Aww, and Gareth always used to play at least one Queen song per DJ set...
Said band's guitarist, silly-haired old man Brian May, has criticised ace-o-rama DiS scribe Mr Gareth Dobson on his website.
It seems May, pictured in all his curly-topped beauty, didn't take too kindly to Dobson's review of the utterly, utterly shit Mika album, Life In Cartoon Motion. Read the review here.
Writes 59-year-old May on his site:
Good God ! Another nasty piece of work in Drowned In Sound. What is it about journalism which attracts the filthiest scum of the Earth? What decent person could write something so despicably and nonsensically insulting as calling someone a "diseased Leo Sayer"? I don't even want to get into the rest of this manifestly stupid article.
This young guy Mika is just starting out, and has, by his own talent and hard work, already caused a splash. Why do these pitiful writers feel the need to try to vilify him, and bring him down? By all means criticise the music, if you really think you know better than he does. But these personal insults tell us nothing about anyone, except the diseased, jealous brain of the writer.
I wonder what YOU look like, Gareth Dobson, you fabulous intellectual giant, you. You'd better be good looking, writing garbage like this. Even if you were, you would still be worthy of nothing but our contempt. Take my advice. Get a proper job. Make something of your own that gives pleasure to people; have the courage to put YOUR creativity on the line - and see what treatment YOU get from the 'critics' of the world. Meanwhile... shame on you.
Gareth looks hot, Brian. Thanks for asking.
Does Gareth look like Anita?
,
allow burger king/coca cola adverts on DiS...
oh i forgot that gareth ALWAYS plays don't stop me down when he djs
this has made my week
that's my favourite queen song.
'don't stop me now'.
it's also
one of brian may's least favourite queen songs.
me too!
never again Gareth!
this is amazing.
dobson: hate figure
Brian May is a cock
i agree with him on some points
reviewers can get a bit personal and scathing and clever sometimes.
And so,
it would seem, can Brian May.
yeah
but i think it was completely deserved.
i dont like that mika guy, but seriously, the reviewer just shouldnt get personal, youre supposed to be reviewing the music, not slagging off the person who made it.
call me old fashioned...!
i agree
i agree with you
I seriously
DISagree with you!
Are but here's the thing
No one asks you to put yourself in the media spot-light.
That's the point. If you are putting "YOUR creativity on the line" don't be surprise if people don't like it, or you.
These idiots need/love press attention, and all too happy for people to write fawning bullshit in their support.
yeah but
honestly, opening with "looks like a diseased leo sayer" is pretty childish and cruel (though i'd be lying hugely if i said it didn't make me laugh). imagine if someone opened a review of the gossip album with something like "looks like lucy van pelt after a barrel of cream cheese has been pumped into her arsehole" or something. actually that'd be pretty funny too
but
im in a band. i wouldnt expect everyone to ike my music, and weve had a couple of people criticise our album.
but if some reviewer started laying into me or one of my band members, id be pretty upset to be honest.
its just out of order.
loads of reviews
seem to do this, not just on drowned in sound, although its pretty evident both in the reviews and in the forums.
personally i reckon its a sign of a poor review unless it's genuinely witty.
on this case though, brian may vs mika, i couldnt give a toss
i think the important point we're missing here is
brian 4 mika
Oh yeah.
I'm starting a petition round my college to remove that horrible Mika song from the college jukebox. I started it today and have already got 8 signitures so far
"diseased Leo Sayer"
- I hadn't read that! Utterly, UTTERLY brilliant!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA! Etc.
Go on Brian!
Ha, bless him. I like that he noticed. What do you reckon his screenname is?
That's brilliant
it certainly beats me getting abused by aggrieved Little Man Tate fans
just noticed thaT
he slags off Alexis Petridis too for daring to give Mika a crap review. Is he is dad or somefink?
I just picture
him poking with the end of that guitar:
"you fabulous intellectual giant, you eh...eh [pokepoke]... wonder what YOU look like [poke]"
Best news story ever maybe.
I am Brian May
And I hate you all.
NO, I'M BRIAN!
NO I AM SPARTICUS
shit, no, thats wrong
I like that image
Do you reckon he attaches a biro to the end of his guitar so he can write with it too?
Crazy little thing called LOL
yes...that would be the bozz bozz...buttering his toast with it too, flora all over the frets
Isn't he missing the point a tad...
as in... Mika is shite.
He's slated one of the Guardian reviewers as well...
"I have a picture in my head of Alexis Petridis, writer for the Guardian - shall I share it with you ? In my mind he looks like a nasty, grubby, spotty, unusually ignorant 15 year old creep, who is foolish enough to think he has one thousanth of the talent, or the courage, of someone like Mika, writing a facile piece of attempted artistic assassination, as if he's trying to prove he has teeth in a 6th form magazine."
Right... what's with the unhealthy obsession with imaging what people look like?
Petridis
is brilliant n'all.
I get pleasure...
from reading scathing reviews that rinse people. So as far as I'm concerned Gareth Dobson has a proper job. I would insult Brian May, but he's a govenor at my old school, and used to go there, and how could I possibly insult another Hamptonian?
Ay
thangu
Brian May certainly seems like a bit of a tool...
..but he's got some fair points here. It's all too easy for reviewers to resort to insults when writing a piece on something as un-indie as Mika. Furthermore, these insults are always only going to be one-way traffic - were Mika to get a lairy on, he'd clearly just be shot down as is happening to May in this instance. The moral of this story? 1: Try being a little more professional/objective when reviewing music you're not allowed to like. 2: Brian May should put a stop to the current 'Queen' album sessions.
