{"id":4186,"date":"2014-03-24T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/03\/24\/gwars-management-to-issue-statement-following-unconfirmed-reports-of-frontman-david-brockies-death\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:26:53","slug":"gwars-management-to-issue-statement-following-unconfirmed-reports-of-frontman-david-brockies-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/03\/24\/gwars-management-to-issue-statement-following-unconfirmed-reports-of-frontman-david-brockies-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwar&#8217;s management to issue statement following unconfirmed reports of frontman David Brockie&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Gwar-10.jpg\/220px-Gwar-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Management for the metal group <a class=\"artistLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/gwar\">Gwar<\/a> are to issue a statement at 5pm today (March 24) following unconfirmed  reports of the death of frontman David Brockie at the age of 50, <a href=\"http:\/\/themusic.com.au\/news\/all\/2014\/03\/24\/gwar-management-to-make-statement-at-4am\/\">reports TheMusic.com.au<\/a>.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.styleweekly.com\/richmond\/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-has-died\/Content?oid=2048548\">Style Weekly<\/a>,  based in the band&#8217;s hometown of Richmond, Virginia, reports that  Brockies body was found, at home, by his roommates on Sunday (March 23).  They report that a member of Richmond police confirmed Brockie was  found in his home between 3 and 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> Speaking to Style Weekly, former bassist Mike Bishop paid tribute to the  singer, better known by his stagename Oderus Urungus. &#8220;Dave was one of  the funniest, smartest, most creative and energetic persons I&#8217;ve known,&#8221;  he said. &#8220;He was brash sometimes, always crass, irreverent, he was  hilarious in every way. But he was also deeply intelligent and  interested in life, history, politics and art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The death has not, as yet, been confirmed by any representative for Brockie or the group. <\/p>\n<p> Known for their outrageous costumes and prosthetics, Gwar released their  13th album in 2013 and mark their 30th anniversary this year. <\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Management for the metal group Gwar are to issue a statement at 5pm today (March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}