He hasn’t had a good year, Mt Goulden. He’s become an old age pensioner, lost his [US] health insurance and his wife Amy Rigby was on stage when fold singer David Olney died in mid set. Now he’s tested positive for coronavirus but says he seems to be scraping through. I saw him last year at our local bowlo-turned music club in Petersham, Sydney. Hope he lives up to his name.
http://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-inside-of-ping-pong-ball.html
Mike_H says
A good read there, from Eric’s blog.
SteveT says
Listening to his latest album this am – hope he is okay. In his autobiography Elton John described seeing him on the Stiff tour and thinking he was gorgeous.
Oh what could gave been a beautiful relationship.
Mike_H says
I completely missed Wreckless Eric when I saw the first Stiff Tour at the King’s Hall on Aberystwyth seafront. He was on first and I was in a long slow-moving queue outside. Finally just got in as he was going offstage. I’ve seen him a couple of times a bit more recently when he was supporting The Blockheads on tour.
retropath2 says
And, as ever, the wretched 60% hit rate strikes: Eric +ve, Amy -ve yet in the house together, plus she having the classic anosmia. So they both have/had it.
(Anyone wondering the posh medic word for for loss of taste, to complement anosmia’s loss of smell, it it ageusia. Or burberry.)