Jade - I'm six times state spelling bee champion,I'm totally right.Unless you're using crazy English spelling.Anyway,maybe not the cruellest,but one of the best pranks we ever did was at this show where there was a curtain over the backstage entrance instead of a door.We hung up this slice of pizza at face height,then put a bowl of cereal and two doughnuts on the ground,so that when someone came in they'd get a face full of pizza,then step into the stuff on the floor and have a pair of weird food shoes.
The worst yet best show ever was in Toronto, the last time we were in Canada. The bouncers were being ridiculous – they were really roughing up these kids to the extent that we kept having to stop performing and reprimand the bouncers. At one point, I was telling a bouncer to leave this kid alone and this huge guy responds by slapping this little punk kid. ****in’ hit him right in the face, he fell back. I lose control, I’m freaked out and I told the audience, "this guy just slapped one of you. Get him." So the bouncers fled, and 700 kids started attacking them, the promoters were all over the stage. The show was going to end – it was ****ed. I gained composure and apologized to the crowd, to the bouncers over the PA and told the kids what I said was really stupid, and not to hurt anybody. We started playing again, and the rest of the show was all for one, one for all. There was no security, so the kids had to watch out for each other. Our last song, the stage was just packed with 200 kids, singing along. When the show was over, the bouncers locked me in the dressing room, about four of them. They were threatening to kill me, breaking bottles and holding them up to my face. I almost got killed; it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life -davey