Re: Free Guns n Roses tickets: glocals competition
Post 190
Having read the following review from the Telegraph, you'd have to pay me a lot of money to take the free tickets....
"For all such thrills, Reading 2010 will go down in history for Friday’s headliners, Guns N’ Roses. As many feared, Axl Rose and his unpopular, Slash-less GN’R showed up on stage an hour late (a lifetime in festival scheduling) to a half-empty field, and volleys of jeering.
Rose was bloated, Botox-featured and unable to complete more than a couple of screeched verses without recourse to the oxygen tank he keeps in the wings. For long periods, his anonymous henchmen held the fort without him. Consequently, even Sweet Child o’ Mine drew barely a ripple of applause.
It was excruciating, malign, yet compulsive to watch. Midway through Nighttrain, Rose suddenly barked, “I don’t even know why we bothered coming here”, tossed his microphone in the air and stormed off.
Incredibly, it got worse – like Spinal Tap re-written by Ricky Gervais. Having now passed the midnight curfew, Rose returned alone, pointing and sneering at the audience, through a microphone now disconnected from the PA. To chants of “We want Slash”, the band reappeared and started playing Paradise City, also inaudibly. Rose staged a sit-in, singing through a megaphone, until security shooed him off, and GN’R departed, making obscene gestures.
It was, officially, Reading’s darkest hour."
