Fans get rowdy after Axl Rose shows up late for show

Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience - and a much louder alarm clock.

The 48-year-old singer of hard-rockers Guns N' Roses irritated thousands of his Dublin fans at the 02 Arena on Wednesday night by showing up nearly an hour late - a recurring problem on his band's European tour - and then walking off after an unruly minority in the crowd hurled water bottles on the stage, The Associated Press reports.

Most of the fans left, but Irish concert promoters MCD wouldn't let Rose leave until he finished the gig. The band went back on stage an hour later to a mostly empty venue and didn't stop playing until nearly 1 a.m.

Rose's patience snapped after he warned the crowd to stop throwing things on stage.

"Here is the deal. One more bottle up here and we go," he told the crowd during an abrupt break to the band's second song, "Welcome to the Jungle." But when introducing his other band members before a following number, up came another bottle - and off Rose went to a chorus of boos. "OK, that's it. Good night," he said.