That annoying drunk guy in the crowd.

lloyd

We did a gig on Saturday night in a cool little basement venue in Chorlton. Gig went great and all that. 

There was this extremely drunk older guy in his late 60's who was a bit 'special' not in a major way but looked like an ex hippie who'd done too many acids back in the day and his head never screwed back on properly.

Anyway we set up and he's stood basically right next to me and dancing like a lunatic swills his beer on me, my guitar, pedals etc and my leads are sitting in a small puddle of beer. He nearly takes out the PA speaker which is right in front of my on a chair and I basically played half the gig one one leg propping up the speaker and sometimes pushing the guy back into the crowd....All good fun I guess but could have done with more help off the organiser, who was pulling the guy back at times but needed to sort him out properly. 

What do you do in this situation? I'm more of a get on with the gig as it was going great and didn't want to slow the momentum, quick wipe of the guitar and pedals and no harm done I suppose. He was entertaining the crowd too so I'm loathe to get pissy on someone like that who is enjoying themself....

Jalapeno

Nag the organisers.  Get all Health & Safety on their asses - "We've warned you, if he hurts himself or anyone else it is YOUR responsibility" ... then twat him, Keef style, with a Tele

lloyd

Haha I was playing a tele, I couldn't have brained him though, he was enjoying himself and the crowd loved hime-like a fat bearded Bez!

randomhandclaps

Stuff him.  You've got to admit he would make an interesting subject for your next taxidermy lesson.

lloyd

randomhandclaps said:

Stuff him.  You've got to admit he would make an interesting subject for your next taxidermy lesson.

He'd stink the amount of beer that was inside him, his gut was huge too. Even I would get squeamish at disecting that.....

mike_l

That's exactly what point hedstocks are for. A quick jab to the eye he'll soon bugger off........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do not do this. Really. Don't.

 

 

 

Shark_Eyes

I always thought Chorlton was a classy place?

You sound like you dealt with it well, although the organiser should've helped a bit more, but well done you for getting through the gig and still enjoying yourself.

digitalscream

Ask the organiser/venue if they've paid up their insurance, because you'll probably have to claim on it. They usually sort things out pretty quickly after that.

lloyd

It was just a bit of a raucous gig in a small basement, show must go on and all that-I couldn't see myself stopping mid-gig to sort all that out....I'd have dealt with him myself but more forcibly if he was that much of a problem.

ToneControl

I think that sounds like Bish

DesVegas

NO ONE MESSES WITH MY PEDALS!!

I'm afraid to say i probably would have let the speaker fall on top of him (then nicked all his acid)

lloyd

No the speaker would have fallen onto me, so I had to put my leg out to stop him!

I'm not that precious about my gear to be honest, a quick wipe in between tunes and they were fine.

DesVegas

well then carry on having fun : )

lloyd

DesVegas said:

well then carry on having fun : )

It was a fun night, good laugh and he was dancing like a loon enjoying himself, totally unaware of what he was doing! Would have been worse without the speaker there to be honest-could have had a whole pint on my gear rather than the 1/4 of one that gort through!

 

Cabicular

Yeah we get that sometimes or the occasional drunkard trying to paw our singer (she is small and very pretty)

A quick shout to the bouncers and landlord during the break can sort it out. I've onced finished a set early when it was getting out of hand

Never publicly lash out at them though. You don't know the landscape so it's best to let the proprietor deal with it

I've placed my hand on someones chest to stop them climbing over the monitors but thats it as far as physical contact.

As I said you have to be wary of the local landscape but you are providing a service so you don't have to put up with it

lloyd

Bouncers? You're spoilt! 

No it wasn't at a level that needed anything more doing to be honest, organiser or the PA guy Who was stood right next to me) could have maybe pulled/pushed him back a bit but there we go.

ToneControl

ToneControl said:

I think that sounds like Bish

Bish was a guy who used to dance like that at UMIST rock discos in the 80s

Strangely, I think he never touched drugs

koneguitarist

Similar thing happened to me in a gig in Glastonbury a few years back, I grabbed the guy and threw him across the room. He took a table out and some others inc landlord took exception to him and threw him out of pub after that.

Tom_Brookes

Yeah it can be a toughie dealing with people like that....can be fun though too as long as it harmless.

....and on the rare occassion that I actually go to see agig, it's normally me that's drunk and dancing like a tit/heckling the band (99% of gigs that I go to will be my mates bands!)

firepaulmusic

koneguitarist said:

Similar thing happened to me in a gig in Glastonbury a few years back, I grabbed the guy and threw him across the room. He took a table out and some others inc landlord took exception to him and threw him out of pub after that.

You're an animal!

Travisthedog

the headstock of any guitar can be a very good deterrent when inserted into the rib cage area very hard