can't believe ilx has no lostprophets thread

Background information
Birth name 	Ian David Karslake Watkins
Also known as 	Mirrorboy, L'Amour La Morgue
Born 	30 July 1977 (age 35)[1][2]
Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales
Genres 	Alternative metal, alternative rock, post-hardcore, nu metal
Occupations 	Musician, singer, songwriter, designer
Instruments 	vocals, drums, turntables, keyboards
Years active 	1995–present
Labels 	Epic, Fearless, Visible Noise
Associated acts 	Lostprophets
Public Disturbance
The Blackout

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins-remanded-in-custody-after-appearing-in-court-accused-of-conspiring-to-rape-oneyearold-girl-8425042.html

jesus

Their first single's pretty rocking. Everything else I've heard not so much.

Also known as 	Lozt Prophetz (1997–1999)

yeah "Last Train Home" was a jam, wish i could have enjoyed it a couple more times before learning about all this

Oh shit I totally didn't check out the link before offering my opinion.

well u did say 'Everything else I've heard not so much'

Yes, none of that new information sounds in the least bit rocking.

Fuck, I hadn't seen the details of the charges until now. Fuck.

The only reports I'd seen prior to than Independent one only mentioned an "under-aged" girl but... one year old? Fuck.

horrible.

if true.

holy shit that is ill

Also known as Mirrorboy, L'Amour La Morgue

Apt.

see I actually assumed this was going to go un-commented on here, if only for the reason that Lostprophets are like the platonic ideal of a band ILM will never care about

until now I guess

yebbut "But Seriously" had been number one for months on end before that, believe me - i'm sure i remember hearing Gary Davies announce those 1990 album charts for the first time. on Saturday the Daily Telegraph (which of course i didn't actually read) had a big thing on its front page about "the young people who disagree with their liberal parents" or something like that - i suspect this is what Bunged Out is referring to.

as for Keane, they're merely another example of the ongoing tendency - in the 60s, the vast bulk of British pop music came from the south-east and the West Coast Main Line corridor, whereas now it's become so central to the culture, and the Americosceptic heartlands of wariness of its influence (both Old Tory and Old Labour) have been so systematically eroded, that you get people like Keane, who in the post-war years would have been Young Conservative bank clerks, choosing pop music as just another career (the idea of a band from Battle, Sussex getting to number three in 1966 would have been completely unthinkable, Troggs and Dave Dee notwithstanding). pop music is just *there* now, so they don't think what they're doing is in any way *significant* (compare to, say, Reg Presley's "this kind of feeling could move a nation"; *he knew*) - the sound of "Somewhere Only We Know" is the sound of a cultural form completely immersed in the fabric in a way unthinkable even ten years ago, saying nothing and being nothing.

the tedium of bands like that i would call "Wienerisation", after the man who did most to encourage ideological loathing of the conservative middle classes' wariness of pop culture and thus allow pop music to slip further and further into the background and have less and less *drama* and *impact* to it. Keane are merely a sociological aftereffect; they mean nothing in themselves, and they wouldn't pretend to, but their existence and doubtless massive future success says a lot. born in the Thatcher years, they can't remember a time when conservatism - even in Sussex market towns - wasn't merely another flavour of the Coca-Cola culture / McCulture (whatever you want to say), and therefore they see it as perfectly natural for the most conservative dullards to make a career out of pop music. what Lostprophets are to the miners' strike, they are to the sackings of Lord Carrington, Francis Pym et al. can you imagine the sort of people who like "Somewhere Only We Know" thinking much for themselves? i can't. at least Chris Martin is politically dead right in most of his beliefs. Keane are *nothing*.

