Concert bottling
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Concert bottling, or simply bottling, is when a concert audience throws water bottles, among other things, (commonly urine) at the performers onstage. This generally happens at festivals when one act in the lineup is of a different genre or audience than the rest of the bands, especially festivals where the majority of bands are related to heavy metal and hard rock music styles.
Bottling has become most common at British summer music festivals, particularly the Reading Festival, where it has become an infamous tradition to bottle at least one act every year. While bottling generally involves empty or full bottles of water, it also usually includes bottles of urine, and sometimes items like food, rocks, and golf balls.
[edit] Examples
- Jimi Hendrix, while playing at a block party in Harlem, was bottled and egged, for playing "white music" and for having white musicians in his band.
- Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler were bottled at the 1988 Reading Festival, starting the festival's trend.
- Daphne and Celeste were heavily bottled [1] at the 2000 Reading Festival, but completed their 15 minute set.
- Limp Bizkit were bottled while opening for Metallica on the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003.
- Good Charlotte were bottled at the 2003 Reading Festival.
- Justin Timberlake was bottled at the Toronto Rocks concert, while playing on the same bill as AC/DC and The Rolling Stones.
- G-Unit, and The Rasmus were both bottled at the 2004 Reading Festival.
- Fightstar were bottled at the 2005 Reading Festival.
- Nickelback quit a show in Portugal after just two songs because the crowd was throwing rocks and bottles at them.
- The Mars Volta were bottled at Endfest.
- My Chemical Romance and Panic! At The Disco were both bottled at the 2006 Reading Festival, resulting in Brendon Urie being knocked unconscious.
- In 2006, Aiden were bottled twice in one summer, first at the Download Festival, and again at Reading.
- The Used were bottled and had shoes thrown at them at the 2006 Taste of Chaos in Adelaide
- The Veronicas were bottled at the Coke Live 'n' Local in 2006. Evermore were also bottled at the same concert.
- On September 13, 2006, during a show at Selinas in Sydney, Sebastian Bach stormed off stage during the encore. After two earlier similar incidents, Bach had warned the crowd that the throwing of any more plastic bottles and/or cans onto the stage would lead to him walking off.
