Gig recording equipment confiscated
Posted: 10 Mar 2006, 10:54
Following on from the Leeds05/Anywhere in 06 boot trade request in the trading thread...................has anyone here ever been caught smuggling equipment into a gig?
My two experiences were the Jesus and Mary Chain Leeds Uni 1985. Strangley enough this was the first gig that my brother tried to record with his new walkman. He just slipped it under his jacket using the carry strap, but a search on the way in scuppered the plan. The security let us in with no problem, and he had to collect it after the show.
I then smuggled it in to Manchester Apollo a few years later, where I managed to record a support set by The Bolshoi. One song into the headliners (All About Eve) a bouncer walked over and pulled the walkman out of my hand. He must have had good eyesight as I was standing in thre middle of the row!
After the gig I was taken upstairs into an office were about ten confiscated walkman were just sitting on a desk, and told to pick mine up. If I wasn't so honest, I could have picked any of them up.
Has anyone been ejected/refused entry or anything worse for having recording gear with them?
My two experiences were the Jesus and Mary Chain Leeds Uni 1985. Strangley enough this was the first gig that my brother tried to record with his new walkman. He just slipped it under his jacket using the carry strap, but a search on the way in scuppered the plan. The security let us in with no problem, and he had to collect it after the show.
I then smuggled it in to Manchester Apollo a few years later, where I managed to record a support set by The Bolshoi. One song into the headliners (All About Eve) a bouncer walked over and pulled the walkman out of my hand. He must have had good eyesight as I was standing in thre middle of the row!
After the gig I was taken upstairs into an office were about ten confiscated walkman were just sitting on a desk, and told to pick mine up. If I wasn't so honest, I could have picked any of them up.
Has anyone been ejected/refused entry or anything worse for having recording gear with them?