Music superfan Big Jeff seriously injured in fire
nme.comNME earlier today (June 13) reads: “Jeff Johns, known to all as Big Jeff, has been very seriously injured in a fire at his home in Bristol.
He is in a specialist burns unit in Swansea in a stable condition.“His family have asked for people to keep Jeff in their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time.
His friends have set up a playlist on Spotify ‘Play a record for Big Jeff’.”Jeff Johns is widely known as Bristol’s most frequent gig-goer, having attended live shows every night of the week at venues across the city before the UK lockdown was implemented back in March 2020.
He is renowned for being a regular and enthusiastic attendee at thousands of shows around the region, and the UK.Speaking to NME earlier this year during Independent Venue Week, Johns described gig spaces as “basically my churches”.“They’ve been safe spaces for me for years,” he said. “You see communities you’ll never meet anywhere else.
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