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#1450 Re: RIP
August 18, 2021, 11:58:14 am
Sean Lock, dunno why but this seems particularly sad. Maybe because I had no idea he was ill or maybe because, given what else is happening in the world right now, the idea of a relatively young comic going seems like karmic kick in the nuts too far.

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#1451 Re: RIP
August 18, 2021, 12:26:42 pm
58 is no age for anyone.

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#1452 Re: RIP
August 18, 2021, 12:47:53 pm
Agree. Always loved what the guy does, and by all accounts a good person too. RIP and thanks for the laughter.

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#1453 Re: RIP
August 23, 2021, 02:34:03 pm

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#1454 Re: RIP
August 24, 2021, 08:33:33 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58307306

His sax on Food for Thought is still brilliant. RIP.

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#1455 Re: RIP
August 24, 2021, 06:13:56 pm
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer, 80

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#1456 Re: RIP
August 29, 2021, 04:35:39 pm
Dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry. A man of so many legends and so much brilliant music.

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#1457 Re: RIP
August 29, 2021, 06:32:34 pm
Fucking hell, a sad week for music.

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#1458 Re: RIP
August 29, 2021, 07:42:11 pm
Probably my all time favourite:


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#1459 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 04:26:36 pm
Sheffield resident Richard H Kirk (Caberet Voltaire, Sweet Exorcist, Sandoz) died yesterday aged 65.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/21/richard-h-kirk-was-prolific-hungry-angry-and-funky-to-the-end

Some Sheffield and Stanage locations in their Sensoria video that I used to watch on an old VHS taped off Snub or the Chart Show.


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#1460 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 04:56:32 pm
Perry and Kirk both extraordinary people.
Feel bad now finding the latest CV album a bit heavy going :(

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#1461 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 05:45:00 pm
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.


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#1462 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 06:23:35 pm
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.

I love the fact that Chris Watson now spends his time recording birdsong, rotting carcasses, grass and generally putting microphones where nobody had thought to put them.

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#1463 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 06:38:07 pm
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.

Excellent stories Duncan

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#1464 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 07:01:40 pm
The Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle double-bill at Sheffield Uni. c.1980 was a real ear-opener!

I'm too young for Throbbing Gristle but I first heard of Genesis P-Orridge via the book "Modern Primitives", which I bought in City Lights bookshop in SF back in the early 90s. Even now some of the photos in that book are definitely not for the faint hearted. If you've ever seen a copy you will know exactly what I mean.

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#1465 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 08:25:11 pm
that I used to watch on an old VHS taped off Snub or the Chart Show.

God I loved Snub TV.. Had a load on VHS that I'd watch over and over.. I rember embroidering a couple of little batches of the eye symbol that I stitched onto a couple of t-shirt sleeve's. Totally formed my music listening habits of the time.
Introduced me to such Ride, Pale Saints, Breeders, Galaxy 500, the Sundays and many more.

Thank heaven for YouTube where I can re-live my youth.

Didn't get on with CV though   :sorry:

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#1466 Re: RIP
September 22, 2021, 10:50:26 pm
I’m not a massive fan of CV either to be honest, but they certainly had an influence.

The magic of Snub TV though eh? Remember this one

Steveri - yeah Chris Watson has done some amazing work since. His Ravens chattering is something else.

Sean - yup.

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#1467 Re: RIP
September 23, 2021, 09:11:53 am
Must have missed that one - my fave...



 :off: - worthy of a thread split?

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#1468 Re: RIP
September 23, 2021, 09:58:00 am
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Steveri - 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):



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#1469 Re: RIP
October 19, 2021, 06:53:47 am
Very obviously, Colin Powell. Undoubtedly a remarkable life, full of achievement, but a complex legacy.

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#1470 Re: RIP
November 01, 2021, 06:39:35 pm
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and climber.



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#1471 Re: RIP
November 02, 2021, 12:02:14 am
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and climber.




What a shame, his work on flow is fascinating

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#1472 Re: RIP
November 03, 2021, 04:37:38 pm
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Steveri - 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):



Useful reminder of how fucking excellent these Audioengine A2 desktop speakers of mine are.

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#1473 Re: RIP
November 03, 2021, 06:38:19 pm
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

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#1474 Re: RIP
November 03, 2021, 06:51:26 pm
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

wow, now you have my attention.

 

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