Guns N’ Roses front man Axl Rose stormed off stage last night after somebody threw a bottle of water at one of his bandmates during a performance in Dublin.
Rose had earlier frustrated the capacity crowd at the O2 by turning up an hour and a half late.
He stopped the band during the intro to the second song Welcome to the Jungle when a bottle of water was thrown on stage.
“Here’s the deal, one more bottle, we go home," he told the crowd. "We want to stay. If you don’t want to have fun just let us know. We’ll be on our way."
Rose made good his promise after another bottle was thrown as guitarist Richard Fortus was about to start a solo and took his band off stage to a cacophony of boos and cat-whistles at the end of the fourth song Mr Brownstone . Guns N' Roses had been on stage for 22 minutes.
Frantic efforts were made to get him back. A woman came out on stage and was booed when she said they were experiencing “technical difficulties”.
MCD promoter Denis Desmond came on stage and asked the crowd for patience, which is also Guns N’ Roses song title.
“We’re trying hard to get Axl to come back on stage. I’m trying hard to get Axl to come back on stage. I’d ask you please to refrain from throwing items at him. I promise a great show, but you have to calm. I’m sorry about that,” he said.
After short interval, the lights came on and thousands of fans left the arena.
To the surprise of remaining fans, the band appeared back on stage half an hour later to complete their set.
Rose said to the crowd: “Let’s try this again”. The band played until 12.52am by which stage more fans had left.
Last night’s concert is the latest in a long line of issues involving Rose, who has a reputation as one of rock music’s most unpredictable stars with a penchant for turning up late and storming off stage.
The European leg of his Chinese Democracy tour is turning into a disaster. The power was cut on the band’s performance at Reading when they went on stage an hour late and also at Leeds where they were 35 minutes late.
Of late, Rose, who is the only surviving original member of the band that was once of the biggest in the world, has been communicating with fans by Twitter. They will eagerly await his next tweet