Beau Velasco memorial details

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Beau Velasco memorial details below...

R.I.P. my dear brother, friend and band mate Beau Velasco. We are all so devastated that I will keep this short. We love you and you will be missed. You affected us all so much in the most positive ways. Our lives would not be as is, if not for you. We love you.

Beau Velasco, beloved brother, co-founding member, guitarist and vocalist of The Death Set, passed away Sunday, September 27, in Brooklyn, New York. Beau co-wrote the Worldwide album and previous two EP's with Johnny Siera, with whom his partnership reaches back beyond The Death Set's beginnings, to Black Panda from the Gold Coast, Australia. The Death Set moved from Sydney to the US in 2005, but Beau took a back seat from touring a while later. This original core lineup of the band had recently rejoined to write and record the next record and to resume touring together.

Beau was also a talented artist, tattoo artist and jewelry designer. Working at Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg and Black Ink in Harlem. His artwork has been exhibited in Australia and America. There is a nice piece remembering him in the New York Village Voice here:

Please see details for the memorial services below and forward to those who wish to pay their respects:

Viewing. (This is an open casket, where you can view and pay respects to the Velasco/Parsons family.)
Friday 10/2
B Anastasia Funeral Home 533 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
2:30pm - 4:30pm (viewing service at funeral home)
4:30pm - 7:30pm (gather at Roebling Tea Room for a rest)
7:30pm - 9:30pm (viewing service at funeral home)

Memorial Service (This will be a gathering and a celebration of Beaus life.)
Saturday 10/3
Saved Tattoo
3 Hope Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
5:00pm

A memorial is also being organised by band mate Dan Walker for Beau's hometown, the Gold Coast, Australia. It will be tentatively on October 22nd. There will be a gathering and later a wake at Elsewhere Bar. Please email Dan drumpsychology@hotmail.com for details. Please note this is being organised by friends from the Gold Coast and is not an official funeral orgainsed by Beau's parents Charles and Ella. When those details become known I will let people know.

This was our last show together...

The Death Set | NYC @ Above The Auto Parts Store | 22 Aug 2009 | Impossible

Tags: Beau Velasco, TheDeathset

posted at 3:46 PM on October 1, 2009 in music | Comments (22)

Comments (22)

wow open casket. guess he really is dead (i was beginning to suspect a ploy since they still haven't announced cause of death).

Posted by Jimmy Legs | October 1, 2009 4:23 PM

Your permed and bespectacled comrades salute you Beau

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 4:26 PM

damn you people, dont joke about a dead man. simple civilised courtesy. things are hard enough for his loved ones already

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 4:33 PM

"wow open casket. guess he really is dead (i was beginning to suspect a ploy since they still haven't announced cause of death)."

A drug overdose doesn't disfigure your body like an accident does.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:03 PM

what drugs?

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:04 PM

I hope that when someone you love dies, a collection of losers wasting away their cubicle lives make jokes and snide remarks.

brooklyn vegan, please stop posting about this.

Beau Velasco as hardly a public guy and your readership is obviously too juvenile to deal with this like respectful adults.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:20 PM

^^^ oooohhh, we's gots told.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:32 PM

@ 5:20

The only thing more annoying that anonymous people cracking death jokes is anonymous people delivering lectures about proper internet protocol. Just shut the fuck up and go away if you're insulted; no one cares.

R.I.P. Beau — You were awesome.

Posted by Roje | October 1, 2009 5:35 PM

what's wrong with working in a cubicle? sure beats the hell out of being unemployed. or having your parents send your girlie ass a check every month

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:36 PM

RIP and respect.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:42 PM

i'll forever carry the scars that i earned from making it through your imagination.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 5:53 PM

sorry to hear a random dude with tattoos died.

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 8:10 PM

who?

Posted by Anonymous | October 1, 2009 8:39 PM