Not China, but certainly music. Contributors for this site spent much of the last 1/3 of 2009 trying to put together a tour for the Memphis garage rocker Jay Reatard. Dates were confirmed in China and Japan, but we couldn’t get the elusive last couple of dates confirmed to make the tour pay for itself. We worked hard with Jay’s management and through them and all the glowing press that surrounded the man, we felt like we almost knew him.
Now the tour will never happen. On Tuesday night, Jay died in his sleep. He was 29 years old. If you never listened to his music, take the opportunity to get to know it now – he was incredibly prolific, and wrote albums for fun. If you would like to get to know him better, watch this documentary made last year. In retrospect now, it’s very moving.
Waiting For Something – a short documentary about Jay Reatard
Jay Reatard | MySpace Music Videos