― phoebe dinsmore's bastard nephew (robin carmody), Monday, 15 March 2004 02:25 (8 years ago)

Could you clarify your point about Lostprophets and the miners' strike, please? I'm not sure I get what you're saying.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:16 (8 years ago)

Lolprophets

innocent until proven guilty and murdered in prison tho

My Chemical Romance - Living Years
Lostprophets - Save Your Kisses For me
Cradle of Filth - Devil Woman(they did cover it)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 26 May 2006 15:31 (6 years ago)

see I actually assumed this was going to go un-commented on here, if only for the reason that Lostprophets are like the platonic ideal of a band ILM will never care about

I thought they polled decently well on this but I guess I remembered incorrectly:
Modern Rock #1 Hits of 2004

just leaving this here

holy fucking christ

the fuck is going on there

Holy crap.

The only reports I'd seen prior to than Independent one only mentioned an "under-aged" girl but... one year old? Fuck.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:06 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This goes for me too. Jesus.

There's a story on there about him having three penises and impregnating a unicorn which I imagine is about as reliable as most of the rest of the thread.

there is a description from a year ago correlating with exactly what he is charged with

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Joanne_Nikita_Majic_break_up_with_Ian_Watkins_from_Lostprophets_for_good

http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_74997/ian-watkins/comments

a friend linked me to this tonight, i was just like what the fuck.

weird...one of the first things i thought of when the saville story broke was the dudes in bands from this (or closely related) scenes who used to sleep with my school friends when i was 16/17. at the time i didn't think much of it (some jealously i guess) but as i've got older i realised how creepy it was that these dudes in their mid-to-late 20s were sleeping with girls still in school. i always been unsure whether it was actually a case of being predatory or just being unable to grow up and relate to girls their own age. i think for many it was probably the latter but this lostprophets dude sounds like a real dirtbag.

This is not that.

agree

jesus, that whosedatedwho thing is like the fount of eternal toxic misogyny.

some friends of mine in yr11/sixth form were into sleeping with lostprophets members and peripherals -- kind of hoping none of them slept with this douche, even if he's found innocent of this he's really not someone you'd want on your sexual history.

even if he's found innocent regardless of this

http://25.media.tumblr.com/758dff197bd68703391f262e510b346e/tumblr_mfb4ww48841qk6n0oo1_250.gif

this is probably going to be the worst sub judice lull ever

there is pretty much going to be nothing to say about anything in the entire world until he gets his next court appearance

But this sort of thing only ever happened in the 70s, it was acceptable then, part of the culture

http://i.imgur.com/VxNzY.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22753681

In court this week. 23 child sex offences and two counts of raping a baby.

and "possessing extreme pornographic images involving an animal".

Fearne Cotton: "You cannot fix the bad boy. He'll break your heart"

The radio and TV presenter, 31, on bad boys, tattoos and being Ronnie Wood's daughter-in-law

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The Observer, Saturday 31 August 2013 19.00 BST

band have officially split.

I'd link the BBC report, but you can pretty much guess the content...

Is it about his three penises or the unicorn thing?

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ah well that didn't work

http://i.imgur.com/fPhRxfC.jpg

idk is this kid relevant to the 'story' or is the just 'sick' being the story

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um, what?

that nerys hughes looks younger every time i see her

just read a story about this and what the fucking fuck

Guilty

this seems reasonably clear cut then

hope he enjoys his own company

"Great show, guys! Welp, I'm off to the hotel to have a fully legal sexual encounter with an adult woman who is over the age of 18."

― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, April 24, 2017 9:04 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

had to check to see if these guys ever played the Warped tour, because I'm pretty sure that's a phrase they make bands practice repeating before playing that now

the age of consent in wales is 9 btw

nah jk the welsh reproduce via parthenogenesis iirc

meanwhile everyone's favourite welsh sex criminal has just signed for caek's lot again, glory has truly returned to bramall lane

they call it cywldly gwlnthly or something xp

take it to the 'incomprehensible britishisms' thread buddy xp

Are No Devotion still a functioning thing? I heard they had an actual hit in Romania or something, but surely they're still well fucked

brb gotta head over to the 'posts you has second thoughts about' thread

Lots of references to the regrettable actions of Watkins but i was actually hoping for some solid recommendations here folks

in what sphere? life in general?

