Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon showed himself up at the weekend when he launched a verbal racist attack on Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke.
NME.com reports that the trouble happened at the Summercase festival, which took place in Spain yesterday.
They say that Bloc Party released a statement explaining how Lydon was hanging out with a number of British bands at the festival, when Okereke approached him and asked whether he'd thought about reforming Public Image Ltd.
The statement then explains how Lydon became 'became intimidating and aggressive, while his entourage responded with a racist tirade including the statement, 'Your problem is your black attitude'."
A scuffle apparently ensued with members of the Sex Pistols entourage, and Okereke suffered facial bruising, a busted lip, and cuts to his face and body. Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis and Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson are said to have stepped in to assist the Bloc Party singer.
Festival security broke up the melee, and the incident was reported to police upon Okereke's return to the UK.
"It's not an issue of the physical assault, even though it was an unprovoked attack, it is the fact that race was brought into the matter so readily," he said in a statement. "Someone as respected and as intelligent as Lydon should know better than to bring race into the equation, or socialise with and encourage those who hold such narrow-minded attitudes. I am disappointed that someone I held with such high regard turns out to be such a bigot."
