Shane: The worst gig we ever played

05/08/2011 23:29

Shane Filan speaks about his worst gig

05 August 2011: Indonesia, 2001: It was an amazing gig, but it ended badly. There were about 20,000 people there because it was our biggest territory outside of the UK: our album had gone 22 times platinum or something. But it was afterwards that things went horribly wrong. There was total hysteria and we couldn't leave the stadium until they cleared it of people. Unfortunately, as the police tried to do so, all these security men started running at them. It was like a battle. They were flat-out attacking each other, thumping and kicking. It was unbelievable, about 100 police and 100 security. Eventually, the army got called in. It was like something out of Braveheart.

Source: Guardian.co.uk.  Credits: twitter.com/Sarah_Hall