AUDIOSLAVE Help Fan Pop The Question

October 4, 2005

Mike Ross of The Edmonton Sun is reporting that AUDIOSLAVE helped a Canadian fan propose to his girlfriend onstage during the group's performance at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta Saturday night (Oct. 1). The band issued backstage passes, signed a congratulatory photo, provided a magnum of champagne and even got the couple on stage, where an arena full of rock fans witnessed Kelsey Brennan popping the question to his blushing soon-to-be-bride, Ashley Kraus.

The 21-year-old software designer says it was the scariest thing he's ever done — next to getting her parents' blessing.

"I'd say talking to her parents was probably scarier than being in front of 11,000 people," Brennan said. "I thought I was going to be nervous, but I just yelled into the microphone, 'Edmonton!' The crowd went nuts. I said, 'I want to introduce you to a very special lady, my girlfriend Ashley Kraus. She came up and I said, 'I can think of no better way to ask the love of my life to spend eternity together than to do it on stage in front of tens of thousand of people with the best fucking band in the world!'

"Ashley was so speechless she could barely say yes, but I knew it was yes because she dug her fingers into the box and pulled out the ring herself."

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