(19th February) Woot! Evan Dando goes psycho, attacks fan!
Just got back from the Evan Dando show at Bar Bodega. It was a good gig, until Evan went psycho, jumped into the crowd, and started fighting this one guy.

He was playing solo, and it was a very quiet gig. Through most of the show this one guy was singing along really loudly, and out of tune. Most of the crowd were pretty pissed off at this. At the end of the show, Evan started singing a capella. This guy shouted something. Evan gave him the fingers (um, 'flipped him the bird' I think Americans say? ). The guy shouted something else, and all of a sudden Evan leapt off the stage and tackled him. They were wrestling for a while and the guy ended up on top of Evan, trying to punch him, with other audience members screaming at him and hauling him off, as you'd expect.

The crowd managed to seperate them and someone led Evan off with their arm around him. Then someone else said something to the abusive guy, and he head-butted him, knocking him to the ground. He looked in quite a bit of pain - he didn't get up quickly, anyway. (I left at this point, the vibes were getting pretty bad as you can imagine).

I didn't see if either Evan or the abusive guy threw a punch, or if they just wrestled, but it certainly looked as if they were trying to.

Evan had been acting a bit weird through the night, when he went off before the encore he spent some time trying to smash a mic stand, but gave up without doing any real damage. And towards the end he walked away from the mic and sang unaccompanied from the side of the stage.

Shame, as it was a good gig. He played 25 songs (or so he told us), most of the well-known Lemonheads ones, and the crowd, while not huge, had enjoyed the night.

Interesting way to end the night. When they were rolling on the floor wrestling, they were basically at my feet - they were close enough that I could have punched either of them. 
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