You might remember Wayne Coyne had a beef with everyone's favourite indie rock band Arcade Fire a few weeks back. In an interview with a Rolling Stone reporter, Coyne ranted about how badly the Canadian band treats everyone around them:

"We've played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. Whenever I've been around them, I've found that they not only treated their crew like shit, they treated the audience like shit. They treated everybody in their vicinity like shit. I thought, 'Who do they think they are?' I don't know why people put up with it. I wouldn't put up with it. I don't care if it's Arcade Fire or Brian Eno. If either of them walked into a room and treated people like shit I'd be like, 'Fuck you, get outta here.''"

Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler responded soon after with a post on the band's website, saying amongst other things, "Unless I was way more jetlagged than I remember, I hope I was less of a "prick" than telling RollgStone that a bunch of people that I really don't know at all are really assholes".

Fair point. Now Coyne has done an about face during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He pinned his issue not on the band themselves, but the people who work for them.

WC: I wish that had never happened. I didn’t necessarily mean it about the people in the Arcade Fire. I meant it about the guys that were running their stages at a couple of festivals. I wish whatever had been said wouldn’t have been taken as such a defiant statement from the Flaming Lips, because it wasn’t. I just assumed [their response] was a joke.

EW: Really? He seemed pretty annoyed to me.

WC: I can totally see that now.

EW: Would you care to apologise to them now?

WC: I would. I really feel bad about it. I like enough of their music. The idea that I’m somehow against them… I’m not!

Sounds like a backtrack from the Flaming Lips camp. But there is a slight reiteration of Coyne's viewpoint deep inside the Arcade Fire messageboard. One poster allgedly spoke about the feud with Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade frontman Dan Boeckner, a close friend of the Arcade Fire, at a recent show. The poster writes: "I asked DB about this tonight. He pins it on AF management (dicks), not AF themselves".

A ha. Well if it's indeed the case, all this talk of managers being dicks is a mite less sensationlist than indie rock word slinging. This we knew.