Worse gig youve ever been at

lbj666 · 28-06-2015 01:09PM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

My brother was at this, and although he was a big GnR fan at the time, said it was terrible.

The general consensus is that Faith No More blew GnR off the stage and then some, which I would easily believe as FNM were an incredible live band.

They still are

28-06-2015 01:29PM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

I'd put much of the Kitt/Hayes/Hansard/Mundy "in" crowd in the same category. Insufferable.

I believe Christy Moore and Van Morrison are in that bracket too, no idea if they are good or bad live but apparently probe to strops.

Dan_Solo · 28-06-2015 01:32PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I believe Christy Moore and Van Morrison are in that bracket too, no idea if they are good or bad live but apparently probe to strops.

I only saw Christy at the legendary Feile in Tipp. Have to say he was great craic and was full of beans. Really paid attention to the crowd. Maybe the Cork prima donna thing has grown stronger with age...

rainbowdrop · 28-06-2015 01:35PM

Eeden wrote: »

UB40 in Leisureland Galway years ago... first time I realised a gig could be ****, even if you liked the band.

You just reminded me of seeing them playing in Millstreet maybe 10years ago. Wouldn't be a massive fan, but my ex wanted to go see them.
Hands down, the roughest gig I was ever at. The music wasn't too bad (although The Wailers supporting them were waaay better), but I have never seen so many fights in my life. Travellers everywhere, both men & women, kicking lumps out of each other. The car park outside was FULL of transit vans/caravans & campervans.
UB40 actually stopped the music at one stage to announce they would be packing up and leaving if the fighting didn't stop. We actually headed home early ourselves to get away from the trouble.
Pity it ruined the music, but it made it a very memorableg gig lol

Lumbo · 28-06-2015 01:46PM

Hadleigh Spoiled Hacksaw wrote: »

The Streets at Oxegen were also terrible.

Haha. I was actually going to post this.

Duck Soup · 28-06-2015 02:10PM

Yes at the Wembley Arena in the late 70s/early 80s. Nothing I've ever attended comes close to its soul-destroyting awfulness.

Frito · 28-06-2015 03:15PM

Not had a bad gig really as far as I remember. Bell X1 were playing FF, watched their set as I like a couple of songs but was as bored as ****. I was even bored listening to the songs I liked.

TRADES SUPPLY AVAILABLE · 28-06-2015 03:22PM

Frito wrote: »

Not had a bad gig really as far as I remember. Bell X1 were playing FF, watched their set as I like a couple of songs but was as bored as ****. I was even bored listening to the songs I liked.

Do you mean "Bell end one" ??

harry Bailey esq · 28-06-2015 03:35PM

Birneybau wrote: »

First gig was The Prodigy in the Point, New Year's Eve '94, a fecking baptism of fire I tell ya.

Also my first proper gig,how I can even recall it so clearly truly is a miracle. Black grape were also on the bill that night if memory serves me correct.

NachoBusiness · 28-06-2015 03:46PM

triggermortis wrote: »

U2 in Croke a few years ago. We were right at the back and top of the Davin section and the sound was awful. Got one side hit us well before the other, so much so it was unlistenable. Dreadful.

Yeah, seen The Police there around eight years back and the sound was coming through the tannoy where we were seated.

eeguy · 28-06-2015 03:49PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Had the unfortunate experience of seeing snow patrol at oxygen. Christ.

Was that the year the drummer got arrested at the airport?

clairek6 · 28-06-2015 03:53PM

Amanda brunker at oxygen, still having nightmares ðŸ˜¢

Strumms · 28-06-2015 03:59PM

Dan_Solo wrote: »

I'd put much of the Kitt/Hayes/Hansard/Mundy "in" crowd in the same category. Insufferable.

Hansard takes himself very very seriously and thinks he is a very important person. Ie. The guy is a dick ..I know several people who have worked with him and nobody ever has a good word to say about him. I also encountered him throwing a strop in a guitar store because your man behind the counter was reading him back his own mobile number to make sure they had it right.... "Ohh FFS I don't need everyone knowing my number and getting hassle". Funny as at this time they were only starting to become known and playing the likes of Whelans, also I was the only one in the shop at the time... The final straw though was when I read an interview where he compared himself to Jeff Tweedy.. Around when Wilco were in their prime.. Tosser...

Collie D · 28-06-2015 04:08PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

No idea, it was around 8 years ago though.

Pity the whole lot of them didn't get arrested.

Edit: checked and apparently the keyboard player was arrested shortly before they took to the stage. Presumably for crimes against music.

Interesting. They've gone up a little in my estimation. Always considered themselves and Coldplay to be dull tea-drinking dry wusses

Dan_Solo · 28-06-2015 04:09PM

Strumms wrote: »

Hansard takes himself very very seriously and thinks he is a very important person. Ie. The guy is a dick ..I know several people who have worked with him and nobody ever has a good word to say about him. I also encountered him throwing a strop in a guitar store because your man behind the counter was reading him back his own mobile number to make sure they had it right.... "Ohh FFS I don't need everyone knowing my number and getting hassle". Funny as at this time they were only starting to become known and playing the likes of Whelans, also I was the only one in the shop at the time... The final straw though was when I read an interview where he compared himself to Jeff Tweedy.. Around when Wilco were in their prime.. Tosser...

Do you remember that Irish music awards when Paddy Casey won and he said "It's not about winning, it's about beating Glen Hansard" during the acceptance? Makes me think now he wasn't even making a joke...

