You know what's better than Scott Weiland publicly lashing out at his Velvet Revolver bandmates who just sacked him? Nothing.

Alright, maybe that's an overstatement - Velvet Revolver never having even existed in the first place is clearly better than that - but Scott Weiland being all whiny in public will do for now.

Scott Weiland has put out an angry, confusing statement about his dismissal from Velvet Revolver where, at one point, he tips Johann Sebastian Bach to become his replacement. Which would work - dig up the 250-year-dead Bach, pump him full of heroin, slap a ridiculous Nazi hat onto his mouldy corpse head and he'd be the spitting image of Scott Weiland. Alright, he actually meant Sebastian Bach from Skid Row. But that's less funny so we'll ignore it.

People have often wondered what Velvet Revolver would be like without an annoying skinny turd dressed as a Nazi twonking around at the front of the stage.

And now they'll get to find out, because Velvet Revolver have sacked singer Scott Weiland being he's such a monumental douchebag all the time. We're paraphrasing slightly.

In fact, Scott Weiland has been dismissed from Velvet Revolver because of his "increasing erratic" behaviour. Given that Scott Weiland is basically a whiny bipolar heroin addict with a Nazi hat who's been arrested for buying crack cocaine, beating up women and driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, it's hard to imagine what Weiland could have done to up his level of erracticness. What? He's reformed Stone Temple Pilots? Ohhhhhh.

Celebrity DUI arrests have been all the go this year - but now that Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland has got one, we can officially declare the trend dead.

Though he denies the charges, it's been reported that Scott Weiland - a man whose love of drugs has seen him imprisoned in the past - has been arrested after he crashed his car in Los Angeles, refused to give a blood or urine sample and then acted all impaired. Luckily nobody was hurt in the November 21 crash. Well, we say luckily, but you'd have to be a gigantic fan of badly-dated American stadium widdly-woo rawk not to be slightly bummed out that a shard of windscreen didn't fly off and damage Scott Weiland's vocal chords, at least temporarily.

Japan seems to be cracking down hard on all things American. First it wanted to arrest the cheerleader from Heroes, and now it's banned the thing that America holds most dear - rubbishy old-man hard rock groups.

Or, to be more specific, one rubbishy old-man hard rock group - Velvet Revolver. According to a posting on the Velvet Revolver website, the band have had to cancel their imminent tour of Japan because immigration officials wouldn't let them have visas. Apparently the ruling may have to do with the drug-heavy background of some of Velvet Revolver, although chances are that the band's ban might be in some way be involved with the Japanese government's new legislation outlawing whiny skinny idiots who dress up as scruffy Nazis for a living. And awful 1980s widdly-woo rock music. And top hats. So, in that respect, it's been a perfect storm for Velvet Revolver.