nick.K - rest in peace

--RIP Nick--

so sorry,
i wish the best for nick's family & those who knew him better than me,
reading all the lovely things that people have written here & on the web just reminds me what a special person he was, so committed to his mission, an optimist and a beleiver, so generous with his enthusiasm and energy..
too too sad

this is devastating. my condolences to his family and close friends. i'd never met him in person - we might've chatted online briefly and we've exchanged a word or two on this forum - but i suppose my realest connection to him was through gabba, which, through his enthusiasm, did as much to make me the music fan i am today as anyone or anything else. but taste and music seem so unimportant right now, in the face of this.

rest in peace, Nick.

Not a big thing but i played a gig with my band tonight and dedicated a song to Nick on the spur of the moment (even though i didn't know him outside of his blog/this board). "This is for Nick, a friend of music."

i was shattered this morning only to wake up to an email saying nick had passed. i was just in london a few weeks ago and for some reason nick was on my mind heavily and i really wanted to see him. now i know why . . . he was loved and will be deeply missed. all my love goes out to dee and nick's family and friends.

Nick Kilroy=good people.
he came on a couple of walks i did. i'm sad i won't see him again. that's the sort of people you want alive.

RIP Nick. i loved you more than you knew. you challenged my every thought. im distraught.

uggh i just saw this thread... nick you were awesome.

Just got back from holidays to see this thread. Absolutely saddened, I still remember the moment when I connected that all these moments on the internet (and later in the record store) were connected to him.

like many people here i never met him in real life and we did not really know each other. i only knew him from what is on the www and chatting with him on slsk once about an interview with junior boys i did for de:bug. last year a close friend of mine died and although as i said before i never met nick for real i was shocked yesterday when i found out about his dead. i wish for his close friends and family all the strength they need now.

Just found out about Nick this morning – it's tragic. Almost every time we spoke it was at a gig (usually a Lex Records event) or with loud music blaring in the background. That's how passionate about music he was, he lived it.

very sad news, a creative mind. He'll be missed.

RIP, thanks for music

I didn't know Nick at all, but I do know a bit about photography, and his work is really quite excellent. What sad news. RIP, Nick.

this sad event has even brought Jess Harvell to write for Pitchfork.

:-( This is really sad, I know that a lot of people will miss him a lot just like me, and I only knew him from gabba.

you will be missed. RIP

R.I.P.

I have known Nick since 1991. I am still very shocked and upset, and have so many memories of him these last couple of days... On a musical note, I noticed today that about 2 out of every 5 songs on my iPod are songs that Nick recommended, either through gabba or his postings, or else through our discussions on the phone or in person. With unfaltering drive and generosity, he was a genius musical matchmaker. I agree with what has been said about Nick's enthusiasm, for music as well as for films, art, ...The image I have is of Nick running from stage to stage at Glastonbury 1992, trying to catch all the acts he was excited about at the time.
Very sad news.
R.I.P. Nick

another Nick tribute at iwww.lexrecords.com

I checked Gabba often (it was the first mp3-blog I found) and almost always got something really great from it. So sad to hear this. My deepest sympathies to all who knew and loved Nick.

sorry, I meant:
www.lexrecords.com. It's been a long couple of days.

I never met Nick, but I was a frequent visitor of GABBA and am in love with the Junior Boys cd. Having just found out about this, i am overwhelmed with emotions. Sometimes there is such beauty in life it's hard to take in and this news and thinking of his life and the people he affected just has me in tears. I will keep living my life with the passion and enthusiasm he did, and never take for granted anyone that has come into my life. Rest in Peace and my thoughts are with his friends and family.

Saddened. R.I.P.

