is an infamous live recording by The Stooges: during much of the performance, Iggy Pop sings while pieces of ice, eggs, beer bottles, jelly beans, and various other objects are thrown at him in response to his audience-baiting. In the essay "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage", critic Lester Bangs calls the album a "documentation of the Iggy holocaust at its most nihilistically out of control." He describes the Stooges' concert he attended that immediately preceded the Metallic K.O. performances:

were repeatedly spat on during the recording of Pissed and Proud. On the album, the lead singer can be heard asking the audience to "Leave out the gob, we had a shower this morning, you cunts."

In 1982, played a show at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The two support acts were Joan Jett and The B-52's, who were both pelted with food and bottles by a section of the audience who were only there for The Who. The B-52's ended their set 20 minutes in due to Cindy Wilson being hit in the stomach with an apple.

As documented on "Geneva Farewell" from , a July 1982 Frank Zappa concert in Geneva ended early due to audience members throwing cigarettes on stage.^[7]

were heavily bottled by fans waiting for punk rock group The Stranglers' act at the Reading Festival in 1983, starting the festival's trend.^[8]

On April 6, 1985, performed at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Partway through the show, Ritchie Blackmore was hit by a wineskin thrown by an audience member. He stormed offstage, ending the show.

Dutch were pelted at Pinkpop 1986 with everything from mud to food to bottles after singer Peter te Bos started throwing objects into the audience, ranging from his half-eaten apple to test pressings of their new album to his own shoe.

The spoof heavy metal band were bottled extensively in 1986 at Monsters of Rock, prior to the band's musical performance beginning, with Rik Mayall trying to bat some missiles back at the audience with his guitar.

The were bottled at Pinkpop in 1987. Jimmy Somerville briefly left the stage but returned to finish the set.

and Bonnie Tyler were bottled at the 1988 Reading Festival.^[9]

In 1989 a very young were opening for Simple Minds in Cardiff Arms Park. The band temporarily halted the show due to being continually pelted by a sea of plastic bottles. Lead singer Sharleen Spiteri angrily chastised the crowd who stopped throwing in response: "Do you think it is alright to throw bottles at a wee lassie up here on stage?" at which point a lone bottle was thrown, it arched through the air towards the band and as was clearly seen on the large stage monitors hit Spiteri directly on the head. A huge cheer went up and a deluge of bottles followed, not letting up until Spiteri and Texas had stormed off stage.

were bottled during a Lollapalooza event in West Virginia in 1995 with mud. A rock hit Stephen Malkmus in the chest, causing Malkmus to storm off stage, abruptly ending their set. The incident is featured in the documentary Slow Century.

front man Art Alexakis was pegged in the mouth with a full water bottle at some point during the So Much for the Afterglow tour. The bottle knocked loose one of his front teeth.

At a November 5, 1993 concert at , Pearl Jam were pelted by hundreds of shoes thrown by the audience and were forced to play behind their amplifiers. Eddie Vedder addressed the crowd, joking that he and Jeff Ament were going to be at the gate after the show and beat up every barefoot person they see. He then stated that instead, the band were going to donate the shoes to charity. A recording of the incident was included on Pearl Jam's 1993 Fan Club Holiday Single, and the recording of the song "Blood" was included as a b-side on the Daughter single.

On August 10, 1995, at in Los Angeles, California, Dodger fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field during the seventh and ninth innings of the Dodgers' game against the St. Louis Cardinals. The latter disruption came after umpire Jim Quick ejected the Dodgers' manager, Tommy Lasorda, following a questionable strikeout call. The Dodgers forfeited the game to the Cardinals.

On December 23, 1995, at in East Rutherford, New Jersey, during a game between the San Diego Chargers and the New York Giants, Giants fans threw snowballs in the stands and onto the field, primarily aimed at the Chargers. One snowball hit a member of the Chargers' coaching staff, knocking him to the turf. Referee Ron Blum threatened to forfeit the game to the Chargers if the snowballing did not cease. The Chargers eventually overcame the snowballs and the Giants, defeating them 27–17.

The were bottled off stage at Denmark's Roskilde Festival in 1996. The band left the stage briefly after only two songs but returned to play another three. Johnny Rotten asked the crowd to stop; however, bottling continued and the band ended their set with Rotten criticising the crowd for failing to "police themselves".

On June 17, 1997, at an event, concert goers began throwing bottles at the bands on stage, smashed box office windows, started fires, and overturned cars after the announcement that Ozzy Osbourne would not perform.

A full bottle of was thrown at James as they performed at V Festival in the mid-1990s. It struck lead guitarist Adrian Oxaal on the head and temporarily dazed him; after a few moments, he continued to play and the set finished without further incident.

During her performance at 1998, some people in the audience threw a couple of eggs at Dutch singer Anouk. In response, she took off her shirt and finished her performance in a red bra, as was shown on Dutch television.

's Daniel Johns had a bottle thrown at him during a performance in early 1995 at Santa Monica Pier when he was 15 years old. He received multiple stitches to his eyebrow, which he later turned into an eyebrow piercing.

The were heavily bottled at the Swansea Heineken Festival in 1993.^[10] After a bottle hit Nicky Wire in the head, James Dean Bradfield led the band off stage. The band eventually came back onstage and finished their set.

In 1999, was bottled at Reading Festival, after appearing wearing a dress and stockings and being accompanied by two female dancers in stockings.^[11]

During the festival, Canadian folk rock band The Tragically Hip were pelted with rocks and bottles by audience members who were there to see harder metal acts on the bill like Kid Rock and Rage Against the Machine. Some American concertgoers reportedly taunted the band and their fans by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" while the group performed a brief rendition of "O Canada".^[12]

were heavily bottled at the Reading Festival, and left the stage at the start of their last song. Pop punk favorites Blink-182 were scheduled to follow them later that day.^[9] The duo accused the crowd of "wasting so much food", which was one of the items thrown at them. The duo themselves have differing opinions if this incident was the beginning of the end of their time together.

On September 1, 2010, were bottled after appearing on stage an hour late at The O₂ (now 3Arena) in Dublin.^[44]

In August 2010, was bottled off stage at the Gathering of the Juggalos. She vowed to take legal action against the organizers and promoters for the event.^[45][46]

In July 2022, had something thrown at her from the audience during a concert on her Chromatica Ball tour.^[60]

On December 17, 2022, during the second quarter of the ' game against the Miami Dolphins at Highmark Stadium, fans threw snowballs onto the field, briefly delaying the game. Referee Bill Vinovich threatened the fans with a 15-yard penalty against the Bills if a snowball hit anyone on the field. The snowballing eventually ceased and the Bills would defeat the Dolphins 32–29.^[61]

Lester Bangs. "Iggy Pop: Blowtorch in Bondage," in Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, ed. Greil Marcus (New York: Anchor Books, 1987), 206–207.  0-679-72045-6.