From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #191 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, October 8 1999 Volume 02 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 154 (very random) [Thom Heileson ] claude bessey [kevin eden ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 16:48:39 +0000 From: Thom Heileson Subject: 154 (very random) I just discovered there is an electronic music artist going by the name "154". Real name Jochem Peteri, dutch I think. Nice, mostly ambient material, judging from the .ram samples: http://www.delsin.org/audio.html - -- Thom Heileson heileson@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~heileson 206.706.3978 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 00:46:14 -0700 (PDT) From: kevin eden Subject: claude bessey news has come through that long time wire associate, claude bessey, sadly died on saturday 2nd october 1999, following a long battle against lung cancer. as a french exchange student claude went to usa in the late 70's. he jumped ship and stayed in california where he became editor of punk zine slash. he also sang in short-lived group called catholic discipline. as ronald reagan came to power, claude saw the writing on the wall and relocated to london where he worked in the press office of rough trade records. he finally decamped to barcelona in the mid-80's. claude's last public appearance was providing the gruff voice on wir’s ‘naked, whooping and such-like’ from the first letter. graham lewis kindly provided us with this text: "i received a note from claude a couple of weeks ago. he’d rallied a bit and was hoping to be strong enough to commit some reading to tape for the re-scheduled rfh (february 26th 2000). he had been extremely ill and in a great deal of pain of late......but his death is still hard to accept. he is one of the rare people one has met who trully wished to live. i feel honoured to have been able to count him as a friend. our thoughts are with philli, claude's constant companion in love and in life." during the summer of 2000 philli will take claude's ashes to the greek island where the spent many happy times together. his ashes will be laid to rest in his favourite spot. ===== kevin eden wmo po box 112 stockport cheshire sk3 9fd uk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #191 *******************************