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Anyone have a personal Anton story they want to share?


He seems like he'd be cool to hang out with for roughly 12 minutes. Share it!

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ran into him in Iceland at Kaffebarrin where he DJ's when he's over there, started screaming and ranting at my British friends for no reason.. it was quite amusing if not scary.. especially when he started showing off his SS dagger tattoo !!!!anyone know whats up with that ???

shame.. he does some good music..

"If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it." -Mr Rory Breaker

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I so him play on Roskilde Festival last year, he told everyone in the audience that they where losers. He also sang the line "I'm on the same *beep* I'm on the same stuff, that killed River Phoenix."

He is living in Iceland now I think. He is beginning to dig a band that my friends are in (http://www.myspace.com/suddenweatherchange), but I have heard that he is the same old Anton. He has threaten to beat up a member of the band because he interrupt him while he was talking to the bass player off the band. All the gossip I hear of him hear in Iceland is that if you say something bad to him or about him he will attack you or at least jell at you.

Also I know he loves the band Jakobinarína(http://www.myspace.com/jakobinarina).

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i know a guy who was in a band that opened for them in some club in new york a couple of years ago, and i guess the owner of the club wanted everyone on the bill to sign one of the full size ads they had made for the show, so the singer from the band goes and gets everyones sig but antons, when he finally found anton he was outside trying to get two very underaged girls (they were like fifteen) into the bar and the bouncer was having no part in it, the singer tapped anton on the shoulder and got brushed off for like five min while anton argued with this bouncer saying things like do you know who the *beep* i am and *beep* like that, and when he realized he wasnt getting anywhere anton turned around angrily grabbed the poster signed it and left the guy with this jem of a quote, "theyre serving ice cream cones in hell".

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what about joel,he seems like a dude.Thats a point has he joined bjm again?

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I met him at Patti Smiths Meltdown festival in London. Me and my friends were really stoned and we had no idea who the BJM were we just kept laughing at the name lol
we went around the foyer bit where people were sitting round tables quietly drinking coffee and talking. We kept going up to all these different people saying 'are you the BJM?' I think at one point we were asking this family of old women, and my friend was falling on the floor laughing.

We asked so many different people and were about to give up, when we sat down with a bunch of miserable looking students - they might be, I thought. The tambourine guy just nodded calmly to our question, and suddenly we were speechless. We didnt really know anything about their music and didnt really know what to say.
Suddenly Anton's head appeared
"Oh cool your with the band!"
or something like that, emphasising each word. As soon as he started talking the whole group started rolling their eyes. He kept moaning and muttering something about deserts or something and we talked to the other members who were much more down to earth.

Looking back, now I know their music and realize they actually are one of the best bands in the world and Anton is actually a musical genius (honestly) I wish I could go back in time, or maybe caught him in a better mood

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The guy makes great music.. but he needs a serious SLAP !!

"If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda pussy to drink it." -Mr Rory Breaker

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When I lived in Atlanta, I was psyched to see BJM. I saw Anton walking down the street and my friend and I spoke to him for a few minutes. He was pretty drunk. He looked malnourished and scrawny; I would say he was about 5'10" and 140#. The owner of the club later told me that Anton had been drinking double-Stoly greyhounds since about 11:00 a.m.

The show was more extreme than anything featured in Dig!. For the 2.5 hour set they managed 7 songs. The rest of it was Anton's usual gibberish. Of course, everything in the world and all that was wrong in his life was somebody else's fault and he took no personal responsibility for anything. He lectured us about leadership, politics and other subjects he apparently knows nothing about. He really just sounded like a pathetic alcoholic waxing grandiose in his Laz-E-Boy recliner.

As far as his fights go: he picks his moments opportunistically and almost never strikes anyone who would be a serious challenge. In a real fight, Anton couldn't even kick his own @$$.

I e-mailed Anton later and demanded my $10 back. We had an e-mail war for about a year. At one point their agent and some rep from a record company started e-mailing me telling me that I was badly upsetting Anton. I replied that he was an adult who should be capable of controlling his emotions.

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Clothshire...Sometimes its the little things in life that warm the cockles of your heart.
That is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. I bought a t-shirt recently, can you send me Anton's email address so i can get my money back?

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i take it u got into a fight with him?

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I sent anton an email around 2008/9 just asking him what he was up to musically at the time, in which he replied saying how much he loves Wales (the country). He also called me stupid.

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I've met him once, after a show at KB, Malmoe, Sweden. I didn't even see the show, just wen't there for the afterparty.
I came, went backstage, saw Anton surfing on an ironing board and sat myself on the toilet. After 10 minutes of banging on the door from the band and other partygoers I had stunk up the place enough and went home.
Oh, what a night to remember.

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A friend and I met Anton and the band at a Hamburg gig a coupla years ago (Logo club - where the ceiling sweats). We pushed our way backstage with 6 more of the 40-odd audience members, and shared a bottle of vodka with the guitarist and drummer. They were both really nice guys. Anton was sitting in a corner wearing nothing on his top but a horribly dirty green parka, with a fur-lined hood and an Icelandic flag motif. He was being put upon by several groupies, and he looked a bit distressed. Suddenly he announced that he wanted to "get outta here" and busted out of the side exit into the street. We followed, and he got right up close to our faces and asked us, albeit quite politely, if "we could play chess". When we both answered in the negative, he shouted "Man, you know what, you don't know nothing. You know why? Cos you can't play chess!". He then inexplicably ran across the road away from us all (inc his band) and marched off down the street. My friend shouted after him, "Hey Bobby Fisher, where you going?", but he'd already disappeared down a side road, towards the university.

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lol you guys are good story tellers. i could see all of it in my head loll

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