October 18, 2007
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University of Colorado police are looking into an incident at Macky Auditorium on Tuesday night during which a man, dressed in a black cape and wearing a gas mask, approached the stage where British singer Annie Lennox was performing and frightened her into retreating backstage.

CU Police Sgt. Gary Arai said the man, a 32-year-old Denver resident, was escorted out of the building by security around 9:30 p.m. and the concert resumed.

A fellow who was dressed in a black cape, platform boots and a gas mask approached the stage," Arai said. "Lennox saw him coming and threw down her microphone and went backstage."

He didn't know if charges would or could be filed, given that the man didn't climb up on stage with Lennox.

Arai said the man's name is not being released because he hasn't been arrested.

Lennox, in a Wednesday blog posting on her official Web site, described the incident as "really freakish and disturbing, whatever the hell it was."

She also blasted the lack of security at Macky.

"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," the 52-year-old singer wrote.

Arai said two uniformed CU police officers were on duty at Macky and that private securitypersonnel were also working the event.

Lennox, who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s as the singer in the duo Eurythmics, apologized in her blog to fans who were waiting outside to meet her, writing that the incident "really shook me up."

Instead of greeting fans after the show, she boarded her tour bus.

"That's one of the very few times I've ever done that in my career. In fact I don't remember that ever happening before," Lennox wrote. "And believe me ... in the 30 years I've been performing, I'm not that easily shaken."

Lennox is scheduled to play in Minneapolis tonight.

wtf!?

okay, i know this is a serious topic and im sure lennox really was concerned for her life but.....













that is a funny ass visual right there.


okay...my bad.

sosgemini said:

He should've gotten up and danced with her a la 'Soy Bomb'.

Sounds like a diminished budget for the wardrobe of special guest George Clinton.

She was playing University of Colorado? Well, EMU did get Elvis Costello and Bob Dylan...can't complain that much.

Copycat said:

Sounds like a typical 80's fan from her group The Eurythmics. The Annie Lennox I remember would have invited the chap onstage for several brisk lashes from her leather riding crop. My, how times have changed.

PDogz said:

you know, that's what i was thinking.

What a douchebag. If you want to dress up, fine. But anyone with sense would know not to dress up like that and walk right to center stage staring at the performer.

Too bad that this has happened and I dig and respect Annie and I don´t want to make fun of a serious situation but....WTF ??? A man with high heels, a cape and a gas mask ? Don´t know why but Blowfly was the first who came to mind when I read this.

Annie Lennox still looks great though, and she´s not even my type, I´m not really into blondes....but boy does she look great !
And she´s a very smart person, too.

Copycat said:

WHAT THE FUCK!?

And reading the last quote I thought that happened here in mpls There is a guy in a gas mask that walks around the city

Hope she never performs at any Halloween gig, she'll be a quivering wreck.

'Och, I was so scared, there were people dressed as witches 300 yards away from me. They were such a threat'

Seriously, when I started reading that article, I thought that he must have climbed on stage or something, but the fact that he was simply making his way to the front makes me wonder if she shouldn't be performing at all if she's going to be uncomfortable with anything less than sensible clothes at all times for the audience members. Surely as a performer, you expect that you're going to be performing to all sorts of people?

Event: Annie Lennox at the Lyceum
Time: 8:30pm
Doors open 6:30pm
Dress Code: Jeans, shirt, blouse or T-shirt and sensible shoes and nothing else or I'll get scared and hide. No weirdy people ta. Everyone must conform to my standards of dress and image.