Black Lips, Wavves Members In Alleged Bar Fight

Black Lips' Jared Swilley and Wavves' Nathan Williams reportedly got into a fight on Friday night at Brooklyn, N.Y. bar Daddy's after Wavves' show at the city's Market Hotel that night.

Swilley has made no secret of his dislike for Williams in the past, calling him a "dick" and a "baby" in previous interviews.

According to the Pop Jew In Brooklyn blog, Swilley and Williams had to be dragged apart before Friday night's fight continued and left Swilley "bloody. Nathan was fine." The blog reports Swilley wanted to fight "other people" outside the bar, as well.

Williams released a statement on Sunday, in which he said he had "no problem with black lips or anybody else" but Swilley "has been at me every chance he had."

"Talking shit about me on the Internet is one thing, I can handle that all day but when some dude is just looking for a fight at 4 in the morning and talking shit to my face and his girlfriend is spitting in the face of all my friends it's a whole different story," he said.

"I just want to play music and have fun. It was unfortunate that it escalated to that point but he got what was coming to him."

Swilley denied Williams had attacked him at all in an interview with Buddyhead following the fight, and says Wavves just plain wasn't involved.

"That faggot didn't even touch me," he said.

"I've never 'come after' that kid, it wasn't four a.m., that wasn't my girlfriend, no one was spitting, and I didn't attack him. I don't give a shit about that kid and his music.

"What happened was, after we finished our set I went to Daddy's with some friends and saw that faggot from Wavves talking to a photographer friend of mine. The only thing I did was walk up to him and say 'You're that faggot from Wavves and I don't like you'. He smiled a bit but didn't say anything."

Swilley says he went outside after the initial contact with Williams, and saw Wavves' tour manager talking with other people and making fun of him. He says he confronted them about it, and then Wavves' tour manager hit him in the face with a bottle.

"Blood started pouring out and six dudes fucking started kicking me until I blacked out," Swilley said.

"All I remember is getting hit with the bottle and my friends dragging me to another bar. They wrapped my head up until I looked like a Confederate soldier.

"So yeah, I lost the fight."

Swilley said he also missed three different flights and had been in in an airport "all day" with stewardesses cleaning his head because he wasn't allowed to board the an airplane while bleeding.

"Bottom line is that faggot from Wavves didn't even hit me. Never touched me. And he should've, cuz he had a free shot," Swilley told Buddyhead.

"He's coming to Atlanta October 3rd and we're gonna get ugly on him. We're gonna destroy their van, we're gonna destroy their faces, we're gonna get crazy on em'. Nasty style."

Yikes.

You can see Black Lips here, as long as Swilley's head is no longer cracked open:

Oct. 9 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
Oct. 28 Ashville, NC @ Orange Peel
Oct. 29 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
Oct. 30 Memphis, TN @ Young Ave. Deli
Oct. 31 New Orleans, LA @ City Park (Voodoo Experience)
Nov. 5 Lille, France @ Les Inrocks Festival
Nov. 6 Paris, France @ Les Inrocks Festival
Nov. 7 Nantes, France @ Les Inrocks Festival
Nov. 9 Toulouse, France @ Les Inrocks Festival
Nov. 12 Madrid, Spain @ Joy Esalva
Nov. 13 Valencia, Spain @ El Tinglado
Nov. 14 Barcelona, Spain @ Nitsa Club
Nov. 21 Istanbul, Turkey @ Babylon

Wavves will play these shows:

Sept. 29 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Ganglians
Sept. 30 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Ganglians
Oct. 1 Washington, DC @ Rock And Roll Hotel w/ Ganglians
Oct. 2 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 w/ Ganglians
Oct. 3 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club w/ Ganglians
Oct. 4 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl w/ Ganglians
Oct. 6 Oxford, MO @ Proud Larrys w/ Ganglians
Oct. 9 Dallas, TX @ Pastime Lounge w/ Ganglians
Oct. 10 Austin, TX @ Emo's w/ The Soft Pack
Oct. 15 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room w/ Ganglians
Oct. 16 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah w/ Ganglians
Oct. 17 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex w/ Ganglians