# Stage diving > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stage_diving > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stage_diving.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_diving > Source revision: 1329860327 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Leaping from a concert stage onto the crowd below}} {{redirect|Stage dive|the online ticket broker|Stage Dive}} [[Image:Method Man stage dive.jpg|thumb|right|[Method Man](/source/Method_Man) preparing to dive into the crowd at the [Tweeter Center](/source/Tweeter_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts) during [Rock the Bells 2007](/source/Rock_The_Bells_Festival_2007)]] '''Stage diving''' is the act of leaping from a [concert](/source/concert) stage onto the crowd below, which occasionally causes serious injuries. It is often the precursor to [crowd surfing](/source/crowd_surfing).{{cite web |title=The Evolution of Stage Diving |url=http://kcpr.org/2018/10/25/evolution-of-stage-diving/ |website=KCPR |date=25 October 2018 |access-date=16 February 2019}} Many musicians have made stage diving a part of their stage act. [Jim Morrison](/source/Jim_Morrison) was an early performer known for having jumped into the crowd at several concerts. [Iggy Pop](/source/Iggy_Pop) is often credited with popularising stage diving in popular [rock music](/source/rock_music).{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-wildest-iggy-pop-moments-20160421/iggy-flings-peanut-butter-on-cincinatti-june-13-1970-20160421 | magazine=[Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone) | title=20 Wildest Iggy Pop Moments | date=2016-04-21}} Initially seen as confrontational and extreme, stage diving has become common at [hardcore punk](/source/hardcore_punk) and [thrash metal](/source/thrash_metal) performances.{{cite web| url=https://www.altpress.com/stage_diving_op_ed/ | website=altpress | title=In defense of stage diving and why it shouldn’t be banned from venues | date=2017-11-01}} ==Risks and incidents== Stage diving has occasionally caused serious injuries. One example is when [Peter Gabriel](/source/Peter_Gabriel) of [Genesis](/source/Genesis_(band)) at the Friars club in [Aylesbury](/source/Aylesbury) on 19 June 1971 stage dove during the end of their song "[The Knife](/source/The_Knife_(song))", landing on his foot and [breaking his ankle](/source/Ankle_fracture).{{cite book |last1=Banks |first1=Tony |last2=Collins |first2=Phil |last3=Gabriel |first3=Peter |last4=Hackett |first4=Steve |last5=Rutherford |first5=Mike |title=Genesis: Chapter and Verse |date=2007 |publisher=Macmillian |isbn=9780312379568 |page=113}} On 20 August 2010, Charles Haddon, the lead singer of English synthpop band [Où Est Le Swimming Pool](/source/Ou_Est_Le_Swimming_Pool), died by suicide after a performance at [Pukkelpop](/source/Pukkelpop), Belgium,{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/21/charles-haddon-belgium-pukkelpop-dead | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Ou Est Le Swimming Pool singer Charles Haddon found dead in Belgium | date=2010-08-21}} by jumping from a telecommunications mast in the backstage artists' parking area. Haddon was reported to have been distressed after he feared he had seriously injured a young girl earlier after a stagedive.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/25/ou-est-le-swimming-pool | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Sean | last=Michaels | title=Ou Est Le Swimming Pool singer 'injured fan before killing himself' | date=2010-08-25}} In February 2014, federal judge [Jan E. DuBois](/source/Jan_E._DuBois) ruled that [Fishbone](/source/Fishbone) had to pay $1.4 million to a woman who broke her skull and [collarbone](/source/Clavicle) during a 2010 concert in Philadelphia when [Angelo Moore](/source/Angelo_Moore) stage-dove and landed on top of her.{{cite news|last=McGovern|first=Kyle|date=14 February 2014|title=Fishbone Owe $1.4 Million for Stage-Diving on Fan|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/02/fishbone-stage-dive-lawsuit/|newspaper=[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))|access-date=23 April 2015}}{{cite news|last=Dale|first=Maryclaire|date=13 February 2014|title=$1.4M for woman injured by Pa. Fishbone stage-dive|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/14m-woman-injured-pa-fishbone-stage-dive|agency=Associated Press|location=Philadelphia|access-date=23 April 2015}} Another fatal stage diving incident occurred in May 2014 in New York City during a performance of the metalcore band [Miss May I](/source/Miss_May_I). Although the fan was able to walk away after falling from the stage, the concert was cut short after he fainted. He later died at the hospital.{{cite magazine|last1=Brown|first1=Harley|title=Fan Collapses Exiting NYC's Webster Hall|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6077448/fan-dies-stage-diving-at-miss-may-i-webster-hall|magazine=billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519164156/https://www.billboard.com/pro/fan-dies-stage-diving-at-miss-may-i-webster-hall/|archive-date=19 May 2022}} In April 2024, an audience member was seriously injured after the frontman for [Trophy Eyes](/source/Trophy_Eyes) dove from the stage during a concert in Buffalo, New York. The fan suffered a broken neck and partial paralysis after the lead singer landed on them.{{cite web |last1=Li |first1=David |title='His body and my neck': Woman recalls punk singer's stage dive that sent her to hospital paralyzed |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-body-neck-woman-recalls-punk-singers-stage-dive-sent-hospital-paralyz-rcna151963 |website=NBC News |access-date=15 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250516023450/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-body-neck-woman-recalls-punk-singers-stage-dive-sent-hospital-paralyz-rcna151963 |archive-date=16 May 2025}} Stage diving had been banned at the venue since 2011 after a stage diving incident left a man with 2 broken vertebrae.{{cite web |last1=Childers |first1=Chad |title=Fan Files Suit Against Trophy Eyes Over Spinal Injury |url=https://loudwire.com/fan-lawsuit-spinal-injury-trophy-eyes-concert/ |website=Loudwire |access-date=15 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124004659/https://loudwire.com/fan-lawsuit-spinal-injury-trophy-eyes-concert/ |archive-date=24 January 2025}} ==See also== *[Crowd surfing](/source/Crowd_surfing) *[Headbanging](/source/Headbanging) *[List of dances](/source/List_of_dances) *[Moshing](/source/Moshing) *[Trust fall](/source/Trust_fall) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.vice.com/en/article/is-it-ok-to-stagedive-musicians-weigh-in/ "Is Jumping on Someone's Head OK? Musicians Weigh In on the Great Stagedive Debate"] at [''Vice''](/source/Vice_(magazine)) {{Rock festival}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stage Diving}} Category:Punk Category:Heavy metal subculture Category:Rock music Category:Syllabus-free dance [de:Crowdsurfing#Stagediving](/source/de%3ACrowdsurfing) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Stage diving](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_diving) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_diving?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.