Gig injuries

[Edward Scissorhands]

What injuries have you picked up at gigs/witnessed at gigs?

Only brusing (and a couple of cuts today) for me, but got talking to someone at the Milburn gig who broke his leg at the fratellis gig. Ouch.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Took a bit of a kicking trying to get on stage at one of the Libertines' Christmas gigs. Took 3 of them to stop me getting on and they weren't exactly, err, gentle in their attempts to get me back in the crowd!!!

RAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

Did you actually tray and climb up there, or did you crowd surf, and just got carried away?

Saw one that must have been really painfil today. Some bloke was crowd surfing, and instead of coming to the ground on his feet, he fell with a massive thud, flat on his back

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Did you actually tray and climb up there, or did you crowd surf, and just got carried away?

Saw one that must have been really painfil today. Some bloke was crowd surfing, and instead of coming to the ground on his feet, he fell with a massive thud, flat on his back

No, actually tried to get on stage. It was the gig that was used for the video to 'Can't Stand Me Now'. They invited a stage invasion, but by the time I got to the front, security were wise to it.


Libertines

 

[Woodchip]

Only the usual Tinitus.

 

[Les Biehn]

Broken nose at a Blur concert, I was kneed in the face by a crowd surfer.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Broken nose at a Blur concert, I was kneed in the face by a crowd surfer.

Best way to deal with crowd surfers is to nick their shoes...

 

[Wardy]

Bruised ribs at a Verve concert. Was right at the front and there was a big push and I was squashed against the railings.

 

[Marc]

chrsit here we go:

got crushed at Donnington Monsters Of Rock 1996
Stage dived onto the ground for some reason
Crowd Surfing to Green Day and landed on my head
Obvious bruises from moshing over the years, they are most common!

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I fell off the balcony of the Brixton Accademy during a Ramones gig !! I was completely trolleyed at the time so all I did was hurt the person I landed on.
A very punk rock lucky escape !

 

[Charles 'Charley' Charles]

Bit of rib crushing at Donnington in '94, somehow done my ankle ligaments at the Blur gig in '97. Also had several bouts of sunburn over the years at festivals, not helped each time by my ever thinning hair

 

[Trufflehound]

I was minding my own business in the stalls during a Ramones gig at the Brixton Academy, when some pissed up twat falls off the balcony and lands on my head.

 

[Gwylan]

I was minding my own business in the stalls during a Ramones gig at the Brixton Academy, when some pissed up twat falls off the balcony and lands on my head.

I've never had an injury at a gig but a mate was beaten up by skinheads at a Sham 69 gig. And I saw some nasty incidents at The Clash in Crawley in 1978, easily the most scary gig I've been to.

 

[tinx]

The funniest injury I saw was a lead singer for a support band at a gig at Brixton academy, I can't remember the name of the band but they were utter shite and the lead singer decided to stage dive and rather then catch him everyone move dout of the way and the bloke lay on the floor int he middle of the pit being laughed at trying to finish the song before being picked up by the security staff.

 

[Stinky Kat]

I've never had an injury at a gig but a mate was beaten up by skinheads at a Sham 69 gig. And I saw some nasty incidents at The Clash in Crawley in 1978, easily the most scary gig I've been to.

I had the shit kicked out of me by skinheads at a Siouxsie gig at the Brighton Centre, Ju Ju tour.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

A Reggae band called Inner Circle were supporting Average White band at the Dome and the lead singer at the end of the concert ( which for a support band they were superb) threw the microphone stand down and it fell on to the folks in the front row ( moi).

I suffered a bruised head and cut a Ben Sherman tank top


Great gig though.


BTW Had a set to at a Specials gig in hammersmith with some pissed up skins. this twat pushed me over and I rearranged his nose....my hand hurt for weeks

 

[Rougvie]

The funniest thing I ever saw was Chappers getting a tooth knocked out at an Arctic Monkeys gig about a year or so back.

 

[Brovion]

Couple of injuries playing. I fell through a stage once in Holland, the floorboards were rotten. I jumped up in the air at one point in true rock star fashion and when I landed the floor gave way beneath me.

Another self-inflicted one was when I was playing in a band years ago and our manager was also a bouncer and martial arts freak. About an hour before we were supposed to play he came up to me and said he'd been learning this new grip on someone's arm that would incapacitate them by using pressure points and could he practise on me? Like an idiot I said yes. So I stuck my arm out and he squeezed it around the wrist/forearm area, there was no pain, just the feel of his fingers. He kept asking 'Does it hurt yet?' and I kept saying 'No'. All of a sudden just asd I was getting bored a blinding pain shot up my arm and I shouted "Yes that hurts now!". My arm was still numb an hour later and I had to play the gig one-handed. Fortuantely I was a keyboard player and it was just my left hand so apart from looking stupid it wasn't too bad.