Thanks to security guards and push roadblock , super - famous rock-and-roll musicians playing massive venues rarely need to interest about stage invaders . Unless , of trend , the trespassers are fare from the air , as they were during one very unusualElton Johnconcert in 1993 .
On Friday , February 19 , 1993 , at the National Tennis Centre in Melbourne , Australia , John and his band found themselves beset by a drove of crickets . harmonise to Reuters , who distinguish the offending bug as grasshoppers , the six - legged animal land “ in the vocalist ’s pilus , clothes , and mouth . ” They also crawled “ over backing singers , melodic instruments , and the audience . ” Elton was forced to cut the concert short by 30 hour and split before doing an encore .
“ You try on working at your desk cover in insects , ” Elton ’s publicist , Patti Mostyn , tell Australia’sThe Age . “ I think this is out of perspective . He is one of the world ’s major performer and he came to Australia to do a concert . He does n’t just walk off for the hell of it . ”
According toThe Age , the common mordant bailiwick cricket was to blame for the evening ’s disturbance . condition in the summertime of 1993 had apparently been just right for this critter , as wet weather ahead of time in the time of year had given fashion to “ red-hot and windy conditions that animated the cricket , ” the newspaper report .
As for why the crickets place the “ Tiny Dancer ” vocalist , it was really quite mere : The stage was well lit . In advance of John ’s concert at the same venue the undermentioned nighttime , a squad of pest control experts fumigate the grounds . This was mostly a precautionary move , as Friday ’s unusual weather was the effort of the incident — not any underlying infestation . In any event , the 2d show seems to have been a hemipteran - innocent affair .
Funnily enough , John and his route gang were slate to take part in a plot of — get this — cricketon the day of the 2d concert . Perhaps not amazingly , Elton scrapped the event .
