An incident between the soundman and Thom

• Ed: There was a great one about a couple years ago when we were in some gig up in the north of England, and one of the P.A. guys accused us of nicking a D.I. [direct audio signal injection] box. This guy's huge, he's taller than me, about six foot seven, and twice as wide.
• Thom: Like a fucking psycho.
• Ed: And basically, Thom says no. [The soundman]'s still giving us hassles, so Thom tells him to fuck off, and looks up at him with a mean stare. So this guy gets Thom by the neck...
• Thom: He pinned me against the wall.
• Ed: ... and Phil and I had to take one arm each of this guy and try to wrench them off.
• Thom: I didn't tell him to fuck off.
• Ed: Yeah, you did. I think that was the problem, really.
• Jonny: It was.
• Thom: Well, alright.
• Ed: [laughs] Considering he was upset anyway.