"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".

Entertainment.ie reports that disaster was in the air at tonight’s Guns N’ Roses gig at The O2 when front man Axl Rose walked off stage after only 20 minutes. Fans were left bitterly disappointed after waiting for over an hour for the band to appear on stage in the first instance.

Trouble was brewing as fans began to get agitated whilst waiting for Guns N’ Roses to come on stage, only making an appearance at 10.25pm – well over an hour after the support act, Danko, had finished playing. Some angry fans booed and threw a few beer/water bottles on stage in protest at the delay.

After a mediocre start, Axl Rose stopped the band after breaking into Welcome to the Jungle - just as the crowd were beginning to be won over – after another bottle was thrown up on stage. At this he announced “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”.

The gig continued for another 3 songs and as Rose was introducing the band, another missile was thrown at the band. At this, Rose took the band, bid his goodnight and stormed off the stage at about 10.50pm.

Just after 11pm, a member of the O2 staff arrived on stage telling the crowd that there were some “technical difficulties” and they were trying to get GnR back on stage. A short while after, another staff member arrived on stage to plead with the now depleting crowd to stop throwing bottles as they were still trying to get Axl Rose to return to the stage. 11.10pm, the main lights came on and the majority of the crowd left The O2.

The night was not over yet however, with GnR returning to the stage at about 11.25pm and continued playing a set to a small but pretty irate crowd.

No official statement has been issued as of yet, nor any news about refunds – if any – but stay tuned for further updates.

Video footage of Axl Rose warning the Dublin crowd not to throw any more bottles on stage during the “Welcome To The Jungle” performance can be viewed below. (Note: The speech in question can be heard around the 1:30 mark.) The clip continues with a member of the O2 staff telling the crowd that there were some “technical difficulties” before another staff member pleads with the crowd to stop throwing bottles as they were still trying to get Axl Rose to return to the stage.

Following a split over the weekend with Glencoe CampResort, the Rock ‘N Rev Festival has found a new home at Monkey Rock USA and will bring Guns ‘N Roses and Daughtry with it, said Monkey Rock chief operating officer Chris Edwards.

“There are not a lot of places capable of hosting an event and lineup like this,” Edwards said. “We offered the option to solve a problem and they sent their operations people to survey the area — all of it happened within 48 hours.”

The new location for the weeklong festival was determined after negotiations fell through between concert promoters DC3 Global and Glencoe CampResort late last week, said Randy Alexander, public relations director for the festival promoter DC3 Global. He said new festival owners HDlogix and DC3 Global will build The Rock ‘N Rev Amphitheater at Monkey Rock on a 25-acre site. Negotiations for the 5-day concert series were finalized Monday afternoon.

“We were motivated to try to help and they were quite interested to find another place,” Edwards said. “With commitments to rally goers, they wanted to fulfill their end of the bargain.”

Alexander said Monkey Rock USA was chosen for its proximity to the Glencoe campground. DC3 said it is working with Glencoe to offer special accommodations at the festival for anybody who is camping. The new venue was also selected with future ventures in mind, Alexander said.

“The relationship has been entered with long-term vision in mind,” he said.

Bands scheduled to play at Glencoe will play at Monkey Rock USA with Guns ‘N Roses set to headline the Friday night stage for its first United States show in nine years and only U.S. show in 2010, Edwards said. Guns ‘N Roses will share the Friday night stage with Alice in Chains.

The Daughtry show time has not yet been determined, Edwards said.

Sturgis Mayor Maury LaRue was shocked to hear the new location of the festival.

“It’s up to them; if they make money it’s a good move,” LaRue said. “If they don’t, they will have to rethink it.”

After negotiations between DC3 and Glencoe broke down late last week due to unpaid rent, people who have reserved camping spaces at Glencoe had mixed feelings.

“I plan on having a good time, and so much easier to just walk back to your tent after the concerts,” Neil Smith said in an e-mail. “Now I will have to figure out ways to get back. This is not good business, they should work it out or they should have never announced the concert in the first place.”

Eagle River, Wis., resident John Jacobson said he has been attending the Sturgis bike rally for 13 years and stayed at Glencoe for five years and is glad the concert was moved.

