Funniest thing you've seen at a gig?

poundhound

My memory is of Meatloaf rushing onto the stage in the National Stadium in 1990. During the opening number, "Out of the frying pan and into the fire", he raced onto the stage, ranting and raving as he does. During his antics he slipped completely off the stage and landed in a heap at the feet of the front row.It took about 6 security cards to lift him back onto the stage.He even managed to compose himself and get to the mic for the first line of the song!Legendary!

AnonoBoy

Dylan Moran.

sambora

Ah I've yet to witness Dylan Moran at a show! I pray for him to return to Dublin

Furious-Red

3 young lads at Muse with there hands over there ears and just bopping there heads now and then

deisedolly

A couple having a nap in the middle of a huge crowd at the Kings Of Leon at Rock Werchter this year.
Belgians are weird!
Got some good pics with them haha

FX Meister

Dude get on stage at Jesus Lizard years go and he hugged the singer. The singer then kissed him, tongues and all. The dude didn't like it.

fluke

Fionn Regan's hair the friday before last....

Dubliner28

Bon Jovi concert a while back a group of lads on BMX's trying to show off to girls get busted

Sir Gallagher

deisedolly wrote: »

A couple having a nap in the middle of a huge crowd at the Kings Of Leon at Rock Werchter this year.
Belgians are weird!
Got some good pics with them haha

Yeah the Belgians are a very odd bunch altogether! I'm still going back though!

Takestockholden

Some eejit thought it was funny to rest his pint in my friends hood at Arcade Fire. My mate felt something in his hood, reached back and threw it out of his hood and all over the muppet. The eejit then went somewhere else because everyone around and even his own mates were laughing at him. Completely drenched.

Brian

Probably the Napolean Dynamite look-a-like drummer in Arcade Fire going mental with the drumsticks.. on American Football helmets, the stage, the lighting..

Sir Gallagher

At Rock Werchter last year somebody tied a load of jackets/jumpers/t-shirts together to create a huge skipping rope everybody joined in twas a great laugh!

TheBigRedDog

some cranky fella broke his mic stand, cudnt fix it , stopped the song, still couldnt get it then got pissed of and got the bassist 2 do it! Corse he fixed it in seconds n the singer went balistic! He was in such a mood for the rest of the set he started pickin fights with the crowd!

JJ

At Lollapalooza about 10-15 years ago when it stopped at Randall's Island in New York, I was sitting in one of the stands and a guy at the bottom of the stands was puking in front of a fairly big group of people. He did a couple of "rounds" and when he was finished he got a big round of applause.

delbertgrady

I don't know if this qualifies, but Peter Kay doing a surprise "support slot" at Billy Joel's gig in Croke Park a few years ago was comedy gold.

acquiescefc

I remember Shat in the Music Centre as support to Icarus Line, all decked out with dildos attached to their heads and jocks etc.

Have photos somewhere.

bobbyjoe

Was at a gig in the SFX many years ago. One bouncer was being v rough with anyone they pulled out or was crowd surfing giving them a few digs. Someone threw chewing gum into his hair which was very long. Next thing loads of gum is flying at him every time he came out. He eventually had to go offstage.

John

acquiescefc wrote: »

I remember Shat in the Music Centre as support to Icarus Line, all decked out with dildos attached to their heads and jocks etc.

Have photos somewhere.

"Guinness beer! I like Guinness beer!"

jim o doom

a dude was trying to sit on someones shoulders to see at a metal gig but instead of doing it the normal way.. he was on his knees, kneeling bolt upright on someones shoulders.. he fell forward in a highly comical fashion and face planted.. I nearly got sick laughing! He wasn't badly injured, but the fall was pure slapstick.

jim o doom

Another good one; At Daft Punk in Marley park a in 2006, on the way out walking to the buses a mate was puking & wandered off the track - when he had recovered he came walking back to me screaming incoherant madness - which was picked up by people around us (they all joined in screaming) and a big howl ran up and down the etire length of the line of people leaving the gig, hundreds of people screaming madness & when it stops he looks at me amused & bewildered and goes "did I do that?". classic

Numina

A midget fighting a guy who was at least 6'10" at Public Enemy earlier this year.

lord lucan

funniest thing i ever seen was at a biohazard gig in the tivoli in 1993(i think!!). from what i can remember the band were a couple of songs into their set when the lead guitarist took exception to the security being overzealous with the crowd. a bit of verbals were exchanged and then the guitarist took a swipe at one of the security guys with his boot. cue chaos as band and security started to scrap and were subsequently joined by half the crowd. great craic:D

needless to say that was the end of the gig:p

Het-Field

A moshpit of about 12 people falling on top of a guys and a girl with her hand in his trousers !!! Metallica @ RDS 2006, it was during Alice In Chains or Avenged Sevenfold

Third_Echelon

My funniest two incidents actually involve wheelchairs...

