Awards shows might seem like a formal affair but in the 2000s, where indie sleaze reigned supreme, parties tended to get unruly.
Two decades on, one particular award show has stuck in the mind of The Cribs frontman Ryan Jarman – 2006’s NME Awards.
‘I was leaving like trails of blood everywhere,’ he recalled of the infamous evening that saw him dive onto the table filled with bottles and glasses in a spur-of-the-moment move.
Unfortunately for the Men’s Needs hitmaker, he ended up puncturing his kidney in the process.
‘Something conspired where we were getting handed an award, which we weren’t up for, but I ended up jumping on the table, I landed on this vase and it smashed, stuck straight through my back,’ Ryan, 44, shared.
The award in question, best live band, was actually destined for Franz Ferdinand but they weren’t in attendance, so the Kaiser Chiefs took the trophy.
Feeling selfless, Ricky Wilson then offered it to Ryan, who can be seen in grainy clips absolutely flying across the table out of nowhere.
He awkwardly rolls off and lands on the floor, standing up quickly to let everyone know he was okay – despite the gaping hole in his back.
Speaking on The Rise And Fall Of Indie Sleaze podcast on BBC Sounds, Ryan said: ‘I guess when you do stuff like that, you don’t feel it because there’s no nerves in there or whatever and when I came offstage after getting the award, I put my hand on my back and my fingers just went straight inside.
‘I was like, “Oh my God!” So we went straight to the hospital and they stitched me up and they said, “You’ve got to go straight back to the hotel and go to sleep, do not go back out tonight.”‘
Of course, being a rock star who maybe had had a few drinks and wanted to enjoy his night, Ryan headed back to the party instead.
Turns out, his determination to return to the now closed Hammersmith Palais may have saved his life.
‘It was a really good job I went back to the awards because they hadn’t stitched me up properly,’ he revealed. ‘They hadn’t stitched me up internally and I was like blowing up like a balloon.
‘I was leaving like trails of blood everywhere and if I had gone back to the hotel, I don’t think I would have made it through the night anyway.’
The next day, his phone was blowing up with messages from people wanting pictures of his gastly wound, which his publicity team thought was ‘good work’.
‘I’m just like blood everywhere and feeling depressed,’ he said. ‘I guess it was a good thing, you know what I mean?’
His partner at the time, the equally iconic Kate Nash, used the video in her defence when she was ‘banned’ from the awards show years later.
After the pair split in 2012, after seven years together, she claims she was told she couldn’t go as The Cribs were getting an award for outstanding contribution to music.
‘I was like, “Me? Based on what reputation? What am I gonna do that’s gonna be so crazy?” I’m like, “He’s literally done that!”
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