Worst gig in years

godscop

what was the worst gig you went to ?
Elton john last night was the worst gig ive been to in years

o1s1n

Guns N Roses recently.

Wasn't so much a gig as watching a diva throwing a hissy fit.

Nozebleed

john martyn in vicar st. a few years ago..prick played for 25 miuntes and ****ed off..he was wasted. worth every penny though!

AnneFrank

Des Bishop,Vicar street, Arrogant loud yank thats making a living out of toilet humour jokes at our expense,biggest waste of money ever

neilthefunkeone

Fake blood in the Academy... Load of crap..

WindSock

Ash in '97 or thereabouts in the Point. I liked them at the time but after that tripe I gave up. They sounded awful live.
Most recently Bob Dylan, at the new Point in 08. Everyone warned me, I had to see him though. The warnings were correct. He was really unentertaining, soulless and a monotonous tempo throughout the whole set.

Orando Broom

The Police, Croke Park. Utter ****e. The worst.

godscop

I went because i got free tickets. It was shocking though tbh..

bonerm

The Strokes at Olympia several years ago. I think they played about 25 mins and were gone. No encore and the whole thing sounded like ****e (even by the Strokes standards). Support band were a joke. They seemed like a couple of retards borrowed from a mental institution - clearly only chosen for freak value. Lots of posers in the crowd who were clearly only there because The Strokes were this months 'in' band. (imagine Kings of Leon fans of today to see what I'm talking about).

I think it was pretty much the beginning of the end for my interest in popular live music in general.

Lorcan78

Kinky Friedman in vicar's street was ****e , he spent half the show talking with little or no music :mad:

sensibleken

Julian Cope a few years ago in vicar street. He was on his own, it was 32 quid, spent most of the gig waffling. the other half we spent inside the bar

WindSock wrote: »

Ash in '97 or thereabouts in the Point. I liked them at the time but after that tripe I gave up. They sounded awful live.

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saved only by the fact china drum were playing and i had free tickets

pickarooney

Bob Dylan in Nowlan Park. It was such a weird notion, him playing a stadium gig in Kilkenny and it really didn't turn out to be a great idea.
Didn't stop him going back 5 years later though.

rossie1977

yeah gnr is going to be pretty hard to top

Dilynnio

Michael Buble in the Aviva Stadium.............glorified wedding singer!

Maybe I didn't enjoy it because I was sober! :rolleyes:

Biggins

Eminem.

Went with the wife a few years ago (JUST to be sure she got there and back ok).
The concert was pure schite of the highest order - and that was her opinion, not mine (and she was a big fan at the time) - although I found it easy to agree.
He was crap. The crowrds were animals, there was constant fighting, etc but most of all he was just pure SCHITE!
She has never gone to any of his concerts ever again nor has bought anything related to him like CD's or merchandise.

Interesting end note: A few weeks later we attended "Simon and Garfunkel" concert in Dublin.
The wife (years younger than me) had never heard much of their music and never, EVER has listened to them.
She came with me 'cos I am of that generation - and she loved it, the whole show! Lock, stock and barrel.
The audience participation in ALL the songs, the moving tributes to others who had passed away, the explaining of some of the history behind some of their songs, etc.
It was a memorable evening in Dublin city that night.

You just can't beat true class!

dr.bollocko

Moved from AH.
TOOL. Awful lifeless droning misery for a few hours.

godscop

Biggins wrote: »

Eminem.

Went with the wife a few years ago (JUST to be sure she got there and back ok).
The concert was pure schite of the highest order - and that was her opinion, not mine (and she was a big fan at the time) - although I found it easy to agree.
He was crap. The crowrds were animals, there was constant fighting, etc but most of all he was just pure SCHITE!
She has never gone to any of his concerts ever again nor has bought anything related to him like CD's or merchandise.

Interesting end note: A few weeks later we attended "Simon and Garfunkel" concert in Dublin.
The wife (years younger than me) had never heard much of their music and never, EVER has listened to them.
She came with me 'cos I am of that generation - and she loved it, the whole show! Lock, stock and barrel.
The audience participation in ALL the songs, the moving tributes to others who had passed away, the explaining of some of the history behind some of their songs, etc.
It was a memorable evening in Dublin city that night.

You just can't beat true class!

How many years biggins you saucy git ?;)

godscop

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Moved from AH.
TOOL. Awful lifeless droning misery for a few hours.

