Hmm....
Hey just sent you DM about pretending to interview me! đ— RĂłisĂn Murphy (@roisinmurphy) April 17, 2022
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
After Mr. Siebel walked away from the music business, he became a bread baker for a restaurant and a county park worker in Maryland.
He leaves no immediate survivors.
Asked in 1996 how he thought he would be remembered, Mr. Siebel said: âHe was a guy who wrote a couple of pretty good songs. What ever happened to him?â
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/arts/music/paul-siebel-dead.html
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 17 April 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
Maybe he was called Max Decharme that time
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
.. or maybe I've got the wrong bloke (opps)
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 April 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
From that Guardian piece:
When 10,000 Maniacsâ Natalie Merchant grew tired of being a marketable commodity, she quit for the quieter life of a solo artist, and was then duly horrified when her debut album, 1995âs Tigerlily, sold 5m copies, because âthen came the treadmill againâ.
― begrudgingly bound by duty of candor (morrisp), Sunday, 17 April 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmer
Actually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
Also, it was mentioned in another thread, but when Jonathan Richman isn't doing music, he makes a steady living building and installing pizza ovens.
Best story I've heard is Philip Glass - from The Guardian:
...Glass supported himself as a New York cabbie and as a plumber, occupations that often led to unusual encounters. âI had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo,â he says. âWhile working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. âBut youâre Philip Glass! What are you doing here?â It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. âBut you are an artist,â he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.â
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
Forgot, I looked into the Gang of Four after catching their reunion. Turns out Hugo Burnham went into academia to teach art, Jon King became the chief executive of World Television, which produced news reports, webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to Nestlé, and for awhile Dave Allen went into advertising and brand marketing, first with a division of Overland Agency and then co-founding the digital strategy firm Fight.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 April 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
when I read that Guardian piece I did think that his was not an accurate take on RĂłisĂn Murphy's recent career:
After singer RĂłisĂn Murphy had navigated the end of her pop duo, Moloko, and then attempted to steer an idiosyncratic solo career with a determination Orson Welles might have admired, she moved to Ibiza to focus on two things: motherhood and the Mediterranean. âSometimes itâs nice to just relax, you know,â she says.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:33 (two years ago) link
I saw something about how after her solo album tanked, Jemina Pearl from Be Your Own Pet was overseeing open mics and karaoke nights in Nashville.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 April 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
Forgot, I looked into the Gang of Four after catching their reunion. Turns out Hugo Burnham went into academia to teach artđž, Jon King became the chief executive of World Television, which produced news reports, webcasts and corporate video for clients from Greenpeace to NestlĂ©, and for awhile Dave Allen went into advertising and brand marketing, first with a division of Overland Agency and then co-founding the digital strategy firm Fight.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
Kira (Black Flag) - computer programmerActually she went into the film/TV business - currently a dialogue editor with two Emmy Awards.
Update yr info. Kira won an Oscar for sound editing on Mad Max Fury Road.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
When I last checked on him, in the 90s, Arthur Brown was doing this:
In the 1980s, Brown moved to Austin, Texas, where his wife came from, and obtained a master's degree in counselling.[28]...Together with former Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black, he also became a painter and carpenter for some years,[10] and released an album with him, Brown, Black & Blue (1988). In 1992, Brown and fellow counsellor Jim Maxwell founded Healing Songs Therapy, a service that culminated in Brown creating a song for each client about their emotional issues.[30]
― dow, Monday, 18 April 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Hah, even better! I just pulled everything from the opening paragraph on Wikipedia - I was surprised it's not in there. (It actually is, but buried towards the bottom.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 18 April 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
Bit of a niche interest this, but Michael McGuire, from 80s' conceptualists/ pranksters Sudden Sway, is now Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey.
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/michael-mcguire
And if you doubt it's the same guy then about one seconds worth of hearing him talking about cybercrime on YouTube will convince you it's definitely him!
― OĂč est Lee Mason de fromage? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 April 2022 08:59 (two years ago) link
my brother-in-law is in advertising, used to live in portland, and would run into dave allen at things regularly. It took him a few times before he realized it was the guy from GoF and not just some random advertising guy
― joygoat, Monday, 18 April 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
Xpost I have a home made box off all the "sing song" bits, so "Yes, yes, I did know that actually..."
― Mark G, Monday, 18 April 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
Inspired by that latest Dandy Warhols thread, I fell into a clickhole and discovered Zia McCabe is/was a realtor.
Nice interview from 2017: https://www.wweek.com/music/2017/12/26/when-zia-mccabe-got-tired-of-touring-with-the-dandy-warhols-she-became-a-licensed-real-estate-agent/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 September 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Mojo piece this month reveals that Scott Walker became a painter and decorator in the post Climate of Hunter period.
'Though Walker began work on an album produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in March 1985, the project was rapidly aborted. Later, the singer made one of his infrequent visits to his manager. âI said, What have you been up to?â recalls Bicknell. âAnd he said, âIâve been painting.â I said, Oh, oils or watercolours? He said, âNo, man, walls.â Heâd been working as a decorator. He could, at any point, have put The Walker Brothers back together and done the nostalgia circuit, but he would rather, literally, get up a ladder with a pot of Dulux and paint somebodyâs flat and get a few quid."'
― piscesx, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 13:58 (two days ago) link
pretty sure that was widely reported in the 90s during his critical comeback
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:05 (two days ago) link
yeah. it's definitely not the first time i heard that story too
― Born Under a Bad Sine (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:11 (two days ago) link
Figured him for an electrician
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:12 (two days ago) link
stretching the term "rock star" here, maybe, but Hailu Mergia deserves a mention.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:34 (two days ago) link
I saw Tommy Tutone on one of those "Where are they now?" VH1 things and he's just a regular office worker whose coworkers apparently razz all the time
gotta say though he's got one hell of a "fun fact" whenever they make him introduce himself
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:41 (two days ago) link
This is the guitarist from Tommy Tutone:
Jim Keller went on to become the director of Philip Glass's publishing company, Dunvagen Music Publishers.
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:54 (two days ago) link
Nice gig
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:02 (two days ago) link