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And Finally Artist News Gigs & Festivals
Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed band proves unpopular, despite kazoo solos
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 27 May 2014
The debut UK tour of Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Undergound covers band, The Pizza Underground, has not been going very well. Gigs in Manchester and Nottingham were both disrupted last week, the former when Culkin stormed off stage when a fan interrupted his kazoo solo.
According to the Manchester Evening News, the band’s show at the city’s Zoo venue as part of the multi-city Dot To Dot festival first started to go wrong as some audiences members threw plastic beer glasses at Culkin.
He later reportedly walked off stage after someone failed to show proper reverence to his playing of the kazoo. Although coaxed back on stage, the show was then cut short due to a stage invasion.
The following night in Nottingham, for another Dot To Dot show, Culkin handed out free pizza to the audience before the band began playing, but they were nonetheless again pelted with plastic beer glasses and booed during their performance, reports The Nottingham Post.
Although a number of people were ejected from the venue, the pelting continued and the band left the stage after just fifteen minutes, when a pizza box hit one of Culkin’s bandmates.
In a statement to the Post about the latter incident, Dot To Dot’s organisers said: “After barnstorming sets at both Dot To Dot Manchester and Dot To Dot Bristol, it’s such a shame that some members of the crowd had to ruin what was set to be an excellent show. A sentiment echoed by the band themselves. Hopefully they’ll get to play in Nottingham again one day soon”.
