When Bands Throw Food At You

I am very excited about seeing Phoenix perform tomorrow night in Central Park. I know most people are just really into the songs, and yeah, they’re great, but I mostly go to Phoenix gigs for the free bread. If you didn’t know, Phoenix is notorious for tossing baguettes out to the audience during the song “If I Ever Feel Better.” They used to have a baguette cannon, but I guess someone got hurt at a gig, and now they just toss them underhand to people in the first few rows. So you know, you’ve got to get up front if you’re hungry.

I love it when bands have an official food or beverage that they share with the audience during their concerts. I have personally experienced the following:

• Animal Collective They spray the audience with a Kombucha hose during the lead-up to “Fireworks.”
• Sufjan Stevens Has stagehands pass out tiny cups filled with samples of local beers and wines from whatever city he is playing that night.
• Neko Case Fun-size packs of Goldfish crackers handed out to the people furthest from the stage.
• Nine Inch Nails Concertgoers who purchased their tickets for the Wave Goodbye tour through NIN.com received a coupon for a free “Love It”-sized ice cream creation at Cold Stone Creamery at the merch booth.
• Feist Pinkberry frozen yogurt gun, part of official endorsement deal.
• Lykke Li Cream of mushroom soup.
• The Smashing Pumpkins Pumpkin spice flavored fortune cookies, the “fortune” is a spiritual blessing or aphorism from Billy Corgan.
• Sonic Youth Skittles.
• Vampire Weekend Water balloons filled with gazpacho.
• U2 Provisions dropped on the cheap seats from helicopters above the stadium.
• Insane Clown Posse Faygo, duh.

What is the best food or beverage you’ve seen a band toss out/spray at their audience?

- Matthew Perpetua