10 (ARRESTED) FOR $10

Our friend Dan Rodriguez at Metal Insider tells us that, according to WBIR-TV, ten people were arrested yesterday at the Knoxville stop of 10 for $10 tour, which offers – duh – ten hardcore bands (including Poison the Well and Madball) for the low low price of ten bucks. The charges range from disorderly conduct to inciting a riot; apparently, a fight broke out, and when the venue’s security guards attempted to intervene, even the fucking band jumped in to give them what-fo’.

But here’s the best part: the fight broke out at 3:30 pm… just as the first band on the bill was taking the stage. So that’s ten dollars well spent.

Metal Insider’s sources tell them that the band in question was Terror. I would have guessed The Mongoloids just based on their name, but I guess you really can’t judge a book by its yadda yadda yadda.

I’d fucking love to know what the fight was about. I’d love to know what a group of hardcore kids found so offensive that they felt the need to start a battle royal before the show had even kicked off. I bet it was something really meaningful and worth fighting over, like someone looked at someone funny, or pushed a little too hard in the burgeoning mosh pit, or touched another dude’s girlfriend’s ass. Y’know, the kind of things I usually punch people for.

I also want to take a moment to call the cops out for classifying this as a “riot.” I have had the unfortunate luck of being in a riot (in motherfucking Philly, no less, where rioters don’t dick around), and if only ten people got arrested, this either wasn’t a real riot, or the Knoxville PD suck at their job.

Speaking of Knoxville PD: if you head over to Metal Insider, they have some footage of the Po’-Po’ making arrests. It looks like they sent every cop car in Knoxville to the scene. Which just goes to show ya: nothing interesting every happens in fucking Knoxville.

-AR