Mick Lynch, frontman of Cork band Stump has passed away.
Cork native Lynch joined Stump in London in 1983 and the band was feted by UK music weeklies NME and Melody Maker and the late BBC dj John Peel championed their best known song Charlton Heston. RTÉ 2fm dj Dave Fanning regularly played Stump's songs on his late night radio show.
Stump released a mini album entitled Quirk Cut in 1986 and the acclaimed full-length album A Fierce Pancake in 1988.
Lynch was also in a short-lived group with future Microdisney founders Sean O'Hagan and Cathal Coughlan called Constant Reminders and he also played in Mean Features with actor Liam Heffernan, who went on to play Blackie Connors in RTÉ soap Glenroe.
Online music magazine Louder than War said of Lynch, "He will be remembered for his musical passion, quirky Cork world view, stage presence that oozed his natural warmth and his inquisitive and intelligent nature that saw him deliver songs that made the weird wonderful and the surreal into wonk pop and also that wonderful asymmetric Tin Tin haircut."
Colm O'Callaghan, who produced landmark RTÉ music show No Disco, has written a tribute to Mick. Click here to read it.
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