The Kid who saved your life

Posted on a another blog 20th January 2010 click here to read it

This year is going to be your year, Bryan . Love you Man x

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Jon Burr

I met him through Mark Kennedy and Mark Burgess, and we played some music together - I play a bit of blues harp. He was a very funny guy, and cool in a warm kind of way. I remember best the time we went out to Germany to play at a festival with Mark Burgess and ended up sharing a room together.

As a jew he was a bit nervous about the idea of going to Germany, plus a lot of the music at the festival was very dark. We went for a walk out of the festival and came across a hidden war memorial in the countryside. The gothic writing and skull imagery were certainly disturbing. One night there was a load of noise outside the hotel and Bryan got up and looked out of the window. I heard him swear and when he turned round his face was as white as a sheet. I ran over and there were a troop of men marching down the street with guns over their shoulders. It turned out that the town held a Shooting Festival (!) every year and the night time march was part of it.

There are a load of stories - I'm sure anyone who knew Bryan has plenty: like the time he felt sick before a gig, and Keni tried to calm him down by pretending to be sick first. He ended up doubled up on the floor with laughter.

It was lovely to hear Elbow's tribute - I knew who it was about the second I heard the words "Love you, mate". I'd love to hear the tribute album - is there one? Like someone else on this site, my tapes of Bryan have long since been chewed up and me and the missus would love to hear him again.

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Welcome to the curious

If you have just "googled" Bryan Glancy and arrived here, welcome to a site dedicated to his memory, lovingly filled with thoughts and memories from just a few of his many friends.

Down the right hand side you will see links to other web resources that give you more information about and even music from the great man.

For those with little time, but a thirst for knowledge, the most beautiful and complete summation of him was written shortly after his untimely death by his close friend Saul Brody.

Click here to read his tribute

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Mercury Prize for Glancy

Last night the prestigous 2008 Mercury Music Prize was awarded to Elbow who promptly dedicated it to Bryan.

It was a fitting and totally expected gesture from 5 of his closest friends.

It has generated a good deal of emails from people keen to find out more about that "friend of ours".

BBC Manchester will shortly be posting a tribute to Bryan a link will be provided on this site.

Here is the dedciation that Guy Garvey made to Bryan on this blog back in June 2006.

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Bryan's Legacy

The rock group elbow have dedicated the final track on their new LP to Bryan

The track is called Friend of Ours

The LP is called The Seldom Seen Kid

Here's an early review of the LP mentioning our friend. Click
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Mo Meek

Playlist for a tribute LP

Ad_Man Shouting

Beating Me Home

Beat The Boat

Bicycle Corn cob Tuesday

Bullets in the Backgroud

Burning Babel

Buttons

Cash & Carry Love

Cat in the Mask

Chinned

Christ Stopped In Salford

Dont Sell Me

Down in a Norhern Town

Empty Vessels

Getting Desperate

Goodnight History

Harry

Kid Who Saved Your Life

Little Prince

Making Love is Easy

Memory Man

More

Muse in my Shoes

New York & France

Nightmare

Proppinig up the Bar

Remembering You

Roadside Blues

Schoolboy Dreams

Season Fishing

Singer in the Subway

6 String Suicide

Start

Stephen

Sycamore Tree

Time for Change

Too Many FoxesWaiting in the Wings

When Harmony Comes.

Hey when you read the list as the lyrics to a sad but beautiful song ....you can almost remember the boy.

Shalom Baruch Dovid "Bryan" Glancy

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Mike

I only met Bryan on a few occasions between 1988 and 1991. I first time was at the Green Room on Whitworth St in 1988, it was the first CC/Funbox Manchester Busker night, both myself and a friend (we were both 15 at the time) had read about Bryan in the evening news, he had just been crowned Piccadilly Radio's busker of the year (whatever that meant!), we had a schoolboy band of our own at the time and were intrigued. What we heard (Bryan, Johnny Dangerously, Darren Poyser, Henry Normal, Clare Mooney) that night changed our lives forever. I remember meeting Bryan after the gig, he was selling his tapes at a table in the bar area of the venue, we approached him just to tell him we loved his set, it was near the end of the night and by this time neither myself or my friend had any money left, so we felt a little embarrassed when Bryan asked me if I liked his stuff enough to buy a tape of him, when I drunkenly explained I had no money he just smiled and handed me a tape anyway. That tape was called "The kid who saved your life" it contained five other songs as well as the title track, another track on it was "Bicycle Corncob Tuesday". I remember playing the tape almost constantly that summer and beyond. Unfortunately a fascist tape machine decided to chew up the tape a couple of years later and has been lost to me ever since (if anyone out there has this tape, I would be eternally grateful for a copy)

When I heard the news of Bryans death the first thing that came to mind was this story and the chorus of the kid who saved your life has been going round in my head ever since. Truly one of the most beautiful songs ever written and for me the song that best encapsulates the mood of Manchester during the late eighties and guaranteed a place on the soundtrack of my life.

"...and in this smokey town, where the washed out pavements are
mirroring the lord mayors frown,"

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