Kevin Webb of Conflict

[vinnnym]

Does anyone know what became of Kevin Webb who played guitar with Conflict; I was reading KYPP online, and his name was mentioned with RIP after it, but I haven't been able to find out any more about him or what happened to him. Thanks.

[richardfamous]

Hi Vinnym

Sorry but I have no information about Kevin. Sure someone out there does though.

Good luck
Richard

[vinnnym]

Thanks for reply Richard, I'm sure we'll find out soon. (desperate days) Good Luck!

[theoldpunk]

Mickey Penguin added some info to KYPP re: Kev, in reply to a question from Oddy of Conflict:

Hi Paul. I saw Kevin for the last time a week or so* before he died in the late 1990’s. He came to see me at Southern to pick up some records to perform at his new found home in Lille France. He helped run a small bar with some french friends, he was mainly on DJ duties there. I had lost touch a little with Kevin by this time and only saw him a dozen times a year, as oppossed to more than once a week that we had been used to in the late 1980’s early 1990’s when we were DJing together as mentioned in the text above.

Kevin had gone through spells of depression throughout the years and this, according to him at the time when I was seeing him a lot, was mainly down to not being able to see his daughter as often as he would like, there were of course other random issues like girlfriends leaving him, unemployment, bands and DJing he was involved in hassle etc etc. General life hassles, anyway, I think if memory serves me correctly he actually did go to court for better custody for his daughter against Ginny (?). Some Social Service inspectors did come around his place on a couple of occasions that I was there at I seem to remember.

Anyhow as I was not in touch with him quite a much as I was I am not sure what happened in Lille or indeed when it happened early 1999 I think as it was the same year as Bim Sherman and Vinny from Botchit And Scarper died. I remember feeling that lots of good people had passed at around the same time. Kevin was the first though. I certainly do not know where he is buried unfortunatly. There was the normal speculation at the time about how he died, and whether it was deliberate or accidental but not being informed of any actual facts it is not worth gossiping about it.

The reason for not knowing a lot on this issue, is that my friend Andy P got a phone call from Kevin’s mother one night to inform him of Kevin’s sad demise. She also told Andy that his body had been taken from Lille and was already buried in north London (I assume Barnet area). The point is that Kevs mother had obviously got Kevins phone book and started to ring up folk starting with A. I would have been under M Mickey or P Penguin so I never got the call, Kev’s mother obviously could not go through all the address book as it must have been hard for her to speak to anyone about the situation. Andy was in such shock about hearing from Kevins mother about her sons death, he completly got thrown out of whack and forgot (or decided against) asking her for details of his passing or where Kevin was laid to rest. As we both knew nothing of Kev’s family life or knew no details of how to reach them we could not get back to Kevin’s mother to ask relevent questions (and probably would not want to anyway come to think of it).

If I was called I may have asked when and how, but I wasn’t, and we also did not know Kevin’s new bunch of new found friends in Lille either so we could not discuss any details with that crowd.

So all in all I can not be of too much help I am afraid. Surely Ginny (?), the daughters mother would know the details or certainly know the details of how to get the information from Kevin’s mother, assuming the mother has not moved house or passed on?

* I definately remember seeing Kevin and then getting a call from Andy a month later about the situation, telling me the mother said to him that Kevin had died “a few weeks previously and had been laid to rest”.

killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/paul-pavlik-wilson-some-random-mixes-from-the-early-1990s/comment-page-1/#comment-122783

[murphybridget]

Mar 1, 2013 21:57:16 GMT -5 vinnnym said:

Does anyone know what became of Kevin Webb who played guitar with Conflict; I was reading KYPP online, and his name was mentioned with RIP after it, but I haven't been able to find out any more about him or what happened to him. Thanks.

I couldn't find any specific information about Kevin Webb, the guitarist who played with Conflict, beyond what you mentioned.