Funniest thing you've seen at a gig

[bhaexpress]

Actually seeing Lynryd Skynyrd opening for Golden Earing was quite funny, hardly anybody stayed for their set.

 

[Ecosse Exile]

Jake Burns falling off the stage at an SLF gig in prestwick, he jumped back up and said through the mic "dont say a fuckin word". I told my mate who had back stage passes the following night in Edinburgh, he asked Jake about this and he just said "how the f*** do you know about that?" lol

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

my brother climbing onto the stage at the concorde 2 when sham 69 played and joining in on backing vocals .

 

[Mr Banana]

Max i think you might have missed the funniest bit yesterday when the Foals singer fell tit over arse over a seat when he walked through the posh seats on the balcony. It were f***ing excellent but he does that every gig so not that much of a surprise.

When World Inferno Friendship Society played the Albert a couple of years back a guy was crowd surfing and got dropped on his back onto a floor covered in shards of glass, his torso was a bloodbath but he carried on.

Sugababes at the Brighton Centre was pretty surreal, we got massively drunk on the rider, then watched loads of adverts for haircare products and third world poverty charities on big screens, then one of the girls (the one with the nice arse who just got done for drink driving) admitted their greatest hits were crap halfway through the gig.

80s Matchbox B-Line this year wasn't really funny but it was basically a riot in the Hanbury Ballroom, they kicked off with everyone and got the promoters into massive trouble (not a great show considering the organisers were doing it for charity.)

Amanda Palmer a few years back when I got snogged by a bloke walking through the crowd as part of the performance. It was my birthday and my missus hated them so she stayed in the pub. Nice.

Kings of Leon at Reading, just cos of how retarded they are and how clearly they hate their (equally retarded) fans.

Example at the Pressure Point ages ago, proper funniest bloke I've ever seen. Hit it off with him as he was coming up the stairs for the gig, ended up having a quality night after his usual rapping about posh birds and all that. Although that man dun't half love Mandy.

 

[Arthur]

A friend saw them getting bottled at Reading.

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I was at said event. Probably one of the biggest crowds I've seen for an act on the main stage at Reading. Certainly the biggest for an afternoon act.

50 Cent was funnier a couple of years later. The stuff that got thrown at him was unreal, fair play to him though he stuck it out for about 5 tracks which is more than his entourage did. Guess when you've been shot as many times as he has having a few bottles of piss and the odd deckchair chucked at you doesn't really matter.

Funniest thing I've ever seen was Marlyn Manson who was supporting Metallica getting a plastic bottle square between the eyes which prompted him to go ape shit and try to take on an entire moshpit! He got dragged back by the security and put back up on stage only to have a full on paddy before having another go. This just prompted more shit to be chucked at him so at the start of the next track he just walked off. Bit of a shame as I was quite looking forward to seeing him. Very funny though!

 

[Arthur]

80s Matchbox B-Line this year wasn't really funny but it was basically a riot in the Hanbury Ballroom, they kicked off with everyone and got the promoters into massive trouble (not a great show considering the organisers were doing it for charity.)

You've just reminded me of something, them and Midfield General playing a benefit gig for the football club at Hove Town Hall. No one turned up other than me and 3 mates and the usual supporters club bobble hatters.

Auntie Liz didn't really seem to appreciate the musical stylings on offer. We lasted about 3 tracks before retiring to the pub.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Wasn't there but Cast were playing Reading (think) and they were getting pelted with clumps of mud and told they were shit. He said to the crowd something along the lines of 'we may be shit but you lot are shit at throwing mud' only to immediatly be hit in the bollocks by a massive piece. Idiot.

 

[CHAPPERS]

You've just reminded me of something, them and Midfield General playing a benefit gig for the football club at Hove Town Hall. No one turned up other than me and 3 mates and the usual supporters club bobble hatters.

Auntie Liz didn't really seem to appreciate the musical stylings on offer. We lasted about 3 tracks before retiring to the pub.

I went to that. It was f***ing shit.

 

[jcdenton08]

Ash were utter, utter shit. That's all really. Wasn't very funny, but everyone went home disappointed.

 

[happypig]

Reading Festival. Late 70s.

Shit band on first got canned (yes, the good old days when you could take anything in) and the guitarist dodged one and flicked the Vs to the crowd. With that a (part full) party four caught him just above the eye and knocked him clean over.

That was also the first time I saw John Otway and Ivor biggun

 

[Mr Banana]

You've just reminded me of something, them and Midfield General playing a benefit gig for the football club at Hove Town Hall. No one turned up other than me and 3 mates and the usual supporters club bobble hatters.

Auntie Liz didn't really seem to appreciate the musical stylings on offer. We lasted about 3 tracks before retiring to the pub.

Yeah, 80s Matchbox are bollocks. Can't believe they're playing Digi, wearing lots of black and being utter f***ing bobbins doesn't make you cult.

Ash were well good at the Conky last year, they've definitely raised their game during the past couple of years.

 

[e77]

Someone throwing a children's paddling pool at 50 Cent during the Reading festival.

 

[NMH]

Seeing Keith Emerson hovering the polystyrene balls fired from the Tarkus out of his piano.

I was there, too.
In Los Angeles one night, I met their tour manager and chatted at the bar - and when I mentioned that incident he said they (ELP) still talked about that one, years later - and he was going to tell Keith Emerson (a local at the time) that he'd bumped into someone who was there.

