Labrinth causes an earthquake as he 'crowd surfs' and fans fail to catch him

It was not only Labrinth’s ego that was bruised when he tried to ‘crowd surf’ and the impromptu stunt went dramatically wrong.



He expected the crowd at the gig to catch him when he threw himself from the stage during a performance of his hit song Earthquake at University of Kent summer ball.



The 24-year-old rap singer fell onto the crowd at the gig on Saturday after shouting the lyric ‘Labrinth, come in!’

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Ready? The star throws his hands up in a bid to tell the students to catch him

Shock: Labrinth surprises his fans knocking dozens of them to the ground

Out of control: The singer stumbles uncontrollably

But the fans in the gig’s front row were not ready for him and buckled under the weight of the singer.



Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of drunk and confused students were lying around on the concrete floor as a result of the incident.



Bouncers were quick to rescue the star, who finished his performance after he was pulled out of the crowd.



The students had each paid £37 for tickets to the show, where Labrinth was a headline act.

Chaos: The students are confused after the stunt goes wrong

Organisers at the Giles Lane car park venue in Canterbury, Kent, said that no one in the audience had been seriously injured and the students had seen the funny side of the incident.

Student Nasser Naoum, 19, who filmed the singer’s fall, compared the stunt to a ‘superman-like dive'.



He said: ‘He kept asking everyone to put their hands up in the air, but none of us knew it was actually because he expected us to catch him - we just thought it was for dancing purposes.’

The impact had a knock-on effect on the rest of the crowd, who fell ‘like dominos’, he said.



Crash landing: The singer falls into the audience who are not ready to catch him

Ouch: With no one to break his fall, the singer disappears into the crowd

‘He literally caused an earthquake he predicted himself,’ he added.

‘I saw girls looking up from the floor in pain. But I don't think anyone was too badly injured.’

The singer, whose real name is Timothy McKenzie, originally planned to work as a producer before he was signed to Simon Cowell’s Syco label.

South East Coast Ambulance Service said they had not been called to the incident, which happened between 1am and 2am.

Chart topper: Singer-songwriter Labrinth has enjoyed big success since he was signed up by Simon Cowell