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[Diablos]

What if 50 Cent did a duet with 6 Pence None the Richer

Haha.

 

[effzee]

i understand booeing but throwing bottles at him? he isnt the best or even that good, but he is praised like he is...which bothers me also but throwing bottles and stuff on stage? this i never understood.

 

[rc213]

50 Cent should've pulled out his gat and shot 9 people.

 

[iapetus]

From the local Reading music scene board:

it's not reading rock anymore. in fact it's not even the reading festival. it is now...

the carling weekend (reading).

hooray.

and all this bottling is a tad neandethal. there's 3 other stages so if you don't like the act on the mainstage then please go somewhere else so those that do like the acts concerned can watch them perform a whole set. before you know it it'll be just like the "good old days" where EVERYBODY gets bottled off. what a fcuking great time we'll all have then.

Anyway, should the question be asked as to whether Mean Fiddler are trying to cover too many bases and appeal to too broad a spectrum? Or that they are badly misjudging the clientele they are attracting and as such not combining acts with much nous, leading to the aforementioned events. Whether the obvious question regards 'commercialisation' (as hinted at in the first sentence, although what one regards as commercialisation and the interpretations thereof would inevitably lead to a myriad of answers) needs be asked is open to conjecture, however.

It would appear that at the very least whatever occurred yesterday was an indication that there are people who want Reading to remain as (mainly) a 'rock' festival, be they (in your own opinion) right or wrong in that belief. Another option would be to question how many people meant their actions - did a lot of them just get caught up in the moment and play along (because they could or they wanted boasting rights or status amongst their clique), oblivious to the results? Does that in itself indicate a lack of eclecticism (sp.) in musical tastes?

Really they should have known he had it coming, if you put a rap act on as one of the last things in the evening they're going to get bottled off if they're surrounded by rock groups either side. He'd probably have been bottled off whenever he was put on but second last was just asking for it really.

Do you think the promoters are putting acts on in order to deal with the bottling requirements of the festival goers now? It seems to be becoming a regular occurance.

50 Cent (or 38 Pence) had a camping chair chucked at him too which is the funniest news I've heard all weekend. Wish I'd been there to witness it now....never mind

50 Cent was great, he had a stack of bottles at the side of the stage, as soon as he came on he opened some and hurled them into the crowd, it was the most amazing sight as the kids unleashed the bottle storm.

There were some tearful moments before he came on as our brave lads headed to the front loaded up with bottles to cheers and shouts of "conserve your ammo" and "get him for me".

Anyway he gained a lot of respect for weathering the storm for as long as he did. Most of the crowd didn't think he'd left the stage early, we all thought he'd ridden it out to the end. The general feeling afterwards was, "Damn, he beat us. Fair play to him."

And with 50 Cent - not only were there bottles and a chair thrown at him, but an inflatable paddling pool with a duck's head.

I'm with Mike on this one - well, I was with him at the time as well, I think... Fiddy may be a right knob, but walking on and taking it straight to the crowd was a touch of genius.. He just danced, ran and sang with a huge smile on his face, almost looking like "Well hey, I'm getting paid to be here, you guys have paid to be here, nothing's hitting me, so come on - is this the best you can do???". Really was a sight to behold. Unlike his mate who looked like someone who wouldn't get into GLC for being too tacky, who got repeatedly hit and looked like crying, Fifty left with my respect.

Was lovely when he picked up a chair that had been chucked at him and just goes "You throw this shit at me?" then shakes his head and carries on...

It's a pretty great democratic affair - I mean the line-up (especially the initial one) made me sick to the bone... And it'd be a shame if gradually larger and larger portion of the target audience started getting sick with the curators' poor decisions.

Of course, the amazing solution I discovered was not to fucking go, not collecting my negative £100, and generally having a great time at home with a cheaper and wider selection of alcohols, complete comfort, and my own playlist.

Another great piece of thinking goes I Don't Like 50 Cent --> I May Not Go And See Him.

But for those people with no legs, who've persisted in buying the tickets, etc, it's pretty good to alert the organizers of their mistakes.

IT CAN'T HAVE BEEN because Mike played a good set that was the difference between the streets and 50Cent, because 50 was getting bottled right from the start, even before he came on stage the bottles were flying high...

...mike is white.

And Dizzee was not on the main stage so people went to see him if they were fans of his stuff...

...to put the race theory to the test, did Eminem get bottled when he played a cuple years back?

So why didn't Jurassic 5 or The Roots get bottled on the main stage then?

Oh, it's because they aren't shit commercial pop-rap.

