Issues escalated shortly onstage for Jane’s Habit as a rockstar brawl broke out at their Boston present.
In YouTube footage from the band’s Friday the thirteenth live performance, vocalist Perry Farrell might be seen shoving and throwing a punch at guitarist Dave Navarro earlier than the lights dimmed on the venue and the present abruptly ended.
“F— you!” Farrell might be heard yelling at Navarro after main the group in a chant throughout a efficiency of their 1988 observe ‘Ocean Measurement’. Navarro held his guitar as much as defend himself earlier than crew members rushed onstage to drag Farrell off him.
Perry’s spouse Etty Lau Farrell shared a “firsthand account” of what went down on Instagram, explaining that the band began the tune “earlier than Perry was prepared and did the rely off.”
“Clearly there had been loads of stress and animosity between the members.. the magic that made the band so dynamic,” she wrote. “Nicely, the dynamite was lit. Perry received up in Dave’s face and physique checked him.”
Etty Lau added, “Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night time after night time, he felt that the stage quantity had been extraordinarily loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band. Perry had been affected by tinnitus and a sore throat each night time. However when the viewers within the first row, began complaining as much as Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry misplaced it.”
Though she credited Navarro with making an attempt to “deescalate the scenario” by conserving Perry at arm’s size, she mentioned bassist Eric Avery got here up behind her husband in the dead of night, “put Perry in a headlock and punched him within the abdomen thrice” earlier than a crew member pulled him off. “Then Eric nonchalant walked off to the entrance of the stage to apologize to viewers for the present ended early,” she wrote.
“Dave nonetheless regarded good-looking and funky in the midst of a battle. Perry was a crazed beast for the subsequent half an hour – he lastly didn’t settle down, however did breakdown and cried and cried,” added Etty Lau. “Eric, properly he both didn’t perceive what deescalation meant or took benefit of the scenario and received in a couple of low-cost photographs on Perry.”
The efficiency got here throughout Jane’s Habit’s 23-city co-headlining tour with Love and Rockets.