Pigeons stop concert - did it have to do with the music?

[EStreetJoe]

I hope this isn't a d_b.
Were the pigeons dumping on the band because that's what pigeons do or because they didn't like the music?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100726/MUSIC-US-LEON/

Just the first few paragraphs:

American rock band Kings of Leon said they were forced to abandon a concert in St. Louis at the weekend after three songs because pigeons kept pooping on them from the rafters.

The band left the stage at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on Friday after bass player Jared Followill was hit in the face by one dropping.

"Jared was hit several times during the first two songs. On the third song, when he was hit in the cheek and some of it landed near his mouth, they couldn't deal any longer," the Nashville band's publicist, Any Mendelsohn, said in a statement.

"It's not only disgusting - it's a toxic hazard. They really tried to hang in there."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Sam Mills 51]

"Pigeons" - Genesis


Lyrics below:

Who put fifty tons of sh_t on the Foreign Office roof?
Who suffers from nine known diseases?
Who gets up in the morning when the sun comes up
And makes their beds, paper clips, bus tickets
All around their heads?
Who congregate around Trafalgar Square
Taking pot shots at the tourists?
Oh you've got to watch out
When you wander round the square in the morning
Cos they're everywhere, they're everywhere

Here we have an honest man
A civil servant to boot
He lived high up in the Ministry
And when he wished to make a point
He knew just what to do
His window ledges were all covered in grease
"I want them out of here"

He said to me, "I want them gone"
Because you see - Oh don't you see
None of us are getting any younger
You've got to follow your nose
And if it tells you that you've got to go
Well that's because, they're everywhere,
They're everywhere

So we called in those men, those horrible men
We set them to work on the rooftops
You see their van is very plain
And I know they're too ashamed
To wear their by appointment badges anymore
Sometimes they use vaseline, sometimes they use the pill
I've often seen them with a gun
But as the years go by, old habits seem to die
And nowadays they knockatize them all
Oh you've got to watch out
As you wander round the square in the morning
Oh they're everywhere, they're everywhere

 

[Bob Cook]

Approves:

 

[Trey Beamon]

Kings of Poopon?

Anyway, this wouldn't have been an issue in the 60s:

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Another reason to hate KoL -- or maybe love them. They won't let Glee use their music!

http://www.billboard.com/news/kings-of-leon-reject-glee-request-1004110209.story#/news/kings-of-leon-reject-glee-request-1004110209.story

 

[Big Circus]

In much less amusing concert news...man leaps to his death at Swell Season (band from movie "Once") concert in California.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/man-commits-suicide-at-swell-season-concert-in-cal,44372/

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Falling slowly wasn't an option.

 

[imjustagirl]

Falling slowly wasn't an option.

I hate myself a little, but I stifled a giggle.

 

[farmerjerome]

This is almost as funny as Tila Tiquila getting pelted by rocks, bottles and feces at the Insain Clown Posse fest and Indiana.

No, I take that back. Nothing is as funny as that.