chilli Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 very very sadlyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1725211,00.html#article_continuea great man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 very very sadlyhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0' date=',1725211,00.html#article_continue[/url']a great manA genius - and hilariously funny.FOPP have a few of his albums on offer at 5.00 a pop. Not too shabby, eh?DZL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Alan Cynic wont like this news at all. I got a vid of Ivor Cutler last year, he was a great man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 that is a true shame...what a guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 very sad news about a great Scottish talent. Apart from Peel and Kershaw did any other radio shows play his stuff?Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Footage of ivor Cutler on The Old Grey Whistle Test - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betamax Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 damn shamealso makes me get miserable and start missing Peelie again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowan Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I remember one of my pals picking up an Ivor album from Fopp way back when...What's Your Favourite Jam?Traffic Jam, the jam for a man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Mulhern Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Very sad indeed! Will be missed!Very Funny!http://www.ivorcutler.org/audio/sense.wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Commander Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Everyone should be made to listen to 'Dandruff' to mark the passing of this scottish genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammer Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Just heard on the radio. My first Cutler experience was in the Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour booklet as he appeared in the film... and he looked bloody old then. Weird and wonderful guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me and Parvati Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 very sad news about a great Scottish talent. Apart from Peel and Kershaw did any other radio shows play his stuff?DaveJanice Forsyth is a fan of Mr Cutler.His death leaves a unique, Cutler-shaped hole in the universe, and I feel deeply sad about that. Bugger, another one gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I heard about this earlier.A massive loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydoll Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Rubbiss.My dad was the first person I heard of Mr.Cutler from. Hilarity ensued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 very sad news about a great Scottish talent. Apart from Peel and Kershaw did any other radio shows play his stuff?Davehe had quite a lot of stuff broadcast on radio 3 and 4i used to play his stuff when i was doing community radio, i'm pretty sure i spun the odd cutler tune on northsound though i'd need to check me playlists.poor old ivor, i'll miss him - a unique one off. had a good innings mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Bugger...just found out about this just now!!! I loved Ivor.He didn't look well when BBC 4 showed his last concert, so I knew he didn't have long to go, but I'm still upset.I just agreed to do an Ivor tribute in Glasgow...it'll be a hard night to get through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Mulhern Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Bugger...just found out about this just now!!! I loved Ivor.He didn't look well when BBC 4 showed his last concert' date=' so I knew he didn't have long to go, but I'm still upset.I just agreed to do an Ivor tribute in Glasgow...it'll be a hard night to get through.[/quote']I know alan sad news. He didnt look that well on BBC4 docu, im sure it will be shown again very soon.What about a Cutler tribute night in the deen?? Who'd be interested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 What about a Cutler tribute night in the deen?? Who'd be interested?Surely everybody! Shall we do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Surely everybody! Shall we do it?Of course, I'd be up for it. As, no doubt, would hundreds of otheres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted March 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 he had quite a lot of stuff broadcast on radio 3 and 4Del uniquely he had stuff played on bbc radio 1,2 3 & 4no mention of 5, but there again that is talk based radio so who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christy Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 o ma lord that is the saddest news I've had in quite some time.help!help!help!My, what an arresting voice!love from christy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plato the Greek Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 I heard about this yesterday on the radio. I only bought my first Ivor Cutler album last year as a result of a conversation I had with a jolly old man when I worked in Silverscreen. The old man told me that Ivor Cutler was a 'feel aul' manny fa wis in i' Beatles fir a whiley'. Not really true I realise, but still an interesting description I thought. When I listened to him for the first time it was a revelation, probably the funniest songs and poetry I had ever heard. He was just such a fascinating character, it's really sad news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1725815,00.htmlThe dignity of Ivor Cutler Mark Radcliffe Wednesday March 8, 2006The Guardian A few years back, I was producing a Saturday afternoon show on Radio 1. I would try to book an odd mix of guests - one week we had David Cassidy on with Karlheinz Stockhausen - and so I got Ivor Cutler in. Ivor arrived with his harmonium, and sat in the corner, forcing all the other guests to make their way around him when they came into the studio. Then, when the time came for him to perform his song, Richard Skinner, who was presenting, turned to him and said: "Take it away, Ivor!" Ivor looked up at him, puzzled, and instead of starting his song, said: "Take what away?"That was a perfect example of how Ivor, who died last week, aged 83, lived in his own world and time. But I would not describe him as an eccentric. I'm a great believer that we are all eccentric: we just accept or reject our own eccentricities. Ivor embraced his. He had no truck with informality - when I met him he was scrupulously polite, to an almost mannered degree - but he possessed a kind of dignity that we are in danger of losing.Ivor bucked received wisdom in so many ways. He proved it was possible to connect with young people even when you were old - like many people, I guess, I first heard him on John Peel's show. He was proof that the obsession with age demographics that dominated British broadcasting for so long - and which we now, thankfully, seem to be moving away from - was a waste of time, because he was as at home on Radio 1 as Radio 4. It's very sad that so many people in their 20s and 30s don't have friends of 60 or more, with different experiences, from whom they could actually learn things. And in the kind of work Ivor did - comedy, broadly - age is surely an advantage, because you know more as you get older.He also showed that the child of eastern-European Jewish immigrants could come to embody a kind of Britishness. I've become quite interested in the idea of Britishness, and Ivor's works about growing up in a grimly surreal Scotland were part of that: he spared no punches about how bad things were, but spun it into something magical. Arguably, you can hear something similar in Pete Doherty - although I'm not convinced by the quality of all his work - and his interest in his concept of "Albion".And Ivor also proved you can be a success without having to try to do everything. He didn't try to write TV series, or branch out into directing operas. Not everyone is a renaissance man, and you don't hire a plumber to do your painting. Being special at one thing is far better that being not bad at a ton of things, though I would settle for being not bad at one thing. Mark Radcliffe was talking to Michael Hann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Me and Parvati Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Surely everybody! Shall we do it?Aye, that'd be terrific! I'd go for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Aye' date=' that'd be terrific! I'd go for that![/quote']The wheels are in motion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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