Architects hit out at protesters after being attacked in Australia: “This isn’t a fucking game, it’s our fucking life”

Architects kicked off their Australian tour in Adelaide last night (February 17), but the show was quickly canceled when a booer stormed the stage and tried to attack guitarist Josh Middleton.

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According to some attendees on social media, the band was performing “These Colors Don’t Run” four songs from the 2012 album “Daybreaker” when an unknown man fled the stage, attempted to physically attack Middleton and d he demanded an obscenity over the microphone. ; He was reportedly “dragged out of the venue by four security guards” (according to concertgoer Dani Brown) and later detained by police.

Before the incident, the man was said to have shouted loudly at singer Sam Carter, demanding that Architects do older material out of “respect” for late guitarist Tom Searle (who died in 2016). Carter alluded to this in a speech given after the man was ejected: To turn around and see somebody run on stage, and run to Josh… and grab the microphone and start yelling whatever they were yelling… it’s crazy. “

“This isn’t a fucking game, this is our fucking life. I don’t know who the fuck this person thinks they’re going to come up on stage and try to attack Josh or whatever, but the next fucking thing was when He was on the fucking floor, fucking yelling at me, telling me to respect Tom and play some old fucking songs, I’ll tell you what, we were playing the oldest fucking song on the set, you stupid piece of shit.”

Carter went on to lash out at the thought of Architects deliberately ignoring the memory of the late Searle: “We appreciate Tom every fucking day of our lives, and every minute that this band goes on. So turn around and [ver] that my best fucking friend is being fucked by someone, get out here. It’s just music.”

The leader’s attention then turned to the booers and trolls. “This is what people need to understand,” he said, “this shit on the internet, the way people talk to each other, it can’t go on like this. It’s just fucking music. We’re do our best here. “with us, no need for violence, no need to go on stage and do this shit in 20 minutes.”

“Life goes on. Life really does go on. And let me tell you, life is so fucking fleeting – we don’t know how long we’re on this fucking Earth – so I’m not go let some fucking piece of it. miserable my night…”

Watch footage of Carter’s speech below (via Wall of Sound):

Speaking to NME, Brown said the altercation between Architects and their stage presence “lasted for a few [cinco o diez] seconds” but that the band had to leave the stage “for five minutes or so.” So they took him out of the mix. Later, my friend and I were out for drinks and we saw him at talking to the police near a police van. But I couldn’t see if he was handcuffed or something.”

Architects continued to play the rest of the Adelaide gig without issue – “it didn’t really affect the group’s performance”, Brown said – and played a further 19 songs after the incident (out of a total of 23). According to setlist.fm, most of the songs came from the band’s last two albums, ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’ (2021) and ‘The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit’ (2022).

In a four-star review of the latter, Andy Price from the NMEcalled it “an album that firmly anchors the canon of a band that has always sought to expand the language of 21st-century metal”, noting that “more prominent electronic influences incorporate the bubbles and contorts under the eyeballs some really nice guitars” .

Australia’s Architects tour continues in Melbourne tonight (February 18), before taking the band to Sydney and Brisbane. More information here.