Vinegar Tits

Prince Philip in cahoots with MI5 even from heaven... I look forward to Ian Hislop/Private Eye's obituary.

Luton Town lose one of their few fans. Crikey, he wasn't even 40 when I saw Pavement back in the day. He seemed so old! I guess he was compared to everyone else. A strange man - very much not sober at the time - I remember him giving out Bonios to the audience at Leeds Duchess Of York. I can imagine his antics must have got very tiresome for the rest of the band, but he had a good heart. RIP.

It's A Beautiful Day were a great band - as with so many, screwed over by Matthew Katz, and their debut album cover is one of the classics of its genre. RIP.

Het Zesde Metaal keyboardist Tom Pinterns dead at 49. Sad news, they're a really good band (know of them thanks to a friend who's a fan and also vaguely know their official photographer. He worked with all kinds of Belgium luminaries, including Axelle Red and late Gorki front man Luc De Vos.

Her version of 'Chiquitita' is gorgeous too, dare I say *whispers* better than the original? https://youtu.be/iE3meFEZEyI (argh, can't remember how to inbed video using my phone)

Well, that's my comedy "you say potato, I say potato famine" French & Saunders St Patrick's Day gif ruined with both Dolores and now Sinead dead. Probably should retire it out of respect, but here it is one last time.

Another firmly in the 'Mandinka' camp. Terribly sad news, though possibly not a surprise as I never thought she'd make old bones. I guess there'll be all kinds of speculation but any news on cause of death yet?

Aww, sad news. An icon. I always hoped her and Marianne Faithfull would do a show together. RIP. (And yes, I have inevitably seen her live - Muzik'elles festival in Meaux, 2009.)

Lauren Harries has seizure, put into induced coma. Doesn't sound great, but as all the news comes from her nutso mother who knows?

Just read the news about Jean-Louis Murat. Obviously I mainly know him via the Mylène Farmer duo 'Regrets' and co-writing 'Un Singe En Hiver' and 'Karma Hirls' for Indochine, but liked what I heard of his other music.

RIP Dr Evadne Hinge. Off to join Dame Hilda in the corner of Heaven that will always be Stackton Tressel. Sad news. Loved Hinge & Bracket as a kid and it's a Big regret of mine that I never got round to seeing them when thry regularly played Leeds City Varieties. It's not been a good few months for much-loved drag characters.

Maria Charles, probably best known as Maureen Lipman's mother in 'Agony', has apparently died. Posted from a usually very reliable Facebook group. She ought to get an obit as she was the go-to Jewish mother until Maureen Lipman and Lesley Josrph got older, plus had a very distinguished stage career too. (And she's a unique pick for me).

Sad news. Always liked him as an actor and by all accounts he was a lovely chap. Other than Michael York and Rita Tushingham, there aren't many people from 'Smashing Time' left at all now.

Spike from The Quireboys has posted on Facebook that Quireboy-in-crime Guy Bailey has died.

David Hepworth's deleted his tweet too. I had him down as a v reliable source rather than it being just Twitter tittle tattle, which I why I posted it here.