Paul ‘Wags’ Wagstaff – Paris Angels, Happy Mondays & Black Grape – RIP
He was not on the list.
Paul ‘Wags’ Wagstaff – has died.
Wags played guitar with funky Mancunians Paris Angel and Black Grape, before joining up with Bez to work on Domino Bones. He also played in the reformed Happy Mondays.
Huge condolences from Louder Than War to his family and friends.
Words from The Blackheads front man Mike Bennett.
”Legendary Paul Wagstaff also known as Wags was an important part of Paris Angels, Black Grape and Happy Mondays. I knew him for years and he was not just a musician but a literary scholar, and always had a kind heart and a lightness of touch with the disenfranchised.
Needless to say I dipped in and out of that category and I have to say that his advice, kind heart scholastic words stopped me from making wrong decision and venturing through dark corridors. Despite his own physical deliberations I found him self deprecating, upbeat and creatively of genius proportions.
He’s recently been working on a project with his long term partner Tamara Smith who’s not only an actress for the Royal Shakespeare Company but a prolific poet and playwright. His influence on Tamra’s new body of work will remain substantial and my heart goers out to her, as they have always been quite literally soulmates who looked at life through a very special lens and certainly made a difference both in the local community as well as touching peoples hearts in the artistic community all over the world. He was a one off and told me great stories of working with the likes of Joe Strummer and Snow Patrol. We will never see his like again!”
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