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- Smoking Guns
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Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
What was sad was reading the review and finding out the place was half empty while the other acts were slammed full of people. GNR was once the biggest band in the world, now they are like Def Leopard or Poison.
- emcitymisfit
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Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Soooooo raise your hand if you think the Reading incident was a terrible PR stunt.
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
What was sad was reading the review and finding out the place was half empty while the other acts were slammed full of people. GNR was once the biggest band in the world, now they are like Def Leopard or Poison.
Again, if that makes you sad, so be it. I could care less if they're not a touring monstrosity that everyone and their grandmother loves.
And I LOVE me some Def Leppard and Poison, so that's certainly not a bad thing, to me.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Yes, we probably all like some DL and Poison, but GNR where never in their group touring wise, they were a much, much bigger act. And its the fact that younger generation is missing out on Guns N Roses, unlike the Rolling Stones who after all these years are still a huge stadium and draw... AC/DC too.. GNR could have been like them, but we all know what happened.
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Axl Rose declares 'war' on promoters as Guns N' Roses headline Leeds Festival
Singer says 'fuck you' to festival chiefs as band make it to Main Stage
Axl Rose described the feud between him and the Reading And Leeds Festivals organisers as a "war", as Guns N' Roses headlined Leeds Festival tonight (August 29).
The band started their set half an hour later than their scheduled kick-off time, arriving on stage at 9:30pm (BST). At the end of the main part of their set, after 'Nightrain', they returned to the stage and the frontman claimed that the promoters were cutting their set short.
"We would like to play a few more songs for you tonight," Rose said. "But someone is telling us the show's over. This war ain't over yet." He made the comment at around 11:20pm, and also claimed that he had been told they could play until 11:58pm. They then played 'Paradise City' for their one-song encore.
After the show Reading And Leeds Festivals boss Melvin Benn told NME that Guns N' Roses had not been given the OK to play until 11:58pm. "I have no idea where that came from," he said. "I was behind the sound equipment so I couldn't actually hear what he said. Bands often say things like that when they are curtailed."
The scenes followed the band's performance at the Reading Festival on Friday, when they came on an hour late and organisers pulled the plug on their set as they were about to break the noise curfew. That night the band staged a protest by attempting to play without amplification, with Rose telling the crowd that they were not planning to head to Leeds.
Up until the encore, despite the late start, the Leeds show went ahead without any controversial incidents taking place, with the group attracting a huge crowd.
Rose made several costume changes throughout, switching from a silver jacket to a black one, a purple one, a red checked jacket with a cowboy hat, then a gaudy white jacket, and finally a white sleeveless top.
After 'Paradise City' the band then went to the front of the stage and bowed, with Rose saying: "Be safe getting out of here. And for the problems with the promoters, fuck you."
Benn played down the "war" comment, saying he would actually consider booking the band again. "I'd definitely book them again but I don't know if they'd come and play," he said. "I doubt I'll be getting a Christmas card from them, which is a shame because tonight was great. There are rules we have to abide by here in the UK, they're very clear rules. It's not personal, I think the band are great. Why would I make it personal?"
Guns N' Roses played:
'Chinese Democracy'
'Welcome To The Jungle'
'It's So Easy'
'Mr Brownstone'
'Sorry'
'Richard Fortus Guitar Solo'
'Live And Let Die'
'This I Love'
'Rocket Queen'
'Dizzy Reed Piano Solo'
'Street Of Dreams'
'You Could Be Mine'
'DJ Ashba Guitar Solo'
'Sweet Child O' Mine'
'Instrumental Jam'
'Axl Rose Piano Solo'
'November Rain'
'Bumblefoot Guitar Solo'
'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'
'Nightrain'
'Paradise City'
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
Axl ends set with foul-mouthed rant
Rock singer Axl Rose launched a foul-mouthed tirade against police and promoters as he left the stage at a festival.
The Guns N' Roses singer told the crowd at Leeds Festival the band was informed it would be allowed to play until just before midnight but was pulled off stage at around 11.15pm on Sunday night.
He told the throngs of watching fans: "We come here to play for you but the cops and the promoters wanna f*** us in the a**.
"We would like to play a few more songs for you but we'll just play one."
The band, which was 35 minutes late to the stage, then broke into Paradise City.
There were fears the frontman would repeat his performance at the festival in 2002 when he kept fans waiting for nearly three hours, especially after he arrived on stage one hour late at the festival's sister event in Reading on Saturday.
As the group's Leeds set drew to a close, Rose, who underwent numerous costume changes during his performance, repeated his earlier sentiment and said: "Be safe, good night and to all the cops and promoters - f*** you."
But despite the hostility towards promoters and police, the band played for nearly two hours and was met with a warm welcome from thousands of fans on the festival's last night.
The band mixed in many new songs with old favourites such as November Rain, Sweet Child O' Mine and Welcome to the Jungle.
The set brought the three-day festival to a close. Arcade Fire headlined on Friday while Blink 182 topped the bill on Saturday night.
Re: Leeds, United Kingdom - August 29, 2010 (Leeds Festival)
What was sad was reading the review and finding out the place was half empty while the other acts were slammed full of people. GNR was once the biggest band in the world, now they are like Def Leopard or Poison.
if u look thru the press clippings & negative reviews of these shows the 1 consistent argument is name-dropping tommy stinston.
as far as GnR goes the indie community have long since passed judgement on GnR & decided tommy as the only credible element - because he was in a hip college rock band 30 years ago.
the fact the other acts were slammed full of people has more to do with the predominant indie-kid atmosphere. claims that reading/leeds is a rock festival either this year or last are ludicrous. GnR probably shouldn't be headlining such a bill.
now i know they did themselves no favours in trying to win round the rest of the crowd but tbh i'd rather have things like they are instead of having NME-led poseurs thinking that GnR are cool.
