The Associated Press: Delayed Kanye West gig angers Bonnaroo crowd

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Amy Winehouse Performs $2 Million Worth of Press Fodder
Published 6/16/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... To be fair, at least she wasn’t scheduled to go on at 2:45 a.m., then kept everyone waiting until 4:25 a.m. before taking the stage like some self-entitled acts. ...

Bonnaroo Does Not Like Kanye West
Published 6/16/2008 by Michael K at Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
The always polite and considerate, Kanye West , pissed off the crowd at the Bonnaroo Musical Festival in Tennessee because his set started two hours late. Kanye and Wino (see below) were busy with a riveting game of Connect 4. The AP reports that Kanye was scheduled for 2:45am, but he didn't go on until 4:25am. The two hour delay was blamed on Kanye's massive set. The crew had to put together some gigantic Star Trek spaceship shit or something and that's what took so long. The audience did not approve of the delay and some of them started throwing glow sticks at the stage ...

Kanye West Screws Bonnaroo
Published 6/16/2008 by Cara at Allie Is Wired - The Entertainment Blog
... Kanye West has pissed off everyone at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Leave it to the epitome of high maintenance to make a crowd of already exhausted music lovers wait nearly two hours to see him bounce around the stage in ugly sunglasses. West was scheduled to perform at 2:45 am, but didn’t make it to the stage until 4:25 am. ...

Lollapalooza 2008 Schedule Released
Published 6/17/2008 by Justin at Live Music Blog.com
... Rage Against the Machine. That would actually be a tough one for me, but I'd opt for Rage considering I have never seen them live. Then on Sunday, when you're tired, exhausted, and cranky, you'll want to slow it down and chill it out a bit before you head back into work on Monday (if you were silly enough not to call that day off ahead of time). I'd start the day with The Whigs and plan on catching Brazilian Girls, Girl Talk, The National and finally Kanye West (even if he blew his Bonnaroo performance). ...

Kanye Address The Bonnaroo Disaster
Published 6/25/2008 by Nigel D at RealTalkNY Brought To You By Nigel D.
... narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of….  BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL!   NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL!  THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY  TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! Full Story: Kanye’s Blog Damn he went off, well no one can ever say he is not passionate about his work and pleasing an audience. Crowd chants, “Kanye sucks,” due too late performance ...

Kanye West offended over "Bonnaroo thing", says sorry (pics)
Published 6/25/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... Ken Weinstein, a spokesman for the annual festival held on a 700-acre site south of Nashville, said the delay was simply a matter of unloading the Pearl Jam stage (the band went an hour past its scheduled end time, playing until about 1:15 a.m.) and loading the West stage. [AP] ...