Cee Lo Green Kicked Off Stage At Coachella

“Forget You” singer Cee Lo Green had what could be called a BAD DAY Friday at Coachella – and Green had a very special message for the organizers of the music festival. It began with “F” and ended with “You.”

According to Yahoo! Music, Green showed up nearly a half an hour late for his afternoon set, blaming his flight. Unfortunately, the show must go on, and his set was trimmed down to just 20 minutes, where it should have been nearly an hour. He griped about this on stage repeatedly, even asking the audience to flip Coachella the bird. Very few did, and the crowd seemed to turn on him. When he eventually took the stage, he played several of his hits including “Forget You” and “Crazy.” He just started find his groove in the nearly 100 degree heat, when event organizers alerted him that his set time was finished.

The stage was booked solid for the day. Acts like The Black Keys, Interpol and Lauryn Hill (ie – musicians who actually arrived at the festival on time) were scheduled to go on shortly after Cee Lo. In order to keep the festival on schedule Cee Lo had to go. He was not pleased – Cee Lo screamed, pouted and demanded his fans flip the bird to Goldenvoice (the concert promoter). That didn’t garner any good from the festival organizers and he was unceremoniously booted and he stormed off staged with an accompaniment of boos.

Cee Lo and his foxy all-girl backing band managed to get through an instrumental of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man,” Gnarls Barkley’s “Smiley Faces” and “Crazy,” and his aforementioned profanity-laden smash hit, before the plug was sadly pulled on him right before he was about to belt out Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Yes, it was a shame that no one got to witness that, but Cee Lo’s reaction–brattily pouting and storming offstage in a huff–was unprofessional.

Staff rushed to get the stage ready for the next act, Lauryn Hill, who started her set 20 minutes late. Not a good day for Cee Lo for sure. Hopefully next week when he starts up as a judge on “The Voice,” things will go more smoothly!

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