SOFT CELL - ALMOND LEFT HURT BY MYSPACE USERS

Former SOFT CELL star MARC ALMOND has blasted the "cruel fans" who criticised his music on his MySpace page. The Tainted Love hitmaker says he was pressured into creating an account on the social networking website, but was devastated to find his so-called "fans" tearing apart his work. He tells London's Time Out magazine, "I put a couple of new demos on there and people started saying 'Oh he's writing the same old songs again. We've heard it all a million times before'. And I had to admit they were kind of right in a way. "As you get older you write the same song from a different viewpoints, so I could see they had a point. But I felt hurt by those comments. Fans can be the cruellest people. It took me a while to rebuild my confidence."