I have to disagree that the protesting against them in general was deplorable, played right into the management's hands, etc: mainly because I'd forgotten all about these two a few days after it happened. Yet, had the crowd just done the weary, ignoring-the-act thing, the label WOULD have hyped that as their "well-received opening at the festivals, proving their crossover appeal" - meaning we may have had to endure a run of light (crappy) pop groups opening festivals! That was an idea best aborted, IMO - also, as someone with a fanatical need to be in the front 5 rows at any gig, why should ticket-paying fans have had to endure this garbage silently, just in order to keep a good spot? Yeah, bottles of pee - not very nice. But neither is pissing on a captive audience of music fans, by doing the equivalent of serving a customer on a burger bar a cockroach sandwich, and that's something many management and labels are only too keen to do.