Wall of Mouths

I’ve never walked out on a gig.

And I like it when bands play very different versions of their songs - if I want to hear the normal version I can listen to it on CD. I’m actually disappointed that most bands just hammer out their songs just as they appear on the albums.

I also don’t see what’s wrong with hearing songs from a forth-coming album, being one of the first to hear them is usually pretty cool. I guess if they play too many it might get a bit annoying though, as you can’t really get into songs that you’ve had no way of hearing before the gig.

I guess I staggered out rather than walked

Went to see Korn many moons ago and they were shite so we didn’t stay. Also accidentally saw a bit of Metallica at a festival… decided queuing for a portaloo was preferable so we ran away shouting ‘we piddle on your widdle’, heheh.

A friend of mine asked if I wanted to go and see Los Campesinos at the Cockpit in November, they were bollocks, so I spent most of the evening sitting in the little room next door on the steps leading up to the stage trying to get a signal on my phone.

I also went to see the Wildhearts and Amen in about 2004 in Newcastle, got so drunk that I fell asleep in the toilet, got thrown out, and they wouldn’t let me back in without a ticket, so I bought another ticket on the door and went back in. That was a silly night.

That apart, I don’t think I’ve ever done a runner.

Walked from Snow Patrol gig - it was a Belfast gig after the success of Final Straw - after 20 mins I had enough of being surrounded by teenage girls screaming at Gary Lightbody…if I hadn’t left I think I may have throttled one of them :-D. Besides that, had to endure Ian Archer as their support - he was beyond boring!

Walk out on gigs occasionally , if it’s a shit gig and my mates are all in the pub next door then it’s a bit of a no-brainer really.

Only one that I remember that a band finished early was Coheed & Cambria in Dublin , drummer felt sick or something and they just walked off after 5 or 6 tunes just as I was starting to enjoy it.

Walked out of a Bright Eyes gig once about half way through. Surprise, surprise the band was almost too drunk to stand and mangled their own songs

Talked about it with a friend last week. About 12 years ago, when we were still going to gigs every week, we used to walk out on a regular base when Liar played. They were an amazing band, but they played on every decent hardcore gig in Belgium around that time (mainly there were at least 3-4 bands on the bill). A few years ago I started going to a lot of their gigs again, I couldn’t understand why we walked out during their gigs.

diddnt therapy? play that festival?

My Vitriol.
Motorhead.

Also because I would miss the train: Therapy? encore at Astoria. Social Distortion at Astoria.

Naw. Kicked out, I think you call it. ;-)

The Wildhearts in Southampton and the Cure in Zurich.

And Schindler’s List, oh wait, that was a movie…

Surprising to hear The Wildhearts shows being bad. Normally they are really at live. Maybe that day guys had taken too much drugs.

I want walk out occasionally from shows, as a journalist I gotta also interviews with bands I can’t stand.

Walked out of Teenage Fanclub, for some reason I always got them mixed up with Sonic Youth. I’d been in a pub all day as the Manchester derby was on and was slightly drunk by the time i got there. After the first couple of songs i can remember thinking that they sounded a lot different than i remember, then when they started talking I noticed they had Scottish accents and it dawned on me that they were the other band that I didn’t actually like

I’ve walked out of two gigs.. incubus as they played all the slow waffy songs and the singer was more concerned with taking his shirt of then singing. And a band called Indigo Seal who pissed me off majorly and kept telling me to turn them up even though everything was feed backing because they were fuckwits.. so i grabbed a pint and left, which wasn’t really professional as i was their soundman for the night but fuck em.