RIP Mick Farren

Word going around from Wilko Johnson and others. A friend on FB:

yep, Mick Farren has left the building. Collapsed onstage & died last night. Deeply shocked & upset here, natch. Just can't believe it.

noooooooooooo

rip

http://www.reallylivemusic.com/the-atomic-sunshine-one-day-festival-borderline-saturday-27072013

A fb friend actually posted a pic of him onstage at that very gig, before he collapsed luckily.

rip

he posted on ilx once

tonight we shall all l00t the supermarket like we did last summer.

(dear internet police, not really, obv)

He did — he was our first Tash: we called him and he came. I guess that won't happen again :(

Slap the cuffs on our Julie? My dear Mark S., you perceive but the vulgar fraction. Spanking is a classic dud, but decadence always a higher calling. Now I hit submit to post. It's all in the language, dog. -- Mick Farren
― Mick Farren, Friday, July 27, 2001 12:00 AM (12 years ago)

one of the good guys. really sad about this.

Has this appeared on this thread yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKC_o44YIk

the Deviants live in Hyde park in 1969. One of teh best ways to remember him by. That and several of his books, Give tHe Anarchist a Cigarette particularly.

Ugly Things essay on the dangers of hiring a keyboard player for your band may just be my fave writing of his. Got to meet him several times over the years....

This is sad, he was cool. I've read quite a few of Mick Farren's science fiction books, I thought they were great. They are fun reads and have some humor, which is something so many SF/Fantasy writers just lack.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-farren-dies/

RIP. Listening to Screwed Up right now and I'd smoke one and drink some if I smoke or drank.

A blow, I was big fan, esp his writing but man I spinning those Deviants records yesterday, that is prime fried-pysch rock,kind of like if the Mothers were tough. Great stuff. RIP.

Charles Shaar Murray with an obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/jul/29/charles-shaar-murray-tribute-mick-farren

RIP

David Ulin in the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-remembering-mick-farren-20130728,0,6631587.story

Farren's blog is still up... Check it out: http://doc40.blogspot.com

Suzy Shaw of Bomp: http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Page?template=mickfarren

Just finished his autobiography 'Give the Anarchist a Cigarette' over the last three days, reading it compulsively on kindle and iphone in any spare moment in coffee shops, cafes and the tube etc.

It reminded me a little of George Melly's autobiographies: slices of life recalled in surprisingly good observational detail through a mellow haze of good humour (and probably alcohol), and a relaxed view of his own follies.

I was interested to see he had made the Melly connection himself:

(from a 2011 interview) "I came here (the US) not only to flee Thatcher, but I felt that if I'd stayed in England, I would have become...do you know who George Melly is? Well, he really just kinda became a TV clown. He would come on wearing these silly suits, and it was a bit distasteful. And I could see that was the future. So I left for New York, where at the time, shit was really happening."

Somehow missed this. RIP Mick. A big RIP at that.

big post up about MF, how the values of the 60s underground press transferred into the music papers, and how they fared there