Revenge of the birds

Kings of Leon were forced to cancel a show last week after being showered with pigeon droppings. The flock of avian music critics brought the St Louis concert to a cooing halt after just three songs. “You may enjoy being shit on,” explained the band’s drummer, “but we don’t.”

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“We tried to play,” Followill explained. “It was ridiculous.” According to the band’s manager, Andy Mendelsohn, Followill was hit “several times during the first two songs”, and on the third number, droppings “landed near his mouth”. “They couldn’t deal any longer,” Mendelsohn said. “It’s not only disgusting – it’s a toxic health hazard.”

Why couldn’t this have been the Jonas Brothers?

Posted by Betty Cracker on 07/26/10 at 01:09 PM • Permalink

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Comment by justlen on 07/26/10 at 01:19 PM

They’re not the first people that the city of St. Louis has crapped all over.

Comment by Oblomova on 07/26/10 at 01:25 PM

Of course, it could have been worse.

Comment by Oblomova on 07/26/10 at 01:26 PM

Are the Jonas Brothers horrible? I always wanted to have a daughter but maybe the nice thing about only having a son is I’ve never heard a single song of theirs.

Comment by Lawnguylander on 07/26/10 at 01:41 PM

Here’s my candidate for most deserving of bird revenge: The Right Brothers.

They played at the 2005 anti-Iraq war counter protest on the Mall. The song pretty much speaks for itself.

Comment by AltHippo on 07/26/10 at 01:41 PM

Why couldn’t this have been the Jonas Brothers?

I would have preferred Sophie B. Hawkins (if, ya know, she could get booked anywhere besides Fox & Friends.)

Comment by Kevin K. on 07/26/10 at 01:45 PM

Are the Jonas Brothers horrible?

So very, very horrible, Lawnguylander. I’d rather eat a fistful of cilantro than listen to a JoBro tune.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/26/10 at 02:29 PM

I’ll be the dissenter here.

Saw Kings Of Leon open for The Strokes 2002 and they sucked. The singer reminded me of Nigel Tufnel(Christopher Guest) of Spinal Tap. No pigeons shut down their set that night,as it was an indoor arena.
Maybe the pigeons will hit one of those Beck/Hannity freedom concerts next.

Comment by JasonM on 07/26/10 at 03:48 PM

I’ve been roaming around, I was looking down at all I see

Painted faces fill the places I can’t reach

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you

So I looked up the lyrics to “Use Somebody” with the intention of rewriting them, but damned if the original doesn’t already sound like it’s from the perspective of a pigeon who’s about to crap in someone’s mouth.

Comment by gil mann on 07/26/10 at 03:50 PM

Why couldn’t this have been the Jonas Brothers?

kings of leon getting showered with pigeon shit seems entirely appropriate to me. or was somebody out there really curious as to what it’d sound like if steve winwood fronted a shitty indie/garage band? blech. let’s hope pigeons follow them everywhere from now on.