Music acts that are bad live

karaokeman

I've seen plenty of threads about great live acts, so here's one for not-so-good live performances you've seen.

Calvin Harris at NUI Maynooth this year was absolutely atrocious, mainly because it was not a gig and all he did was DJ, no crowd interaction, no singing his own songs etc.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

That'd be because Calvin Harris is mainly a DJ to be fair.

rcaz

karaokeman wrote: »

Calvin Harris at NUI Maynooth this year was absolutely atrocious, mainly because it was not a gig and all he did was DJ, no crowd interaction, no singing his own songs etc.

Did he not DJ very well?

karaokeman

El Pr0n wrote: »

Did he not DJ very well?

He did but I was looking for a gig and it just didn't fit my criteria for a gig.

Agree with Baz2009, thats what I should have known before I bought my ticket.

Table Top Joe

Red Hot Chilli Peppers,saw them at Phoenix Park 04,dreadful,worst big band ive ever seen,the singer was pretty much non existent on all counts

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Table Top Joe wrote: »

Red Hot Chilli Peppers,saw them at Phoenix Park 04,dreadful,worst big band ive ever seen,the singer was pretty much non existent on all counts

Went to the gig in the O2 expecting a bad performance, but I was pleasantly surprised, tbh!

rcaz

karaokeman wrote: »

He did but I was looking for a gig and it just didn't fit my criteria for a gig.

Agree with Baz2009, thats what I should have known before I bought my ticket.

Then that doesn't make him bad live at all.

Sinfonia

That time in the Point when Dylan apparently had laryngitis. Not a great gig.

karaokeman

baz2009 wrote: »

Went to the gig in the O2 expecting a bad performance, but I was pleasantly surprised, tbh!

I was there, I love the Chilis but I was curious seen as how I've heard so many people slating their live performances.

Very good performance, only thing that disappointed me was the fact Keidis didn't speak too much and perhaps the fact they didn't play Otherside.

I'm also going to see them in Croker next year so I will see how that gig compares.

Malice

I've seen Deftones live twice and both times they were awful which was a terrible pity as most of their albums are fantastic and they are one of my favourite bands.

Rothko

Bob Dylan these days. He can barely sing at this stage.

viadah

Malice wrote: »

I've seen Deftones live twice and both times they were awful which was a terrible pity as most of their albums are fantastic and they are one of my favourite bands.

Same here, although first time I saw them I loved it regardless. Second time left during their second song. That said, other people I know have seen them on different occasions and said they were amazing. I guess it depends on the night ya catch them and how much they've had to drink.

Bodhidharma

RHCP are rubbish. Saw them twice so no mistake about it.

Kings of Leon have basically no charisma but technically they're proficient.

Weezer likewise have a front man who makes you cringe just by being in the same building as him, dont know if it was disinterest in the gig or if its nerves or something.

cgpg5

Black Eyed Peas, MGMT, Katy Perry to name a few...

ItsAWindUp

Suas11 wrote: »

Bob Dylan these days. He can barely sing at this stage.

He should give it up, the man is embarassing himself at this stage.

rcaz

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

He should give it up, the man is embarassing himself at this stage.

Embarrassing himself? Wait till he gives a **** what anyone else thinks of him Bob's never been much of a singer, and he's definitely never cared about anyone else's opinion. He's sticking to his guns into his 70s, the man's a legend, and integrity personified.

ItsAWindUp

El Pr0n wrote: »

Embarrassing himself? Wait till he gives a **** what anyone else thinks of him Bob's never been much of a singer, and he's definitely never cared about anyone else's opinion. He's sticking to his guns into his 70s, the man's a legend, and integrity personified.

Sticking to his guns? Do me a favour, sticking to his wallet more like!

rcaz

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

Sticking to his guns? Do me a favour, sticking to his wallet more like!

Are you for real? If someone's good at something and keeps doing it for as long as they can, it must mean they're just in it for the money?

ItsAWindUp

El Pr0n wrote: »

Are you for real? If someone's good at something and keeps doing it for as long as they can, it must mean they're just in it for the money?

Key part there.

seanybiker

Ocean colour scene are brutal live.

rcaz

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

Key part there.

Get over yourself. There's no musician on the planet that's inherently than any other musician, music is all a matter of taste. So say you don't like him, fine, but it's impossible to say he's not good. And then when you consider he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time, a complete maverick, who's never sat still for anyone, what about him doesn't measure up to your definition of good? Should he have a perfect singing voice? That's not what Dylan is about, never has been.

