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Alien Ant Farm guitarist pleads guilty to assault in Chester
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 2 November 2016
Alien Ant Farm guitarist Terry Corso has pleaded guilty to assaulting a fan at a gig in Chester last month.
According to the Chester Standard, the incident happened at the Live Rooms in Chester last week, on 26 Oct, while the band were performing there. The court heard that Corso had punched Newton after something was thrown at him, which he believed to be urine. This having already happened once before on the current UK tour, he was primed to react to another such attack.
“Two days before in Preston someone threw urine at the singer [Dryden Mitchell] and [the band] all stormed off stage”, explained Corso’s lawyer Stephen Ferns. “Then on the 26th in Chester, Terry Corso had something thrown at him which he assumed was urine. He felt angry at that, so he confronted the fan and ended up hitting him once. He regrets his actions and says he never should have jumped off the stage”.
Are people really buying Alien Ant Farm tickets just to throw piss at them? They cost more than you might think, you know. You won’t get much change out of twenty quid.
Anyway, Corso was given a twelve month conditional discharge, and ordered to pay costs, compensation and a victim surcharge totalling £205. That sentence means that he will be able to enter the UK again in the future and, more importantly, finish the band’s current UK tour.
You can catch Alien Ant Farm tonight in Barnstable. Hopefully it will be free of piss and punches, but you never really know in Barnstable, do you?
