by Bram Teitelman | Jun 27, 2017 | Close Calls, Touring
The Warped Tour has only been on the road for about a week, and it’s already claimed one casualty: the tour bus that Hundredth and Being as an Ocean were traveling in. The two bands were on the road to today’s date in Nashville, and woke up to the back of...
by Alix Vallecillo | Sep 15, 2015 | Close Calls, Festivals, News, Video
If you’re putting tens of thousands of people in an arena or festival grounds, it’s normal to some injuries sustained by fans at rock festivals, like that time two lightning strikes injured 33 people at Rock am Ring or that time Firefest ended early due...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 10, 2015 | Close Calls, News
There are lots of hazards of being a touring band. Usually, they tend to be basic ones: battling hangovers, dealing with shady promoters, getting your van broken into when you play St. Louis, and so on. One wouldn’t expect one of those hazards to be escaping a...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 13, 2015 | Close Calls, Video
Last night’s Theory of a Deadman show at First Avenue in Minneapolis was almost marred by tragedy after a ceiling collapsed while the band was playing. Three people were injured during the show when at around 10pm, a 30 by 30 foot section of the ceiling crashed...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 10, 2015 | Close Calls, News
It’s been a rough year for Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson. As if last December’s cancer scare that pushed back the release of Maiden’s The Book of Souls to next month and their touring to next year wasn’t enough, the singer cheated death...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 22, 2015 | Close Calls, News, Video
King 810’s debut album, Memoirs of a Murderer, focuses a lot on how tough it is growing up porr and in gang-infested Flint, MI. But while the streets might be rough, they don’t compare to the stage. Earlier today, the band posted a tribute to an apparent...