The Sums guitarist Richy Northcote has fractured his elbow. Richy was involved in a cycling incident where he basically went arse over tit… The band are all contributing funds to buy Richy some stabilisers for his pedal bike… Richy’s excuse was the bike couldn’t stand up as it was two tyre’d.
We can also confirm Richy had not been drinking or taken and cycledelics.
Get well soon soft lad! x
The Sums 3rd Studio album BETTER is now available to download / stream via iTunes, Spotify etc & strictly Limited Edition CDs can now be ordered now.. Vinyl orders to follow!
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Lee Watson
23rd June 1968 – 22nd June 2016
The recent passing of our friend/guitarist Lee Watson was a such a shock to us all, it puts life into perspective and sheds a bit of clarity to the bigger picture.. You don’t know the moment, but its something that will happen to us all someday..
Lee’s death has touched so many people, he was such a popular and loved person by his family and friends and even people he never actually met, and of course an extremely talented musician; a very good friend, and he was a massive pain in the arse at times, but aren’t we all?
He had hands the size of his personality and a big cheesy grin, he was a very funny & loveable character, i really could go on for days with funny stories, and not so funny ones, and just plane stupid daft ones, as i’m sure many of us could also tell similar stories.
Musically, we as a band have lost a major piece of our puzzle, but to cut to the chase we have taken the negatives and turned them into positives, we have started writing tracks for the next album and i can hear what he would be playing over it, almost like he’s there playing it in my head. We have found it strangely inspiring and I’m proud to carry on channelling Lee Watson in our music, he will always be present in what we do musically. Sadly, sadly missed.
Here are some tributes left by family / friends / fans and just random people paying there respects, you can add yours if your haven’t already, or feel free to have a read.
Click link below
http://thesums.net/rip-lee-watson/
Memories = better!
Chris Mullin x
Hi guys,
We’ve been off the radar for a while, but here we are, and here we go – we are playing a gig that is being filmed for a brand new BBC series – UK’s Best Part Time Band. The show is presented by Rhod Gilbert & on Thursday 7th January 2016 the show heads north to Sheffield, with guest judge – Joy Division and New Order legend Peter Hook.
We could really really do with your support here, we are performing at a gig in Sheffield, (The Leadmill, Thursday 7th January 2016.) Its a FREE gig for our family, friends & loyal supporters. It wont be a late one either, so you should get home in time for a good nights sleep.
(Or book a cheap room and stay over, a late Christmas present if you like!)
Tickets are limited, so please act fast if you’d like to come along and support us, they want to film our supporters reactions to our performance, so you could even get your ugly mug on tv!! (joke… your beautiful).
Here is the link to the website for the free tickets, please select the Sheffield show as we are not performing in the Belfast or London shows.
http://www.sroaudiences.com/ on the website you need to click ‘current shows’ the scroll down to the UK’s Best Part Time Band – Sheffield, and follow the instructions, its really easy.
This show will take place on Thursday 7th January 2016
The venue is The Leadmill, 6 Leadmill Road, Sheffield S1 4SE
Tickets are limited so apply quickly
The minimum age for the show is 18 years
