Concert bottling
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Bottling is when a concert audience throws various objects 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 punk rock
music styles.
While bottling generally involves empty or full bottles of water, it is also common for bottles to contain urine
. Other items such as garden furniture, mud
, fireworks
, broken glass, and dead animals have also been recorded as thrown items.
During a Smiths concert in 1987, singer Morrissey
was bottled and pleaded to the crowd: "At this moment we would like to ask all the journalists in the audience to please stop throwing things!"
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
and punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
music styles.
While bottling generally involves empty or full bottles of water, it is also common for bottles to contain urine
Urine
Urine is a typically sterile liquid by-product of the body that is secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination and excreted through the urethra. Cellular metabolism generates numerous by-products, many rich in nitrogen, that require elimination from the bloodstream...
. Other items such as garden furniture, mud
Mud
Mud is a mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to form sedimentary rock such as shale or mudstone . When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds...
, fireworks
Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. The most common use of a firework is as part of a fireworks display. A fireworks event is a display of the effects produced by firework devices...
, broken glass, and dead animals have also been recorded as thrown items.
During a Smiths concert in 1987, singer Morrissey
Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
was bottled and pleaded to the crowd: "At this moment we would like to ask all the journalists in the audience to please stop throwing things!"