Frenzal Rhomb’s Lindsay McDougall has recalled a hilarious story of when the band hid from Slipknot at Big Day Out (we think 2005?).

Joining Osher Günsberg for a recent Story Club session, McDougall sat before an audience and read the story from the stage.

The story goes: Frenzal Rhomb had printed a t-shirt with masked figures on the front that read “Shitknot” on the back. But when the American masked metal outfit tried to find the Aussie rockers, they ran—no one wants to mess with unmasked, muscly members of Slipknot.

“If you were even to look at the career of Frenzal Rhomb, and obviously Osher has, you’ll know that turning back is our thing. Turning back is what we do,” McDougall began in a video shared by Günsberg on social media. “Hiding, avoiding conflict, like, when Slipknot got mad at us.”

He continued, “It was the Big Day Out. We were selling a t-shirt that had cartoon drawings on the front with little kids’ masks that we were wearing—little kids’ masks made of paper plates and macaroni, that sort of thing. And on the back of it, it just said ‘Shitknot.’

“Very funny, yes, correct,” McDougall said after hearing laughter in the audience. “But the second we saw the members of Slipknot backstage, very unmasked and very muscly—they were walking backstage, pointing at our dressing room—we went and hid in the Tarago.”

You can watch the video below.

Story Club was initially started by Zoë Norton-Lodge and Ben Jenkins. Günsberg, with the blessing of Jenkins, reprised the comedy segment last November. Story Club has three simple rules, which are:

• The story has to be true.

• The story has to be read (not a memorised standup bit).

• The story should be funny.

Frenzal Rhomb are touring nationwide on their A Man’s (Still) Not A Camel 25th Anniversary Tour, celebrating 25-ish years of A Man’s Not A Camel.

Upon announcing the tour in March, the band quipped, “It is a failure of the major political parties and stain on the very history of this great nation, that simply because you live outside of the major city centres, for the last two and a half decades you have been deprived of sweet guitar riffs, 90s slap bass, sick drum beats, and harmonised rhymes about beer.

“The FRPP’s (that is, the Frenzal Rhomb Political Party) A Man’s Not A Camelpaign pledges to end that drought, and bring the songs of Frenzal Rhomb’s majestic, iconic, exalted album A Man’s Not A Camel BACK to regional Australia.”

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