Yet again, I've found that the prompt to finally checking out a particular musician's work has been reading their obituary. Very poor form.
On this occasion, the musician in question was Bruce Loose, and the obituary was written by Stevie Chick for the Guardian. The company that Loose's band Flipper kept and the roll call of their admirers - Nirvana, Melvins, REM and Thurston Moore, to name but four - should have been enough to induce me to investigate their back catalogue long, long ago.
The news also reminded me that Flipper were due to play at tiny and much-missed Cardiff venue the Moon three summers ago - minus Loose, but with a bonus Mike Watt - only for the whole tour to be cancelled because of guitarist Ted Falconi's health issues. Had that gone ahead, it would no doubt have been a proper "I was there" gig.
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