“So, let’s sum up. You’ve spent the last 4 years of your life taking a job from an American while relentlessly shitting on the country that welcomed you in. And now you want sympathy?”

Steven Wells is dead. This is a bummer. A great writer who I totally lost track of. I used to see him at gigs in the 80s and chat to him while buying his fanzine. He was a cool bloke, really nice. Now his dead.

The headline is one of the comments on one of his startling frank but incredibly funny stories about his terminal cancer for the Philadelphia weekly.

He is genuinely much missed.