hadn’t realised the top delicate last few moves where green and wet. Made one upward move too many and started to slide, but I couldn’t reverse for the same reason. I’d started contemplating a fall out zone, when I spotted and shouted to Dougie, who ran round to the top and lowered me the end oh his wood bundle rope. One quick pull and I was up, so thank you Dougie! At the top I thanked him profusely and he replied “Any time Ron”. Ron and myself both lived in Buxton at the time and so climbed there a lot, sometimes soloing together and Dougie often mixed us up.
Is no one going to mention Olivia Newton-John?
Yeah, Grease is sh@t but she was great.
Back in the 80's my mum used to go to the Roaches regularly, running personal development courses for British Gas and Royal Mail apprentices. Sometimes the youngsters could be hard work and be a bit macho and cocky, which she would solve by asking Doug to do his axe routine, which would terrify the living daylights out of them and get them in order sharpish. She'll be gutted to hear he's gone, she had a real soft spot for him.
Raymond Briggs.
Responsible for so much pleasure from my childhood, not only of the Snowman & Father Christmas, but also Fungus the Bogeyman and the grim reality of what could be have been in When the Wind Blows
He'd come out of the cottage waving it and acting like a feral madman and scare the daylights out of the trainees, so I'm told.Back in the 80's my mum used to go to the Roaches regularly, running personal development courses for British Gas and Royal Mail apprentices. Sometimes the youngsters could be hard work and be a bit macho and cocky, which she would solve by asking Doug to do his axe routine, which would terrify the living daylights out of them and get them in order sharpish. She'll be gutted to hear he's gone, she had a real soft spot for him.
Could you please elaborate on exactly what the "axe routine" was?!!
:tumble:
Surely a post missing from here... I'm no Monarchist by anymeans, but on a more human level, RIP Liz.
And now all football has been cancelled for the weekend, including for my 10 year old daughter. The last 3 stages of the Tour of Britain. It strikes me that everyone will cancel everything, but not because they feel they should. It's fear of being accused of being disrespectful. I liked the Queen, but I don't intend to spend the weekend doing fuck all.
And now all football has been cancelled for the weekend, including for my 10 year old daughter. The last 3 stages of the Tour of Britain. It strikes me that everyone will cancel everything, but not because they feel they should. It's fear of being accused of being disrespectful. I liked the Queen, but I don't intend to spend the weekend doing fuck all.We could have just had a nice self contained Friday of cancellations, and then go back it again on Saturday. Now everything is cancelled til Monday - where does it end? Liverpool at home in UCL in Tuesday, surely that can't be stopped too. This could become an incredibly boring 10 days if other sports and events follow suit.
Don't you realise enjoying yourself or having fun is disrespectful? Subjects are only permitted to watch the news and go to work during national mourning it seems... :whistle:Quite. If you want to mourn at home, go for it! No need to stop the fun for everyone else who's at best ambivalent.
And now all football has been cancelled for the weekend, including for my 10 year old daughter. The last 3 stages of the Tour of Britain. It strikes me that everyone will cancel everything, but not because they feel they should. It's fear of being accused of being disrespectful. I liked the Queen, but I don't intend to spend the weekend doing fuck all.
Don't you realise enjoying yourself or having fun is disrespectful? Subjects are only permitted to watch the news and go to work during national mourning it seems... :whistle:
At least in this age of TV on demand there is still stuff to watch on the telly. I remember when Princess Diana died there seemed to be nothing but royal tributes on the telly for about a week, even the radio stations were only playing somber music for an age.
On the days on Princess Di’s funeral I went climbing - I have never seen the Roaches so busy!
And now all football has been cancelled for the weekend, including for my 10 year old daughter. The last 3 stages of the Tour of Britain. It strikes me that everyone will cancel everything, but not because they feel they should. It's fear of being accused of being disrespectful. I liked the Queen, but I don't intend to spend the weekend doing fuck all.
Don't you realise enjoying yourself or having fun is disrespectful? Subjects are only permitted to watch the news and go to work during national mourning it seems... :whistle:
Theresa May (yes her) showed how it can be done... BBC news lunchtime Parliamentary coverage from around 12.45pm today. It was so unexpected it broke the newsreel (which went into a brief repreated looping at around 12.50).
There is no expectation on the public or organisations to observe specific behaviours during the mourning period...
There is no obligation on organisations to suspend business...