Went to the Reading Festival in 2000...

Right up the front row, jam packed for Oasis... crowd swaying from side to side, feet not touching the ground type pushing going on... Pretty dangerous basically.

A guy, who looked like a vietnam veteran plows his way through the crowd in his electric wheelchair. His minder was another vietnam vet looking guy pissed out of his head swearing at people to get out of the way... Strange more than anything else really

My second incident was at Wittness a few years after that in fairyhouse. A guy in a wheelchair crowd-surfing... yes, a guy in this wheelchair... crowd-surfing. He eventually came out of the wheelchair and was crowd-surfing and his wheelchair was then being crowd-surfed after him...

I'm sorry, but I couldn't do anything but laugh

buffalo

At the Pixies/Chili Peppers gig in the Phoenix park a couple of years ago, someone threw a tennis ball on stage. Wouldn't have been that remarkable, except Anthony Keidis wasn't paying attention, and the tennis ball managed to come down in a large arc and bounced right in the middle of the top of his head. Just a perfect landing. Absolutely hilarious.

Bubs101

Me getting sick on Wilco in Turin 2 years ago. Only 500 people there,really small gap between stage and barrier ,my birthday, drank like a sailor, exploded on Wilco.

Day before I got to sing with Bright Eyes as he jumped down

MikeyCdublin

at a 50cent concert in the point young buck poured water on the security guard and he then called him the n word then 50cents security came over and tried to calm the security guard down

SYLT

Bonking into gigs is usually the funniest thing ever.

I am pie

Saw the stage collapse forwards in the old Mandela hall at QUB belfast at a Neds Atomic Dustbin concert many years ago ! Was hilarious...thankfully no one got hurt ! They came on stage...all lept up in the air, maybe played a note or two and as they landed the stage gave way under them. Gig cancelled..played again a few months later.

shane86

A gang of security men dancing around off their heads in their flouroucent jackets at a rave yokey years ago.

Well, either that or some lads robbed the jackets


Didnt Ardal O Hanlon do My Lovely Horse at U2 in Slane? Someone told me so....

John

shane86 wrote: »

Didnt Ardal O Hanlon do My Lovely Horse at U2 in Slane? Someone told me so....

Moby did it and got Ardal out to sing with him.

Aridstarling

The security peeps fighting an onslaught of beach balls at CSS at Electric Picnic this year, much more entertaining than the band!

jill_valentine

Baza210 wrote: »

Probably the Napolean Dynamite look-a-like drummer in Arcade Fire going mental with the drumsticks.. on American Football helmets, the stage, the lighting..

Them boys is crazy.

Time Magazine

A support band from Louth, appropriately called The Gobshites or something, were annoying everyone with their antics. Singer decides to "crowd surf", also known as jumping onto the first row and being pushed back in front of the stage. The short bastard then couldn't manage to climb back on stage and had to get a boost from a security guard

Crumble Froo

james hetfield spitting on the ground, and then slipping in it, not quite falling, but looking pretty funny.

three middle aged men in blue jeans and polo necks in the seated area of iron maiden, standing up (everyone around them was sitting), just boogying away. was very very amused at that one, but i guess you had to see it.

drunk hippy dancing to a ska band, when nobody else was up dancing at all. he really really got into it, and was quite amusing. similarly, a german couple at pumpkins dancing, and you knew in their heads, it was this really elegant ballroom dance type thing, except in reality they were pished out of their minds and had no idea how to dance.

Kine

Similar to one someone mentioned earlier, and because this is all I can think of at 1am.

Queen+PR at the point a few years ago, and two teenagers turning around to say to their mates during Brian May's Guitar solo bit as he's standing under a disco ball with lights going everywhere (hehe):

"It's a bit loud isn't it?!"

jill_valentine

Ah, that reminds me.

Remember hearing a fella at a My Bloody Valentine gig complain about how the sound was so bad he couldn't really hear the vocals.

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Captain Darling

Smashing Pumpkins in the SFX in 1995. This big dude got up on stage beside D'Arcy Wretzky. He went to do this big stage dive but the crowd parted and he landed face first on the floor.

House of Pain in Leisure Land in Galway in 1994/5. There was this guy in the crowd (serious biker dude with the leather waist coat, tatts, the whole rig out), boosting people up onto the crowd for crowd surfing. We all got a boost off him, but as the gig went on he got closer to the barrier. At the time my friends and i were only 17/18 and light enough. This guy boosted one of my friends up into the air and he cleared the crowd and the barrier and whacked himself off the front of the stage. I nealry pissed myself laughing, he went in slow motion through the air and you could see the guys expression changing as he realised he was in for a world of pain. He looked like fcuking ET taking off.

