Gallows Singer Groped At Riotous Gig

12/03/08 3:34pm

People went to a small London, England pub on Tuesday night to see Gallows play material from their forthcoming album, but rampant destruction and groping probably left a bigger impression on them.

Singer Frank Carter crowdsurfed from the stage to the bar of Old Blue Last and broke a chandelier mid-journey during the punk band's first song, "Come Friendly Bombs." Happy with his work, he decided to take it up a notch and asked the crowd to "destroy" the place, according to an NME.com report.

"What I wanna see is people diving off the bar, diving off the stage. I wanna see fucking carnage," Carter said. "I've already taken out that chandelier and now I've got my eye on that one over there."

Carter didn't let the huddled masses down. He wrecked the other chandelier when crowd members lifted him up to the ceiling.

But one overzealous audience member apparently grabbed something he shouldn't have: Carter's crotch.

Carter threw down his microphone and leapt from the stage during "Vulture" and reportedly hit the alleged offender several times in the head. The vocalist and his brother, guitarist Steph Carter, then followed the man to the back of the pub, grabbed him, whispered something in his ear and pushed him toward the exit.

"If it was a girl on stage getting groped, I think she'd have a problem with it," Carter explained after returning. "And just because I'm a boy does not mean that I like getting my dick felt. I don't really appreciate that!

"I'm here to play a show — not to be someone's fucking sex toy. That shit winds me up. Be it girl or boy, I don't like getting touched. Do I look the kind of guy that likes to be approached like that? I mean, most girls won't talk to me because of that reason!"

(Carter should probably relax. While this seems to be an isolated incident, Santez constantly has to deal with fans groping him, and he handles it with a gracious smile.)

The Gallows' performance continued, and seven of the 15 songs they played were new. You'll be able to hear studio versions of them when the follow-up to Orchestra Of Wolves comes out sometime next year.