Stage diving

[1] Long before the word was invented, public stagediving took place during the first Dutch concert by The Rolling Stones at the Kurhaus of Scheveningen on August 8, 1964.

[3] Initially seen as confrontational and extreme, stage diving has become common at hardcore punk and thrash metal performances.

One example is when Peter Gabriel of Genesis at the Friars club in Aylesbury on 19 June 1971 stage dove during the end of their song "The Knife", landing on his foot and breaking his ankle.

[5] On 20 August 2010, Charles Haddon, the lead singer of English synthpop band Où Est Le Swimming Pool, died by suicide after a performance at Pukkelpop, Belgium,[6] by jumping from a telecommunications mast in the backstage artists' parking area.

[7] In February 2014, federal judge Jan E. DuBois ruled that Fishbone had to pay $1.4 million to a woman who broke her skull and collarbone during a 2010 concert in Philadelphia when Angelo Moore stage-dove and landed on top of her.