Now I REALLY love those crazy Brits..:):)

[hech54]

50 Cents worth of performance:

The chart-topping hip-hopster cut short his set at Britain's Reading Festival over the weekend after getting booed and pelted with plastic bottles by a hostile audience just minutes after he began performing.


Accompanied by his G-Unit crew, 50 Cent hadn't even taken the stage at the legendary U.K. music bash on Sunday evening when the cranky crowd of 55,000 began yelling insults at the former crack peddler and hurling plastic cups.


Things got even worse when the lights came up on 50 Cent and he began performing tracks off his 2003 breakthrough, Get Rich or Die Tryin', according to NME.com. Fiddy's attempts to chill out the audience went nowhere--the boos got louder and the deluge of bottles intensified.


"We're just all here to have fun," said the rapper, whose real name Curtis Jackson.


The audience was having so much fun at that point that they began chanting "50 Cent is a wanker." One angry festivalgoer even lobbed a folding chair on stage. A frustrated Fiddy fought back, throwing bottles back at the crowd and flipping the bird. But after 25 minutes, he decided to throw in the towel and make an early exit.

[smearbrick1]

Now if only people in the U.S. would follow suit.

[Will Hay]

You see, this I why I love being British
I remember when Iggy Pop started spitting at the crowd in 97 (Leeds again, funnily enough) and the same thing happened.
A great weekend, made more so when someone hurled a camping chair at him.
Will



EDIT: I swear when I first typed this I didn't read the folding chair comment.
Man, that's surreal.
Same northern UK town : might have been the same chair
Will

[tgpo]

might have been the same chair

They keep it next to the fire extinguisher in case of emergencies

[hech54]

I also love hearing a Brit saying Wanker. To me (a Yank)....that is just hilarious...
Wanker = Brit...NOBODY else can say that word..
50Cent being Boo-ed....AND being called a Wanker...what a perfect day..

[888888]

Yep. That is cool news. I don't understand why they have to mix rap into an otherwise decent rock show with good bands like The Darkness.


Apparently, WANKER is a curse word in Ireland. Who knew!