Kiss were forced to drop four songs from their tiny club show in London on Tuesday, it has emerged.

Confetti guns used at the end of set-closer Rock and Roll All Nite generated so much carbon dioxide that the band were left gasping for breath, and considered not performing any encores.

After a short break they came back on stage and finished the show with Detroit Rock City. But that meant they'd played just 12 songs, when they'd rehearsed 16 the previous night.

Frontman Paul Stanley says: "Once the confetti cannons went off, we barely made it off stage. None of us could breathe. Each of us thought we were the only one until we saw each other. Pretty scary and there was no way we could continue. We came out for the encores but couldn't get past one."

Video recordings of the encore shows Stanley struggling to complete the performance, while it's also reported bassist Gene Simmons nearly collapsed through lack of breath.

Stanley adds: "Still, all in all it was an amazing night. It left many people breathless..."

Just 500 tickets were made available for the concert in London's Islington Academy, with 300 guests making it the smallest show Kiss have played in nearly a quarter of a century.

Meanwhile, a handwritten Kiss setlist from their 1973 New Year's Eve show is up for auction on eBay, currently valued at $177 with seven bids and three days to go.

Kiss will tour the UK in May. Stanley and guitarist Tommy Thayer recently recorded a takeover show for Rock Radio, which will be broadcast in the near future.

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