― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kinski (kinski), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Amusingly dud -- his attempts to pass himself off as Tricky's cousin or uncle or something.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 September 2002 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dek1, Monday, 16 September 2002 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 01:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bham, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rick, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tacit, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
see my above post. the reason for so little promotion was that he was so brutally rude to everyone he worked with that almost everyone at his label decided that they were doing absolutely no work on his second album.
I thik it's called karma?
― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
1) i want to know whether if it was ever really proved that Finley was/wasnt Tricky's Uncle (the claim was based on the fact that Tricky's mother's name was Quaye, as in Maxine Quaye but whether that was her maiden name or her name from re-marrying i'm not sure - Tricky's real name is Adrian Hoares I believe? confusing!)
2) I'm listening to 'Maverick A Strike' for the first time in about 3 years and I have to say most of it is still fucking brilliant, especially 'Supreme I Preme', 'Its Great When We're Together', 'The Way Of The Explosive' and all the other lesser know supposed 'filler' tracks...didnt much of the Timo Maas track tho but will persist
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 13 December 2002 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
tricky's real name is adrian Thaws, isn't it?i also heard about the finley/maxine quaye relationship, and i gave it credit until i read this thread.there's some brilliant songs on the first album i remember enjoying very much.
― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 13 December 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 13 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Listened to Maverick A Strike on Sunday morning (after having stolen it from Emma's CD dungeon of stuff she bought ages ago and doesn't care for anymore) and really enjoyed all of it, near enough. I also found the NME review of Vanguard - Steve Sutherland giving it 9 and claiming it was the future of music, or something, cos it had nonsense lyrics and reggae rhythms and folk melodies, or something.
But certainly, several of the tracks on maverick I found really really good, the production sharp and clear and the rhythms nice and fat and head-nodding. Is Finley an "insufferable cunt"? Is he talented or did he fluke a decent album?
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 February 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-17676287
Reggae star Finley Quaye has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman in an allegedly racially aggravated attack in Edinburgh.Quaye denies repeatedly spitting on Jobely Flores' face and striking her on the head to her injury in Leith Walk on 8 October 2011.Mr Quaye was not at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday. His lawyer entered his not guilty plea.A trial date was set for 24 August 2012.Quaye, who now lives in London, was born in Edinburgh in March 1974 and won a MOBO for best reggae act in 1997.He also won a Brit Award for Best Male Solo Artist the following year after securing two top 20 hits from his debut album Maverick A Strike.His mum Sharon McGowan died when he was aged 10 and his father Cab Kaye was a jazz musician.Quaye has worked with other musicians such as Iggy Pop, Primal Scream and West Indian musical legend Lee Scratch Perry.
Quaye denies repeatedly spitting on Jobely Flores' face and striking her on the head to her injury in Leith Walk on 8 October 2011.
Mr Quaye was not at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday. His lawyer entered his not guilty plea.
A trial date was set for 24 August 2012.
Quaye, who now lives in London, was born in Edinburgh in March 1974 and won a MOBO for best reggae act in 1997.
He also won a Brit Award for Best Male Solo Artist the following year after securing two top 20 hits from his debut album Maverick A Strike.
His mum Sharon McGowan died when he was aged 10 and his father Cab Kaye was a jazz musician.
Quaye has worked with other musicians such as Iggy Pop, Primal Scream and West Indian musical legend Lee Scratch Perry.
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://loft965.com/2014/09/14/finley-quaye-homeless-8-years/
Finley Quaye, who rose to fame because of a series of reggae-tinted britpop hits in the 90s’ has taken to his Facebook page to inform the world that he is having a hard time being homeless. Quaye has been homeless for 8 years and has suffered tremendously as a result. Here’s what he had to say: Ok people I am in my 8th consecutive year of being homeless I have lost 2/5 of my body muscle mass in the last few years I am now at my all time weakest. I am literally skin and bone now, bones protruding . Any music loving Finley Quaye fans in London let me know if you can help I am willing to rent obviously, cant buy but I can rent. This isnt a new thing I have been homeless between the ages of 16 and 40, so many times. I have 22 teeth left at 40 years of age and unable to sing or smile and have been unable to smile for the past 10 years and unable to afford treatment. Have been drug and alcohol free for 90% of the past 10 years, in recovery since 2000. I am actually disintegrating, the last few years have been the worse and things have gotten harder, there are far less resources, prices have gotten higher and people have gotten meaner and less sympathetic, so it’s really tough.. often made to walk up to 25 miles a day every day. I went through hell in Berlin starving all the time lost so much weight there too, homeless, starved and nearly froze to death in Wales in 2006/7, people would observe but do nothing, I beseech you not to ignore me now. Please email me at finleyquayemu✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ if interested or if you know anybody interested in helping.
Ok people I am in my 8th consecutive year of being homeless I have lost 2/5 of my body muscle mass in the last few years I am now at my all time weakest. I am literally skin and bone now, bones protruding . Any music loving Finley Quaye fans in London let me know if you can help I am willing to rent obviously, cant buy but I can rent. This isnt a new thing I have been homeless between the ages of 16 and 40, so many times. I have 22 teeth left at 40 years of age and unable to sing or smile and have been unable to smile for the past 10 years and unable to afford treatment. Have been drug and alcohol free for 90% of the past 10 years, in recovery since 2000. I am actually disintegrating, the last few years have been the worse and things have gotten harder, there are far less resources, prices have gotten higher and people have gotten meaner and less sympathetic, so it’s really tough.. often made to walk up to 25 miles a day every day. I went through hell in Berlin starving all the time lost so much weight there too, homeless, starved and nearly froze to death in Wales in 2006/7, people would observe but do nothing, I beseech you not to ignore me now. Please email me at finleyquayemu✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ if interested or if you know anybody interested in helping.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:07 (nine years ago) link
this is not good:http://www.stroudlife.co.uk/Finley-Quaye-thrown-stage-Woodchester-amid/story-26886378-detail/story.html
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 09:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcdA_4FlKuw&feature=youtu.be&t=184
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
think the promoter was way out of line there btw - sounds like a fairly dire performance but surely the audience could decide for themselves whether or not to sit through it.
― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 09:42 (eight years ago) link
promoter comes across as a total douche but he sounds a bit worked up so maybe he'd had a bad day
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
I did wonder, there are bad performances, there are dull performances, and there's no unanimosity as to what either are.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
I heard similar horror stories about his Nottingham show, not long ago. Late, off his face, barely able/willing to perform, mass walkouts, Internet outrage from hacked off punters.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
it's not good news http://www.nme.com/news/music/finley-quaye-found-guilty-headbutting-terminally-ill-friend-row-game-thrones-1882514
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
but it is hilarious
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
not his first assault either? I kinda want to feel sorry for him and the way his later years have been presented in the media as "lol remember him look what he's up to now!" but it's hard when he seems like a bit of a scumbag.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
This fucking horrible. Can only hope the reason is mental health issues, rather than simply being a cunthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20045707
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
The 2 can coexist
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
So because there was an element of racial abuse it's *racially aggravated* assault (rather than just assault) even though it wasn't him doing the racial abusing? That seems.. odd. Possibly just bad reporting.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 1 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Is it wrong to be more interested in knowing what pub he was drinking in?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Nah
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 December 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link