Concert Projectiles Leave Oli Sykes With A 'mild Concussion' And Eric Clapton Skipping An Encore

Concertgoers are still throwing things astatine musicians, and nan latest targets were Bring Me nan Horizon frontman Oli Sykes and Eric Clapton.

Video of 1 incident, which went down Monday, is circulating connected societal media and shows Sykes performing nan British stone band’s deed “Happy Song” erstwhile a telephone is chucked done nan aerial and smacks him connected nan near broadside of nan face.

Just earlier being hit, nan English musician is crouched down singing, past arsenic he stands, nan telephone hits him. He appears pensive and crouches backmost down earlier having a fewer prime words pinch nan audience. “Who nan f— conscionable threw a phone?” he says earlier tossing nan instrumentality to a information squad personnel off-stage.

On Tuesday, Sykes addressed nan incident successful a since-expired Instagram communicative telling fans that he’s “all good” but suffered a mild concussion.

“The telephone to nan caput decidedly smarted and I ended up pinch a mild concussion, but nan swelling’s gone down a decent magnitude already,” he wrote. “I was struggling a spot connected shape afterwards because singing was putting a batch of unit connected nan coiled and making things consciousness a spot disorienting while performing, truthful I’m sorry connected my portion for what whitethorn of seemed for illustration a half-hearted performance.”

Fans who were successful nan crowd astatine nan Enterprise Center successful St. Louis posted comments connected videos of nan incident, saying that aft he was hit, Sykes’ power “completely shifted” and he was dizzy. Another concertgoer wrote that Sykes’ look was visibly swollen by nan extremity of nan show, and further videos from nan performance show him performing pinch a caller welt adjacent his eye.

Days earlier nan Sykes incident successful St. Louis, Clapton trim his May 7 capacity short successful Madrid aft he was deed successful nan thorax by what appeared to beryllium a vinyl album. According to GuitarWorld, nan 81-year-old guitarist had conscionable vanished performing his famed screen of J.J. Cale’s “Cocaine” erstwhile nan medium was thrown from nan assemblage and deed Clapton.

The “Wonderful Tonight” guitarist and vocalist was expected to return to nan Movistar Arena shape for an encore but wrapped nan group because of nan incident.

In 2023, a slew of onstage attacks involving h2o bottles, cellphones and different projectiles seemed to plague musicians. Bebe Rexha was hit successful nan look pinch a cellphone, resulting successful a man getting arrested and nan vocalist getting stitches.

Nicolas Malvagna of New Jersey was arrested and charged pinch battle for allegedly throwing his telephone astatine Rexha. “I was trying to spot if I could deed her pinch nan telephone astatine nan extremity of nan show because it would beryllium funny,” Malvagna said, according to a criminal complaint.

Billie Eilish told nan Hollywood Reporter that she’d been connected nan receiving extremity of nan performance foul and it’s not fun. “I’ve been getting deed connected shape pinch things for virtually six years,” she said backmost successful 2023 arsenic a consequence to nan Rexha incident. “People conscionable get excited and it tin beryllium dangerous. It’s perfectly infuriating erstwhile you’re up there. When you’re up there, it blows. You cognize it’s retired of emotion ... [but ] you’re successful a susceptible position.”

Then, successful October 2025, nan “Ocean Eyes” hitmaker was grabbed by a fan and violently yanked backward toward a barricade arsenic she walked done a performance crowd successful Miami.

Adele took different attack erstwhile asking fans not to propulsion things during concerts and, aft proceeding that nan inclination was picking up successful 2023, told nan crowd astatine nan Colosseum successful Las Vegas, “Have you noticed really group are forgetting f— show etiquette astatine nan moment? People are throwing s— connected stage. Have you seen that? I f— situation you propulsion thing astatine me. I’ll f— termination you.”

While nan bizarre impulse to chuck things astatine stone stars performing euphony onstage has been astir since nan advent of, well, stone stars and stages, it’s progressively frowned upon and wide considered nan eventual performance faux pas.

“Fans throwing projectiles astatine artists is arsenic aged arsenic stone ’n’ roll, but there’s still nary excuse for it,” Paul Wertheimer, a performance information master and laminitis of nan consulting patient Crowd Management Strategies, told The Times successful 2023. “The statement betwixt nan shape and audience, and nan consciousness of decorum astir it, has really faded.”