A recent concert took an unexpected turn when the rapper who was performing lost consciousness during the show. What made the incident even more dramatic was the fact that he was hanging suspended from the ceiling at the time.
Indeed, “Pete Bowditch, one half of the British rap duo Pete & Bas, passed out mid-concert and was left dangling from the ceiling during a recent show,” according to Page Six.
The Shocking Incident ‘Stunned’ the Crowd
The unexpected music-related moment “reportedly took place in Chicago on Monday night, according to Jam Press,” Page Six explained. With red lights already setting an intense atmosphere, “the elderly hip-hop artist [was] performing a track while suspended in a harness above the stage. But Bowditch lost consciousness mid-song and passed out while the stunned crowd watched on.”
“The footage of the incident showed Bowditch’s head slump forward as his arms fell to his side and his microphone crashed down to the stage below,” Page Six added. “Three dancers beneath the rapper, meanwhile, continued performing as Bowditch hung just a few feet above their heads.”
Following the onstage incident, a video of the moment Bowditch lost consciousness was shared by the duo’s Instagram account. Those behind the pair added a caption, writing, “Update from management: We would like to apologise for last night’s show, the good news is Pete is now in a stable condition. We’ll be issuing refunds to all ticket holders. All current European tour dates will still be going ahead.”
Bowditch Went from ‘a Retired Royal Mail Employee’ to One of the ‘Grandfathers of UK Drill’
GettyBefore Bowditch became a rapper, he was “a retired Royal Mail employee,” who “didn’t know what UK grime or drill music was,” according to the BBC. “When his granddaughter would tune his car radio into stations rap and grime broadcasts, Pete would turn it off.”
“She was messing with my car radio stations and I thought ‘what the hell is going on here?’ and I changed them back,” he told the BBC. However, his opinion began to change. “Then I thought, ‘This ain’t too bad.'”
When Bowditch asked his friend, Basil Bellgrave, if he might be into rapping, Bas says, “I thought we’d have a bit of a go.”
They did just that, and, as the BBC notes, “very few would have predicted that the two grandfathers would end up becoming major players…” Indeed, the BBC deemed the duo “Pete & Bas: The grandfathers of UK drill.”