:p

Motley Crue

I think Oxegen 2004, the entire thing, I still regret going to be perfectly honest...the festival itself was a joke and David Bowie (the only act I bought a ticket to see) cancelled.

I went in the end to see The Darkness, and enjoyed their set, also enjoyed sets by Muse and Ash that day - but the audience spoiled it in a big way

Ardennes1944

ive been to neyo with gf-****e, lupe fiasco-****e and went to oxegen specifically to see Eminem last year. drove up, fluted around for a few hours and then waited for 5hours through Bell X1 Paulo N and Faithless just to get up the very front. dont even think i was standing on my feet for an hour or two, just got squeezed to bits,but the best damn night of my life:D

im done

JayJay10

Razorlight at the RDS in 06 absolutely woefull!!! and KOL last sat night defo not the same band i seen back in 07 they actually rocked back then

Biggins

godscop wrote: »

How many years biggins you saucy git ?;)

:pac:

Enough to still have loads of energy for me!

Kold

Crystal Castles in Cypress Avenue about 3 years ago were pretty sh*t. Bout a 25-30 minute set with Alice just looking monged and sounding awful.

Irish Guitarist

pickarooney wrote: »

Bob Dylan in Nowlan Park. It was such a weird notion, him playing a stadium gig in Kilkenny and it really didn't turn out to be a great idea.
Didn't stop him going back 5 years later though.

I saw him play Nowlan Park in 2006. He seemed to be just going through the motions and had no interest.

The Flaming Lips played there that day too and they were great. When they got on stage a teenager in the audience shouted "Wayne Coyne" (he's the lead singer with The Flaming Lips). Wayne Coyne turned around, smiled and waved at him. Then they played and seemed to enjoy every minute of it.

In contrast Bob Dylan looked like he was bored stiff. Most people (including myself) had come to see him and waited there all day. He played for just over an hour, begrudgingly did an encore and left. He wasn't bad as such, just soulless. I find it amazing that I went to see Bob Dylan and can barely remember what songs he played.

bettyswallox

godscop wrote: »

what was the worst gig you went to ?
Elton john last night was the worst gig ive been to in years

Were you the lad shouting in the cheap seats
" your losing us your losing us "

loyatemu

AnneFrank wrote: »

Des Bishop,Vicar street, Arrogant loud yank thats making a living out of toilet humour jokes at our expense

that's his act - what were you expecting?

Thundercats Ho

I'm taking my GF to see the Script in the Olympia tonight.
I'm gonna say thats the worst concert i'll see in years.

Mars Bar

godscop wrote: »

what was the worst gig you went to ?
Elton john last night was the worst gig ive been to in years

Seriously?! It was wonderful!

bettyswallox wrote: »

Were you the lad shouting in the cheap seats
" your losing us your losing us "

People should really look into what they are paying for. That show was never going to be a greatest hits concert and thankfully so. It was brilliant!

And I would have lamped that gobshíte if I was near him.



As for worst gig, The Blizzards.

ppdub73

The worst gig in years??!! Read my review and you'll see it was none of the sort!!

http://www.eltonjohn.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101216&contentid=16331314

delbertgrady

I'd be interested to know what you found so objectionable about the Elton John show, especially since he played so long and did a good mix of well-known songs as well as lesser-known album tracks, the kind of songs that he always plays as part of his shows with Ray Cooper.
Was it that you didn't know enough of the songs he did? Were you expecting him to have the full band? Were you sitting way up in the gods and a bit detached from proceedings? You're entitled to your opinion, but I am curious what your grievances were, because, to be honest, I'm very surprised that anyone could rate it so badly as to be the "worst gig in years".
I've had lots of experiences where I've really disliked shows that the vast majority seemed to have loved (Paul McCartney in the RDS in 2003 springs to mind), but I honestly don't see how Elton's show on Wednesday can have been so bad in your eyes as to warrant kickstarting a thread with it.

Blisterman

Sly and the Family Stone in London a few years ago.

Band came on, played instrumental versions of their songs. No sign of Sly for the first 15 minutes. We're beginning to wonder if he'll come on at all. Finally he comes on. "Finally, the show can begin" we think.

