Jock McDonald loss of life: Bollock Brothers singer dies in ‘freak swimming accident’

Singer Jock McDonald of the punk band The Bollock Brothers has died “in a freak swimming accident” in Bundoran, Ireland. He was 69.

News of his loss of life was confirmed by his bandmate, drummer Pat Pattyn, on social media.

“It is with great sadness in my heart, I have to bring you this terrible news… sadly, our singer Jock McDonald died last night in Ireland, apparently a freak swimming accident,” he wrote on Facebook.

“His children asked me to tell you all via this way… his family and all the Bollock Brothers are in shock… we are going to try and give this a place, but that won’t be easy.”

He requested for privateness for himself and McDonald’s household. “Rest in peace, my friend… I will miss you,” he mentioned.

Donegal Live reported that McDonald was taken from the water close to the diving boards at Bundoran seaside by volunteers for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) on Saturday night (26 July).

He was rushed to Sligo University Hospital, the place he was later pronounced useless.

A promoter, DJ, supervisor and musician, McDonald was born Patrick Joseph O’Donnell and grew up between Donegal and Clydebank, Scotland.

Formed in 1979 by McDonald, The Bollock Brothers rose to fame with their English-language cowl of French musician Serge Gainsbourg’s track “Harley David (Son of a Bitch)”.

Other notable releases included their authentic track “The Slow Removal of the Left Ear of Vincent van Gogh”, which featured Martin Glover from the band Killing Joke.

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In 1983, they launched a canopy model of the Sex Pistols’ album Never Mind the Bollocks that includes Michael Fagan, the person who twice broke into Buckingham Palace the earlier yr.

Over the years they launched 9 albums, together with their debut The Last Summer and 1987’s The Prophecies of Nostradamus.

Their newest studio album, Last Will and Testament, was launched in 2009 and devoted to their longtime keyboard participant, “Big Mark” Humphries, who died on 31 March 2008.

McDonald was reportedly engaged on new music previous to his loss of life.

Tributes have been paid to him on social media.

Independent file label Charly Records posted: “Charly Records are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jock McDonald, founding member of The Bollock Brothers.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time. Rest in peace, Jock.”

“He was greater than a brother to me. I’m heartbroken, but when he needed to be taken, then for him it will have been Donegal with our mum and Dad,” McDonald’s brother Gerry O’Donnell wrote.