Worse gig youve ever been at

Hadleigh Spoiled Hacksaw wrote: »

All Saints in the Point. Jesus christ.

The Streets at Oxegen were also terrible.

The only band I kinda like that weren't great is RHCP. Disappointing on all occasions.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... you left home to go and see "All Saints"???? ................ "Why"??

donegaLroad wrote: »

Dave and Joe, the Harp Bar, Ballybofey 1992... accordion & electric guitar.

Guitar player was drunk and had broken a string which he left hanging down across the other 5 strings... which were all out of tune. I stood and stared in disbelief..


other than that, St. Etienne, the Olympia 2001, they sucked the big one.

That comment has just woken me up laughing .... got second wind now..he he he he

eviltwin wrote: »

Guns n Roses in the RDS.

yep was terrible

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.

Concur with that one. I believe supergrass were the support & were good. Oasis didnt seem like they wanted to be there

Strumms wrote: »

I remember that gig... God they were awful... I remember it being a very windy day and you could hear **** all. I remember also that Noel had walked out I think previously and they were not talking.. Bad gig.

Noel played that day, but there was no interaction between them at all or with the crowd. Think the only time they did was one some fella got on up onto the roof of the sound tent, for Liam to say 'look at the focker on the sound tent'. Think they played for about 60 to 90 minutes total. Was an absoulte let down, as loved Oasis, had been trying for years to get tickers, including spending about 4-5 hrs on the phone for the Knebworth gigs with no luck. On the same tour they played the old Wembly for about 2 and half hours and tore the place up.

The highlight of the Landowne gig for me was Supergrass, one of the best supports I've seen, as were not really bothered about them before that day.

GerB40 wrote: »

Bob Dylan in the O2. It was my second time seeing him and the first time he was class, this time he just didn't bother. He barely picked up a guitar, mumbled incoherently along to his songs and just fúcked off after just over an hour. Plus it was my first time in the O2 since it changed from being The Point which just added to the disappointment. I still idolize him but I wouldn't watch him live if he was playing on my front lawn..

I was at that gig as well, what an utter pile of incoherent sh!te. I cannot believe people still pay hard earned cash to go to his concerts.
My ears needed counselling for years after that one.

I went to see a guy called Buck 65 in Phoenix, Arizona recently. I had seen him play about 3 times before and he was great. Two days before the gig he posted this really cryptic post on Facebook about going through his divorce and making himself seem like the victim and how he wasn't the victim. He was the villain, he was the cheater, he destroyed the relationship etc. and then ended with him saying he was going through a tough time but was planning on trying to be a better person.

Anyways. He get's on stage and talks about planning to go to the Grand Canyon the next day and possibly throwing himself into it. Pretty much every break was filled with some cryptic self loathing talk. He also played some of his most obscure stuff. About 30 minutes all but a few of the people there had left.

I went to see The Knife a couple of years ago, i had been waiting years to see them so i was mega excited, worst gig ever, they didn't even play, they just had a dance group preform on stage to their music.

Deep Purple in the Marquee 5 years(ish) back were absolutely fcuking horse****e.

I was so disappointed.

Van Morrison in the Point in the late 90s.

Excellent band and backing singers but he himself just could not be arsed -started a song, wandered off stage to play with himself or something leaving his backing singers to sing the song and then strolled back onstage for the final chorus and applause! He did this for at least 5 or 6 songs.

Has anyone mentioned the Cat Stevens debacle yet? Wasn't there but the calls to the joe Duffy show the following week were super entertaining, more than can be said for the concert by the sounds of it

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

Grandmaster Flash at the very first Electric Picnic and at the Cork Jazz festival. At EP he had a numerous boxes of vinyl, with another DJ actually mixing the records. He just stood there talking crap into the mic. In Cork he was using Serato, so no records. He just had a harddrive full of predictable hits, which he cut up with the simplest of baby scratches. Utterly useless. He just stood there playing out his tired playlist and telling everyone that he "invented this sh*t". Yeah, you invented it for yourself, and you killed it for me.

We're talking about "Bands" ... people that actually play music with instruments,, not people who place an object in/on a machine and press play,,,,,,

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Worst live performance I've seen was probably Laura Marling at Electric Picnic a few years ago, but it wasn't really her fault; she wasn't on stage long before giving up and walking off when it became clear that nobody could hear her properly. Scheduling a folk singer to perform near a tent blaring some very loud dance music wasn't the brightest move on the scheduler's part!

I was at that too. So dissappointing but it absolutely wasn't her fault and the crowd were really loud and just shouted over her.
Saw her at Vicar Street and she was AMAZING where everyone there was into it.

Anyone expecting a Bob Dylan gig to be anything utter than mediocre deserves to be parted from their cash. He's been consistently awful live for over forty years. How do people not realize this?