Top 5 interrupted gigs, Music poll

The Doors' 1967 gig at the New Haven Arena in New Haven, Connecticut tops the list of most famous interrupted gigs, according to a current poll by the ticket agency, viagogo.
During that performance or half-performance singer Jim Morrison was arrested on stage by police for breaking the state's obscenity laws and inciting the crowd to riot. (In a video below, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek gives a full account of the incident.)
A 2007 concert in Utrecht, Holland by Bloc Party comes in a close second: The band stopped playing when the crowd spotted a couple having sex in the audience. This prompted other members of the crowd to do the nasty. Realizing they were now in the midst of an orgy, Bloc Party exited the stage.
Third place goes to Britney Spears for her May 2009 gig in Vancouver. Britney stormed off the stage after 15 minutes, claiming the auditorium was too smoky and she was uncomfortable with the number of fans smoking marijuana. Spears returned to the stage 40 minutes later and admonished her fans for smoking weed.
The Top 5 interrupted gigs
1. 9 December 1967 - The Doors, New Haven Arena, New Haven, ConnecticutJim Morrison was arrested on stage by local police for attempting to incite a riot.

2. 28 April 2007 - Bloc Party, Utrecht, HollandRampant sex stops the gig. After a couple in the audience started getting it on, the crowd started cheering and followed suit. The band brought the concert to an early end. (Talk about premature climaxes!)
3. 8 April 2009 - Britney Spears, GM Place Stage, Vancouver, British ColumbiaBritney Spears sulks off the stage, reportedly saying it was too smoky in the venue for her to perform. Fans were stunned at her reaction and booed her for leaving. When she returned, she told the audience not to smoke pot.
4. 7 June 1977 - The Sex Pistols, River Thames, LondonHaving just released God Save The Queen, The Sex Pistols performed on a private boat, sailing down the River Thames, past Westminster and the Houses Of Parliament. The event was designed to mock the Queen's river procession planned for two days later to celebrate her Silver Jubilee, but it ended in chaos with police forcing the boat to dock and constabulary surrounded the gangplanks on the pier.
5. 21 February 2008 - Vampire Weekend, ULU, LondonThe pair abandoned the stage at the Shockwaves NME Awards Show after the fire alarm sounded mid-way through the appropriately titled The Kids Don't Stand A Chance, forcing the Brooklyn band and the audience to evacuate the building.
As for us, we would have voted for the many incidents during The Rolling Stones' free concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969 (drummer Marty Balin for the opening act Jefferson Airplane got knocked out by a Hells Angel; later, the Stones stopped playing several times because of fights breaking out in the crowd and then, of course, there was that horrifying stabbing).

Bloc will call for referendum on NATO and Russian language status

The bloc of leftists is planning to call for a referendum on a Common Economic Space (CES), Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the Russian language stats, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko has said.
"We'll definitely hold a referendum on three issues a Common Economic Space (CES), Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the Russian language status," the party's press service quoted him as saying on Thursday.
Symonenko said that leftist bloc members would call for Russian to be rendered the national status in Ukraine.
As reported, the leaders of four parties Petro Symonenko (the Communist Party), Yuriy Zahorodniy (the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)), Stanislav Nikolayenko (the Justice Party), and Vasyl Volha (the Union of Leftists) signed the agreement an agreement on creating the bloc of leftists and center leftists at a meeting in Kyiv on September 14.
At the same time, the leaders of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU) and the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) Natalia Vitrenko and Oleksandr Moroz – refused to join the union.
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Merkel centre-right majority Latest German poll gives

BERLIN (Reuters) German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have enough support to form a center right alliance with the business friendly Free Democrats (FDP), a new poll showed on Tuesday.
The poll by Allensbach for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper put support for Merkel's conservative bloc down 1 point at 35 percent and the FDP up a point at 13.5 percent.
Their combined score of 48.5 percent exceeds that of the other three major parties the SPD, Greens and Left party put together.
The SPD was up 1.5 points at 24 percent, the Greens down one point to 11 percent and the Left down half a point to 11.5 percent.

Europa League launch: bloc party Still flawed

Tonight looks the big launch of the Europa League Uefa's latest attempt to add lustre to the Uefa Cup, a competition which has paled into insignificance compared to the Champions League.
The main criticism levelled at the Uefa Cup has been the unwieldy, 40 team group stage when the likes of Bolton would rather rest players than win a European tie you know you have trouble.
Aside from the name change, the big news is Uefa has done the only reasonable increased the event to 48 teams. In the arranger's defence, they have tried to simplify the format with 12 groups of four teams playing everyone home and away as opposed to the old five team pair playing each other once.

Bloc May Support Harper in Canada Parliament, Gazette Says

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said he may support Canada’s governing Conservative party in a budget vote this week as long as it doesn’t include a “poison pill,” the Montreal Gazette reported.
Duceppe said his party, which along with the two other opposition parties holds the balance of power in Canada’s Parliament, would support a motion to adopt Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s home-renovation tax credit, the Gazette reported. The newspaper didn’t say where Duceppe made the comments.

BLOC PARTY IGNORE VIDEOS

Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke says he is distressed with the band's promotional videos as the end report is never as good as the planned footage.
Bloc Party don't care about their videos.
Frontman Kele Okereke says he never watches their promotional clips back as they never turn out the way they were initially imagined.
He said: "With the video making operation I don't pay consider anymore. You always get these intervention advised to you then you get the video and it looks nothing like the intervention do I made a decision of letting others decide because it's not actually worth an argument. So 'Flux', I've only seen it a few times, I don't watch videos much. Some members of the band are more opinionated on what they do and don't like and I trust them. We tend to get things done."
The singer whose pair performed at the Reading and Leeds festivals last week also admitted he dislikes playing festivals because it is "hard work."
He explained to Absolute Radio DJ Simon Mundie: "I guess it's lots of people in a field and when it's good it's a great feeling but you never actually know. It's not like doing your own show, it's harder work and I'm lazy."