Noiseobit: Clare Amory

Clare Amory of Excepter has died from cancer. I don't think I can improve on the words of Excepter's Jon on his SSSP blog:

Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery departed Earth on it's final mission. Among the cargo aboard, was one astronaut who's name was not publicly announced. My beautiful friend, and band mate- Clare Armory has left our Planet Earth. Her soul has been set free to bless this mad universe that we all live in. I know how difficult that it is to lose a loved one to cancer. I lost my mother nine years ago to the same ravaging disease. It was the hardest thing that I have ever had to deal with in my life. My mother was 57 when she lost her 29 year battle with cancer. Clare was 35. Any age is too young to be taken from us. It hurts so much.

Here's the band playing New York's Monkeytown on the New Years' Eve before last:



Horrible, sad news.