Bottling (concert abuse)

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Bottling is when a concert audience throws various objects 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 rocks, golf balls or different kinds of food including bacon and fruits like oranges or durian.

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[edit] Bottling incidents

[edit] 1960s

  • 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.

[edit] 1970s

  • Metallic K.O. is an infamous live recording by The Stooges. During much of the performance, Iggy Pop sings while pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles and jelly beans, among other things, are thrown at him in response to his audience-baiting. In the essay "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage" critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control." He describes the Stooges concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O. performances:
“ The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was unusually hostile, and Iggy, as usual, fed on that hostility, soaked it up and gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie, frightening symbiosis. "All right," he finally said, stopping a song in the middle, "you assholes wanta hear 'Louie, Louie,' we'll give you 'Louie, Louie.'" So the Stooges played a forty-five-minute version of "Louie Louie," including new lyrics improvised by the Pop on the spot consisting of "You can suck my ass / You biker faggot sissies," etc.

By now the hatred in the room is one huge livid wave, and Iggy singles out one heckler who has been particularly abusive: "Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I'm gonna come down there and kick your ass." "Fuck you, you little punk," responds the biker. So Iggy jumps off the stage, runs through the middle of the crowd, and the guy beats the shit out of him, ending the evening's musical festivities by sending the lead singer back to his motel room and a doctor. I walk into the dressing room, where I encounter the manager of the club offering to punch out anybody in the band who will take him on. The next day the bike gang, who call themselves the Scorpions, will phone WABX-FM and promise to kill Iggy and the Stooges if they play the Michigan Palace on Thursday night. They do (play, that is), and nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings.

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[edit] 1980s

[edit] 1990s

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2000

  • Daphne and Celeste were heavily bottled at the 2000 Reading Festival, and left the stage at the start of their last song. [1]

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

  • At the 2002 Ermal Festival in Portugal, Nickelback left the stage after just two songs, after which the enraged fans began throwing rocks at them. Slipknot was scheduled to play afterwards.
  • The Who was bottled at Madison Square Garden in 2002, and lead singer Roger Daltrey was struck on the arm. The crowd pointed out the bottler, who was arrested and removed from the venue. At the Knowsley Hall Music Festival in 2007, glowsticks were thrown at all of the acts, including The Who. Roger Daltrey simply said 'You missed', and continued with the set.

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

  • Guns N' Roses were bottled at the beginning of their show at Download 06. This resulted in the band almost walking off-stage. Bassist Tommy Stinson spoke to the crowd saying, 'A p*** bottle to the @#$!%&* head?'. Axl was also bottled during a 1992 concert in Europe, resulting in a lecture to be translated as he spoke. He said "If anybody in the audience, the crew or in the band gets hit, the show will end."
  • My Chemical Romance and Panic! at the Disco were both bottled at the 2006 Reading Festival.[3][4]
  • The Mars Volta had bottles full of urine thrown at them at Endfest in 2006. This combined with various sound problems resulted with the band walking off the stage.
  • The Used were bottled and had shoes thrown at them at the 2006 Taste of Chaos in Adelaide
  • Trivium had bottles thrown at them combined with heckling when opening for Iron Maiden on a date of their European tour in 2006.
  • Intricate Unit was bottled by thousands at the 2006 Gathering of the Juggalos in Ohio while opening for Dark Lotus and Insane Clown Posse.[citation needed]
  • In 2006, Aiden were bottled twice in one summer, first at the Download Festival, and again at Reading. Both bands ignored the attacks and played through their whole set.
  • 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.

[edit] 2007

  • Aiden were bottled endlessly during their set at Download Festival 2007, which began to bother lead singer, Wil Francis, however, he did not respond to the bottling as he did at Reading Festival 2006 where he yelled at the audience "let's see what you've got, you &%$#@*% pussies!".
  • Lewis Black was bottled on June 18, 2007 at the 6th annual Bonaroo music festival. He encouraged audience members to boo the heckler before leaving the stage in disgust.
  • My Chemical Romance were heavily bottled during their headline spot at download 2007. [5]

[edit] 2008

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  • Marilyn Manson was bottled during the Guns, God and Government Tour. This resulted in the bottler getting called up on stage by Manson where he was bottled by the fans in the crowd. (Ozzfest - Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 24th 2001 - this incedent can be seen on a fan recorded audio show of this concert)
  • While opening for ZZ Top, Gary Cherone of Extreme was bottled in Johnson City, TN. Lead guitarist Nuno Bettencourt stopped the concert to lecture the audience, threatening to end the concert.
  • Rush member Geddy Lee was bottled one night at a performance in Winnipeg. Rush has never returned to the city. (Rush returned to play Winnipeg May 24th 2008. Geddy Lee Gave an interview to the WPG Free Press and cited that the bottling issue had NOTHING to do with lack of shows in Winnipeg. [1]
  • The Confession were bottled at a concert at Grove of Anaheim during there tour with Megadeth. People threw their change,gum, and etc. All this can be found at their myspace blogs.
  • Mick Jagger was once knocked unconscious by a gin bottle while performing.
  • Carlos Santana was bottled during a concert in El Paso, TX, for making comments against George Bush and the Pope. One woman threw a beer at him, drenching him (she was ejected from the concert), while other people threw quarters. Taking it in stride, Carlos told people to instead throw dollar bills for Hurricane Katrina victims and stated that the next song was dedicated to the people throwing quarters. The band then played "Evil Ways."
  • The Insane Clown Posse are famous for their concerts, which involve bottling and reverse bottling. The band members throw and spray Faygo brand soda pop at the Juggalos in attendance and often get the pop thrown back at them. Since it was started, faygo showers, as they are often called, have become an integral part of any concert by the group.
  • Evanescence were also bottled at the same festival at their support slot for Iron Maiden after it appeared that they were miming on stage.
  • Nickelback had been bottled during one of their tours in europe after the lead singer had decided to leave the stage after 2 songs.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Reading Diary 3: Daphne and Celeste's battle", BBC News, 2000-08-28. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  2. ^ "Justin Timberlake Bottled at Concert", The Democratic Reporter. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  3. ^ "Concertgoer Throws Bottle at Panic! At The Disco Singer", Starpulse. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  4. ^ "My Chemical Romance Bottled At Reading", Ultimate Guitar, 2006-08-28. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  5. ^ "My Chemical Romance get bottled again at Download '07", My Chemical Toilet, 2008-06-18. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  6. ^ "AS I LAY DYING STAR BOTTLED + BLOODIED AT CONCERT", Contact Music, 2008-02-25. Retrieved on 2008-05-30. 
  • Lester Bangs. "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage," in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, ed. Greil Marcus (New York: Anchor Books, 1987), 206-207.

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