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MYSTERY HEATHWICK VICTIM?
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Description: I reckon this is Dan Moloney, the comic the police think may have died in the Heathwick tragedy. I made this recording some time in 1982, at the pub in Tynegate.

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This is pants. He’s not a loss to the nation, then.

Domboy

Sorry the sound’s so bad. Did it on an old reel-to-reel hidden in my bag. I don’t have the whole of his act. Was just setting up to record Geordie Packer, who came on next.

Grundigger

Wow. You have some early Packer? Is that Moloney at the mic in the pic?

Domboy

No, that’s GP. He wasn’t so fat then. Moloney is the one at the back in the white hat. Sorry it’s just his back. I wasn’t interested in getting a shot of him. I couldn’t have known he was going to become important all these years later.

Grundigger

You were right about GP though. Love his work. Never heard any of his really early stuff. Have you posted the recording of his set?

Domboy

Not gonna to put that out for nothing. Might put the tape on Ebay though.

Grundigger

Do you have video? That’s what the police want. What use is just sound? Marcello No vid or phones in those days, man. Just thought it might jog someone’s memory.

Grundigger

You’d want to forget garbage like that.

Domboy

Can’t you people be a bit more respectful? The guy’s dead. Andrea We don’t know that. The police can’t be sure.

Domboy

Well he certainly died that night. Nico You’re so tasteless. And all you creeps who just want to look at a dead man. Andrea So YU looking?

Domboy

This is a very old joke. Negi3 I didn’t put it up for the joke, you moron. Police said they wanted stuff about Moloney.

Grundigger

So why not just give it to the police? Negi3 They’ll see this.

Grundigger

They watch us all the time.

Domboy