Former Superstar DJ Seb Fontaine Found Living In Wheelie Bin
One of the dance music’s top DJs of the late nineties and early noughties, Seb Fontaine, was recently discovered washed up, homeless and living in a wheelie bin.
The discovery was made by Pete Tong in the filming of a documentary series for the BBC tracking the lives of formerly world-famous DJs.
Seb, who played for thousands of fans around the world and released the seminal album Prototype 1 , was tracked down to a wheelie bin outside a block of London flats where it is suspected the former DJ may have lived until recently being evicted.
“Seb’s been living quite happily in the wheelie bin around the back near the Tescos since earlier this year,” claime one neighbour. “Some of the local people would bring him food in exchange for classic house mixes and he’s been seen washing himself in a bit of run off or a puddle. He seems happy enough.”
Sources close to Seb maintain that the wheelie bin is only a temporary arrangement until he can find something more permanent like a coal shed or under a bridge.
It is believed the DJ was made homeless after squandering his DJing earnings on Premier League football stickers, cream crackers and old copies of his own albums.
“Like a lot of big name DJs from the early noughties, Seb lived too fast and spent too freely,” explained Pete Tong, “meaning he’s now struggling to make ends meet by playing old skool nights which are poorly paid and populated exclusively by enthusiastic new parents seeing the chance to bang half a pill and rave for a few hours away from crying babies as the social event of their year.”
“Unfortunately for Seb these gigs aren’t that frequent,” continued Pete. “He could try and reinvent himself as an EDM DJ to stay relevant and make quick money but he’s got too much pride for that, he’d much rather eat old sandwich crusts, shave with broken glass and sleep standing up in a wheelie bin than sell out.”
Since the filming of the documentary Seb has found temporary accommodation living beneath the stage of London’s Ministry Of Sound where punters claim he is working on a new album inspired by his brush with homelessness entitled No House.
Some of Seb’s contemporaries also featured on the TV documentary and are living colourful lives since their DJing heydey with Brandon Block and Alex P now happily married after a twenty year relationship during which they denied being gay for each other, and Judge Jules was discovered living on a houseboat in the Thames estuary and selling mackerel he catches with his hands to passing tourists.