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Stefan Cush, a singer in the folk/punk band The Men They Couldn't Hang, has died

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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,602
    NO!
    RIP 😞
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    R I P
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    Very sad, great character and vocalist, loved their first album and kept up with their stuff ever since RIP
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,277
    Now on a hill in Brecon is Crawshay's ruined house
    And it blackens out the green of the valley
    And on the battered grave is the epitaph they gave
    It stands there, god forgive him!
    Forgive him! forgive him!
    And all who rot in hell with him
    And oh the ironmasters, they always get their way.

    Sad that, a lot of nights spent in company of the men
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,150
    RIP
  • Cordoban Addick
    Cordoban Addick Posts: 5,448
    I saw them a few times including a great night at the Fridge with the Pouges and Boothill Foot Tappers. I think it was for the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    edited February 2021
    Just been going through a list of gigs I went to in the 80s and they featured 4 or 5 times, a top band who knew how to entertain. One of those gigs was at the Cellar Bar in Calderwood St.
    RIP Cush. Can't quite believe that Night of a Thousand Candles came out 35 years ago. 
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048
    Loved Stefan’s vocal on Green Fields of France and was hooked from then on.

    Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    Die the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

    Rest in Peace Cush.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    TelMc32 said:
    Loved Stefan’s vocal on Green Fields of France and was hooked from then on.

    Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    Die the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

    Rest in Peace Cush.
    It’s a stunningly good song 
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048
    stonemuse said:
    TelMc32 said:
    Loved Stefan’s vocal on Green Fields of France and was hooked from then on.

    Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    Die the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

    Rest in Peace Cush.
    It’s a stunningly good song 
    I’d known it sung by The Fureys & Davey Arthur a few years before and have a cousin who always sings it beautifully at family gatherings. Great lyrics and meaning.
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  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    Although I have never heard of them it's still a shame.

    No age RIP.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    TelMc32 said:
    stonemuse said:
    TelMc32 said:
    Loved Stefan’s vocal on Green Fields of France and was hooked from then on.

    Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    Die the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

    Rest in Peace Cush.
    It’s a stunningly good song 
    I’d known it sung by The Fureys & Davey Arthur a few years before and have a cousin who always sings it beautifully at family gatherings. Great lyrics and meaning.
    It’s an incredibly sad song and yet uplifting too in its way ... always gets to me when I hear it 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Very sad day. Love the Men they couldn’t hang live and recorded.
    We have the music.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    stonemuse said:
    TelMc32 said:
    stonemuse said:
    TelMc32 said:
    Loved Stefan’s vocal on Green Fields of France and was hooked from then on.

    Did the band play the Last Post and chorus?
    Die the pipes play the flowers of the forest?

    Rest in Peace Cush.
    It’s a stunningly good song 
    I’d known it sung by The Fureys & Davey Arthur a few years before and have a cousin who always sings it beautifully at family gatherings. Great lyrics and meaning.
    It’s an incredibly sad song and yet uplifting too in its way ... always gets to me when I hear it 
    Just played it once more


    'again and again and again and again' - such justified anger
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    oh no RIP.
    Their debut album, Night of a Thousand Candles is one of my all time favourites.
    https://youtu.be/_jnA3N-gGy8
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    edited February 2021
    Thank you for your comments, chaps.
    I hope that The Men They Couldn't Hang will continue. 
    John Baine, aka Attila the Stockbroker, a friend of the band and an acquaintance of mine, performed a half-hour of thoughts and music in memory of Cush on Friday night.
    https://www.facebook.com/attilathestockbroker/videos/235191401483074/
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    edited February 2021
    * Tonight, at 10:00pm * 
    The Joe Solo Show, on Scarborough-based Coast & County Radio will broadcast a tribute to Cush.
    https://www.coastandcountyradio.co.uk/schedule/
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,277
    Anna_Kissed said:
    *Tonight, 9:00pm* 
    The Joe Solo Show, on Scarborough-based Coast and County Radio will (so I am advised by The Men...) broadcast a tribute to Cush. https://www.coastandcountyradio.co.uk/schedule/
    2nd hour of the show

  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,277
    theeenorth said:
    Anna_Kissed said:
    *Tonight, 9:00pm* 
    The Joe Solo Show, on Scarborough-based Coast and County Radio will (so I am advised by The Men...) broadcast a tribute to Cush. https://www.coastandcountyradio.co.uk/schedule/
    2nd hour of the show

    Did they beat the drum slowly
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,616

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