I have a bit of a complicated relationship with Guns N’ Roses. Like every guitar-obsessed teen, I grew up with their early albums on a constant repeat, and the love grew.

Their later albums (Chinese Democracy) left me a little… gutted, for lack of a better term; but the hope endured. The hope that, between all the line-up issues and ongoing feuds, there would still be a great performance waiting for me.

So then, I was utterly thrilled last year when I saw Guns N’ Roses at their BST Hyde Park…