The Perils Of Outdoor Gigs
As many of us caught Kings of Leon on the Vertigo Tour, this unfortunate story will be of interest. Apparently, KoL met some creatures who didn’t quite like their music. While performing at the Verizon Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, the band were pelted by nesting pigeons with poo. Yes, that’s right. KoL had to cut their set after only playing 3 songs because it was becoming quite unhealthy.
This was one of the top stories of the day at CNN.com, and after reading the full account of what happened, I just have to feel sorry for them. This is one complaint I don’t recall Bono talking about in his 30+ years of being on the road.
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I saw this story on another site and the comments section was overloaded with statements from people who were there. They said that the two opening acts finished their sets and endured the pigeon assault, but KoL wimped out and left after a few songs. Apparently the band could have moved over a few feet to avoid the pigeons but chose to leave instead and angered the audience a great deal. Haven’t they heard of umbrellas?
Yeah, I’m sure they could have found some tents or something…U2 had those futuristic clear umbrella thingys when it rained. Germany, I think?
I just got back from a week long summer camp where at closing campfire me and my little brother were the first called up to stage to sing City of Blinding Lights achapello (I know I spelled that wrong -forgive me). Now THAT was an outdoor gig if I do say so myself. Preforming to the setting sun…
Oh! And Edge - we played some mean air guitar at the bridge just for you!