{"id":39946,"date":"2018-09-03T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=39946"},"modified":"2018-09-03T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:25:01","slug":"neville-staple-launches-uk-tour-while-denouncing-violence-causing-grandsons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/09\/neville-staple-launches-uk-tour-while-denouncing-violence-causing-grandsons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville Staple Launches UK Tour While Denouncing Violence Causing Grandson\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s with overwhelming sadness that\u00a0Neville Staple\u00a0has announced the death of his grandson Fidel, who was brutally stabbed to death this past weekend. Neville is well known as a founding member of\u00a0The Specials\u00a0and\u00a0Fun Boy Three, not to mention his major role in\u00a02Tone Records. Together with his wife\u00a0Christine Sugary Staple, the Staples are a permanent fixture of the UK and International ska scene, performing regularly at both concert venues and massive festivals as the Neville Staple Band.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Neville\u2019s 21-year-old grandson\u00a0Fidel Glasgow, son of his daughter Melanie, was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition after being stabbed in the stomach at the rear of Club M in Coventry. He later died in hospital. Not long after, another 23-year-old man was also found on Queen Victoria Road with stab injuries. Investigators are appealing that anybody witnessing what happened please come forward and contact Coventry police or Crimestoppers with any information, no matter how insignificant it may seem.<\/p>\n

Neville Staple\u00a0made the initial announcement on Facebook:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are truly devastated to announce the heartbreaking loss of my grandson Fidel, who died today as a result of being attacked with a knife in the street. We want to thank the hospital staff and surgeons at UHCW University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, who battled all day to try and save him. Both my beautiful daughter Melanie and wife Christine Sugary, all the family and myself are still shocked by this tragedy, but would like to thank you all for the kindness and messages we have received.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He later shared the following message:<\/p>\n

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“Thank you for your messages of support during our personal tragedy. My wife Christine Sugary Staple and I have decided that our shows this week, in Coventry and Brighton, will go on and will be dedicated to our grandson Fidel and daughter Melanie (who asked that we still perform). We have the best fans in the World (through the Neville Staple Band, the Specials, Fun Boy Three & Sugary Staple), so we ask that you help us turn our pain into a message. Let’s show the young people that this knife trend has to stop! It has to STOP!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

During Sunday\u2019s performance at Coventry’s Godiva Festival, the Neville Staple Band sent a warning about knife crime before the band performed The Specials\u2019 hit \u2018A Message to You Rudy\u2019, which was dedicated to Neville’s daughter and grandson. Just ahead of the song, Christine Sugary Staple stated,<\/p>\n

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“Young people they have got to learn to give more love and stop the knife crime. It is just wrong. Knives take lives. If you want to have a fight, go on a football pitch or a rugby game, team on team and do it a sensible way, so you’ll still have a winner but no-one will die.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She underlined:<\/p>\n

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“We all need to do this together, it can’t be done by one person alone, by one politician alone, it is all of us, we need to take responsibility.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This weekend was to kick off the Neville Staple Band\u2019s UK tour, ahead of premiering Neville & Sugary Staple\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Rebel Down\u2019\u00a0featuring\u00a0Roddy Radiation\u00a0of The Specials, the lead track off their new forthcoming album\u00a0‘Rude Rebels’<\/a>. The album will be released via\u00a0Cleopatra Records<\/a>\u00a0in time for celebrations surrounding the 40th Anniversary of\u00a02Tone Records.<\/p>\n

TOUR DATES
\nSep 02 \u00a0 \u00a0Coventry – Godiva Festival
\nSep 07 \u00a0 \u00a0Brighton – Concorde2
\nSep 08 \u00a0 \u00a0London – Alexandra Palace (with Toots and the Maytals)
\nSep 15 \u00a0 \u00a0Nottingham – Rock Against Racism
\nSep 22 \u00a0 \u00a0Minehead – Butlins
\nSep 29 \u00a0 \u00a0Ware – Drill Hall
\nOct 06 \u00a0 \u00a0Cardiff – The Globe
\nOct 13 \u00a0 \u00a0Norwich – Epic Studios
\nOct 20 \u00a0 Chesterfield (TBA)
\nNov 10 \u00a0 \u00a0Bognor – Butlins
\nNov 16 \u00a0 \u00a0Llangollen – Sun Inn
\nNov 17 \u00a0 \u00a0Bristol – Fleece
\nNov 23 \u00a0 \u00a0Skamouth – DJ Party
\nDec 01 \u00a0 \u00a0Hastings – Black Market VIP
\nDec 08 \u00a0 Devon (TBA)
\nDec 21 \u00a0 \u00a0Frome – Cheese & Grain
\nDec 22 \u00a0 \u00a0Swansea – The Garage
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Keep up with Neville Staple:
\nWebsite<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Soundcloud<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Amazing Tunes<\/a><\/p>\n

Keep up with Sugary Staple:
\nWebsite<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|Soundcloud<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n

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