The concert in Aarhus, on the 26th, turned out to be a disaster, yet Pete later referred to it as: "The best concert we ever played in Denmark". It was certainly the concert that gave them most publicity.
Violence lay in the air of Aarhus hallen even long before the Who were to perform. They had to do their set rather early in the schedule, to get in time to do their show in Ålborg as well. The one-thousand-strong audience were tearing their chairs apart, and throwing pieces, along with bottles and trash, at the people on stage. The first two groups, the Ex-Checkers and the Beethovens, had a fair share of things thrown at them, and by the time the Who got on stage, the audience had turned into a riot mob. Again, kids tried to get up on stage. Confident from his intervening at KB Hallen, George Mitchew of Bendix Music tried to push them back. He wasn't so lucky this time, and instead he was pulled down into the audience where he was beaten and kicked. The Who only played half of one song before the situation got completely out of hand. The kids stormed the stage, took the instruments that were still there and began smashing them. The Who and their management had already escaped through the back exit, once they realised what was happening.
The police evacuated the building, and the mob moved down the streets, but continued their hooliganism by smashing shop windows. The interior damage came to about 30000 Danish crowns (roughly £3000), and the rumour started to spread in Scandinavia that the Who indeed smashed 30000 worth of equipment during their concerts, which of course wasn't entirely true.
