Yer man from these arms are snakes biting me whilst the guitarist span round on the floor on his back took me by surprise
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My friend went to see Daughters and the frontman got his willy out and spat on it. I personally canât recall anything particularly odd about gigs. I hazily remember one ATP where Les Savy Fav had someone with a glitter trumpet who would periodically fire it over the audience, and the singer wore an iridescent catsuit, but that was just fabulous!
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The nu-metal thread has just reminded me of another awkward, rather than odd, moment. First band on at Leeds 2000 was Boy Hits Car. The lead singer tried to be bad-ass and climb the 50ft ladder up the side of the Main Stage structure. He got about 10ft up, realised it was a bit too high for him, then sheepishly (and very carefully) climbed down again. 
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Watching Monotonix in a pub in Leeds (Nation of Shopkeepers) was quite odd, although it was what they did everywhere apparently. There was no stage involved as they played on the floor then gradually their instruments and drums were disassembled and handed around the crowd as the vocalist (in his pants) climbed on the bar much to the managerâs disgust. Also a bin was put over the drummerâs head and used as extra percussion! Great fun.
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I didnât 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, wasnât as impressive, but stillâŚ
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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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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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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 âbournemouth, iâve just touched his bumâ
I miss my nan sometimes.
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Whatâs a year between faeces-covered friends?
When they played Fluff Fest, Cloud Rat come on stage to Bonnie Tylerâs Total Eclipse of the Heart, which they put through their noise thing, so it sounded garbled. The crusties went wild.
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 donât 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 wasnât decapitated.
And then there is tommy cooper at her majâs theatre in '84 (but I missed that one).
âââââââNot a U2 fanâââââââââ 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 blackâŚthere was a really bizarre mechanical wurring noise (a recording). Then âDiscothequeâ 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 oliveâŚafter a minute or so the olive opened up and U2 walked out on stage.
it was similar to this, except you couldnât see anything whilst the wurring noise was happening.
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Robyn eating a banana and then doing press ups was pretty awesome.
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L7 throwing tampon into crowd moment at Reading remains pretty untouchable to this dayâŚ
Didnât he once gaffer tape a beer to a crowd members head and drank from it during the set?
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.
I remember seeing Les Savy Fav at ATP, and arriving just before they were about to start. I hadnât known of them for long, so wasnât 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 couldnât 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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Yup, I was at both of those gigs, both great.