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Fresh from his triumphant release of his second album I Love You, Honeybear, Father John Misty has revealed an awkward encounter with the God of Fuck Marilyn Manson.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Misty - aka singer songerwriter Josh Tillman - described how he has been hanging around the LA hotel The Chateau Marmont, the inspiration for his track 'Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)'. As it remains the epicentre for much of the celebrity activity in Hollywood, unsurprisingly he had a few close encounters with fellow musicians. 

He recounts one particularly strange interaction with Marilyn Manson. “I had this full grown-out beard, and Marilyn Manson said, ‘How long have you been a lumberjack?'” Tillman recalls. “He was wearing sideswept bangs and this pea-coat thing. I said, ‘How long have you been in the gay Navy?'"

Below: Watch Father John Misty 'Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)

 
Being one of the few genuinely camera-shy venues in Hollywood, it's unsurprising that when Tillman came to make the video for 'Chateau Lobby #4' he didn't use the venue that inspired the track.

In a lengthy recent Facebook post he revealed: "A few months ago, I had an idea for a video. I was going to rent a wedding chapel, get a dozen kittens and stage a kitten wedding, over which I would preside and intercut with performance footage of me lip-syncing the song which you’re hearing today, “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)”.

Sadly for everyone concerned both the label, Tillman's management and the kitten wranglers themselves suggested this might be impossible.

Read Gigwise's review of I Love You, Honeybear here.

Father John Misty is currently touring the UK. For more information and tickets visit here.

Full dates are listed below:

February
Glasgow King Tut's (23)
Manchester Gorilla (24)
London Village Underground (26)
Leeds Brudenell Social Club (27)
Bristol Thekla (28)

More about: Marilyn MansonFather John Misty