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 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: Thug heckler ruins Kevin Bridges gig |
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So bad the local council may apologise
| Quote: | Kevin Bridges was heckled so severely a warm-up gig that the local council could offer a formal apology.
A thug in the audience of his Arbroath gig on Tuesday threatened to take the 25-year-old comic 'outside and ‘kick his head in’.
Bridges was said to have been visibly shaken by the bitter exchange, which escalated after the man started shouting abuse based on Bridges’ weight.
Audience member Gary Cavanagh posted on Facebook: ‘He started calling him a fat bastard and progressed to threatening to take him outside and kick his head in.
‘The audience were shouting their disapproval but he kept on slagging him and other people in the audience until he took hold of his senses and left. ‘
Bridges told the crowd: ‘I'm only here to tell jokes and have a bit of fun — there's no need for that. That goes beyond heckling.’
He later apologised to the audience of 600, and called the heckler a ‘knuckle-dragger’ as he left the stage.
Arbroath councillor David Fairweather, who was at the show in the Webster Memorial Theatre has now asked asking the council to personally apologise to Bridges.
He told the local Courier newspaper: 'It was absolutely scandalous and I've no doubt drink played a part. I just felt the guy got personal and I felt it rattled Kevin.
‘Kevin Bridges is a young man who is now internationally known, and for him to come to a town like Arbroath was fantastic, but I have got my doubts if he will come back.
'’I'll be contacting the director of neighbourhood services to ask him to apologise personally to Kevin on behalf of Angus Council.’
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http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2012/06/07/15545/thug_heckler_ruins_kevin_bridges_gig
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laughingalfie
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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So 600 paying punters of which the venue would be on 25%(ish) plus bar takings. How much was set aside for good quality security?
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Loki
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Exactly, it should be the theatre owner/manager apologising, not the local councillor. (Unless they are the same person.) |
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mike taylor
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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I can't believe that a venue that size wouldn't have security, madness.
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