Australian singer Shannon Noll charged with assaulting bouncer at Adelaide strip club The Crazy Horse
AUSTRALIAN singer Shannon Noll was arrested and charged with assaulting an Adelaide strip club bouncer on Sunday morning. EYEWITNESS VIDEO.
AUSTRALIAN singer Shannon Noll has been arrested and charged over the alleged assault of an Adelaide strip club bouncer in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The What About Me singer, who was in SA to perform at Mannum’s Sounds By The River music festival on Saturday, was involved in an altercation outside Hindley St’s Crazy Horse Revue about 2.30am.
Alastair Longmuir, 19, of Payneham South was waiting to enter the strip club when Noll was being forcibly removed from the venue by security guards.
“They brought out this intoxicated man and I was like, that’s Shannon Noll,” he said.
“He was intoxicated and screaming. He kept saying ‘I’m Shannon Noll, let me back in’.”
Noll allegedly punched a security guard and was taken away by police in a paddy wagon.
It took about three security guards and four policemen to restrain Noll - who was by himself - before he was removed from the premises.
Police confirmed a 41-year-old man from New South Wales was arrested outside a licensed premises on Hindley St at about 2.30am on Sunday morning.
He was charged with two counts of assault and was bailed to appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court next month.
Noll’s record label, Warner Music Australia, declined to comment to The Advertiser about the incident and Crazy Horse would only confirm an arrest was made outside the venue.
Noll, 41, who finished runner-up to Adelaide’s Guy Sebastian in the inaugural Australian Idol reality talent show in 2003, performed at the Sounds By The River event on Saturday afternoon. Other big names on the bill included John Farnham, Daryl Braithwaite, James Reyne, Ross Wilson and Taxiride.
Video footage on Noll’s Facebook page shows him singing his signature tune, What About Me, to rousing applause, before walking off stage and being handed a can of beer.
Noll signed with Warner earlier this year after a brief period where he signed to Universal Music following the end of his post-Australian Idol deal with Sony Music.
The singer has not released an album since A Million Suns in 2011, but his profile has never been stronger in Australia, particularly among younger fans, thanks to his Radio Rental TV advertisements, while he’s also become the target of internet memes.
In September last year he released a new single, Who Am I.