#47

I didn’t think I had anything to add to this thread. But this reminded me about when I was at Damnation Festival and the singer for The Ocean jumped off the balcony at Leeds Uni. I was directly underneath him and it looked mighty impressive from where I was. On inspection of videos later on, wasn’t as impressive, but still…

Here

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#48

That was 2002

#49

Pretty tame compare to some of the posts above, but I distinctly remember watching a pre-fame Calvin Harris do an entire set at Glastonbury '07 with a bag of sliced bread tied to his belt. He kept going on about it too, asking if anyone wanted any bread. Still freaks my nut out to this day.

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#50

Watching Mr T Experience at Leeds Dutchess the woman in charge decided there were too many people chancing a cheeky stage-dive so she stood in the middle of the stage glaring at the crowd with hands on hips while the band sheepishly played on. The stage-diving stopped.

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#51

Barry Manilow once dragged this tipsy old bird up on stage to sing along to whatever it was, and she got all the words wrong and just kept touching his face and giggling, and when he let her hold the mic she just wailed “bournemouth, i’ve just touched his bum”

I miss my nan sometimes.

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#52

What’s a year between faeces-covered friends?

#53

When they played Fluff Fest, Cloud Rat come on stage to Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart, which they put through their noise thing, so it sounded garbled. The crusties went wild.

#54

Saw monotonix support someone at the Scala in london. was minding my own business toward the back but still found myself with the drummer on my shoulders. It was - may still be - on YouTube. Definitely memorable, more memorable than the headliner who I don’t recall.

My first thought for this thread was Alan from low wanging his guitar into the crowd at end of the road a few years back. good fortune a small child wasn’t decapitated.

And then there is tommy cooper at her maj’s theatre in '84 (but I missed that one).

#55

‘’’’’’‘Not a U2 fan’’’’’’’’’ but just happened to have a ticket to one of the Pop tour nights at Wembley.

Half way through the set the band went off stage and everything went black…there was a really bizarre mechanical wurring noise (a recording). Then ‘Discotheque’ started blasting out of the speakers, and when the lights went on, there was a giant olive on a cocktail stick, that had previously been on the side of the stage, had now moved into the middle of the stage. It was now a giant glitter ball shaped like an olive…after a minute or so the olive opened up and U2 walked out on stage.

#56

it was similar to this, except you couldn’t see anything whilst the wurring noise was happening.

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#57

Yeah that low one was so aggressive and risky, as much as I love low find it weird they’ve played there since

#58

Robyn eating a banana and then doing press ups was pretty awesome.

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#59

its weird I was at that statistics gig but don’t recall any of that, I remember they came on to ‘america fuck yeah’ he was in some kind of tracksuit and dropped to the ground to do push ups, then they started playing the intro to sweet child of mine, stumbled through 6 songs and bits of covers. don’t remember the holocaust stuff or the stuff about london at the end, I just remembered a really drunk band messing about

#60

L7 throwing tampon into crowd moment at Reading remains pretty untouchable to this day…

#61

Didn’t he once gaffer tape a beer to a crowd members head and drank from it during the set?

#62

Very tame compared to the above (great thread btw) but some girl proposed to Tim Kinsella when I saw Owls a couple of years ago at the Brudenell, he invited her onstage and said yes and she gave him one of her rings.

#63

I remember seeing Les Savy Fav at ATP, and arriving just before they were about to start. I hadn’t known of them for long, so wasn’t sure what they looked like. The roadies were on stage setting things up, and some guy was in the middle of the stage getting his haircut. I couldn’t tell if it was someone from the last band or maybe from Les Savy Fav. Carried on getting his haircut right up until they started, and of course, it was Tim Harrington.

Best bit of that gig was Tim creating table based stepping stones by getting the audience to get tables and put them down in the audience in front of him so he could walk about the place on top of them. They made a fan for life that set.

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#64

Yup, I was at both of those gigs, both great.

#65

Yep, this was in the Thekla a few years back. Really good show that, I think it was the last of their tour and it sold out, felt like the end of term party or something. Shame that guitar player moved on really.

#66

Had a “mate” at school who would do this at any opportunity to liven up a party/nightclub/whatever. I guess he wasn’t in a band though.