And how black are The Rasmus?

I thought the Fiddy bottling incident was like a watching a terminally ill clown, both sad and amusing at the same time.

It was sad because it just served to highlight how musically prejudice the Rock Goons are on every Sunday of the festival. If they just took the time to listen to some more music rather than sit at home in their black painted bedrooms listening to their Marilyn Manson records and scratching the words 'My parents hate me' in their arms with a compass then perhaps they'd appreciate some good party tunes when they heard them. Im no 50 Cent fan but when youve had a good drink and a smoke and 'In Da Club' comes on and you dont at least start tapping your foot its probably because your legs been amputated.
I believe it could also be argued that they are racially prejudiced as well because i guarantee he wouldnt have been bottled if he was white.

The incident was funny because of the way the fella handled it. His smile was a beautiful sight as the barrage of piss filled bottles and mud came hurtling towards him and he stood defiantly in the way. What was perhaps funnier was how the bottle and chair attacks were carried out with near military precission. There seemed to be a supply line leading from the back with chairs coming over peoples heads with instructions to 'pass it to the front' as if it the camping chair was a shell that had to be loaded into the cannons at the front to launch a bomb at the enemy.

Personally i blame the fella who books the bands who has been doing the job for the past 13 years (according to the talk he gave at the museum opening) and should be well aware by now that putting on a black hip hip act on the Rock day of the festival is asking for trouble. He really must have a sadistic streak in him as hes the twat who booked Daphne and Celeste a few years back as well as Kevin Rowlands. I managed to smuggle a glass bottle of vodka into the arena so im sure others did as well. Will it take a glass bottle in someones chops before he realises as funny as it is watching these bands getting booed and bottled off surely its more fun to watch bands that you enjoy as ultimately thats the reason the punters have paid £110+ for a fucking ticket?

I cant help but think its all just a cynical marketing ploy to get adverse press. In fact im fucking sure it is and i find that really fucking sad.

Why wouldn't he be bottled if he was white? Sorry, but I think that's bullshit. Plenty of white bands have got bottled over the years for not being 'alternative' enough for the Reading crowd, whatever that means. This year The Rasmus as I said and last year it was Good Charlotte. It's just to do with the organisers putting on acts the crowd don't consider fit with the spirit of the festival, rightly or wrongly.

In my opinion, which is clearly more important than anyone elses, Fifty got bottled because he's a prety poor chart act playing a style of music completely out of touch with the rest of the acts that were on. Oh, and his "I'm hard, me" act doesn't do him any favours - it winds people up and they wanted to have a go at him. But he did amazingly well and I was genuinely impressed with not only his attitude, but also the music - I thought they sounded pretty great, to be honest.

Quite simply, if the organisers had put any other pop act on in that slot, they would have also been bottled.

I still think merging Alishas attic and Slayer to form Slayishas attic is a winner

If there's one thing I hate more than nazi's, it's anchovies. Damn you, pizza ruining fish!!

don't care who was playing, throwing bottles filled with wee is utterly revolting. and very, very sad.

just the sort of middle class kiddie-tosspot behaviour that you get when a bunch of little scrotes get away from home for a weekend and haven't got mum & dad there to keep an eye on them. uurrgh.

I can't be bothered to pay lots of money to willingly put myself in a field amongst hoards of the evil spawn of Daily Mail readers, having one last blow-out with their school mates before they set off for their media studies course at Uni, complete with new car and microwave oven bought by daddy, so they can 'cook' lots of ready meals and easily come home to mum with a big bag of crusty bed linen and skidmarked pants....

Im not sure you can draw any comparisons between Avril Lavigne and 50 Cent credibly. Ones a faceless manufactured pop/rock bint and the others a rap artist with the biggest selling rap album of all time which id wager you havent heard bar the singles which are always designed to appeal to the largest amount of people.

Also by yours and Paul C's reckoning a white chart rap band would have been booed and bottled off stahe just as 50 Cent was. Well the Goldie Lookin Chain werent on saturday and id be willing to bet a months wages that had they came on in the slot 50 Cent did then they wouldnt have received the abuse he did.

Im not saying race or prejudice or xenophobia is the only factor here but its certainly a contributing one.

You're kidding, right? It's wrong to compare Avril Lavigne, a massive selling international pop artist, to 50 Cent, a massive selling international pop artist, yet comparing Goldie Lookin' Chain, a comedy novelty act from Wales, to 50 Cent, a massive selling international pop artist, is perfectly valid?

