#31
Taunty Dan wrote:
I saw Lemonheads at wolves wulfren about 12 yrs back, very excited cos they were one of my favourite bands, but evan was off his tits and opened up with several stoned midpaced country tunes. We left after about half hour.
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 20:10
#32
msd wrote:
I can’t recall leaving a gig early, but the recent Paradise Lost 20th anniversary show in Krefeld was disappointing, purely down to the lame apathetic German audience
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 20:17
#33
buffalo-boy wrote:
1) Smashing Pumpkins on their farewell tour in 2000 at the NEC. Horrendous. They started the set with 7 or 8 acoustic songs and never built up the energy after that.
2) Wildhearts at Rock City 2007. Ginger never said a word to the crowd and the setlist was really dull.
3) Someone mentioned Garbage above and i love that band but in 98 at the NEC they were pretty dull - Shirley kept talking complete shit between songs which spoiled the pacing of the gig.
4) Weezer at Reading 2002. I think they had technical problems but Rivers kept trying to hide it by saying what a great crowd we were after every single song which was annoying and it was long gaps between songs too.
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 20:22
#34
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Very disappointed with Echo and the Bunnymen on their first comeback tour.
Ian McCulloch couldn’t hold a tune in a bucket.
Manics at Stoke on the This Is My Truth tour was pretty sad too, as was their “greatest hits” tour (“We’ll never play The Everlasting ever again”…ummmm, wish they’d stuck to that promise..) but then they have been pretty fucking ace on other tours, so it’s a bit of a roulette with them.
Placebo are probably the worst live band I have seen. Brian Molko comes across as the very dictionary definition of the word “cunt”
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 20:34
#35
ninjated (Liam) wrote:
deadsetgav wrote:
I was pretty underwhelmed by Smashing Pumpkins on the infinite sadness tour.
I’d seen a Siamese Dream era gig on MTV and they were brilliant, so I was expecting them to be great… I think the combination of them being at the MEN (Nynex Arena back then), Billys overwhelming dullness and 20 minute improvised feedback jams breaking up the flow…
I saw them twice and got bored shitless both times. I love some of their albums but live they had no energy at all.
I remember walking out for a beer during one of those feedback jams and when I came back they were still doing the exact same shit!
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 20:56 in reply to an earlier post
#36
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
richey wrote:
I saw Taproot supporting Deftones a few years back.
at least you saw them, im desperate to see them.
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:08 in reply to an earlier post
#37
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
grant - when did you see inme?
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:09
#38
RoyBatty (Steve) wrote:
Saw Megadeth in ‘88 when they were really into the coke/heroin. Sloppy, umkempt, out of tune. Mustaine was so fucked up he just stood there, slumped over his guitar just waiting to vomit. Saw them again a few times in the ‘90’s and they were great.
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:24
#39
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
charlie will love this, i think the worse band ive seen is Trivium at download 06, the performance was good, but the sound was shocking
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:27
#40
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
but graham diddnt you see fightstar?
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:40
#41
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
oh funeral for a friend are a close second to inme, they were terrible, awful sound, awful turnout, awful venue, awful performance, I was awfully drunk and spend about half an hour talking to their driver outside.
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:41
#42
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:41
#43
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
yep saw fightstar 3 times, all of them were great :)
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:42
#44
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:43
#45
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:43
#46
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:47
#47
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
i thought you liked fightstar
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:50
#48
Squall wrote:
fight CLUB . he likes fight CLUB ( maybe ) :p
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 22:52
#49
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
why would i like fightstar?
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 23:21
#50
Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 23:25
#51
glen wrote:
funeral for a friend at download 06 (missed the prodigy for them)
and then guns n roses right after them…
Posted on Wed, 11 February 2009 at 23:54
#52
fatboy wrote:
…and who wants to see Axl these days…not me
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 08:09
#53
chr1s (I can't remember my own name) wrote:
Fugazi are another band i thought were hit and miss live…first twice i saw em was great,even with the minimal light and sound set ups that they seem to always use, then last time i saw them, around 7 yrs ago, they were just boring.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 09:14
#54
Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:
Ash (once) and Supergrass (twice) were a disappointment. Oasis first two times were great (Sheffield on their first arena tour and then Loch Lomond) - at Wembley Arena, given that there were several 10’s of thousands of people that had forked out £30 each to be there, their sheer lack of enthusiasm was pretty unforgivable.
Killers are disappointing live because I can never get tickets :(
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 09:42
#55
caffeinebomb (Caffeine Bomb) wrote:
I’ve had a couple of really crap gigs that I though were going to be ace. I saw Groop Dogdrill doing a lot of support slots back in the day - and without exception they were always completely shit. Fungus had the same problem too.
I loved Stereophonics in 1998-2000, but saw them headline Leeds 2000 and I have literally never listened to one of their albums since - they were note perfect but played about 2/3 the speed of the record - it was so tiresome, boring and pointless, and there was zero entertainment value to it. AND it wasdrizzling, just dreadful.
I’ve seen Funeral for a Friend a few times, and I love their first 2 albums, but I ended up sitting down at the back of the gig chatting with my brother last time I saw them - just so horribly boring. What a wate of time.
Whoever was supporting Monster Magnet at the Astoria last year was shit too. Paint-by-numbers doom-rock done really badly. after 5 minutes it was like, yeah, we get it, now jog on please.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 11:59
#56
Gav wrote:
I’m surprised at how many people mention Monster Magnet - I saw them at the Big Day Out festival at the Milton Keynes bowl and thought they were pretty good.
I guess when you mix rock stars and too many drugs you get the hit-miss risk factor.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:18
#57
caffeinebomb (Caffeine Bomb) wrote:
I thought Monster Magnet were great when I saw them, but their support band defined generic crap.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:25
#58
Gav wrote:
Um - Epic fail on my part… I didn’t read the post correctly.
(Note to self - must do better ;))
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:30
#59
caffeinebomb (Caffeine Bomb) wrote:
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:33
#60
Gav wrote:
I’m as careless with them as I am with my hap-hazzard posting… I’ve put them down and can’t remember where I left them.
Nah - they are both great. The little one sleeps well (at the moment)
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:56
