Coxy

BBC's Website:

We can't bring you any Guns N' Roses tonight, but we hope to be able to do so at some point. Thanks for all of your messages.

Oh no!!!

By the way, anyone's nose out of joint after THIS post???

This is PURE SPECULATION!!! , but!!!

Could the reason for GNR disappearing off the list be that Axl and gang are not there?????

I'm thinking too much, aren't I?

Am I?

Yes. Now shut up.

Thanks for that.

Well done.

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This is PURE SPECULATION!!! , but!!!

Could the reason for GNR disappearing off the list be that Axl and gang are not there?????

I'm thinking too much, aren't I?

Am I?

So are they now not being shown?

Can anyone clarify, please?

On BBC's website, it says the following:

On Friday you'll be able to watch the following bands...

Stream 1

Gogol Bordello

NOFX

Lostprophets

Biffy Clyro

Two Door Cinema Club

The Big Pink

Queens Of The Stone Age

Yeasayer

Phoenix

Mumford & Sons

Delphic

LCD Soundsystem

Guns N' Roses

Stream 2

Two Door Cinema Club

The Big Pink

Yeasayer

Delphic

Gogol Bordello

NOFX

Lostprophets

Biffy Clyro

Queens Of The Stone Age

Mumford & Sons

LCD Soundsystem

Meaning, as far as I can see, that we'll see SOMETHING of GNR tonight.

HOWEVER!!!!!!

I pressed the red button, it gives me a menu with a list of bands I can see. It mentions the (mostly shite, it has to be said) bands above but NOT Guns n' Roses!!!!!!!! Not on the list, people!!!

What's the story?

Can anyone clarify, please?

On BBC's website, it says the following:

Red Button

Press the red button on digital TV to watch up to 3 streams of music during Reading & Leeds weekend. You can watch extended sets from more than 30 bands, featuring Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and the long awaited return of The Libertines. Acts from the Main and NME/Radio 1 stages will be joined by performances from the BBC Introducing Stage.

Join us the week afterwards as well for highlights of the very best performances of the festival.

Press RED between 7pm and 2am Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the festival and from 6am on Monday for highlights.

On Friday you'll be able to watch the following bands...

Stream 1

Gogol Bordello

NOFX

Lostprophets

Biffy Clyro

Two Door Cinema Club

The Big Pink

Queens Of The Stone Age

Yeasayer

Phoenix

Mumford & Sons

Delphic

LCD Soundsystem

Guns N' Roses

Stream 2

Two Door Cinema Club

The Big Pink

Yeasayer

Delphic

Gogol Bordello

NOFX

Lostprophets

Biffy Clyro

Queens Of The Stone Age

Mumford & Sons

LCD Soundsystem

Meaning, as far as I can see, that we'll see SOMETHING of GNR tonight.

HOWEVER!!!!!!

I pressed the red button, it gives me a menu with a list of bands I can see. It mentions the (mostly shite, it has to be said) bands above but NOT Guns n' Roses!!!!!!!!

What's the story?

Anyone?????

The issue is really quite simple, as far as I can see it.

Axl was absolutely correct in saying (during that 2008 webchat) that "Your misconceptions and fantasies along with your misguided sense of entitlement don't dictate my actions."

Fair enough.

He is the artist, we are the audience. It's a very old and very simple relationship; he doesn't owe us anything. He is absolutely free to do whatever he sees fit.

The issue is simply one of good manners.

If someone hacks into your facebook/Twitter/whatever and posts something unusual, it's simply a matter of common courtesy to clarify. Even if you had nothing to do with it.

As far as I can see, the only information that has been made available is a post by a moderator here, and a few comments by Ron on facebook.

Not good enough.

With all due respect, as someone who has bought several tickets for the Dublin show, I don't know who this moderator is or whether I can trust his word. (I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I don't know.) A few mutterings from Ron, who also seems to be a nice guy, isn't enough either. The information I have received is simply not enough. I have a hotel booked and two young teenagers to bring to the gig.

The issue is simple, and the solution is also very simple. You publish one of the following two sentences on the official website:

The tour is cancelled.

The tour is not cancelled.

That's all.

I've no idea who's job it is to post that, Axl's or his management team. Don't care either. But it should be there.

We are owed nothing but common courtesy.