Today was a very sad day for me and thousands upon thousands of music lovers, as Sleazy Christopherson, of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Soisong, and Threshold Houseboys Choir, died in his sleep at the age of 55.
Coil was my favorite band of all time. I keep my set of Ape of Naples vinyl away from everything else on my mantlepiece because it is something approaching a sacred object to me. Everything Sleazy did, from TG all the way up to Threshold Houseboys Choir, was brilliant, and his music was changing and evolving all the time, for the better in my opinion. I was so looking forward to more decades of beautiful music from Sleazy but he has been taken from us too soon. I haven't been this devastated over the death of an artist since Jhonn Balance passed.
I was meaning to send him an email -- he apparently would respond in full to every fan email he receieved - but somehow I slept on that and now I'm obviously kicking myself pretty hard.
RIP
If you haven't heard Coil or TG or Threshold Houseboys Choir, you owe it to yourself to seek them out. I've got a few here as part of my "Coil Week" festivities. I'm sitting down with all my favorite songs tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i7kT5irWDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdiW2soDag
i'm sad about it myself. your music posts have helped. i think the world is a smaller and sadder place.
ReplyDeleteSad news indeed, but now he is back together will John making music for us 'later'. Ape of Naples is on repeat in my household... Going Up!
ReplyDeleteSad, sad news. I posted some thoughts on the Guardian obituary too. Meanwhile, thanks for posting the albums here. I have a lot of Coil/PTV/C93 stuff but was pretty much unaware of PC's solo stuff. Loving Amulet as I write and fell asleep to Ape last night... Lots of rain here in California... a bottle of red, some candles and a fire will be in order this afternoon.
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