Worse gig youve ever been at

Mint Sauce · 27-06-2015 12:13AM

Is it cool to hate flo tonight? I think shes alright. My worse was Oasis at the old Lansdowne Rd, no energy or enthusiasm from them at all.

Specialun · 27-06-2015 12:13AM

nm wrote: »

I really thought this thread was going to be about that East17 gig in The Academy last night with 8 people at it or whatever the story with the photo going around is.

In answer, Slane 2009, not due to any of the acts that day but the organisation, huge queues in, 1.5 hr que every time you want a pint, max of 2 so basically get them and go directly to the back of the queue and drink them while lined up again for the next pint. Great way to spend a day, then sound is terrible and walk for 4+ hours to get out at the end.
Never again.

Just googled that..20-30 people..haha

kenmc · 27-06-2015 12:13AM

brummytom wrote: »

Bob Dylan, hands down. Saw him at the London Feis about 4 years ago. Jesus it was awful. Half the crowd left to go and watch the Saw Doctors in the other tent.

Seen them a bunch of times, always a great gig, unreal energy.

Mint Sauce · 27-06-2015 12:15AM

nm wrote: »

I really thought this thread was going to be about that East17 gig in The Academy last night with 8 people at it or whatever the story with the photo going around is.

In answer, Slane 2009, not due to any of the acts that day but the organisation, huge queues in, 1.5 hr que every time you want a pint, max of 2 so basically get them and go directly to the back of the queue and drink them while lined up again for the next pint. Great way to spend a day, then sound is terrible and walk for 4+ hours to get out at the end.
Never again.

Isn't that preety much the same for every Slane gig though?

duckysauce · 27-06-2015 12:16AM

who are these cock heads on now , with the i am an utter cock hats

dxhound2005 · 27-06-2015 12:16AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Meatloaf somewhere, can't even remember where it was, Fundoran maybe. Think he is consistently bad live though.

I saw him in the Oasis, probably around the same time. The good people of Monaghan were firing beer cans at him. Full ones.

ArtyM · 27-06-2015 12:17AM

Gnr in the O2.
Was so excited to see them, as were others with me.
Axl Rose's behaviour could only be described as that of an absolute knacker.
Treated the audience with contempt and threw a hissy fit a ten year old would be ashamed of.
Actually still angry just thinking about it - prick!

Mightydrumming · 27-06-2015 12:17AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

was at that 2010 gig in the o2, dreadful, it was full of people who had no interest in the gig. Went again to see them in 2012 and they were brillent

Didn't even bother in 2012! Heard they regained some respect though.

Wasn't it the 2010 gig in the o2 that Axl claimed to have said that he was going to get a witch doctor for the irish crowd? Or was that a dream? :pac:

The thing that annoyed me the most was the fact that he leaned on the drum riser for the duration when he did decide to come back on-stage. Ignorant fcuk :rolleyes:

KungPao · 27-06-2015 12:17AM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Is it cool to hate flo tonight? I think shes alright. My worse was Oasis at the old Lansdowne Rd, no energy or enthusiasm from them at all.

I thought she was alright before, but seeing her now...na.

I'd prefer a bit of Marina & The Diamonds to be honest, at least she has different sounds.

All Florence's song are bloody miserable and lack much of a melody.

Dan_Solo · 27-06-2015 12:18AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

was at that 2010 gig in the o2, dreadful, it was full of people who had no interest in the gig. Went again to see them in 2012 and they were brillent

To be fair, that seems to be about half the audience at any gig I've ever been at. Would prefer to roar ****e to each other than listen to whoever they just paid €20-€150 to see.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-06-2015 12:18AM

ArtyM wrote: »

Gnr in the O2.
Was so excited to see them, as were others with me.
Axl Rose's behaviour could only be described as that of an absolute knacker.
Treated the audience with contempt and threw a hissy fit a ten year old would be ashamed of.
Actually still angry just thinking about it - prick!

Did they ever give a refund for that debacle?

The Backwards Man · 27-06-2015 12:19AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I saw him in the Oasis, probably around the same time. The good people of Monaghan were firing beer cans at him. Full ones.

