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A shoe? Who throws a shoe?
Never-at-it-to-be-past-it pop-rockers Texas halted their Hyde Park Calling set on Saturday evening after their singer was struck by a spectator's shoe.
Sharleen Spiteri threatened to walk offstage immediately after the incident, and reportedly pointed to the offender, who was no doubt scared shitless by a wee Scottish ladyboy. The band - famous for hits such as, um, stuff - were playing on a bill topped by Roger Water's run through of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
Spiteri regained her composure swiftly, though, and the set was resumed. No further shoes were tossed stage-wards. A witness wasn't heard to say "Jeepers".
And yes, that headline is an Austin Powers reference, for which I make no apology at 5.25 on a day that's been hotter than the inside of Beelzebub's own balti oven. I have sweat in places I didn't even know existed...
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Surely
that should lead into a competition for the first person to be able to name 3 Texas songs?
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Ermm...
Halo?
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That other one...
I give up
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Say What You Want
Black Eyed Boy
Put Your Arms Around Me.So there.
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Ever
seen a man say goodbye to his shoe?
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I told you
it was bloody hard!
What's that one called with Peter Kay in the video? Errrrr-
I Don't Want A Lover!
Black-Eyed Boy! Or Girl! Or something!
Erm...that one with Method Man that was the same as the other one without Method Man!
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that method man thing had me convinced for years
that I was going mad.
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Did Peter
Kay sing Method Man's part in the video?
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Summer Sun?
anyone remember one which might have been called that?
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Was Peter....
...oh forget it.
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he he
yes, once...
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Erm...
shit! They made my life in a record shop sheer misery, and yet I can't remember a single one of their songs.
Actually, thinking about it, that's a really good thing. Hooray!
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well once...
Don't call me Mr Scorpion , Homer. Its Mr Scorpio but don't call me that either, call me Hank.
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Nice pic
says Rik
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BOOT TO THE HEAD!
I don't know what that is from but I've heard it somewhere.
BOOT TO THE HEAD!
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LOS COMPESINOS
"It hurts as hard as a blow to the hard, or a smash the skull or a knee to your chest"
http://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos
Also see:
Of Montreal "Give all the cretins a boot to the head If they don’t extoll convincingly"
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my brother
came home last night with one shoe but he said nothing of going to london and throwing the other one at ms spiteri
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my friend
got into a fight once with another girl and the other girl took off her shoe to hit my friend in the head, but our other friends stopped her first. too bad, though, cos that would've been funny.
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someone should have thrown
a bloody wellie at her,just for the fact that i have to hear that recent texas song "sleep" about4 times a day in work,And its soooooo bad!
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Someone should have thrown Imelda Marcos at her.
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one two
your face my shoe
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i had to review them a while back
the singer had a camel toe.
that is all
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An amusing but useless fact
Shoe-throwing was actually a major recurring problem on Nirvana's '93 tourdates. The crisis culminated in an incident where a frustrated Kurt Cobain stopped midsong, peed into the shoe, and threw it back into the audience.
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I hear that Matt Heafy of Trivium
was hit by a blue shoe hurled his way whilst the band were headbanging in well-rehearsed formation through a version of Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" at Birmingham Academy. The fact that it was a blue shoe just somehow made it funnier.
I once saw someone take off both their shoes and throw them into the crowd below from their vantage point the embankment during a bottle-fight at Donington.
I have seen other stuff thrown at bands, but I would not wish to deviate from the important topic of SHOES!!!
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i threw a whopper at the fat beardy guy from soundtrack of our lives
When they were supporting Oasis in Finsbury Park. I JUST missed him. I was gutted. So was he at missing out on a tasty flame-grilled whopper.
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the shoe probably came off accidentally in some crazy pit action, and was being thrown to the stage so that the singer man/woman thing could return it to its owner, a la 80's DC Ian Mackaye style.
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I was there, sad I know, but that was by far the best bit of their set hearing her telling this guy to fuck right off.
The rest of it sucked well hard!
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