I’ll bite: how about the fact that frontman Josh Homme’s ex-wife Brody Dalle testified in court that he head-butted her so hard that she “saw stars” and said he had fantasised about killing her? Or that he kicked a female photographer in the face? It’s certainly not what anyone’s talking about as part of Homme’s friendly neighbourhood rock star image rehabilitation: duetting on Shania Twain’s new album, taking the couch on Celebrity Gogglebox, teatime BBC 6 Music interviews.
Homme and Dalle clearly had a complicated relationship: he allegedly tried to throw her boyfriend off a balcony; he claims that she was violent towards him; both have taken out restraining orders against one another; Homme has full custody of their kids after Dalle’s boyfriend was found to have forged her signature on an application for a restraining order. Homme has recently talked about coming through a dark period, including successful treatment for cancer, and getting a handle on his vices. Nevertheless, there is clear footage of him brutally kicking the camera of photographer Chelsea Lauren back into her face, which he acknowledged in an apology video, and court testimony from Dalle alleging that a drunk Homme told her “I want to fucking strangle you right now” on one occasion, and head-butted her on another.
Their situation shares resonances with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s messy relationship breakdown, which prompted a British judge to deem that the Sun was in fact accurate in labelling Depp a “wife-beater” despite his libel claim against them; although a US jury ruled in his favour against Heard, who was found guilty of defamation. You only have to see the grim trailer for Ebenezer, Depp’s forthcoming Scrooge trauma plot movie, to see how much any of this really damaged his career. “It’s good to be back,” Depp-as-Scrooge tee-hees in his first spoken scene. Subtext, as Garth Marenghi told us, is for cowards. Text appears proclaiming “the master of misfits returns”; the entire aesthetic seems skimmed from former Depp hits Sweeney Todd, Pirates of the Caribbean and Edward Scissorhands. As someone says in the comments: “This entire trailer is just, ‘You like Johnny Depp right?’” You could sum up most of the rest of the comments as: we sure do! Nothing says future Christmas classic like big-budget reputation laundering.
And I liked queens of the stone age. Fuck.
Now that’s off the playlist.
If I know Lemmy, people are going to have opinions about Depp and Heard which they’ll be happy to share. Fortunately, no one actually reads the articles.
I love the distillers more
Same, same. Brody Dalle’s solo stuff is really good, too.
Yeah agreed
If I know Lemmy, people are going to have opinions about Depp and Heard which they’ll be happy to share. Fortunately, no one actually reads the articles.
There were a few with strong opinions when I posted about a new movie that included Heard recently. But you’re right hahaha, no one actually reads articles here!
I already know what those opinion were, but I don’t get into it anymore. At some point I had to stop caring what the incel-adjacent think.
Yeah I mostly let them have it. There’s no sense in beating the dead Depp-Heard horse anymore.
There’s been more talk about how these types of abusers are using the legal system to further punish their victims with Brad Pitt and such, so that’s nice.
Since the noise has settled it seems like people have had a chance to reflect. It is nice.
I stopped listening to them for a couple years now when I heard how much of a piece of shit he was with his ex wife
I don’t really follow music news until it travels across the headlines.
Poor Brody man, her mom had a similar story, I got the impression she didn’t want to repeat that mistake. I’m glad they’re separated now.
The jokey complaints hotline might be the most honest part of QOTSA’s return: a grim reflection of the fact that nobody is taking this shit seriously any more.
Remember when Homme threw around slurs?
During a performance last week at the Norwegian Wood festival, something got thrown at the stage which hit Homme, who was reportedly already grumpy after a three-day bout with the flu. He singled out the assailant in the audience and unleashed a blistering tirade of insults that’s truly awe-inspiring in scope; unfortunately, the rant included multiple mentions of “faggot” as well as references to, er, forced homosexual activities.
