"We were playing these 200-capacity venues that weren't really legal. There were just too many people in there, climbing on the bar, climbing on the speakers and jumping off," Chris Batten, the 20-year-old bassist from British post-hardcore band Enter Shikari tells The Japan Times.
"There was this one show in Dublin where they only had one security guy and he just couldn't control them. There were six ambulances outside at the end of the night."
Just throw in some drugs and the odd freeloading supermodel and these scenes could be cut from a guidebook of young rock 'n' roll excess. But Batten isn't interested in doing anything by the book, which he believes is the key to the band's unusual sound.