Shows You Went to That Got Shut Down?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I never went to one that got properly shut down, but figured you folks might have stories since a lot of people here seem to go to shows much more than me.

The closest I came were two Beyond Wrestling shows, not at Fete Music in Providence.

1. At one the ring broke before the doors open. The show was delayed massively and they even had a gimmick no ring type of match. The whole thing dragged the night out to be 7 hours of so long but they did get a ring and had the show.

2. This one actually got cancelled though there was nothing the company could do really do about it. The night before there was a shooting in the general area where the show was to take place and the venue was shut down while authorities investigated. There was even a news report about it where a bunch of regular fans were waiting outside the building since I think they were still hoping to put on the show until they got a firm No that they couldn’t. I didn’t actually buy a ticket for that one so I can’t count it though it was the time where I was trying to go to as many Beyond shows a I could.

[Spider2024]

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Aug 18, 2022 7:43:36 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

The same thing happened to me. Probably a few times. I know it definitely happened when I went to see Will Smith’s Wild Wild West. Also terrible.

[WoodStoner1]

It almost happened at an SWF show I went to in Holmdel, about 2 years ago.

Apparently someone called the police on Rob Fury, saying he wasn't adhering to social distancing, etc.

But the show carried on regardless after some adjustments.

(Jersey promoters can be VERY cutthroat against each other...and others...)

[Burst]

I've actually had the film melt on a movie before, on either a Star Wars or Harry Potter sequel that I'd already seen, and like five minutes from the end so it was more "Huh, neat" than being angry or disappointed.

[cosmo]

Aug 18, 2022 7:43:36 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

Something similar happened to me and a friend of mine when we saw the remake of When A Stranger Calls in 2006. The projector crapped out halfway through the movie, and we hung around for 15-20 minutes waiting for the theater to get it back up and running so we could keep watching the movie.

My friend and I joked for several weeks afterwards that the projector was trying to look out for us and keep us from watching such a lousy movie.

[TOK Is the Target Demo]

I went to a Wiz Khalifa show at a friend's college that got cancelled because "there was a threat of rain" aka Wiz was too high and too lazy to make the stop for an afternoon show.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Back in summer of 2020 Battlezone Wrestling was having an outdoors show. Was in a huge parking lot and you were suppose to stay in your car.

4 hours before the show was to start it got cancelled. Cause a prisoner escaped in the area.


Back in the early 90s we would goto the Silver Screen to see Rocky Horror every weekend. The print they had was OLDDDDDDDDDD and many times it would break and the owner would rush up to the projection booth to fix it.

[Celexa Bliss]

When I was a little kid, my dad and I went to see The Rocketeer and I don't remember what exactly happened, but the movie stopped maybe halfway through? Like I said, I was little, maybe 5 or 6, so I don't really remember the specifics.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Back in 2010 or so I was living in Spokane and went to a show at the Knitting Factory with Whitechapel headlining and Veil Of Maya and The Acacia Strain opening.

Crowd went absolutely berserk for Acacia Strain, with a ferocious mosh pit and people stage diving at a venue where that really never happened for the rest of the two years I lived there.

After the third song the lights came up for the promoter to come out and ask people to stop, after the fourth song they just cut the mics and brought the lights up, Vincent made kissing goodbye gestures to the crowd and gave the finger to the soundboard while they walked off.

Oddly I've seen them multiple times since at much smaller venues, the crowd still went nuts and the venue seemed fine with it.

[darbus alan]

Not a live show, but the first time I saw Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the movie theater got hit with a blackout right before things got started with Helm's Deep.

[Deleted]

Went to a 50 cent concert at the Egyptian room in Indy and there was so much pot use that cops ended up filling the place up.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I saw the Grindhouse double feature at the local theater, at a midnight showing.

The first one played was "Planet Terror".

At the end, where Rose McGowan is riding a horse on a beach and leading survivors to safety and a zombie jumps out at her... the screen goes black.

Someone in the audience shouts "f***!", gets up and runs to the back.

She was the person who was supposed to be 'running' the projector, she had left the 'booth' and was hanging around with her friends in the audience.

The movie came back on the screen before the credits were done rolling, so whatever happened it just killed the projection. The fake trailers and "Death Proof" ran fine.

