Right Said Fred did a promo appearance at a radio station in Lower Saxony when my wife worked there, back in 2001. Their rider: 3 liters of vodka (Smirnoff or Stoli), 24 cans of Red Bull, a platter of cold cuts, and assorted rolls. It was just the two guys and their female background singer (the station staff took care of all the equipment) and sure enough, all the stuff was gone after 2-1/2 hours (they didn't nick the stuff either - they left the empties).

Needless to say, I was rather impressed.

Why does Prince need 192 bath towels, and 500 pounds of ice?

Beer coolers in the buses?

It must cost a mint to meet the terms of that rider.

No, I'd definitely prefer to party with Styx. I can live off gummy bears, cheese pizza, and sugar-free juices.


/Mmmmm, could go for some gummy bears right now.

Everyone in U2 is a moran.
Wait, I'll be nice - their tour managers are morans, and the members of U2 are too stupid to check up on them.

Mouton Cadet red is a red Bordeaux, but not a very good one. So they want 3 very good Bordeaux, and 2 mediocre ones?
"Very good French white chardonnays" almost never have the word "chardonnay" on the label. If they want Corton-Charlemagne or Meursault, perhaps they should ask for it. (Oh, and exactly how are you going to get red Chardonnay, hmmm?)
The correct spelling of the brand of sherry they requested is "Sandeman", not "Sandimint".
"Guinness" has a double-n, not a single one. And they call themselves Irish!
Champagne is not sold by the 5th.

Need I go on?

U2 sucks. why does subby want to hang with them?

/Except I'm drinking a California Merlot.
//Does the trick.

The Smoking Gun (dot com) has probably 100 of riders.

Advancing a catering rider is a pain. Many times Euro bands will demand something dairy that isn't available on the West Coast of California and won't accept substitutes so the promoter has to take a painful payout for the items. Bunch of sniveling babies- I absolutely hate advancing English prog rock.

I'm not aware of any Bordeauxs that aren't red and aren't from France. That being said, thinking back to the Zoo TV era, that's a positively reasonable rider. I would've expected it to be a lot more ridiculous.

Whenever talking about backstage riders, I can't help but have Spinal Tap flashbacks. God that was a funny flick.

elvindeath I'm not aware of any Bordeaux that aren't red...
There are white Bordeaux too. They are Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc blends, mostly produced in Graves and Entre-Deux-Mers.

/wine geek

Wow what a blatant rip off of a site called thesmokinggun.com. Think we have covered this five dozen times.

Wow what a blatant rip off of a site called thesmokinggun.com. Submitter has to be kidding right, you've heard of the smoking gun right, right. Think we have covered this five dozen times.