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Gerry1time said:
I was told by a friend that he was pissed off for no reason, as ever, and stormed off stage with 8 songs left to play. But this is taking it away from this thread, ps hes shaging the new voilinest.
Best heckles you've heard
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I was told by a friend that he was pissed off for no reason, as ever, and stormed off stage with 8 songs left to play. But this is taking it away from this thread, ps hes shaging the new voilinest.
AverageJoe
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A long long time ago (in a galaxy etc etc ) I was in a pub and tey were showing the Benn v Eubank boxing on two TV's with a band playing a set in between the two. the TV's were on silent and the band were a typical pub covers version effort.
Anyway, it got about halfway through the fight, which was what *everyone* was watching when the band finished a song. Someone called out "Do you do requests?", to which the lead singer, doing his best bingo caller impression said "Of course, son".
And the whole crowd in unison went
"then FUCK OFF!!!!!"
heh
To which the band launched flawlessly into "Eye of the Tiger"
Everyone was a winner. ha!
Anyway, it got about halfway through the fight, which was what *everyone* was watching when the band finished a song. Someone called out "Do you do requests?", to which the lead singer, doing his best bingo caller impression said "Of course, son".
And the whole crowd in unison went
"then FUCK OFF!!!!!"
heh
To which the band launched flawlessly into "Eye of the Tiger"
Everyone was a winner. ha!
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Favourite unintentional heckle.
At a Devo concert, years ago, everyone in the front of the audience was spitting on the band. They thought that Devo were punk or something.
Devo didn't like it. They tried to indicate this, but the gobs kept flying.
Eventually, the lead singer and about six security guards jumped down off the stage, and beat the shit out of everyone standing within ten feet of the stage, then they went back on stage, and continued. The spitting stopped.
At a Devo concert, years ago, everyone in the front of the audience was spitting on the band. They thought that Devo were punk or something.
Devo didn't like it. They tried to indicate this, but the gobs kept flying.
Eventually, the lead singer and about six security guards jumped down off the stage, and beat the shit out of everyone standing within ten feet of the stage, then they went back on stage, and continued. The spitting stopped.
refugee said:Few years ago. PGCE lecture on equal opportunities. 350 students, feminist lecturer on "over achieving" boys and how often female genetalia used as term of abuse. Loud voice from back: "BOLLOCKS!!!" Uproar. Red face.
But fuck-all to do with music
good though!
One of my favourites was the famous one at a Huggy Bear gig in about 1992, when someone shouted "LESS STRUCTURE!"
Error Gorilla
My spoon is too big
Richard Hawley at the Salford Lowry this year:
"You're quiet. Isn't anyone going to say anything?"
From the crowd: "Yeah, fuck off back to Yorkshire!"
"Fuck off back to Yorkshire? Where are you from?"
"Lancashire!" comes the same voice.
"Yeah, but whereabouts?"
"Salford!"
"Salford's not Lancashire," says Hawley. "That's Manchester. Me dad was from Salford. He used to be a binman..." He's about to say he did deliveries. Boom and tish, etc.
"Did he do deliveries?" interjects the drunk, quick as a flash.
My girlfriend turns around to locate the source of the voice, which was a very drunk Christopher Ecclestone. She gets a text from Hawley later on: "Heckled by a Time Lord! Fuck me!"
Tuesday night, Sheffield City Hall. Hawley introduces his harmonica player Clive Mellor. "How did we meet again, Clive?"
From the front row: "Gay Times!"
"You're quiet. Isn't anyone going to say anything?"
From the crowd: "Yeah, fuck off back to Yorkshire!"
"Fuck off back to Yorkshire? Where are you from?"
"Lancashire!" comes the same voice.
"Yeah, but whereabouts?"
"Salford!"
"Salford's not Lancashire," says Hawley. "That's Manchester. Me dad was from Salford. He used to be a binman..." He's about to say he did deliveries. Boom and tish, etc.
"Did he do deliveries?" interjects the drunk, quick as a flash.
My girlfriend turns around to locate the source of the voice, which was a very drunk Christopher Ecclestone. She gets a text from Hawley later on: "Heckled by a Time Lord! Fuck me!"
Tuesday night, Sheffield City Hall. Hawley introduces his harmonica player Clive Mellor. "How did we meet again, Clive?"
From the front row: "Gay Times!"
There is an article in today's Times about opera singers being heckled in Italy.
One singer and a director responded on separate occasions by dropping their kecks on stage and mooning at the audience, another singer once got off stage, clambered into the box where the man heckling him was sat, and set about him with his wooden stage sword.
If opera was like that here I might go to it.
One singer and a director responded on separate occasions by dropping their kecks on stage and mooning at the audience, another singer once got off stage, clambered into the box where the man heckling him was sat, and set about him with his wooden stage sword.
If opera was like that here I might go to it.
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dash said:
i saw that on the news, he could not cope with being booed, so he just walked off stage.
Onket
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oryx said:<comedian gets heckled (at Jongleurs in Battersea, late 80s?)>
Comedian: Right, I want you all to stand up.
