Annie Lennox ‘Disturbed’ By Concert Attendee She’s Dubbed Mr “Nightmare On Elm Street”

Poor Annie Lennox. She’s probably only just gotten over the anguish of having her teenage daughter wreak havoc upon her digs during a cheeky parent-free party in May*, and now she’s had another shock to the system in the form of a mask-donning ticket holder at a concert in Colorado.

A man dressed in a black cape and
wearing a gas mask approached the stage where Annie Lennox was
performing at the University of Colorado Tuesday night and frightened
her into retreating backstage. CU Police Sgt. Gary Arai said the man, a
32-year-old Denver resident, was escorted out of the building by
security around 9:30 p.m. and the concert resumed. “A
fellow who was dressed in a black cape, platform boots and a gas mask
approached the stage,” Arai said. “Lennox saw him coming and threw down
her microphone and went backstage.”

Turning to the comfort of The Interwebs, Lennox remarked the following on her blog about the incident.

Unfortunately an incident took place towards the end of the set that
really shook me up. And believe me..in the 30 years I’ve been
performing, I’m not that easily shaken. The security at the hall were
extremely lax, and Mr “Nightmare on Elm Street “( or whatever weird
thing was going on in his head) should never have been allowed to get
anywhere near. Trust me…it wasn’t nice. I’m usually very patient and easy going with most kinds of behaviour in
an audience…but that was really freakish and disturbing, whatever the
hell it was. He owes me and my band a fucking apology.

*Speaking of way back when, here are a few more Lennox/Eurythmics related titles we should have used in that post had we come up with them in time. It was left to a friend of ours to email us inspiration and shame us into realising we could have – at the very least – thrown in a reference to poo.

- Feels Like I’m Walking On Broken Glass… Because I Am.

- Love Is A Stranger… And So Was The Teenager Who Urinated On My Carpet.
- Who’s That Girl? (Smearing My House With Poo, Oh Tell Me…)