I went to see Obituary and Wormrot last night and there was a fella with an urn with Metal stickers on it, holding in the air while headbanging. Odd to say the least, never got a chance to ask him if it was an old friend or kvlt accessory.
I'm sure a few on here have some mad stories, let's hear 'em!
I saw someone stabbing themselves in the head while ejaculating onto a polar bear that was juggling chain saws while operating a unicycle on a trampoline.
I saw Judas Priest asking for £35 for black Gildan t-shirts in Belfast a few years ago.
Actually, it may have been £45.
Not exactly outrageous, but these days it probably would be...
90s festivals....
The plastic bottle fights (half full of ketchup/ piss/ whatever) were a sight to behold, 100s of bottles in the air!!
Being able to park your car beside your tent at donington, so if it was lashing, just sleep in car.
Fires burning all over the camp site, and at Metallica Milton Keynes, fires burning inside the gig, looked immense.
Ballicks to health and safety
The last couple of years I have noticed a steady influx of girls at metal shows-which I fully support. However a lot of them think they are at a rave they way they move to the music. I think it was enslaved in the Tivoli where I saw some young one gyrating and moving her hands like she was at Tiesto. That wasn't an isolated case either.
Wankers dressed up like babys at Hellfest a few years back. Each to their own but i just think it's retarted.
Yeah, the dressing up is completely bent.
Worst thing I seen? A lad drinking his own piss from a bottle outside Ozzfest 2002. He said he'd do it if people would give him money as he needed a ticket. Plenty of dopes threw cash at him and he fulfilled his obligation. After he took the final slug he wiped his mouth in his sleeve then stuck the fob on his missus.
Please bear in mind they both looked like something out of the hills have eyes. Probably up from Longford.
Slipknot getting bottled off stage at Fury Fest in 2004. Just an endless barrage from when their backdrop went up until the very end where Paul Gray stood on the stage on his own and invited people up to fight. I've never seen such intense hatred towards a band. We were waiting for it to get really out of hand and making plans to leg it in case it did. Terrorizer did an article on it after and called it a riot. It wasn't a riot but if they didn't get off stage it might have turned into one.
Your man bringing a dead pigeon or some kind or dead rodent into Mayhem last year has to be up there?
At Metallica when they linkin park supporting. They started encouraging people to keep throwing shit up.. the guy beside us at the very front suddenly get's charged by 2 security guys at the front.
They pull a bowling pin from him... A FUCKING BOWLING PIN!!!
How he got it in or where he got it in ... not something I want to know!!!!
Quote from: Anton Arcane on January 22, 2020, 09:16:27 PM
Slipknot getting bottled off stage at Fury Fest in 2004.
I must say I really enjoyed that gig, but yeah couldn't understand the treatment they got.
I think it was the year after at FF that some strange punk guy was looking for money for drink off anyone in return for wanking them off or giving them a BJ?? Well messed up, along with guys shooting heroin in the carpark outside.
Craziest thing that comes to mind though would be Biohazard and their roadies tackling the heavy handed security at the Tivoli after giving them a few warnings about beating up kids. 1994 I think it was? Band discarded instruments and jumped on them while their crew came in from the sidelines. the way their roadie "Tiny" held a security guard aloft and pummeled him was a fair oul shock, especially for the security guy I imagine!! Would have been class to have a video of all that!
I'll never understood the type of dribblers that peg shit at a band. If you don't like then, surely it's a better idea to go for a piss/the bar/the overpriced chip van.
Once saw two pairs of eejits do a four-man wall of death in the Cruiscin Lán at a gig there one time - possibly Sikth? Not sure. Anyway, it was a four-man wall of death with a difference.... there was one guy each shouldercarrying another. Must've been well wrecked. Total eejitage.
Quote from: Snare on January 22, 2020, 10:18:51 PM
I think it was the year after at FF that some strange punk guy was looking for money for drink off anyone in return for wanking them off or giving them a BJ?? Well messed up, along with guys shooting heroin in the carpark outside.
Jesus can't remember that punk incident!,we got a big block of hash off fellas outside in that carpark,literally none of us could speak back in the apartment the stuff was that potent!
Quote from: Anton Arcane on January 22, 2020, 09:16:27 PM
Slipknot getting bottled off stage at Fury Fest in 2004. Just an endless barrage from when their backdrop went up until the very end where Paul Gray stood on the stage on his own and invited people up to fight. I've never seen such intense hatred towards a band. We were waiting for it to get really out of hand and making plans to leg it in case it did. Terrorizer did an article on it after and called it a riot. It wasn't a riot but if they didn't get off stage it might have turned into one.
Ya was at that. Some sight to behold. They did a sound check earlier in the day and ran over so everyone's set got cut by 5 to 10 mins hence the backlash.
At monsters of rot in enniskillen a buck was wearing a nappy as he said he pissed himself so much it was just easier to wear one. Probably right but looked ridiculous.
I went to see Behemoth and a bunch of random Polish bands in the Camden Underworld in the early 2000s , halfway through some crusty lad wanders up to the infamous pillar ,blazes up and then proceeds to bed down and have a kip. He stayed there sleeping undisturbed by the dozens of people moshing around him for at least a couple of bands.
Oh and seeing a yoked out tranny fingerbang some girl at the bar during Cryptopsy /Cattle Decapitation gig in the Pint a few years ago always makes me laugh .
Quote from: Weltenfeind on January 23, 2020, 04:16:25 PM
I went to see Behemoth and a bunch of random Polish bands in the Camden Underworld in the early 2000s , halfway through some crusty lad wanders up to the infamous pillar ,blazes up and then proceeds to bed down and have a kip. He stayed there sleeping undisturbed by the dozens of people moshing around him for at least a couple of bands.
