2024 Obit: Jilly-B (Bates) - UK

Subject: RE: 2024 Obit: Jilly-B (Bates) - UK
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 30 Dec 24 - 10:35 AM

I was sorry to hear this news Rusty. I remember seeing her with the Trembling Wheelbarrows. She was a good singer and a good tea chest bass player. My condolences to all those who know and love her. RIP Jilly.

Subject: Obit: Jilly-B (Bates).
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 28 Dec 24 - 04:53 PM

Sad news: our dear friend Jilly-B passed away on Christmas Day, after a protracted illness. She will be well remembered by anyone visiting the acoustic evenings at the Eel’s Foot, Eastbridge, Suffolk, in the twenty years or so prior to Covid, both as a performer in her own right and as the wife of Doc Cox, formerly of Esther Rantzen’s ‘That’s Life’ alias the recording artist Ivor Biggun.

On a personal note, she was behind me and Doc (literally) for nearly ten years as tea-chest bass player and saxophonist in the Trembling Wheelbarrows, Suffolk’ premier comedy folk-rock band. Her many friends in the local music scene will miss her greatly.