Tbf I don't think we are dealing with Wagner or Micheal Jackson here, he was just simply a pile of shit.

Wagner, yeah, remember that guy?

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/117/photos/453000/620x/57d2a02acc78d_I121128_135908_192504.jpg

well, exactly - beyond criticism is that fellow - oh shit I thought you meant the Town manager there!

#Wagnerknows

Recommendations?

'Other bands are available'

Ultimately, the Lostprophets produced The Betrayed by themselves at the Los Angeles home of the band's bassist, Stuart Richardson, between 2008 and 2009. Over the course of this multi-year recording process, they scrapped a lot of material, ultimately selecting a dozen songs for the 45-minute album. The first half of the album is uniformly excellent, in particular the full-throttle rockers "Dstryr/Dstryr," "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here," and "Next Stop, Atro City." Though less invigorating and perhaps too pop-oriented for some fans, the U2-esque "Where We Belong" and the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon" are also first-rate.

the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"
the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"
the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"
the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"
the ska lilt of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrq5hGcAf50&sns=em

"And so say all of us"

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Born Ian David Karslake Watkins
30 July 1977 (age 39)
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Other names L'Amour La Morgue

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4599226/Paedophile-19-fantasised-raping-babies-jailed.html

does not say whether this top lad was a lostprophets fan

so i guess this is ilx's de facto baby-rape thread now huh

if you want to start a new baby-rape thread, be my guest

i feel like the 'i love people-making board' would at once be the most appropriate and very much least appropriate place to put it

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/06/ian-watkins-singer-jailed-for-child-sex-offences-stabbed-in-prison

the dangerous sex offenders and murderers union had a meeting at the monster mansion and came to the unanimous decision that this guy is bad PR!

this is terrible news its not for other convicts to mete out this sort of rough justice it should be a pool from a lottery of citizens with valid tax clearance certificates and then victims or their chosen representatives after that perhaps students who get top grades in their chosen subjects just throwin out ideas here

i was very sad to hear about this. the quality of shivving in english prisons is patently not what it once was.

"According to our records, Ian Watkins is possibly single."

Well.

(Separately, all time stirmonster comment there a couple of posts up from the previous time dude was attacked.)

rest in piss bitch

keep the crowd pleasing hits coming, big guy

innocent until proven guilty and murdered in prison tho

― Captain Humberbantz (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hey I'm not a fan of the carceral state and its jolly tolerance of violence but it's very hard not to think "fuck this guy"

I'm just a bit surprised it took 12 years

nonce on nonce violence is complex

Welsh singer Ian Watkins holding an artbook during a photo shoot (1999) pic.twitter.com/f5k12ZT97b

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This didn't age well!

But imagine being part of a scene even less valuable than landfill indie – that wd take some dedication and among these fans (besides a majority of totally healthy ppl who just really like a bygone genre of music increasingly cut off from current trends) one might expect to find some people who were so invested that it constitutes a vector for extremely abusive relationships with other, higher status, members of that scene

― cardamon, Sunday, December 1, 2013 3:56 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

if only these women would have heard arcade fire

― tuostprophets (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, December 1, 2013 4:03 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

a glimpse into a lost world

i'm definitely a finer batsman than chairman mao zedong

― veneer timber (imago), Friday, November 29, 2013 5:53 AM (eleven years ago

I’ve always spared myself the finer details of what this piece of shit got up to but I know enough to respond to the news of this shanking with: megalolz

Mad to see the most violently unpleasant person I've ever seen on a forum going apeshit over the likes of Watkins, makes you think huh

Who?

https://t.co/4Vn2SjLkYv pic.twitter.com/cepJIieXhL

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/16/nigel-farage-tricked-tribute-lostprophets-singer-ian-watkins

it is pretty funny, but when this comes up I always think "you've just paid nigel farage £100 and changed nobody's mind about him"

Yep

is it pronounced like "fah-raj" or like "ferridge"?

"fah-raj" of course, "ferridge" would be too common/northern