Can we have a big reminder article about the Queen in South Africa
during Apartheid thing now PLEASE
I mean
Queen, not THE Queen
actually
it made sense as it was
argh
YES
Every reference to Brian May from now on should begin "Apartheid-backing scumbag Brian May..."
Star Fleet
What about that then Brian?
actually
that was pretty cool in an 80's way.
I thought...
...that was a cheese-induced hallucination. But yes Brian May thought it a good idea to do a cover version of a kiddies puppet show theme tune. And as for the hair and Anita Dobson...don't get me started.
In his defence, I hear he is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer -- as is Myleene Klass, who should present the Sky At Night when Patrick Moore dies, the boggle eyed old racist would love that.
It is a bit childish
how DIS seems to have decided Mika to be the hate figure of the moment, and how you're dropping in nasty comments on the site whenever possible. The best way to stop people having interest in or buying an artist's work (which is presumably the aim) is just to stop mentioning them - not to constantly bang on about them for comedy points. That just smacks of arrogance and some kind of weird ulterior motive.
It's sometimes worth remembering that, even if they're making truly awful music, musicians at any level are *real people*, and it can be genuinely hurtful if bileful hate is directed at you over and over again. I often see good, balanced reviews on here, as well as comments suggesting how constructive criticism is good instead of just saying "this is shit because I think it's shit". In this instance, no matter who it is aimed at, it's beginning to feel a bit too much.
but the review itself
seemed considered, sufficiently detailed, really...Although the personal attacks were a bit mean, it did give a good over-view non?
Yeah fair enough.
I just have these attacks of feeling sorry for the underdog at times. Give it half an hour and I'll be sounding off to somebody about how shit Gossip are, or something.
Yeah but Simon mate
that would be BORING.
Mika is not
the underdog. He's got the full weight of a record label behind him.
In contrast the full weight of the entire DiS staff is probably only equvilent to that half a pallet of ALDI baked beans.
.
gayer
You even bigger
gayer fealey.
I know where you live
bf
There is a lesson to be learned here.
Don't piss Brian May off, 'cos he'll open up a can of whoopass on you!
I like Brian Mays guitar
actually
i heard Mika on the radio last week and he was covering Same Jeans in the style of Cornershop, which made me laugh.
you know what else is funny? Mister Diver has been slagging off Mika for all eternity, but it's Dobson who gets detention.. NAUGHTY GARETH.
Now it's official
that Brian May reads DiS, are we taking bets on which other neo-celebrities are avid readers of the site?
I reckon Sting and Michael Bolton may be making an appearance soon...
Note to May
If you're reading this, you better not read Stylus Magazine's review of the album
Note to May
OMG I LUV U UR LIKE A HERO TO ME I LUV QUEEN. p.s. mika sucks
STINNNNNGE!!!!!!!!
Get me Sting!
NOW!
hahah stylus
"Seriously, fuck Mika in the eye with a knife"
haha
Yes..
it's shit. But please...."diseased Leo Sayer"?? How old are you? Surely that's from page 1 of the school boy book of general insults! Closely followed by "You look like a demented [insert first thing that comes to mind here]"
Why don't you like me?
WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME?
WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME?!!!!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
It also sounds like a diseased Leo Sayer.
he did this
to alexis petridis from the guardian as well. i hope gareth slags him off back.
Brian's doorbell
I hope in my heart of hearts, that it makes the noise at 2m05 of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCWW01N8ql4
that'd be ace.
2m06
even
that is brilliant!
i want a door-bell like that.
People I'd most like to punch square in the chops:
1. Brian May
2. Hazel Blears
3. Mika
4. Keith
yep, you all know it
'pissed off brian may'
would really be quite brilliant on your c.v.
.....
queen rule. mika is not good, but brian may is bang on.
DiS is now officially
a great known place...
Brian will always be my god!
<3
Brian May collaborated with 5ive
That is all.
HOLD ON!
Brian May reads DiS??
5ive came to a DiS night!
1-1
I hate Queen
now we are even I guess.
Thats copyrighted material you printed isnt it?
hehe... just give him a reason to sue you.
he would lose :)
He posted as well...
http://www.drownedinsound.com/user/view/39105
him no?
alias obviously...or the monkey who writes his blog.
Letters to brian
Check out the latest letter to be printed on here: http://www.brianmay.com/brian/letters/letters.html
This reminds me of the letters that magazines often print as letter of the week/month saying how great it is.
always a classic as well
search for 'cunt' on here.
:D
That HAS to be a piss take
HAHAHAHAHA
he's doing his Astrophysics Phd at my college
so i could find out where his room is if anyone wants to pay him a visit :)
i dont think he is around too much though :(
lolz
queen were shitter than mika will ever be.
hes got a point
reviews here are turning in to a
i like x.
or
i hate x. they are shit. at least be constructive. even on a tour sponsored by DIS they didnt bother reviewing the support acts other than to say. They were shit.
if that was the case (which it wasnt) then why did you book them to play on the tour? ahh ive had enough of tyhe close mindedness of this website.
thats a fair argument
but, Mika really is shit in this case, and the majority of other review sites are pretty much the same, they all say somethings good or its bad, otherwise i'td be no fun to read.
Awesome!
I wish Brian May would slag me off. I hate Mika too!
Anyone Else Amused By The Fact
That the rock star, Brian May, tells the journalist to get a proper job?
Brian May has millions
He can tell anyone he likes to get a proper job!
Why does he seem to be
attacking the reviewers looks though?
What on Earth has that got to do with anything?
Why does he pick on Drowned in Sound?
'its you who sink struggling young artists' does he even know about the sort of acts we promoted.
* DiS promotes
freudian slip.
This has
made my day.
^youve
made my day. yay sky larkin. boo Brian May.