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Worst Thing To Happen To You At A Gig

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by scarfo

This evening I was dispatched by my friends fanzine to review Air Traffic, supporting the Pigeon Detectives. I did my reviewy bit for AT, who were good, then went to the front in an attempt to enjoy Pigeon Detectives. About half way though the set, some 16 year old kid was pissing down the back of my leg. When he later crowdsurfed over my head, he got a punch in the face.

What's the worst or must disgusting thing thats happened to you at a gig?

scarfo | 18 May '07, 00:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

"enjoy...the pigeon detectives"

Thats your problem right there.


It was only an attempt

It failed.


Travis

at V98. I cried for days afterwards. Sometimes, I still wake up screaming at the memory.


Oh yeah,

and I got beaten up and mugged at V99. But that was still better than Travis.


Oh yeah,

and I got beaten up by the security men whilst off my tits on Tesco Value Vodka at Leeds 2000 for trying to get into the backstage area and make friends with Primal Scream, was slung out of the festival, stumbled down the middle of a busy road in the pitch black and pissing rain, and was eventually arrested for screaming, "your mates just beat me up you bastards" at some policemen.

Fortunately for all concerned, Travis weren't playing that day.


that's impressive

seriously


wow seymour

you ARE rock and roll! i thought'd you'd just faked it all along.

sorry for the doubt!

joke.


rock and roll!

he really is.

I'd like to SEE MORE (seymour!) of that from him!

what do you mean im 3 days late? I'm TWENTY YEARS LATE with that joke...


You're all fired.

;-)


the walkmen, king tuts, 2/3 years ago

as the encore began, none other than dominik diamond suddenly entered the venue and decided to position his not-inconsiderable frame right in front of me so i couldn't see anything at all. the horrendous cunt


dominic diamond story

8/10. good effort.


last year at leeds festival

as a few thousand people were struggling for air waiting for t'arctic monkeys to come on, some bloke decides that within this sea of people is a great time to take a leak. I will never know how there was enough room for a circle five metres in diameter to form.


If only it had been

Dustin Diamond.


i broke

my arm at glastonbury...


Ouch

How? The mud I imagine..

Worse thing? Glasto 2005. Ex-Boyfriend went to get my bag and his beer from the car. Off his face on booze. Went for a piss, took the backpack off and left it there.

Lost £200, my tablets and someone went through my underwear. Bell ends.

Ex-boyfriend has then been forgiven for that. I keep it as a surpressed memory.


has been forgiven?

I meant NEVER BEEN FORGIVEN


by through..

do you mean wore and tore? Or just had a rummage?


it was 2005

but not the muds fault, too much vodka and a tent rope...


I fell off the stage

the stage was about 5 and a half feet high so it was quite a drop and I landed on my left knee and right hand

fortunately it was only during the soundcheck


gross

i was at a strike anywhere gig with a friend a few sheets to the wind. he vomited in the toilet, and i had to accompany him home (this was during the support)


I had this

at a Super Furries gig (Scala April 2000 if you're interested)


when i saw bat for lashes in march

someone shat themselves in front of me.


That was me!!!

It wasn't really!


would that be the scala gig?

I saw bjork there.

a link?


shat for lashes?


THIS


bf

I hope you fucking broke his nose...what a cunt.

Nothing like that's ever happened to me. I did throw up at a Blur gig once, in a venue where there was a slanted floor, and my puke washed all the way from the top, to the bottom.

That's probably somone elses bad gig experience, courtesy of me though


God..

I've never had a bad experience like any of those before! Although at Glastonbury years and years ago I saw Skunk Anansie first on in the morning and a nude hippie man completely off his face wondered round the audience tossing himself off - there was a movning gap of people round him - didn't see what happened when he reached the end of the job though... and I'm quite glad really.


Twofold...

One - I went to see Reef.

Two - I emerged form the Reef gig covered, and I mean properly covered in blood. Having not felt anything or noticed up to this point I do a quick check to find the puncture... it's not my blood... : |


quite possibly...

as I saw, I saw Reef but felt nothing...

It was like staring into the void...


. . . . .

:I


when I saw Aela

a man got his wilkins out and pissed all over the dance floor.

then he sat down in it.

ace.


oh dear

went all the way to see high wycombe to see hyperkinako, walked around for an hour and a half in freezing wind cos streetmap lied about where the venue was, got to the venue, had a sip of beer, felt a bit funny and spent the next hour in the toilets vomiting and a further hour outside vomiting cos the toilets were so bad, occasionally going back in to see hyperkinako play, and finally admitting defeat and walking back to the station to get the train home, while vomiting lots...

see also passing out through lack of food at a jeffrey lewis gig at the spitz and getting hit in the face at a tribute to nothing show, losing glasses and having to be led by the arm back home...


i didn't actually see that

but alcock told me it was straight after i'd played Waters of Nazareth by Justice.


