2026 Feet Under

[Sergio Mendacious]

Richard Lloyd of Television died, aged 75. I’ve listened to Marquee Moon start to finish too many times to count, his guitar sound is imprinted on my brain

[Gus Mears]

Tommy Walsh is installing new hinges on the pearly gates aged 69. No age for a handyman/gardener.

[tiger_rick]

Beat me to it. Big fan of Ground Force back in the day and not just for Charlie Dimmock's nipples. Tommy was a proper salt of the earth type that probably wouldn't have been on TV 20 years earlier but were all the rage in the late 90s. Probably why reality TV and later YouTube took off. People like seeing real people and you only really saw them on game shows and talent contests. They certainly weren't presenting. Didn't get as into his other shows but he was always good on the ones I saw.

Dunno what he was like off-screen. Disclaimer given everyone turns out to be a peado or a nazi these days! 

[Statto]

Tommy Walsh's favourite tipple was a pint of Bailey's. Allegedly.

[Jazzy G]

That's an expensive round down the local. 

[Sergio Mendacious]

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 09:12 PM by Sergio Mendacious

[Cousin Jim Bob]

1 hour ago, Statto said:

Tommy Walsh's favourite tipple was a pint of Bailey's. Allegedly.

 

He was on Celebrity Fat Camp decades ago, and it showed him in his local knocking back pints of Baileys. The daft sod didn't realise he was drinking 4000+ plus calories every time he went to the pub. This was pointed out to him by the doctor and that he was heading towards a heart attack.

So he stopped with the Baileys, lost a ton of weight and kept it off. 

[SaitoRyo]

The great Stacy Keach at 84. He passed away in a little village in Poland after a long battle with a heart condition.

He did so much on stage and screen and I don't know what he'd be best known for (maybe for playing hardboiled TV detective Mike Hammer?). He'd shown up in a bunch of stuff I've watched recently (Roadgames, Body Bags, Sunset Grill) and was always good. Reminds me that I really must watch Fat City at some point, as he's meant to be tremendous in that. Felt like a guy who very much wanted to play interesting characters in interesting films, rather than simply become famous or whatever. Could do Shakespeare in the park and do a shift in some quirky little exploitation film. There aren't many more of his kind around.

RIP.

[ReturnOfTheMack]

Cracking fun actor. I think the last thing I saw him in was Brooklyn 99. 

[TheBurningRed]

Talksport just announced Danny Kelly has passed. Always enjoyed him on there. Once called Rafa Benitez a nonce on air. 

Edited 17 hours ago by TheBurningRed

[Carbomb]

Best thing I saw him in was with his brother and the Carradine brothers in The Long Riders. Haven't seen as much of his films as I probably should have. Might track some down for a tribute watch.

EDIT: In reference to Stacy Keach. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Carbomb
Iain Durrant

[SuperBacon]

Danny Kelly was a wonderful man. A genuinely wonderful man. Met him a few times over the years at Spurs and he was always very welcoming and loved a chat.

A while back he asked for anecdotes for the View From the Lane podcast on how hard it was to have a child support either side of the divide of North London and I sent in mine which was along the lines of "its not hard at all, it makes it really easy to choose a favourite child" which he read out on the pod and it made him really laugh. He'll be missed.

He was also the world's biggest MF DOOM fan, got married in his special edition wallabies and had every single record he'd ever made. 

Edit: was just reminded of this and had to add it.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by SuperBacon
UP THE FUCKING SPURS

[gmoney]

Ah man, I love Danny Kelly. His radio and podcast stuff with Danny Baker is some of my most fondly remembered things in football. A very funny man who understood that Sport was as ridiculous as it was important. 

[Chico Torres]

Used to love watching Under the Moon in the late 90s when I was at uni, I think it was over 3 hours long, well into the early hours. RIP Danny Kelly.

[garynysmon]

Gutted to hear about Danny Kelly.

Agree with @SuperBacon, was also great in recent years on The View From the Lane. I haven’t really listened since he took a sabbatical due to his illness, just hasn’t felt the same.

A former work colleague wrote a song based on Fraser Digby, which Baker and Kelly played on air during their Radio 5 pomp.

I’ll definitely find myself deep in a Youtube algorithm of Baker and Kelly clips tonight.