Entertainment Guide, Friday May 2nd, 2008, The Age newspaper. "The Melbourne music scene is mourning the deaths of two of its stalwarts — TISM guitarist Jock Cheese (AKA James Paull), who succumbed to cancer, and Headbelly Buzzard guitarist Mick Cameron, who suffered a massive heart attack."
The article goes on, referring to Jock as simply "Cheese" twice. Many of Jock's family and close friends and TISM band members no doubt read this misinformed piece as I did, and either baulked at it or cacked themselves silly. The Age published the same simple misidentification as the people I saw posting on the Big Day Out forum a few days ago. Evidently the general buzz has it that Jock's alias in TISM was Jock Cheese. Incorrect. James Paull, Jock to his friends, was "Tokin' Black Man"—TISM's guitarist. "Jock Cheese" played bass guitar in TISM. Different other chap.
Jim Jones,
NBC Mews, Melbourne
Update 19:00 05/05/2008:
Patrick Donovan, who writes the EG Music section of EG, contacted me and explained that while while talking to TISM management over the last few weeks he referred to James as "Jock Cheese" and no one offered any corrections. Everyone Patrick knows had been talking about the passing of Jock Cheese. I'm told that the piece in Beat/Inpress also misidentified Jock as Jock Cheese; the journalist realized the error and tried to have it corrected, but events moved too quickly and the paper had already gone to press.
On Saturday evening (3rd May 2008) at Matty's place, Matty, Morrie and I talked about this whole misidentity thing and agreed Jock himself would have laughed about it.
To all the jornalists and writers out there—everything is cool. This phenomenon is general and widespread, putting the press on the crummy end of the stick, so it's no big deal—it isn't your fault.
Que sera sera. Looking forward to more articles on Jock from Melbourne's fine publishing industry in coming months (no irony intended).
Thankyou EG, thankyou Patrick Donovan and Liza Power, thankyou Rob Furst and Beat/Inpress. You people rock.
Tripped on a '68 Jagger replica,
Jimity James
Friday, May 2, 2008
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