See James Murphy doesn't need LCD Soundsystem or even to work ever again. I see more stuff about him now then I did when he was actively performing.
This particular event occurred in Britain. Murphy has called Britain a land of moaners and has made no secret about the fact that he feels they chronically complain. He said: "I remember DJing once and this kid came up to me and said, 'This set is so s**t', to try to show me how cool he was.
"I just grabbed him by the throat and was like, 'You're talking to a f***ing stranger. We don't know each other, dude. I am from a f***ing farm town, I will beat the s**t out of you.'
"I take criticism every day. You can't just go up to a stranger and moan. That s**t has only happened to me in England."
I'm sure given more time he would have heard the same here- either that or he had and was too surrounded by hipster fans to catch it.
He also claimed to not know the lyrics to his own songs and would make them up as he went along at each show. He told Shortlist magazine: "I just made all that stuff up every time, and had those notes to help go down the right path. Each performance was different, the words caught on record just happened to be the words I sang that day.
"I always used to like it when we were at a festival in Europe or something, and these kids up front would be singing our songs back at us and you could see them getting all self-conscious because they were getting s**t wrong. I always wanted to say, 'Don't beat yourself up. You're right. You know the words, but I don't."
So this is pretty much proof that James Murphy's ego is still very much in tact. Despite the fact that he is out of the game.