Give him the chair! THE CHAIR! Yeah, yeah, uh huh huh huh hmm huh hmm huh huh...

"and just punch [sic] him right in the face for no reason"

I don't believe it. I wasn't at the show, but from my experiences people that get a beatdown normally deserve it.

Drunk guys are always getting arrested at shows.

tpc still suck balls.

FSU invades Bowery? This place is going to heck in a hand basket!

i missed the fight cause i bolted out towards the end of tokyo police club's unimpressive set.

the harlem shakes were all kinds of awesome though. i'd see them again.

I was standing right behind this dude. He was wasted and talking throughout the whole show. For us short concert goers, it's hard enough just getting a peek at the stage. Then some tall a*s comes along, stands right in front of you and talks/makes out with another tall chick during the whole show. The other guy got punched because security came to drag the big guy out of there. I post this in defense of the bloody guy that didn't deserve it.

You should've seen the TPC/Harlem Shakes show the first time it happened...

http://www.badmintonstamps.com/zevent2.html

There was a seriously irate (probably drunk) asshole and his date talking (remarkably loudly) right behind me through the entirety of The Harlem Shakes set, and when a young woman asked him to be quiet he went off with some sexist bullshit ("Why are you asking me instead of your boyfriend? Isn't he man enough? Blah Blah" and was far more confrontational than could possibly be necessary). Whoever got punched, it is almost certainly related to that incident in some way--I would wager on it.

hey greg/yikes whereabouts was this dude? for the shakes i was standing by the front of the stage, on the left side and the crowd around me was real mellow.

for tpc i was up on the balcony so i didn't see any of this...just curious. dude sounds like a real shmuck.

So, was it just coincidence that the name of the band playing was Tokyo Police Club?

Ha ha, I love how much you all hate TPC.

Personally, I dig them. I saw them 3 times this year and can't wait for the album.

NFW--obnoxious people talking loudly at a concert in NYC. What a shocker.

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, really.

Tall people were born to have a better view at rock concerts.

king left was good with the crowd/fun to watch.
harlem shakes WERE all kinds of awesome minus standing right by the speaker he kept hitting with his drumstick, half-expecting it to break again and fly into my face. tpc played a good set.

also, did they really need 3-4 cars to come and arrest this one guy?

i liked the king left a lot. the clapping song was fun. the crowd got really into it. harlem shakes were cool. LOVED tokyo police club. so much energy. such great songs.

i would have fucked that guy up

Saw the whole thing go down in the bowery as I was 5 feet from it...here is my review of the show and the incident -
http://shelvesofvinyl.blogspot.com/2007/08/tokyo-police-club-bowery.html

Saw the whole thing go down in the bowery as I was 5 feet from it...here is my review of the show and the incident -
http://shelvesofvinyl.blogspot.com/2007/08/tokyo-police-club-bowery.html

TOKYO POLICA CLUB HAVE ABOT 6 SONGS AND THEY ALL BLOW

TOKYO POLICE CLUB HAVE ABOUT 6 SONGS AND THEY ALL BLOW

i thought a fight would break out at the junior senior show -- a couple of dickheads in dayglo headbands decided they'd start a moshpit during the opening band's set, just ramming into people. when one girl turned out and asked them to cut it out, they berated her and began purposefully slamming into her again. they finally calmed down (maybe the coke wore off) but i really thought something ugly was going to go down.

i know i'm, uh, old and getting crankier by the day but some people are just assholes.

I second Beavis's motion.

i left half way through the encore (yes it was THAT unimpressive). saw the guy in cuffs on the ground and heard him slur "he punched me first!". who knows how true that is? not i. either way, i am never going to go see TPC ever again. i dont understand how ANYONE can say they played a good show that night with a straight face - they sounded terrible. as i said earlier, i wished i had stayed home and listened to the album instead.

