Madina Lake and Coheed and Cambria Encounter the English Drama Llama in It’s Native Habitat
Published on February 11, 2008 by Daniel Taylor · 8 Comments
During last night’s date of the Coheed and Cambria / Madina Lake / Circa Survive UK tour in Brixton, some building drama between headliners Coheed and support band Madina Lake apparently boiled over into fisticuffs, when a member of Madina Lake’s crew was apparently served in the middle of the band’s set by Coheed’s TM. From the band’s Myspace blog:
hey guys, it’s important to us that you know this. what happened had nothing to with balloons, confetti, how we were treated or anything like that. the tour manager of coheed physically attacked a member of our family, right there on stage in front of everyone. our dude was trying to do his job and this guy grabbed him and punched him in the face on stage in front of 5k people right in the middle of a song. fan, friend, enemy…it doesn’t matter…i’m sure you can all agree that you would defend your family if they were assaulted right in front of you, completely unprovoked. we want this to blow over as much as you guys so we won’t sit here and whine about the other shit (we never did and never will).. here’s to you and your support and how much we love you all .. cheers bitches.
You can see a bit of the action towards the end of this video off to the right of the screen:
UPDATE: The plot thickens. According to the chatter on the venerable Absolutepunk.net, the Coheed camp’s side of the story is a little different. It goes thusly:
“So, about halfway through the tour, ML was asked kindly to stop using confetti-filled balloons onstage so that the stage would not be a confetti and water covered disaster area for Coheed’s set. A simple enough request, but ML continued to use the balloons for every night after that. Before the show that all this happened at, there was a big meeting with all the bands, the tour managers, and the Kerrang manager. The agreement was that ML has GOT to stop using the balloons, and they agreed to that.
But, before their set, someone found 20 or so filled balloons that they had hidden away so no one would find them. This made Claudio very mad, because it was a simple request that they even agreed to honor. So he went and popped all of the balloons beforehand with a pen so they couldn’t use those and had no time to fill more.
This made ML angry. So they were dissing Coheed onstage. And then one of ML’s guitar techs comes out with a big box of confetti to dump over everything. One of Coheed’s techs sees this and grabs him in an attempt to stop him. When ML sees this, the band comes over to Coheed’s tech and beat him with their own instruments.”
DAMN.
Tags: Brixton, Coheed and Cambria, Drama, Madina Lake
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what a load of bullshit! i was there and coheeds management started it and the ml guitar tech didnt even have confetti.
it s only confetti madina lake are clearly more mature not making up stories!
“the band comes over to Coheed’s tech and beat him with their own instruments.â€>>>>> only one of them had an instrument!
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Look, if you watch the video, the guy throws the confetti, then is pulled off. Then, the two guitarists and vocalist run over to the guys. If the band had been asked to stop throwing confetti and balloons and whatever and agreed to it, they should actually quit doing it. Coheed’s tech guy was trying to stop him from doing what he was not supposed to do, what Madina Lake had agreed to not do. The “beat him” part seems a little far fetched, I’ll admit. But you’re deluded about almost everything you said. The guy threw the confetti first, meaning he obviously had it.
i don’t think it’s wrong for a band to WANT the fans to have a good time. but even if they were wrong for makin the balloons, i mean jeez you don’t ruin someone else’s performance by FIGHTING ON STAGE!!!!!! just one box of confetti. they coulda just talked to the band after the show and tell em if they do it again, they’ll be kicked off. instead, coheed guys just seem like lil kids. “we don’t get what we want, we’re gonna fight!! waaa!!” whatever
To me it seems that Madina Lake were trying to put on the best show possible for their fans and Coheed did not want to be outshone by a support act, it is a shame that their tour manager attacked one of MLs crew. I would have done exactly the same thing as ML and I think Coheed were in the wrong.
exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like coheed and cambria (but a more of a ML fan), but still that was just wrong but coheed did. llllaaammmeeeeee
There is no way Madina Lake can outshine Coheed.. so Vagina Lake have straighter hair and play childish gimmicks onstage.. Coheed are about real music, not flavour of the month pre-pubescent trends. A few balloons is a cheap stage show anyway if you ask me. Claud did the right thing in popping them if a rule was blatently disregarded by ML.
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i think Coheed was right seriously, thats just respecting another band im sure if this situation was reversed madina lake would ask the same thing. And honestly Coheed would defiantly win in anyone could tell simply by putting a picture of each band next to eachother and asking ppl on the street. The guys of Coheed are clearly bigger. the whole this is stupid.
Ever heard of a brush?
Coheed, or madina could of simply brushed the confetti off the stage.
I was at a ML concert last night,
they clearly love having the confetti balloons,
and so did everyone else, soo you know..