NOT QUITE WHAT I WAS EXPECTING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TODAY....

This was supposed to be a posting telling you all about Blog Rocking Beats 2 that took place last Saturday.

But within a few hours of returning home I got a phone call from my dad telling me that my brother David had been killed in a car crash on the N59 road just outside a village called Leenane in County Mayo, Ireland. He had died at the scene of the accident at just after 1am, which is probably about the time I had turned into bed after coming home from the club night.

David was 43 years of age.

He move to Westport in Ireland around two years ago. He was on his way home from a night out in Galway when his car left the road and hit a ditch. No one else was in the car with him and no other vehicle was involved. Just a tragic accident.

I've consoled myself all of Sunday by knowing that the last two years of his life were the happiest he's ever been.

I'm going to going over to Ireland tomorrow with my mum, dad and my missus, while my brother is flying into Dublin from Florida. A nephew and a couple of long-standing family friends are also making the journey from Glasgow.

We've decided to lay him to rest in Ireland and do things the traditional Irish way.

It's going to be an emotional few days with a service and wake on Wednesday night, followed by a cross-country drive the next morning as we take his body to Dublin to one of what is just a handful of crematoria in Ireland.

I've no idea when I'll be back in blog-land. Probably at least a week.

In the meantime, I hope you don't mind if I leave you with one of David's favourites songs from one of his favourite bands when he was just a kid.

mp3 : Marillion - Market Square Heroes

Rest In Peace Brother. You'll be missed more than you'd ever have dared to imagine.