“I am happy to see the concerts gone from Glencoe, there are far too many concert venues in Sturgis the way it is,” Jacobson said in an e-mail. “Concerts only appeal to a select few. It is not, and never will be, a reason to come to the Sturgis rally.”

Alexander said all tickets will be honored at the new location and prices will stay the same.

Contact Tyler Jerke at 394-8415 or tyler.jerke@rapidcityjournal.com

Frontman Axl Rose last night confirmed the band will perform a one-off gig on Saturday, December 4, at ANZ Stadium, following the weekend’s first event around the Olympic Park circuit.

“To mix Guns with this massive Sydney event will be a blast,” Rose said.

“We will be in Europe just before we head to Sydney so it will be great to come out and chill around Australia for a while, spend a bit of time getting around and soaking up the relaxed Aussie vibe.

“When we came back in 2007 it had been about 14 years between tours in Australia and we had a complete ball.

“Bring on Sydney and the V8 Supercars. Hopefully I can get a ride in one of those big beasts while I’m there.”

Famous for hit 1990s singles Sweet Child Of Mine, November Rain and You Could Be Mine, the US bad boys are expected to lift this year’s total gate well above the 184,000 that attended the first-up event last December.

Acting Premier John Hatzistergos is scheduled to make an official announcement today and is confident interstate fans will flock to Sydney for the band’s only East Coast performance.

It’s believed V8 Supercars officials are paying Guns N’ Roses more than $1 million to perform the solitary gig, included in the $91 price of Saturday’s admission.

Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au

August 27th, 2010: Reading, UK @ Little John’s Farm (Reading Festival)
August 29th, 2010: Leeds, UK @ Bramham Park (Leeds Festival)
August 31st, 2010: Belfast, UK @ Odyssey Arena
September 1st, 2010: Dublin, Ireland @ The O2
September 4th, 2010: Rome, Italy @ Palalottomatica
September 5th, 2010: Milan, Italy @ Mediolanum Forum di Assago
September 8th, 2010: Zurich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion
September 10th, 2010: Amnéville, France @ Le Galaxie
September 13th, 2010: Paris, France @ Palais omnisport de Paris-Bercy
September 16th, 2010: Geneva, Switzerland @ Geneva ARENA
September 18th, 2010: Vienna, Austria @ Wiener Stadthalle
September 23rd, 2010: Belgrade, Serbia @ Beogradska Arena
September 24th, 2010: Zagreb, Croatia @ Arena
September 27th, 2010: Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
September 30th, 2010: Antwerpen, Belgium @ Sportpaleis
October 2nd, 2010: Lille, France @ Zenith Grand Palais
October 3rd, 2010: Arnhem, Netherlands @ GelreDome XS
October 6th, 2010: Lisbon, Portugal @ Pavilhão Atlântico
October 9th, 2010: Madrid, Spain @ Palacio Vistalegre
October 10th, 2010: San Sebastian, Spain @ Velodromo Anoeta
October 13th, 2010: Zaragoza, Spain @ Pabellón Príncipe Felipe
October 14th, 2010: Barcelona, Spain @ Palau Olímpic Badalona

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Axl, DJ and the gang are set to rock Dublin this September!

Rockers Guns N’ Roses are set to make a triumphant return to Dublin.

The American band will be hitting Dublin’s O2 on September 1, with tickets expected to be snapped up quickly when they go on sale on Friday, July 11.

The worldwide tour promotes the band’s current album, Chinese Democracy, which hit the top spot in charts around the globe. Guns N’ Roses, with front man Axl Rose, last played Dublin four years ago in the RDS. During this tour, they performed 60 concerts in 26 countries, playing for more than a million fans, including some 30,000 in Dublin.

Since they formed in 1985, GNR have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including 46 million in the US.

Their hits include Paradise City and Sweet Child O’ Mine.

Axl is lining up tour dates toward the end of the year

Guns N’ Roses will perform in Vienna this autumn. The band will rock the Stadthalle on 18 September follow weeks of wild speculations over possible Austrian live dates.

Later in the year, Axl will welcome V8 fans to the jungle, with Guns N’ Roses set to return Down Under later this year for the Telstra Sydney 500.

In a major boost for V8 Supercars, the world’s most dangerous band has all but agreed to headline the December 3-5 series finale at Olympic Park.

“The Gunners are the No. 1 target and they’ve indicated they are willing to do it,” said a source close to the negotiations. “It’s just a matter of getting the contracts signed.”

