It took him 15 years to release Chinese Democracy, but the notoriously late Axl Rose continues make life difficult for himself by refusing to obey clocks or calendars. And by giving an Irish crowd a bonus extra hour of drinking time before a set.

Less than a week after declaring ‘war’ on the promoters of the Reading/Leeds festival, Guns N’ Roses has again turned up on stage over an hour late, but this time the punters in Dublin greeted the band with a chorus of boos and a battering of bottles.

Rose quickly stopped the opening Welcome to the Jungle saying: “Here’s the deal: one more bottle, we go home. It’s up to you. We would like to stay. You want us to stay? We want to stay. We want to have some fun. If you don’t want to have fun, all you’ve got to do is let us know and we’ve got no problem. We’ll go on our way.”

The heckles continued and the band left the stage three songs later, leaving a floundering polite announcer to tell the crowd there have been some “technical difficulties” and plead with the angry punters: “I would ask you please to refrain from throwing items at him. I promise you a great show… I’m sorry about this but please be patient”

According to NME, the band did return to the stage 25 minutes later though many fans had many fans had already lost patience and left the venue.