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RIP Steven Wells

It's full of great lines.

When will be able to 'The Best of Steven Wells' in handy paperback form?
 
RIP Steven. We've already got your gravestone prepared.

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
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That's terrible! Really funny clever guy. Made me laugh loads.

Met him at the first ever Womad. Nice fella.
 
the missus is a bit shocked when i told her this, she didn't even know he was in America
Not a good week, my dad died on Saturday...

and THATCHER is still hanging on.

Fuck!
 
trevhagl said:
the missus is a bit shocked when i told her this, she didn't even know he was in America
Not a good week, my dad died on Saturday...

and THATCHER is still hanging on.

Fuck!
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jesus. sorry to read that about your dad trev. hope you're ok.
 
FUCK FUCK FUCK,We were very good mates in the early 80's,I used to go up to stay at his place in Leeds and spend the whole time bickering at each other in a way only mates can.I use to turn up at gigs and blag a guestlist on the grounds that I was Swells and would do a free set,I only could remember 2 poems so it was a short set. :rolleyes:
 
Sad news. Liked him in the NME - particularly the singles reviews. Met him and went for a coffee and a cake back in about 1989. Nice bloke.

RIP Swells.
 
Despite his fiery, come-and-have-go reputation, Steven was never a problem to deal with. He never complained when a piece he'd sent in on spec was swatted aside, or when subs or lawyers hacksawed his scribblings. Indeed, after we published his piece on the-then 16-year-old Wayne Rooney (part of which you can read below) he rang the desk up to tell us it was "best piece of subbing he'd ever seen". Probably because we hadn't touched a word as it was so good.
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Anyone have the full piece?
 
Metal Malcolm said:
RIP Swells. Didn't know he had cancer.

I bet he's up in heaven now, trying to kill John Denver all over again.
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oh fuck me thats sad .. steven wells susan williams seething wells .. thats sad :( did an interview for him for nme years ago and thought he was a bit of a knob but nice enough and always quite liked what he did .. heart in the rightplace and all that .. shame RIP :( :(
 
trevhagl said:
the missus is a bit shocked when i told her this, she didn't even know he was in America
Not a good week, my dad died on Saturday...

and THATCHER is still hanging on.

Fuck!
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ah, fuck trev, really sorry to hear that man, you have my genuine sympathies.
rip swellsy..
 
Ohh, sorry to hear about this. Just the other day I was browsing through my copy of Tits Out Teenage Terror Totty. I shoplifted that book on the basis of the title alone when I was about 17. The only thing of his that I have read, but a book that insane, unreadable, ranting and funny will always have a place in my heart.

RIP.
 
He was a master of the evocative phrase that sticks in your memory. Who could forget his description of Goths as 'the skeletal weirdies who coughed TB infectd phlegm into your lager and lime'?
 
trevhagl said:
the missus is a bit shocked when i told her this, she didn't even know he was in America
Not a good week, my dad died on Saturday...

and THATCHER is still hanging on.

Fuck!
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That's what i thought when my dad died. So sorry, trevhagl.

Awful news about swells, i didn't even know he was ill. Always liked his shouty style of writing.
 
Seeems like every journo ever is on the Phil weekly. I like tis one from the balding irishman:

54. Stuart Bailie said... on Jun 25, 2009 at 07:23AM

“He was a funny and authentic voice. Chuck D was an admirer and so was I.”
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edit: even ted chippington is there, rocking with rita.
 
I'm really sorry to hear about this, Swells was a legend in the '80s and '90s. :(

My favourite of his was a review of the Fall's 'Levitate' album that went something like: "imagine pop music made by a misanthropic Mancunian with a face like a plastic toby jug half-melted by a three-bar-fire". :D:cool:

Genius. :cool::(
 
Remember Swells when he first began his rant poetry along with Little Brother. Atiila the Stockbroker. He was big mates with both Martin and Chris from the Redskins so used to see him quite a bit in Willesden and Kilburn. When Phil Pyatt ( one of the anti fascists jailed in Manchester in the 80s) was dying we did a benfit gig for him at Stockport labour Club and Swells came and did a set not even claiming his rail fare or expenses.

Great loss.
 
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