There is no obligation to cancel or postpone events and sporting fixtures, or close entertainment venues
during the National Mourning period...
Whilst I was serving at a baked potato van at Chatsworth Country Show. Remember it well. A minutes silence was announced on the PA system and everyone duly stopped talking... everyone except for the horsey lady in front of me trying to get a tuna mayo jacket, who got ever more irate as I continued to meet her requests with a blank stare :lol:At least in this age of TV on demand there is still stuff to watch on the telly. I remember when Princess Diana died there seemed to be nothing but royal tributes on the telly for about a week, even the radio stations were only playing somber music for an age.
On the days on Princess Di’s funeral I went climbing - I have never seen the Roaches so busy!
I was skippering a yacht in Turkey. No internet or international TV. I was wondering around the Marina in Marmaris and several people who knew I was British kept offering me condolences, I had no idea why. Remained quite confused until I did the weekly phone call to my parents (in a phone booth, with coins) a couple of days later.
I kinda miss being able to get away from that sort of stuff…
I did notice the IFSC haven't cancelled Edinburgh. So that's something to keep us entertained!
quote... I was skippering a yacht in Turkey. No internet or international TV. I was wondering around the Marina in Marmaris and several people who knew I was British kept offering me condolences, I had no idea why. Remained quite confused until I did the weekly phone call to my parents (in a phone booth, with coins) a couple of days later.
I kinda miss being able to get away from that sort of stuff…
Was this just condolences for being British? Or did they somehow know before anyone else?
If you strongly don't like things being cancelled and don't like being told what to do will you not be taking the offer of a free bank holiday for the funeral nor the one next year for the coronation then.If my work says nobody is working one day next week because it's the funeral, I'm not going to push to work on my own. Being opposed to cancellations shouldn't mean I have to go out of my way to work when told to have the day off. The idea that I should want to work just as much as I want to see football/cycling/running/TV shows etc would be bizarre.
I was being facetious. I think it’s stupid we are cancelling stuff. Just I had a conversation with someone today who was pissed of the footy was cancelled but in the same sentence was over the moon to be having his work cancelled for the day of the funeral.Yep like Dac, I was too ready to get on the defensive to spot that!
My daughter informs me that at school today she was subjected to an 90 minute assembly about how great the queen was: she tells me she would have preferred the maths lesson it replaced.
(combined Catholic/CoE)
(combined Catholic/CoE)
What? Do 500 years of blood soaked history mean nothing to these people?!
Obviously this sounds awful, and as an aside I hate the association of religious schools with academic rigour and the secular with laxity.
Influential rock guitarist Wilko Johnson. A good reminder to re-watch the excellent documentary about his cancer diagnosis and approach to his final years. Interesting guy.
In 1980 Middleton was involved with the arrangements on and played keyboards for Kate Bush's Never For Ever
Did we miss Alan Rakine of the Associates.
RIP Ammon McNeely
Gary Rossington, last man standing from original line up of Lynyrd Skynyrd
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/07/gary-rossington-obituary
And of course, this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY
Harry Belafonte.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/19/andy-rourke-bassist-for-the-smiths-dies-aged-59
Andy Rourke. Can't believe how young he was.
Cormac McCarthy. Nothing short of a genius.
Cormac McCarthy. Nothing short of a genius.
The thing with Cormac McCarthy is, Blood Meridian is a truly amazing book, but… I’m not sure I can stomach any more of his vision. A couple of his books might be enough for me.
I'm a dissenting voice on McCarthy, though I would be the first to admit I've only read two. I thought The Road pulled its punches at the very end, disastrously. And I found All the Pretty Horses over-stylized and affected.
As importantly, all the tributes today are quoting these comments:
“There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed,” McCarthy told the paper. “I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.”
which I find a near perfect expression of the American cult of death and violence and is itself a very vacuous (and dangerous) idea of freedom. I can separate personal views and art, but these particular views are clearly inseparable from the core of his art.
the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea
I'm a dissenting voice on McCarthy, though I would be the first to admit I've only read two. I thought The Road pulled its punches at the very end, disastrously. And I found All the Pretty Horses over-stylized and affected.
As importantly, all the tributes today are quoting these comments:
“There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed,” McCarthy told the paper. “I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.”
which I find a near perfect expression of the American cult of death and violence and is itself a very vacuous (and dangerous) idea of freedom. I can separate personal views and art, but these particular views are clearly inseparable from the core of his art.
