Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

RIP. Seemed like a warm and decent guy and always surprised that with his ability he didn't win more tournaments

Aw shit, RIP. He seemed to nice and decent to really win the big titles tbf.

It’s just come to light that Shop Assistants vocalist Alex Taylor died in 2005. RIP.

RIP Willie T ;_;

Aw, RIP WT. Most famous, perhaps, for supposedly having clocked up an astronomical number of maximum breaks *in practice*. Well, I used to serve like Roscoe Tanner in the backyard too.

Never seemed to have the killer instinct, Willie.

It’s just come to light that Shop Assistants vocalist Alex Taylor died in 2005. RIP.

I heard this morning thst she died but wth at 2005?!

There was a Motorcycle Boy reissue last year, and an interview with ex-members saying they'd been trying to track her down. I can only assume she had no contact with anyone from that scene from the '90s onward and so there were no connections left for this news to get out? So strange.

shocked to find no Keith Tippett thread on ILM

I can only assume she had no contact with anyone from that scene from the '90s onward and so there were no connections left for this news to get out?

Reminds me of no one knowing the whereabouts of Chris Dean from The Redskins.

yes i hunted for chris dean aka x.moore for a week or three last year bcz i was scanning and posting his nme pieces on the miners' strike and i felt i shd ask permission -- nothing concrete tho

the closest i got was info that another nme writer of that period who i was close had died recently but this turned out to be false (possibly maliciously)

so in conclusion

in the meantime here are the scans of his pieces on the miners' strike (support my patreon, i will post something new soonish i promise): https://www.patreon.com/posts/x-moores-2-part-22373025

Willie Thorne had a top ten single of course, seen here at the age of 32! (someone should do a Travelling Willburys thing with the ages of all involved):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker_Loopy#/media/File:Snooker_Loopy_cover.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Snooker_Loopy_cover.jpg

best terrible record ever, the snooker ball samples on that kill me

When Snooker Was King

(xp) LOL, you've just reminded me of my own inept attempts at using snooker ball samples (and Ted Lowe) on a track I recorded for one of the ILX compilations. It was a pre-cover of some Morrissey album and I chose the track called "Mountjoy" - but I think the reference sailed way over most people's heads.

Willie Thorne had a top ten single of course, seen here at the age of 32! (someone should do a Travelling Willburys thing with the ages of all involved)

The only ones over 40 in that photo are Chas & Dave

Out of interest I looked up that Morrissey song, seems to be a white supremacist anthem rather than a paean to Doug M but you never know.

there's a couple of prince songs where the percussion loop sounds just like that bit on snooker loopy, hope willie gets to chill with prince in the sky now

(xp) What, it's not about the prison in Dublin either?

I heard Steve Davis sitting in on Gilles Peterson's show last week. He played Peter Frohmader, Asksak Maboul and Teleplasmiste

lol steve davis and his deep cryptoprog cuts, truly he pwned every one of us

There's no WAY Terry Griffiths was *ever* under 40.

That image is amazing. Rip, Willie.

Holly Herndon asking Steve Davis about his Rear of the Year award on a BBC Music thing a couple of years ago was...quite something. Felt like I was watching one of my own lazy surreal jokes come to life. Cliff Lazarenko something something Muslimgauze! Ut followed by Jan Francis spoken-word set! etc

I think I read an interview where he said he used to play Terry Griffiths the odd Magma track. Don't think Tel was too impressed though.

There's a great Colin Murray interview with the Nugget on Murray's 'at home with' series, which ends up mostly being about Davis' record collection and DJ career.

https://pca.st/episode/143f25aa-4ec5-41e1-9b40-5b33fe44744a

(xp) Surprising as Terry could be such a mekanikal and destrutiw player.

(US ILXors must be loving this thread rn)

HI DERE!

yeah i have no idea what you guys are talking about

I mean I'm learning a lot.

Holly Herndon asking Steve Davis about his Rear of the Year award on a BBC Music thing a couple of years ago was...quite something. Felt like I was watching one of my own lazy surreal jokes come to life. Cliff Lazarenko something something Muslimgauze! Ut followed by Jan Francis spoken-word set! etc

Along those lines, I only just found out a couple of weeks ago that LA producer Nite Jewel's uncle is Clive Tyldesley

tbf i understand the snooker better than the darts (innit)

Is one of these people the inspiration for the Mitchell and Webb “ooh that’s a bad miss” bit

^ literally the only thing i know about snooker

Me too haha

So the lead singer of the Shop Assistants (of “Safety Net” fame) has been dead for fifteen years and we only just now found out?? That is nuts.

I only just found out a couple of weeks ago that LA producer Nite Jewel's uncle is Clive Tyldesley

I only found out recently that Olivia Newton-John's grandfather was Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Born.

I was sure I knew one of the Shop Assistants was dead from a thread on here, via M0mu5. Wasn't he related to one of them?

Or am I merging lots of facts into a fever dream?

he's related to yr man from Del Amitri

Yes I know, but as well as that. Definitely some Scottish c86 artist, my second guesses would have been Meat Whiplash or Motorcycle Boy so that leads to the same source.

something something "always the last to know"

didn't know about this extra familial music link of momus'. some musical pedigree from the big man

Justin Currie and that's it afaik.

xposts lol, I wrote and deleted a post earlier about only knowing anything about snooker because of Mitchell and Webb, glad to see I'm in good company

my dumbo Kerryman dad's completely selfish and dumb justification for us still only having an ancient black and white valve television right up to the mid to late 80's was "I only watch the snooker on it".

"He's left the grey behind the not quite so grey there, that'll make potting the even less grey more difficult".

some Scottish c86 artist

I was down a wee internet rabbit hole earlier looking for some Scottish and/or C86 and/or Creation-ish artist and it was basically "Oh! I Always Get Those Seventeen Mixed Up!"

If nobody else remembers it then I must just have misremembered then. As you were.