James Toseland: “I’m not Dani Pedrosa”

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:30 +0000

We mentioned that James Toseland was going to the BSB final at Brands Hatch to ‘entertain’ the crowd with his own brand of pub-rock/dad-rock, and to no surprise he sang the pub-rock standard “Mustang Sally”…..again. Good bit of banter with the crowd though, especially when he sits down, realises that seat is too small and says “I’m not Dani Pedrosa”.

Expect Alberto Puig to retaliate by conducting an interview with Motogp.com soon stating that: “James was simply copying Dani’s seating set up, as he never knew how to set-up his own seat before a performace of a pub-rock classic”

James Toseland to play at the British Superbikes final

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:37:48 +0000

James Toseland will be performing with his band Crash on Sunday at the final of the British Superbikes at Brands Hatch. Here at MotoGP World, despite being a fan of Toseland, we’ve never understood what the big fuss was about his band. It’s an interesting paradox – that someone young, with a very cool job, who jets all over the world racing million pound custom motorbikes at 200mph for a living, should at the same time have a very average pub-rock band, belting out middle of the road soft-rock songs. It’s a (comforting) shock to the system to find out that everyone, even those that you look up to, all have at least something that makes them human and capable of gross errors of taste. It’s like finding out that Kate Moss is head of Neighbourhood Watch in her street, or that Samuel L Jackson collects knitting magazines.

JT is possibly the ‘youngest old-person’ (or should that be the ‘oldest-young person’) in MotoGP – which is probably why your mum likes him.

Anyway, if you want to ‘get down’ to some live ‘dad-rock’, then head to Brands Hatch this weekend.

Before the commets start- yes we are bitter

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James Toseland: “I’m not Dani Pedrosa”

James Toseland to play at the British Superbikes final