It was right at the opening number, and took about 30 minutes to vacuum out the 'baby Grand'. That Tarkus effigy was quite cool though, if it wasn't spewing flippin' polystyrene snow!

 

[1959]

suicide were supporting the clash at crawley leisure centre and during one song when the singer was pointing at the crowd telling us we would all die! a big old skinhead jumped on stage and started knocking dog do's out of him he was right though we will all die

It was this show and that incident that influenced Jerry Dammers to write Ghost Town. The Specials were the act between Suicide and The Clash, although they were called The Coventry Automatics at the time. The dressing rooms were upstairs at the back of the hall then and the bands all saw it happen.

 

[Gully]

All the power in the building going off when the band started playing, then seeing them trying to work out how much they could have plugged in to avoid it happening again...Clash City Rockers, Henfield village hall.

 

[fork me]

Just had a flashback from Foals last night when the bassist climbed a speaker stack and managed to jump up and drag himself onto the balcony with his guitar and play it whilst dancing through the crowd upstairs before jumping down the other side and back onto stage for the end of the track. What stage antics have you seen that made you do a ??

The Mission, Newcastle City Hall, 1988. They're not a band I'd have normally gone to (bunch of miserable twats normally, even though I like the sound!) but a friend who had a ticket had broken his leg so I bought it off him. "Children" had just reached number one in the LP charts so I had the weird experience of seeing The Mission looking happy. Wayne Hussey did a similar thing that night, climbing the speaker stack into the balcony. They were also opening numerous champagne bottles taking a swig and passing the rest into the crowd. Very bizarre.

I also saw Mudhoney get covered in, erm, mud at the reading festival, it was pissing down and people seemed to think it apt. (NME review the next week: Mudhoney took to the stage and were instantly glad they hadn't called themselves Shithoney). L7 followed them, the mud throwing continued and the lead singer took out her tampon and threw it into the crowd in revenge. Some sad fucker near me caught it.

Peter & the Test Tube Babies at the Marquee sometime in the 90s, loads of stage diving going on until the crowd moved out of the way when one guy jumped and he went nose first onto the floor.

The funniest, though, has to be the Wonderstuff at the Polytechnic Precinct in Sunderland, May 1988. It was a big event in a tent, but they hadn't bothered to get a licence, so the police raided. The Wonderstuff refused to leave the stage so the police arrested and cuffed Miles Hunt on the stage.

 

[fork me]

Doctor and the Crippens (I think) were supporting Extreme Noise Terror at Zap few years ago. The lead singer would place a cabbage on top of his hat, then he'd connect two wires to a battery and the cabbage exploded across the stage and crowd.

Yes, that would be Doctor and the Crippens, awesome band. I put them on at the old Coomber Club (where the Honey Club is now) back in the early to mid 90s sometime. They had this Irish guy working there as assistant manager. I just remember him after the gig sweeping up piles of shredding cabbage muttering "I fecking hate fecking cabbage" over and over...

It got everywhere, in the mixing desk, behind the bar, the place stunk of cabbage for days afterwards.

 

[fork me]

Wasn't there but Cast were playing Reading (think) and they were getting pelted with clumps of mud and told they were shit. He said to the crowd something along the lines of 'we may be shit but you lot are shit at throwing mud' only to immediatly be hit in the bollocks by a massive piece. Idiot.

Reminds me of one of the earlier Reading's, when it was still a metal/rock festival. Uriah Heep were on stage, the lead singer screamed at the crowd, "you can throw as many bottle as you want, we're gonna dodge every f***ing one", the next one hit him square between the eyes and knocked him out cold - cue: end of set.

Another year, Meat Loaf was badly bottled and walked off after a couple of songs, Bonnie Tyler followed, got bottled even worse, but refused to leave the stage and played her entire set, proving her harder than Meat Loaf.

 

[Stat Brother]

Reading seems to be a hot bed for this sort of stuff.

I was watching Pop Will Eat Itself, as some bits and bobs, were going up on stage.
I was a decent way back and looked up to see a Coxes Orange Pippin sailing through the clear blue sky.
I kept watching said apple, and it hit smack bang onto the Poppies bassist temple.
The distance it travelled I'm surprised it didn't knock the fella out, and even more surprised by the fact he didn't even seem to notice he'd been hit.

Also at Reading, possibly even the same day, Dinosaur Junior were banging out some old tosh.
They had the front to walk off stage change their nice shiny guitars, come back on with knackered guitars. Smash them Paul Simonon styley, then wander off to get the good stuff back. To$$ers.

 

[NMH]

Reading seems to be a hot bed for this sort of stuff.

I was watching Pop Will Eat Itself, as some bits and bobs, were going up on stage.
I was a decent way back and looked up to see a Coxes Orange Pippin sailing through the clear blue sky.
I kept watching said apple, and it hit smack bang onto the Poppies bassist temple.
The distance it travelled I'm surprised it didn't knock the fella out, and even more surprised by the fact he didn't even seem to notice he'd been hit.

Also at Reading, possibly even the same day, Dinosaur Junior were banging out some old tosh.
They had the front to walk off stage change their nice shiny guitars, come back on with knackered guitars. Smash them Paul Simonon styley, then wander off to get the good stuff back. To$$ers.

Bah! Pseuds, and I used to like DJr when 'Feel The Pain' was released.