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Posted in music | tour dates on February 17, 2009

Torq from stars calls Ben Folds an asshole, Charles Spearin is playing some shows (Le Poisson Rouge)

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Stars

hi guys...well i know i'm gonna regret this, but i can't help myself. I just heard Ben Folds, who many of you prolly have never heard of because you don't waste your time listening to shitty mid nineties m.o.r. lite grunge, calling my friend Charles Spearins' BEAUTIFUL new record "bad spa music" on the CBC. BEN FOLDS! insulting CHARLES SPEARIN! is he fuckin' nuts? you come to our country and insult a national treasure on the radio? CHARLIE SPEARIN????? the most beautiful talented soulful brother in the whole world? a guy who has written some of the most influential, sublime music this side of heaven? WHo has just completed the Happiness Project, one of the most original and uplifting pieces of music i have EVER HEARD? Ben Folds, ladies and gentleman, is an ASSHOLE for dismissing this extraordinary tribute to life and love as "bad spa music". It makes me wanna......well you know.....kick his scrawny, washed up hipster doofus ass....but instead, i encourage you all to write to his myspace (he could use the visits) and imbed charles' music in your message so that every time some refugee from the nineties wants to hear their favourite ben folds ditty, they get charlie instead. i've said it before, and it feels right, so i'll say it again;
BEN FOLDS IS AN ASSHOLE.

let the games begin!!!
xo love and hate torq@stars

UPDATE: Torq claims he didn't write this!

Wiki say, "Charles Spearin is a Canadian musician. He is a founding member of Do Make Say Think. Along with Kevin Drew, he formed KC Accidental. He also contributes to Broken Social Scene and Valley of the Giants. He is easily recognized on stage by his trademark moustache. His newest album The Happiness Project [was] released on February 14th, 2009 on the Arts & Crafts Label."

Charles Spearin is playing the Wordless Music Series at Le Poisson Rouge on March 15th. Tickets are on sale. Others on the bill will be playing the music "of Stravinsky and Stockhausen". All dates and a video below...

Broken Social Scene - Charles Spearin On New Solo Project

Charles Spearin - 2009 Tour Dates
March 11th, 2009 Toronto , ON The Music Gallery
March 12th, 2009 Toronto , ON The Music Gallery
March 13th, 2009 Montreal , QC Il Motore
March 15th, 2009 New York , NY Le Poisson Rouge

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Tags: Ben Folds, Broken Social Scene, Charles Spearin, Stars, Torquil, Wordless Music Series
posted at 3:40 PM on February 17, 2009 in music | tour dates | Comments (52)

Comments (52)

fucking canadiens.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:48 PM

Charles Spearin? Torq? Ben Folds? No one cares about any of them. Keep fighting. Kill each other.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:50 PM

why the fuck would ben folds say that? dumb. unless he was taken out of context?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:51 PM

i'm so sad that i'm missing this. the record is beautiful and seeing him perform "mrs. morris" with broken social scene twice this year makes me really wish i was around for it.

Posted by kyle | February 17, 2009 3:52 PM

he played two songs of this at the BSS mercury lounge show last summer. Hearing this at LPR would be great.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:54 PM

yeah thats what I was gonna say, "who the fuck is torq"?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:55 PM

I bet you torq was drunk when he wrote that message.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:57 PM

THE INTERNET IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY.

Posted by dougie fresh | February 17, 2009 3:58 PM

torq is the 5' tall dude from stars. i say they're all worth each other. charles soearin is very talented though...

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 3:58 PM

who the fuck is charles spearin

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:03 PM

Go Torq!

Posted by Dave Park | February 17, 2009 4:10 PM

Torque was a great film!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:10 PM

Yeah I don't know who Torq is, don't care about Ben Folds, but Charles Spearin is a great musician. His work in Do Make Say Think is amazing and anyone who has seen him on stage knows he's a super laid back friendly person. The guy put brail on a DMST album for his blind father! This may be just a way to drum up interest in the album in which case it worked cause I didn't know about it and now I do. Thanks.

Posted by johnny | February 17, 2009 4:10 PM

Fuck all the wanker musicians from Canada. Charles Spearin and Ben Folds both blow.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:23 PM

Torq is the dude in the picture on top of this post. You may have caught he and his band's sold out NYC shows at Terminal 5 and/or Town Hall.

who ARE YOU?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:23 PM

Torq speaks only in hyperbole?

"national treasure"

"the most beautiful talented soulful brother in the whole world"

"some of the most influential, sublime music this side of heaven"

I mean you may like Charles Spearin, but just stop it.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:30 PM

Slap Fight!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:30 PM

someone didn't get a warm bottle of milk!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:35 PM

4:23, it was a rhetorical question. Im sure more people know Ben Folds than know torq (I know his as the dude in Stars). lets look at their myspace stats....

