RIP DJ Funk.
Another all time favourite gone too soon. For Paul Johnson, Deeon and Funk to go in the space of five years is a damning indictment of the US healthcare system and each of them a crazy loss for Chicago, for house music, music itself. Glad I got to meet each of them over the years and thank them for their giving me some of the best moments of my life.
Shot at Sub Club, Glasgow, June 2007.
The best friend I ever had.
Atom for atom the most similar person to me on the planet, but strangely on the wrong day we’d feel worlds apart. Behind all the bravado he’d put on and the nonsense people would talk about him, he was always the kindest of souls who brought an energy to a room like no other, be it a nightclub or an afters gaff kitchen.
Jack Revill
1986 - 2024
You will be missed. I hope you have found peace on the other side.
Finally made the time to read Energy Flash over the last couple of months. Highly recommended if you’re at all interested in dance music history + culture and how sounds from Chicago, Detroit and New York synthesised influences from elsewhere, then spread and mutated around the world. Some of the writing on more recent developments a bit ropey but overall a cracking read.
@bananamoonglasgow quiz aced but fell at the first hurdle on the clearly rigged higher/lower endgame. Still, two firsts in one day is not a bad haul. Big up every cunt + David Beckham circa 2002 haircut quizmaster.
Two sides of my wonderful mother who passed away 20 years ago today. Huge thanks to everyone that has helped me in any way throughout that time, and contributed to the upbringing she began.
Putting this here more as a reminder to myself than anything else.
Really, really happy to have had the opportunity to meet up with one of my mum’s best mates Steven whilst out in LA in April. Steven first met my mum when they were both studying at Glasgow School of Art in the late 70s/early 80s and they remained best friends until my mum’s passing in 1999. They worked together at the now closed Arts Centre, before my mum went in to teaching at Langside College and Steven moved to Hollywood to be with his costume designer partner. Despite living in the States for two decades, Steven is still about as Glasgow as you can get. Though we don’t get to see each other as often as we’d like it still means so much to make contact whenever possible, and I’m also immensely grateful for the various privileges in life that make it possible for me to see him thousands of miles from home. One of the few people to treat Jack and I as adults when the shit hit the fan even though we were little kids, for which I will be eternally grateful.
Still sound as fuck despite 20+ years in the US, which takes some doing. Big up Steven Porch.
