#12

@moderators can someone please change this thread title to Steve Mason / Beta Band

ta

#13

Does that work?

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#14

ah lovely. Thanks.

#15

https://twitter.com/SteveMasonKBT/status/1084027904697212928

Got a bit of a shoeing over this. FWIW I don’t think what he said was sexist, but any “gatekeeping” like this deserves a takedown.

#16

Sorry, that page doesn’t exist !

what did he say ?

#17

Just sneering at the fact Sophie Ellis Bextor was presenting something to do with the history of disco.

#18

Looks like he has apologised.

#19

Was that the reason why? I was wondering why he was randomly having a go at her. Seemed like pub talk, but then don’t post it on twitter would be the lesson learnt I guess.

#20

He probably had a run in with her back when she was all serious and snarky when she was in Theaudience and still holds a grudge!

Not sure what’s wrong with her fronting a show about disco though, she’s a good presenter.

#21

This is fantastic.

#22

I’ve got two tickets for the gig at EartH in Hackney on Thursday 7 Feb (next week). Was well up for but now need to be away with work. Tickets are looking for a good home - face value would be great, but happy to accept any sensible offer. Ta!

#23

Boo - this Saturday’s Brighton gig has been called off because he’s got the flu.

That might mean that you don’t need to shift your tickets now @danielmartin if tomorrows gig is postponed too

#24

I love The Beta Band and a lot of Steve Mason’s solo stuff but they’ve always had a reputation for being what is euphemistically described as ‘difficult’. I think I remember David Quantick (or someone else from the 80s NME) saying that they were by far the most unpleasant people he’d ever had to deal with.

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#25

thanks - I feel bad for Steve - and wish him a speedy recovery - but I’m so pleased that I won’t need to shift my tickets and will get to seem him. He did a Sonos gig a few years back which was just awesome.

#26

Strange - I remember thinking they sounded like a good bunch when they did some of their Breezeblock mix in a sort of Old Jock Radio style. Mind you, Steve sounded like he had a pretty short fuse even then.

#27

He’s been fairly open about the mental health issues that plagued him for a long time until relatively recently, so it might be worth cutting him some slack for previous behaviour.

FWIW I chatted to him after him and Dennis Bovell’s DJ slot at Bestival a few years back and he couldn’t have been nicer :+1:

#28

That’s fair enough, although I think a lot of it (the obnoxious behaviour and possibly the mental health issues too) was drug induced.

#29

I remember listening to an interview they did with Steve Lamacq, where they were absolutely vile to him.

#30

Idle speculation about the reasons for someones mental health issues is bollocks and pointless.

#31

I only take it from what Steve Mason has said himself in multiple interviews. Certainly not meaning to upset anyone. Steve clearly suffers from depression and always has done and that is horrendous.