Clearly Crawdaddy was the place to be on Saturday night as fights broke out between bouncers and fans of local pop punk act Home Star Runner.
Nobody goes to punk shows to have a good time, so it's no real surprise that hardly anybody chose to challenge the security staff's "no moshing" rule. Inevitably, somebody did something to get the bouncers' collective goat and people were thrown out.
It was afterwards that the real trouble seems to have started. Allegedly, frontman Stephen Arkins' girlfriend was punched by a bouncer, causing Arkins to go into a rage and get himself arrested by the fuzz, who'd managed to stroll across the road from Harcourt St. Garda Station.
This appears to be a picture of the immediate aftermath of the alleged punch.
A Facebook group has been set up calling for a boycott of Crawdaddy until the situation is satisfactorily resolved. Another band have already pulled out of their planned gig there this week.
This could get interesting or it could go down with barely a murmur. Bouncers throwing punches at people half their size is not on, though, and it will be interesting to see if a formal complaint is made.
[Declaration of interest: I don't know the band and hadn't heard of them before this morning. And although I have been thrown out of Crawdaddy in the past, it was completely my own fault.]
Update: No great surprise that Nay has a much more in-depth write-up already.
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