Oh and seeing a yoked out tranny fingerbang some girl at the bar during Cryptopsy /Cattle Decapitation gig in the Pint a few years ago always makes me laugh .
Funnily enough when Behemoth played at Vicar Street last year there was a lad in the back corner to the right of the stage who completely missed the set because he was fast asleep.
Went to Leeds festival every year when I was in college and there were some apocalyptic events there. Saw a girl who'd fallen through the long-drop toilets covered in shit one year, then a full-scale riot the next where a load of first aid tents and maintenance vans were burnt out. Security were all loyalists from Belfast and showed no mercy, the next morning there was a load of banging on the perimeter fence and some lads were shouting through to us saying they'd been kicked around the back of a Land Rover and driven out to the middle of nowhere. The next morning the place was a sea of melted tents with black smoke everywhere and security were still charging the place hammering anybody who put a foot wrong.
On a lighter note, it isn't a gig but a few years ago a couple of us back home went on an all-day session (I was drinking triple whiskey and sambuca before 11am), then to watch an indy wrestling show. My mate, who always gets too proud and emotional when he drinks, took umbrage with something one of the 'heel' wrestlers said to the crowd after a match. I turned to his soon-to-be-wife (now soon-to-be-divorcee) and said, "Don't worry, I've known him 30 years, he won't do anything stupid," then looked back at the ring to see him nose-to-nose with the wrestler. Security obviously dived in sharpish and he was banned for life.
Mine was probably the riots at my first and only Download festival back in 2006.
Quote from: Bogmetaller on January 22, 2020, 10:07:46 AM
The last couple of years I have noticed a steady influx of girls at metal shows-which I fully support. However a lot of them think they are at a rave they way they move to the music. I think it was enslaved in the Tivoli where I saw some young one gyrating and moving her hands like she was at Tiesto. That wasn't an isolated case either.
No way, that's insane, a woman dancing to music, what will they think of next?
Fuckin hell those Leeds Fests sound bananas!! :laugh:
Probably Charlie Sheen at the Slash gig in the Olympia a couple of years back. He came out at the start, tells a few jokes, introduces the band etc. Me and a mate are on the far left side of the first row of the upstairs seats, about 10 minutes into the gig the door opens to the private box to the left of us, a couple of people pile in and Sheen is with them.
I'm not one to care about celebrities but having Charlie Sheen five feet away from you spend over two hours coked off his absolute face dancing in a little box like a madman while the young wan next to him (who turned out to be a pornstar) looks completely pissed off like she's babysitting him was a pretty fucking unique gig experience.
This was like peak tiger blood era Charlie Sheen too :laugh:.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 27, 2020, 10:26:02 PM
Quote from: Bogmetaller on January 22, 2020, 10:07:46 AM
The last couple of years I have noticed a steady influx of girls at metal shows-which I fully support. However a lot of them think they are at a rave they way they move to the music. I think it was enslaved in the Tivoli where I saw some young one gyrating and moving her hands like she was at Tiesto. That wasn't an isolated case either.
No way, that's insane, a woman dancing to music, what will they think of next?
I enjoyably moved to a beat once, it was awful
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 27, 2020, 10:26:02 PM
Quote from: Bogmetaller on January 22, 2020, 10:07:46 AM
The last couple of years I have noticed a steady influx of girls at metal shows-which I fully support. However a lot of them think they are at a rave they way they move to the music. I think it was enslaved in the Tivoli where I saw some young one gyrating and moving her hands like she was at Tiesto. That wasn't an isolated case either.
No way, that's insane, a woman dancing to music, what will they think of next?
Should they have brought their glow sticks to a metal concert as well then ya?? Fuck sake
Quote from: Bogmetaller on January 28, 2020, 10:15:15 PM
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on January 27, 2020, 10:26:02 PM
Quote from: Bogmetaller on January 22, 2020, 10:07:46 AM
The last couple of years I have noticed a steady influx of girls at metal shows-which I fully support. However a lot of them think they are at a rave they way they move to the music. I think it was enslaved in the Tivoli where I saw some young one gyrating and moving her hands like she was at Tiesto. That wasn't an isolated case either.
No way, that's insane, a woman dancing to music, what will they think of next?
Should they have brought their glow sticks to a metal concert as well then ya?? Fuck sake
Sure fuck it, might as well
I'm now bringing glow sticks to all gigs I go to.
I was at Sigur Ros in The Olympia around 2005. Happily sipping a pint and waiting for them to come on. I wasn't a big fan of theirs (still not) but the person I went with was mad into them. The lights went down, the lads start up. After a few minutes;
"Let's get a bit closer to the front."
"Right so" says I spotting a gap to make a path "Argh-hey-aaaaaah-fuuuuuuck!".
Next thing I know, I'm on the ground looking up. Bounced shoulder first onto the floor. I'd fallen over a fella wearing a brown duffle coat, brown corduroy pants and brown brogues (he looked like a sepia photograph) with a backpack on who was kneeling down, kneeling fucking down, in the middle of the standing area. Next to him was a peak-emo girl (mid-00s remember) also kneeling down and stroking your man's hair.
"What in the fuck?! What are you doing?!"
"He's actually writing poetry? This is how he gets inspired?"
"Poetry! I just nearly broke my fucking neck! Could he not wear a hi-viz jacket or something at least?"
She waved me away.
About 10 minutes later I heard "Arrrrgh-good Jaysis!" and then a splash from behind me. Followed by "Bleedin' poetry?!"
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Don't think I could even be angry at that, that's just fucking amazing
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