Bottling is when a concert audience throws things 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. Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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. The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... A golf ball is a ball designed for use in the game of golf. ... Look up bacon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Orange blossoms and oranges on tree For other uses of orange, see orange (disambiguation) The Orange Citrus x sinensis is a Citrus tree, and the fruits of this tree. ... This article is about the fruit. ...

Bottling incidents

• 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.
• In 1982 Weird Al Yankovic and his band were the opening act for Missing Persons. The unimpressed audience threw items at the group, and they were booed off the stage.^[1]
• Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler were bottled at the 1988 Reading Festival, starting the festival's trend.
• Daphne and Celeste were heavily bottled at the 2000 Reading Festival, but completed their 15 minute set.[1]
• 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 piss bottle to the fucking head?'.
• 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.
• Limp Bizkit were bottled while opening for Metallica on the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003.
• Good Charlotte were bottled at the 2003 Reading Festival.
• Justin Timberlake was bottled at the Toronto Rocks concert while playing on the same bill as AC/DC and The Rolling Stones.
• The Strokes were bottled by Metallica fans during their 2004 Big Day Out set in Sydney. This resulted in Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas jumping off his stage and singing the last song of the set right up in front of the waiting Metallica crowd.
• G-Unit, and The Rasmus were both bottled at the 2004 Reading Festival.
• Fightstar were bottled at the 2005 and 2006 Reading Festivals and the 2005 Give It A Name Event
• Nickelback quit a show in Portugal after just two songs because the crowd was throwing rocks and bottles at them.
• 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.
• My Chemical Romance and Panic! at the Disco were both bottled at the 2006 Reading Festival, resulting in Brendon Urie being knocked unconscious.
• In 2006, Aiden were bottled twice in one summer, first at the Download Festival, and again at Reading.
• The Used were bottled and had shoes thrown at them at the 2006 Taste of Chaos in Adelaide
• 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.
• 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]}
• Trivium had bottles thrown at them combined with heckling when opening for Iron Maiden on a date of their European tour in 2006.
• 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.
• Rush (band) member, Geddy Lee, was bottled one night at a performance in Winnipeg. Rush has never returned to the city.
• The Jesus Lizard singer, David Yow, was bottled at the Orbit Room in Dallas, TX on December 16, 1994.
• Simple Plan was bottled in 2003 while opening for Three Days Grace at The Norva in Norfolk, VA.
• My Chemical Romance endured bottle throwing and heckling at Download Festival 2007,and ended there set 20 minutes early.
• 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 fucking pussies!".

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External links

• Footage: Panic at the disco bottled (lead singer knocked unconscious)
• Footage: Aiden gets bottled
• Footage: My Chemical Romance bottled
• Footage: The Who bottled
• Footage: David Yow bottled
• Footage: Trivium Kicking Someone Out After Being Bottled