Perry Farrell’s wife has broken her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist during a Boston gig, claiming the frontman was angry because his bandmates were “drowning him out” for playing too loudly.
Farrell’s wife Etty Lau shared her husband’s story on Instagram after he was criticised for punching and hitting guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night.
“Rather than speculate, I wanted to post a firsthand account of what happened on stage,” she wrote.
Lau said Farrell suffered from “ringing in his ears and a sore throat” every night, which affected his voice. He “felt like the volume on stage was extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band.”
Frontman Perry Farrell began cursing at the microphone before walking over to guitarist Dave Navarro and playing him nine songs for Jane’s Addiction set in Boston
Farrell’s wife Etty Lau (pictured together) claimed her husband ‘lost control’ because he was ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly
Lau said there was “tension and animosity between the band members,” but felt this wasn’t always a bad thing as it was also “the magic that made the band so dynamic.”
But on Friday night, Lau said her husband reached breaking point after being booed by fans who couldn’t hear him.
‘If the audience in the front row, [they] “He started complaining to Perry and swearing at him that the band was going too loud and they couldn’t hear him. Perry was losing control,” she wrote.
“He didn’t sing, he just shouted to be heard.”
