Ryan Coyle

Yes, absolutely tragic. Too sad

When i found out he died i was waiting at King's Cross Station for my train to Edinburgh. I was hungover as I was at my mate's in London and we had a heavy few days of pubs n clubs. I remember putting the headphones on and listened to his music for the majority of the journey home. He was great

Roy Keane's best game for Celtic 💚🇮🇪🍀

First album I bought with my own money, albeit it was a few years after its original release. My best pal was at Ice Cube's gig at Glasgow Barrowlands when a guy got stabbed and killed 😢

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I was introduced to DA through hip-hop as he was sampled by some of the greats: Dilla, Pete Rock, Madlib, Dre. And Theo and Gilles played his stuff. The Verve always quoted him too. Real deal legend

Brilliant. You can't beat it when crowd and artist go off on one together. TITP was amazing for that. Great atmosphere.. I saw him there a couple of times. Remember him doing Hendrix's Little Wing, and Dear Prudence over the top of My Star

Vincent: "freak occurrence"

Wish I picked this. One of my all time favs

Definitely, Ben. I was too young to see Roses first time round, so I would always go see Ian anytime he played up here during early days of his solo career. Had some excellent nights. Especially when he played a surpriseRoses set in 2004. Atmosphere was wild

Yes, Aziz was with Ian for a while. I remember seeing Ian Brown play Roses songs for first time since he left, in 2004. Was absolutely amazing. Atmosphere was unreal. Me and my pals went up for more the next night. We all managed to get tix outside. Great memories

Yes, it's good. The gigs during the GG era were brilliant. I saw him a lot then and had amazing nights out
I always thought his first solo album would have been a great Stone Roses album

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J Dilla TV interview

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I would have loved to have put FEAR on the list, but I put that on 00s. Still, this is a great track. I feel Brown's solo work can be overlooked at times. Made some solid albums. And he's still kool and hard af 🎤🥋

Dirty Old Bum

My favourite Blur album. It was like they became themselves rather than Britpop caricature media darlings that the posh uk music press wanted them to be

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20 years to this day the greatest, J Dilla, left us. 🍩

Definitely 😎

Irish and Scots funerals can be some occasions. Definitely a celebration of life in the right circumstances

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"Raised on songs and stories...." the Irish communities and families across the industrial towns and cities of the UK were raised on songs and stories. Rare old times, indeed 💚

Behind the scenes, State of Grace (1990)

Yes, same birthday as me 💚

I remember him saying something like "my mam said I was soft as a bag of t*ts" lol

He said Mark is a gem of a guy: down to earth and great company. They still keep in touch

I saw Hawley a couple of times during this period. I remember him being really funny in between songs. He was like a comedian

I know Ballyfermot 👍. I've not been over for a while. I do miss Dublin.

Great album and band. And Alex was well liked in Glasgow when he used to run unsigned/new band nights at various venues around the city. Anyone i knew who played for him said he was a true music lover and went out his way to help bands who were starting out.

The Bluetones were one of my favourite bands during that period. Great live anytime I saw them. One of my best pals supported them in our hometown too