Shannon Noll has at last given his frankly insane side of the yarn in which he was arrested outside a strip club. And it’s a good’n. You ready for this?
Nollsy, bless him, explained in an interview to the Daily Telegraph that he was simply walking down Hindley St in Adelaide with his band mates when drunk supporters mobbed him. To escape the attention, they decided to exit stage left and into a strip club, the Crazy Horse.
“Those places can be a bit of a sanctuary for bands. You get left alone,” he said.
According to the Daily Tele’s report, the band spent a few hours in the strip club before calling it a night, but Nollsy had put money on his card to spend at the club, and wanted it back. The manager, however, was reluctant to give it.
“I wasn’t kicked out. The manager wanted to talk to me out the front, no worries,” he said. “We were talking. I got exasperated because I was dirty as we had spent enough money at that point.
“I put some on the card and asked for it back and probably had no right to do that. I didn’t assault anyone, I didn’t punch anyone, I didn’t push anyone. I did get up in their grill.
“I can’t say the same thing for what happened to me though. The police took me straight to hospital. An allegation was made that I assaulted someone so they come and arrest me and that’s it.
“I recovered pretty quick, they were mostly abrasions and an egg on my temple but I had a fair bit of blood running out of me. I got a fingernail through my tattoo on my arm, took colour out of it, they went through three layers of skin.”
Charges against Nollsy were withdrawn by South Australian police in early April, which he gleefully informed followers of with a double thumbs up on Facebook.
But, he says this experienced has changed the way he parties after shows.
“After a gig, you might feel like going out and having a beer but the rule of thumb now will be if I’m going to have a couple of beers, I’ll have them in the hotel room,” he said.
“It’s a bit of a lonely existence in that way but it’s being professional and that’s the approach I will take. No more celebrating a good gig.”
Robbed.
Photo: Shannon Noll / Facebook.
