Just a little fun here: videos of musicians and other celebrities not taking the Trent Reznor/Lady Gaga approved route, and engaging with their fans in some very negative ways.

Amy Winehouse not only gobbed into the crowd at the Eden sessions, but actually reached out and thumped someone in the crowd at Glastonbury in 2008.

Akon invites a kid who threw a bottle at him to step up on stage, then proceeds to throw him bodily into the crowd.

A 47 year old Canadian man runs up and pushes a 41 year old English man over at a festival in Toronto. Cut to 1:30 if you’ve heard the song before.

But it’s not just flighty, feisty, musicians; other professionals aren’t above violence: The George W. Bush ‘Shoe Incident’: a journalist angry about the foreign invasion of his country and the subsequent deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis chooses to express his disgust by throwing a shoe. Like GWB and the WMD, he can’t find his target.

The politicians get their own back, usually via the taxman and lying about their expenses, but here John Prescott (deputy Prime Minister at the time) takes a more direct approach when he is egged hard at point blank range by a protester, and very sensibly reacts by punching said protester in the face. The sad schoolyard scuffle that ensues does little to enhance either his reputation or that of his bodyguards. Surely some sunglassed MI5 suit should have Vulcan-nerve-pinched him quietly to the ground. Arnie handled it a lot better.

If you fancy getting in on a little of the celebrity-scrapping action you can click here to punch Kanye West repeatedly in the face. Just don’t be surprised when Lady Gaga knocks you out in the 1st round.