
Axl Rose doesn’t welcome the jungle at his concerts.
Only 20 minutes after Guns N’ Roses started playing in Dublin, they cut their set short. ‘Fans’ of the band would not stop throwing bottles and objects at the band. So Axl decided to try and coax them out of their naughty behavior with a little talk. Unfortunately the bottles didn’t stop coming.
“Stop,” Axl told his bandmates midsong before going on to address the rowdy crowd.
“All right, here’s the deal. One more bottle, we go home. It’s up to you. We would like to stay. You want us to stay? We want to stay. We want to have some fun. You want to have fun? If you don’t want to have fun, all you gotta do is let us know, and we got no problem, we’ll go on our way.”
Apparently, the audience did not want to have fun. And let the group know by booing and, yes, throw yet more bottles with unknown liquids (any guesses? We’re thinking the bathroom lines were short that evening) at the stage.
“Have a good evening,” Axl said, leading the band offstage.
A venue worker who undoubtedly fell victim to the short straw then came onstage with the unenviable task of having to blame “technical difficulties” on the disruption.
As in technically, Axl’s a douche?
“We’re trying hard to get Axl to come back onstage,” another worker announced a little later. “I would ask you please to refrain from throwing items at him. If you bear with us for five minutes…thank you for your patience, it’s appreciated.”
After 60 minutes, everyone pretty much gone, and the venue practically empty, Guns N’ Roses returned to finish the concert.
Once back on stage, the band played till around 1:00am for the nice fans who didn’t throw stuff at them.
Axl has not yet made a comment but the promoters and O2 venue made a statement defending their booking:
“No artist should be subjected to missiles and unknown substances being thrown at them,” they said.
If you want to see the video of the incident click here.
Source Bauer Griffin
Posted Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 4:16pm
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