Where Is (The Love For) David Cavanagh??

i recall a select back-page column about great insult songs. it was funnier than should really have been allowed.

he wasn't as good as david quantick, mind.

"The sun will come out...
Tomorrow..."
*cascading burst of effects pedal noise*

Mackenzie Crook could play Guy Chadwick.

yeah the OUT OF TIME one was the single most extreme (in a positive way) album review i've ever read. i wish i still had that.

The burning question is of course, who would play Bobby G?

Yeah, I had that Automatic For The People review blu-tacked on my wall for most of my teenagehood, and was suitably crushed when he slagged Monster in Mojo two years later. (He was right, though.)

Oh man!

"She, she she she...shiiiiiiiiiiit."

http://www.ewanmcgregoronline.com/Images_promo_pics/Thumbnails/Ewan%20with%20Ewen%20Bremmer%20and%20Robert%20Carlysle%20-%20

Very sad news going around this morning that he passed on two days ago.

Some really lovely memories via the Fall board, where the news went public:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thefall/rip-david-cavanagh-aka-zoot-t43299.html

That's too bad. His John Peel book was big as a brick but a great read.

the Creation book is fantastic.

Wrote for some of the same mags as David over the years, but sadly never met him - wish I had had the opportunity to tell him how great I thought he was. He was such a brilliant, brilliant writer -- about so many things. Magpie Eyes is a magnificent piece of work - as research, analysis, survey. But remember him briefly having a carte blanche column in mid-90s Select where he could rhapsodise about imperial-era ManU wingers among many other things. In a saner world he would have had a Myles-style column for life.,

I linked to this upthread, but the link is now broken. Here's the waybackmachine way to DC's stupendous Triffids essay

https://web.archive.org/web/20060819151428/http://home.tiscali.be/the.triffids/hellofasummer.htm

I want to look out and scan his Vox article on the disastrous recording of The Farm's final album Hullaballo, I remember it being a brilliant farce on the level of much of the Creation book.

I loved his writing. I wish there was a copy of his 'giving up on REM' Word mag piece online. It was brutal and beautiful. His legendary 5-star REM reviews (especially for Out Of Time) for Select mag were the most hysterically positive reviews i ever read which made his 'break up' with them years later all the more powerful. When me and NI/Affectian of this parish first met IRL (having first met on here) and decided to run a club together in '04, we 'swapped' books; i gave him a paperback collection of FACE mag articles and he gave me 'Ask' by Morley and 'My Magpie Eyes... ' by David, and so i have a particular affection for that book which is fantastic and reminds me of a very happy time in my life. Also his early Blur pieces made me think he was some kind of visionary; he *raved* about them when almost no-one else cared. RIP.

He's probably my favourite music writer though I lost track of what he was up to post-Creation book. There's another thread on here discussing how Alan McGee managed to have him blacklisted to some extent - would be interested to hear more about what ended up taking place there. I learned he spent some time at Uncut but didn't bother due to severely disliking the publication, so was pleased to see him return to Q in recent months.

Also any thoughts on his Peel book? I was eyeing it up the other day.

RIP, My Magpie Eyes... is without a doubt my favourite music book of all time, such great writing.

Great obit from John Harris

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/31/david-cavanagh-writer-musicians-music?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture

I want to look out and scan his Vox article on the disastrous recording of The Farm's final album Hullaballo, I remember it being a brilliant farce on the level of much of the Creation book.

Strong vote for this to happen.

Fuck. Just found out about his suicide in comments on twitter about Dele Fadele's death.

Ah shit. Dele Fadele was such a don. Super sad to hear this.