Once the biggest rock band in the world, Guns N’ Roses are likely to fire up ANZ Stadium the Sunday night after the second race in a coup that should ensure last year’s crowd figure of 185,000 is shot to pieces.

Perfectly suited to the V8s given his name is Axl, the Guns N’ Roses front man last brought his new-look band to Australia in 2007 following a 14-year absence. It seems Axl may have a thing for race tracks with the mega group’s most notable performance in Australia at Eastern Creek for the record-breaking Use Your Illusion tour in 1993.

Azoff

Axl Rose says his former manager tried to implement a scheme to force him to reunite with the original Guns N’ Roses band members and, as part of the plot, failed to properly promote the “Chinese Democracy” album, lied about a prospective Van Halen super tour and mishandled the band’s tour dates.

The claims are part of a bombshell countersuit filed yesterday against Irving Azoff’s Front Line Management. In March, Azoff sued Rose, claiming the rocker violated an oral agreement to pay 15% of earnings, or nearly $2 million, from a lucrative concert tour.

Not since the G’N'R song “Get in the Ring” has Rose struck back at a foe so forcefully, alleging antitrust concerns about Front Line’s parent company, Ticketmaster, to drive home a major claim that his former manager is up to no good in the music business.

Azoff,irving Azoff is CEO, director and majority shareholder of Front Line, whose roster of artists include the Eagles, Neil Diamond, Jimmy Buffett, Christina Aguilera and John Mayer. In 2008, Front Line was acquired by Ticketmaster.
Rose claims that through Azoff’s control of the “trifecta” of artist management, concert and touring promotion, and ticket sales, Azoff has been able to gain wide influence and power in the music industry. Azoff allegedly decides what artists he wants to promote through favorable touring deals and uses his power to punish artists and harm their careers if they don’t follow his orders.

When informed of the myriad allegations in the countersuit, Azoff’s lawyer Howard King quipped to us: “He didn’t accuse Irving of being on the grassy knoll in Dallas on November 22, 1963?”

The countersuit invokes the U.S. Justice Department’s recent antitrust lawsuit that sought to stop a proposed merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation over concerns about the new entity having too much control over artists and venues. Afterwards, Ticketmaster entered into a consent decree with government regulators to allow the merger to continue under certain operating provisions.

Axl’s counter-complaint says that Azoff is violating the consent decree by coercing and bullying artists to do what he wants.

What Azoff wanted, the rocker says, was the reunion of Guns N’ Roses. To execute this, he would sabotage Rose and his new band so that Rose would have no option but to reunite.

According to the filing, “Upon realizing that he couldn’t bully Rose and accomplish his scheme, Azoff resigned and abandoned Guns N’ Roses on the eve of a major tour, filing suit for commissions he didn’t earn and had no right to receive.”

Further, Axl says the botched tour cost him money in production startup and rehearsal expenses. Claiming breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and breach of contract, the singer wants at least $5 million in damages.

The cross-complaint was filed by Skip Miller and Sasha Frid at L.A.’s Miller Barondess.

Guns N’ Roses is headed to Europe!  More tour dates are rumored to be in the works and may be announced in the coming days, so check back often!

Guns N’ Roses – 2010 Europe Tour Dates:
May 31 – Bergen, Norway
June 2 – Oslo, Norway
June 5 – Helsinki, Finland
June 6 – St. Petersburg, Russia
June 8 – Moscow, Russia
June 12 – Norje, Sweden
June 13 – Aalborg, Denmark
June 15 – Berlin, Germany
June 16 – Arnhem, Netherlands
June 18 – Vienna, Austria
June 20 – Zagreb, Croatia
June 21 – Belgrade, Serbia
June 23 – Prague, Czech Republic
June 26 – Dessel, Belgium
June 28 – Zurich, Switzerland
June 29 – Milan, Italy
August 27 – Reading, UK
August 29 – Leeds, UK

Rounding out the T4F-promoted events this week are two dates in Brazil that land Coldplay in the No. 3 spot on the Hot Tours list.  The band’s Viva La Vida World Tour stopped in Rio de Janeiro at Praça da Apoteose (Feb. 28) and Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo (March 2) with grosses topping $8.2 million and almost 80,000 tickets sold.