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Tommy Makem has died. :lol:

 

oh crap!!! i spoke too soon :P

 

Congratulations to DevonDeathTrip for picking him on the DDP, and 3 other teams. :)

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John Martyn , update on the mumbling monoped, 59 today, starts an irish tour on Friday, should have the new album finished by the end of the year.

 

Still, a hell of a lot of miles on that body. Could make 60 maybe, but 65?

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I guess they have been mentioned elsewhere but what remains of the Dubliners is worth watching. Luke Kelly and Ciaran Bourke have already gone and Ronnie Drew, another one of the originals is still going (as is the band, still touring too). At around 72, that is positively ancient for a Dubliner.

 

Ronnie Drew has throat cancer.

 

He will most certainly get a UK obit.

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John Martyn , update on the mumbling monoped, 59 today, starts an irish tour on Friday, should have the new album finished by the end of the year.

 

Still, a hell of a lot of miles on that body. Could make 60 maybe, but 65?

 

In hospital and seriously ill. Tour cancelled and nature of illness not disclosed. Ticking all the right boxes in the "might die soon" catagory.

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John Martyn , update on the mumbling monoped, 59 today, starts an irish tour on Friday, should have the new album finished by the end of the year.

 

Still, a hell of a lot of miles on that body. Could make 60 maybe, but 65?

 

In hospital and seriously ill. Tour cancelled and nature of illness not disclosed. Ticking all the right boxes in the "might die soon" catagory.

 

Was thinking about him the other day as a possible.....he hasn't got a leg to stand on!

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nature of illness not disclosed.

 

He's got that rare disease which makes you come out in hives and gives you nausea when a hack asks you to reminisce about Nick Drake for the millionth time. Richard Thompson's another sufferer.

 

Bighandsitis?

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Even the news reports read like obits. There's some miles on his body, specifically his vital organs. He's probably got the kind of body that'll go into meltdown once a serious condition appears. Not widely picked deadpool wise for 2007 so there'll be a few headbutting icons on the go if he checks out this year.

 

I'm guessing he won't. For starters, there had to be some indication he was fit to tour for promotion companies to risk the Irish and American dates. But, the long and medium term are as dodgy as his recent output IMHO.

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John Martyn , update on the mumbling monoped, 59 today, starts an irish tour on Friday, should have the new album finished by the end of the year.

 

Still, a hell of a lot of miles on that body. Could make 60 maybe, but 65?

 

In hospital and seriously ill. Tour cancelled and nature of illness not disclosed. Ticking all the right boxes in the "might die soon" catagory.

 

Lifetime achievement award - never a good sign for future prospects.

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Interview and performance by mumbling monoped from this year's event. Didn't notice anyone with a cloak and a scythe in the background but the man has clearly seen better days.

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Interview and performance by mumbling monoped from this year's event. Didn't notice anyone with a cloak and a scythe in the background but the man has clearly seen better days.

 

Seems like he's made a little bit of a recovery. The lifetime achievement award was probably to safeguard against him popping his clogs this year.

If he's still around by the end of the year, he's worth putting on the list

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Little bit of a recovery is relative, presumably this mattered enough to stop him getting completely plastered before he sang. He was mumbling to the point of being hard to follow the last time he did a live session for Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio.

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In the early eighties, I was a student at a midlands university where John Martyn was playing. At the time some of us had occupied the university senate building for some reason that escapes me now but then seemed terribly important (it was not an infrequent occurrence – and rather good fun). In order to raise our spirits, John Martyn was asked to come over after the gig and play for the strugglers against capitalist oppression. He generously agreed on the understanding that we found him some grass. After a quick whipround, muggins was sent off to acquire a quarter from a well know dubious character on campus. Having rolled himself a huge spliff, Martyn mounted a small dias in the senate chamber and gave an impromptu gig for about an hour – gradually getting more and more stoned until he pretty well had to be helped off stage. Can’t say I liked the music much, but he struck me as a top bloke.

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Gordon Lightfoot is due to play Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota on March 29th

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Gordon Lightfoot is due to play Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota on March 29th

 

The man for whom the 'Sundown' strap line was concocted, not that this fact obliges you to part with cash and suffer his soporific strummings.

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Artie Traum, one of the movers and shakers of the 1960s/70s folk revival, has fingerpicked his last Streets of London, grown his last beard, worn his last chunky Fair Isle jumper, drunk his last pint of Theakston's Old Peculiar, stuck his last finger in his ear etc etc, and will soon, should he be cremated, be blowin' in the wind.

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Artie Traum, one of the movers and shakers of the 1960s/70s folk revival, has fingerpicked his last Streets of London, grown his last beard, worn his last chunky Fair Isle jumper, drunk his last pint of Theakston's Old Peculiar, stuck his last finger in his ear etc etc, and will soon, should he be cremated, be blowin' in the wind.

Im tempted to hope that in death he has taken Folk music with him.

Welcome back Harry! :)

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Erick Darling, sixties folkie who replaced Pete Seeger in The Weavers, has died aged 74. :skill2:

 

Goodnight Darling

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Erick Darling, sixties folkie who replaced Pete Seeger in The Weavers, has died aged 74. :pop:

 

Goodnight Darling

 

So, Pete Seeger can replace him in The Weavers, then?

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Guest Pete Seeger fan

Pete Seeger is fine, but his wife Toshi Seeger is gravely ill. He's cancelled a gig to be at her bedside.

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Pete Seeger is fine, but his wife Toshi Seeger is gravely ill. He's cancelled a gig to be at her bedside.

 

She doesn't have her own Wiki page and it's debateable how far reports of her death will go. Pete credits her for the support she's given his career, mind.

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Was about to post our Kingston Trio bloke on the Old Folkies thread. They were definitely part of the inspiration for the film A Mighty Wind.

 

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Folk musician John Pearse has died at the age of 69. He presented "Hold Down A Chord" on the BBC in 1968 and latterly made a living selling strings for musical instruments.

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