Sheeeeeeeet.
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RIP Bert Bevans, a fantastic DJ and a real gent. Gutted.
One of Ministry’s original residents, Bert also carried the Studio 54 brand all over the world having made the transition from lighting desk to DJ mixer there, most notably at the infamous Bianca Jagger party. I didn’t know it at the time but first heard him back in the mid-80s at glitzy basement Xenons in Piccadilly, one of the first times I really noticed what a DJ could do.
I put him on 6 or 7 timers over years and he always delivered. A couple were ‘Phantom Of Studio 54’ parties for Halloween launch parties for Revolution vodka bars and he was more than happy to get silly.
I last saw him in the summer and we hung out for a few hours with mutual friends b4 he played a laid back afternoon set at a little art fest in Brockwell Park. He’ll be missed.
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Sad news about Nick from Phonica. It’s scary how many people around my age have died recently.
Nice mix of his here: https://youtu.be/sQLfnSQY95Q
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RIP Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead
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he seemed to be a pretty good dude.
i only recently started to “get” the dead. growing up when and where i did, they were quite popular, but they didn’t have much to offer me. i liked weird noises, and the weird noises they made seemed psuedo-weird. i liked noodling and improvisation, but i preferred it in a jazz context rather than a string-based white hippy context. i liked a big musical communal event, but i liked it in the dark. you’d think there would be a lot of union in the venn diagram of nightclubbers/ravers and deadheads, but there just wasn’t. different vibes, man.
but about 10 years ago i heard the veneta 72 show and sort of marveled at the musianship, and the ESP. i’m not a fan per se, but i get it now.
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Sad sad news of Clive passed suddenly last night… A good friend to all who skated young and old . The man who brought Tony Hawk and the Famous bones brigade tour to Dublin by convincing Powell Peralta that Yes we have a skatepark for you to do a demo at when the country had not a skate park lol RIP friend 
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