A Thread For School of Seven Bells Love!

whoa

Oh lordy.

dang :(

Its not good news, but this is one of the more treatable neoplasms. About 90% complete remission rate. The cyclophosphamide B. will probably get in the R-FC chemo will regrettably ruin the best hairdo in dream pop.

tough news, i hope the outcome is good.

If I had to go through this, my hairdo would be the last thing I'd be worrying about.

http://distilleryimage1.instagram.com/8bd2b646748d11e2bb4e22000aaa0771_7.jpg

"The love you've all shown me this weekend has touched me in a way I've never felt before. It's such a huge feeling that, despite the terrible circumstances, I can't help but feel like the luckiest guy on the planet to be surrounded by such beautiful energy. The cancer has affected my eye in a way that makes it a bit hard for me to read and type at the moment, but I do hope to respond to as many of you as I can as that changes. Please bear with me. Until then, keep your thoughts with me and I'll be keeping mine with you. I'm gonna beat this for you just as much as I am for myself. xB"

Photo via his Instagram, comment from FB.

god that pic is making me happy and breaking my heart at the same time. they're both so beautiful.

fuck, poor dude :(

: (

:(((

GREAT to hear this:

PUT YOUR SAD DOWN - A Benefit for Benjamin Curtis!!
So many amazing music friends have come together to put on this incredible benefit for Benjamin. All of the support for this will be going directly towards Benjamin's ongoing treatment and recovery process for T-Cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. As you guys know, Benjamin has been going through numerous chemo and radiation treatments since January. I'm so happy to say that they have found a bone marrow match for him, and he will be going into the hospital to begin the the transplant process in mid August. Thank you beautiful friends for all of your awesome messages and support. We appreciate it more than we could ever express in one lifetime. I hope to see you on the 22nd. So much love and gratitude, Alley

!

Seven fingers crossed.

Entire show from Berlin last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfvPu97iYCM

I just don't know what to say:

A message from Benjamin:

To my friends-I've been in touch with a lot of you individually, but it's gotten a little too intense retelling the story over and over, so i've decided to forgo my usual privacy and and just let everybody know what's up.
As most of you know, I've been struggling with an extremely aggressive lymphoma that is now known to be fully resistant to most if not all of the known chemo/treatments on the market, and, as of thursday I've just found out that it has progressed additionally into Leukemia with presumably all of the same resistances. Two cancers for the price of one, i guess. My only chance of cure (or at least a few years of normalcy) is still a bone marrow transplant, and it has been put on hold for the time being. For now my only hope of getting there is getting admitted into some clinical trials of brand new drugs and some damn good luck. Please cross your fingers and toes for me.
In the meantime, please know that life is amazing, and I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon. You are all beautiful. You are all loved.
-Benjamin

;_;

Track nine on this stream is a collaboration with Kaskade

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kaskade-experiments-with-classical-on-atmosphere-album-premiere-20130906

Is it just me that fears the worst every time they see this thread has been bumped?

i'm with turrican ..

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what

Is it just me that fears the worst every time they see this thread has been bumped?

Genuine stomach collapse at seeing this thread reappear after Lou Reed news.

ya wtf ppl why are you bumping this

gonna go there & suggest bumping it with an unannotated frowny emoticon is not cool

schlump otm

I'm going to take the relative silence as a good thing. Like Elvis said I don't need extra shit after today here.

A good sign! Posted just now on FB:

Enjoying an awesome T-DAY feast with Alley, my brother & my closest friends in my hospital room. Wish you all were here. There's nothing I'm more thankful for! BENJAMIN

Rest in Peace, Ben.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2013/12/benjamin_curtis_rip.php

rip

oh god.

this thread popping up again.

this time its the one we were dreading ..

rest in peace ben.

Fuck. NO. Has this been reported anywhere else?

Don't even know what to say.

Well, maybe this, but no more.

Fuck you, cancer. Just fuck you. He's the best man I've ever known.

I'm sorry. Even if something has been expected, it's still a shock and it's a loss on so many levels. Just... no.

fuck cancer.

35.

jeeeez ..

evil fucking scourge ..

was going to go to bed, but have to listen to secret machines loud now ..

rip ben and hugs to all

:(

awful. my thoughts with those of you who knew him.

fuck

terrible. rest in peace, ben.

School of Seven Bells were a constant soundtrack during the breakup of my marriage last year, and helped me a lot at the time through some low points. Rest in Peace.

Fucking hell. RIP Ben.

Going to play Disconnect from Desire this evening really loudly.

fuck. just terrible. may he rest in peace.

not to make this about me, but the same type of cancer took my best friend from "treatable" to gone in 3 months when we were 19.

fuck cancer.

The formal announcement:

Dear friends,

Last night, Dec. 29th 2013, we lost our friend and brother Benjamin Curtis to his fight against cancer.

While we had hoped to delay this announcement until a more suitable time when his friends and family could feel better prepared and settled to greet any correspondences from folks attempting to reach out, unfortunately the news has prematurely leaked. So we felt it would be appropriate to at least offer an official acknowledgement from us, in light of all the fans who loved and supported Benjamin and his music.

We kindly ask that his immediate family, friends & bandmates' privacy be respected during this time, and that instead, any inquires, well wishes, or notes-of-consolation be sent through School of Seven Bells’ management, where it can be shared with them at the suitable time. They can be sent to a special e-mail address here: sviib @ wizkidmanagement.com

If relevant, further information will be made available through the suitable channels in the near future.

We can’t thank all of you who supported him and his music through the years enough. All of you who attended or participated in the various benefits in and around New York City over the past year since his diagnosis, and of course those who contributed and gave generously to help support him throughout that journey. You made it possible for all of us, and for him, to see how truly loved he was and how many lives he had touched through his music by your gestures. We will all miss this incredibly talented and rare person every day, but we are fortunate enough that he shared with us his music, and that is something that we can keep forever.

I did this over the course of the past year to amuse / distract / cheerlead Benj while he was in hospital:

http://lightandloveforbenjamin.tumblr.com/

It hurts too much to read it right now (the story of every song on every album by SVIIB & TSM, and what they meant to me and how they entwined with my life) - I thought it was gonna be the first chapter of many, but I guess it's gonna serve as obituary now.

x-posts now

Do you mind if I share that out, B.B.? And mention that Ben saw it?

I guess you can share it since it's out there. (I'm kinda scared of what's in there.) Anyway, I don't know how much of it he actually read, considering the problems he was having with his eye, but he was such a sweetie he thanked me for it anyway.

Noted. I'll let it be.

oh BB ...
tis ace that your efforts were clearly appreciated by the reason behind the groove.
thats kind of cool and rather special ..