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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Conflict of Interest / Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Harry Potter Likes My Brother's Band

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:45 PM

From a CBS interview with Daniel "I-used-to-be-Harry-Potter-but-now-I-wave-my-wand-in-Equus" Radcliffe:

Another fan was curious about Radcliffe's taste in music.

"There's a great — there's a band called The Wedding Present, who have just released a song — who have been going for ages, I think. They just released 'Hope Loves Betty,' which is great. Now I'm struggling to think. Holy Ghost Revival, a band. They have a song called 'The Gospel According to Judas.' They're sort of between, there are bits of Bowie and glam rock. I can't think of any more at this particular point in time," he said.

Our little sister is going to be sooooo jealous that this kid:

Is a fan of this singer:

A digression: I think that video was shot shortly after my we'd returned from a two-month European tour for which I agreed to roadie/sell merch (if you asked my brother) or chaperone (if you asked my mother). It was a trip of waking up in strange places: on a cot in Stockholm with a Swede's feet in my face, in a bed in London with two ladies who weren't there when I'd fallen asleep, on the freezing and barely-carpeted floor of a (concrete, uninsulated) squat in Munich as two beefy German goth-punks snorted crank off a table two feet from my head. In those two months, I learned to sleep like a soldier.

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Well, Holy Ghost Revival is awesome. You can't fault him for having good taste.

Posted by Aislinn on November 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM

And the Weddoes. Interesting. I have no interest in Harry Potter, but I've liked Radcliffe ever since I saw him fling an unrolled condom onto Diana Rigg's face in "Extras".

Posted by Fnarf on November 19, 2008 at 12:58 PM

The enjoyment in Equus is not Radcliffe's wand, but his ass.

Posted by polka party on November 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Is Equus about horses having sex with tribes of women?

Posted by daniel on November 19, 2008 at 1:21 PM

@2: That is one of my favorite episodes of Extras!

Posted by Aislinn on November 19, 2008 at 1:25 PM

I'd hit it.

Posted by vacation on November 19, 2008 at 1:41 PM

It might hit you back.

Posted by Billy the Cid on November 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM

Only if I'm lucky

Posted by LogopolisMike on November 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM

I'm a little surprised I guess, but good for him in having good taste. I'm also surprised by how good the new Wedding Present album is.

Posted by Dougsf on November 19, 2008 at 2:31 PM

It's not the same without Simon on drums. The new drummer is a bit of a plodder; he's holding the songs back, IMHO.

Posted by Fnarf on November 19, 2008 at 2:40 PM

Gee, I wish my brother was in a band that the Harry Potter guy liked. That sounds so cool. I guess.

Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair on November 19, 2008 at 2:54 PM

It's not so much cool as it is weird.

And a little disorienting—when a famous person is a fan of your not-very-famous brother, it upends the normal fame pyramid.

Does having a celebrity as your fan make you a celebrity by proxy? A celebrity's celebrity? A proto-celebrity? It's all very confusing.

Posted by Brendan Kiley on November 19, 2008 at 3:14 PM

Is that kid 18 yet? I've never slobbered over someone that young, but my, my, look at those tight hips.

Posted by Ariel on November 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM

@13, yeah. He is 18.

Posted by Leslie N. on November 19, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Is this the band from Bainbridge Island that won some kind of "battle of the bands" a while back? Wow, off "The Rock" and on to "rock semi-stardom".

Posted by adiabaticman on November 19, 2008 at 4:07 PM

@15 No that was gruff mummies and it was that under 18 band contest at emp. they were really into holy ghost revival and sounded a bit like em... unless hgr won some other battle

Posted by T.v. coahran on November 19, 2008 at 4:21 PM

@12: allow me to answer that for you: yes. YES! YES! having a famous fan makes you famous. it's in the by-laws. which are not anything like the in-laws.

Posted by adrian! on November 19, 2008 at 5:45 PM

You were a terrible chaperon.

Posted by yer mom on November 19, 2008 at 7:33 PM

You were a terrible mother.

Posted by yer son on November 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Wow im sorry but i dont like dan with that beard! its just so...yuck!!
i like his clean hairless face. he looks way hotter when he plays harry potter. except in equus when he gets his cloths off! that is hot i bet. to bad even if they made a movie of the play. like recorded the play and made it for sale, they would put some black box over his "wand" if u know
what i meen! ;)

Posted by Jennykitten8484 on January 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM