Has a headline act ever been booed off?

can't believe you don't like "Push It".

Amy Winehouse, though it had nothing to do with any headliner.....

err I mean "opener"

"Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?"

Guarantee that Skynryd never blew the Who off the stage, no matter what that pederast Artemis Pyle says.

I believe Cake were booed off stage at a shitty festival outside Toronto once.

saw this happen twice in cardiff barfly:

yourcodenameis:milo supporting ikara colt - everyone turned up to see ycni:m after john peel and rock sound were going crazy for them, no one wanted to see ikara colt, they played sloppy while the frontman threw himself and his microphone around the stage. then, four badly-received songs in, he pipes up with "thank you bristol!"
didn't last long after that.

also: test-icicles - they acted like dicks, had their backing tracks on an ipod which also had westlife, backstreet boys and lostprophets on it. they played 'lounge versions' of each of their singles and, as the booing grew louder, devonte hynes shouts out "you just paid us ten quid!"
total five-car pile-up of a gig.

kanye west

Guarantee that Skynryd never blew the Who off the stage, no matter what that pederast Artemis Pyle says.

Given that the Quadrophenia tour, on which Skynyrd opened, was a mess, it's a real possibility.

Guarantee that Skynryd never blew the Who off the stage, no matter what that pederast Artemis Pyle Pete Townsend says.

Sleeve dude if it was 2 mins long I'd prob love it BUT REALLY

would boo cake

cheap zing, sorry, haven't actually heard cake for a decade

Who has?

they weren't the headlining act, but boy did Sunny Day Real Estate get booed heavily when they opened for Bad Religion. they took it in stride though...after all, they are emo

better zing (xp)

Metallica was booed off on Dynamo Open Air 1996 when they failed to show up and thought it a good idea to do a live-via-satellite-over-the-PA interview instead where they jokingly talked about about-to-be-released Load and played two-minute snippets of 2x4 and The House Jack Built. 90.000 metalheads waiting in front of the stage almost went on a rampage when it dawned on them that this was not a joke or an intro for the billed headline act. Things could've gotten really ugly if Venom hadn't taken over and completely killed it. That moment there they lost their remaining Dutch, German and Belgian fans.

which moment, the moment where they failed to show, or the moment where they played the audience Load material?

Closest I ever saw was Smashing Pumpkins at Lollapalooza in 1994 or so. Billy Corgan went on a long tyrade about how he's the "voice of a generation, a generation of shit" and basically sounded like a brat. Then he stormed off and the crowd started a chant of "fuck you" he came back and apologized, saying "You meant fuck you in a good way, right?" What a loser.

Bob Dylan must have been some sort of headline act at Newport, wasn't he?