List of bottling incidents by year

Main article: Bottling (concert abuse)

1970s

• Metallic K.O. is an infamous live recording by The Stooges. During much of the performance, Iggy Pop sings while pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles and jelly beans, among other things, are thrown at him in response to his audience-baiting. In the essay "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage" critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control." He describes the Stooges concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O. performances:

The audience, which consisted largely of bikers, was unusually hostile, and Iggy, as usual, fed on that hostility, soaked it up and gave it back and absorbed it all over again in an eerie, frightening symbiosis. "All right," he finally said, stopping a song in the middle, "you assholes wanta hear 'Louie, Louie,' we'll give you 'Louie, Louie.'" So the Stooges played a forty-five-minute version of "Louie Louie," including new lyrics improvised by the Pop on the spot consisting of "You can suck my ass / You biker faggot sissies," etc. By now the hatred in the room is one huge livid wave, and Iggy singles out one heckler who has been particularly abusive: "Listen, asshole, you heckle me one more time and I'm gonna come down there and kick your ass." "Fuck you, you little punk," responds the biker. So Iggy jumps off the stage, runs through the middle of the crowd, and the guy beats the shit out of him, ending the evening's musical festivities by sending the lead singer back to his motel room and a doctor. I walk into the dressing room, where I encounter the manager of the club offering to punch out anybody in the band who will take him on. The next day the bike gang, who call themselves the Scorpions, will phone WABX-FM and promise to kill Iggy and the Stooges if they play the Michigan Palace on Thursday night. They do (play, that is), and nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings.

1980s

• Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler were bottled at the 1988 Reading Festival, starting the festival's trend.

1990s

• Green Day were bottled at Woodstock 1994 primarily with clumps of mud and grass. Billie Joe Armstrong started throwing the mud back at the crowd and started a full on mud fight with the crowd.

Everclear front man Art Alexakis was pegged in the mouth with a full water bottle at some point during the So Much for the Afterglow tour. The bottle knocked loose one of his front teeth.

2000s

2000

• Daphne and Celeste were heavily bottled at the Reading Festival, and left the stage at the start of their last song. Pop punk favorites Blink 182 were scheduled to follow them later that day. The duo accused the crowd of "Wasting so much food", which was one of the items thrown at them.

2003

• Good Charlotte were bottled at the Reading Festival.
• Justin Timberlake was bottled at the Toronto Rocks concert while playing on the same bill as AC/DC and The Rolling Stones.
• Limp Bizkit were bottled while opening for Metallica before 40,000 spectators at Hawthorne Race Course in Chicago.

2004

• At Reading Festival, rapper 50 Cent was pelted with bottles. 50 Cent lasted nearly 20 minutes before finally throwing his microphone into the crowd in anger. The Rasmus were also bottled off following one song.

2005

• Simple Plan were again bottled at the Ovation Music Festival.

2006

• My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco were both bottled at the Reading Festival. The incident with Panic at the Disco was heavily reported by many websites, as singer Brendon Urie was knocked unconscious.
• The Mars Volta had bottles full of urine thrown at them at Endfest. This combined with various sound problems resulted in the band walking off the stage.
• Intricate Unit was bottled by thousands at the Gathering of the Juggalos in Ohio while opening for Dark Lotus and Insane Clown Posse.
• The Veronicas were bottled at the Coke Live 'n' Local in Adelaide. Lisa was hit in the face, and the band threatened to end their set early, screaming abuse.
• Lea Harding was bottled off during a performance at the 2006 Bassinthegrass in Darwin. During the performance then Chief Minister Clair Martin tried to convince Lea to continue playing, but after only one more song he received a bottle to the face, yelled to the crowd "you guys are shit" and stormed off stage.

2007

• My Chemical Romance were heavily bottled during their headline spot at download 2007.
• On June 24, 2007, Jeffree Star was banned from Toronto's Gay Pride Parade for punching a female fan in the face after spectators standing near her threw bottles onstage.

2008

• As I Lay Dying was bottled at the Soundwave festival in Sydney in February. The set was cut short as guitarist Nick Hipa was injured.
• Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age was bottled at the Norwegian Wood concert on June 13. This prompted Josh to call him out and say, "you miserable fucking cunt, go back to your mom's house you 12-year-old dickless fucking turd. And his friends you wanna throw something too - or all you cool, are you all good?"
• Relatively unknown band The FF'ers were bottled heavily at the Reading Festival after rumours circulated that their set was in fact a Foo Fighters Secret Show. According to their bassist, items thrown included "not just bottles but shoes, clumps of earth, phones, a full packet of cigarettes (exactly what we needed after the gig) and a full bottle of poppers."
• Bring Me the Horizon were bottled at the 2008 Reading Festival when appearing as a last-minute replacement for Slipknot, after drummer Joey Jordison broke his ankle. The band were heavily bottled which caused singer Oliver Sykes, to respond to the abuse by saying "It looks a right mess up here on this stage, you obviously don't like our band but that's okay". Other items thrown were crisps and woodchips from the floor. A year later the band appeared at the festival again, but as an official act rather than a replacement albeit three stages down to the Festival Republic Stage.
• Later on in the day, American alternative rock band The Plain White T's were bottled during the early stages of their set, with various people shouting profanities at the band. They responded by smiling as a gesture to throw more at them.
• Lethal Bizzle was assaulted by bottle during his set at the 2008 Download Festival as he was the only act on the bill not associated with rock or heavy metal. Other items thrown included hundreds of pots of muller rice which were being given free by a vendor on site.
• Rapper Lil' Wayne was bottled in Stratford, London due to his inactivity on stage, where he reacted by telling the audience the show was over. As a response, he received more bottling.