can't believe ilx has no lostprophets thread

Peaches Geldof is in the shit for tweeting the names of his co-defendants so I'm glad that I redacted them on here after all. Not that DL on ILX is quite as significant as Geldof on Twitter but still.

and will the the court's own Twitter feed be facing similar charges?

or whoever runs it at least. can courts be found in contempt of themselves?

not condoning peaches btw, just pissed off about the other balls up

Didn't some blogger name them almost a year ago?

thank fuck we live in an age where the internet can prevent abuse victims from trying to enfore their anonymity in the media

Perpetrators/victims what difference anyway eh

deems the whole point is to preserve the anonymity of the child victims not the subhuman trash themselves

there's a chance that these children will be growing up from a very young age in foster care under new identities, so maybe this whole bit is theoretical? again i'm not saying that to excuse anyone's actions but maybe the consequences of the leaked names won't be as disastrous as they potentially could be. obviously entering the realm of deep hypothesis here

yeah but fostered kids and adoptees often look up their birth parents

oh sure, but at least they might grow up in an environment where other people don't know who they are

something that would be more likely to happen if people could resist the vicarious thrill of identifying them in public space now

It's massively gone tits up, one of the women's twitter was still online until last night with her kid's given name all over it

the police and other legal authorities in this country are still absolute ignorant fuckwits when it comes to the internet

"when it comes to the internet"

"in this country"

well yeah i'd guess but i speak only of what i know

Not only assuming kid is already with another set of parents but fervently hoping so.

there was a horrifying and highly-publicised rape and murder case here a couple of years ago and the other day, during a talk at a fundraiser, a senior cop showed the crowd a photo of the victim's semi-naked body just after it had been uncovered in a shallow grave.

so we heard over here :/

Lostprophets tour manager speaks...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/445654/Lostprophets-tour-manager-How-can-anyone-forgive-sick-peadophile-Ian-Watkins

I'm struggling to find words for any of this, by the way. Everything about this is incredibly fucking depressing.

Lostprophets' tour manager: How can anyone forgive sick peadophile Ian Watkins?

They meant peabophile I think, h from steps is a big peabo bryson fan

King of the syrupy duet

Tbf, the tour manager didn't do the mis-spelling..

Also, spot on what he said.

I'm really surprised that nobody has made mention of the fact that one of the last bands to support Lostprophets before Watkins was arrested were the very young all-girl band Cherri Bomb, whose guitarist would have only been about 15 or something at the time. Christ, if only they'd known eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXCkRS2j5Q

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/29/lostprophets-removed-hmv-ian-watkins

HMV's decision reflects the gravity of Watkins' crimes. It is unusual for a major retailer to entirely remove an artist's catalogue, even after a major conviction: HMV continue to sell records by Gary Glitter, Burzum and Charles Manson.

suspect "HMV's decision reflects their interest in sidestepping flaming-torch Twitter campaigns for the sake of a band who no-one is going to buy albums by anyway" might be more accurate

theres also the possible need to avert a ratm style xmas chart entry SCANDAL where all 2396 tru believer lostprophet fans alongside some bantz kids get them into the top 75

They'll just have to settle for Gary Glitter's 'Rock'N'Roll parts 1 & 2' instead then.

find it hard to believe 15 yr old girls in that scene wouldnt have already known him a lecherous creep though, even if that was maybe the first couple of milimetres of the iceberg

Can't believe the Guardian mentioned Burzum before an ILXor could

Finding it hard to credit that HMV is stocking Charles Manson albums atm

They're going big on A Very Manson Christmas: 20 Family Favourites.

They never have them when I ask for them

If anyone's near an HMV today can they go in and ask for Burzum, Manson, Glitter and a Polanski box set?

Was reading Neil Young's book recently and he had quite favourable words for Charlie's musical skills.

They're not confusing them with Mansun, are they?

This was a half-decent read too: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/charles-manson-today-the-final-confessions-of-a-psychopath-20131121

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I saw some of Hitler's paintings, they're a bit rub but he's still better than me at painting.

But that's not the point, right?

Manson's a much better singer than me, but my guitar playing is better

i'm definitely a finer batsman than chairman mao zedong

lol

deems is prob a better striker than marlon king. or at least in and around the same level.

striker of footballs sure

a rain shall come

Yah mo school Lavrentii Beria at Sensible Soccer

The woman who initially reported Watkins a few years back was on This Morning today, apparently.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/nov/29/ian-watkins-art-sins-artist

http://news.sky.com/story/1176015/lostprophets-angry-disgusted-at-ian-watkins

Even as I've been writing this paragraph, a new tweet has appeared: "Did I just see a hashtag #IanWatkinsIsInnocent WTFFFFFFFFFFF"