Ness

I've got a video of us, 'Spike and the Liars' playing a set at the Orange in Kensington. I'll try to get it put onto dvd and then get someone to help me put it on here- I'm a bit of a technophobe and haven't a clue!!! Linc's playing was really beautiful, melodic and complex with us- I think you guys would be interested to see it. Here's a weird coincidence about Steve Harley:- he was a reporter on one of the local newspapers in Colchester for a while and my mum Diane was one of the senior reporters working alongside him! He always said to my mum that he was going to be a rock star one day and some of the other people there took the mick a bit but Mum always said she knew he would make it- he'd brought his guitar in to work and played some tunes for her and she knew his drive would get him there. He and Mum got on great and I met him a few times when I was a very small child, but don't remember! Then years later, mum and I went to see Steve Harley at the 'Ship and Star' at Sudbury and he looked up to the balcony where we were sat and waved said " Hey, I can see my old colleague from the paper! Di, this one's for you...!" and played 'Come up and see me...'!!! Afterwards he took us up to the after gig drinks and talked over old times with Mum! Then years later, I'm in a band with Linc, then a few years later, he's in a band with Steve!!! Life can be full of strange coincidences can't it!

Thankyou so much Si- I really want to get there if poss. I don't drive, so gonna see where the train can take me from Colchester. I've got really long ginger blonde hair-so if I make it you'll know who I am!!! It still doesn't compute with me that he's gone- I just can't believe it. I always imagined him with greying dreds, playing blues in some jazz clubs way into his way old age. I feel terrible that we lost touch- I got sick, and he lived in Clacton and carried on playing.... I always knew about him through my family at Brightlingsea, who saw him regularly at the Health Centre. Linc was one of life's good guys and although we lost touch, he was always in my heart. I'm devastated.

Hi there, My name is Ness and I'm not a bassist- I've joined your site to find out if anyone knows what time Lincoln's funeral is. I knew Lincoln and was in a band with him called 'Spike and the Liars' for about 3 years in the 90's. I was one of two vocalists in the band. Lincoln and I used to commute to London, (where the rest of the band members were based), on the train for band practices and gigs. We regularly did the Mean Fiddler and the Kensington Orange club as well as other venues. We were close friends, Lincoln staying over night at our house after we got back from London- drinking Scotch, which he was very fond of a nip of, and watching late night repeats of Red Dwarf, which he loved!!! He'd have bacon sandwiches for breakfast with my husband Bob and my mum Diane. He loved my mum, often saying how interesting she was to talk to. Then he'd go off on his bike, in his leathers, bass strapped over his back. He took me off to watch a gig on the back of his bike once and I thought I was going to die that night as he rode so fast!!! We kinda lost contact after the band fizzled out.... although he turned up on his bike one day, a couple of years after, to ask if I'd join a new band he was starting. Unfortunately, due to ill health I couldn't do it. I loved Linc- we had a close relationship but we used to bicker a lot as he loved a good wind up and I always used to bite and take the bait !!! He'd be chuckling away with my husband Bob while my back was turned !!! I'm so incredibly sad to find out about Lincoln. I had no idea that he'd been ill. I found out through my sister as she was in one of Lincoln's keep fit lessons at the Brightlingsea Health Centre. What a shock. Lincoln was an amazing, brilliant bassist- inventive, massively talented, sharp witted, a wind up merchant and all round lovely, lovely guy. He'll be missed by all who knew him, past and present. If anyone knows the time of his funeral on the 18th, please can they let me know. Thanks, Ness.