Thackeray
Striker
Ok, so out of the blue earlier this week a musician that I'm very fond of posted this on his Facebook page:
The ensuing debate though has been, imho, pretty pathetic. Some of the comments have been reminiscent of threads on here which essentially go "What f***ing scum, chop his knackers off and throw away the key", arguments which of course have no base in the real world.
This is odd though no? In the 70s this sort of behaviour by rock n roll stars was not only tolerated, but encouraged. John Bonham shitting in groupies' shoes was the stuff of legend. Women in the entertainment industry being groped by intoxicated punters goes on every single weekend up and down the country, nothing gets done.
Seems to me that this fella has stepped up to the plate and challenged his own behaviour publicly, to apologise but also to open the debate about this sort of behaviour. Of course what he did is unacceptable, but it seems to me that his subsequent actions have been totally commendable and at considerable personal risk. I don't think I've ever done this (but how would I know?) but I've definitely done stupid shit when intoxicated, I'd like to think that had I been in his shoes I'd have acted with this amount of integrity afterwards. But to listen to some of the online observers he is the worst scum who walked the face of the earth.
Ok so no-one on here has heard of him, is remotely interested in any of this, did not read etc etc, but I've typed it out now, so there you go. Probably only for the musos on here of all stripes
@chunkylover53 @Teed @fyl2u @mini-x2 @mickb2112 @td586 @Arkle @muggboots {shame @CatRyan is banned again} etc.
This is he, by the way...
In subsequent posts by him and the victims it turns out that following his set on the night in question he glugged back an unwholesome dose of GHB, and then proceeded to grope and verbally abuse a number of employees of the host venue. He has no memory of any of this and is completely accepting the victims' version of events. He later met with the victims, apologised, and collectively they agreed that the way forward was to post the above public apology (he offered to turn himself in to the police, which the victims declined, saying that they would be unwilling to offer evidence in a criminal case, with everything that involves for them).The ensuing debate though has been, imho, pretty pathetic. Some of the comments have been reminiscent of threads on here which essentially go "What f***ing scum, chop his knackers off and throw away the key", arguments which of course have no base in the real world.
This is odd though no? In the 70s this sort of behaviour by rock n roll stars was not only tolerated, but encouraged. John Bonham shitting in groupies' shoes was the stuff of legend. Women in the entertainment industry being groped by intoxicated punters goes on every single weekend up and down the country, nothing gets done.
Seems to me that this fella has stepped up to the plate and challenged his own behaviour publicly, to apologise but also to open the debate about this sort of behaviour. Of course what he did is unacceptable, but it seems to me that his subsequent actions have been totally commendable and at considerable personal risk. I don't think I've ever done this (but how would I know?) but I've definitely done stupid shit when intoxicated, I'd like to think that had I been in his shoes I'd have acted with this amount of integrity afterwards. But to listen to some of the online observers he is the worst scum who walked the face of the earth.
Ok so no-one on here has heard of him, is remotely interested in any of this, did not read etc etc, but I've typed it out now, so there you go. Probably only for the musos on here of all stripes
@chunkylover53 @Teed @fyl2u @mini-x2 @mickb2112 @td586 @Arkle @muggboots {shame @CatRyan is banned again} etc.
This is he, by the way...
