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James Holt & Jamie Roberts

Lewis Capaldi forced to stop concert after he spots fans fighting in crowd

Lewis Capaldi was forced to temporarily bring a halt to his Manchester concert on Wednesday after a fight broke out in the crowd.

The Scottish singer is currently on a huge European tour and was wowing the concert-goers at the AO Arena when he spotted the commotion.

The musician was in the middle of belting out his hit Hold Me While You Wait - a tune which reached number four in the UK charts - when he noticed an altercation in the crowd. He quickly held up his hands to his band and the lights were brought up to let the security get to work.

Lewis was heard saying: "They are scrapping in the crowd there. Erm, we are going to have to get them out."

Lewis Capaldi brought a stop to his concert as fans were fighting in the crowd (Twitter)
Security got involved and chucked out the troublemakers (Twitter)

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As the audience starts to realise what's going on, they stop singing along to the track and swap it for a chorus of boos. Lewis, 26, continued: "We can't be fighting," before adding: "What a weird song to fight to. Bizarre, bizarre."

As the situation gets under control the excited crowd starts chanting the singer's name before he starts the track again from the top, much to the pleasure of the packed crowd.

One fan who attended the gig later told the Manchester Evening News : "I couldn’t see the fight itself with the area being full, but Lewis Capaldi stopped the song and lit the area up in order for security to get to the fight.

Fans started cheering the singer's name (Luke Taylor / SplashNews.com)

"He started the song again after taking the mick out of them for fighting. He started saying it was daft how anyone could fight to that song."

Earlier in the year, the comical singer had to beg his fans to stop comparing him to people after he was mistaken for a number of older women, including Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle.

The Scottish singer is currently on his European tour (Luke Taylor / SplashNews.com)

In response to a tweet which told him a fan's dad thought he was the female singer, Lewis said he hoped that the New Year would bring a stop to people mistaking him for women in their sixties as he poked fun at the awkward mix-up.

Playing on her hit song, Lewis replied: "I dreamed a dream that people stopped telling me I looked like women in their 60s."

Previously, he has also been likened to former Prime Minister Liz Truss and also Angela Merkel.

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