The vocalist for nu-metal group Silly Goose was arrested after playing an impromptu show at a gas station in the Loop, two days after the band performed at Lollapalooza.
Vocalist Jackson Foster, 23, was arrested late Saturday and charged with criminal trespass to property, Chicago police said.
A crowd were gathered at a BP gas station, at 50 W. Ida B. Wells Drive about 10:50 p.m. when police were called for a “large disturbance,” according to police reports obtained by the Sun-Times.
“Several people were surrounding a van with a band on top playing music at an extremely high volume,” the report said.
The crowd was “partying and mosh-pitting” in the parking lot and blocking off the sidewalk, police said.
Responding officers showed their emergency lights and played a message stating “no loitering, please disperse” on repeat to the “unruly” crowd, the report said.
The band continued to play “at high volume” and Foster was arrested “to prevent further disruption of the business,” the police report stated.
In a post shared on Instagram, Foster said the group got permission from the BP gas station manager to play for an hour in exchange for $100, but police still showed up.
“Nobody got hurt, we were just playing music, and when the cops got there, we stopped playing,” Foster wrote. “I got off the van and was immediately put in handcuffs and brought to jail with little to no explanation.”
But the police reports state the gas station manager called police and signed complaints because the “crowd had grown immensely and the band was causing a major disruption to their business.”
Gas station performances are nothing new for the Atlanta-based group. Last year, the band played four pop-up shows in a row during Lollapalooza, drawing hundreds of people.
The band played at the gas station for the first two nights, but after BP corporate caught wind of the shows, it had to move to an empty parking lot down the street for the next two nights.
The group had its first Lollapalooza performance Thursday. And on Saturday, the band gathered at the same BP gas station for another impromptu show.
BP corporate did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
