On Monday, in what was billed as a “Rock and Roll Circus,” the punk band Japanther performed a free show at the Big Apple Circus tent at Lincoln Center. The raucous show featured a crowd-surfing clown, above. However, it was shut down by Lincoln Center officials once the crowd — at the band’s invitation — joined them on stage, twice. Although some bloggers dubbed it a riot, the event’s co-producer told Rolling Stone, “It’s a Japanther show. They’re kids, they get crazy. … They called it a riot, but it really wasn’t a riot, it was a mosh pit. It was punk rock and people don’t know how to handle it.”