As for 50 Cent being a "rap artist with the biggest selling rap album of all time", I'd disagree. He's a pop star with an album that sold a lot, not a rap artist.

Mike was the one who was making ridiculous baseless comparisons i was simply naming a band of a similar musical genre to 50 Cent who im pretty certain wouldnt have got bottled off the stage.

By pop your talking about popular music arent you? If a rap artist becomes so popular that you have to start refering to his music as pop music then thats no fault of his own its just because its crossed over into the mainstream much in the same way as eminem did. If they stayed small and were only liked by the rap community then your pop label would seem a little incredible. Again im betting youve only heard his singles Paul and know nothing of his past records or have never heard any of the mix tapes he put out years ago to try and get himself a record deal that would make you sound like a idiot if you called him a pop act.

He was bottled because:

A: In the morning lots of people were talking about how he'd been bottled at Leeds the night before, therefore spreading the idea around the campsite, and allowing loads of excitable, pissed kids time to prepare.

and

B: Because he's a cock who comes onstage to the sound of fake gunfire, and brags about his wanky gangster past and how many times he's been shot etc... He set's himself up for it.

Your right, the mans an absolute penis and to be honest i dont know why ive bothered to get into a debate about it because i was pissed and booing with the best of them, not because im racist or i dont like his music but just because its really good fun to boo in large numbers. What i dont agree with is throwing anything larger than a pissed filled plastic bottle. Thats just dangerous and someones gonna get hurt.

In hindsight i feel a bit silly about booing because i was actually enjoying his set and id much rather he had finished it rather than leave the stage i just got caught up in the moment as im sure a lot of people did.
My main gripe about the bottling incident is that he really shouldnt have been on the main stage on that day and the festival organisers should have enough wealth of experiance to know this and now his presence at the festival seems little more than a publicity stunt rather than a daring musical coup.

Next year they should set up a tent iside of which they have numerous publicity hunger whores like Jodie Marsh, Abbie Titmuss and the entire cast of Big Brother locked up in stocks and you can throw piss covered sponges at them until your hearts content. I know id pay money to throw body fluids in Abbie Titmuss' direction.

credit where credit's due i was the first to come up with the whole "is it because he is black" question on sunday evening. and i'm sure i had some very good arguments to back it up although because i was fucked then i'm fucked now if i can remember them.

Quoted rather than posting a link, because GA can take the bandwidth hit more easily than Berks Live. If anyone here is a Berks Live regular who objects to their name and/or quotes being taken in vain, let me know and I'll remove them.

 

[Malleymal]

link for those that havent seen it..

http://www.shadyweb.net/Downloads/News/Video/50 Cent - Reading - ShadyWeb.Net EXCLUSIVE.wmv

 

[Ramirez]

Regardless of who was playing,the shit that happened was very juvenile.

I made a point at another board,how many bottles you think would have been thrown if it was one on one

 

[8bit]

link for those that havent seen it..

http://www.shadyweb.net/Downloads/News/Video/50 Cent - Reading - ShadyWeb.Net EXCLUSIVE.wmv

And that's somehow more exclusive than this ?

 

[DJ Sl4m]

How the hell could anybody confuse this dumb mumbling moose for somebody with talent?

"Humma humma inna clerb anna humma humma inna clerb clerb."

No wonder he got booed off stage, people that go to Reading are far too smart to get caught in the hype you Americans generate around untalented, b-grade artists like fiddy.

Omg he has a gold chain and a bullet wound, who cares if he sounds like a mentally retarded child, I'm buying his album!

Btw, no offence meant to any of the braindead 50 cent fans we may have here.

OMFG!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaahahahahahaha
dude I couldn't agree more

+1000000 Fusebox

 

[Ryck]

How the hell could anybody confuse this dumb mumbling moose for somebody with talent?

"Humma humma inna clerb anna humma humma inna clerb clerb."

No wonder he got booed off stage, people that go to Reading are far too smart to get caught in the hype you Americans generate around untalented, b-grade artists like fiddy.

Omg he has a gold chain and a bullet wound, who cares if he sounds like a mentally retarded child, I'm buying his album!

Btw, no offence meant to any of the braindead 50 cent fans we may have here.

lol perfect!

 

[Dagless M.D.]

any mirrors for the video?

 

[Ninja Scooter]

if you took Mase and filled his mouth up with marbles, you'd get 50 cent.

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

Who or what the hell is Rasmus? Did I miss something?

 

[Semjaza Azazel]

Rasmus is a band.

It's funny how I can skim through all that and my eyes lock onto the words "Marilyn Manson" lol.