I just found out today while glancing through the Pitchfork website, and just feel so sorry for Michael, the band, his friends and family. Having a beer-fuelled chat with Michael a few years back at All Tomorrow's Parties in Camber Sands, England was one of the undoubted highlights for me. It's so rare that you can talk to someone for the first time and feel as though it's an old friend. I remember saying to him that next time the band came over to England, they were welcome to stay at my house. The next day, when my friend dropped me off home, he wondered if the band was there.
Anyway, I'm waffling, but it's just such a sad loss. A lovely man.