No, one song later, he heads back off stage. The band plays a couple more instrumentals. He returns for a song about 10 minutes later, heads back off again. Back on. One more song, then the whole band finish, 45 minutes after they started, and less than 15 minutes of which was Sly on Stage.
Rubbish. That being said, the fact that we saw Sly at all was a miracle. He'd played about 5 shows in the previous 30 years.

Nailz

Slane 2009, not an Oasis fan, but it was boring old bollocks, plus the place was full of scumbags.

Also, Sonic Youth at Vicar Street about a year ago, I love Sonic Youth but it wasn't very good at all.

ricero

radiohead in malahide castle thom yorkes a knob head wouldn't play one song from there first 3 albums and i was surrounded by music snobs doing e tabs dressed like hippies :mad:

DarrenDay

ricero wrote: »

radiohead in malahide castle thom yorkes a knob head wouldn't play one song from there first 3 albums and i was surrounded by music snobs doing e tabs dressed like hippies :mad:

Lol at that last line. 'e tabs'. You are a cool dude.

ricero

DarrenDay wrote: »

Lol at that last line. 'e tabs'. You are a cool dude.

i apologize i sound like im from ****ing d4 saying e tabs i meant to say a big fat bag of d10s they were popping

saintsaltynuts

Im not jumpin on the bandwagon here but i went see Elton John in the RDS in 2005 and it was pure sh*te.In fact the RDS for a concert doesnt do that much for me either especially after goin the new 02 a few times.

Firetrap

WindSock wrote: »

Ash in '97 or thereabouts in the Point. I liked them at the time but after that tripe I gave up. They sounded awful live.
Most recently Bob Dylan, at the new Point in 08. Everyone warned me, I had to see him though. The warnings were correct. He was really unentertaining, soulless and a monotonous tempo throughout the whole set.

Agree on the Ash thing. Saw them in Marlay Park as part of something or other a few years ago and they were absolutely dreadful.

I live near Nowlan Park so even though I didn't go to the 2 Bob Dylan gigs there, I got to hear them Not wonderful stuff either from him.

Mars Bar

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

Im not jumpin on the bandwagon here but i went see Elton John in the RDS in 2005 and it was pure sh*te.In fact the RDS for a concert doesnt do that much for me either especially after goin the new 02 a few times.

The sound in the RDS is fairly terrible so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't enjoy it to be honest...

blow69

Kold wrote: »

Crystal Castles in Cypress Avenue about 3 years ago were pretty sh*t. Bout a 25-30 minute set with Alice just looking monged and sounding awful.

I was at that too. I'm pretty sure she banged her head off the low ceiling though and had to cut the set short as a result. From what i remember it was good enough.
Although I was quite drunk and was very excited to see them in Cork because I thought they would never play there.

Can't think of any bad ones myself. I only go to good concerts :cool:

MonicaBing

Ocean colour scene in the olympia a few years back.....snoozefest....:(

Ghetto Cornetto

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Moved from AH.
TOOL. Awful lifeless droning misery for a few hours.

I just had a conversation with the missus about this bunch last night. I think that James Maynard Keenan just kills this band (like you said - lifeless droning fúcking misery), yet she thinks the man has one of the best voices ever. He puts a lot of "emotion" into it apparently. I lol'd heartily.

Worst gig I've ever sat through was the support act for Siouxsie Sioux at her solo gig in Dublin's Tripod, sometime in '08 or '09. They were a duo called Bone, a man and a woman. Local act I think. Words simply cannot describe the horrendous nature of the music these two write. For some reason, both of them whispering the word "sycophant" into their mics for a good ten minutes is a prominent memory from that night.

dixiefly

For ME the most disappointing gig was Tom Waits in Phoenix Park in 2008. it was partly because I had looked forward to it so much, A couple of years earlier I remember playing one of my Waits albums at home and saying that if he came to Ireland that you would have to kill for a ticket. However, I think that I knew only one song he played. I love his ballads etc but he has a lot of other weird songs that he seems to just scream.

I think I wasunlucky in the night I picked as well. Better setlist for me the other nights. I had considered going more than one night but it was just too expensive. Of course many Waits "heads" that were there loved the concert so I am not saying that hewas rubbish, just that I didnt like it.

I do know some people that went to the Police in Croke Park and were in seats at the far end of the ground and thought it was a disaster.

CiDeRmAn

Kila last night were awful, very disappointing.
Worst of all was New Order in landsdown a couple of years ago.
They uttered the immortal line "I hate this ****ing song" before doing Blue Monday, a terrible gig.
Then I had to sit through the Chillis afterwards, more sh1te tbh.