All comments echoed.

maybe it's a little soon to ask something like this, but does anyone know how long his domains are registered for? it would really be a shame if his photos went offline. i didn't know him, so it would maybe not be my place, but i am going to go through sometime this week and save them all if someone at some point would like to rehost them.

r.i.p

Nick e-mailed me back in early 2003 because he enjoyed my photolog at the time and encouraged me to check out his own. http://www.electrokin.com/zabriskie_point/ He described it as:

"Zabriskie Point is a place for images that have recently fallen out of my camera. Words and meanings are few, I like the images to speak for themselves. It's named after both the visually stunning film by Antonioni - highly subjective and indulgent, albeit enjoyably so - and the remote Borax mine in the centre of death valley. My aim is to achieve a similar purposelessness."

He also told me to check out the main site, his label, and that I'd be hearing from it soon.

Later when that Junior Boys album came out, I remember thinking how fucking cool that was. He said it and he did it.

Reading through all these comments, it's comforting to read about the positive impact he had on so many people through his sheer enthusisam and determination.

R.I.P. Nick.

Just last week I went to Nicks home town with Nick his girlfriend Dee and my girlfriend Kate, he was so excited, so out there, his usual self, and a week later this happens, I think we're all still in shock and I really don't know what to say on this thread, but its been really amazing to see this response and its helping everyone a lot, and its great to see this appreciation of what nick did, I know it would have meant a lot to him, thanks.

I am in shock
I met Nick about a year ago and hung out with him a bunch of times, his passion was astounding, when he first played me Junior Boys he couldn't enthuse about it enough. I saw him a while back and he told me about unhappy he was and we said we'd meet up but.. we didn't. Nick you'll be missed
-TBD

Nick Kilroy dead. I know, that this, cannot be true.

Nick, I know you'll still be discovering the next big thing when the rest of us have long settled for comfortable familiarity, you'll still be up filtering through a bottomless stash of new music long after the rest of us have called it a night, you'll still be there grinning by the big speakers on the dance floor when the rest of us have long gone home exhausted, you'll still be thumbing through the listings to find where that obscure film is screening while the rest of us nod off to the latest block buster, you'll still be seeing the unnoticed beauty in the grimy, decaying world around us long after we've all stopped looking, you'll still be hurtling down the motorway at night with the stereo on full blast en-route to the-coolest-gig long after the rest of us have settled for the box and the couch, you'll still be telling writers, artists and musicians how great you think their stuff is long after we've all lost any critical judgment, you'll still be giving out praise and encouragement when the rest of us are jaded and cynical, you'll still be providing original, intelligent analysis and thoughtful insight when the rest of us have long settled for repeating acquired wisdom, you'll still be infecting the world with your endless enthusiasm long after the rest of us have literally given up, and most of all, of course, there is no doubt, you'll still be making us sublime compilations and pouring out endless recommendations long, long, long, after we've all completely run out of things we like.

FUCK IT.

Stop all the music, dismantle the song.
Nick Kilroy, music's biggest fan, has gone.

What the fuck, how did I miss this? This is fucking horrible news. God rest your sweet soul, Nick, and thank you for all the inspiration.

I never knew him else through gabba/Pod, so thank you for the music, Nick
My deepest condolances to his family and friends

Fan of Nick, Norway

There will be a service for Nick Kilroy on Friday 18 February at 1pm at Rawdon Crematorium, Leeds Road, Rawdon, West Yorkshire LS19 6JP Tel +44 (0) 113 250 2904. All are welcome.

When I visited London in May of 2003, Nick was one of the more memorable people I met. He made me feel earnestly welcome and expressed a great deal of interest about who I was and where I came from. As fate would have it, I subsequently realized that nick.K was the same guy I had exchanged musical tastes and opinions with on Soulseek. His personal collection of greatest hits from 2003 is one of my favorite playlists from recent years.

Rest in peace, Nick.

So sorry to hear the news, a real shock and very sad. Nick, along with the rest of the Gabba crew gave me my first break at DJ-ing in London for which I am very grateful and I know he will be greatly missed. RIP.

This is really sad...
your efforts are always recognized and missed allready...
peace

RIP

Much love to Dee, Jake and Kate, and Nicks folks.
Can not believe that we are bereft of the very individual passion of mister K.
Tireless enthusiasm, never known anybody quite like him.

