MUSIC NEWS - Rockers, Guns N' Roses had their Reading Festival (UK) headlining performance cut off after they showed up nearly an hour late to the event. The band, led by singer Axl Rose, started their sete at 10:30pm local time on Friday night, August 27.
Festival organisers say they were given an extra half hour to play and released the following statement; "Guns N' Roses wanted to 'extend' the new agreed curfew but were prevented from doing so in order to comply with the entertainment licence issued by Reading Council."
When they arrived on stage, after the one hour delay, they were welcomed with boos from the audience at the Berkshire site. But despite that the BBC reports that they played a set that included hits like Sweet Child o' Mine, Welcome To The Jungle and November Rain plus tracks from their latest album Chinese Democracy. They walked offstage after performing Nightrain from their 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction. As they tried to play Paradise City as an encore, the sound system was shut down per instructions by festival director Melvin Benn.
More @ BBC.co.uk
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