Towers Of London's Dirk Tourette was ejected from My Chemical Romance's instore performance at London's Virgin Megastore (Oxford Street) last night, after he flicked a cigarette at MCR drummer Bob Bryar.
Bryar was performing at the time. Around 500 attendees witnessed Towers guitarist Tourette get into a slight scuffle with MCR's management before security escorted him into the street. To the gutter. Yeah, the gutter.
MCR singer Gerard Way told the crowd that the band's new album, The Black Parade, is the "most important album the band had ever made". Well, they've only made three, and from their label's point of view it's certainly the most important, financially, to date. It's released on October 23.
MCR tour next year - tickets went on sale this morning, and dates are as follows...
March
20 Plymouth Pavillions
21 Brighton Centre
22 Birmingham NIA
24 Manchester MEN
25 Cardiff CIA
26 Nottingham Arena
27 Glasgow SECC
29 London Wembley Arena
DiS was at Deftones. So was Mike Skinner. Having a little dance...
i think
i would have prefered to see mike skinner doing his little dance than that picture above...
It says...
'that' rather instead of 'than' now.
Change it again!
Someone has to say it
Dirk Tourette is a prick
every single member of TOL
is a complete wanker.
And yet still I'd rather have ToL tha n a thousand soundalike The Rakes type bands
why?
why?
they're not exciting, they don't do anything new or interesting. they're a pastiche of something that most people didn't take seriously in the first place.
and, to add to that, they're fucking abysml.
i agree
with brainlove, theyre pretty dire musically, but they put on more of a show than 90% of carboncopy indie chart bands, and theres always some tabloid-esque controversy when you see them.
but
the show is a COMPLETE FACADE!
it's fake.
100%
they're doing what Guns N Roses did 20 years ago, but they at least meant it.
fake.
terrible.
i can't WAIT until they finally go away. their album has sold shit nothing and i'm fucking glad.
Yeah but
They're still more entertaining than the pile of scenester bands called The [insert contextually meaningless 5 or 6 letter word].
But yes, they are musically atrocious, I'll give ye that.
who gives a fuck if they're 'entertaining'?
if you're not an idiot, you won't go and see them. if you're not an idiot, you won't go and see the pile of scenester bands either. so i'd rather have a load of bands who i ignore who refrain from wrecking my local music venues than a band who i ignore but does do such cuntish things.
towers of london
like someone with such bad taste as you should ever be allowed an opinion on music.....GO BACK TO BED AND START DREAMING ABOUT IT !!!!!!
I know this was a long time ago
but did DiS ever have that football match with ToL?
Nopey
Can't remember why not. I think someone "changed the rules" or something. Can't remember!
better headline
ain't they. .
...got some Rockumentary type thing coming out soon on the Bravo channel?
They really are a bunch of wankers !
has this headline
changed 3 times in the last 2 minutes or am i hallucinating again?
argh
stop it!
actually
carry on. this is funny.
it's me vs diver
Perhaps so
But ditch the casual homophobia, eh?
i fail to see
how it qualifies as homophobia?
Well
...the term 'fag' is used as a term of abuse but also by gay people, true enough, but here it's quite clearly being used as a term of abuse.
I can't stand Towers of London but I didn't think the "joke" was funny either.
PS. I have a sense of humour.
no, it's clearly not
if i was being abusive, i'd make that perfectly clear.
i am, in fact, having a laugh. it's when over-the-top political correctness like this creeps in that equality is never reached.
i used to be like you. the gay community is relaxed about it and if we're not too, then surely we're making exceptions and treating gay people differently and as such being significantly more prejudiced to start with?
THEY'VE CLAIMED THE WORD BACK...
...Like that word Raz uses all the time.
You know.
WING.
Reclaiming language...
...is a good thing. It has been 'reclaimed' as a term to describe a gay person but when it's a term of abuse, it's a term of abuse.
Anyway, I'll drop it because I don't for one minute actually think any of you are homophobic. I just don't like the way the word gets used like this now but that's just me.
I live with a gay guy.
His gay friends come round and have dinner and stuff.
They never get offended by shit like this. It's not offensive. Unless you're a straight man trying to prove that he's at one with everyone.
Get over it...
breastfuck
That kind of shitty politically correct stuff may get you laid at a vegetarian bumming party, but it doesn't work on a messageboard.
Hmmm
I don't think my point translated very well by the sounds of it. I know what I meant anyway, and no I wasn't trying to impress people. I'm too old for that.
bf
I know what you were on about, and KINDA agree, but it all depends on the intent of a word.
If someone is waving a knife and swastika flag, whilst shouting, 'fag'- that would be offensive, but saying stuff like 'can I bum a fag' and instilling it with double entendre is just funny.
no point in getting insulted about EVERYTHING...its just tiring.
Are you listening, mother?
waving a knife and swastika flag whilst shouting 'fag'
nice rhymes
Ah...
We get some excellent arguments when the ToL fans come out of the woodwork. Hurry up, folks!
they've sold out already
jesus.
breastfuck
I fucking hate it when they do instores at Virgin Megastore...
If I go downstairs to look at the guitars, there is always some fucking shaved gorilla of a security guard trying to keep me, the dribbling and insane fan, away from the object of my obsession, Fall Out Boy, or The Automatic.
I might make a whiteboard that says "I'm not interested in ****, in fact I think they are fucking rubbish, I just want to look at the guitars and microphones, then walk away
?
why would you bother going down there to look at guitars anyways?
its full of horrid stuff.
get yerself down Denmark St and gaze longingly in the windows instead.
breastfuck
Denmark Street just pisses me off...apart from Wunjo
Sometimes I want to look at the guitars without some soulless scum sucking sickening sack of sub-human slime trying to unleash their sales patter on me.
