Bring Me The Horizon is one of my top favorite bands, I absolutely love them and their music makes me feel so good inside. Their latest album is so fucking good that it's almost hard to handle. Nothing will ever change these things, not even anything the members of the band decide to do because that doesn't really change the music. Still I can't possibly describe how what happened yesterday made me feel and how disgusted I felt to find out more today.
During the last song yesterday, the band stopped playing as the guitarist jumped into the crowd and started to beat someone the hell up. Other members joined him by jumping into the crowd. Once the singer got back on stage he shouted to the microphone that if anyone has a problem with them then get the fuck out and leave and if anyone has anything to say then get the fuck up on the stage and say it.
Bring Me The Horizon was supporting Machine Head which meant that basically half of the people were the bulk metalheads who were there to see the main act, and the rest were there for BMTH, which I guess didn't match very well. I recall someone being very hostile towards the band throughout the whole show (shouting stuff with middle fingers in the air) and that's what probably started the whole fight. Nevertheless if a middle finger is what initiated the fight, I think the band has a lot to learn.
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| The guitarist broke his arm. |
I got back home and returned to the events of the night passed. Found another video on YouTube that I had missed earlier at the beginning of last month. It was from a BMTH show in Utah when a group of hardcore kids rushed the stage. The incident started when the concert goers threw water bottles at the singer and he threw water right back while calling them pussies. 20-30 people rushed the stage to throwdown. Only a few made it up but the rest started fights in the crowd. The guitarist on stage right brought his guitar down on the head of one of the attackers. The band quickly left the stage and the whole group of attackers ran out the side door towards the buses. There were several fights that night and a couple guys totally knocked out. After 30 minutes, BMTH returned and played a short set.
It makes me so incredibly sad that people feel so suppressed, angry or anxious that they need to act out in violence. That is never the answer, never ever. As it was completely stupid and arrogant for the people in the crowd to act so disrespectfully, that's also no excuse for the band to return with violence. In the other hand though I don't know the band per se I've met several members of the band in interview situations and considered them harmless and nice, that makes me think about how unsafe the stage must feel for them after the several attacks. Afterall we all do know how Dimebag Darrell passed away due to no fault of his own.
The kids have a lot to prove BUT the kids have a lot to learn...
XOXO
Joanna
2 COMMENTS:
You make a good, valid and important point.
I am a metalhead who was there for DevilDriver and Machine Head. Darkest hour was a pleasant surprise while to me personally BMTH failed.
They have good basslines but I still feel they might be excellent in maybe five to ten years down the line musically (that is just my opinion) and while the band got points by bringing their fan up to stage to sing with them the following fight and their attitude after that took it all away.
I hope they grow up as people too.
Yet I feel your comparison to Dimebag Darrell isn't quite right.
Dimebag's fate is horrendous shame and loss to all music and was product of schizopheric demended mind instead of actions of the band.
The other bands felt no need to pick a fight with the audience, they had nothing to prove other then musically.
Being middleaged male metalhead I still hope that this particular band sticks to music and loses the attitude. Someone will always hate you no matter who you are.
The security at circus and the restraint shown by the fans of the other bands was what stopped escalation.
That is sad on infinite scale.
I just hope the britons learn their lesson before they play to a crowd where grown men and women haven't yet outgrown from physical response to adolescent behaviour.
No one needs that.
We just want to have music that speaks to us.
Thank you for your long comment.
Like I mentioned this is one of my favorite bands and I was still shocked at what happened.
I know the case of Dimebag very well and that was my point exactly, what happened to him had nothing to do with the way he acted. I just meant that it showed how vulnerable artists on stage actually are and how easy it is to get attack even if you're just playing, let alone picking a fight in particular like this time.
After writing this post I also herd another version of the guitarist innocently stage diving into the crowd and the bully starting to beat him up. I can only hope this is true but it wouldn't take away my shock towards what happened.
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