M4rk Cr4ig (aka Bimble) RIP

It makes me sad everytime i see a bimble thread on ilm and hes not there. Also every few months someone asks about bimble and someone has to explain he died.
I miss you my friend.

i cant ever say he was my friend like you AG, but damn, i do miss him on ilx ..

I saw his blog the other day, frozen in time obviously...

want to talk to you about catherine wheel right now

<3

man. i still sometimes see thread titles hit sna and immediately know he was the author, without having to open them.

Often think of him whenever I get unreasonably ecstatically hopped up on some record I've already heard 1000x. Life is so fuckin hard and if you have certain things wrong with your brain hearing music can keep you alive, but not forever

Hey man, I could’ve used you on AIM a few weeks ago. But it’s cool. I hope you’re listening to some good tunes.

catherine wheel? flower to hide is such an amazing song. probably the best shoegazer song of all times. how it s slowly opening up like a rose. and the smell is so strong and sweet. listening to that song makes me 20 years younger, everything is possible again, it gives me so much energy and strength. an unbelievable piece of music. of course you have to crank up the volume to the max to get the full power of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QTzKc472Ho

alex otmmmmmmmm

Cant believe it's nearly 6 years. So many times I hear something that I cant share with him yet I know he would love it.

10 years.

shit

Oof

Miss this dude

Goin to a suicide funeral on sunday too :(

<3

If not seen then or forgotten since (as it was for me), it turns out Drew Daniels's People Who Died: Nine Deaths from an Unfinished Decade is still up at Pitchfork.

sill miss him

Same here. Love seeing his posts of wonder and enthusiasm pop up throughout this board though, on threads unassumingly revived.

his enthusiastic posts made me feel uncomfortable at the time, they were too much over the top. somehow he made me realise that there are more important things in life than music, that concentrating and loving music too much - as a listener - is not healthy. his death was a shock but not really a surprise.

i'm sure for him music was health, as it is for many of us

that is, at least, what i get from searching this board and finding either a bimble thread or a cluster of excited bimble posts, i never interacted with him directly

I used to stay up talking to Bimble til 8am sometimes, drunk out of my mind. I'd never met someone so excited to meet someone from Worcestershire but Bimble could always find something to be excited about and that was one of things I loved about him. I can be a cynical bastard and Bimble's enthusiasm would cut right through that. I miss you Mark

Man... he was hilarious.

Someone mentioned in a reply to Stephen Malkmus' in-retrospect somewhat-eerie tweet before he learned of David Berman's passing that we've been going through the Jewish days of sorrow/disasters (not the real name, but that's the general idea as I understand it). Anyway, I don't know how all that stuff works but man the last week or so definitely has felt like there is something very wrong and shitty going on, like the cosmic santa ana winds bringing yuck vibes all around. I guess it doesn't help that it's the 50th anniversary of the manson murders, then there were the shootings, David Berman, the jeffrey epstein weirdness, etc. Living in the northern hemisphere this time of year always feels sort of "off" to me anyway, like unless you are on vacation somewheres it starts to feel like the summer has worn out its welcome and everything is just overcooked or something. I couldn't remember exactly when Mark moved on but yeah, I guess it makes sense somehow...

And they say the long cold winter does a number on your mental health.

Pictures of you just came on the radio. Makes me think of bimble each time that happens.

I wish I had been more mentally coherent when I got this phone call. It’s all a bit fuzzy in my memory. I was 21 and likely stoned and/or drunk at the time and it was just so shocking and confusing. Maybe they called me because I was a recent contact in his phone’s history. In retrospect I am a bit surprised that they shared so many details with me when I called back.

RIP bimble. just thinking of you now, and how you pointed me toward a new way of listening to music that was just about enjoying the goddamn music

Hear, hear. Can't believe it's been 11 fucking years already. I enjoy seeing his posts and threads finding their way through the board like roots, or ivy. (was he also behind your Cocteau Twins discovery?)

Miss you dude

I didn't interact much with Bimble during our overlapping times here, but I often find myself looking through old threads of bands that I'm just now getting into but should have known about long ago and more often than not, there's Bimble, singing their praises to high heaven.

There is not a week that goes by that I don't come across some great post of his on the old threads. Really wish I knew him and appreciated him better when he was here.

― kkvgz, Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:34 PM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently that has been my experience for a decade now.

14 years seems like no years at all.

I still think about him sometimes. He was often extremely inappropriate with me which was sometimes too weird but also flattering. I would stay up stupidly late in the morning talking to him though anyway

Sometimes I'll hear something new and immediately think "Bimble would totally like this" - perhaps he is somehow...