The highlight of this weekend’s Reading and Leeds Festival was probably the performance by the Guns N’ Roses tribute band.
They were awesome. Admittedly they didn’t get the details quite right – there was no Slash lookalike and the guy pretending to be Axl Rose was fairly obviously an obese ginger transvestite sea lion who appeared to have never heard a single Guns N’ Roses song in his entire life – but on the whole it was pretty good.
What? That was actually Guns N’ Roses onstage? The real Guns N’ Roses? Seriously? Christ, in that case they were terrible. And, because they were pulled offstage before the end of their set for breaking the festival’s curfew, they’re all now furious. Or at least as furious as a person can be when they’re dressed up like Mick Hucknall‘s drunken line-dancing auntie, anyway.
Oh, look, let’s focus on the positives here – Guns N’ Roses managed to play the Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend. That’s something, right? Admittedly it wasn’t the definitive Guns N’ Roses line-up – most of the bandmembers had been replaced with anonymous also-rans and Axl Rose turned up looking like Charlie Dimmock out at a hen party following a fairly intense carb-loading session – but this is Guns N’ Roses, remember? The band who took about 45 years to release their last album? The fact they turned up to Reading and Leeds at all is staggering.
But, because this is Guns N’ Roses, things didn’t go completely according to plan. After starting their Leeds set 35 minutes late, the band ended up having their power cut when they broke the festival’s 11:30pm performance curfew. And, somewhat inevitably, Axl Rose didn’t take too kindly to the interruption. Metro reports:
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose launched a foul-mouthed tirade against police and promoters as he left the stage at Leeds Festival on Sunday, complaining that his band was pulled early after being promised a slot that would last until midnight.? ‘We come here to play for you but the cops and the promoters wanna f**k us in the a**,’ Rose told fans at Bramham Park.
But never mind. All’s well that ends well, and this has definitely ended well. The promoters have made a bundle of cash out of the performances, the shortened set meant that Guns N’ Roses could leave early and concentrate on recording their new album (expected to be released at some point after the sun has expanded and swallowed up the planet) and all the fans could stop pretending to enjoy fifth-rate versions of songs they used to like as performed by a lardy cowboy with a comedy moustache. See? Everything’s peachy.
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dwebb says
LOL!!! Awesome review! As an old die hard G’NR fan, but recently fed up with Axl’s continuous line of b.s. and ridiculously lame ego, I am now on the bash’em train as well. His recent solo album was garbage…..really unbelievable!!! I didn’t know whether to laugh or just burn it and the egotistical bloated fool doesnt seem to realize he and his lame cover band are nothing but the but of an ongoing joke and they will NEVER put out a good album or be BIG. So give it up and enjoy the never ending jokes and trash talking that is coming your way AXL Rose. Lol!!! What a looser……..
:^) says
Sorry, but I don’t believe these people are the real Guns N’ Roses. It’s that awesome Guns tribute band– Firearms N’ Florals, with their frontman– Hatchet Maroon. :^)