Kanye West Angers Bonnaroo Crowd

Kanye West’s middle-of-the-night show at the Bonnaroo Misc Festival in Tennessee was delayed nearly two hours causing the crowd to chant, “Kanye sucks!”

West was slated to hit the stage at 2:45am, but when that time approached concert goers were told there had been a slight delay and that he would be on stage at 3:15am. Then when that didn’t happen, they were told he’d be on at 3:30am. Once again it was pushed even further out, and the performer didn’t take the stage until nearly 4:30am. By that time the crowd was pretty worked up, and the chanting continued.

Initially it was reported that the delay was caused by problems with West’s extremely intricate stage props that included an “interplanetary landscape of a wavy black platform with a slanted floor in the middle and a video screen above.”

However, Ken Weinstein, a spokesman for the annual festival , said that it was the fact that Pearl Jam had played an hour over their scheduled time (until 1:15am) and it was just a matter of getting their gear offstage and Kanye’s on stage.

Halfway through Kanye’s show the sun began to rise and many concert goers headed to bed. Many fans were upset that Kanye had failed to mention anything about the delay.

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