{"id":2576,"date":"2023-08-20T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-killers-booed-at-georgia-concert-after-inviting-russian-fan-on-stage\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:37:38","slug":"the-killers-booed-at-georgia-concert-after-inviting-russian-fan-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-killers-booed-at-georgia-concert-after-inviting-russian-fan-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Killers booed at Georgia concert after inviting Russian fan on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the moment fans booed The Killers, after frontman Brandon Flowers invited a Russian member of the audience on stage in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The backlash from sections of the crowd occurred when Flowers asked the fan to play the drums, towards the end of a concert at the Black Sea Arena, close to the city of Batumi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The band later posted an apology on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgia, which gained independence in 1991, has a long history of tension with its neighbour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia invaded the country in 2008 and still occupies part of the former Soviet state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-66518658\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more<\/a> on this story. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-66527748?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the moment fans booed The Killers, after frontman Brandon Flowers invited a Russian member of the audience on stage in Georgia. The backlash from sections of the crowd occurred when Flowers asked the fan to play the drums, towards the end of a concert at the Black Sea Arena, close to the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1909,1867,1912,1910,1911,1908,1188,1261],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-booed","tag-concert","tag-fan","tag-georgia","tag-inviting","tag-killers","tag-russian","tag-stage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}