Last Friday, Alex Goldberg cornered Tokyo Police Club backstage at their show in New York City, and he quizzed them on their biggest show-going pet peeves. Tune in as they tell tales of unwelcomed pot smoke, losing their “more cowbell” virginity, and enough ass-grabbing to fill six pairs of jeans. MORE »
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Band Of Horses Singer Not Too Thrilled With The Cameraphone Era
A couple of weeks back Band Of Horses played a show in San Diego, and lead singer Ben Bridwell was feeling a bit cranky–so cranky, in fact, that he flipped a fan off while she was trying to get a digital shot of him as they played their single “The Funeral”–which was the first time a huge chunk of the crowd took notice of the show. Naturally, she blogged about it: MORE »
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A “Hey, Asshole!” Special: Trapped On A Bus With A Bunch Of Screaming Idiots
Above, video of the White Stripes performing “Hotel Yorba” on a Winnipeg bus yesterday, when they were accompanied against their will by two overexcited fans who don’t really understand the “inside voice” concept. MORE »
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A “Hey, Asshole!” Special Report: Is The Concert Ban On Cameras Finally Dead?
Over the weekend, one of your Idolators went to a concert at a medium-sized venue in the suburbs; before the opening act, an announcement came over the venue’s sound system reminding the audience that cameras and other digital-recording devices were banned from being used during the show.
Then the house lights went down, the opening act walked onstage, and about 10 flashbulbs went off to commemorate the moment. (The fact that this particular venue was “in the round,” and your correspondent was sitting on one side of the stage, made the flashbulbs a little more noticeable.) The camera-wielding patrons didn’t seem like your typical rule-breaking, boisterous, screw-’em-all concert attendees–instead, they were suburban women, seated but clapping, a few with greying hair, all with digital cameras of various sizes at the ready. MORE »
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“Hey, Asshole!”: More Idiocy In The House Of Winehouse
Ah, the perils of attending the “big” shows at SXSW–long lines, crummy opening acts, and, of course, other members of the crowd. Our report on bad behavior at Friday’s Amy Winehouse show triggered this response from Idolator commenter JedTheMime:
I couldn’t believe when I read your “Hey, Asshole!” on the Amy Winehouse show at SXSW. I actually had my worst ever concert fight at that very show!
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“Hey, Asshole!”: We Tried To Make Them Shut Their Pieholes, But They Said, “No, No, No”
Somehow, we were standing in the Bermuda Triangle of bad concert behavior during last night’s Amy Winehouse show at La Zona Rosa–no matter how we shifted our position, we were in earshot of two people who were duking it out for the title of “who deserves a shove more”: MORE »
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“Hey, Asshole!”: Cookie Mountain Gets A Little Bit Crowded
From time to time, we like to give our readers the floor for “Hey, Asshole!”, which documents concert-going experiences that are ruined by the other people in attendance. If you feel like getting revenge on someone who put a damper on your show-going expierence, send your stories or cameraphone shots to asshole@idolator.com. Today’s submission comes from Idolator reader David Hogue, whose view of TV On The Radio last night was obstructed by a big guy with a shaved head and his late-arriving friends: MORE »
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“Hey, Asshole!” Follow-Up: More Static At A TV On The Radio Show
Earlier today, we posted a story from a TV On The Radio fan who had to deal with some pushy fans at the band’s show in Columbus last night. This provoked an e-mail from another reader who had some unfortunate fauxhawked-jerk exposure while at a show by the band, which we reprint here even though–or perhaps because–its subject line uses one of our banned words:
Subject: National trend of douchebags seeing TV on the Radio
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“Hey, Asshole!”: Attack Of The Jerry Lee Losers
It’s been a long time since we had any submissions for “Hey, Asshole!”, our crowd-controlling feature in which readers report egregious concert-going behavior. So if you happen to witness obnoxious audience members in their natural habitat, send along your stories or pictures to asshole@idolator.com. In the meantime, commenter Stevie sent in the following “Hey, Asshole!” field report about a Jerry Lee Lewis show gone awry. A choice excerpt:
Between each song, the drunks behind me loudly yelled, “PLAY SOMETHING GOOD!” and “YOU CAN DO BETTER JERRY LEE!” After “Memphis,” one yelled, “PLAY SOMETHING BY WHITE PEOPLE!” When he moved into his country songs, they started yelling, “WHY CAN’T YOU PLAY SOMETHING GOOD?”
After the click-through, a tale of drunken dumbwittery that will make you forever hate white people–or any people, really. And please note that the above picture of Lewis is not from this particular gig–but we’re pretty sure his facial expression remains unchanged at this point.
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