Taylor Swift experiences invasion

Last night was the first night of Taylor Swift's Red tour in the UK.

It was all spoiled though, when a shambling idiot appeared on stage.

And as if Ed Sheeran coming on to do an duet wasn't bad enough there was a stage invasion by someone from the audience.

(Thank you. You may now choose from 'Seinfeldian slap bass riff' or the traditional 'boom-tish drum effect'.)

The stage invader handed Swift a note - believed to read "we love you, but in god's name don't inflict any more Ed Sheeran on us, please" - before being removed by security.

Someone in the crowd took a photo of it, and luckily Kevin Cummins didn't turn up to make them delete the picture:

Taylor Swift Fan On Stage To Give Note - http://t.co/WHtYN837Qd pic.twitter.com/GLlhHqZD3h

— OCEANUP (@OCEANUP) February 2, 2014

Bring Me The Horizon chased off their own stage

It all went a bit wrong on the Bring Me The Horizon US tour, with 0liver 'call me Oli' Sykes being chased off stage by the audience.

And which frightening, lawless inner-city crowd were reduced to violence by BMTH?

Erm, Salt Lake City.

Here's some shaky footage of the event:



Sykes had challenged fans who'd been tossing bottles to either go home, or face him directly. That was a bad call, as the audience took him at his word and rushed the stage.

Things got even more miserable, as half an hour after order was restored, the band returned to the stage and chugged through the rest of their set.

Britney Spears: That would be crazy how, exactly?

TMZ screeches the breaking-ish news:

Crazy Fan Arrested at Britney Spears Concert

Goodness. Crazy, you say? And how did this craziness manifest itself? Did he wear a hat, or go to the theatre?

Connecticut State Police say the 20-year-old fan -- who they say had definitely been drinking -- was detained after charging on stage during Britney's encore performance of "Womanizer."

Ah. So he got on stage.

Forgive me - my psychology training wasn't the greatest - but how does this actually constitute "crazy"? If he had been trying to pull her hair, maybe there might have been something crazed about the incident. Or, indeed, if he had been running up and down the stage, removing his clothes, blethering about Saint Francis Of Assisi, that might have been an indication of "crazy". But have we come this far, that simply getting on stage is a sign not just of ego-driven nuisance, but also of mental illness?

And he got arrested. Arrested, for getting on stage:

The CSP says after the guy was taken into custody, he was being highly uncooperative -- so they also booked him for interfering with police.

Interfering with police? I guess it's lucky this bloke was only looking to have a bit of a dance, otherwise he'd been getting waterboarding about now.