It's certainly a very provocative quote, though I'm personally left not fully understanding what he means by it, rather than thinking he's defined what freedom is.
I felt a bit the same about All the Pretty Horses. Blood Meridian was something else, though it's even more stylised, which I imagine could turn as many people off as the ceaseless and senseless violence.
That concept of 'how the west was won' and pioneer identity is central to American culture even now, as it is in many former settler colonies (see also Australia). I guess this speaks to what Andy calls the 'American cult of death and violence'.
That concept of 'how the west was won' and pioneer identity is central to American culture even now, as it is in many former settler colonies (see also Australia). I guess this speaks to what Andy calls the 'American cult of death and violence'.
If you want to read an essay he wrote on language, see below. I have reread this many times over the years, brimming with insights.
https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/
Gino Mader, Swiss Pro Cyclist - https://bahraincyclingteam.com/statement-regarding-gino-mader/
Gino Mader, Swiss Pro Cyclist - https://bahraincyclingteam.com/statement-regarding-gino-mader/
Upsetting stuff.
I listened to G's podcast recently and he was saying that he'd been discussing the danger in cycling with friends and the only sport they felt came with similar risks was the isle of man TT. Fast speeds on public roads with little safety features.
It's been a few days now but I feel Glenda Jackson should be noted: a remarkable professional career (two Oscars!) and a principled, sincere politician.
Sinead O’Connor. A force of nature.
Tof Henry
https://www.skimag.com/news/tof-henry-38-has-died-while-skiing-in-chile/
Had a style/approach similar to Jeremie Heitz - an ex racer trying to ski big lines in a very fast, fluid style...
https://vimeo.com/302645996
I have seen the original, Le Retour de Martin Guerre, it’s brilliant. Haven’t seen, Somersby, the Hollywood remake. Did she research the original French setting? Or the American one?
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis at age 94. NZD was one of the single most important and influential historians of the last sixty years. I know this probably seems very niche but if you've seen the 80s film The Return of Martin Guerre then you've been exposed to her work (though, interestingly, her well-known book of the same name actually came out after the film), A enormous loss to my profession.And on the subject of historians, I'd missed this which surely deserves a mention on a climbing site
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis at age 94. NZD was one of the single most important and influential historians of the last sixty years. I know this probably seems very niche but if you've seen the 80s film The Return of Martin Guerre then you've been exposed to her work (though, interestingly, her well-known book of the same name actually came out after the film), A enormous loss to my profession.And on the subject of historians, I'd missed this which surely deserves a mention on a climbing site
https://www.climbing.com/people/remembering-audrey-salkeld/?utm_campaign=CLM+-+NL&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=279829790&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--N5PFSLZrbuulSDkmP7GWhnhMSaFlY4xgFGKz-I1wN0QkvaLpzW-S7hXVQ3fu69gZifM1ulDEaAcyA512sxUox7BQRvw&utm_content=279829790&utm_source=hs_email
54!!!.Wait till you're in your sixties!
The number of 50 somethings on this thread is depressing.
Just turned 51. Seems like I've just walked round the corner into snipers alley.. :unsure:
54!!!.
Drowning, apparently.54!!!.
He's had massive problems with addiction throughout his life. I can't imagine this doing wonders for your body.
Wait till you're in your sixties!
Drowning, apparently.54!!!.
He's had massive problems with addiction throughout his life. I can't imagine this doing wonders for your body.
A habit for intoxication and a villa with a pool. Bad combo.
A year older than me.
Henry Kissinger 100.Hopefully he's been sent to the downstairs place.
There's a queue at the Pearly Gates today.Or maybe not.....
Henry Kissinger 100.Hopefully he's been sent to the downstairs place.
There's a queue at the Pearly Gates today.Or maybe not.....
Benjamin Zephaniah, at 65, from a brain tumour discovered just weeks ago. What utterly, utterly crap news.Yeah, think it was 8 weeks from initial diagnosis. A terrible loss indeed.
Benjamin Zephaniah, at 65, from a brain tumour discovered just weeks ago. What utterly, utterly crap news.Yeah, think it was 8 weeks from initial diagnosis. A terrible loss indeed.
And he told them where to stick the OBE.Walked the walk.