<audience gets to feet>
Comedian: Now I want you all to point at that bloke who's heckling me.
<audience points at heckler>
Comedian: Right, I'm going to count to three, and when I get to three, I want you all to shout 'WANKER!!!'
<audience does as instructed>
I bet it was a long time before the bloke heckled anyone again.
Bit of a cop out innit?
northernhord
Active Member
I remember hippy folkers The Sea slingin out bars of soap into audience many moons ago, they werent that clean themselves though
There's an infamous Bill Hicks gig in Chicago in 1991 floating around on Soulseek which turned into all-out war between Hicks and the audience. These are the two juiciest bits. It's become legendary among Hicks devotees, but much as I love him I always felt he let himself down here, and that he was in large part to blame for the gig degenerating.
It was going fine until a woman in the front row shouted 'you suck!' at him. Personally, I felt this reaction on his part was OTT, and you have to wonder if he'd have done the same if it was a bloke who said it:
The gig went steadily downhill for twenty minutes and culminated in this:
Many Hicks fans think this is fantastic. Personally, I don't agree. He's still the greatest stand-up ever, though.
It was going fine until a woman in the front row shouted 'you suck!' at him. Personally, I felt this reaction on his part was OTT, and you have to wonder if he'd have done the same if it was a bloke who said it:
The gig went steadily downhill for twenty minutes and culminated in this:
Many Hicks fans think this is fantastic. Personally, I don't agree. He's still the greatest stand-up ever, though.
Not really a heckle as such, but I went to see Paul Weller in Brighton a couple of weeks ago and during Wild Wood he was just stood there looking all pleased with himself while the audience sang. I shouted "Get on with it you old c***, we've paid to hear YOU sing". It cracked my girlfriend up, but no-one else seemed impressed.
Dr_Gonzo
differentclassradio.co.uk
I like heckles that kind of go along with a comedians act especially if things are going well. We were at a comedy night last year and saw a guy who was pretty good (I think he's on one of those panel shows on TV now) and came back on for an encore at the end after everyone was cheering loads, he got back on stage and as everyone calmed down a guy at the back shouted "Get off you're rubbish". Even the comedian laughed.
arronsmith
New Member
I'm with you. Didn't watch more than 30 seconds of the first one, didn't bother with the second at all. To me Bill Hicks is all about a Brontosaurus(sp?) with a thorn in its paw. Calling someone a 'drunk cunt' is most certainly not his greatest moment.Red O said:
arronsmith
New Member
I remember a heckler at a local festival being dragged up on stage and made to sit there and wear a pair of y-fronts (on his head, no less) for the remainder of the set. This included 10 minutes when the 'comedian' (he wasn't terribly funny, as I recall) went to the bar and instructed the y-front wearing individual to 'be funny' for the duration of his absence. The heckler (a good friend of mine) hasn't done it since.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
A driend of mine is a very good drummer, incredibly arrogant and a multi instrumentalist. I was at his bands gig and during a break between songs I screamed
'Play something the drummer knows!'
he didn't talk to me for a whole month
'Play something the drummer knows!'
he didn't talk to me for a whole month
brixtonvilla
should be Oslovilla, really
There's always the classic:
"No-one likes you! You must remember from school!"
"No-one likes you! You must remember from school!"
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Not a heckle as such but there was this guy who seemed to go to just about every concert at the Edinburgh Playhouse from about the mid 70's, through to the mid 1990s. At a suitably quiet moment in the performance, he would yell something along the lines of "Wayytaegobiggggmaaaannnn" in one of the loudest voices & most distinctive Scottish accents I'ver ever heard. Both in real life & on numerous bootlegs/audience recordings as well. 
At the comedy cellar in Dublin, during the marching season when there was lots of stuff on the news about trouble with the orange marches up north and the Garvaghy Road and such. Anyway the comedian does a big piece about rights to march, making fun of the orange men and Paisley.
He then asks "are there any foreigners or tourists in the crowd?', Big guy with shaved head says "yeah, I'm from Northern Ireland".
He then asks "are there any foreigners or tourists in the crowd?', Big guy with shaved head says "yeah, I'm from Northern Ireland".
jjuice said:
Fucking superb! Literally LOL!!!!!
!!1!!!1!!! 
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
I was at a Billy Bragg gig a few years back and he broke a string in the intro to levi stubb's tears. He chatted whilst he re-strung and just as he got ready to start again someone shouted out "Levi Stubb's tears please Bill".
It really gave him the giggles and he struggled to find his composure, especially as the gag was laboured throughout the gig.
It's all in the timing.
On the other hand before he went tea total Christy Moore used to have some great responses for hecklers
It really gave him the giggles and he struggled to find his composure, especially as the gag was laboured throughout the gig.
It's all in the timing.
On the other hand before he went tea total Christy Moore used to have some great responses for hecklers
jjuice said:Glad you enjoyed that William
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Error Gorilla said:
Another Hawley classic "You're from Rotherham aren't you? Gimmee six"
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