The Cribs’ Ryan Jarman recalls infamous NME Awards table dive: “I was leaving trails of blood everywhere”

The Cribs frontman Ryan Jarman has recalled his infamous NME Awards table dive which saw him hospitalised twice in one night.

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Jarman threw himself on to the Kaiser Chiefs table after being handed an award for Best Live Band – despite not actually winning it at the time at the 2006 ceremony.

Guest presenter Peter Hook noticed Franz Ferdinand were unable to make the ceremony at the now defunct London Hammersmith Palais, and decided to hand the award to the Kaiser Chiefs instead.

In turn, they insisted The Cribs should get it, at which point Jarman came forward and threw himself onto the table – landing on the glasses and bottles set out. He went to hospital and had stitches, but insisted on returning to the party.

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Within moments of him returning an ambulance was called again and he was taken back into hospital. It later turned out that he had punctured a kidney.

Speaking now to The Rise And Fall Of Indie Sleaze podcast on BBC Sounds, which you can listen to above, Jarman said: “Something conspired where we were getting handed an award which weren’t up for but I ended up jumping on the table, I landed on this vase and it smashed, stuck straight through my back.”

He added: “I guess when you do stuff like that, you don’t feel it because there’s no nerves in there or whatever and when I came offstage after getting the award, I put my hand on my back and my fingers just went straight inside.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ So we went straight to the hospital and they stitched me up and they said, ‘You’ve got to go straight back to the hotel and go to sleep, do not go back out tonight.’

“It was a really good job I went back to the awards because they hadn’t stitched me up properly, they hadn’t stitched me up internally and I was like blowing up like a balloon. I was leaving like trails of blood everywhere and if I had gone back to the hotel, I don’t think I would have made it through the night anyway.”

Jarman went on to say before long the press got in touch asking for pictures of his injury.

“My phone rings and it’s this press guy going, ‘Amazing, amazing, have you got photos of it? It’s top story on BBC News, the NME wanna run it as like a full page spread, good work and I’m just like blood everywhere and feeling depressed,” he said.

“I guess it was a good thing, you know what I mean?”

Kate Nash, who was his partner from 2007-2012, also revealed that she got banned from the NME Awards after the duo split.

“I always thought it was funny that I got banned from going to the NMEs (Awards) when me and Ryan broke up because he was getting an award and I was told I couldn’t go,” she said.

“I was like, ‘Me? Based on what reputation? What am I gonna do that’s gonna be so crazy?’ I’m like, ‘He’s literally done that!”

Meanwhile, in May this year, The Cribs supported the Kaiser Chiefs and Razorlight for a 20th anniversary concert where each performed their debut albums in full.

Meanwhile, The Cribs are set to support The Maccabees at their forthcoming headline show at All Points East 2025 later this month. You can purchase any remaining tickets here.

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