Mr B

I posted this tribute on Yemi’s website a few hours after I heard the dreadful news. For a day or two I worried that having this page up might be inappropriate. Then the Journal newspaper mentioned the site in an article and within no time your messages were flooding in.
Original message:

This morning I heard the news that my good friend Yemi Sobo had been murdered along with three other members of his family (Sister Liz and her children Abigail and Steven). The story of their deaths is receiving lots of coverage in the local and national press.
Yemi and I first met in 1987 and had been good friends since 1990. We had partied hard and had more fun in a decade than most people have in a life time. Yemi lived for the moment and had often joked to me he wanted to live fast and die young. He suffered a lot with Sickle-Cell and always thought that would be the end of him... not something as pointless as this.
Anyone that was anybody on Tyneside knew Yemi. He had become a legend on the party scene and had been pubbing and clubbing since he was nearly old enough to drink. Not only was he popular with the movers and shakers in the area but he also knew most of the punters... especially the ladies! He had friends all over the country too and we used to regularly bump into them in nightclubs up and down the UK.
Yemi was a great bloke with a larger than life personality. He had a wicked sense of humour, plenty of style and a care free attitude to life that most of us would love to possess... oh, and he wasn’t a bad photographer either!
Recently Yemi had been pestering me to set him up a website so he could put his photos on-line. It was something we had talked about before but this time he was serious. I feel guilty that we didn’t get round to doing it before he died which is what compelled me to write a few words now.
I am going to dig around to see if I can find any of the photos that he did for me and I will put them in a gallery for people to see soon. If you are reading this and knew Yemi then email me photos he took of you or photos you have of him and I will put them on here too. I think it is what he would have wanted. (photos@yemi.co.uk)
I’ll have a word with my techy fella at work and try and figure out a way we can put a guest book on here too so people can leave a little message. For now you can email me your message and I will copy and paste them into some kind of tributes page. (tributes@yemi.co.uk). If it turns out rubbish or upsets anyone I’d be happy to take the page down.
I will be having a large Jack Daniels after writing this Yemi and I will thinking about you and your family. God bless.

See you on the other side.

Mr B.

Nick Bradley. nick@bradley.com

Wednesday, 15 November 2006

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