ItsAWindUp

El Pr0n wrote: »

Get over yourself. There's no musician on the planet that's inherently than any other musician, music is all a matter of taste. So say you don't like him, fine, but it's impossible to say he's not good. And then when you consider he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time, a complete maverick, who's never sat still for anyone, what about him doesn't measure up to your definition of good? Should he have a perfect singing voice? That's not what Dylan is about, never has been.

I take it you've never done that then, ever? Ain't me that needs to get over myself.

rcaz

ItsAWindUp wrote: »

I take it you've never done that then, ever? Ain't me that needs to get over myself.

Course I have, but I've always realised I was wrong later on. Used to say Green Day were rubbish, realised they wrote some defining songs for a whole genre of music, used to think Kraftwerk were boring, realised they invented techno, used to think techno was boring, realised it's (the really good stuff anyway) just as good as any Steve Reich or Philip Glass music.

Spazdarn

Keep your music elitist crap to yourselves lads...

MGMT were the most noticeably terrible live band I've seen, who's album I enjoyed.

D1stant

Dylan is beyond reproach. Slagging of his singing ability just proves you dont get him. Which is fine and lets leave it at that

John Martyn could be equally brilliant or terrible. Just depended on how drunk he was. RIP

rcaz

ToiletFusion wrote: »

music elitist crap

That's exactly what it's not. Absolutely all music is fantastic, it's impossible to write off any artist or genre or anything entirely. This is all inclusive, not exclusive.

pajosjunkbox

Kings of Leon . Went to slane last year . Regretted it the minute i got there. What a waste of 80 yo yos. **** band, **** set up, ****ty queues and scumbags. my girlfriend will not convince me next time. Kings of Leon are lifeless pretty boys. I want my rock stars dead !

Sinfonia

pajosjunkbox wrote: »

Kings of Leon are lifeless pretty boys. I want my rock stars dead !

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Anyway, the following song is great, and I don't think I'd like it as much were it not for the particular timbre of Dylan's voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

Jerichoholic

So...You went to see a DJ do a DJ set, and now we have a thread about how disappointed you were that he didn't sing.

I see.

SilverScreen

ToiletFusion wrote: »

MGMT were the most noticeably terrible live band I've seen, who's album I enjoyed.

I agree, their Oxegen 2008 set was memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Director were pretty bad when I saw them live. They had them on the main stage at Oxegen one morning and they seemed like a pub band that got lost and ended up there by mistake.

fryup

UB40

losthorizon

Badly Drawn Boy - How that fellow has not got lynched is beyond me.

ItsAWindUp

D1stant wrote: »

Dylan is beyond reproach. Slagging of his singing ability just proves you dont get him. Which is fine and lets leave it at that

John Martyn could be equally brilliant or terrible. Just depended on how drunk he was. RIP

Absolute b ollocks. Is there anything more pretentious than this phrase?

Oafley Jones

Table Top Joe wrote: »

Red Hot Chilli Peppers,saw them at Phoenix Park 04,dreadful,worst big band ive ever seen,the singer was pretty much non existent on all counts

The sound was absolutely awful at that gig, but ya the Chilis are very poor live. Stopped going to their gigs after the Phoenix Park. Slane was the only time I've actualy seen them put any kind of effort into the performance and I suspect that was owing to the dvd.

Saw Mick Flannery at the Opera House for New years in 09/10. I've never been so bored at a gig. The GF is a fan and I thought the odd song I knew was grand but it was torture. I found his performance to be dreary, monotonous tedium without any real variation between his songs. It just was one long mumbling song for me. Halfway through an old wan behind us starting audibly expressing the same sentiment to her husband, which was irritating but not as much as the small group that were near the front that were desperate to be acknowledged - and to let everyone else that they knew him - as his hardcore original fans. In fairness to Mick he ignored them as well.

Wilberto

In reference to Calvin Harris at the start of the topic: I saw him live in the O2 last month and thought he was unreal, and this is coming from a person who never really listened to any of his stuff. The only reason I saw him live was because he was the opening "Act" for Rihanna!



Anyway, back on topic, although I've never actually seen her live, I saw a Shakira concert on TV and she was absolutely awful....and I really do mean terrible!! Now maybe there was a reason for it, and maybe it was a once off, (or maybe it was just the TV :p:D!) but yeah, she wasn't great.

