Sometimes it’s just really hard to stay upright.

We’ve all been there; a packed out Madison Square Gardens, you’re putting in work, the crowd are gleefully enraptured, then – BLAMMO – you’ve just gobbled up a mouth full of floor. Hopefully you don’t freak out, start throwing stuff, punch your drummer and announce an indefinite hiatus due to terminal embarrassment.

This weekend Dave Grohl – the king of being fairly affable – did exactly the opposite. Breaking his leg after a mighty stage fall the Foo Fighters frontman just hopped back up on stage, got a cheeky cast fitted and carried on playing. Unless there was conspiracy afoot (ahem) we reckon that’s actually pretty noble behaviour. Even if he has forgotten to write a good song in 15 years.

In honour of Grohl’s tremendous sportsmanship we’ve gathered our seven favourite musician-eats-floor moments.

Eddie Vedder

Oh, Eddie Vedder.

The gruff voiced God of light-grunge has pretty much made a career out of falling over a lot. Watch as he does his best Jonathan Edwards impression before walloping into the floor, gasp as he comes face to face with a speaker stack and marvel as he tumbles from atop the most perilous set piece a musician can encounter; a chair.

We don’t know how he does it but Vedder is probably the most prolific stacksman the entertainment industry has seen since Buster Keaton. We salute him.

Dizzee Rascal

Back in 2009 (Dizzee’s Bonkers heyday), our Dizzee got a little bit too dizzy and flew, Superman-style, over a speaker stack and into a crowd. You can almost hear the comedy ‘woah-oh-oh-oh!’ Fix up, look down, next time Dizzee! Stand Up Tall? More like fall down flat. Boy in da Corner? More like boy on da floor… LOL.

Oh and some internet person has added a cat to the end of this video too. Which is nice.

Rae Sremmurd

This actually looks pretty painful. At the Governor’s Ball in New York last week Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jimmy jumped about a bit, fell on to a stage light, rocked back-and-forth like one of those water sipping birds you find in wacky offices, then he slams into the floor.

Reports suggest that young Jim is making a full recovery but still… Ouch.

 

Jedward

Surely this is more proof than ever that Jedward are part of some kind of horrible Jackson 5 style abuse story. The boy tears a ligament onstage, for crying out loud, and he just keeps on going, surviving a stinking rendition of All the Small Things through searing agony.

He is obviously so used to performing despite being almost immobilized by suffering that it’s not a flight of the imagination to picture a frothing Louis Walsh with horsewhip in hand, beating the twins until they get those prancing dance moves just right. Evil. Unadulterated evil.

Lil' Wayne

In Looney Tunes’ Roadrunner cartoons Wile E Coyote often found himself in a brief moment of clarity before plummeting from the edge of an impossibly high cliff to his doom. A moment of safety, a slow motion second that lingers in silence before a world of shit hits and the floor comes plummeting up towards the sky.

Lil’ Wayne is – without a doubt – the rap game Wile E Coyote.

Busta Rhymes

Showcasing the infinite cruelty of the internet in full flow, we don’t just get to see Busta Rhymes fall off stage once – we get to see it from two angles, and in slow-motion.

He looks like a grand old oak that’s just been toppled. Once he’s been picked up off the floor by his many loyal hype-men, he’s up and bopping once again, but not for long. He needs to be hurried away, probably to be revived with a splash of Courvoisier to the face backstage.

Madonna

At this year’s Brits, Madonna fell and twatted her hip live on stage. The world then proceeded to watch this Vine of the incident over six million times. Gannets. After, she gets up and just keeps on going with her performance. Of course she does – she’s bloody Madonna. Madonna is hard as nails.

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