The trick is to make it look like you planned to screw up as a parody or set-up for a joke. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't, either way ya gotta laugh at yerself. If there's already a level amount of humour on stage, the crowd shouldn't be critical of errors and if they are, that's their error. However, stage suicide happens anyway and the sooner you accept it and move on, the sooner the crowd will deal with it. Mass forgiveness is tough to get, I admit, but at some point in all our lives we've sat in our own shit and got over it.

Oh yeah, I froze, completely, at a solo vocal music competition just before my voice changed. Essentially blacked out. Friends and family hurt for me that day. As an adult I've been fortunate enough not to have to be the front man too much so my screwups go largely unnoticed.

Peace, Mooh.