Worse gig youve ever been at

Egginacup · 27-06-2015 11:22AM

Mary Black in Amsterdam.

I hate her anyway but it was a festival that's why I was there.

TRADES SUPPLY AVAILABLE · 27-06-2015 11:23AM

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

Grandmaster Flash at the very first Electric Picnic and at the Cork Jazz festival. At EP he had multiple 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.

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

No, we're talking about the worst gigs we've been to.

Thats not a "gig" its a ""Disco"" ....... he he he

For Forks Sake · 27-06-2015 11:24AM

sadie06 wrote: »

Macy Gray at The Point years ago. Stupidly long gap between support and main act. Finally the band come on and start to play an intro in build up for her entrance….it went on and on….no Macy.

About 7 mins later she was walked on to the stage and placed in front of the mic, wearing dark glasses and slurring her words. Worst gig ever unfolded after that.

The after party for that was the stuff of legend.

Darkglasses · 27-06-2015 11:25AM

lbj666 wrote: »

I was at the gig and ya its a huge problem with Sigur ros gigs, most people pretent they like them but are just there for the 3-4 songs they know off the ads and then they get bored.

I knew from the picnic gig the year before to get into you own zone and not get distracted by people around you that includes even your own mates, enjoy the for yourself and ignore the rest of the crowd.

Both gigs were great though , the finale (popplagio) in the O2 was the most stunning i think ive ever heard at a gig.

As for most dissapointing gig i don't really have any i usually come out of gigs with something that i found good about it. But i definite have been to a few gigs where i come out thinking "ya i definitly have seen that band 1 time too many"

So true, there were a good few absolute gonks at the Sigur Ros one. I was over on the right hand side, and this oldish couple (off their heads) kept pushing around the crowd, groping basically everyone. Rank.

Right Turn Clyde · 27-06-2015 11:30AM

TRADES SUPPLY AVAILABLE wrote: »

Thats not a "gig" its a ""Disco"" ....... he he he

Well it was the worst damn disco I was ever at. :P

js35 · 27-06-2015 11:45AM

Went to see moby in the point dec '00 was absolute ****e!!

NachoBusiness · 27-06-2015 11:46AM

Suzyq wrote: »

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

Same goes for the Streisand gig in Castletown House.

The Joe Duffy shows the following few days were radio gold.

GerB40 · 27-06-2015 11:55AM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

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?

My back catalogue of amazing Dylan albums, bootlegs, etc made my heart overrule my head. Three times... In my opinion, if you want to see a good Bob Dylan live gig, it should be in black and white with him alone on stage with a guitar and harmonica. Anything after those days have been okay at best, absolutely dire at worst. Which is a shame, he's a living legend.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 27-06-2015 12:01PM

Surprised the Neil Young Crazy Horse gig in the RDS hasn't been mentioned yet, I wasn't there but I remember people went berserk after that

27-06-2015 12:15PM

Kings of Leon in Landsdowne Road, bad songs made worse by terrible sound.

Prodigy in Semple stadium '98. Remember seeing a music documentary on rte 2 and a guy on it said it was all backing tracks.

One More Toy · 27-06-2015 12:18PM

Jinx Lennon - what a douche, Im sure he appeals to angry 14 year olds but he comes across as a knob end

Best gig ever - Duke Special in the Roisin Dubh in Galway, supported by Duffy before she became pretty famous.

Mike Litoris · 27-06-2015 12:20PM

Manic Street Preachers Smithfield 2001. Big fan for a good few years, saw them in the point in 99 and they were great. At Smithfield in 01, however, whatever enthusiasm and aggression they had was totally gone. The distortion on James guitar was turned all the way down so the whole show sounded like cabaret. Dreadful gig. I left early.

Another is more of a badly chosen support band. Saw Sepultura in the Top Hat in 90 or 91. The support band were some sort of GNR clone. The guitarist even wore a Slash style hat. They were murdered by the crowd.

Every time they started a song or the guitarist played a solo they were boo'd. They weren't even that bad but they just weren't Trash/Death metal. They pulled it back at the end though for the last song by playing Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys to huge cheers.

TwoShedsJackson · 27-06-2015 12:21PM

Interrobang wrote: »

The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Olympia in 1998. Utter, utter shīte.

Hah yes that was a pretty crap gig, they only played about 45 minutes if I remember rightly. Although they had form for that sort of thing, used to play 15-20 minutes in the mid 80s and for some reason attracted a lot of violent skinheads to their earliest gigs.

Curve in McGonagles in about 1992 was bad, not because of the band, but the place was packed and was a heaving sweaty mass, and there were some right 'elbow everywhere' dickheads doing their best to clear a space at the front.

AndyBoBandy · 27-06-2015 12:23PM

Any Chemical Brothers/Superstar DJ gig nowadays, they simply turn up, plug their flash drive (with their entire pre mixed set) into the system, press play and dance around for 2 hours, occasionally pretending to twist & turn the various knobs on the mixers.

gungun · 27-06-2015 12:25PM

Haven't been to many but mgmt in the olympia in 2013 weren't fantastic I thought, pretty much no interaction with the crowd which maybe is their thing but i though the atmosphere would have been better if they had some craic. Other than that was a grand gig.

