NEWS
2020/09/24
Dave Mustaine had said wiser things onstage. On the night of May 11, 1988, at The Forum in Antrim, Northern Ireland, after a day of drinking Guinness, the Megadeth frontman misinterpreted things when told about bootleg merch being sold for ‘The Cause’. Not understanding the minutiae of why American bands might be advised to watch their mouth around this sort of thing, or even realising that there was a right end of the stick to grasp despite the wrong end of it basically being on fire and covered in nails, Dave used these words to introduce a cover of the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK, inadvertently giving a shoutout to the IRA, topping it off by yelling, “Give Ireland back to the Irish!” For this gaffe, Dave was rewarded with a riot in the audience and a lift back to the hotel in a ...
