{"id":614799,"date":"2026-06-01T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614799\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T06:33:08","slug":"take-that-fan-hit-by-confetti-cannon-at-st-marys-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614799\/","title":{"rendered":"Take That fan hit by confetti cannon at St Mary&#8217;s Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The fan, who had driven two hours and paid more than \u00a3300 for tickets, said they were &#8220;having the time of their life&#8221; when, during the band&#8217;s performance of the hit song Never Forget, they were suddenly knocked to the ground in pain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Take That \u2019The Circus Live\u2019 show at St Mary\u2019s Stadium (Image: Stuart Martin)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Take That, comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, brought their latest tour to Southampton on Friday night. The show featured a host of the band&#8217;s biggest hits, elaborate staging and confetti cannons, with thousands of fans attending the stadium concert.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fan, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Echo: &#8220;I thought somebody had launched a bottle at my face.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It quickly became obvious that a football-sized ball of confetti had been fired out of the cannon and hit me square in the face.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/26152064.take-bring-circus-town-spectacular-southampton-show\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Take That bring the circus to town with spectacular Southampton show<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The fan continued: &#8220;All I could see when I stumbled to my feet was that the women standing behind me were covered from head to toe in confetti.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Staff sat me down at the barrier. At first, it was like staff didn&#8217;t believe me. Then, after I explained a little more, they sat me down and wheeled me away to the first aid room.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Take That \u2019The Circus Live\u2019 show at St Mary\u2019s Stadium (Image: Stuart Martin)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I still have a thumping headache a day later. What I also find strange and frustrating is that the staff who dealt with me didn&#8217;t seem very prepared for medical incidents and didn&#8217;t even give me any sort of discharge note or make a record of the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If a confetti cannon had been fired into the face of an elderly person, it could have been so much worse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Still with a pounding headache, I was then released into the crowds who were all leaving the stadium. I was heartbroken that I missed the end of the show. I have waited two years to see Take That perform again.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Southampton Football Club spokesperson said: &#8220;We cannot comment on individual incidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fan, who had driven two hours and paid more than \u00a3300 for tickets, said they were &#8220;having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}