Darryl Read obit

Pattaya Musician Darryl Read killed in road accident

 

He was not on the list.

Well-known local musician Darryl Read was killed in a road crash in the early hours of Sunday in North Pattaya, Thailand.

Darryl Michael Roy Read was born on 19th September 1951 and was one of the pioneers of British Punk Rock and his band Crushed Butler which formed in 1969 was recognized as one of the first Punk Bands in the UK.

Mr. Read was an accomplished actor starring in a 1964 film “Daylight Robbery” which won a Silver Lion Medal at the Venice Film Festival. He went on to write a screenplay with Bernard White for the feature film Remember a Day, and also starred as Roger Bannerman, a character based on Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett.

In Pattaya he presented a rock show on Pattaya 105 FM until recently and would often be seen in venues around Pattaya playing live. Mr. Read was a regular visitor to Germany where he was in the process of filming a movie about his life and work from 1963 to the present day.

The exact details of the road crash which occurred around the Soi 16 area in Naklua are not known but it is known Mr. Read was rushed to the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya where he was pronounced dead-on-arrival.

Filmography

The Young Detectives (1963) as Moggs

Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1964) as Dick

Daylight Robbery (1964) as Darryl

Son of the Sahara (1966) as Abu[14]

River Rivals (1967) as Ricky Holmes[14]

The Lost Continent (1968) as El Diablo[15]

Great Catherine (1968) as Young Peter

Remember a Day (2000) as Roger Bannerman (final film role)

Television

"Five O'Clock Club" (2 episodes, 1964) aka Ollie and Fred's Five O'Clock Club (UK: new title)

"Theatre 625" The Seekers (1964) TV episode as French peasant boy

"Under Milk Wood" (BBC play 1964) as young Waldo

"Christmas Night with the Stars" (1 episode, 1964) – as featured, TV episode

"The Flying Swan" as Michael (3 episodes, 1965) – The Contract (1965) TV episode as Michael – Lady in Waiting (1965) TV episode as Michael

"A Tale of Two Cities" (3 episodes, 1965) TV episodes as Jerry Cruncher Jr.

"Six" Andy's Game (1965) TV film as Malcolm

"Our Man at St. Mark's" (1 episode, 1966) TV series as Peter

"The Canterville Ghost" Mystery and Imagination (1966) TV episode as Stripe

"Lost Hearts" Mystery and Imagination (1966) TV episode as Giovanni

"Mrs Thursday" We Don't Pay London Prices (1967) TV episode as Boy

"Dixon of Dock Green" (1 episode), The Run (1967) TV episode as Chris Conway

"Half Hour Story" as Delivery boy (1 episode, 1967)[16]

"You and the World" as Tony (2 episodes, 1968)

"The Saint" as French Student – The Ex-King of Diamonds (1 episode, 1969)

"Z-Cars" as Tommy Jones (2 episodes, 1969)[17]

Fear or Favour: Part 1 (1969) TV episode as Tommy Jones

Fear or Favour: Part 2 (1969) TV episode as Tommy Jones

"Rock Follies of '77" as Punk Rock Group Drummer (1 episode 1977) – The Hype TV episode as Punk Rock Group Drummer

"A Bunch of Fives" (1977) TV (2 episodes) as Ronnie

"Minder" Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away (1979) TV episode as Billy

"Mackenzie" (1980) TV series as Rory (2 episodes)

Stage

Hair National UK tour as Drummer (1973)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat as Benjamin at the Civic Theatre, Chelmsford (1975)

Let The Good Stones Roll as Keith Richards Premier production at the Edinburgh Festival (1977)

Teeth 'n' Smiles as Inch at Wyndham's Theatre (1978)

Bastard Angel as Steve, Premier production of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1980)

Discography

Singles and EPs

Let the Good Stones Roll (vinyl EP) Clubland Records (1977)

Living on Borrowed Time/West End Girl Monarch Records (1980)

Play with Fire/Trouble in the House of Love Berlin Limited Edition Records (1985)

No Soul Through Midnight 'No Soul Through Midnight' (12" vinyl EP) Aim Records (1986)

Teenage Dream Darryl Read and the Nightriders, (CD EP) White Label Records (1994)

Walking in Shadows (CD EP) White Label Records (1995)

Gods 'n' Angels (CD EP) White Label Records (1996)

Maybe It's Good If You Look at It Twice Darryl Read & The Doctors, 'Poet House' (EP) Deep Bass Records Spain (2006)

Stepping Ace Roadhouse (digital download EP) Beat Kat Records Germany (2008)

Teenage Dream (digital download re-issue) Beat Kat Records Germany (2009)

It's My Life /My Son's Alive Crushed Butler, (7" vinyl) Windian Records USA (2010)

Razor City Terry Stamp & Darryl Read, (digital download) Beat Kat Records 006 Germany (2011)

Money No 1 Darryl Read, (digital download) Beat Kat Records 007 Thailand (2011)

Albums

Book of the Dead (CD), USA Bardo Records (1989)

Beat Existentialist (CD), Rock Chix Records (1993)

Colectomatic Volume 1 (CD), White Label Records (1997)

Book of the Dead (CD reissue with bonus tracks) White Label Records UK

Uncrushed Crushed Butler (10" vinyl), Dig The Fuzz Records UK (1998)

Freshly Dug Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read (CD), Ozit/Morpheus Records (1999)

Nineteen Sixty Nine Krayon Angels (12" vinyl), Dig The Fuzz Records UK (2000)

Shaved (CD) Madstar Records Germany (2002)

Freshly Dug (Freshly Re-Dug reissue) Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read, Madstar Records Germany (2005)

Bleeding Paradise Ray Manzarek & Darryl Read, Beat Kat Records Germany (2007)

Colectomatic Volume 2 (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2009)

'Crushed Butler' 'Uncrushed' (12" vinyl) Radio Heartbeat Records USA (2009)

Colectomatic Volume 3 (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2010)

All The Ghosts of Rock 'n' Roll (digital download) Beat Kat Records Germany (2010)

Portobello Shuffle (tribute to Boss Goodman/Deviants & Pink Fairies) compilation Easy Action Records UK (2010)

Crushed Butler 'Uncrushed' (10" vinyl) Last Years Youth Records Germany (2013)