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the worst concert you’ve ever been at…

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Started by sunshine in Other Bands & Artists

well, after talking about the last concerts we went to, let’s talk about the worst concerts you’ve ever visited…

in my case it’s been this year in may a cheb bilal concert … really :mad: i’ve never seen an artist who cares such a f*** about the audience…

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 09:13

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allroy wrote:

The Scorpions lots of years ago. I don’t even remember why I went there, but I regretted every moment.

Also, the Jesus And Mary Chain. I love their early stuff, esp. Psychocandy, but that show - some years ago in Düsseldorf - was so lame.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 09:28

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JSar666 wrote:

The worst show I’ve been to was New Found Glory at the Glasgow Barrowlands. Until then I was a fan, well, I thought they were OK, but after that I thought they sucked.
Helium-voiced pop-rock with enough girls screaming you’d think you were at an N’ Sync gig.

Although having said that, I took one of my friends to see Slipknot at the Barrowlands in 2000 and that sucked SO bad. 9 “keraazeee” talentless losers in boiler-suits that were so unco-ordinated it was a joke. Getting 4 people to play together is hard enough, but don’t EVEN attempt (?) to have a band with 9 people if you’re not talented enough.

Oh, and the worst support band I’ve seen was that second support band supporting Finch when they played The Glasgow Cathouse last year. I’m not even going to give them the satistfaction of trying to find out what their name was. Goddamn did they suck. My ears were ringing the next day from the vocalist’s nasal voice. I think if I risk tinnitus (?), I should at least enjoy it!:)

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 10:13

#3

motherh666 wrote:

I saw Ryan Adams last week. It was fucking dreadful. People were walking out after 5 songs. Arrgghhh.. I’m still squirming in anger at the memory of it.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 10:26

#4

Phantom wrote:

Placebo.
Tha show was sold-out, the venue is the best in town, the audience was great. I had fun indeed.
The only problem: they seemed oh! so bored to be there and play for us.
I don’t really care to understand why. I know they’d been touring hard, but in the end it seems to me a complete lack of respect for people buying tickets to give such a show.
P

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 10:47

#5

sunshine wrote:

talking about placebo: a friend told me once, that she met them and they very really arrogant…so, they don’t seem to be interested in having fans … although fans and their support is the most important thing for an aritst…am i right??

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 10:51

#6

White Psycho wrote:

Marilyn Manson - Reading 2001 - The worst and funniest gig I’ve ever seen!

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 11:31

#7

LunacyBooth wrote:

Title: Worst Gig and worst support…

Worst gig ever is no contest really - Incubus at Glasgow SECC. Absolutely shite! I managed 5 songs before leaving! I haven’t even listened to their CD’s since then! :mad:

Worst support - again no contest - has to be Defenestration who T? had on tour with them. Fucking garbage! :mad:

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 12:30

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motherh666 wrote:

White Psycho wrote:

Marilyn Manson - Reading 2001 - The worst and funniest gig I’ve ever seen!

I was there too. he stormed off-stage before I could assassinate him with a roll of toilet paper. Shite.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 12:51

#9

Krisken wrote:

I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the Bradly Center (a basketball arena)and, as has been said about them time and again, the accoustics were terrible, Billy Corgan belted out the lyrics with reckless abandon, and they just played the wrong notes (to their own songs no less) through the whole show. The only good thing about the show was I had a seat.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 13:31

#10

allroy wrote:

Memories come back to haunt me: more terrible shows come to mind.
As I read something about Guns’N’Roses in another thread I clearly remember their show at the Müngersdorfer Stadion in Cologne to be among the worst of all times. What saved the day back then were Faith No More and Soundgarden opening for them. Ben Sheperd, the bass player of Soundgarden, summed the whole G’n’R show up by puking on stage. :D

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 17:17

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Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

White Psycho wrote:

Marilyn Manson - Reading 2001 - The worst and funniest gig I’ve ever seen!

I was at that too. I thought it was alright. I was so far back that the sound system was bad though - or was it like that near the front too? ;)

For me it would be Fly Pan Am. For a while I was really into that post-rock constellation stuff (i’d seen them supporting GYBE, who i still like), but when I saw Fly Pan Am at their own gig it was just such a shite drone. Pretty expensive too.