Now that I look back things got a little rough at the Maxwell's show too, mosh pit started by 3 quasi-trouble-makers halfway through TPC's set. The crowd was annoyed by them at 1st then kinda went with it; but toward the end I got back-handed in the mouth which was my signal to go to the sidelines. The scene kinda turned me off, I mean, it's not the Thermals where I would have expected that a bit more. But whatever, it's rock and roll...

the guy was talking w/ some busted girl. security confronted him. the rest is history. i think his name was mark or something.

tpc lead singer's weird flamingo spaz thing was really distracting. a dull performance. harlem shakes were great, on the other hand!

Tokyo Police Club's performance was BEYOND dissappointing, perfect example of having an overworked and over-edited album and then sounding like complete crap live. They couldn't even play their instruments/songs correctly and they didnt even look drunk or anything!! The singer's voice was dreadful and dull and sounded NOTHING like it does on the album and he screwed up the bass a million times by getting lost in the song they were playing. The guitarist looked like a dick who was too preoccupied with his lame effects and trying to get them to sound perfect instead of keeping up with playing the songs. The drummer was HANDS DOWN the worst though...so bad and off-beat and inconsistent that I thought he was a last minute replacement or something. The keyboardist was the only one who seemed to have his shit together but he turned me off with the whole overused "mad scientist of synthesizers" act.

The climax of shittiness occured when the the singer started clapping over his head during a break in a song and as he clapped OUT OF RHYTHM to HIS OWN SONG. I have never seen that happen...but it was funny cause then the whole audience started clapping out of rhythm. Morons. All of you acting like this band was so great and yelling "you rule" over and over again in between songs don't know shit about fuck or are compeletly deaf or had never heard the album before the show.

Hey stupid girls next to me at the show: next time you and your high heel wedge-wearing friends decide to get drunk, stomp around like cows and yell "we love you" in between every FUCKING song at a show I will be sure to stand FAR FAR away from your fucking retarded asses. Either that or I will just return the favor and make your concert-watching experience a LIVING HELL.

Tokyo Police Club: Im pissed off cause I paid money for your stupid show. Dont fill your set with new songs quite yet, not that many people even listen to the ones off your current album that did not even come out a year ago. You owe me money for two tickets as your performance was a crock. I left in the middle of the encore it was so bad...and the encore you played is my favorite song!!

"For us short concert goers, it's hard enough just getting a peek at the stage."

Blame Mother Nature for your deficiencies, not those that are genetically superior.

i have an unrelated question that needs to get answered. how strict is the bowery ballroom with fake ids? if there's a 21+ will they let me in or do they mean business

ha i was going to go to that show but their fans consist almost entirely of 20 something drunk assholes.

haha! good luck with the fake id at bowery.

Hey Anon 12:28 I think I know you-were you the girl that the lead singer of the Harlem Shakes kept drumming in your face? I was the tall guy in the blue polo shirt standing wayyy in front, I talked to you for a bit.

Anon 1:16, calm the hell down. Not only was the TPC show the non-rowdiest crowd I've ever in my life been in but TPC sounded just like they did on the albums and, imho, played a great set that I'd expect of them. The clapping you mention was on purpose, go listen to Citizens of Tomorrow again.

I walked out of the show right when the police was nabbing this guy, he looked very very embarrassed and ended up staring at the ground while he was handcuffed. One of my friends forgot to bring his ID (head of security flipped and nearly didn't let him in, took another of my friend's ID), and so the guy who vouched for him asked the head of security, who was helping the police handle this guy amidst 3-4 cop cars and blaring lights, for his ID back. Don't worry, he got it back, but still can't piece together why this guy was arrested-anyone check out the afterparty?

At The Bowery Ballroom,
We Are Strict about having the proper ID.
We Are Strict about under age drinking in and outside of the venue.

bb person,
i dont think the person posting above wants to participate in underage drinking; he just wants to see a show that your unfair and ridiculous age restrictions stop him from seeing.