BTW- I've bought two guitars on the cheap this year a Hagstrom and a Vox- 1 at a boot sale, another at an antique centre, for £45 and £35 respectively, that I've seen on Denmark street for £600 and £700. Fucking ripoff merchants. I mean, I got them cheap, but I wouldn't want to be paying more than £300 apiece...I know they have high rent to contend with, but I'm not a cunting charity.
In addition to which, I can go for a sneaky piss downstairs in virgin, cos of the coffee bit. Its suprisingly hard to find somewhere to empty yourself in central london without buying something.
bf
btw- and when I say 'look at the guitars' I mean in a theraputic way...sometimes I just want to idly stare at things without entertaining any thoughts of purchase
Yes
that's a very good point actually - It's more like spending pounds rather than a penny as far as a London toilet is concerned.
Denmark street
is a lot of fun to spend an afternoon browsing but the prices are just criminal.
I GOT TICKETS:DDDDDDDD
*.xXx.*
Yeah,
I put my reply on the wrong place too.
how many times
can this headline change haha
I was just thinking that
What the fuck is going on?!
Um
Wouldn't it have been fairly difficult to get into this gig? Were fans not sleeping outside? So Dick's people arranged for him to be there to do it. Bad publicity is good publicity? Perhaps not for Dicky this time.
I saw one of Towers of London
getting refused entry to the VIP area at Reading last year. It was hilarious, he was with some groupie, arm slung around her, trying to get in with a broken wristband. Security were having none of it.
One of them also punhced a girl in the face in a nightclub before they got famous.
Twats.
THIS HEADLINE
is the most accurate/best.
Towers of London: shit
best headline yet.
oh for gods sake...
just keep the original one.
No! No!
I like the new one best. :-D
Towers Of London FUCKING RULE
YEAH
Just because
you've got a limited edition copy of "Fuck It Up" on 10 inch green vinyl doesn't mean you have to boast about it to the rest of us.
I immensely dislike MCR...
...but what a knobber.
I hate My Chemical Romance
I really really hate them. So broadly speaking, one of them being slightly burned, or even nearly slightly burned, is a good thing. However the Towers of London are shit. I can live with the whole we're so rock n roll we are stuff, what I don't get is
1 They don't seem to have any songs. I saw them at truck a couple of years back and it was just sub ramones riffs with more distortion and rubbish vocals. They were worse than the rubbish local bands.
2 Are they not really really really old? I saw them up close at Truck, and I have to say if NME does have a policy on age they clearly aren't following it. They looked like they might genuinely have been a shit 80's glam rock band who never made it, then bizarrely were picked by the NME to be famous. Madness.
Towers Of London
are basically Artrocker's fault - I think they saw them as their own Manic Street Preachers and gave them lots of gigs and did "controversial" interviews and articles about them doing kerrayzee rock and roll things, like smashing some light bulbs and having sex with some ladies. Phwoaaaar.
That headline
was the truest thing i have read in a long time
Oh great
Another reason to find Artrocker annoying.
I don't like
TOL on record, but they are quite good fun live
...
Where it says, "Towers guitarist Tourette get into a slight scuffle with MCR's management" it should read "that cunt out of Ratt or whatever thet're called got fuckin nutted by MCR's manager". Tis true, he got floored by it.
I wasn't there, my slightly tortured teenage friend was.
...
Then they got beaten up in an unrelated event later on...
The greatest minds of their generation?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qe8fw0PGJ60
both bands not to my taste...
...i read somewhere the other day that 'mcr are the new Nirvana'
??????
!
...
Sounds about right, Nirvana were gash and liked by whiney teens too.
Why are you still covering Towers Of London?
Is this their fucking PR site or what?
MCR can fuck off as well.
Feel the love.
bf
True
s
why were they at a MCR instore. And mike skinner at the deftones? x
s
Arsehole ejected from shop
Hold the front page!
TOWERS OF LONDON
are so much more exciting than the lame whiney mediocre indie shite beloved by this website and its readers...its like a clanestine tiny world of silly students patting eachother on the back for liking the most obscure pointless art- rock tossers that no-one else cares about.
You are the people that booed when Bob Dylan went electric or wrote annoye letters to the music press about 'proper music' when the Sex Pistols arrived in 1976...
Nah.
They're shite.
And a bunch of cunts, trying to be rockstars.
TOW and MCR?
TOW and MCR?
You would have to be mentally ill to like either of them.
God - Awful Music.
wondon?
well I think the rockumentry looks hilarious
I really don't know if this is for rel or not..but for pure entertainment value this is the best thing ive seen for ages! http://youtube.com/profile?user=TowersofLondon
TOL and MCR
Just wanna say That TOL r breathing new life in a music scene of emo classics yeah i called MCR emos! and RNB soundalikes. i think they deserve a big round of appluase if punk worked back in the day, why not now?! ALSO dont call some a wanker or a prick just coz u dont like their music they are reli sweet guys who people start fights with just because of the way they look, i mean shallow much??
PLus at least donny t, has values and is not a hypacrit , if he dont like sum 1 he dont pretend too!!!
MCR
are not FUCKING emo.
'emo' has just become a term to describe people into alternative music- excluding indie- for FUCK'S sake, about 3 years ago i used to be called a goth for not wearing sports clothing.
and as for ToL. what the fuck are they trying to prove.
towers of london
towers of london are the best band out there but as for MCR theyre funkin bollocks!!!!
towers of london all the way!!!!
i loled
heartily.