Notable Deaths

[Necro Red]

Val Kilmer gone. He was one of the good ones now. I think a revisit to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is in order

[Carnage]

Mental altogether. Have you seen the documentary on it? Essential viewing if you've even a casual interest in it.

[leatherface]

And he was also Batman in the not-so bad 'Batman Forever'. R.I.P.

[mickO)))]

Wonderland was great. I always remember the trailers for The Island of Dr. Moreau as a child on sky wanting to see it but not having the movie channels must watch it over the next few days.

[Sworntothecans]

Mental altogether. Have you seen the documentary on it? Essential viewing if you've even a casual interest in it.

The Richard Stanley one? Yeah it's fucking crazy.

[Carnage]

Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie.

Also, apparently Richard Chamberlain died last week, I haven't seen any mention of that. Surprising, considering how big a star he was between the '60s and '80s.

[Bürggermeister]

Great drummer, I loved Blondie as a young fella, still give the early stuff a regular spin.

[StoutAndAle]

Dave Allen from Gang Of Four/Shriekback.

Great bass player - surely one of the progenitors of putting funk into post-punk.

Those first two Gang Of Four albums that he played on are absolutely mint and still in heavy rotation on my decks.

I didn't listen to Shriekback until a few months ago when Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers was interview and cited them as an influence on some of the bass and drum work on "The Holy Bible". It's good stuff and they appeared to have had a heavy bearing on some of the funk-punk that came down the line from the US later in the 1980s - early RHCP/Living Colour/Rollins Band/FNM.

[Ducky]

Dave Allen from Gang Of Four/Shriekback.

Great bass player - surely one of the progenitors of putting funk into post-punk.

Those first two Gang Of Four albums that he played on are absolutely mint and still in heavy rotation on my decks.

I didn't listen to Shriekback until a few months ago when Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers was interview and cited them as an influence on some of the bass and drum work on "The Holy Bible". It's good stuff and they appeared to have had a heavy bearing on some of the funk-punk that came down the line from the US later in the 1980s - early RHCP/Living Colour/Rollins Band/FNM.

Shit buzz. The intro to "At Home He's a Tourist" sounded like Chic trying to pick a fight.

RIP.