Dance-Hating Guardian Hack Squashes Peaches

Guardian pop critic Alexis Petridis stepped up his crusade against club culture this week, in a furious rant against Peaches and her entire audience at her London show at Heaven.

The former Mixmag writer began by labelling the electro-queen's set as 'the most frightful load of old cobblers', before turning his bile on her audience for having the temerity to dress up.

"The rest of the audience is wincingly trendy," he snarled.

"Packed with people who, to paraphrase Basil Fawlty, would wear a dog turd (shit- Animal Ed) on their heads if Sleaze Nation ran pictures of Chloe Sevigny doing the same."

Petridis' already bizarre ravings prompted DJ magazine to place The Guardian in their 'What's bad' column of their latest issue, asking "Why are they also slagging off dance music-" and placed him firmly in the cliche of the stereotype British hack described by Moby earlier this year.

"Journalists are just depressed po-faced gits (idiots) who sit at home and do nothing but criticise people that actually work for a living," Moby told Australian magazine Revolver.

"Especially in the UK. I have no patience for journalists in the UK because they are so arrogant and self congratulatory and none of them are making the world a better place," he added.

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