Oh yeah , the nice quiet middle class boy called Patrick according to his old drama teacher

At the same time, I have a lot more respect for somebody like him who immerses himself in a kind of punk role and goes nuts when he knows the camera is on him on when he's on stage as it clearly is a performance and isn't meant to be anything else. With Luke Pritchard's 'stage school' case, I think you should either be honest about where you're from (in the case of most bands I'd expect) or be an all-out bull****ter like Donny Tourette, not somewhere in between which just makes you a bit of a liar.

I`ve never understood this fascination with pretending to be working class anyway.
The Stones were middle class , so were Pink Floyd , Queen , Joe Strummer it never did them any harm.

Didn't Joe Strummer try really hard to hide that fact?

At least I haven't heard any musicians using the "If we're working, we must be working class." line.

I don't know about Joe Strummer. But I don't see how being a punk and being middle class or even posh is any kind of contradiction, although I expect somebody could explain it to me.

No not at all. His Father worked for the British consulate in Turkey , he always said how his Father worked his way up from nothing & how it inspired him to have a good work ethic.

Hehe, 'menewer' :D
yeah but seriously they should have atleast had a laugh with it,
miserable gits!
Ah well....

Who gives a f*** where they went to school. Lou Reed went to Syracuse University. I was reading a article by Lester Bangs today about the Clash where he called all this stuff about credibilty being bulls***, that the point of rock n' roll is that its an arena in which you can reinvent yourself. Strummer was middle class. So what?

What matters is that the Kooks are s*** and that they probably sold more records than the Velvet Underground hence the scorn.

Nobody is saying being middle class is a bad thing. But why would you try & hide your roots when asked about it?
The guy went to stage school , so what?
I guess he thought he loses indie cred points if he admits it.
Either way he comes across as a totally fake idiot.

Don't insult mentally handicapped people like that. They're a step up from Luke don't you know?