6. Madina Lake/Coheed And Cambria - The worst onstage fight ever?
If you were going to pick the best possible fight between two bands who would you go for? Slayer vs Machine Head? Down vs Black Label Society? Whoever you’d opt for, the chances are you didn’t pick the weasels from Madina Lake and Coheed and Cambria but these two puny-weights squared off onstage at Brixton Academy earlier this year. Madina Lake had threatened to use their balloons filled with glitter, Coheed threatened a ruck if one tiny fleck of glitter flew into the Brixton air and when Madina dared to show their masculinity by letting off the sparkly inflatable, it all came to a head. Mascara was smudged, handbags were used as deadly assault weapons and many an emo tear was spilt.
5. Slipknot - Sid splats a fan
Regardless of what you thought about their music, when Slipknot broke into the public eye in 1999 they were indisputably madder than a barrel of badgers. Clumping each other before going onstage, sniffing dead crows in jars…you name it and they were up to it but they took it a tad too far while onstage at the Wolverhampton Civic hall in 2000. After climbing the speaker stack and making his way onto the venue’s balcony, gas-masked mentalist Sid Wilson then proceeded to launch himself onto the crowd below. It all looked very heroic and rock and roll until it transpired that he’d managed to land straight onto the head of a 19 year old girl, hospitalising her in the process. Still beats shoe-gazing though, doesn’t it?
