--- title: Watch a Crowd-Surfing Lead Singer Catch a Beer Thrown From Crowd description: David Achter de Mole, front man of Dutch rock band John Coffey, has officially impressive reflexes canonical: https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-15T02:41:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:05.635Z og:title: This Is The Most Rock and Roll Thing You'll See All Day og:description: Crowd throws beer at singer. What he does next will gladden rock 'n roll hearts og:url: https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is The Most Rock and Roll Thing You'll See All Day twitter:description: Crowd throws beer at singer. What he does next will gladden rock 'n roll hearts twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is the Most Rock-’n’-Roll Thing You'll See All Day by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 15, 2015 2:41 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jun 15, 2015 2:41 AM UTC David Achter de Mole is officially the coolest guy ever. The front man of Dutch rock band John Coffey pulled off an epic stunt Saturday during the band’s set at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands. De Mole was crowd surfing when someone in the crowd hurled a cup of beer at him. Without missing a beat he caught the cup in one hand, chugged what was left and threw the cup back into the audience. [Dave Grohl,](http://time.com/3920438/foo-fighters-cancel-shows-dave-grohl/) you have just been upstaged. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/"},"headline":"This Is the Most Rock-’n’-Roll Thing You'll See All Day","datePublished":"2015-06-15T02:41:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:05.635Z","description":"Crowd-surfing lead singer catches beer in one hand, drinks it, tosses cup","url":"https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Beer","Music","viral","singer","Netherlands"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3920720/lead-singer-catches-beer-david-achter-de-mole-john-coffey-crowd-surfing/","name":"This Is the Most Rock-’n’-Roll Thing You'll See All Day"}}]}] ```