Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles were forced to stop their Coventry show half way through on Sunday night, but this time it had nothing to do with the erratic behaviour of the band's front-man, more the erratic behaviour of the stage barrier in use at the city's Coliseum venue.
Said barrier collapsed when the excitable crowd watching the show surged forward during the bands first song. With several audience members slightly injured, the gig was stopped for 20 minutes while the barrier was fixed. The rest of the gig was somewhat toned down because of fears the barrier would again collapse, and indeed there were several more stoppages during the rest of the gig while the barrier was checked.
Ever the crowd pleaser, Doherty kept his audience entertained by making much of the fact he had briefly attended a secondary school in nearby Bedworth. During the stoppage he entertained the crowd by singing songs sung on the terraces at Coventry City FC, and he dedicated a song to the school friends who were in the audience.