RIP Arrianna Forster (Ari Up)

This is getting like the John Peel incident.

Or inflatable helmets.

ooops sorry Al, I did a quick scan, couldn’t find owt, has some-one done this already?

2 of us did it yesterday. Shame though, only 48.

No worries, at ease, soldier!

2 or more yesterday.

Inflatable helmets you say?

Inflatable helmets you say?

Indeed I do.

watching the above lead to a suggestion of this excellent track:

Sorry DezB, used to have very impure thoughts about her… 😳

As you say, shame at just 48

pfft, I said it first 🙁

I’m sure she was a lovely person, but I always hated her musical output.

The punk ethos threw up some great and spontaneous music, but it also generated atonal, cack-handed efforts such as Cut, which was genuinely one of the worst records I ever heard. The Return Of The Giant Slits was even worse – jazz influences ferchrissakes – though thankfully that was the end of the band for a couple of decades. Terrifyingly, they came back in the mid-00’s to wail a bit more, but the world was just as interested as it had been the first time around i.e. not at all.

Not punk, not reggae, not listenable. Proof that musicians should actually be able to play, at least a bit.