VILLAMARV Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 1 hour ago, bickster said: Emma Freud As I was surprised at this answer, a quick mooney suggests it's not Richard Curtis's partner but Sam Torrence the golfers wife and star of 'Carry on Emmanuelle (the one that killed the franchise) Suzanne Danielle' A quick scan of Emma Freud's wiki page though did surprise me though. I never knew she was a backing singer for Mike Oldfield on the Tubular Bells tour. Anyway there's a picture of Yarwood so we still see dead people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 12, 2023 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: As I was surprised at this answer, a quick mooney suggests it's not Richard Curtis's partner but Sam Torrence the golfers wife and star of 'Carry on Emmanuelle (the one that killed the franchise) Suzanne Danielle' A quick scan of Emma Freud's wiki page though did surprise me though. I never knew she was a backing singer for Mike Oldfield on the Tubular Bells tour. Anyway there's a picture of Yarwood so we still see dead people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 1 minute ago, bickster said: well colour me corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 12, 2023 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: well colour me corrected. I'd suggest there was more than one actress that played the role over the years and we are both correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 1 hour ago, bickster said: I'd suggest there was more than one actress that played the role over the years and we are both correct I can live with that surprised me as I only know of EF as a Journalist and Richard Curtis's other half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) Geoff Davies from Probe Records has died. @bickster... Edited September 12, 2023 by Seat68 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 12, 2023 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Seat68 said: Geoff Davies from Probe Records has died. @bickster... F***, we havent had his ex-wife’s funeral yet, I thought I'd see him at that next week. They were still quite close even though they’d been divorced decades. I knew he’d been ill because Annie used to tell me that she’d been round his to take him a few bits and sort his house out after he came out of hospital. I shall play a reggae CD that he sold me out of a bag (along with *ahem* herbal products) in his honour in the morning. Fairly sure they have a son, well I know Annie does, I presume Geoff was the father. Imagine having to deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withes_shin Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 Jean Boht. Played Nellie Boswell in Bread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 13, 2023 Moderator Share Posted September 13, 2023 13 minutes ago, withes_shin said: Jean Boht. Played Nellie Boswell in Bread Assumed long gone by me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 John Robb, Louder Than War, on Geoff Davies: Quote We are sorry to hear of the death of the great Geoff Davies- the former boss of Probe Records and key driving force in the Liverpool post punk scene. It’s especially sad to hear the news two weeks after the loss of Annie – his former wife who took over the shop after the couple had separated with Geoff taking over the label. Geoff (and Annie) was one of the true architects of the Liverpool music scene. One of those mavericks who seemed to live through every pop culture generation and facilitate the action. Every music scene is about space. A space where things happen. Probe was one of those spaces. The space where the freaks came to play and go home with new sounds in their bags and new pals to make art and music with. Geoff was the facilitator. He made the space where things happened. That is its own art from. As Liverpool punk scene face Richie Tomlinson says ‘Probe was our school, Geoff our Headmaster’. He founded Probe Records on Clarence Street, close to Liverpool University on 16 January 1971 through to its classic spot the city centre where it became one of the most famous record shops in the UK. In the punk and post-punk period the steps leading up to the shop’s front door were full of the exotic flora and fauna of the Liverpool music scene sat in their post-punk finary. The exotic punks and proto goths used the shop as their base for years. Inside, Pete Burns presided behind the counter, being hilariously rude to everyone and hovering in the background was Geoff presiding over the madness and the beautiful beat energy of the space – an extension of his own personality. Geoff was one of a kind as well as being kind, he took the skinny punk kids, like our mini Blackpool crew, under his arm and bonded over a love of music and home-spun culture. He would turn you onto so much music just beyond your reach – he was a font of knowledge with keen cultural antennae, and the record shop’s own label – Probe Records – somehow survived driven by enthusiasm and not business. Every release was driven by instinct and not cash. This was the ultimate in DIY – a scouse Good Vibrations or Factory and the home of Half Man Half Biscuit – the perfect home for the idiosyncratic band. Without Geoff, most of post-punk Liverpool probably would not have happened. Every scene needs a kingpin and connector. Every scene needs a wise elder, and every scene needs someone to join the dots and someone to build the playground for the creative droogs to run amok. Godspeed Geoff, you built the tracks for the soundtrack, and your maverick spirit presided over one of the great music scenes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 Colombian artist Fernando Botero (who's art surely must have been the inspiration behind the Garbage Pail Kids? ) 91 y.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted September 15, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted September 15, 2023 On 13/09/2023 at 17:43, chrisp65 said: John Robb, Louder Than War, on Geoff Davies: Taken the day off Monday for Annie's funeral, no word on when Geoff's is yet. Really feel for their son, not had his Mum's funeral and has to start organising his Dad's. He’s not much younger than me but that’s still a big kick in the balls That tribute to Geoff is a bit wrong though, the Liverpool Scene wasn’t totally reliant on Geoff (and Annie), if you were to pick one name it would be Roger Eagle, who ran The Stadium, then Eric's, was a good mate of Geoff's and helped them set up Probe. Eagle was really the kingpin and I suppose in his own way, so was Bill Drummond eventually a bit later. As people may know, Probe is an important part of my life and even my social scene. It’s a place that has bound many of us together for decades and both Geoff and Annie's passing has hit a lot of us, it’s just a little bit unreal They will both be missed I'm expecting my mate Doreen to be next as word isn’t good, another key player in that scene. Worked in Eric’s, managed Dead or Alive, ran the FGTH fan club owned Planet X Just sad times 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 David Roe, Bass Player, Nashville Session Musician and more importantly the bass player in Johnny Cash's Tennessee Three for the last 11 years of Cash's life has died. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted September 18, 2023 Jazz/rock drummer John Marshall (Nucleus, Jack Bruce, Soft Machine, etc.), 82. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Last year Otis Gibbs interviewed Dave Roe and they are a great set of interviews, talking about Cash in his later years, but also bridging the gap between the earlier Tennessee Two/Three and the later members. Love this particular interview about WS Holland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy7211 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Some good news, football paedophile Barry Bennell has died in prison, aged 69. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 Roger Whittaker, 87. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Roger Whittaker, 87. Whistling all the way to heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 2 hours ago, Jonesy7211 said: Some good news, football paedophile Barry Bennell has died in prison, aged 69. I always read that as Barry Bethel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 Folk singer and siffluer Roger Whittaker aged 87. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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