Fugazi
Pull a thread
The barricade was built to keep the crowd off the stage. In Oklahoma City, Turnstile used it the other way around
On 5 October, Brendan Yates stopped a sold-out room mid-song and refused to restart until a security guard left the building. The gesture has an ancestor, and it is not the one everybody reaches for.
What happened at The Criterion
Monday 5 October, The Criterion in Oklahoma City, roughly three quarters into the set. Turnstile were playing “Keep It Moving” when a fan came over the front barricade. By Brendan Yates’s account from the microphone, a guard went at them.