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The full awful truth on concert riders...

Tom Coates

09:58 / 05.04.02

The Smoking Gun has published a comprehensive list of the riders of some of today's best known stars. A rider - for the few of you who don't know - is what the band requests to be in their backstage area...

Scandalous news: Beck likes Yogurt and Peanut Butter, but seems to have gone off alcohol... Moby's obsessed with socks and underpants, and Britney will charge the organiser $5000 if her telephone gets any phone calls from the outside world...

The Natural Way

11:04 / 05.04.02

What? J. Lo likes Green Velvet....

Weird.

Jack Fear

12:17 / 05.04.02

Addictive and weirdly fascinating.

Ozzy's getting Vitamin B12 and anti-inflammatory shots before he goes onstage. Heh.

Men At Work specify NO FOSTER'S in their backstage beer selection. Double heh.

Fengs for the Memory

12:18 / 05.04.02

Bastard, this is becoming an obsession i can't stop looking. The amount of bottled oxygen required is unsettling, the Who want some for (1) guest - they are still trying to resus Keith Moon, he doesn't believe he's dead.

higuita

12:32 / 05.04.02

I had to have it explained to me why Kiss needed so many tissues. Still, four blokes, six boxes...

Must get lonely on the road.

Sax

12:56 / 05.04.02

Nah, the tissues are to wipe off all the make-up after the show.

higuita

13:27 / 05.04.02

Six boxes though.

Billy Corgan

15:35 / 05.04.02

When I toured with my mega-platinum selling band The Smashing Pumpkins, we needed an average of eight boxes of tissues per night. Kiss are merely lightweights, I think.

The Smoking Gun clearly does not have the necessary server space to contain The Smashing Pumpkins enormous 70-page rider.

My senses-shattering new band, Zwan only have a 50 page rider. I am growing mellow in my old age, I believe. Or maybe it's just because Iha isn't around anymore - that could be it.

Jack Fear

17:34 / 05.04.02

(sighs)

Hundreds of fictionsuits destroyed in the purge...

tSuibhne

19:26 / 05.04.02

My first year in college I was on the concert committee. One of the perks was breaking down the backstage area after the performer had left (we weren't allowed backstage before that) since we were allowed to keep anything that was left.

Best haul was Tribe Called Quest/De La Soul who ordered a couple buckets of chicken and then barely ate any of it. For a college freshman living in the dorms, that was a nice little treat.

Baz Auckland

20:02 / 05.04.02

I think it's creepy that Celine Dion needs 20-24 children with her backstage... if it was anyone else, people might suspect...

oh, wait. It's on stage.. still, sort of creepy.

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