Best gig by far was lamb of god in the olympia in 2013, sound was great and the band had great craic with the audience. Support from tesseract was brilliant but I felt like the only person in the crowd who was into them:o

K.Flyer · 27-06-2015 12:27PM

Suzyq wrote: »

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

I was at that concert and it was absolutely brilliant. I would say that the intermission segment went on for a bit too long, but otherwise a great concert.
The "debacle" was the drunken ar$eholes who started shouting out stuff between the songs, for example,
"... play [insert song title] ye oul boll!x" and other such stuff during the intermission piece.
It was when a woman turned around and told one of them to shut up and be quiet, only for her to be told to STFU and mind her own business that the hand bags started to fly, resulting in the drunken mouthy w@nkers being kicked out.
Cat (Yusuf) played all the hits, new and old, and it was a great night except for a couple of idiots and a slightly long intermission set.

sydthebeat · 27-06-2015 12:28PM

Kings of Leon in the o2 in December a few years ago.
Crowd were full of office Christmas party types completely pissed. Kol were boring

crazygeryy · 27-06-2015 12:34PM

van morrison in slane.Jesus the man was god awful. saw him a good few years later as well and he was worse.
he just cannot cut it as a live performer imo.

Right Turn Clyde · 27-06-2015 12:34PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Any Chemical Brothers/Superstar DJ gig nowadays, they simply turn up, plug their flash drive (with their entire pre mixed set) into the system, press play and dance around for 2 hours, occasionally pretending to twist & turn the various knobs on the mixers.

I don't think the Chems use laptops, so in theory they should still be doing the same type of work on stage as they they've always done. They're just bloody boring, but that's due to their music, not how it's 'performed'.

Dan_Solo · 27-06-2015 12:49PM

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Hah yes that was a pretty crap gig, they only played about 45 minutes if I remember rightly. Although they had form for that sort of thing, used to play 15-20 minutes in the mid 80s and for some reason attracted a lot of violent skinheads to their earliest gigs.

Morrissey is another one for that. Felt VERY short changed by his miserly setlist. Twice in fact.

Dan_Solo · 27-06-2015 12:52PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Any Chemical Brothers/Superstar DJ gig nowadays, they simply turn up, plug their flash drive (with their entire pre mixed set) into the system, press play and dance around for 2 hours, occasionally pretending to twist & turn the various knobs on the mixers.

That reminds of a few "guest DJ" sets I've been to at nightclubs where the guy never turns up. So they just turn up the volume and everybody thinks his set has started and none of the off their face kids know the difference.

suicide_circus · 27-06-2015 12:58PM

RHCP in Landsdowne Road and then about 10 years later at the O2...piss poor crowd interaction and just very boring.

scudzilla · 27-06-2015 01:04PM

Sonics2k wrote: »

Went to see Iron Maiden a good few years back in Dublin. Absolutely dreadful gig.

Marilyn Manson played as support and was decent, but the only great act of the day was Turbonegro who were amazing as always.

Wow, i thought Maiden were great that night and Manson was pants, sure Maiden had a 10minute technical issue but that was just one of them things.
Agree about Turbonegro, amazing, how many other bands could get away with throwing potatoes at an Irish crowd!!

My worst gig i guess has to be 30 seconds to Mars, got free tickets to their gig at The Point about 4yrs ago, lasted 4 songs before we walked.

A dissapointing one was Metallica at Pukkelpop, maybe around 97/98, love the band, we'd gone over and was great craic, expecting them to be great as usual and they just looked to be going through the motions

Xaracatz · 27-06-2015 01:14PM

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 was at that and thought it was brilliant. Although, it was my first concert ever, and we'd had a few Bacardi Breezers, so that might be why. I did really enjoy Supergrass though. God - that was 15 years ago!!

Definitely my worst was a Wolfe Tone gig that we stumbled into in Glasgow. We didn't know who was playing and the crowd there was dog rough. An hour of queueing at the bar for a drink, and then these eejits starting throwing their full pints (plastic glasses at least) from the back of the room. It was around Halloween, and we (three girls) were dressed up as pirates and the like. Ended up hitch hiking back to our hostel from some guy who I'm pretty sure thought we were prostitutes.

Classy times!!

Ken. · 27-06-2015 01:18PM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

For disappointment level I'd have to say Pixies.
For actual awfulness probably Mundy. I've seen him a few times supporting somebody else and he's crud.

I'd have to agree with you on Mundy. Seen him twice live and I've seen better pub bands.

LDN_Irish · 27-06-2015 01:21PM

Eminem was ****e at Punshestown. Day was saved by Cypress Hill and believe it or not Xhibit (yo dawg. I heard you like concerts! So we pretended to put a substandard concert in your racecourse.) 50 Cent was brutal in The Point. I was a teen at the time :roll:

L'prof · 27-06-2015 01:26PM

Toss up between Snow Patrol in the O2 and Dylan in Nowlan Park. I'll give it to Snow Patrol though because Dylan had the amazing Flaming Lips on beforehand.

bogwalrus · 27-06-2015 01:36PM

Specialun wrote: »

Watching glastonbury here with the mrs..florance and the machine is depressing the sh!te out of me....

Whats the worst gig/concert youve ever been at

I just read the title and straight away thought of Florence and the machine at primavera festival. Utter tripe.

DareGod · 27-06-2015 01:59PM

It was a Michael Jackson tribute act in Andrews Lane Theatre, back in 2010 or something like that. It was absolutely horrific, mainly due to the terrible sound and the awful layout.

L'prof · 27-06-2015 02:30PM

DareGod wrote: »

It was a Michael Jackson tribute act in Andrews Lane Theatre, back in 2010 or something like that. It was absolutely horrific, mainly due to the terrible sound and the awful layout.

Oh wait...I went to one of those in the Olympia. Thought it'd be a bit of craic. Absolutely shocking, had to leave!

Worse gig youve ever been at

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