Axl Rose and his merry band of session musos carried on with their anarchy in the UK as the fallout from their sets at the Reading and Leeds Festivals on the weekend continued. Axl Rose now claims that the band had a ‘deal’ to play longer than they were allowed to, contradicting statements from festival promoter Melvin Benn who said they pulled the plug to avoid breaching a council curfew in place.
Axl took to Twitter to say “So u know, we allegedly had a deal in place pre show w/the city at least at Leeds to do a bit longer performance that was either miscommunication, someone wasn’t informed, changed their mind, didn’t care or [it] was a con.”
Not content to leave the country quietly, Axl has also reportedly sacked his entire tour crew, blaming them for him running over time and copping a huge fine. In further news, just to prove that it’s always the ones who protest too loudly, the singer who caused controversy in 1989 on the GNR Lies album which was slammed for the homophobic and racist lyrics in the song ‘One In A Million’, ended up the weekend partying at a London gay club.
The man who penned the lyrics ‘Immigrants and faggots/they make no sense to me/they come to our country/and think they’ll do as they please/like start some mini-Iran/or spread some fucking disease’ was apparently in his element dancing to disco hits with the largely male clientele of the club.
Putting aside his Appetite for Destruction, Axl took the opportunity to order a grilled cheese sandwich in the club’s VIP area, which apparently is not a euphemism for anything more exotic. An onlooker told London’s Metro paper, ‘It was no trouble. Axl had the melt sent down to the bar and just sat in VIP, munching on the cheesy feast until 5am.’
