The Dare took a hard fall while attempting to crowdsurf during a recent show in Bristol – check out footage of the moment below.
Over the weekend (March 16), The Dare – real name Harrison Patrick Smith – took over the Marble Factory in Bristol for a concert. At the end of the show, while performing ‘Girls’, Smith walked over to the barricade and without warning dove into the audience.
Unprepared, the audience – who video footage depicts as mostly women – immediately dropped the musician and stood around shocked but also laughing at what had happened. The Dare kept the show going though, as he continued singing while making a quick recovery to sit on the barricade.
Check out footage of the fall below.
THE DARE takes a tumble in Bristol last night 💀 pic.twitter.com/lJPvdPdhuC
— MR. MIZUNDERSTOOD (@MR_CAMARADERIE) March 18, 2025
The Dare is due to close out his ongoing UK tour with three more shows – he’s playing in Manchester tonight, Glasgow on the 21st and in London on the 22nd – so here’s hoping he has better luck with crowdsurfing at those shows. Find any remaining tickets here.
Later in the year, The Dare is due to return to Europe, where he’s be performing at LIDO Festival for Charli XCX’s curated line-up in June, and then at Reading and Leeds in August.
The Dare recorded ‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ over the last year between his home and his studio in New York. It features his huge lead single ‘Girls’, as well as other singles including ‘You’re Invited,’ ‘Perfume’ and ‘Good Time.’
‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ was given a three-star review by NME, with Jordan Bassett writing: “It’s tempting to tell Smith that Murphy wants his shtick back (along with his suit), but the pastiche is often effective, at least.”
“His defiantly dumb breakthrough track ‘Girls’ is one of the best singles of 2006 and ‘Movement’ builds to a crunching, multi-layered cacophony that demonstrates greater musical sophistication than he’s often given credit for,” it added.
“Still, there’s something a little depressing about music that’s this nakedly backwards-facing. Beneath the hedonism, anxiety thrums through ‘What’s Wrong with New York?’ – hence, perhaps, Smith’s dream of his teeth falling out – and he’s clearly captured a wish to return to a time before Covid, before fake news, before bots and pile-ons and information overload. But you’d be better off just listening to LCD.”
