For some people, Bomb the Bass disappeared at some point in the early 90s. Those who followed a bit more closely will know he did disappear for a bit, but he was very much back in the 00s.
Around 10 years ago I remembered Bomb the Bass being quite good and bought a couple of his albums and listened to more of his music on the internet. He was very much active, having a website that was regularly updated and was on the usual social media channels. In around 2010 he did a European tour which didn't include England, I assumed he must have been more popular on the continent, but I also did read about him living in both Amsterdam and Vienna at some point so may have just not fancied coming back to England.
In 2013 it was 25 years since "Beat Dis" came out and he was releasing "Mega Dis" to mark the occasion. In June of that year he set a date to play at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen which I planned to go to having wait a few years by this point to go and see him. Then shortly before the gig he announced that due to unforeseen circumstances the gig would be cancelled, no more live dates the rest of the year but he was planning a tour for 2014.
Then after October of that year we heard absolutely nothing from him. His website stopped being updated and no longer exists. If you look at his Twitter and Facebook they were both last updated in October 2013.
Every now and then I take a look to see what has happened to him, and also see if there are any online discussions from people wondering what had happened to him. I checked again today and came across this.
So it would seem he's called it a day with music and has gone into the food business, now running a meatball takeaway in Prague. He says in the interview he doesn't want to be DJing in Ibiza and trying to be cool when he's 60. He has a good decade or so until that happens, hopefully he'll find himself missing making music and come back before then.
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