That's mine too!

The bar staff seemed wholly oblivious to the fact.


When I was 12

I went to the Phoenix Festival. My mum had managed to get backstage camping tickets through an old colleague, which I didn't really think much of at the time. Me and my mum were sat around when a bunch of old punks turned up and starting making ridiculously crude comments whilst putting up their tent - 'your poles too big!'; 'your hole's too tight', to general awkwardness all round. Later that weekend we found out that the main 'punk' perpertrating all this was actually Billy Idol. Actually quite a nice chap - my mum was sat in the tent for most of the weekend, but he invited her out to see Massive Attack, who she really enjoyed. So the worst thing for me but pretty cool for my mum.


well..

I accidently knocked someone out at the mars volta astoria show and felt exceptionally guilty for it. I'm fairly tall (6"5 now!) and was being nudged in the back by
someone for neigh on 40 minutes when finally I whipped round and felt something connect with my elbow. Looking down there was suddenly a fairly small kid flat on his back
looking a bit shocked. I honestly couldnt think of anything to say (sorry didnt seem right and anything offensive to cunty) so just turned back round.

Raging speedhorn was generally fucking awful.

Having to walk past the stage hard fi were playing on at v2006.


I was attacked at Reading festival in 2005.

Broke my glasses at a FFAF gig (they were good though, but I was blind for the rest of the evening.

Damaged my hearing at a Bosstones gig.


I whitied at a packed

Beck gig at Rock City in Nottingham in about '96. We'd had a bit of a smoke before the gig to get us in the mood, and I think one in there too. We were rammed up against the mixing desk and it was incredibly hot, then a friendly type offered me a toke on his spliff. About five minutes later everything went grey and my friend had to drag me to the bar by me ears pretty much, just as they played Where It's At. I was fully aware of everything but completely unable to move.

Felt like a bit of an arse afterwards.


lol!

can totally relate to that, did the same thing at a DJ Shadow gig once, and promptly just passed right out, hit the deck taking a few people down with me!


Did this at Reading last year...

went AWOL for a few hours apparently and turned up at a security tent...


Apart from the really bad gigs I've played

Probably G'n'R at Download last year. Not for the music (I still maintain that it was better than I expected) but because, right at the end of 'Paradise City' some cunt started pogoing, using my shoulder as support. Lots of jostling ensued and I turned round to find the girl, who'd been next to me until the aforementioned cunt arrived, struggling to control a stream of bllod from her nose and looking at me like I'd just slaughtered her entire family. Ruined my whole weekend.


dumping a beautiful young lady

making a single tear fall out of her eye and roll down her beautiful cheek.


LOL!!!

Although that's really sad and beautiful

*sigh*


what? onstage?

you utter cunt. you, you matt damon you.... phil collins fax divorcer you...


Did

a lonely jet plane strafe silently across an empty sky? While the bells from the church nearby sadly tolled their bittersweet lament?


New Model Army, Rock City

Feeling very out of place with all the cloggies. Stood at at the back in front of raised platform, with a rather attractive goth girl leaning over balcony rail behind me. After a few minutes felt her tickling the back of my neck and caressing my hair. This went on for about 20 minutes, until I had to turn round and hopefully "close the deal"... only to get stabbed in the eye by the crucifix pendant that had been inadvertantly toying with me.


I was stalked

buy a support band called the clams.

Nicklecrap.


worst gig experience ever

Animal Collective dis organised gig last year.....

so get to the venue at about 10....discover it doesn't open till eleven. Animal collective due on a 12 .....dont go on till 1. Come on stage, sound is awful, power blows at 1.05.

OK picture the scene....it is now complete darkness and the heat is unbearable..... a man walking past me cups his hand in front of his face releases a fountain of vomit into the air which just happens to cover me from head to toe.


My friend was ill at that gig

He isn't a man though


Getting kicked out.

Before the first support band had even started! £25 down the drain =[


yep

kicked out at QOTSA, for taking photos!
Bullshit!


Someone threw me at Fiddy Cent

Reading 2004 :(


Someone vomited down my leg

at a blur gig when I was about 16. We rinsed my jeans in the loo but they still stank and my parents were furious because they thought we had been misbehaving.


Just after a gig

at the Free Butt in Brighton, on the way for another drink, bit pissed, thought it would be a fantastic idea if my friend gave me a piggy back ride. He fell over forwards and my face hit the pavement, snapped my front tooth in half.
Be warned: There are no emergency dentists in Brighton on a sunday.


Having to listen to the Kooks

who were supporting Apartment !