Jesus the Oasis, there's a blast from the past, probably long gone now is it?

tastyt · 27-06-2015 12:19AM

Musical tastes really are mad aren't they. I'm not a fan of Florence but have actually enjoyed her performance, thought it buzzed along

failinis · 27-06-2015 12:20AM

I was at a Sigur Ros concert in Dublin recently, I adore the band, was the first time seeing them live.
Some gob shítes in front of me and my friend got pissed and roared and laughed and were right bastards, split drink on me and song arms around and hit my friend- slightly ruined it for me, those lads were in there late 30s, maybe 40s and acting like such teenagers!
But apart from them, was brill seeing the band.

Radio 1 and MTV in Derry were a let down.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 27-06-2015 12:20AM

Specialun wrote: »

Just googled that..20-30 people..haha

Yea, bit a classic really, basically playing to an empty room.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-06-2015 12:20AM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

To be fair, that seems to be about half the audience at any gig I've ever been at. Would prefer to roar ****e to each other than listen to whoever they just paid €20-€150 to see.

Or the constant in and out to the bar behaviour you see in the 02. They should close over the doors once the main act begins their set.

Mightydrumming · 27-06-2015 12:21AM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

To be fair, that seems to be about half the audience at any gig I've ever been at. Would prefer to roar ****e to each other than listen to whoever they just paid €20-€150 to see.

I think he/she means that because we were waiting for over 2 hours, finally came on stage. What was he expecting? A sober crowd? And plus the fact that the sitting people upstairs were forced out the door and not let back in.

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-06-2015 12:21AM

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nxbyveromdwjpg · 27-06-2015 12:21AM

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Isn't that preety much the same for every Slane gig though?

Probably, I haven't been back.

dxhound2005 · 27-06-2015 12:22AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Jesus the Oasis, there's a blast from the past, probably long gone now is it?

Yes, closed up years ago. One of my memories of it is seeing loads of banknotes being taken from the tills and put into black binliners behind the bar counter.

Mightydrumming · 27-06-2015 12:22AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Did they ever give a refund for that debacle?

Not a penny! I was standing but some mates had sitting tickets and were forced out the door :rolleyes:

nxbyveromdwjpg · 27-06-2015 12:22AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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I was at that gig too, horrible night. They put up the barriers in The Point after that every few metres, although they're gone now again with the new arena.

KungPao · 27-06-2015 12:25AM

tastyt wrote: »

Musical tastes really are mad aren't they. I'm not a fan of Florence but have actually enjoyed her performance, thought it buzzed along

Her songs (or just this performence?) seem to have a very specific window, if you get me? Like the bottom to the top of the sound is VERY narrow, nothing high, nothing low...which makes all her stuff sound flat and too similar. But maybe my ears are old.

evolving_doors · 27-06-2015 12:26AM

Orbital doing a DJ set.... with Johnny Moy... in 5.343 high def sound or something... complete load of crap.

HAte to admit it but Glen Hansard solo acoustic 15 odd yrs ago... sweet jebus how depressing. Loved the frames and all that so was probably expecting something above 50BPM

Florence and machine... same whiney type singing (her diction is terrible!).. listen to any song and tell me honestly you can hear the words. It's like a child who gets hit in the yard and runs to you crying trying to talk..

Kraftwerk.. booring.. kind of a retro bandwagon going on there.

harry Bailey esq · 27-06-2015 12:26AM

Faithless,Point Depot, 1996.We were expecting a rave,as insomniac was high in the charts.Dropped some brown specks in the queue, went in and we were treated to gospel/religious sh1te while out of the brains. To top the evening off,some clown ran amok with a stanley blade and sliced up a few security staff.Second worst was Ian Brown,one of my favourite artists of all time,in the pheonix park in 2007.The man died on his arse.

OldMrBrennan83 · 27-06-2015 12:26AM

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DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-06-2015 12:27AM

The Vines is another one I remember, think it was the Academy. It's easy to see why they never fulfilled on their early promise, poor live act, really messy and amateurish.

PARlance · 27-06-2015 12:29AM

Could someone shoot her and put her out of her misery.

Not at Glastonbury but this is still going down as my worst gig

Specialun · 27-06-2015 12:31AM

Rudimental on 10 times better on bbc3

ArtyM · 27-06-2015 12:31AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Did they ever give a refund for that debacle?

No.
Someone eventually managed to get him to complete his contracted set - some of which he apparently did sitting down, with his back to the audience.
Thing is, lots of the crowd had already left at that stage, myself included, cause the local carparks close and it really did look like the show was over.

Honestly never experienced an angrier crowd, ever.

Worse gig youve ever been at

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