Peace out champion.

Although I had never met him, I am sorry to here such terrible news. As a fellow blogger, his was one of the blogs I most envied. The programming alone was by far the most ingenious of all the big MP3 blogs. It's obvious, even to those who never met him, that music was more than passion. It was life.

Very, very sad news. I'm lost for words...

RIP Nick. lookig at this board its amazing how many lives he touched.

rest in peace honey.

Shocked and sorry to hear this very sad news. My sympathies to jk and those close to Nick, and to all that knew him, online and off.

Dear, dear people, thank you so much for all your love and tributes to our son Nick. It’s comforting to know he made a difference and touched so many lives. It was evident from an early age that Nick was special. He would badger and bribe us to take him to see films on the opening night. I could never see the point of an opening night, but to Nick it mattered. Long before he got his hands on a camera, he had a stubby pencil, notebook or drawing paper with him wherever he went.

At the moment we can handy bear to look at the future without his love and enthusiasm, but time is a great healer. Not only did we lose a son we also lost our best friend. Thank you all.

Mary and Gerry Kilroy

having found out about this pretty early and having to bear the bad news to many people has hit me a lot harder than any bad news has done in a long time. so much to the point that i didn't realise quite how much until a couple of nights ago.
i didn't know nick as well as maybe i should, but i'd always see him out at gigs - often ones where i never expected to see anyone i knew - and it's this range and depth of enthusiasm that i always respected immensely.
now that i know his parents have read this thread, it feels slightly (only slightly) better to know that they have an idea of how many people he connected with on his, way too short, time on this earth and of the great things he did while he was here.
whenever any of us were doing anything, whether it was wandering around the derelict warehouses and canals of east london, djing somewhere, or just meeting in a pub to swap mix cds and shoot the breeze, he was a dependable presence... whenever music or anything creative needed a bit of support he was one of the guys you could count on to give it.
Words are very difficult to find, but this and this are great tributes to his commitment. he believed in something and made it matter to many more of us.

Respect. Rest well.

Rest In Peace Nick. Thank you. My heart goes out to Dee and all who knew him.

Like so many, I only knew Nick through gabba/POD. He found so much love & joy in music and communicated that to all. Bless those who knew him. Peace be on you Nick.
Love & Peace, Clarence

This news has stopped me in my tracks. Nick Kilroy, I will miss you terribly. Back in 2001, when you first came to London. We met up each week to talk about what we were writing and listening to. It was you me and Eddy Lawrence.

I wrote about the disappearance of old people, Eddy wrote about raves in Israel and you.... In the time it took us to write two scenes, you had finished two screenplays, and wow they were brilliant. I can still see the multi coloured cards stuck on your wall, with every twist and turn of the plot. Eddy and I sat completely engrossed those nights.

What we were hearing was some of the most exciting ideas we had come across. You felt as if you were in the presence of someone very special. Nobody had an understanding modern culture like you. You managed to bring out facets of modern life that showed it in all its perversity. Incredible stuff.

And you could act too, I bet not many people know that. I remember a CD you passed me. It was you, improvising an entire monologue about a guy who thought that he had been contacted by the future and asked to take part in a great experiment. We moulded that into a great piece, you were very modest about your acting.

I can't come to your remembrance service, I am sorry about that. But I will be thinking of you. Lots of love. Christopher Hogg

Man - just got back from the UK, and this is horrible news. i didn't know Nick personally, but we exchanged emails many times. He was always working hard for Junior Boys, working me for Scissor Sisters touring spots (we actually offered them one because he was so passionate and persuasive).

I was also a weekly gabba visitor, and picked up a lot of great music because of him.

Anyhow, R.I.P. Nick - this world is better for passionate, creative and generous people like you, and I'm sure you're spirit will encourage someone somewhere to make great music, help out a friend, or shout their passion to the mountaintops.

Much love,

NH