Funny gig stories?

Droogie

Anybody got any funny stories about stuff that happened/bands did at gigs you've been to?

I've heard that when Rage Against The Machine came here, their lead man, Zack De La Rocha fell on his arse during the first song and the crowd slagged him all thru the rest of the gig!

My Opinion

Droogie wrote:

Anybody got any funny stories about stuff that happened/bands did at gigs you've been to?

I've heard that when Rage Against The Machine came here, their lead man, Zack De La Rocha fell on his arse during the first song and the crowd slagged him all thru the rest of the gig!

I got a dose of the runs during the chillies gig in Phonix Park

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Doctor J

Hmmm... slipped in a puddle of water and fell into the bass amp, guitarist was so stoned he had to sit through a gig and couldn't feel his hands, singer walked off mid set and left, had bouncers come on and 'remove' us from the stage while our singer fought with the singer of the main band, such was the way of things in Old Scratch

Evilution

Went to see Devin Townsend in the ambassador a few years ago with a friend. I'm a fukking huge Devy fan and was really looking forward to moshing and surfing my arse off. However, Slash was playing across town that night with some other band and this caused a serious lack of people at the Devy gig. Being honest, there was only about 30 people at the gig. Everyone was at the front basically, at the railing. It was more like 'An audience with HevyDevy' than a concert. There was no moshing or anything because of the lack of people. Have to say though that it was probably my fave gig ever though because EVERYONE there was a hardcore Devy fan and it was about as 'intimate' as gigs go.
Oh yeah, I caught a banana thrown by guitarist Jed too, which was cool.
And Godflesh were supporting, who were cool.

Droogie

Wasn't actually at the gig but my cousin heard that Hatebreed came to Ireland a couple of years ago and did a few dates and at a gig in Waterford or somewhere, only FOUR people turned up!

And they had very little numbers in Dublin too... Doubt it'll be the same this year tho...

ThenComesDudley

i was at the cky gig last in the ambassador a while back, mostly to see the support band Fireball ministry, anyway the guitarist of cky keep doing that trick were you he spun the guitar around his body, so he climbed up on top of the amps to try it again, and halfway through the spin the strap broke and the guitar shot into the crowd on top of some of the kids, i swear it has been one of the funniest things i have seen at a gig yet!!

dregin

- During Flaw's set at ozzfest the lead singer kept Shouting "HELLLOOOO DUBLINNNNNNNN"......and the whole place would go completely silent. He hadnt a clue what was goin on So I started shoutin "We're no in Dublin" etc. Anyway, he picked me out and came down to the front and gave me the mic. qeue "We're in ****in Kildare". Got a huge cheer . After the gig I was talkin to the band and they were all goin on.."Where the **** are we????"

Thought it was hillarious.

- Saw some band at Witnness a few years back where the Singer got empaled on the end of the bass guitar. Can't remember their name, alot like incubus I think.

- Saw Casey Chaos from Amen do a swan dive of the speaker stack behind the drumkit into the kit at Reading festival about 4 years ago....and break his ankle.

Oeneus

Went to a gig in a local Club and a knacker came and bottled the lead singer.

The band finished their set and the singer beat the crap out of the knacker afterwards and broke both of the knacker's legs somehow. The knacker was carried out by two bouncers and just thrown outside and left there! Classic

Band were sh*t though

Pyr0

Went to the Anthrax gig a few months ago in the Ambassador,a fairly big bloke tried to get up on stage by getting behind the speakers,he was then tackled by like 5 bouncers.They had some struggle with him before he was thrown out.

garthv

I went to see Green Day in the point a cupla years ago,
green day sometimes let 3 memebers of the crowd up to play drums,bass and guitar while Billy Joe sings,real crowd pleaser like. But after the 3 guys were finished they were all told to stage dive by Billy.
First 2 lads jumped fine and then the third lad jumps and lands right on the barrier that was keeping the crowd back,i was right in the pit so i got to see all the action,funniest gig ive ever seen:)

John

Saw the Wildhearts once. That was funny, in a very sad way.

