― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Saturday, 18 September 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
News on the BC / Papa Sprain collaboration from BC post on FB: the butterfly child/ papa sprain collaboration known as My Bus release the album ‘our life in the desert’ january 31st 2020 on vinyl, cd and all the usual online services. keep an eye out for random street art in london. . My Bus FB page is https://www.facebook.com/mybusmusic/.
Wish Assassins would issue a follow-up disc.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
what? new Papa Sprain? did not expect that!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
Now there's a name I never thought I'd see again!
― henry s, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
Having been enjoying Onomatopoeia recently though I think the Ghetto Speak EP is my favourite by them. Looking forward to hearing My Bus properly.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to the Futures album lot lately, the one that came out of the blue a few years ago.
― henry s, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
I've been friends with Joe Cassidy on FB for a while now -- very gently affable fellow, I'd say. Highly looking forward to this of course!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
https://onophonic.wordpress.com/my-bus-our-life-in-the-desert/?fbclid=IwAR2jGBByPjo0rX2Xx7tjKI_WfT_d0oOwYLDamN1Rem8M7loFyGfwvQfU_wo
― djh, Sunday, 2 February 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
Searched Assassins today, and did find this note - On September 23rd 2016, NØISE (Shepard Fairey, Joe Cassidy, Merritt Lear and John Goff) released the single Little Lions/ Automatic on Obey Records along with a double 12" of remixes by the likes of Moby, The Crystal Method and Phil Hartnoll (Orbital).
So maybe under a different name? (and now I have to search out that release, 4 years on. GRR.) Merritt's voice with Joe's gives me the same sparks that Emily Haines did on the first Stars ep.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 18 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
Almost disappointed at the easy search - http://www.noiseproject.com/shop. Thought I'd have to check ASCII code for NØISE.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 18 June 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Utterly love lots of the My Bus album. In my head, I'd banged on about it already but seemingly not really.
This is probably my favourite song from the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353dbTERKLU
― djh, Monday, 13 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsH8iDFEjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdaMw410apA
― The Goodies font (Maresn3st), Monday, 22 February 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
Insides have just Tweeted that Joe has died.
I could really do with this not being true.
― djh, Friday, 16 July 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
SHIT.
*checks Facebook*
Fuck. It's true.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Sorry Ned. Know he means a lot to you.
― djh, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
Oh shit. He was part of informal hoot nights in Chicago in the early 2000s, saw him a lot in small clubs and was always genial then.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
He was just a friendly funny guy, you know? One who had done a lot and ended up in America and seemed pretty happy with it, enjoying life in LA and Chicago. Not knowing the cause I won’t speculate but he had been hospitalized and it reminds me of nothing so much as my uncle’s sudden death some years back.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
It appears pneumonia and then sepsis was the cause. What a tragedy.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Just awful. I've got a couple Chicago music industry friends that are just gutted about this tonight. Met him a couple of times & genuinely good bloke.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah there’s a wrenching amount of posts on his FB page from Chicago folks, clearly his spiritual home. And from so many people worldwide — he never knew a stranger, it seems, and you can tell in the best way.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:29 (two years ago) link
If there happen to be angelsI’ll swallow all my prideI’ll kiss them all and say goodnightAnd feel their words insideSinging happily in nursery rhymesOn how I lived my little life.
But it wasn't little.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 July 2021 03:08 (two years ago) link
Not the news I expected on this revive. Very sad to lose such a talent. Condolences to all who knew him.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 18 July 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
I've tried to remember Joe Cassidy. I've done my best.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 July 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
That link doesn't work for me. Does this?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/life-that-was-53834871
― djh, Sunday, 18 July 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
Working on this end
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 18 July 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
A great tribute
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/remembering-joe-cassidy-40684867.html
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
That is decent.
― djh, Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/30276-joe-cassidy-butterfly-child-obituary?fbclid=IwAR013iz44K0RQGktsG5ktj1LaUCIOpHh6FUn7L_NMx2El3_YdVB7ju4GAJs
― djh, Thursday, 29 July 2021 08:47 (two years ago) link
Thanks for that link. Great tribute. "Big, bold balloons of unbridled joy (even – or is that especially – when they were fundamentally melancholy) Joe’s songs appeared as if they had always existed somewhere" sums up that seeming disparity in a lot of music I love, like AMC/Mark Eitzel.
Also answers the question that felt awkward to ask: "There will be (“with my eyes closed I swear to you”) further records released by Joe. At the time of his death (15 July, 11.50 CDT) Joe had a trio of albums very close to completion – his acoustic/ orchestral Butterfly Child album, a new album by Assassins and another under a third name." There was a band name mentioned years ago, starting with a Z, like Zzaxx or Zzazz, that he was involved in, but memory's meshing that name with a Marvel electric monster and a Was (Not Was) tune.
Kate Bush news has a small article as well, with a free download link to his "Top of the City" cover.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
This Sun Times obit is quite lovely.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/7/29/22596221/joe-cassidy-musician-songwriter-producer-humboldt-park
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 31 July 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Gary McKendry playlist for Joe ...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4hXUM7QeKjPienWF9H8kZZ?si=WIUYWOCSQOOVqd143jePPA&dl_branch=1&fbclid=IwAR2zL5_tft2NFHmxBccD7BIcD7oaxtz0wehCsEqIDGgYLBHV7peXZJuUiTE&nd=1
― djh, Monday, 2 August 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SezwkNwu6Y
― MaresNest, Monday, 1 August 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
His family has set up a site in memory, also with some award news:
https://softexplosives.co.uk/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 17:08 (ten months ago) link
THANK you, Ned! The Assassins album passed by my radar, so glad to see it available at https://snissassa.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-that-never-came, as well as at the Norman Records site linked on the family site.
Appreciate the care done to display his discography. Had forgotten, if I'd known, his involvement on the Chris Connelly album, which I own and like a lot.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 23:24 (ten months ago) link