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August 28, 2006
Drinking $4 bottles of water the hard way
Stereogum has been posting the ugly instances of collective stupidity at the Reading Festival. Fans have pelted bottles at performers. First Brendan Urie of Panic! at the Disco gets knocked in the face by a bottle and now it appears that My Chemical Romance have also been targeted for felling via bottle blows from irate (see: drunk) “fans.”
Without passing judgment on the quality of musical output of these groups, bands getting intimate with the wrong end of hostile Brits' flying missiles is all fairly idiotic and reminiscent of 1999’s ill-fated Woodstock debacle. While fires and rapes have not yet replaced “bottling” headlines, attacking artists performing onstage makes as much sense as throwing cream pies at the cunty, verbal diarrhea spewing Ann Coulter. Walk away people, just walk away.
All of this nonsense comes amid reports that crime is down at this years festie.
Maybe the true sign of a free society is not freedom of movement or freedom of speech, but the chance to be a complete jackass and aim your misguided anger at powerless figures while in a faceless mob. Pussies.
Here are some YouTube vids of "bottlings":
-50 Cent & G-Unit @ Reading (2004)
-Fightstar @ Reading (2005)
-Nickelback @ Portugal Fest
Switching gears from lobbing bottles in substitution for boos to tossing mud in place of hugs is this Green Day clip from the 1994 edition of Woodstock (the less rioty and fiery, but muddy one).
Green Day - "Not Becoming a Mud-Hippy" - Saugerties, NY - Woodstock 1994
Tags: Reading Festival, Panic! At the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Fightstar, 50 Cent, G Unit, Green Day
Posted by Merry Swankster at August 28, 2006 01:46 PM
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