The Darkness' bass player Frankie Poullain has told the Daily Star he was shocked when, after encouraging a fan at a festival to go topless, he discovered said fan was a man. The short-sighted rocker saw a slim person with long hair and assumed it was a girl but when the fan revealed his flat hairy chest Poullain realised his mistake.
He told the paper: "I've got very bad eyesight, I should wear glasses. I was looking across at a long-haired skinny figure, who looked quite elegant, sitting on somebody's shoulders and I gestured they should reveal their breasts. They did and I realised it was a guy. I probably should have learnt a lesson then. Look before you leap. No, look before you leer."