Jules on the Darkness
Published January 20, 2004
Gary Jules has been talking to Radio 1 about some of the comments posted by Darkness fans on his website after he beat the rockers to the Christmas
number one spot: "Ass clown was one of the very colourful epithets that was
used. You would think that it was just me that was the ass clown, but it was like my music was 'circus arse clown something something eggs and benedict'. It was weird because I didn't quite get what was going on."
But he went on to admit: "If I was a huge rock fan, which I was at one time, I would be pissed if some poncey American guy came over singing some mopey song at Christmas time, I would be really pissed, especially if the alternative was [singing] 'Don't let the bells end', of course they're angry - I don't blame them!"
Gary is in the UK to promote his album 'Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets'.
From: CMU
Marty's band, Growing Old Disgracefully, can be found at: Disgraceful Music. His Cthulhu tales can be found at Temple of Dagon. 
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- Published: January 20, 2004
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Something very strange is happening: in Jan's section (which is technically a different blog) we just had about 400 spam comments in about a half-hour, coming just seconds apart from all different IPs. I hope this is not a new tool of the disfigured fucks.
The comments I'm getting are the odd one every few days; they seem like real people (unless someone's written a 'bot to simulate poorly socialised teens)
The Distributed spams are a very worrying development; Making Light got hit by one of those last week, presumably from trojan horses on hundreds of compromised machines, courtesy of Bill Gates' crap security.
Sadly, I don't think we're going to be able to have weblog commenting without some kind of comment registration for much longer than another few months; I believe comment registration will be a feature of MT3.0
I know if I start getting flooded by comment spam on a regular basis I'm going to have to disable comments; I just don't have the time to delete large numbers of comments on a daily basis.
You are probably right about it all - very sad.
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(Or ping: http://blogcritics.org/mt/tb/11871)
For some inexplicable reason the comment section of the review of "Permission to Land" on my own site (it's the same review I posted here) has been overrun by hordes of immature teenagers telling now much they think The Darkness suck.
I haven't yet been able to work out from my referral logs quite where this tide of annoying brats is coming from.