GlasVegas - Elvis' Bodyguards With Priscilla....For Real?
GLASVEGAS have made light of singer James Allan's meltdown in 2009... by having T-shirts printed with a special message for the volatile star.
James, 31, worried his bandmates, record company and fans when he went AWOL in 2009 before the Mercury Prize ceremony in London.
Later that year, he had an emotional collapse during the last days of a tour with Kings Of Leon in Chicago.
A bewildered James ended up singing The Carpenters' Close To You to a goldfish 33 floors up in a Chicago hotel before taking it to the bar and watching TV on the bed with it.
The band's T-shirts remind the singer of his fragility with the words: "All work and no play makes James a dull boy."
The message also refers to Jack Nicholson's paranoid character in The Shining, who types the words "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" thousands of times before losing his grip on reality and attacking his wife with an axe.
James, who says he is okay now and has "cut all ties with the goldfish" reckons his experiences have helped produce a comeback album that will not disappoint fans.
In an interview with this week 's NME, he and the band recalled some quirkier moments Stateside, including a meeting with Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis, at daughter and Glasvegas fan Lisa Marie's birthday party.
Bandmate Rab admitted: "I tried to make James and Priscilla happen, but her bodyguards, Elvis's old bodyguards no less, were there.
"She said: 'Oh, he's kind of cute.' There were fluorescent lights and James was all dressed in white, looking like an angel.
"He was glowing."
After a difficult time in which drummer Caroline McKay quit the band in the middle of writing their second album, Glasgow-born James spoke about his feelings for new Swedish drummer Jonna Lofgren.
He said: "I think I'm overcompensating, by saying, 'Are you okay? Are you okay?' "I think it'll take a long time for me to get to know her. But she's fascinating, even just visually. And I don't mean that in a sordid way."
Rab added: "It must be difficult for someone coming in, whether she's from Sweden or Scotland, but I guess we feel very protective of her already although it's only been a month or two. I've already threatened to break someone's legs if he looked at her."
James, who now dresses in white instead of black at gigs, also spoke about his touching song Daddy's Gone and the guilt that followed writing such a one-sided account of a real story that hurt some people close to him.
The autobiographical song talks about having an absent father at a young age.
James said: "You can go into it in a negative way and say I know my father felt bad enough about the past.
"But then the number of people who have come up to me and said: 'That song means a lot to me because it's my life' is unbelievable."
New album Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\, is out on April 4.
BIM: I dont think LMP will be too pleased with this! And who could blame her!
James, 31, worried his bandmates, record company and fans when he went AWOL in 2009 before the Mercury Prize ceremony in London.
Later that year, he had an emotional collapse during the last days of a tour with Kings Of Leon in Chicago.
A bewildered James ended up singing The Carpenters' Close To You to a goldfish 33 floors up in a Chicago hotel before taking it to the bar and watching TV on the bed with it.
The band's T-shirts remind the singer of his fragility with the words: "All work and no play makes James a dull boy."
The message also refers to Jack Nicholson's paranoid character in The Shining, who types the words "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" thousands of times before losing his grip on reality and attacking his wife with an axe.
James, who says he is okay now and has "cut all ties with the goldfish" reckons his experiences have helped produce a comeback album that will not disappoint fans.
In an interview with this week 's NME, he and the band recalled some quirkier moments Stateside, including a meeting with Priscilla Presley, wife of Elvis, at daughter and Glasvegas fan Lisa Marie's birthday party.
Bandmate Rab admitted: "I tried to make James and Priscilla happen, but her bodyguards, Elvis's old bodyguards no less, were there.
"She said: 'Oh, he's kind of cute.' There were fluorescent lights and James was all dressed in white, looking like an angel.
"He was glowing."
After a difficult time in which drummer Caroline McKay quit the band in the middle of writing their second album, Glasgow-born James spoke about his feelings for new Swedish drummer Jonna Lofgren.
He said: "I think I'm overcompensating, by saying, 'Are you okay? Are you okay?' "I think it'll take a long time for me to get to know her. But she's fascinating, even just visually. And I don't mean that in a sordid way."
Rab added: "It must be difficult for someone coming in, whether she's from Sweden or Scotland, but I guess we feel very protective of her already although it's only been a month or two. I've already threatened to break someone's legs if he looked at her."
James, who now dresses in white instead of black at gigs, also spoke about his touching song Daddy's Gone and the guilt that followed writing such a one-sided account of a real story that hurt some people close to him.
The autobiographical song talks about having an absent father at a young age.
James said: "You can go into it in a negative way and say I know my father felt bad enough about the past.
"But then the number of people who have come up to me and said: 'That song means a lot to me because it's my life' is unbelievable."
New album Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\, is out on April 4.
BIM: I dont think LMP will be too pleased with this! And who could blame her!
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