The Shaw Report: The Thieves Like To Sit Down On The Job.

The Shaw Report began with some sad news, Dave Ball of Soft Cell has died at the age of 66. His bandmate, Marc Almond paid tribute to Dave,

Creator of The Sopranos, David Chase is finally returning to TV with a limited series. 

Plus something a bit strange from Spain - what has been stolen?

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sure Report on ninety six.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
AIRVM Sad News This Morning. Dave Ball, one half of
Soft Cell, has died. His partner in Soft Cell, Mark Harman,
has paid tribute to Ball, writing he was a wonderfully
brilliant musical genius. Thank you, Dave for being an immense
part of my life and for the music you gave me.
I wouldn't be where I am without you. Dave and
Mark form soft Cell in nineteen seventy nine. The flamboyant

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frontman Armond was into pop, soul and sixties ballads, while
the more reserved Ball had an interest in that whole
synthesizer sound. Dave said, we were a weird couple, Mark,
this gay bloke in makeup and me a big guy
who looked like his minder. But it worked, and of
course in nineteen eighty one they gave us one of
the biggest hits of the eighties.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And what a great combination of soul and synth.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Tainted Love was a cover of a song by American
soul singer Gloria Jones, which had never had chart success
until they got hold of it. Went to number one
in sixteen countries, including Australia. Ball published his memoir Electronic Boy,
My Life in and Out of Soft Cell in twenty twenty.
He sustained numerous fractures in a fall down some stairs

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in twenty twenty two, and he spent seven months in hospital,
including time in an induced coma.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Another one from a fall yep.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
He passed away peacefully in his sleep at his London
home yesterday. He was sixty six. Creator of The Sopranos,
David Chase is finally returning to TV with a new
show about an infamous mind control experiment by the CIA.
Chase hasn't made any television since The Sopranos ended. He's
been focusing on film projects like the Sopranos prequel, The

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Many Saints of Newark, but that's about to change. Chase's
new show, titled Project mk Ultra, is a limited series
based on the nonfiction book Project mind Control by author
John Liesl. It's about infamous chemist and spymaster Sidney go Lib,
often known as the Black Sorcerer, who headed the CIA's
Psychedelic Program, which conducted dangerous and deadly mind control experiments

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on willing and unwilling subjects during the height of the
Cold War. Got lives known as the unwitting godfather of
LSD counterculture and something a bit unusual from Spain this morning,
where they're thieves like to sit down on the job.
Evidently Spanish police, Yes, exactly, Spanish police have arrested a
gang of seven people suspected of stealing more than a

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thousand chairs from outdoor seating areas in Madrid and Televera
della Reina. Authorities said the cost of the stolen property
is well over one hundred thousand dollars. The suspects were
reselling the chairs in Spain, Morocco and Romania. In Spain,
restaurants and bars often leave their tables and chairs outdoors overnight,

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usually just stacking and chaining the chairs for security.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Not enough security.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Seemingly, it's such a niche heist, isn't it in chairs?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Is profit in just about everything.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
They're not describing it as brazen, which has been the
word over the week, of course, courtesy of the robbery
at the.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Lou Yes, well there you.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Go, so brazen. But yeah, still it's.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Not quite Crowndruls, not quite Crown Jewels. But you know
there's money you park your crowded there's money in outdoor furniture. Too,
you know, oh yes, absolutely, there you go.