band have officially split.
I'd link the BBC report, but you can pretty much guess the content...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
Is it about his three penises or the unicorn thing?
― StanM, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
<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><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
ARLIYONEELL TH ETK
um, what?
― StanM, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 07:19 (ten years ago) link
that nerys hughes looks younger every time i see her
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 07:37 (ten years ago) link
just read a story about this and what the fucking fuck
― smang culture (DJP), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Guilty
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
this seems reasonably clear cut then
hope he enjoys his own company
― i like the jabberwock and it likes me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vO37Jgz.jpg
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
hope the judge isn't on ILX
― i like the jabberwock and it likes me (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ, some of the details in report are reminiscent of A Serbian Film
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
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]
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
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
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm too afraid to even search for it
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
i feel ick after reading the wiki page
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzgN7efCoE
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
fwiw, it's p obv an animatronic baby in A Serbian Film
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
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.
― I can still taste the Taboo in my mouth when I hear those songs (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
@rupertevelyn is a court reporter on the case fyi
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
fucking disgusting
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
this cunt is worse than saville
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
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, 26 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
(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.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ i hadn't heard this story at all, i'm wishing i still hadn't.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
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
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 15:59 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
I mean, holy fuck
― deX! (DJP), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 24mPolice 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 30mCPS "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 49mBelieve it or not i have heavily edited the details of the case. #lostprophets
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 55msample of child victim's hair found they had been exposed to Meth Amphetymne. #lostprophets
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 55mAlong with the abuse there was "extreme pornography" involving sex with animals found on various devices belonging to Watkins #lostprophets# Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 1hIt'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 1hsex abuse footage was found in 'cloud' storage belonging to Ian Watkins. #lostprophets
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 1hHearing 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 1hThe details of this case are the most graphic and distressing paedophile crimes i have ever listened to. #lostprophets
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 1hcant repeat what we are hearing now. #lostprophets
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 1hWatkins 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 1hWatkins recorded himself with the child's mother committing the abuse inside the hotel where the lostprophets were staying
Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn 1hAttempted 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 1hThe 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 1hWe are now going to hear the "opening of the case" against #lostprophets lead singer "determined and committed paedophile" Ian Watkins
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
jfc, i don't even
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
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. Retweeted by Rupert Evelyn
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― screaming lord, such opinion (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
everything about this is so far through the wall of fucked-up that i can't even
― space bl00ps (NickB), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
I don't think there are any lessons to be drawn here re: fame. There are plenty of non-famous paedophiles exerting similar control over victims and accomplices. It's just a staggering case. I can't get beyond holy fuck.
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
a charismatic manipulator whose fame (such as it was) gave extra opportunities to indulge his whims? AKA a fuckin' douchebag
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
This fuckwit won't last a month
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
(not arguing for a summery fate but yknow this guy's head on a shield etc)
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Never having heard a LProphets record, I'm assuming it's some sort of 'U2-lite' rocky type of thing, somewhere between Muse and Stereophonics, right?
Obviously I'm not going to now. I have sympathy for fans of the band, and the rest of the band themselves. Presumably they'va all got themselves other music jobs by now, being good musicians, right?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
They're just a really shitty band.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Nondescript.
more a Brit nu-metal/emo and bloody awful at that, depraved lead singer notwithstanding
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure.
But what was their perceived MO? Their 'mission statement' ? (In a nutshell, obv)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
that was xposted, obv, too.
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:17 (4 minutes ago)
the prison service have to ensure his safety so he's probably going to be the most heavily segregated non-lethal detainee in the country
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
There must be a hell of a lot of people out there with Lostprophets tattoos now frantically booking laser removal treatments.
― Addison Doug (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 16:27 (ten years ago) link
Born Ian David Karslake Watkins30 July 1977 (age 39)Merthyr Tydfil, WalesOther names L'Amour La Morgue
― ben "bance" bance (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 07:03 (six years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
so i guess this is ilx's de facto baby-rape thread now huh
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
if you want to start a new baby-rape thread, be my guest
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
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
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 09:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/06/ian-watkins-singer-jailed-for-child-sex-offences-stabbed-in-prison
― omar little, Saturday, 5 August 2023 23:22 (eight months ago) link
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!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 5 August 2023 23:29 (eight months ago) link
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
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 6 August 2023 17:38 (eight months ago) link
i was very sad to hear about this. the quality of shivving in english prisons is patently not what it once was.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 6 August 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
"According to our records, Ian Watkins is possibly single."
― sarahell, Sunday, 6 August 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link