check this shit out, yo!

so i heard about this shenanigan this morning (yes i know i am a bit behind okay!), and have not stopped talking about it all day.
in case you needed another reason to think john lydon is a douche, THIS happens:
the story is, kele okereke (as in, bloc party frontman) approached lydon (as in, johnny rotten) at the summercase festival (as in, barcelona), apparently to say something along the lines of “have you ever considered reforming public image ltd?”. lydon gets a bit aggressive, racial slurs are thrown at okereke and he (okereke) gets a bit of a beating from lydon’s “people” or whatever. ricky wilson (as in, kaiser chiefs) goes to okereke’s aid and lydon starts taunting him (what is he, a nine year old? RICKY R U GAY 4 KELE R U OMG), and dudes from foals (as in, yannis philippakis, the guitarist and the bassist) try to intervene. philippakis ends up getting knocked unconscious and THEN cuffed (huh?) by security, guitarist jimmy smith was thrown through a barrier and bassist walter gervers was given a black eye. what the fuck, johnny rotten!? i know you think you are way anarchy and all like “fuck da poooo-lice” but let me tell you, it is not rad to start attacking some cool dudes. you are old, and it is really quite pathetic. what’s also pathetic is you DENYING THE WHOLE THING. yeah, that’s right, lydon denied the whole thing, but it’s okay, because okereke has filed a police report. and, numerous dudes (as in, tour managers from various bands and all that) have come forward and said okereke’s version is WAY TRUE.

anyhow, you can find a far more eloquent report of events here on tiny mix tapes, and there are a few links there to more articles about it.

oh shit, i should probably add an “allegedly” in there. but fuck it, hopefully lydon and his security will beat the shit out of me and call me a heeb or a christ killer or something, maybe he’ll even tell me that work brings freedom!

man i am a little riled up about this, i better stop!

-sally