I was once doing sound for some friends of mine at a battle of the bands in some nasty North of England **** hole of a town and this damn psychobilly band were on the same bill. "Spook and the Gouls" they were called. Anyway the idiot psychbilies did there set and well, it was crap. Our band came on and started to play. At that point the psychobillie's fans started to try and pull leads out of the desk. Less than amusing. We (and the bus load of now warlike and drunken fans that had accompanied) ended up getting a police escort out of town that night !!

How we laughed !

I think one of the best examples of crowd control I have ever seen was a band we used to be friendly with called Guns and Wankers (made up from bits of SNUFF who were and still are excellent). When Mr drunken and warlike bean pole punk gets up on stage, they would give him something to do, like hit hit a cow bell and press a door bell. It worked like a charm. Im sitting in the wings professing doom and destruction and no it worked every time !