His band Frightened Rabbit took the road less travelled and had a huge influence on the music scene here. Complex, no compromise lyrics sung as if he had lived them. Loud but subtle with not too much Americanisation.
Starting on a smaller label the band's recent work was picked up by Atlantic. He recorded other solo work as Owl John.
I was in Cork when I heard the news that he had gone missing near the Forth Bridge and feared the worst.
I never saw the band but was very impressed when he came to a Christmas show of young musicians at the Queen's Hall to sing three songs on a fund raiser. Other talents there were (then) unknown.
He cared enough to go - even though he would have been busy with FR.
A great talent, gone too soon.
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OT: Scott Hutchison
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Really sad. I listened to their first couple of albums a lot and then lost touch with them. Been reading all the tributes to Scott over the last few days and he seemed to be a lovely gentle guy.
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Another reminder that mental health affects us all - directly, or someone we know, and some people we know of.
Exercise can help, though the number of professional sports people talking about depression shows it’s not a simple ‘solution’.
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Sport and physical activity are good for your mental health and wellbeing. The less physical activity a person does, the more likely they are to experience low mood, depression, tension and worry.
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https://www.samh.org.uk/documents/SAMH_View_Sport_and_Physical_Activity.pdf
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Big Stan the PE guru at the uni of Glasgow Stevie building was the first port of call if a student reported to Dr Scorgie the popular GP, with depression. The prescription was for exercise rather than meds. Quite far sighted in the 1980s
The Psychologist magazine this month is all about how being part of groups has a positive impact on mental health. Hardly novel but a timely reminder of our human need to belong and how we can go right off the boil when we feel lonely.
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This topic needs a whole forum to itself.
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Despite never really listening to his music, this news affected me more than I was expecting. Reading the stories of people who've knew him, or who were helped through their own tough times by hus music has been very touching too.
Thoughts with his friends and family.
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@Frenchy: I know what you mean. It feels very close to home.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2rqh8
Vic Galloway - first hour in tribute. On iPlayer later.
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"Awareness" is all very well, but don't expect much help via the NHS beyond a prescription and (after a 6 month wait) some one-size-fits-all Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Crisis services are more or less non-existent. It's grim out there at 3am when you know you aren't coping but there's absolutely nowhere to turn.
(And having seen the inside of a secure mental health unit when a close family member was sectioned, I'd hide any and all symptoms up to and including serious suicidal ideation rather than risk finding myself held in one of those places.)
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I'm fortunate enough to have not been inside such a place (yet, anyway...touch wood), but Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing was a harrowing but illuminating novel on the subject. Have you read it?
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A friend of mine drove to the Forth Road Bridge in the middle of the night last year but he came back.
I hope he stays back.
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@Frenchy - not yet. I have a rocky relationship with books about the bad stuff. Sometimes it's all a bit too pertinent to my interests!
I do want to read this: Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich. Referenced in the excellent (so far - not finished it yet) Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal.
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@unhurt - understandable! Ta.
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