In 1999 i went to see Morrissey in the Black Box in Galway. Traditionally, the stage is always invaded at the end of Morrissey gigs and this one was no different. The bouncers didnt know how to deal with it, i was sitting down in the seats having a few pints and enjoying the mayhem that was unfolding. There was this girl who was rather big boned and had gotten up on the stage beside Morrissey. One of the bouncers grabbed her by the shirt and went to pull her off, all he managed to do was rip the top off her, and left her standing in the centre of the stage with her baps hanging out. Morrissey didnt know what the hell was going on. I nealy choked on my pint.

I saw Richard Hawley twice last year in Galway and his drummer always cracks me up when they play the song called 'Serious.' For some reason he looks like the happiest man alive when he's playing this song. Always brings a smile to my face...........

Rodent Queen

I am pie wrote: »

Saw the stage collapse forwards in the old Mandela hall at QUB belfast at a Neds Atomic Dustbin concert many years ago ! Was hilarious...thankfully no one got hurt ! They came on stage...all lept up in the air, maybe played a note or two and as they landed the stage gave way under them. Gig cancelled..played again a few months later.

hahahahahahaha!!!!!:P

Tristram

Paddy Casey supporting Pearl Jam in the Point a few years back.

Cue: abuse

michi12

Foo Fighters 2007 in marley park. Dave Grohl started going on about sheep shagging and giving us tips. ****ing class

niallon

Chilis in Slane. Right up at the pit barrier, sun beating down. They were taking people that wanted from the crowd into the pit gap for water. One guys fakes fatigue, hops into the gap, takes a cup of water then hops the other side into the pit and runs. About 4 flourescent jackets came from different directions, not sure if he escaped!

thischarmingman

the hothouse flowers played to a half full room in dcu a few years ago. liam o moanlai decided to crowd surf. about 8 lads carried him from one end of the room to the other and lumped him back on stage.

thischarmingman

or the time yer man from bloc party came on stage at ****** and said it was great to be back in the uk. not a good way to start a gig...

c-note

was at a large open air concert in meath around august time 1998

the queues for beer were criminal.

the anguish at watching smug b*stards return with pints in each hand while you sweletered in the summer sun:

and then: one girl, who, by the state of here, had queued up one time too many, decided it would be a good idea to hop the fence from the queue side to the exit side.
so off she went, and with a bit of stuggle cleared the first mini barrier, only one to go before she was in the clear.
soon she was atop the second barrier, all eyes of the queues each side firmly trained on her as she was perched atop the fence, and then the wobble.

enter a smug bastard with two pints, hands full, up go the shouts from the queues, CATCH HER! CATCH HER!!
He stops, and quickly asseses the situation:
drunk girly about to faceplant off a fence vs two pints of beer that i've waited 30 mins for!!
his first instinct was to put the pints down, he crouched a little and looked at the ground deciding where to settle his drinks before attempting a resucue, and then stopped, turned to the crowd, shakes his head and says "f**k it, no" he walks past just as the girl falls to earth,, oohhhs and ahhhhs, followed by security guys,
it was classic. but maybe something you hadda be there for,

also there was a girl sitting on the grass with a short skirt and no knickers on. shamefull

jill_valentine

Just remembered a guy queuing at Arcade Fire a few years back, who had a fully zipped hoody. Naturally, he zipped this hoody the full way up over his face... and then got it stuck in his hair. Everybody was too busy laughing at him to help, both his friends and the several hundred spectators. Took him a good ten minutes to get free.

I'll never forget the sight of him, flailing around like a blind, low-budget alien, everyone around him standing just out of reach...

Trevor O

One of the best I remember is Marilyn Masson getting hit in the middle of the forehead with a shoe supporting Metallica at The RDS! Classic!

poundhound

Didn't happen mate. Marilyn Manson never supported Metallica in the RDS.

Trevor O

poundhound wrote: »

Didn't happen mate. Marilyn Manson never supported Metallica in the RDS.

Apologies, Iron Maiden!

Corega

Trevor O wrote: »

One of the best I remember is Marilyn Masson Iron Maiden getting hit in the middle of the forehead with a shoe supporting Metallica at The RDS! Classic!

He must have pissed off some Iraqi journalist.

hacx

I remember at metallica in Marlay park back in august, I was around the tshirt stand, and there was some fella pissede as FUK standing next to me smelling my hair. he also grabbed my friends hair. Later on in the night when we were all lining up for the bussses back to the city, the line collapsed. About a 1000 peoplae mergeed into one heaving mass and the stewards couldnt do ****. Was quite fun.