Henchman of Santa posted:

Max from Gnarwolves posted:

Hello everyone.
I want to respond to recent comments made against myself. Whilst many of you may not have seen this and the temptation therefore is to bury our heads and hope it goes away, this is not who we are or what we believe in.
Last night it came to my attention that a person named Kat has made a statement that they were groped and verbally abused by me at a nightclub in Glasgow in 2013. Obviously there is absolutely no excuse for this kind of behaviour and I want to take the opportunity to publicly apologise. I have also reached out to Kat to apologise personally.
I always hoped Gnarwolves was the kind of band that could be approached by people if they felt that they had been treated inappropriately. The fact that it has taken so long for Kat to feel comfortable to speak out means that this isn’t the case and is indicative of the seriousness of the situation. I apologise whole-heartedly for this and for any pain the way I acted has caused.
Over the past couple of years as men we have learned some serious lessons about the terrible things women experience at the hands of men on a regular basis. Lad culture in rock music is toxic and absolutely unacceptable and we have spent a lot of time examining and attempting to improve on our past behaviour. Being an entitled dick is not punk rock. We still have a lot to learn and wish to actively support and listen to people that are helping to make a positive change in our society. We really don’t want to be a part of the problem.
I would like to take the opportunity to say that it is important not to blame victims in these circumstances. Clearly, there is a problem with the way men treat women and we need to be able to have an open dialogue about it. People that have been wronged should be able to speak out without negative consequences to themselves. I clearly hosed up here and I applaud Kat for having the courage to speak out. I hope this apology will go some way to repairing the damage that my past behaviour has caused.
I am truly sorry. This is inexcusable behaviour that we absolutely don’t condone and hope doesn’t completely tarnish our intentions to treat all people with the respect and dignity that they deserve. I know more was expected of us and I’m sorry to let you down. Moving forward, we will be more considerate as individuals and collectively.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Max

Inspector_666 posted:

Goddammit it's so loving easy to not sexually assault people.

Bape Culture posted:

I hope Geoff from Thursday isn’t a sex pest

Inspector_666 posted:

Goddammit it's so loving easy to not sexually assault people.

Hot Diggity! posted:

In good news Screaming Females and motherfucking Thou are touring together.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Haha what

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I've never been to Warped Tour personally, but has it even been worth going to in the past decade? I haven't heard anyone say anything good about it in a long time.

I know they announced a date here last year (I think it was last year) at our minor league baseball stadium that's completely out of the way from downtown/anything touristy and where no other major concerts are held, so if that doesn't scream washed up, I don't know what does. It ended up getting cancelled, too.

Ferrule posted:

Warped Tour is over after next year and I, for one, couldn't be happier.

JawKnee posted:

what do you folks think of the new Propagandhi album? I'm not digging it as much as Supporting Caste or Potempkin City Limits, but more than Failed States I think

Good Will Hrunting posted:

This poo poo is rampant.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

So I guess what I'm saying is the day we find out Jeff is a serial rapist I'm blowing my brains out

The Dirtyness posted:

I think this would ruin punk music for me forever.

Bust Rodd posted:

I mean, our parents and to a lesser extent us all had to deal with this poo poo with The Beatles and David Bowie, musicians lead a drugs and sex lifestyle, so its not surprising that many of them get high and inappropriately touch people.

Like if someone told me right now "I can 100% prove Jeff Mangum fucks animals" i'd sigh and take a long hard look at myself and keep listening to Neutral Milk hotel forever anyway.

If you cant divorce the art from the artist, blow up your phone and sleep in the woods IMO

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

Jeff Rosenstock has deliberately or not cultivated an image of just being The Best Dude even outside of making rad music though, like half of his appeal is that he's a super nice and chill dude who genuinely cares about literally everyone he meets

It'd be like if tomorrow someone was like hey Mr Rogers was actually a serial killer and did the molesting but with a much smaller impact because nobody outside punk knows who he is

Henchman of Santa posted:

Or it would be like the PWR BTTM thing six months ago

stay depressed posted:

kill your idols

EL BROMANCE posted:

Oh god what has Kill Your Idols done?!

JawKnee posted:

always preferred the Teen Idols for that kind of stuff