Pat Collier has died at the age of 72. He started off as the bass player in The Vibrators, before moving on to become a producer, you may not have heard of him, but you'll have heard of some of the bands he worked with... The Wonderstuff, The House of Love, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Katrina and the Waves, The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, CockSparrer, UK Subs, 999, X-Ray Spex, Goldblade,The Guitar Gangsters,The Vibrators,The Candyskins,The Duel, Argy Bargy, Decoration, Pope, Skaville UK, King Kurt, Viva las Vegas, Deadline,The Screaming Blue Messiahs, The Killer B’s, Pretty Blue Gun, The Barbs, Special Needs, Lowgold, Capdown,100 Reasons, Kingmaker,The Oyster Band, The Voice of the Beehive, The Darling Buds, Lloyd Ryan, The Holloways, The Witchdoktors, Maximo Park, Miles Hunt, New Model Army, Zodiac Mindwarp, Primal Scream, Sennen, Air Formation, Tellison, Guitar Club, Jude and Tom Edwin-Scott Band, The Explorer’s Collective, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, The Soup Dragons, Crazyhead, The Motorcycle Boy, Angelic Upstarts, Long Tall Shorty, The Chords, Making Time, Fabric, Die So Fluid, The Church Boys, Anju Ebanks, Jona Lewie, The Gonads, The Last Resort, The Warriors, The Business, The Masons, Swervedriver, Nick Bukowski, Judge Smith, My Life Story, Nigel Bennett, Maria and the Moments, Jenny’s Birthday, Poor Little Pierette, Dead Wolf Club, Favour, Vince Ray and the Boneshakers, The Zero Set, Dogstate, The Dilemmas, The Inmates, King Hammond, Jakwob, You Walk Through Walls...
This event is really getting to me , having taken my 8&9 year olds to the beach the other day and all their innocence on hot sunny holiday it’s horrifying . I’m trying very hard not to conjure up pictures . I’m normally pretty resilient having been at my sisters beside a few months ago when she passed at a relatively young age you sort of feel you won’t be as affected but god it’s awful . And we are taking kids innocence away with words and opinions that mean nothing. Kids are so trusting so events like this hurt so much .
I despair. What is the world coming to, what enables someone to unleash this carnage/horror on innocent children & adults? 3 children now passed. As a parent, my heartfelt sympathies, love & prayers, go out to the victims, families & friends killed & hurt in this brutal tragedy, it’s bad enough to lose a child, but not in this horrific manner. Up & down the country parents will innocently take their children to school hol clubs, and expect to return hours later to collect, sadly not yesterday in this tragedy. RIP little ones.
Craig Shakespeare has died at the age of 60. He was Nigel Pearson’s assistant at City, as well as numerous other clubs. RIP.