dregin

GaRtH_V wrote:

I went to see Green Day in the point a cupla years ago,
green day sometimes let 3 memebers of the crowd up to play drums,bass and guitar while Billy Joe sings,real crowd pleaser like. But after the 3 guys were finished they were all told to stage dive by Billy.
First 2 lads jumped fine and then the third lad jumps and lands right on the barrier that was keeping the crowd back,i was right in the pit so i got to see all the action,funniest gig ive ever seen:)

Haha, yeah was at that gig too. There was some guy in the circle pit I was in with nothing on but a pair of boxers. needless to say he was removed, met the poor bastáRD outside after the gig. Someone had given him their jacket:)

NeMiSiS

Played a gig recentlyish.. was headed into the solo.. theres 3 in this partiuclar song, got through the first two notes.. and then.. landed on the wrong one.. so I figured well if it's gonna be a **** up it's gonna be one monster of a **** up and belted along in the wrong key for about 2 minutes.. with tears of laughter rolling down my face.

Was yapping to the bass player afterwerds who asked me what in the **** I was at I said.. 'Oh so you noticed?' 'yeh the whole crowd did' 'That's one memoriable solo so !'

Also once watched a band trash a kit.. the drummer picked up the bass drum lashed it off the wall.. where upon it bounced back hit him in the face and knocked him unconscience. When he came around, he was so annoyed he took the drum out the door and ****ed it into the liffey.

Tom

It wasn't me!

I'm laughing my ass off at those NeMiSiS.

cournioni

These aren't really stories of the gigs themselves, more like our trips up to them! Anyway I thought these were fairly funny at the time:

On our way up to Tattoo the Planet 2001 in the Point. We were very very drunk, we had been drinking since 9am that morning. Beer, vodka, whiskey, buckfast, you name it. Anyway, we were on regular piss stops on the way up. Once, in Nobber, Co. Meath. And one of the guys got out of the bus and decided that he would run after some dogs with a bottle of vodka (this is at around 2 pm), he threw the bottle and missed the dogs so thankfully he gave up and got on the bus.

Next stop, Navan the lads got out and went into one of the pubs for a piss, and to get more drink obviously. There were various items missing from the pub after our visit, lets just say that much!

Then we stopped off in Dunshaughlan at around 3pm. One of the guys got off the bus, ran into the local hardware store and took a brush and then he took one of those traffic cones and put it on his head. He then crossed the street and jumped up on the back of a Quinn Cement truck, waving the brush violently at cars! While this was happening me and another guy went into one of the pubs looking for some toilet paper because one of the lads on the bus got sick all over himself. We were told to go in and get a roll of toilet paper. We were quite drunk at the time and we went in looking for a roll of toilet paper. We tried to get it out of the plastic container that it was in. We couldn't open it. There was another roll of toilet paper on the toilet itself, but it was too big. So we proceeded to smash the container only to find that the roll was just as big as the other one, we picked it up and walked out of the pub with it. Only to find two or three lads from the pub standing outside the door, staring straight at us, we were both forced to pay £20 each or they would ring the Gardai. We payed!

When we finally got to Dublin. One of the lads decided that he HAD to piss so he jumped off the bus that was moving down O'Connell St. at the time, and he pissed on the wall and ran off and caught up with the bus with two guards chasing him from the other side of the street. He got on the bus and we sped off down to the Point!

cournioni

Ozzfest 2002, in Punchestown Racecourse. We were up all night before the festival drinking, getting stoned and puking in one of the houses in town. Got two crates of beer just before we left and one of the lads decided to buy Choc ice's for everyone! We very much enjoyed our beer and choc ice's, and had our usual piss stopping spree's.

Again we stopped off in Nobber, Co. Meath (being the ghost town it is). One of the lads decided that while the rest were getting more drink that he would go and steal himself a push car that was out on the street. He succeeded it stealing it and then decided to play a game of chicken with a bus that was going up through the village. He lost, turned and toppled the push car and scraped his whole arm of the ground and hit a parked car with his head.

