One Leaping Loop Loser: What I Saw From The Stage

As someone stood on stage looking into the crowd you’d probably think that I was the best person to tell you all about what happened to the Loop leaper, but I have to be honest, I didn’t have a clue what was going on. As compare for the Futures stage I was trying to hype the crowd up to get Fujiya & Miyagi back on for a much deserved encore and was failing miserably. Now I know why. As I was shouting, "You’ve got to make some noise if you want them to come back" the audience were hearing "You’ve got to make some noise if you want them to come down". At that point he was hanging with 100 feet of sweaty air between him and the floor. It must have seemed like I was goading him to jump.

Certainly that’s what The Argus reporter thought when he tracked me down. Obviously I’d never do that, but he took some convincing.

It’s a shame because the rest of the festival was incredibly good-natured. Sure, it was tricky getting into the two main tents, but people seemed to get on with the business of dancing around the bar.

We’ll talk about the music another time (it was great btw) and get back to the idiot hanging from the rafters. Inevitably he lost his grip, but against the odds the crowd didn’t cushion his fall. Instead he fell on his feet, rolled onto his back and said, like a bad anti-drugs advert cliché, “I can fly!” Erm, no.

Apparently he walked out of hospital at 1am that night regretting what he’d done and has been trying to get hold of the organiser to apologies for putting the future of Loop in doubt. The organiser, Jason Clarke, told us that the council are happy that the situation was handled properly and don’t hold Loop to blame for what happened. Thank god.

So, that’s what happened while I was shouting like an idiot on stage. And Fujiya & Miyagi never did get that encore, despite my enthusiasm.