Oasis_Dublin

I genuinely don't think I've been to a bad gig. Maybe Kasabian at The Point in 2009, at a push.

Oasis_Dublin

seanybiker wrote: »

Ocean colour scene are brutal live.

Ah come on now!

smokedeels

Jackie O Motherf**ker. Bunch of lads jamming on stage, it went nowhere. They seemed like decent folk but It was one of the worst gigs I've ever seen.

Pixies. They played fine but they didn't want to be there or around each other, terrible atmosphere.

Darkspace (or something like that). I seen them in the Workmans club last year, bad dark wave stuff best left in the 1980s.

Flaming Lips. I've never heard their albums but live I found them awful. Visually a sideshow act and musically to be everything I hate about prog rock.

I've seen a few of my favourites on a bad night but they made up for it before or since.

karaokeman

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Ah come on now!

Its true, I saw Ocean Colour Scheme at Oxegen, no stage presence at all.

rcaz

smokedeels wrote: »

Flaming Lips. I've never heard their albums but live I found them awful. Visually a sideshow act and musically to be everything I hate about prog rock.

That's interesting, most people who just happen to catch them at festivals or whatever without listening to their albums seem to lose their absolute **** over their live show.

I'm a huge Lips fan, have been since I was about 14, and their live show was getting a bit repetitive until around 2010, but they changed it up a good bit recently. I think they're defo back on form again.

ItsAWindUp

karaokeman wrote: »

Its true, I saw Ocean Colour Scheme at Oxegen, no stage presence at all.

To be honest it's a bit hard to judge a music acts live ability by a festival performance

Oasis_Dublin

karaokeman wrote: »

Its true, I saw Ocean Colour Scheme at Oxegen, no stage presence at all.

At the Green Room in 2007, they packed the place out and were absolutely brilliant.

I've seen them twice since, and I can't really complain about them. Solidly good show. Probably better in the tents than on the Main Stage, mind you.

karaokeman

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

At the Green Room in 2007, they packed the place out and were absolutely brilliant.

I've seen them twice since, and I can't really complain about them. Solidly good show. Probably better in the tents than on the Main Stage, mind you.

I saw them in Heineken not the main stage.

But I would agree different strokes for different folks.

Temaz

I think Ocean Colour Scene are fantastic live!

ricero

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

I genuinely don't think I've been to a bad gig. Maybe Kasabian at The Point in 2009, at a push.

kasabian bad live :eek: must be just you so. i was also at that gig and found it to be the best gig ive ever been to

Oasis_Dublin

ricero wrote: »

kasabian bad live :eek: must be just you so. i was also at that gig and found it to be the best gig ive ever been to

You just get the feeling that they can never be an Oasis, Blur, Stone Roses, Smiths... or even a Supergrass. They are boring and delusional

SpatialPlanning

Can't remember the year but I was at Oxegen (or was it Witness) one year when Oasis played at the same time as Basement Jaxx. I went to Basement Jaxx with 3 or 4 others and they were fantastic. All my other mates went to Oasis and said it was a disaster.

James Brown was incredibly bad live but he was nearing the end at that stage and probably only had a few of his marbles left (two to be precise - both in his pants by the way he was going at it on stage).

I've have seen the Chilis live 3 or 4 times and they are hit or miss.

johnnykilo

Bob Dylan in Kilkenny about 5 years ago, I think we all left before the end as we couldn't endure any more.

Not quite as bad were The Shins: just don't sound as good as you'd expect them to live, also Pavement: They weren't awful either just a bit ropey (although they're known for being ropey live anyway so I was expecting it)

Temaz

SpatialPlanning wrote: »

All my other mates went to Oasis and said it was a disaster.

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Liam had a heavy cold on the day and it's why his vocals were so rough. Have the bootleg and Liam doesn't sound good at all, proof below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaoPqy3gl1E

ItsAWindUp

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

You just get the feeling that they can never be an Oasis, Blur, Stone Roses, Smiths... or even a Supergrass. They are boring and delusional

I've always found this from listening to their music too, could never understand the hype about them

nyarlothothep

Normally good but Radiohead, Malahide 2008, the worst gig I have ever been to. An abomination. It opened my mind to the fact that they are one of the biggest emperor's new clothes bands around since Ok Computer (when they were actually great) and I was a big Radiohead fan up to that point.