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:35 PM

ben folds - 188 thousand friends, Stars- 51 thousand

ben folds - 14.5 mil plays, start 6.5 mil plays.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:40 PM

both sides are pretty lame here;however, i'm constantly surprised at how many people still care about ben folds. soldier on, kiddies!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:44 PM

The actual stats part is killing me. Even if you have an argument, check your facts or you'll look like an idiot.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:45 PM

^ right, because more friends and plays on myspace really shows who the better musician is, shut the fuck up 4:40.

Posted by slob | February 17, 2009 4:52 PM

BUT, how many of Ben Folds' friends are Canadian??

or something

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:56 PM

Ben Folds wins! He is on his fourth wife anyway! Blame Canada! <3

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 4:57 PM

Sounds like "bad spa music" to me too.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:04 PM

" the most beautiful talented soulful brother in the whole world?"

HAHAHAHAHA. Sit this motherfucker down and make him watch Wattstax!

Ray Ray

Posted by Ray Lewis | February 17, 2009 5:14 PM

well, turns out someone hacked their myspace account and they never even said any of that. What a load of pooh. Someone really has a lot of time on their hands to hack a bands page and try and piss off their fans...::shrug:: Thank goodness it wasn't real.

Posted by Adrienne | February 17, 2009 5:15 PM

^ right, because more friends and plays on myspace really shows who the better musician is, shut the fuck up 4:40.

shouldn't that be directed at torq, assface?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:19 PM

NOBODY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THESE PEOPLE

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:19 PM

What the fuck does "bad spa music" even mean?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:37 PM

"well, turns out someone hacked their myspace account and they never even said any of that. "

yeah right

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:37 PM

"NOBODY CARES ABOUT ANY OF THESE PEOPLE"

Whatever you say

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:38 PM

I am Torq, and this is my Heart.

Posted by Heart | February 17, 2009 5:46 PM

I like turtles.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:46 PM

I care about Torquil's ubridled angst. It makes me laff.

Posted by douglass | February 17, 2009 5:48 PM

I am Ben, and this is my Heart

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:51 PM

Anyone who sticks up for Ben Folds is a tool.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 5:52 PM

How dare he call it bad spa music...its good spa music!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 6:43 PM

I CONCUR about Wattstax.

"THE INTERNET IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY."

I agree.

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 8:25 PM

Is there even such a thing as bad spa music?

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 8:55 PM

Royce da 5'9 is a bitch!

Posted by Anonymous | February 17, 2009 9:15 PM

don't blame canada. not all of us give a fuck about stars or what kind of mediocre music they're putting out these days, let alone this lame drama. ugh.

you can blame us for nickelback and celine dion, but we hold no responsibility for the whiny "indie" bands we occasionally harbour.

Posted by massromantic | February 18, 2009 1:33 AM

Whoever wrote the "bad spa music" barb was right. Ugh. So lame.

Posted by Kiko Jones | February 18, 2009 3:31 AM

I listen to Ben Folds and I am not a tool...so go fuck yourself.

what the fuck does it matter if he said it or not. shit.

Posted by Anonymous | February 18, 2009 9:57 PM

Torq is the dude in the picture on top of this post. You may have caught he and his band's sold out NYC shows at Terminal 5 and/or Town Hall.

Posted by Cheap hotels in london | November 14, 2009 5:37 AM

well, turns out someone hacked their myspace account and they never even said any of that. What a load of pooh. Someone really has a lot of time on their hands to hack a bands page and try and piss off their fans...

stock images

Posted by Anonymous | November 19, 2009 2:17 AM

Wiki say, "Charles Spearin is a Canadian musician. He is a founding member of Do Make Say Think. Along with Kevin Drew, he formed KC Accidental. He also contributes to Broken Social Scene and Valley of the Giants. He is easily recognized on stage by his trademark moustache. His newest album The Happiness Project [was] released on February 14th, 2009 on the Arts & Crafts Label."

Posted by Register Domain Name | November 23, 2009 1:58 AM

Sounds like "bad spa music" to me too.

Posted by prednisone 20mg | December 6, 2009 6:32 AM

Charles Spearin's music sounds like it is trying too hard to make new, original music, thus making abstract music that just does not sound appealing (in my opinion, of course). Ben Folds' music used to be great, but lately, his music has gotten worse and worse.

Posted by Anonymous | March 23, 2010 9:43 PM

fucking canadiens.

Posted by Phentemine375 Mexico | October 24, 2012 12:18 AM

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