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MARTIN IN HOT WATER IN OZ
Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin is in trouble with the law after allegedly attacking a photographer's car in Australia.
Martin is accused of attacking the snapper's windshield with a rock and letting down his tyres.
He has been charged with malicious damage and will have to appear in court on October 8.
The freelance photographer had taken pictures of Martin and his entourage surfing at Byron Bay on the New South Wales Far North Coast.
Infuriated, Martin was said to have approached the photographer and demanded that he erase the pictures from his digital camera.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph said Martin had told photographer Jon Lister: "Anywhere you go, I will go" unless the images were deleted.
He is then said to have attacked Mr Lister's windscreen and deflated his car's tyres.
Martin was in Byron Bay with Coldplay to perform in a music festival.
His actress girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow is touring with him but was not believed to have been present at the time of the alleged confrontation with the photographer.
Martin was said to have been with a woman and a man, believed to be a member of a leading Australian rock band.
From http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12380591,00.html
― Press Gang, Sunday, 20 July 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)
probably not, they're not the famewhoriest aussies..
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 July 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)
It's probably that fella from Powderfinger innit? They're the other headliners apart from Clodplay after all.
(thinks: fuckin' glad *that* isn't my 2003 festival highlight)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 21 July 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)
Member of Coldplay in trying-to-look-like-tortured-intellectual-rock-artiste-but-ending-up-looking-like-sad-spotty-whiny-student shockah!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 21 July 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Chris Martin of Coldplay could massacre the entire line-up of Travis in Biggie/Tupac style vendetta and, aside from the fact that he would be doing us all a favour, he would still be a bedwetting middle class pansy tosspot.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 21 July 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)
The least interesting rock star of all time in "trying to gain some rawk and roll credibility" headline. Wot a twat. And he's a surfer? Jesus, that just makes me hate him all the more.
The most false "rock" star EVER.
― Calz (Calz), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)
"Chris Martin of Coldplay could massacre the entire line-up of Travis in Biggie/Tupac style vendetta and, aside from the fact that he would be doing us all a favour, he would still be a bedwetting middle class pansy tosspot."
What if he suddenly went missing from the band; was seen out at a number of festivals and gigs hanging out and drinking and trying to look cool with some supposed *real* musicians (and was rumoured to have been taking drugs too); announced he was leaving the band just before he was kicked out; went in and out of rehab a few times; became chummy with some members of the Rock aristocracy; began a solo career; had a high-profile bitch-fight with one of the supposed *real* musicians who he used to hang around with; had a couple of high-profile are-they-aren't-they relationships with a couple of former / wannabe starlets desperate to keep their names and faces in the tabloids; got some tattoos (yeah, you're starting to get impressed now despite yourself, I can tell); shagged a few groupies then bragged endlessly to anyone who might print it about how bored he was with shagging groupies.... why surely he could re-invent himself a notorious hell-raisin' Rock 'n' Roll BEAST of almost Robbie-like proportions?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 21 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)