ICP headlines annual concert

Breasts. Stage diving. Gallons of Faygo. Hundreds of sweat soaked fans in black and white clown makeup. A frat party gone terribly awry? Not exactly.

This past weekend, the Insane Clown Posse's sixth annual Hallowicked show returned to Detroit for three days of sold out fun at the Majestic Theater.

After decent, guitar driven sets by the Chicago quintet The Pimps and ICP's protege band, Twiztid, the clowns finally took the stage to deafening audience chants of "ICP!" As singer Violent J gave a dark, ominous introduction, the stage lights began to illuminate the grotesque stage decorations. The lights soon gave one bright flash and ICP immediately went into arguably their most popular song, "Chicken Huntin."

Hundreds of screaming fans, known as juggalos, erupted into a giant mosh pit with everyone trying to push that much closer to the stage.

Courtesy of Island Records Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope will be back in Detroit in December.

The evening was filled with many of ICP's most well known songs permeated by odd events that can only be seen care of these wicked clowns. In the duo's second number, a stage-diving fan dared to physically harass one of the Faygo-spraying stage hands. Later in ICP's set, a few dozen girls were allowed to dance on stage to the hilarious "Lil' Somethin Somethin." Most of them immediately flashed the audibly appreciative audience.

Some things never change, however. For years, ICP has been known to douse the audience in Faygo, the Detroit-based pop known for a multitude of tasty flavors. Hallowicked was no exception. Hundreds of warm 2-liter bottles were squirted, punted, thrown, shaken and poured on the crazed audience, who expected no less. The group even managed to reach the far back of the theater with squirt guns full of pop. Eventually, 10 gallon tubs were dumped upon the audience, leaving the primarily teenaged male audience completely soaked.

Included in the set were virtually all of their most recognizable songs, including "Fuck The World," a hit mocking virtually every establishment one could think of. In a fairly humorous moment, ICP asked everyone to raise their cigarette lighters while they ran through "Another Love Song," a song about dismembering a cheating girlfriend.

This concert also featured a few surprise treats for ICP's hometown juggalos, including the release of two limited edition albums, "Psychopathic Rydas" and "Psychopathics From Outer Space." The clowns' managers announced that their next tour would be called "The Wicked Clowns From Outer Space Tour," a tour that will be visiting Detroit in December, coinciding with several other ICP related events in what will be called the "Four Days of Freshness."

After playing more than a dozen songs from virtually all of their albums, Violent J asked "all the real juggalos" to join him and Shaggy 2 Dope on stage as they performed their final act of the night, "Pass Me By." Well over a hundred fans crowded the stage as ICP slipped out of the building unnoticed. For the second time in three months, the Insane Clown Posse put on an unbelievably entertaining, wild concert in their hometown.

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