Then when we were going through Navan, we had some left over melted ice pop's and we threw them out the windows at people walking along the road, particularly at skangers. They weren't too pleased.

We then decided we would skip Dunshaughlan after what happened the year before, and proceeded to travel to Dublin. We however didn't make it that far and the bus broke down just beside the Blanchardstown shopping centre on the Dual Carrigeway. The radiator had gone on the bus!! We were going no where and were very very drunk and stoned. The lads weren't too happy and the bus driver went in search of help, two of the lads got oil and a gallon of water from a petrol station two miles down the road.

We started to get bored and the lads started climbing on top of the bus. One of them got a umbrella and started jumping off the bus with the umbrella (Mary Poppins style!). One of them took the umbrella off him and threw it into the hedge on the side of the road and another ran after it and jumped into the hedge. He then got it ran across the jual carrigeway and jumped over the mid margin head first, just missing a car on the other side, jumped back over, ran back across the road and jumped in the hedge again!

An hour had passed and we were getting restless, one of the lads got a brush and threw it across the carrigeway and it hit a car on the other side of the margin (possibly the windscreen of the car because you could hear a smash). We were nearly sure a paddy wagon would turn up and arrest the lot of us! A guy was cycling down the road on his bike just beside where the bus had broke down and a guy on our bus went after him with the umbrella, nearly hitting him. He stopped up the road and rang someone on his mobile (not sure who because the guards didn't show up).

When the two lads got back with the oil and the water for the radiator on the bus. Neither had any effect on the engine. We decided to pour some of our beer into the radiator (It still didn't work, surprise, surprise). We started soaking each other with the water and threw the oil across the road. Then we started burning a few seats on the bus, ripped one of the seats so there was nothing on it only the wood and steel on it. Ripped a few of the poles at the front of the bus out of place and one of the lads even kicked the window out of the bus onto the road.

The bus driver came back with two mini busses for us all and he was not too happy but he knew not to say anything to us because of the state we were in at the time.

The whole incident was mentioned by someone complaining about it on the Gerry Ryan show the next morning. But no one got in any trouble over it!!

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Thankfully we have matured alot more since these incidents and now vow only to annoy people rather than smash things up!

Ronan|Raven

Pornapster that was fudging hilarious How the cops werent called/showed up to the dual carrigeway I do not know!

cournioni

Funnily enough, we were on the exact same bus on the way up to both Metallica gigs, and everything was repaired. This time the people that owns the busses had two people on the bus, one to drive and the others to watch us!

sickle

went to tattoo the planet a few years ago, puked ,fell over,went crowd surfing and lost my shoe and the fly on my pants broke so i was flashin everyone all night..then had to walk home with one shoe

Ronan|Raven

Ah tattoo the planet still have a ticket for that unused. Part of "the mans" plan to stop me seeing slayer, have had tickets to see them 3 odd times now. Still to see them once!

Faddymackshyte

At a friends gig in Drogheda, the bassist of a band(I don't wanna shame him) placed his bass on the ground as he was thanking the crowd foor their generous applause when............snap, he stood on it and broke it. Just to look cool, he picked it up and started smashing the utter crap out of it. Twas very funny to see!!!

Droogie

Ah tattoo the planet still have a ticket for that unused. Part of "the mans" plan to stop me seeing slayer, have had tickets to see them 3 odd times now. Still to see them once!

What? Why? How could this happen? you're not heartbroken? What? This is a travesty?!!!! Why have u been stopped? Why?

Ronan|Raven

It is called getting old(er) and enjoying starting jobs and doing courses the days they were on

Droogie

Sucks man... **** growin' up... But how the hell did u have a course/job starting at night? The gig would've been on at nightime... :eek:

Ronan|Raven

When you have no transport and you have to get back for the next day from one part of the country to next man it aint easy done

Unless you happen to know of some secret organisation that will let you walk in when you feel like it?

Redleslie2

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Then when we were going through Navan, we had some left over melted ice pop's and we threw them out the windows at people walking along the road, particularly at skangers.

You are a scanger.

