whoever did that. Why ruin it for everyone else?!

Have they actually boycotted it?

I was there last night, near the front, and the thrower was near me - when it happened everyone stopped jumping around and several shouts of "what did you do that for, you cunt?!" came out. Kind of put a damper on the whole evening, unsurprisingly.

And Win said, "one more thing and we're never fucking playing this shitty city again," or at least that's what I heard - and nothing else was thrown, so I'm assuming they're not gone for good... I hope. I only counted three missiles overall anyway (the first that hit Win right in the middle of the face that looked like a bottle), a second bottle that just missed Regine, and a glowstick finally, which was when he said the thing about never playing hear again... if anything else was thrown.

He did seem quite jolly towards the end, in the encore, though. I think it kind of put a fire into him, in a way. Still a massively cuntish thing to do though.

Did I miss the meeting where it became cool to throw bottles at bands, and full cups of beer towards the front?

in nottingham. Sounds about right. I'm not going back either.

But still, chuckles.

because of one bad crowd member?

it didn't RUIN the gig!! It was just a bit annoying, the gig was brilliant.

From what I could hear he didn't boycott Nottingham. He said "No more throwing things on stage, any more and we'll never play Nottingham again"

Have you actually got anything concrete to say they are definitely boycotting?

All I heard (I was there), was Win saying that IF another bottle was thrown they'd never play Nottingham again...I didn't see any evidence to suggest he's actually going through with the threat.

Really good gig, shame that Nottingham people are SHIT at gigs, been gigging in Nottingham for about two years now (and live in London so seen a lot of gigs there) and I've never seen such a bigger bunch of tired, lazy people standing around doing nothing at every fucking gig I go to. Get some bloody energy and vim for gods sake and move your body and get involved! Fuck Nottingham, it's a shithole, can't wait to finish uni here.

lost his bottle.............

i cannot understand where all this vitriol about Nottingham is coming from...it's a brilliant city, and like someone else said, any big city has twats. Any Arena show in any big city will have wankers. People are wankers. There's no city entirely free of them. Nottingham has fuckloads of cool things to offer and it's got character!

Secondly it was a white shoe not a bottle. It hit him square in the face and he'd have been flat out had it been a bottle.

Didn't see anything nearly hit Regine though.

Win's initial reaction to throw his guitar down and swear at the entire, enormous Arena mid-song (thereby stopping singing for half a minute and marching off stage immediately afterwards) was dramatic but fair enough. He clearly saw red.

But when a pink glowstick fell feebly at his feet a few minutes later (hardly the worst thing in the world) and he said "if one more fucking person throws anything we're never playing Nottingham again", I went from feeling sympathetic to coming fairly close to throwing my own shoe at him. It was massively cringeworthy and a weird overshadowing of what was an awesome performance.

They really were fantastic last night and i'd like to think Win's trawling deep into the crowd made him feel a bit better.

OK, it's the fault of 1 person and not the fault of thousands of others - point is, chucking stuff at people on stage can cause serious injuries. He's got the right not to take risks.

When the second thing was thrown on stage it wasnt thrown at Win but he said "if anything else is thrown on stage I'm never playing in Nottingham again" then he added "seriously, dont throw anything on stage"

When he jumped into the crowd during Wake Up I thought he'd gone to find the guy who'd hit him earlier.

Apart from the instance referred to with the shoe I was appalled by the dullness of the seated audience at least where I was sat to the middle left of the stage. Win actually said something to the effect of how subdued people were after about the fourth song.
Oh how I longed to be down the front, or even on the rhs where everyone was up on their feet.

Egged on by flying shoes Arcade Fire probably gave their very finest performance ever. The sound was good and the set list was excellent and quite wide ranging - they played Still Ill again and Laika with the usual exuberance.

I am sure that seated or stood everyone thoroughly enjoyed the performance, but I also would be surprised if they revisited Nottingham again.

Travelled back to my home town for this very special gig with my 14 year old daughter in tow...such a shame that one or two missile throwing fools tried to ruin it...What is there motivation for such anti social behaviour? I felt ashamed that this happened in Nottingham and want to apologise to the band who were otherwise excellent despite the best efforts of these cowards, who hide in the dark and throw missiles at innocent people and performers. If they don't like the band then why are they there?????

...it was quite clearly a half full pint of lager. And if I was anywhere near the guy who threw it, I would have twatted him one.

Shit hole. He should've expected that.