'art-break Hotel: The Horrors destroy porcelain Elvis
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The Horrors were forced to abort a gig on Monday (13 March) in Boston after they destroyed a 2 foot tall figurine of Elvis Presley.
Playing at the Great Scott venue in Allston the band were, according to Boston Herald reporter Michael Marotta, on good form as they plugged away in their own habitually chaotic vein. Until...dun dun DERRRR: frontman Faris Badwan ran through the crowd to the back of the room, shimmied up onto a ledge and grabbed a 2 foot porcelain bust of Elvis before he "carried the bust back towards the stage, and smashed it into a hundred pieces onto the crowded dance floor."
Probably not the best of ideas. Many Americans have something of a soft spot for the King.
A scuffle ensued, in which Badwan claims he was spat on by Great Scott's security. Earlier, Marotta said, Badwan had "appeared to punch a female onlooker in the chest".
The Horrors: bloody horrible? Or horribly good? DiScuss.
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I know why people don't but Sheena is a Parasite is a really good song
despite myself
i think that's quite rock and roll. unlike, say, the towers of london fucking up the lights at ARU.
Heh
"carried the bust back towards the stage, and smashed it into a hundred pieces onto the crowded dance floor."
Plenty of space then...
They're so try hard,
and dislike-able.
They are dislike-able
but i think the album has silinced a lot of doubters.
'art-break Hotel
Favourite DiS headline ever.
Nah
If anything I think the album convinced a lot of people they're a one trick pony who's trick was entertaining for the length of a two minute Chris Cunningham av presentation.
i love them
at first i thought wankers like the rest, but they actually have good songs and have proved themselves through the album.
the fact they will go anywhere and be themselves is a testament to how devoted they are about their music in my opinion.
one
of the horrors is fantastically brilliant at fantasy football
Haha
The perfect confluence of post and username.
That's hilarious
He must have known it wouldn't go down well. I quite like him for it.
:)
you used the word 'confluence'.
*sigh*
Good use of the proper last name there as well.
Great photo.
Best story ive heard in a while. I suppose this is them trying to piss on the alamo as it were.
HAHAHHA =D
Elvis was horrible post 1964. He doesn't deserve any of the credit he gets since he didn't write his songs either.
Then he got the Beatles banned from the US. Twat.
Faris is funny. I love hearing about him annoying people and getting into trouble for it.
well
he did go to Oxford
i like the headline
very much
After this...
if they said 'fuck you everybody goodnight!' and exploded like the vampire Mariachi band in From Dusk Till Dawn then I might repent and download their album illegally or something.
Terrible
It's nothing to do with reverence to Elvis - he means nowt to me. It's just disrespect for people good enough to put you on at their venue. Everyone on here roundly condemned Towers of London for it so The Horrors shouldn't be any different...
towers of london destroyed £3000 worth of lighting
and jeopardised ARU's gig license. neither were the case here.
but yes
you are right in essence. it was just how i felt about each incident as an immediate reaction. at least this has some humour and isn't just some yob cunt.
What pointless cunts this lot are
Elvis = class, obviously
The Horrors = lowest common denomonator piffle, their songs are woefully unmemorable and how a band that look a cross between King Adora and a bunch of fucking cunts is being so lauded is beyond me.
elvis
elvis is 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times more rock and roll
I can't stand vandals
Never could. The twat who smashes up public telephones, and the one who smashes up some statue, only this twat wants us to think it's cool. Aaron North Smashing Stevie Ray's guitar out of it's case... well whoopee fuckin dixie doo.
Make some records that stand the test of time.
Or fuck off out of my field of view.
You're not Keith Moon.
Whatever 'rock and roll' crap you do.
It HAS been done before.
Maybe we laughed the first time.
Maybe we were shocked.
Forty years on, you're just another commodity... the 'so-called-punk'
Or in reality, another nothing, desperately trying to get our attention by breaking toys in their pram.
True
It's a statement of intent as much as anything. And it's not often that iconoclasm is performed quite so literally.
^^^^^^^^^
I concur
can i just say
that picture of elvis with tricky dicky says all you need to know about the man.
Vandalism is vandalism
If you ran a venue and had some kind of tribute to your favourite artist, and some snotty touring band destroyed it, you'd be annoyed. And you'd be even more annoyed if you went on the web afterwards and read that people were finding it funny because they didn't like artist X...
I can't speak for others here
but I find it funny for its own sake. I love Elvis.
...
I was gonna mention this. THat was at SXSW too, wasn't it?
Coincikidink?
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