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Ian Watkins, singer jailed for child sex offences, ‘stabbed in prison’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/news@lemmy.world

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Former Lostprophets frontman reportedly taken to hospital after being held hostage by other inmates at HMP Wakefield

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[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Couldn't have happened to a better guy. I hope every second of his life is agony.

On a related note: Loved lostprophets growing up but it is obviously unlistenable at this point (even if Fake Sound of Progress still pops into my head every so often). Any recommendations for bands with a similar sound but not a horrifically evil pedophile involved? Because I love me some numetal/buttrock and lostprophets always had their own vibe that distinguished them from Linkin Park (RIP Chester) and (probably) Hoobastank.

[–] Boldizzle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I've never been able to find a band even close to the sound Lostprophets had and it's sad because I just can't bring myself to listen to them again.

Weren't the rest of the band starting a band with the Thursday singer when all this went down?

I didn't bother to check out what came of that as I can't stand Thursday singers voice.

[–] LucidDreamer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm always partial to Thrice as far as that vein goes. Senses Fail is a little more Emo but made it on similar playlists to me back in the day.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it is obviously unlistenable at this point

I get this, and I'm the same—purged all LP from my library when I learned about this scumbag.

But, I still listen to Michael Jackson!
Can't wrap my head around that.
I mean, I love Smooth Criminal man (no pun intended). That music video is *Chef's kith*.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michael Jackson was acquitted. Weird guy? Yes. I'm sure he was fucked up from his father's abuse. But that doesn't automatically make him a child molester.

[–] cahhts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if this will scratch the itch or not but give the band Finch a try. I don’t think they’re still together but their album What it is to Burn may do it for you. I actually think their follow up Say Hello to Sunshine is incredible - far better than their debut, but it is also significantly heavier.

[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

LOVED Finch and still listen to a weird (live?) version of What it is to Burn on a regular basis. But very different vibe.

The closest I've found to lostprophets over the years is some of the earlier work by Sim where they basically do ska+numetal. But they've also gone a LOT harder since they became... basically every single anime opening song in existence. Stuff like A and Sound of Breath (and to a much lesser extent, Rosso and Dry) feel like they are no longer something that band has an interest in doing.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For anyone who doesn’t know how truly awful this piece of shit is:

The Case of Ian Watkins

[–] Bladerunner@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After finding out what the password to his laptop was, I wanted to puke.

[–] fosiacat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

....what was it

[–] Bladerunner@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His password was "IFUCKKIDZ" spelled as indicated. That's the disturbing part, it's like internally, he was proud of it. No shame.

If you ever watched Chris Hansen's old To Catch A Predator series, or his new series, these guys usually find a way to delude themselves into thinking they're not the way they are, or that they're somehow helping the victim, and I can only assume they lie to themselves because they know what they are doing is wrong and feel some shame.

Not Ian Watkins. He was proud of it. Ugh. Later in the video, after the password, you find out he even bragged about it. I had to stop there, I couldn't even finish the video (linked by OP in comment).

[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Charlie "Normie Jesus" Moistcritical is not the best person to look to for takes on nuanced situations. But he is of the age to have grown up loving lostprophets and did a REALLY good video summarizing how massively fucked up an evil all of this is.

Like, most 80s bands have blatant pedophiles involved. And as much as I love the lead singer on twitter, Eve 6 has some fucked up stories associated with them. But all of this is "normal" carnie/musician bullshit. ian watkins is on a completely different levels of evil.

Some bands and artists you try to ignore the "controversy" in favor of separating the art from the artist. Others are so massively fucked up that you fundamentally cannot.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh dear, I don't know any of the Eve6 controversy... Nothing on Wikipedia for the band, and a quick Google search just gives results about them boycotting Spotify. What should I be looking for?

[–] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing too bad relative to contemporaries (like I said, carnie/musician bullshit normalizes a lot of crap) but a LOT of "groupie" stories.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tldr, anyone?

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Good. Now, with any luck, he'll heal up so he can go back to prison scared and live in fear of his next attack. And with any more luck, that will happen again, and again, and again, and again....

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was hoping to learn he died in agony, but was disappointed.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m sad he’s still wasting oxygen.

[–] WookieMunster@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk, he dies and his suffering is over. This way, he can live scared every day just like the kids he abused

[–] Bladerunner@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net 9 points 1 year ago

It's never too late. He's got to go back to prison, maybe another inmate will take the initiative.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Shit vocalist, too. The band was good despite him, rather than because of him.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I really hope he survives to do this again

[–] Duckef@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Sadly he was trying to acquire a child from my home town and almost succeeded.