Winner


The worse thing for me was when

I went all the way to Benicassim to watch Radiohead for the first time and, after drinking from 11 o'clock in the morning to 2am the next when they were about to start, I fell asleep. What made it worse was that I woke up dazed and confused as soon as they walked off stage and everyone was saying it was the most amazing gig ever.


what do I win ?


probably

collapsing whilst watching shellac at atp some years back. my glasses smashed in my face and i lost my camera+coat. worst thing was i wasnt even drunk or anything.

though saying that whiting on too many hash cakes at glasto 02 whilst hearing ian brown singing 'ive got cocaine in my veins' really was not much fun.


The Dillinger Escape Plan made me pass out.

But that's not as bad as being pissed on, while watching Disturbed, by a girl. Sheesh.


i broke my toe watchin dillinger escape plan! (support for SOAD)

big huge metaller stood on my foot very hard :(

i've also dislocated a finger at a pitchshifter gig and split my lip open/got knocked out at a hundred reasons gig.

oh to be young and unafraid of moshpit injuries!


Camera Obscura about a month ago.

A rollercoaster of an evening.

I get to Burnley Bus Station, and my chum is there waiting, we see the Manchester bus is parked, and both approach it, fastly, but it pulls away. The next one isn't here for another 40 minutes, and its about 7 pm.

We go to sit in Tesco cafe, and get caught in a rainstorm - bad when you have hair that goes curly in water.

About 10 mins before bus arrives, friend realises he hasn't brought his ID. So then we have to hope his grandad can go all the way across the town to get it and return it to the bus station, before the bus.

He does, and we get on the bus. Fine.

We get to Manchester at about 8.30, and decide to get the bus down towards the Union. My contact in Manchester tells me Jabez Clegg (venue) is near 'Kro Bar'. So, on this bus we see a bar called 'KRO'. We jump off the bus, but Jabez Clegg is nowhere to be seen.
Asking a geordie emo, he tells us 'Its a fair walk down that way, pretty far away actually.', as the bus leaves.

After about 15 minutes of walk, we make it to the venue at 9, and are chuffed, thinking we'll JUST make the first song.

Getting inside the venue, the lovely woman singer finishes off 'Country Mile', and informs us: 'This is our last song.'

Ouch. We went out on the town, which would have then been pretty good, but I'd eaten something dodgy earlier, if you get my drift, and felt dreadful.

:(


Geordies

make any story more fun


ATP

watching Devastations, right at the front. Fell to sleep leaning against the barrier. A bouncer slapped me! and told me to wake up or go to bed!!!!

And then I decided it would be a good idea to talk to Warren Ellis. It wasn't.

And then I was sick

And then I missed Josh T Pearson because I was having unprotected sex, during which we were walked in on by lady's ex boyfriend....


err..

do I know you?

I walked in on my ex girlfriend having unprotected sex at atp. They missed josh t pearson to.

weirddd.


Oh god

I hope to god this is true.
It'd be like a soap opera.


for the record..

I'm on pretty good terms with my ex. I live with her! Sounds like your not a fan of your lady's ex..


Reading 2004

Horrible Boyfriend told me we had to camp with his friends who hated me because I don't know about films, or something.

It also happened that the entire festival site was a great big soggy smelly bog. Hay had been distributed to campers to dry up the mud. Horrible Boyfriend's friends did not want to use all the hay at once, and lacked a place to store it, so they deposited it in mine and Horrible Boyfriend's tent, so already I was due to spend the weekend half submerged in a bog and covered in hay with people who hated my guts.

Also I destroyed two pairs of trainers within 24hrs and had to spend all my money buying DM's. The only thing I ate for the next 72 hours was flapjack which I had brought with me.

I decided to remedy the situation with a litre of supermarket vodka which was promptly poured down my gullet.

When I came round I found myself alternately puking and telling the medical tent lady I was confused about my sexuality. Horrible Boyfriend saw this.

Then Horrible boyfriend's friends make me watch Placebo.

Then Horrible Boyfriend dumps me. (This was the best bit of the weekend).


sounds fun !

Apart from Placebo...


it was terrible

the next year was my first guestlist year and I didn't know about the £10 charity donation thing. So I had to survive on £5 and two cigarettes.

I don't go to Reading anymore....


I can imagine...


just thought of

another direction we can take this in

Worst band that a current or ex partner has ever taken you to see?

Mine - Hard Fi or The Wedding Present, although thankfully at the later we were in seating so i curled up and had a nap.


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Oh god, it was so dull, I couldn't tell one song from another. They played what was supposed to be their biggest hit and my bloke was saying, 'you'll have heard this but not known what it was'... but I hadn't heard it. And it was rubbish.