CALVIN Harris, the chart-topping DJ, claims that he has been hounded out of his Scottish home town by drunken louts.
Harris, best known for Top 10 hits Acceptable In The 80s and Girls, said he can't "walk the streets" of Dumfries because of the yob culture which exists there.
The former Marks & Spencer shelf-stacker said he now only returns to the town to visit
his parents.
Harris, 24, said: "If I ever go back home to Dumfries, I go to my mum and dad's house. I have a nice meal, sleep there and then I leave. You'll never catch me going out in Dumfries again.
"It's not a good place to be. It's one of those towns, like hundreds all over the place, with a big drinking culture.
"Though the majority of people are great, the bad ones spoil it. I have been given grief there in all sorts of ways.
"I wouldn't put myself in that situation again and I wouldn't want to put someone else who was with me in that situation."
Harris said his hit The Girls played a part in his unpopularity among the local youth, claiming they take the track, recorded in his bedroom and portraying him as a womanising playboy, too seriously.
He added: "I know folk who detest me and there are enough of them for me to take notice."
Harris now lives in Glasgow.
The full article contains 245 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