Neil Kulkarni (https://thequietus.com/articles/33777-remembering-neil-kulkarni-simon-price?fbclid=IwAR3QRt7-JYbE89mH_bbeBhUmCQizXfuCwy27QAZi-veftrZQoCgXqGgJcD4_aem_AQSStqhlka_E98V0JFxFaAJMAk272OEEGBySl21B5oz9ND3v_J7UIagXBAjeFAzxUcI)
Hadn't heard of Erwin James, so thankyou for this post. Fascinating if brutal life, but also very inspiring.
Great quote: “Learn to live where you are, and not where you think you want to be.”
Hadn't heard of Erwin James, so thankyou for this post. Fascinating if brutal life, but also very inspiring.
Great quote: “Learn to live where you are, and not where you think you want to be.”
Yeah, that struck me too. Pure Zen.
Still, I have admiration for those who don’t need to move on continuously.Yeh, doing life for horrifying murders can do that to a man.
Yes, I guess it is all a little over romantic. Perfect Guardian material where all evils are explained by a horrible upbringing. Trouble is that despite having an innate disdain for the smug self-righteousness of Guardian readers, I also am one. I find myself torn between thinking Leopards don't change their spots and loving the idea of the possibility of redemption. Whichever way you lean I think that Erwin James' writing is sufficiently good that he's worth exploring a little. I've bought one of his books, but only on Kindle.
Brilliant band. About 20 years ago, I went to the best festival and music weekend I’ve ever attended. The Sonic Youth curated All-Tomorrows-Parties at Butlins Minehead. The lineup was out of this world.That's one hell of a line-up!
Iggy & The Stooges, Sonic Youth, Bardo Pond, Six Organs of Admittance, Jackie-O Motherfucker, My Cat Is an Alien, Melvins, Richard Youngs, Charalambides, The Skaters, Magik Markers, Alexander Tucker, Deerhoof, Wooden Wand, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wolf Eyes, Negative Approach, The Dead C, Monotract, Prurient, Awesome Color, dkt/MC5, Dinosaur Jr., Gang of Four, Be Your Own Pet, Aaron Dilloway, Major Stars, Lambsbread, Hive Mind, Leslie Keffer, The Notekillers, Dead Machines, Family Underground, White Out w/ Nels Cline, Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink, MV&EE + The Bummer Road, Hair Police, Bark Haze (Thurston Moore, Gown and Pete Nolan), Taurpis Tula, Islaja, The New Blockaders with The Haters, Nurse with Wound, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Blood Stereo, Flipper, No-Neck Blues Band, Comets on Fire, Fursaxa, Double Leopards, Mouthus, Sun City Girls, Mats Gustafsson + EyE (Boredoms), Ashtray Navigations.
The Saturday night in the main hall was Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5. When MC5 played Kick out the Jams, you had all of the above on the stage playing together. Incredible energy. What an experience. RIP Kramer.
I believe that’s the case yeah.Just seen that.Shit.
Damo Suzuki (Can) today. RIP
https://youtu.be/FFYW5nZkpiA?feature=shared
I believe that’s the case yeah.
Damo Suzuki (Can) today. RIP
https://youtu.be/FFYW5nZkpiA?feature=shared
I honestly don't know who's even close to matching him.Yeah there will be a huge void for a long long time. Nobody is ready to run near 2 hrs currently - only others under 2:02 are Kipchoge, Bekele and Lemma and surely only Kipchoge could even get vaguely close. So it'll take another young talent to explode onto the scene like Kiptum did, and who knows when that'll be.
I honestly don't know who's even close to matching him.Yeah there will be a huge void for a long long time. Nobody is ready to run near 2 hrs currently - only others under 2:02 are Kipchoge, Bekele and Lemma and surely only Kipchoge could even get vaguely close.
Maybe Kipchoge, but I doubt it.
:(
Every hour long coach trip home from 6th form for 2 years.
Bernard Newman.Whaaat? The editor of Mountain and photographer? Can't see anything online?
A message came up on my Facebook page from John Porter to say Bernard had died but there’s no details. Just comments from various people.Bernard Newman.Whaaat? The editor of Mountain and photographer? Can't see anything online?
Bernard Newman.Whaaat? The editor of Mountain and photographer? Can't see anything online?
Historical twitter is alive with rumours that so-called historian and convicted British holocaust denier David Irving has died. It's also alive with jokes that no-one can believe the rumours until definitive documents have been produced.
before.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/17/steve-harley-cockney-rebel-frontman-dies
RIP Steve Harley.