Yeah, I had never heard of them either, but this has been all over twitter the last few days and I had been hoping he'd turn up. Definitely sad for all the fans.
― how's life, Friday, 11 May 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
this has been doing the rounds on twitter
seeing this message scott hutchison personally wrote to a fan has broken me. for a man who’s words and music have brought so much light to people in need - this situation feels all the more crushing pic.twitter.com/E8LIefK68j— Adam Park (@admprk_) May 10, 2018
glasgow being a small place, i used to see him around all the time when i lived in the west end and i know a bunch of people who knew him - just such a sad end for someone who clearly meant a lot to a lot of people
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 May 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
this is horrible
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 May 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Police have confirmed it. Just so sad.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 11 May 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
Very sad news. I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to them for a while, but The Midnight Organ Fight is a great album that I still come back to quite frequently.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Friday, 11 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Sings the Greys and The Midnight Organ Fight were huge to me during a difficult period of my life. I saw them five times during this period too (twice in tiny places, with no more than a handful of people). They were a humming constant, a little engine of optimism. Ach, it's such a fucking shame.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 11 May 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
Depression is a fucking liar and a thief.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
Rest In Peace, Scott.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
this is horrible, RIP Scott.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/11/frightened-rabbit-scott-hutchison-songwriter-humanity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
― Bee OK, Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
Last month was the 10-year anniversary of The Midnight Organ Fight, and the band celebrated by touring the album in full to sold-out venues across the UK. Midnight’s closing song, Floating in the Forth, details Hutchison visualising taking his own life, before he triumphantly sings: “I think I’ll save suicide for another year.” At every live show, particularly during this last run of shows, this was a line unanimously and cathartically screamed back at him, signalling how supportive the lyric, song, album and man have been to so many. Given the aligning of circumstances, it’s tempting to desperately scramble for meaning or prescience in this, to derive some significance and symbolism from what has happened. But there is no tragic poetry in this death, only tragedy – and the loss of a wonderful songwriter and a better person.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
Fuck.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 12 May 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
Fucksake
Frightened Rabbit Singer Scott Hutchinson Dead At 36 https://t.co/yBLQ3rRSKC #WhatDoYouThink? pic.twitter.com/YHpd4831aE— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 14, 2018
― groovypanda, Monday, 14 May 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
what - as they say - the actual fuck
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 14 May 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
I think that's sincere. Limmy forsook his usual 'charity do' bit to say something straight-up sad as well
― imago, Monday, 14 May 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
not often the onion misses the mark but fuck that is terrible
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 May 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
imago - click thru to the actual feature (or, better, don't)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 14 May 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
:/
― imago, Monday, 14 May 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
that is absolutely disgusting.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 14 May 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
ok i'm a big FRabbit fan, but what is so disgusting about it? there's a mild pang in the joke that the band's music could've helped him (also a reference to how it helped so many, imo), then the sincere one in the middle and the third one wouldn't be a bad thing, either.
what am i missing here? to me this reads like the staff at The Onion being about as close to sincere as it ever gets. (but i def could be missing something.)
― alpine static, Monday, 14 May 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
I can't get my head around the intention. What's it doing on that site? why would you make an article that includes fictional opinions from people who don't exist about someone who committed suicide a few days ago? why would anyone make this?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 14 May 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
The "irony" in joke #1 seems grotesque (and dumb); and joke #3 seems grotesquely trivializing. I'm not very familiar w/FR, just speaking as a bystander.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 14 May 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
One day I'll make a top ten track list for the band for those who kind of dropped off after tmfo. To me this band hadn't fell off, aesthetically speaking.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 28 May 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
"You're the shit and I'm knee deep in it" is still devastating
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
imagine being so brilliant that you can write a line like:
"I'd say she was his sister but she doesn't have his nose"
to communicate the distance between two people who are no longer in love
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
He was a master and that album is dripping with equally brilliant images. What a waste.
This went up recently; it's available for download too: https://soundcloud.com/frightened-rabbit/sets/a-celebration-of-the-songs-of-scott-hutchison-live-at-rough-trade-nyc
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
11 minute live version of Keep Yourself Warm from peers The Twilight Sad, on a live comp they put out last month
https://thetwilightsad.bandcamp.com/track/keep-yourself-warm-live
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
well actually 8 minutes or so and then some chatter
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
My mum bought my boy a 'swim until you can't see land' t-shirt for his 15th birthday. This band permeate my whole stupid life. Miss you, Scott.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 April 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
Oh it's Christmas so we stoppedWere it not for the tick of the clockAnd the spin of the Earth in spaceWe could always be this way
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 December 2021 22:56 (two years ago) link