Steve Lacy on smashing fan’s camera on stage: “A lot of kids don’t know what concert etiquette is”
nme.comSteve Lacy has recalled his decision to smash a fan’s camera on stage, and reaffirmed that he refuses to apologise to those with bad “concert etiquette”.The incident in question took place at one of his shows in New Orleans last October, when a member of the audience hurled their disposable camera at him.
Upon the camera landing on the stage next to him, the American singer-songwriter proceeded to destroy it and refuse to apologise for doing so.Now, coming up to one year since the incident, Lacy has recalled the moment again in a new interview, and insists that he stands by his refusal to apologise for concertgoers with poor “etiquette”.“I had to accept that this is how these kids are,” he said to Variety, discussing the incident for the first time since he released an initial statement about it.“I was pissed at first — they want so much. ‘Can you do this?’, ‘Can you do that?’, ‘I’m gonna throw this up here for you’, ‘I love you’… But I don’t see them being wrong for it anymore,” he added. “As much as it fucking annoys me sometimes, they’re just young.
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