Andy Williams
As a few of my former colleagues at Reckless Records have done, I wanted to note the incredibly sad passing of Andy Williams, who I used to work with in the shop in the 1990s. Nobody ended up working in…
Listen to Toby Hadoke’s “Absent Friends” for 2024
Yesterday I was musing about how much I still miss people like Paul Spragg, Dan Martin and Paul Condon from Doctor Who fandom, and so it seems an appropriate time to recommend you have a listen to the 2024 edition…
Geordie (1958–2023)
Killing Joke’s Geordie has died and I am absolutely gutted about it. He didn’t really sound like anything else on earth, and his playing style practically invented a genre. I first saw them in 1989, and they were never anything…
Bernard Cribbins (1928-2022)
Other people will write more eloquently than me and from more personal experience of working with him, and 93 was a fine old age and he was working until a few weeks ago, but what a sad loss Bernard Cribbins…
Some thoughts about Andrew Fletcher and Depeche Mode
I feel like I’ve got a complicated relationship with Depeche Mode now. For years and years they were by far my favourite band, the one I was absolutely fanatical about. I mentioned this in my newsletter the other week, that…
Bug Brain Check-Out?
I felt a real pang of sadness the other day when I went to a corner of the internet I’ve visited intermittently for two decades to find that it had disappeared. It has stirred up a complicated bundle of emotions….
Richard H Kirk (1956-2021)
Terrible news today that Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire has died. I first got into their stuff with the Code LP in 1987, which I think many people regard as past-their-prime, but for me, with Adrian Sherwood at the…
Clive Sinclair (1940-2021)
It’s 2021 and this is the desktop photo I put on every computer I own and that’s all you need to know about how I feel about the news that Clive Sinclair has died.
Dawn Foster
I find myself absolutely grief-stricken today after the news broke yesterday that Dawn Foster had died. She was just 34. I tweeted yesterday: “Other people will say more profound things but one of the nicest things about working with Dawn…
Stuart O’Connor
I was very sorry to hear that Stuart O’Connor, who was known as ScreenjabberStu on Twitter, has passed away in Australia. He was a colleague of mine who worked on the Guardian’s tech, media & games coverage in the early…