Carey Lander, the keyboardist and backing vocalist of the Scottish band Camera Obscura since 2002, died of osterosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, three days ago.
She started a page to raise money for Sarcoma UK, a bone and soft-tissue cancer charity, saying:
In 2011 I was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma in my leg. It's an aggressive form of bone cancer that's treated with a very harsh regime of chemotherapy and surgery or possible amputation of the affected limb. Particularly horribly, it's a cancer that most commonly occurs in children and because of its rarity, receives scarce attention or funding and there has been very little in the way of new treatments developed in the last 30 years. It's probably too late to help me, but it would be great if we could find something in the future that means children don't have to undergo such awful treatment and have a better chance of survival.I highly recommend Camera Obscura's third album, Let's Get Out of This Country.
When I listed the top 100 songs of the past decade, I put Camera Obscura's "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" at #24, and said:
When I listen to Camera Obscura, I imagine a band from the early '60s traveling through time to the '00s and trying to fit in.I also listed "Let's Get Out of This Country" as a "runner-up" to the top 100 songs. You can see Carey Lander (the only woman in the band other than the singer) in the video:
2 comments:
Thanks for this. So sad. It's also one of those bands I liked and forgot from the 90s. I am buying and donating now.
FYI, their first album came out in 2001.
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