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LOLA ARMY - Designed by Eva. |
There’s too much of the type of news you hope will never come. That which you desperately want to be fake or just plain untrue. Or even just plain mistaken. Today was another of those, when someone who is really just a kid departs in an altogether untimely fashion. Eva was something else, a gentle soul with a huge artistic, creative heart who apart from all that was just a wee gem that radiated. She and her life partner Murky blazed a trail across the Spanish Underground. Perhaps the best known of these projects is LCDD, who played all across the planet. Even in Glasgow.
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Lisa Fancher, Eva, Old bloke outside LA ALEGRIA in Madrid November 2016 Photo by MURKY |
During a fairly protracted period of illness, her creative
edge never slipped and she was the mastermind behind LOLA. A wee Spanish wummin that can be found in regalo emporiums all across Spain. Eva
presented me with one during Sesentafest and it was quite the honour to receive
such a cool gift by the designer herself. Most importantly, it was she and
Murky that masterminded our adventures in the real Madrid that really made me
fall in love with the city.
Sitting in their tiny apartment listening to hopelessly
obscure shellac is an experience fully scorched into my skull. It was
especially crammed the night after The Dahlmanns made their Wurlitzer debut. So
I’ll miss her physical presence the next time I’m in town but she’ll never stop
being a fixture in our hearts and minds. To Murky, we their friends will attempt to
help with the huge hole this loss will bring him. We can’t begin to fill it but I hope he knows that we’re all around for him.
I thank both of them for those times of Alegria that
hanging out with this cool couple brought to this old daftie.
Here’s her theme song...