who / what is gravenhurst? (December 2014 edit -- RIP Nick Talbot)

RIP

didn't know him at all really but going on the few glimpses I got of him outside of the music he released, he was genuinely insightful and on point about stuff. never heard anything but good things about him

he also did a very funny cartoon about William Bennett from Whitehouse going to the cinema

That's sad to hear. Listening to the Velvet Cell (reprise) right now.

RIP

Fucking fuck.

Massive Gravenhurst fan and was going to see him next week in Bristol. Genuinely shocked and saddened by this news.

RIP Nick

still fuck

http://www.bristol247.com/channel/culture/music/news/nick-talbot-aka-gravenhurst-dies-bristol

thanks caek, that was a nice piece

http://tellingfrombirdstoll.tumblr.com/post/104410032846/farewell-farewell-remembering-nick-talbot

RIP.

I think there needs to be some kind of official word on how he died. It's very unusual for the cause of death of any kind of well-known person not to be made public. RIP.

genuine question : why does it matter how he died ?

if the family want to keep the detail to themselves, then who are we to demand the information.

indeed

there doesn't 'need' to be an official word on how he died.

Well, a death (like a birth) is not a private matter but a public matter. A death certificate, for example, is a publicly available document.

He wasn't a particularly well-known person and no one needs to know how he died just because they liked his music, the wishes of the family are more important here.

seriously

Really lovely extended pair of remembrances here at The Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/16895-nick-talbot-obituary

A few weeks ago in a stupidly intransigent fit of depression I wiped 100,000 or so email conversations from my gmail account at random and even though the action initially felt liberating it soon revealed itself to be a mistake. And then last week when I received the utterly unwelcome news of Nick’s death, it revealed itself to be colossal mistake. I’d had hundreds of lengthy email exchanges with him about all kinds of subjects… subjects that he talked about with ease, wit and eloquence, whether they were concerning politics, comics, philosophy, pirate radio stations, tobacco, architecture, synth pop, psychogeography or depression. As odd as it sounds he could talk beautifully about depression - perhaps the flattest and most featureless of subjects there is to discuss. And so I found myself thinking just yesterday, ‘I’m depressed because my friend has just died and I can’t even go back and read the illuminating conversations we had about depression on email because I’ve deleted all of them. And I did that because I was depressed. Nick is the only person I know who would appreciate the irony of this. He’d find it really funny. I should drop him a line and...’

And of course I can’t. And so it goes. And so it goes.

Of course what makes it worse, is an email from Nick wasn’t just an email. It was a letter. It was correspondence. He was an epistolarian of uncommon skill. Had he been born in a slightly different age, anyone who received letters from Nick would have kept them in a sturdy wooden box, tied carefully with string or ribbon, waiting for the day - when the time was right - for them to be read and savoured and pored over again. Nick put more effort into writing an email than a lot of people put into most things they do in life, myself included. In a over-cluttered, hyper-stimulated existence, an email from Nick was the only thing in my weekly routine that demanded I shut down all the other windows on my desktop, turn off facebook and twitter, turn my music off and concentrate on what he had to say. He both demanded and deserved, your entire attention, no matter how busy you were. And this is not to say that I think Nick was a man out of step with his time I really don’t think he was at all; I just think he had brought some old values along with him on a modern trip.

Two beautiful pieces.
It's a shame that I never got to see Gravenhurst live, it sounds like he was such a nice guy.
John Doran should consider editing 'The Collected Emails of Nick Talbot' (maybe as the next Quietus book?) - it's definitely something I would read.

i knew i had seen gravenhurst live, but i could not recall why/where/when.
this thread cleared the fug ..
(note to self : record more live experiences on ILM as they help the grey cells reconnect)
and yes, that tQ piece is very special.
i never met nick, and have only a fraction of his catalogue, but damn, i welled up several times reading that.

TO UNDERSTAND THE KILLER
I MUST BECOME THE KILLER

I caress where my lover once lay by my side
Before I turned inwards
And forced her to fly.

Listening to The Western Lands. Damn what a record. It's probably grubby to ask but did a cause of death ever come out for Nick?

I always assumed suicide but what do I know