#62

I hope he’s finally at peace but I wish more that it hadn’t had to end like this. Another young man, full of talent, and cut off in his prime. It’s like an epidemic. It’s heartbreaking. R.I.P.

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#63

His interview with Noisey a week back is heart breaking reading.

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#64

Bit choked up reading that. Not sure I’ll be able to listen to midnight organ fight for a long time. Such sad news

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#65

Don’t even know what to add to this, hit me pretty hard this morning. Absolutely gutting.

Just to echo the above really - if you’re ever feeling low then reach out to someone, anyone. This doesn’t have to be a way out for anyone.

Loved this band in its early days but they continued to mean so much to a lot of my closest friends over the years. Gutted for them, gutted for his family. RIP

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#66

I know, I read that earlier. :disappointed_relieved:

It’s all so poignant- to have had that level of awareness only a week ago, and to be able to articulate that it’s something that he has nearly done, but hasn’t, and then to- a week later- go and do it, is especially hard. What can happen in a week? Clearly something that has tipped him off his position of tentative stability.

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#67

Edited. Nevermind.

#68

I’m just… gutted. So, so sad. One of those people who just felt things that little bit more. Fine margins make all the difference.

Such a good human, such sad news. RIP Scott and thanks for the music. It was really, really good. : (

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#70

For some reason I felt a desperate need to listen to some of it after this, for catharsis or something - who knows. So beautiful and so fucking sad.

#71

Saw FR a few times and one thing that was very apparent was just how warm and funny he was.

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#72

I started with the Greys and couldn’t. I then put on Floating in the Forth and couldnt.

Now put on POAPA and it is so very very good. Oh man

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#74

First saw them at Norwich arts centre with about 50 people there when I was about 16. Came out and did poke as an encore without an amp or mic then spent hours chatting to folk outside before the venue told him to go. Really good bloke

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#76

Yes, seen him with Mastersystem last week, he was on typically good form on stage and after speaking to people. Exactly what I thought, what has happened from understanding being in that position and rationalising it to a week later going and doing this? The poor guy. Maybe he’s got too drunk and things have spiralled and he’s got himself into a mess without anyone being able to bring him back.

I’m really upset, I didn’t know him but almost felt like I did, I’ve been in tears this morning and I almost feel a bit silly as it’s someone I didn’t know. FR meant so much to me and he seemed a really good if troubled guy.

I read that Noisey interview on Tuesday just before he went missing, and it was good to read that he knew how much his music meant to people. I feel so sorry that what the love he had from so many people wasn’t enough, and that he seemingly didn’t feel worthy of it. I’m devastated for Grant and the rest of his family and friends. RIP Scott.

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#77

Yeah did a full re-listen a month or two ago and realised that pedestrian verse is much, much better than I thought at the time. Really talented, really good bloke. RIP

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#78

So very sad. I kept hoping he’d turn up ok. I saw them a few times and saw him solo supporting the Hold Steady only a few weeks ago. Just heart breaking. My thoughts are with his friends and family.

#79

This is really very upsetting - I think the stark honesty and bluntness of that interview and those tweets make it a lot harder / feel so much more of a personal and intimate thing. Can’t imagine what his friends and family are going through.

#81

This is absolutely terrible. I saw them in Sheffield a few years back, they played Floating in the Forth and the whole place was silent, then let out a huge cheer at the end. It was incredibly uplifting at the time. That whole album has given me so much pleasure over the years.

Thoughts to his friends and family.

#82

Think I was at that. Leadmill?

#83

Yeah it soundtracked my first proper break up, had it on repeat for weeks.
Especially my backwards walk, put it on last night and got proper choked up before switching off.

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#84

O2, i think. But I’ve seen them a couple of times so it’s a bit mixed up in my head, could well have been the Leadmill.

#85

As everyone has already said, this is absolutely heartbreaking. I feel terrible for his friends and family but, above all else, i just feel terrible for him. He must have been in a terrible frame of mind for quite some time. I stopped listening after ‘The Winter of Mixed Drinks’, but ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’ is a true classic. I won’t be able to listen to again in the same way ever again. An awful tragedy.