RIP Jack Barron

Saddened to hear of the death of Jack Barron - who wrote for Sounds and then NME among other places - after a long illness . I didn't know Jack well but I really enjoyed the couple of encounters we had. The first was when we were both sent as representatives of our respective music papers ( Sounds then still, for him) to Warsaw to cover the first ever East-meets-West festival of alternative music…