An hour had passed and we were getting restless, one of the lads got a brush and threw it across the carrigeway and it hit a car on the other side of the margin (possibly the windscreen of the car because you could hear a smash). We were nearly sure a paddy wagon would turn up and arrest the lot of us! A guy was cycling down the road on his bike just beside where the bus had broke down and a guy on our bus went after him with the umbrella, nearly hitting him. He stopped up the road and rang someone on his mobile (not sure who because the guards didn't show up).

Haha. It's funny because someone minding their own business could've got hurt by morons. :rolleyes: Please don't breed.

Droogie

Ronan|Raven wrote:

When you have no transport and you have to get back for the next day from one part of the country to next man it aint easy done

Unless you happen to know of some secret organisation that will let you walk in when you feel like it?

I understand now.. Thank you for explaining...

cournioni

Redleslie2 wrote:

You are a scanger.

Haha. It's funny because someone minding their own business could've got hurt by morons. :rolleyes: Please don't breed.

Touched a nerve? Indeed, it was moronic when I look back. That's why I find it funny.

BobTheBeat

I remember coming back from Metallica in '98 (I was nowt but 17 at the time). Anyways just after the curragh (heading south west you see), bus stopped for a pee spree. We all got out took a piss had a fag blah blah, got back on the bus. There was a load o fellas at the back from ennis who were smokin the ole wacky tobacky, one of whom pulled the biggest whitener since forever. Anyways, he had gotten off to get sick and take a sh*t. The bus driver was gettin fairly irate when we all got back on and was shoutin, "Is everyone on, is everyone on!". People were too pissed to disagree or to say no, so the bus driver assumed all was well and proceeded to drive away.
Then this fellas friends started roarin "wait! there's someone running throught fields!"... yer man was runnin down the side of the embankment, with his pants around his ankles and a big puke stained t-shirt flapping in the wind. Bus driver stopped, legend got on,... lots of laughing ensued...

Giblet

NeMiSiS wrote:

Also once watched a band trash a kit.. the drummer picked up the bass drum lashed it off the wall.. where upon it bounced back hit him in the face and knocked him unconscience. When he came around, he was so annoyed he took the drum out the door and ****ed it into the liffey.

Hah I remember that, the funny thing was, he trashed the kit on stage with our drummers cymbal! He was about to throw yer man in the liffey


I don't really have many stories, once in Whelans, backstage drinking, and me and the drummer get in a little skirmish, and he throws beer over me just before we are about to go on. So I was in the jacks under the blower drying my crotch off.

We still played good though.

Our bassist also sliced his finger really badly before another gig, and got blood all over his new jazz bass.

Droogie

At a gig in The Black box in Galway one time, this guy called Mat with a Pantera shirt on went on stage with a local band who were playing to sing a song with them.. He didi this quite well but at the end of the song, I could see what was about to happen.. He exclaimed into the mic "Now i am going to jump into you all"...

The fact that this guy was stoned off his face didnt help as he could probably not comprehend that there wasnt that many people up near the front of the stage.. so he jumped...

And me and a couple of other guys jumped to catch him and stop him from landing on his head and gave him a bit of a premature landing...

Later on, i ****ed up me ankle in the pit and i got kicked out.. this guy was outside and i started talking to him and it was only then that I actually realised how stoned and drunk he was.. It was like talkin to a 16 year old OzzY!

crazy angel

twas funny watchin this really really bad, support, one man act get bottled off stage! god bless him in his wooly jesus jumper and bottle of water! especially when he actually started to apologise saying he wasnt here to ruin the night on purpose!

L.W

a crazy old man stole my friends ticket when we were standing outside vicar st. this girl came outa no where and pushed him on to the ground and rang the guards. he shoved the ticket down his trousers then got up and tried to run off. the bouncers told me to grab him so i did but then he tried to hit me with his cane so i let go. a few minutes later this bogger guard turned up on a bike and started asking us all our details including date of birth and the bouncers had asked for id when we were going to go in earlier and we had other peoples passports and garda id but they didnt say anything to us thank god and neither did the guard. it really wasnt funny at the time.