Stroke Politics · 28-06-2015 04:27PM

James Taylor at Kilkenny was torturous. Support by Bryan Ferry, Katie Melua and Juliet Taylor. A day I will never have again. Taylor could not be arsed, he even got Ferry to swap with him so he could go home early and have his tea at Mount Juliet, leaving Ferry to play to a quarter-filled Nowlan Park of people who arrived late to see James Taylor....

It was the first gig I ever went to with my now-wife after a nasty break-up with someone else. Worth it though, when I consider it was the day everything went right for me. And I got to meet John Martyn in the crowd and shake his hand!

Anesthetize · 28-06-2015 05:36PM

Probably The Smashing Pumpkins in the RDS Simmonscourt in 2008. It wasn't awful or anything, but it was in a venue I hate with a passion and the sound was complete muck that night. Billy Corgan was also completely full of himself and dragging the song 'United States' (from the God-awful Zeitgeist) out to about 20 minutes was an exercise in tedious self-indulgence. Probably the only gig I've been to where I left disappointed.

Also Maximo Park at Oxegen 2006. How a band that boring, unoriginal and sloppy made it onto the main stage was beyond me. Their lead singer and keyboard player were obviously wasted as well.

quickbeam · 28-06-2015 05:39PM

Stroke Politics wrote: »

James Taylor at Kilkenny was torturous. Support by Bryan Ferry, Katie Melua and Juliet Taylor. A day I will never have again. Taylor could not be arsed, he even got Ferry to swap with him so he could go home early and have his tea at Mount Juliet, leaving Ferry to play to a quarter-filled Nowlan Park of people who arrived late to see James Taylor....

I was at that. I thought Brian Ferry was running late which is why Taylor went on before him. That was what we were told by the staff as we were right up front. Was an okay gig - not the worst by a mile. I didn't stay to see Brian Ferry.

McChubbin · 28-06-2015 07:42PM

Do comedy gigs count?
If so, I can tell you that I once went to see Dylan Moran in Vicar Street a few years back.
I loved him in Black Books so I was expecting a bit more of the same brand of humour but nope- onstage that night, he was slurring his words, obviously phoning it in and forgetting what joke he told whilst rambling on and on trying to get to the punchlines.
It was painful to watch.

Cody montana · 28-06-2015 07:47PM

Pixies in Perth, actually walked out.

harry Bailey esq · 28-06-2015 08:24PM

McChubbin wrote: »

Do comedy gigs count?
If so, I can tell you that I once went to see Dylan Moran in Vicar Street a few years back.
I loved him in Black Books so I was expecting a bit more of the same brand of humour but nope- onstage that night, he was slurring his words, obviously phoning it in and forgetting what joke he told whilst rambling on and on trying to get to the punchlines.
It was painful to watch.

Dylan Moran is a bit like the weather i find.Sometimes brilliant,sometimes sh1te,but never consistant.

yosser hughes · 30-06-2015 07:17PM

sabat wrote: »

A friend who works crew at all the venues around dublin told me that following any gig by a boyband or similar there's a palpable odour of pubescent vadge in the air.

your friend sounds like a creep

Obelisk29 · 30-06-2015 07:33PM

Eurythmics at Wembley Areana sometime in the late 80's was 2 hours of hell!

Both Van Morisson and James Taylor at Lisdoon - probably different years but memory is bit hazy.

Have seen The Fall live about a dozen times and whilst most of the times they were incredible a couple have been pure sh1te!

Lou Reed at the Point a few years ago was fairly dire.

Toots · 30-06-2015 08:01PM

Reiketsu wrote: »

Special mention goes to Lostprophets supporting Metallica along with Slipknot at the RDS in 2004. Awful ****e.....and we all know how that story ends :pac:

Logged in to post exactly this! Dreadful altogether, thankfully they got booed off the stage after only a couple of songs, so the ordeal wasn't as drawn out as it could have been!

Menas · 30-06-2015 08:06PM

Cody montana wrote: »

Pixies in Perth, actually walked out.

Pixies at Marley park last year. Frank Black walked out after something like 40 minutes saying 'my guitar string broke'.
Wnker. I had seen them about 5 times before that and always a great gig. But wont be seeing them again.

Everlong1 · 30-06-2015 08:17PM

rainbowdrop wrote: »

You just reminded me of seeing them playing in Millstreet maybe 10years ago. Wouldn't be a massive fan, but my ex wanted to go see them.
Hands down, the roughest gig I was ever at. The music wasn't too bad (although The Wailers supporting them were waaay better), but I have never seen so many fights in my life. Travellers everywhere, both men & women, kicking lumps out of each other. The car park outside was FULL of transit vans/caravans & campervans.
UB40 actually stopped the music at one stage to announce they would be packing up and leaving if the fighting didn't stop. We actually headed home early ourselves to get away from the trouble.
Pity it ruined the music, but it made it a very memorableg gig lol

What is it about toe rags and reggae ? Seriously? Has anyone ever noticed the correlation between knack bags (and I don't mean Pavees, I mean knackers as in general scumbag druggie types) and reggae? They love their Bob Marley, and of course they're usually racist as fu*k too.

Everlong1 · 30-06-2015 08:23PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

U2 two years ago.

It's at least five years since U2 toured last. It's a rare U2 gig that isn't good. What was so terrible about it?

Poor Uncle Tom · 30-06-2015 08:30PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velm73tnw-o

DEFTLEFTHAND · 30-06-2015 08:39PM

Does anyone have any good stories of comedians bombing? I remember hearing that a drunken Andrew Maxwell was booed off stage at the Cat Laughs festival a few years ago.

Everlong1 · 30-06-2015 08:41PM

One More Toy wrote: »

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.

That's unfair. Jinx Lennon is an acquired taste alright but he's a good performer. I've seen him many times.

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