Guns N' Roses speak after being bottled off

Axl has words for Newcastle

Guns n' Roses have spoken out amid reports that their gig at Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena last Wednesday (July 19) ended with the band being bottled off the stage by a booing crowd.

The band, plus former member Izzy Stradlin, finished their set early after being overwhelmed by the volume of bottles that hit the stage.

In an statement, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose explained: "Getting hit wasn't a big deal. We stopped the song and gave a warning. We came back and started the song over and completed it. We then said goodnight. The house lights went down and I got hit a second time, in the mouth, by a solid object thrown by someone in the audience"

"After having warned the crowd that we would leave, and having played more than two hours, we left the stage and called it a night with the full support of everyone in the band, out guests and Management."

He added that his bandmates had supported the decision.

"Izzy (Stradlin) was the first to immediately support the decision verbally to me personally before I had physically left the stage are," he explained. "Tommy (Stinson-bass) and Frank (Ferrer- drums) came to my dressing room to say how much they appreciated the decision to not continue under those conditions, and express their support for not tolerating anyone throwing items at the stage with a negative intent. This has been G N' R's policy since playing Donnington in 1998."

The band are set to to play the last four dates of their sold out UK tour this week, the dates are:[/B]

Birmingham, NEC (July 25)
Nottingham, Nottingham Arena (27)
London, Wembley Arena (29)
London, Wembley Arena (30)[/B]

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Give a prize to the person that hit him in the mouth. I went to see him years ago for the Chinese Democracy album. After two hours, with no announcement the stage crew started to dismantle the stage. Apparently Axel decided that he wanted to finish watching a basketball game rather than hop on a helicopter to go to the sold out show waiting for him. Needless to say, the place went insane. My sister in law nearly got hit in the head with a bottle. I think his arrogance is catching up with him.

i'm suprised he has any fans left.

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I saw them in 2002 and the were pretty good but I saw their real re-introduction to the world on May 12th and they are seriously as good as ever. It still sucks that there's no Slash and I'm hoping that after "Rockstar: Supernova" Gilby Clarke is driven back to GNR, but the "New" GNR is actually good if you give them a chance. I think the England incident was a fluke as Axl has been pretty well behaved as far as playing shows. In May they played 4 shows in NYC with every set being 2 1/2 hours long. Then after they left to go to the festivals there was an ad in a bunch of magazines and newspapers that was similar to the ad promoting the show that just said "Thank You for 4 amazing nights" and the dates.

i saw them in 1992 and it was terrible. axl is a big baby and burned a nirvana hat onstage crying kurt wouldn't tour with them.

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