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More Guns N Roses fun in Dublin
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 2 September 2010
So, more fun at the latest date on the Guns N Roses tour; in fact, these shenanigans make dissing Melvin Benn through a megaphone after your power’s been cut off seem positively boring.
After their appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals at the weekend, Axl Rose and friends headed to Ireland to play at set at Dublin’s O2 venue last night. Apparently due to go on at 9.15pm, the band finally appeared on stage at 10.25pm. The crowd, who for some reason didn’t just show up an hour late themselves (I know I would if, by some weird sequence of events, I found myself with tickets for a Guns N Roses gig), were rather rowdy by this point and some decided to start throwing stuff at Axl.
Needless to say, Rose wasn’t especially pleased by this. After two songs he told his audience “one more bottle and we’re going home, we’re here to have fun and we hope you are too, but one more and we are gone”. When, three songs later, another bottle was thrown on stage Rose made good on his promise and stormed off stage.
According to entertainment.ie, ten minutes later a member of venue staff bravely took to the stage to tell the audience that there were some, erm, “technical difficulties”, but that they were trying to get Axl to return to the stage. Ten minutes after that the house lights came on. The majority of the audience (again according to entertainment.ie) took this to mean the show was over and went home.
But some increasingly rowdy fans remained. Which was just as well, really, given at 11.25pm Axl and his band finally returned and carried on playing. Those gig goers left, Axl proclaimed, were the “real fans”. So, well done them.
No word yet from venue, promoters or the band as to whether any of the audience members who left when the house lights went up will get a refund. As for whose fault the whole shambles was, well, Axl’s yet to remark – what’s the betting he blames Melvin Benn?
