A controversial Australian rock star will fight allegations he stole a Woolworths roast chicken and an iced coffee from Sydney’s CBD, a court has been told.
Sticky Fingers frontman Dylan James Frost, 34, was not required to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to a single charge of shoplifting.
Police allege the rocker stole the $6.50 roast chicken and $2.65 Ice Break double espresso coffee from Woolworths Metro in Haymarket shortly after 1pm on June 27.
Frost’s girlfriend, Elyssa Ford, 23, is also alleged to have stolen a Life Savers raspberry stix from the same Woolworths store at the same time.
The couple both entered pleas of not guilty in August, with Ms Ford facing a single charge of shoplifting items under $2,000 and possessing a prohibited drug.
Representing Frost, lawyer Robert Candelori asked for the matter to go to a hearing in July 2025 when the rocker will defend the allegation of shoplifting.
Frost is the lead vocalist and guitarist for Sydney indie rock band Sticky Fingers, which went on ‘hiatus’ for a period in 2016 following the airing of allegations against him.
He was accused of racism, sexism, transphobia and aggressive behaviour and, in an interview with Triple J Hack, responded to his past antics by stating ‘boys will be boys’.
Controversial Australian rock star Dylan Frost (pictured with his girlfriend Elyssa Ford) will fight allegations he stole a Woolworths roast chicken and an iced coffee, a court has been told
Frost (pictured) was not required to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to a single charge of shoplifting
In a statement to Instagram at the time, the band said the comments were in ‘no way intended to show we aren’t genuinely on a path to positive change’.
Frost will return before the court next month.
Sticky Fingers have been no strangers to controversy, with Frost often making headlines over his behaviour in the past.
The lead singer reportedly got into a physical altercation with the band’s bassist Paddy Cornwall in 2019, which resulted in Cornwall being sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
In 2018, Frost was thrown out of a pub in Newtown in Sydney’s inner-west after he allegedly verbally abused a transgender woman.
He was accused in 2016 of physically threatening Indigenous singer, Thelma Plum.
Frost has opened up about his struggles with mental health and alcoholism in the past.
He revealed to the media he was diagnosed with bipolar schizophrenia in 2015.
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