{"id":252,"date":"2010-08-16T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/axl-roses-twitter-account-hacked-tour-still-on\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:49:59","slug":"axl-roses-twitter-account-hacked-tour-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/axl-roses-twitter-account-hacked-tour-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Axl Rose&#8217;s Twitter Account Hacked, Tour Still On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/07\/Axl_Rose_2010.jpg\/220px-Axl_Rose_2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"159\" \/><br \/>If you believed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\" target=\"new\"><strong><span style=\"color: #47a9d9;\">Axl Rose\u2019s Twitter<\/span><\/strong><\/a> account last night, the Guns N&#8217; Roses frontman had unilaterally canceled the band&#8217;s upcoming European tour.<\/p>\n<p>The message posted on Sunday evening (Aug. 15) stated: &#8220;All upcoming Guns N&#8217; Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>It always seemed likely to be a hoax: Rose is not active on Twitter and this is the first post in three months. Rose&#8217;s other messages were posted via iPhone and this latest tweet was via mobile web. It was also curious that it had the British spelling of &#8220;cancelled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it proved disruptive as GNR&#8217;s tour partners in the U.K. and Europe had to investigate the announcement. Ticket holders who saw early media reports of the supposed cancellation will doubtless be seeking refunds.<\/p>\n<p>The band is due to headline Reading and Leeds Festivals, organized by Live Nation&#8217;s Festival Republic operation, on Aug. 27 and Aug. 29 respectively. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Festival Republic are informed by GN&#8217;R management that Guns N&#8217; Roses have NOT canceled their performances at Reading &amp; Leeds and that Axl Rose&#8217;s Twitter account was hacked into and all claims of dates being cancelled are unfounded,&#8221; said a Festival Republic statement today (Aug. 16).<\/p>\n<p>There are a further 24 European dates including a London O2 Arena show on Oct. 13, for which AEG Live is the promoter<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believed Axl Rose\u2019s Twitter account last night, the Guns N&#8217; Roses frontman had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}