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Emma Gill

Video from Lewis Capaldi concert shows security removing woman from crowd after fight broke out at AO Arena

Footage from the Lewis Capaldi concert in Manchester shows a woman being forcibly removed by security staff after a fight broke out.

We reported earlier how the singer had been forced to stop the concert after commotion erupted at AO Arena on Wednesday night (January 18).

As the musician was singing Hold Me While You Wait, a single from his debut album that reached number four in the UK charts, he noticed a scuffle breaking out in the standing area of the packed-out arena.

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Holding his hands up to his band and alerting security to the incident he said: "There's a scrap in the middle of the crowd there. Erm, we're gonna have to get them out."

The scuffle appeared to involve a number of people, but footage shows one woman being forcibly removed by security after she tried to resist.

A fight broke out just before the encore (Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)

A witness who watched the incident unfold said the woman appeared to take a swipe at one of the security guards and was refusing to move away from the area.

In typical Capaldi fashion, he tried to make light of the situation, telling the crowd 'what a weird song to fight to. Bizarre, bizarre', before starting the song from scratch.

The incident came just a few days after a fight broke out at the star's concert in Leeds.

That too came to an abrupt halt when security had to intervene in the standing area of the First Direct Arena.

Again he tried not to dwell on the bizarre event. "Can't take the weight of your love? That's the lyric you're sparring to?" he said.

Close to laughing on stage, he checked everyone was OK and told those fighting: "If you're fighting, you have to go."

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