{"id":279926,"date":"2025-11-24T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279926\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:08:07","slug":"i-dont-feel-angry-but-as-ive-got-older-ive-realised-things-that-havent-been-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279926\/","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t feel angry but as I\u2019ve got older, I\u2019ve realised things that haven\u2019t been OK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Squeeze<\/a> frontman Glenn Tilbrook has revealed that he was abused when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old claimed that an older man abused him when he was 13 at the first gig he ever went to.<\/p>\n

He told The Telegraph<\/a> in a new interview: \u201cIt was in a scout hut in Eltham, and it was the Irish band T\u00edr na n\u00d3g, who I really liked. I went by myself. I would have been just early 13, and that\u2019s where I met, not this guy, Ron, but another guy\u2026 And so\u2026 this guy just says, \u2018Come over to our squat.\u2019 And that\u2019s where I met Ron actually, at that squat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tilbrook added: \u201cHe, in many ways, also introduced me to a wider world. He took me to the Glastonbury Festival in 1971.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about the alleged abuse, he went on: \u201cI don\u2019t feel angry. [But] as I\u2019ve got older, I\u2019ve realised things that haven\u2019t been OK, in certain ways that I behave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tilbrook described his childhood as \u201cquite dysfunctional\u201d. He said: \u201cThere was no parental control. I was taking drugs and having sex at 13, which perhaps wasn\u2019t so great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, former Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis died earlier this month, aged 74<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then the band have announced a UK arena tour for 2026, marking their biggest headline shows yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The London band will hit the road for their \u2018Tried, Tested And Trixies\u2019 trek next winter, with Billy Bragg<\/a> joining them as a special guest opener.<\/p>\n

Tickets go on general sale at 9:30am GMT next Friday (November 28) \u2013 you\u2019ll be able to buy yours here<\/a>. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale by pre-ordering Squeeze\u2019s new album \u2018Trixies\u2019 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The band will be donating \u00a31 from every ticket sale to support grassroots music venues, artists and promoters, too, with Tilbrook becoming a patron of the Music Venue Trust<\/a> (MVT).<\/p>\n

Before that, Squeeze are set to support Madness on their 2025 \u2018Hit Parade\u2019 UK arena tour<\/a>, which kicks off next month. Find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For help, advice or more information regarding sexual harassment, assault and rape in the UK, visit the\u00a0Rape Crisis charity website<\/a>. In the US, visit\u00a0RAINN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook has revealed that he was abused when he was a teenager. The 68-year-old claimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,3584,47,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-rock","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}