Annie Lennox has criticised security at a concert in Colorodo last week for allowing a caped man wearing a gas mask into the venue. Lennox angrily left the stage at the gig in Boulder, Colorado after spotting the man in the audience, saying she was afraid he may be some kind of attacker. She returned to the stage once the man had been removed, but after the gig stormed off stage and straight to her tour bus, ignoring fans who were waiting to meet her outside.
Writing about the experience on her blog, Lennox apologised for snubbing her fans, but blames the whole incident on security who, she says, should not have let the masked gig goer into the venue. She writes: "In the 30 years I've been performing, I'm not that easily shaken. The security at the hall were extremely lax, and Mr "Nightmare On Elm Street" (or whatever weird thing was going on in his head) should never have been allowed to get anywhere near. Trust me...it wasn't nice? I'm usually very patient and easy going with most kinds of behaviour in an audience...but that was really freakish and disturbing, whatever the hell it was. He owes me and my band an apology".
On storming out of the venue, and on one fan who criticised her angry reaction in a blog entry on MySpace, she continued: "I'm really sorry if you waited for me...normally it would have been completely different. In any case, apart from that...it was a damned good gig. I think everyone seemed to love it... Except for the MySpace gentleman who's so upset with me ... now you can go and burn all my records in a ritualistic pile or sell them on eBay my friend".