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And Finally
Lostprophets and Foals in beef smackdown
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 6 July 2010
A war of words has ignited on Twitter between Lostprophets lead guitarist Lee Gaze and Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis. It’s like that whole east coast/west coast thing all over again. Er, because Lostprophets are from Wales and Foals are from Oxford. That works, doesn’t it? Yeah, come on! Fight!
It all began when Lostprophets rhythm guitarist Mike Lewis suggested via his Twitter feed that an article on the NME website with the headline “Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis dives into the crowd at iTunes Festival” wasn’t actually news. Bandmate Gaze responded to Lewis’ tweet by saying: “I’ve got some news. Foals are fucking shit”.
Is this harmless banter between bandmates, or the beginning of something bigger? We wouldn’t like to speculate, but it does seem likely that both bands will be meeting up in the carpark with a variety of weapons at some point in the next week. Why? Because yesterday Philippakis blew the roof off this motherfucker when he tweeted: “Lostprophets. LOL! Being insulted by the Lostprophets is a bit like watching a yapping, boney old chihuahua piss on its own leg”.
Oh yeah, this is fucking ON!
