can't believe ilx has no lostprophets thread

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".

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Megan Conner
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?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>People can say what they want about Lostprophets but at the end of the day they were a sick band. I'll see them around, I'm sure✌️</p>— Sa$$y Gwen (@menaigotclass) <a href="https://twitter.com/menaigotclass/statuses/385063235030097920";>October 1, 2013</a></blockquote>
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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

http://i.imgur.com/vO37Jgz.jpg

hope the judge isn't on ILX

jesus christ, some of the details in report are reminiscent of A Serbian Film

c-man of Total Sci-Fi in a negative review took issue with the film-makers' statements that their movie says something about the politics of Serbia, writing, "if you want to learn about Serbia, chances are, you won't be watching a movie whose main claim to fame is that a man rapes a newborn baby", before concluding that "Srdjan Spasojevic will go to his grave being known as the guy who filmed a grown man having sex with a baby. And that's something that – despite all of the money, attention and champagne parties at Cannes – I would never want on my conscience. Good luck to him in regaining some humanity."[48]

that movie sounds unwatchable... have you seen it DJP?

this whole story is just... ugh. unthinkable, really.

hell no I haven't seen it, just read the plot synopsis

i'm too afraid to even search for it

i feel ick after reading the wiki page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzgN7efCoE

fwiw, it's p obv an animatronic baby in A Serbian Film

Did the rest of his band know what he was doing? Did they have suspicions? How the hell would you deal with that if you were, say, the drummer. Fucking hell. Nasty, nasty, nasty. So many horrible things that this says about power and fame and fandom and masculinity and wish fulfillment. Awful.

@rupertevelyn is a court reporter on the case fyi

The "Wagner debate" is happening in real time on Twitter. To burn your Lostprophets CDs or not to burn your Lostprophets CDs? (I guess it sounds more emphatic than deleting mp3s)

fucking disgusting

So many horrible things that this says about power and fame and fandom and masculinity and wish fulfillment

I'd be pretty wary of extrapolating too much based on the evidence of this particular sociopath. I know the revelations have been piling up over the last year but attempted rape of a baby is a level of awfulness above everyone except Saville.

this cunt is worse than saville

i'm guessing nick is referring to how watkins was able to convince the mother to permit the abuse, wrt to fame and fandom

(xps)

Not going to get into paedo Top Trumps but there's a special degree of horror involved in raping a baby that's hard to compare to anything else.

jesus christ i hadn't heard this story at all, i'm wishing i still hadn't.

tiers of hell but this isnt even narc of sd, saville was yr standard hebephile degenerate with fame multiplier, this one is so bad court reporters are refusing to transcribe evidence from court

this one is so bad court reporters are refusing to transcribe evidence from court

i boggled when i read that, given what IS in the news stories

I mean, holy fuck

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 24m
Police believe that Watkins may have abused others and therefore this investigation is not over. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 29m
"Most shocking harrowing child abuse evidence I have ever seen" says senior investigating officer. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 30m
CPS "sexual exploitation at it's worst. Victims too young to understand what happened to them" #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 36m
@Darren_smithh in order to protect the identity of the children the mother's identities are protected

Oliver Kirk ‏@Kirkabout 43m
@CrimeLineLaw @rupertevelyn I had to stop reading.....horrific- and that's from someone who has dealt with terrible offences.

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 49m
Believe it or not i have heavily edited the details of the case. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 55m
sample of child victim's hair found they had been exposed to Meth Amphetymne. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 55m
Along with the abuse there was "extreme pornography" involving sex with animals found on various devices belonging to Watkins #lostprophets
# Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
It's fair to say we have all been spared the horror of having to view this material as a result of Watkins' guilty plea. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
sex abuse footage was found in 'cloud' storage belonging to Ian Watkins. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
Hearing of conversation involving "whoring out" the child victim as well as plying them with crack cocaine. #lostprophets

Ian Watkins to mother "the sooner we start training her the better" referring to depraved crimes with v small child #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
The details of this case are the most graphic and distressing paedophile crimes i have ever listened to. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
cant repeat what we are hearing now. #lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
Watkins message to child's mother talked of wanting "to cross the line".
mother "a summer of incest and child porn"
watkins "hell yes baby"

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
Watkins recorded himself with the child's mother committing the abuse inside the hotel where the lostprophets were staying

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
Attempted rape of the very young child by the Lostprophets front-man was recorded on a camcorder at a hotel in Shepherds Bush in April 2012

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
The female defendants admit abusing their own children at the behest of Ian Watkins and making them available to him to abuse. lostprophets

Rupert Evelyn ‏@rupertevelyn 1h
We are now going to hear the "opening of the case" against #lostprophets lead singer "determined and committed paedophile" Ian Watkins

jfc, i don't even

Karleen ‏@KarleenKM 10m
@rupertevelyn There's been rumours about it since I was around 16/17 i'm glad it's not over a lot of people will be proven not to be liars.
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i'm guessing nick is referring to how watkins was able to convince the mother to permit the abuse, wrt to fame and fandom

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:57 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

again though the idea of a parent offering their kids up for sexual abuse seems to really be on an abstract level of unpleasantness that 'fame' isn't going to adequately explain

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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— Tweeting Carefully 💚 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (@CarefulTweeter) October 11, 2025

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

— The Gordon Jackson Five 🇵🇸 (@mypalfootfoot7) October 11, 2025

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