Goodbye to Graeme Naysmith, guitarist of Pale Saints

He passed away on April 4th at the age of 57 Graeme Naysmiththe guitarist of Pale Saints. This was announced in a message published on Facebook by his current band, the X-Ray Eyes. “We are devastated to say that our guitarist and friend Jock (Graeme) Naysmith has passed away. He was a great guitarist but an even better guy, we will miss him beyond belief. He was a much loved husband and father and our thoughts go out to all his family. We have managed to record a lot of new songs with Jock in the last few years, hopefully they will be released in the future.” The causes of death have not been revealed.

Naysmith co-founded i
Pale Saints
in Leeds in 1987 with the singer-bassist
Ian Masters
and the drummer
Chris Cooper
. The group achieved a small success with the cover of
“Kinky Love”
Of
Nancy Sinatra
with Lush's lead singer Meriel Barham, who joined the
Pale Saints
in 1990.

After i
Pale Saints
Naysmith played with Cooper in several Leeds bands such as
Lorimer, Program, Flies On You, Father Figures
And
Terminals
which later changed its name to C
yanide Pills
once Naysmith left the band. In 2010,
Graeme
Naysmith
joined the member of the
Cyanide Pills Sy Shields
in a band called the Longshots, which later morphed into the

X-Ray
Eyes
performing under the name of
Jock Strap
.