Fravia+ R.I.P.: "Fravia passed away on Sunday, 3rd May 2009"

not often felt this sad about death of someone i never met

23/9/09 Pat texts: Bill died peacefully at 5.20 this morning.

here's my obit in Morning Star

Bill Speirs (1952-2009) Trade union leader, socialist, internationalist

(published Friday 25 September 2009)

Obituary: Bill Speirs, former general secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, has died aged 57 after a long illness.

Ivor Cutler - bye from malky

Date: Tue Mar 7, 2006 1:52 pm
Subject: bye from malky


It's very quiet. I like this corner of the internet like that. The only
sound is my tear dropping on my red plastic sandal.

malky
x
(from alt.fan.ivor-cutler)

...i joined this list, the moment i knew he was dead. If I had known
about it before, I might have joined sooner. But then he might not be
dead. But then, he might...

Jackie Sparrow was my best mate in secondary school and he taught me the guitar. He died on Friday 23 July 2004. My diary says: "frank called to tell me he'd heard jackie sparrow had died... not sure how..." I still don't know for sure, but I guess it was a heart attack. He was 44, same age as me.

Here's a wee memento from my brother Willy.

>From: "Willy Burns"
>To: "mailto:malkyburns"
>Subject: Johny Murdo's peat-bog dance-band...
>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:32:38 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>as I said on the phone...actually why I called, I was and am still very sad
>to here about Jacky's death.
>
>Last time I was in that part of the world he spotted me on the ferry trying
>to take a picture of Severine...here's the results....can't remember what
>he said...it was obviously funny as per.
>
>
>Willy

Forrest Duncan died yesterday. We love you man and we're very very sad. Can't believe we won't see you again.

The picture below was in the pub with Neil and myself on 21 march this year. my diary says "forrest and neil in caledonian alehouse edinburgh/war, baudrillard, football, mysterian etc etc/home on 5pm train". so it was a good laugh. neil and forrest stayed on... i didn't know but this was the last time we were all together. just happened to have the camera with me for some reason. 10 days later he resigned from mysterian.

The one below that again was in Ness on 4 August last year. Beautiful day, neil playing the guitar on the deck behind his house, forrest and myself chilling and elizabeth and rosie on the roof of neils shed. later we went over to eoropie beach and watched the surfers and the sun setting in the atlantic ocean.






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