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Miserable_Bugger t1_j29wsw9 wrote

I was at Reading once, quite a few years ago, to mainly see Metallica.

There was this really shit, skater rock type band on in the afternoon (Good Charlotte?) and I wasn’t interested in them in the slightest, so went to get something to eat.

Whilst this band were playing (bearing in mind the majority of people there were for Metallica at that time of day) everyone that wasn’t 12, started throwing stuff at them.

The lead singer got in a mood and taunted everyone, saying something like “We’ve come all the way from America to blow you guys away. Is this how little respect you have? If you want to throw stuff at us, really go for it then.”

Cue an absolute torrent of every projectile imaginable. I think they fucked off early after that.

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PPLifter t1_j2a3172 wrote

Yeah it's bullshit when this happens just because people don't like the band. There is for sure people in that crowd who enjoy Good Charlotte and have had their entire experience ruined because people can't dislike something and not act on it.

Reading festival as well. Wait for a couple hours before Blink come on so I get a good place at the front. This other group of five guys had the same idea but heavily drunk. Didn't want to lose their space so kept pissing where they stood. Paramore come on (I think) and they start throwing non stop shit at them, whatever they could find. None of it really affecting the stage. Security comes and gets them all out. One of the guys straight up crying because he was going to miss blink.

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horsemagicians t1_j2asuqc wrote

That wasn’t 12? So everybody older than 12 was acting like a bunch of children because they didn’t like that band.

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