Choochtown

dixiefly wrote: »

For ME the most disappointing gig was Tom Waits in Phoenix Park in 2008. it was partly because I had looked forward to it so much, A couple of years earlier I remember playing one of my Waits albums at home and saying that if he came to Ireland that you would have to kill for a ticket. However, I think that I knew only one song he played. I love his ballads etc but he has a lot of other weird songs that he seems to just scream.

I think I wasunlucky in the night I picked as well. Better setlist for me the other nights. I had considered going more than one night but it was just too expensive. Of course many Waits "heads" that were there loved the concert so I am not saying that hewas rubbish, just that I didnt like it.

I do know some people that went to the Police in Croke Park and were in seats at the far end of the ground and thought it was a disaster.

I used to go to at least 2 gigs a week and I can honestly say that if I was forced to choose my favorite gig of all time it would have to be the Tom Waits gig in Phoenix Park. One man's poison is ... etc.

As for worse gig ... anyone remember Soul to Soul? "Back to Life" etc. It was SO bad they had a fashion show in the middle of the gig.

Table Top Joe

dixiefly wrote: »

For ME the most disappointing gig was Tom Waits in Phoenix Park in 2008. it was partly because I had looked forward to it so much, A couple of years earlier I remember playing one of my Waits albums at home and saying that if he came to Ireland that you would have to kill for a ticket. However, I think that I knew only one song he played. I love his ballads etc but he has a lot of other weird songs that he seems to just scream.

I think I wasunlucky in the night I picked as well. Better setlist for me the other nights. I had considered going more than one night but it was just too expensive. Of course many Waits "heads" that were there loved the concert so I am not saying that hewas rubbish, just that I didnt like it.

I do know some people that went to the Police in Croke Park and were in seats at the far end of the ground and thought it was a disaster.

What night were you there? i went on the Thursday and Friday,Thursday night night was my first time seeing him and to be honest i was a little disapointed,took a good few songs to get going and for his voice to "open" up,way to gravelly at first(i love his voice but this was just too harsh)i dont think seating suited it either.......the Friday on the other hand was brilliant,fantastic setlist,covered much more of his career,went right back to 1974,in my top 3 gigs of all time......but i can see why some wouldnt enjoy it,he really is an acquired taste





As for my worst gig it has to be The Chilli Peppers Phoenix Park 04,absolute rubbish,wasnt really a fan of them anyway(i went to see The Pixies as it was their only Irish gig that year and i didnt know if theyd last very long doing the reunion thing)anyway,the venue is just crap,there were 110,000 people at the bloody thing too,nightmare to get to it,loads and loads of hassle......They played for about 75 minutes including the bloody encore! and a ****ing drum solo!!(no seriously,a drum solo)for a band thats been around for 20 years with loads of albums to play for that short a time is just taking the piss out of their fans,the singer had no connection with the crowd either,no charisma whatsoever,the whole thing was just out and out crap




Kula Shaker and The Foo Fighters at the trip to Tipp 97 deserve a mention too,both were unbelievably dull and boring

CiDeRmAn

I too went to see The Pixies but thanks to my brother in law I missed them and saw the feckin Chillis again.
Brutal muck, they took the money and ran.
Even if you liked their music, and I don't, it sounded slow and boring.
Never again am I going to subject myself to that bands music.

Always wished I had seen Lemon Jelly,

Nolanger

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Worst of all was New Order in landsdown a couple of years ago.

"Tell your dads we saw us"

Bunnywabbit

mars bar wrote: »

The sound in the RDS is fairly terrible so I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't enjoy it to be honest...

Yeah, the sound is shocking, went to Megadeth and my god, the sound ruined it for me..

Musefan

Glasvegas were a supporting act for a Muse concert I went to in 08'. My god they were awful. If I remember correctly, they got booed at one point.

Mars Bar

Bunnywabbit wrote: »

Yeah, the sound is shocking, went to Megadeth and my god, the sound ruined it for me..

I've seen Bruce Springsteen there twice and the sound was painful both times. I remember the second one being particularly bad.

Xavi6

Kings of Leon

Absolute jokers live and they bored the arse off me. Said beforehand that I'd give them a chance but never again. The fact that they were supported by The Fratellis didn't help either :eek: