Kings of Leon have had a decent career for about ten years now, but they’ve never quite gotten the respect in America that they’ve found elsewhere. Still, things could be worse. American humans just don’t buy their albums. American pigeons, on the other hand, flat out despise them. This became obvious at a concert in St. Louis last Friday, where the Kings of Leon were driven off the stage by a storm of poop. According to the band’s management, the boys decided to cut things short because they felt the shitstorm was a potential health hazard. (Also, bassist Jared Followill took a shot of the stuff in his general mouth region, which has to be a serious mood killer.) Comments at NME suggest the band’s fans weren’t uniformly sympathetic:

What the fuck is happening to rock ‘n’ roll? Give me the old Kings Of Leon any day, I’m sure they remember the good old days back in Tennessee when they got more than pigeon shit chucked at them!”

I don’t know what qualifies as worse than pigeon shit, but you Tennesseeans sound like a tough crowd. Meanwhile, someone needs to get a copy of Coldplay’s next tour schedule so we can get every single one of these birds a press pass.