The event was reprised at the Teatro Communale in Ferrara, Italy on 10 May 2009, with Mercury Rev, Mark Lanegan, Lisa Gerrard, Peter Murphy, Soap & Skin and Mark Linkous.

Mark Linkous ( September 9, 1962 – March 6, 2010 ) was an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as leader of Sparklehorse.

Frederick Mark Linkous was born on September 9, 1962 in Arlington, Virginia, to Gloria Hughes Thacker and Frederick Linkous.

The last four live shows Linkous did together with Fennesz were during a European tour which was held in October 2009.

At the time of his death, his manager confirmed that Linkous " had completed most of the work for a new Sparklehorse album ", was in the process of moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, and was working on setting up a studio where he planned to finish the record.

Linkous was one of the most ardent supporters of Johnston, an outsider artist who has had a long battle with mental illness.

The friends said Linkous went upstairs for a short period and then told the two that he was going for a walk and exited through a back door.

Linkous was declared dead at the scene ; police did not find a suicide note, but told the press that he had been having personal problems.

Within a few hours of his death, a message attributed to the Linkous family was posted on the official Sparklehorse Web site: “ It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member Mark Linkous took his own life today.

The album is also notable for containing a number of covers of songs by other artists, including The Ramones (" The Return of Jackie and Judy " and " Danny Says "), Daniel Johnston (" King Kong "), Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (" What Keeps Mankind Alive "), and Leadbelly (" Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " and " Goodnight Irene "), as well as renditions of works by poets and authors admired by Waits, such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac and a previously released duet with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse entitled " Dog Door ".

* Musician Mark Linkous of the band Sparklehorse lived in Hayesville for a few years and operated a recording studio in the area.

* Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous ( Sparklehorse ) has family ties to Clintwood, VA and for a short time called Clintwood home.

Linkous, his brother and mother returned to live near Front Royal, VA for many years.

The song hasn't been officially released but will appear on a tribute album for the late Mark Linkous TBA.

In 2004, Linkous curated and produced The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, a tribute album to Johnston featuring acts such as Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Vic Chesnutt, Tom Waits and Bright Eyes.

There ’ s a heaven and there ’ s a star for you .” A number of notable musicians and people in the music world made statements mourning the loss of Linkous, including Patti Smith, Radiohead's Colin Greenwood, Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips, Steve Albini, Gemma Hayes, and the Jesus Lizard's David Wm.

A member of the 1980s indie band the Dancing Hoods, Linkous moved with the group from his native Virginia to New York City and later Los Angeles in hopes to achieve mainstream success.

By 1988, the band had failed to land a major record label deal, and they disbanded with Linkous returning to Virginia, where he began writing songs under various monikers.

1998 saw the release of Good Morning Spider ; some of the album's songs dealt with Linkous ' accident in London and subsequent rehabilitation, namely " St. Mary ".

In 2009 Linkous teamed up with electronic ambient artist Christian Fennesz to create In the Fishtank 15, a wafting album EP of dreamy atmospherics and experimentation.

In the late 2000s, Linkous recorded an album titled Dark Night of the Soul with the producer Danger Mouse, the director David Lynch and ten other musicians.

Aside from his own music, Linkous became a sought-after record producer, and helmed works such as Nina Persson's solo record, A Camp, and Daniel Johnston's Fear Yourself.

This event featured many artists including James Dean Bradfield, Mark Lanegan, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, The Fiery Furnaces, Guillemots, Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly, Peter Murphy, Liz Green, and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance.

Both Harvey and Hott assisted Mark Linkous on the debut Sparklehorse record.

He had three brothers: Matt, Paul, and Daniel Linkous.

In 1996, while supporting Radiohead on the first Sparklehorse tour, Linkous overdosed on alcohol, Valium and antidepressants and possibly other substances in his London hotel room.

Although born near Arlington, VA, Linkous ' mother and father were originally from Clintwood before moving to northern Virginia in the mid 1960s.

Linkous died in Knoxville, TN on March 6, 2010 at the age of 47.

Mrs. Iva Linkous, Mrs. C. E. Ward, Mrs. Perdita Agee and Mrs. Nettie Meredith served as lunchroom personnel.

Mrs. Iva Linkous, manager from the New River School, served as cafeteria manager until her death in March, 1974.

Linkous lived the last years of his life in Hayesville, North Carolina, where he established Static King Studio.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.

I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

The internationally known sportsman and traveler Friedrich Gerstacker was typical of its detractors in the mid-thirties.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

And with the publication of E. T. Leeds' Archaeology Of The Anglo-Saxon Settlements the student was presented with an organized synthesis of the archaeological data then known.

The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.

He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.