goodbye beautiful jack terricloth. (Patreon)

Hallo loves.

I just heard the sad news.

There are some performers who are so hungry for life, you cannot help but be pulled into their charismatic feast and want to dance in their arms until the end of time. these kinds of performers come around once in a generation, and Jack Terricloth, the frontman of the New York band World/Inferno Friendship society was one of these.

I can barley comprehend the news of his death. He was 50. World/Inferno and my band The Dresden Dolls were early punk cabaret allies in the 2000s and shared many shows, fans, friends and sweet and debauched memories. Brian Viglione, the Dolls drummer, played with and made a lot of beautiful noise with Inferno. Like the Dolls, World/Inferno is and was more than a “band”, it’s a family, a philosophy, an umbrella under which we find our fellow weirdos and feel the fullness of life and existence within the communion of love music. and when someone in the community leaves us like this, it feels like a big black hole.

Jack, we will miss you so much. You were one of the most uniquely exuberant and life-affirming musicians I ever saw tread the boards.

To the World/Inferno and Dolls families...take a wild dance around the roof tonight for Jack and throw your hands down to hell then up to the sky. He will always be everywhere in between....

People are getting in fights

People are falling in love

Dodging bullets so

Long it's the only

Skill you're sure of

Wondering, wonderment

It's not just a matter of time

Ain't none of us helpless, just hoping to influence

At this packed funeral, sing!!!

(“This Packed Funeral” - World/Inferno Friendship Society)

In Love,

xxxx

AFP

P.s. Here’s the obit in the NY times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/arts/music/jack-terricloth-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare