Axl Rose hates the Reading and Leeds festival promoters
Axl Rose has decided to declare “war” on the promoters of the Reading and Leeds festivals that took place this past weekend in the UK.
Guns N’ Roses played both festivals and had both of their sets cut early by festival promoters. Rose took to his Twitter account and cried foul saying that they “allegedly had a deal in place pre show w/the city at least at Leeds to do a bit longer performance that was either miscommunication, someone wasn’t informed, changed their mind, didn’t care or was a con.”
What Rose conveniently omits from the fuming online rant is that the band showed up late for both sets — an hour late for Reading and a half-hour for Leeds. Furthermore, festival promoter Melvin Benn told NME.com that no deal was in place for the band to play after curfew. He added that “bands often say things like that when they are curtailed.”
So while Rose and his band threw a bit of a fit, that doesn’t mean they didn’t try to give the crowd their money’s worth. After the Reading performance was cut off, they decided to grab a couple of acoustic guitars and a megaphone and perform “Paradise City” for the monstrous audience in attendance. You can check that out down below along with what the show looked like while they still had time to play.
“Welcome To The Jungle”
After the Reading gig
Tags: Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses, Reading and Leeds
August 30th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
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September 1st, 2010 at 8:08 pm
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September 19th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Ella … i don’t know if you remember me. We met in Bucharest.you’re looking for a restaurant with good food… I had an unexpected reaction: did not want to go eat something and no concert too… what a full:( it was not deliberate reaction, it was mechanical i guess…i was shocked. at first I did not recognize, but after I made and I am very sorry! ago and now I hear the song “Do not Cry” (few hours) I love it. I hope you ever have the opportunity to talk to you (as seen certainly will not happen) was an honor for me to see you! now I feel like beating the unexpected response: (but maybe someday will answer me) :*:*:*
excuse spelling mistakes:) and: YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!:*
June 13th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Thats a good read keep up the quality work.