[karl100589]

Aug 18, 2022 7:48:56 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Aug 18, 2022 7:43:36 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

The same thing happened to me. Probably a few times. I know it definitely happened when I went to see Will Smith’s Wild Wild West. Also terrible.

You were saying.

[GodzillaIsMyMonster]

Aug 18, 2022 7:48:56 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Aug 18, 2022 7:43:36 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

The same thing happened to me. Probably a few times. I know it definitely happened when I went to see Will Smith’s Wild Wild West. Also terrible.

WHAT?!!?? That movie is insane bat shit hilarity!

No movie with a giant steam punk spider can few considered a "bad movie".

Plus Kenneth Branagh is amazing!

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I was at a concert where the band was only for 20 minutes. Most of the week, the place was a hockey rink. The band complained it was a rock concert, not the bleedin' splish splash show and saluted their half-inflated Dark Lord.

It ruled.

[chazraps]

I went to Summer Madness 3 in 2013, a rap battle event at a time when acapella pre-written street battles were getting really hot with bigger and bigger venues, peaking at a potential mainstream crossover wave of popularity.

The event was off to a bad start with a three-four hour delay along with the AC being broken and everyone dressed for summer in New York being confronted with hours of it being 50 degrees.

Nobody thought to do soundcheck before the battle, so each rapper wound up being fitted with stage mics and sound checking in front of a live crowd over and over and it took forever.

Then, the third-to-last battle (whose format was scheduled to be one MC vs one MC for three rounds of unlimited time each) seemed to be pushing very close to the mandatory "must be over by" limit set by the venue (Stage 48, where Chikara always ran in New York City). Out of nowhere, one rapper struck the other one - which was puzzling as not only were this professionals and regulars in a scene where throwing a punch very rarely happens, but the other guy hadn't said anything particularly incendiary. (the rumor after was that the organizers realized they weren't going to have time for the double main events and wanted to safe face from the crowd so they paid off the rapper to throw a punch to have the event cancelled)

When security came into the crowd to tell people they had to leave because "the show was over" after the punch, this started a riot in the venue.

As people were being pushed out of the club, those outside who were smoking (this was a long day in a very cold club so this was a significant number of people) caught wind that the rest of the show was cancelled with the two main events not happened, so they start a full-fledged second riot.

Dueling riots around the single event, broke a few windows and did some other damage in the club. Really hurt the entire battle rap world from being able to book in NYC. The next year the first ever rap battle terrestrial pay-per-view Total Slaughter was only able to land Hammerstein Ballroom from the Fuse TV connection, bit that night's fallout was a massive debacle for another thread.

[Triangle Lancer]

Aug 18, 2022 10:28:31 GMT -5 cosmo said:

Aug 18, 2022 7:43:36 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

The closest was a movie my sister and I went to in theaters that suddenly shut off halfway through. But that was only temporary, because there was a burst pipe of some sort that caused the whole building to stop playing all its movies, but after about 10 minutes everything was back up and running and everyone got to watch the rest of their respective films.

To this day, I still wonder why we went back in (because the movie we were watching was terrible. )

Something similar happened to me and a friend of mine when we saw the remake of When A Stranger Calls in 2006. The projector crapped out halfway through the movie, and we hung around for 15-20 minutes waiting for the theater to get it back up and running so we could keep watching the movie.

My friend and I joked for several weeks afterwards that the projector was trying to look out for us and keep us from watching such a lousy movie.

That was me, also, Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). Rainy Memorial Day, scraped together $1.75 for the ticket.
Around the tequila worm monster part, the film snapped. After 2-3 minutes of confusion, I got up to go to the snack bar.
Came back after 10 minutes, movie was running again.
(I don't think I've seen it since. Saw a lot of bad movies in that theater.)

[Mr Mario Mario]

Closest I came to was when I went to a club viewing of Wrestlemania 25 but being in the UK, you needed a special license to stay open past 3am and the place either didn’t bother and thought they’d get away with it or just didn’t care

Anyway comes to HBK vs Taker and the police arrive and order the feed to be cut. Man people were p****d

Chairs & glasses getting flung, people getting dragged out by the cops, and because of the crowd more cops get called to start lifting people

Genuinely one of my favourite memories from watching a PPV live just because it was one of those “How the f*** did we end up here” situations lol