“Dave was a giant of a man with a soft, shy, and sensitive soul. The way he played synthesizer was as onto a bricklayer. But the rhythms and melodies that came out of his bricks-and-mortar stance were beyond... He was, in a strange way, Britain’s Giorgio Moroder. Only more profound and darker.”
Gavin Friday, gavinfriday.com (2025年10月24日)
“There is a parallel universe in which the cult Irish post-punk band U2 decided to call it a day not long after releasing their debut album. In this universe, a mild-mannered carpenter named Dave Evans still sometimes picks up his guitar and wonders about what might have been, and occasionally gets tracked down by wide-eyed fanzine kids, eager to ask about harmonics and tunings he’s long since forgotten.”
Ben Graham, The Quietus (2025年10月20日, originally 2010)
“It may be true that regulation can’t force corporate sociopaths to conceive of you as a human being entitled to dignity and fair treatment, and not just an ambulatory wallet, a supply of gut bacteria for the immortal colony organism that is a limited liability corporation. But it can make that exec fear you enough to treat you fairly and afford you dignity, even if he doesn’t think you deserve it.”
Cory Doctorow, ‘Enshittification’ (via The Guardian) (2025年10月05日)
“Beneath the comedy the truth still stings. For all our talk of ‘levelling up,’ social mobility in Britain remains stubbornly stuck. We might think of ourselves as egalitarian, but deep down, we’re still a nation of Hyacinths – forever re-arranging doilies and practising our vowels in the hope of being mistaken for something grander.”
Stefano Hatfield, The i Paper (2025年10月05日)
“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain — why he did not instantly disappear.”
Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899)