Gwar launch David Brockie Foundation dedicated to late frontman

The metal band have announced plans to raise a memorial to Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, as well as a foundation to encourage promising new talent. Gwar have announced plans to raise a permanent monument to their late frontman, Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus. The demonic metallers will fund the project through a newly created Dave Brockie Foundation and at their upcoming annual Gwar-B-Q.

“Just face it – Oderus would order you to be present and pay tribute to Dave Murray Brockie, his own personal slave!” said the band in a video statement. “Oderus did always consider you his children, but I know for a fact that Dave thought of our fans as his family.”

Launched by the bandleader’s friends and family, and the surviving members of Gwar, the Dave Brockie Foundation will strive to promote “the advancement of music, images, letters and performances in the arts”, “encouraging promising talents … [and] preserving the legacy of Dave’s body of works”. They hope to lend support to artists “who cannot find funding through mainstream channels”, as well as preserving Brockie’s “images, recordings and written words” for public access.

Before all that, however, they want to build a memorial. Gwar and the foundation have set out to “finance the creation of a memorial monument” in Richmond, Virginia, where Brockie lived. “[We want] to provide the world with a place to pay respects to the memory of a very cherished man,” they said.

For now, supporters can contribute directly to the foundation’s fund by donating on Gwar’s website. A free, public memorial is also to be held in Richmond on 15 August, the day before this year’s Gwar-B-Q.

Brockie was found dead at his home on 23 March, aged 50. The official cause of death still awaits a toxicology report.

Gwar have yet to announce whether they will continue without their frontman, who co-founded the group in 1984.

Source: The Guardian