Veteran rockers Guns N’ Roses stormed off stage in protest Wednesday after being hit with bottles thrown by angry fans at a concert in Dublin, Ireland (if they’re throwing bottles, maybe they’re not exactly “fans,” but that’s what reports call them).

After starting the performance more than an hour late, Axl Rose and crew were pelted by bottles and booed by the crowd. Starpulse reports that twenty minutes into the show, Rose stopped the music to warn the audience that if they continued, the band would leave.

“Here’s the deal: One more bottle and we go home. It’s up to you. We would like to stay. We want to stay. We want to have some fun,” the 48-year-old Rose told the crowd. “If you don’t want to have fun, all you’ve got to do is let us know. We’ve got no problem – we’ll go on our way.”

When bottles continued to hit the stage, the band pulled the plug on the show, only to return an hour later to finish their set. It’s far from the first time GNR have angered concert-goers. Probably the most famous incident took place in 1992, when an abbreviated set at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium led to a full-scale riot. Similar riots had previously occurred in both St. Louis and Germany.

The band, currently celebrating its quarter-of-a-century anniversary, is on tour to promote the 17-years-in-the-making  album Chinese Democracy.

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