Funniest thing you've seen at a gig?

poundhound · 25-11-2008 05:24PM #1

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 · 25-11-2008 07:05PM

Dylan Moran.

sambora · 25-11-2008 07:27PM

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

Furious-Red · 25-11-2008 08:11PM

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

deisedolly · 26-11-2008 01:02AM

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 · 08-12-2008 06:12PM

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 · 08-12-2008 11:05PM

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

Dubliner28 · 09-12-2008 12:39PM

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

Sir Gallagher · 14-12-2008 09:40PM

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 · 14-12-2008 09:55PM

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 · 14-12-2008 09:59PM

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 · 14-12-2008 11:18PM

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 · 15-12-2008 02:23AM

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 · 17-12-2008 02:12PM

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 · 18-12-2008 12:21PM

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 · 18-12-2008 01:35PM

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 · 18-12-2008 01:40PM

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 · 18-12-2008 03:10PM

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 · 18-12-2008 03:25PM

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 · 18-12-2008 03:30PM

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 · 18-12-2008 04:10PM

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

lord lucan · 19-12-2008 09:50PM

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 · 19-12-2008 09:53PM

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 · 22-12-2008 04:50PM

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 · 22-12-2008 08:46PM

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 · 22-12-2008 09:44PM

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 · 23-12-2008 02:11AM

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 · 23-12-2008 01:54PM

Bonking into gigs is usually the funniest thing ever.

I am pie · 23-12-2008 02:14PM

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 · 26-12-2008 01:08PM

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 · 26-12-2008 02:57PM

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.

Funniest thing you've seen at a gig?

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