Bloc Party Singer Attacked by Johnny Rotten's Entourage at Spanish Music Festival.

Backstage at a music festival in Spain this weekend, Sex Pistols legend John Lydon aka "Johnny Rotten", regaled of tales from the glory days. Within 30 minutes, Kele Okereke, of Bloc Party, was bleeding. He claims that he was assaulted by Rotten's entourage and was subjected to a "racist tirade" on Saturday at Barcelona's music festival, Summercase.
According to The Guardian, Okereke, who is Nigerian in descent, claims stated that he was "set upon" by Lydon's crew after a verbal argument, which prompted one of Lydon's friends to tell Okereke: "Your problem is your black attitude." Unfortunately, that doesn't sound too far off from someone that cut his teeth during the aryan glory days of british punk.
The incident was witnessed by more than 50 people, including Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs, Minneapolis' Har Mar Superstar and the Foals.
Lydon accuses Okereke of starting the fight and conjuring up racist allegations for publicity's sake.
Okereke said in a statement, "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. Someone as respected and 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."
Lydon;s retort: "We are in the middle of a wonderful tour. After 30 years we are achieving a true unity in our audience. They are multi-varied, all ages, all races, creeds and colours. When you are at a festival with bands who are jealous fools, lies and confusion usually follow . . . Grow up and learn to be a true man. When you have achieved as much as I have, come back and talk to me. It's a shame the wonderful world of the media is riddled with nonsense like this."
Oh, who to believe.
In my opinion, Okereke is a mild-mannered, soft spoken man. I cannot imagine him conjuring up such a story.
But I don't wanna believe it.
What a ROTTEN situation.
boo.