I’ve probably been to worse, but Fly Pan Am is definately up there.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 17:18

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JSar666 wrote:

LunacyBooth, you are so right. I went to see Incubus at the SECC for the tour promoting Morning View, a fucking awful album in itself, and I was just disgusted. Not disappointed, disgusted. I’d seen them half a year earlier at the Barrowlands supported by Hundred Reasons and they were miles better.

And Defenestration… I don’t know how the fuck T? could ever want a band like them as a support act. They’re just talentless, playing the same 3 note riff over and over with a podgy girl doing the standard growly nu-metal vocals. I suffered them twice :mad:

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 17:26

#13

RobbyVDH wrote:

Deftones - Rock Am Ring 2003

Booooooooooooooooooooooring :o

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 17:55

#14

ebb wrote:

on the subject of Placebo, i thought they were excellent at the Leeds Festival this year, they seemed pretty happy that day, smiling and everything.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 18:55

#15

Flo wrote:

Pulp = pulp.

I went with a friend because we had free tickets but we left after 10 minutes and went to a nice pub to get drunk!

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 19:36

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mr self destruct wrote:

Boring indie whingers who were so incredibly dull and irritating at Cardiff Uni (with Amen as support) that I’ve entirely forgotten their name. They had a minor hit with a song called “Snow”, if that helps…

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 19:54

#17

not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:

mr self destruct: i think that was jj72 on some nme package tour or something. i went to that in leicester on the same tour but left immediately after amen.

xxx

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 20:21

#18

mr self destruct wrote:

That’s the boring buggers! You definitely had the right idea leaving after Amen, mate…

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 20:29

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tartanskirtgirl wrote:

The worst I saw was Ash at Southampton Guildhall in about 96 or 97. They had such little presence that you may as well have just stuck a CD player in the middle of the stage and whacked on their cd. It was so bad right that the support band Bis (yes Bis!) were far superior (in the context of that one gig only I might add)

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 20:36

#20

not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:

my personal worst would have to be when i saw the unbelievable truth a few years back. they were so boring that we actually got told off by security for talking. not shouting, or laughing or anything, just talking. quietly. at the back of the club. it was truly terrible.

xxx

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 20:41

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I think probably Korn at Leeds T&C. It was just really…dull. Ended up with a group of other disillusioned women in the toilets swigging the bottle of Malibu I’d cunningly sneaked in, heh heh.

Posted on Thu, 4 December 2003 at 21:32

#22

JSar666 wrote:

hoochalobster, you’re my kind of woman ;) :p

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 09:07

#23

Auto_Surgery (Mad Axe Man) wrote:

Black rebel motorcycle club - these are the worst band I’ve ever seen and because of that the worst gig I’ve been to. No stage presence and talk about being not arsed to perform.

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 09:17

#24

Reverend Savage? wrote:

Chemical Brothers, Sheffield Uni, late 90’s.

A pair of dicks who couldn’t be arsed and were off their tits.

Actually saw an interview in Q or something with them years later where they admitted that it was the worst gig they’d ever done. Couldn’t have agreed more.

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 10:36

#25

Gem wrote:

Worst band, saw athlete at v 2003, thought they were shit, and to be honest, the distillers dont deserve the hype. worst support was the mars volta, oening for the dhili peppers in march, excruciatingly awful.

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 13:52

#26

Jason1310 wrote:

The one that springs most to mind for me would be Finch at Leeds 2003, just didn’t like them at all and they didn’t play ‘letters to you’ which was just about the only reason for bothering to watch them.

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 14:04

#27

White Psycho wrote:

Dermot wrote:

I was at that too. I thought it was alright. I was so far back that the sound system was bad though - or was it like that near the front too? ;)

I was at the back for them, I just watched and laughed at how bad they were

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 15:03

#28

Don't Call Me Honey wrote:

I tend to mercifully forget most awful gigs I’ve seen…

one this thread has reminded me of, though, is Andrew W.K. - all the charisma of a wet rag, totally upstaged by his backing band of “spinal tap - the cheapo sitcom offshoot”-rejects, couldn’t sing for toffee… sad.

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 15:21

#29

White Psycho wrote:

Have to disagree there, I saw him at leeds last year and thought he was brilliant!

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 16:17

#30

JSar666 wrote:

Jason1310 I remember thinking Finch were crap at that gig where they were supported by the worst opening act I’ve ever seen. That guitarist Randy is just such a fucking fanny. And what is with that fucking stupid football chant? Fuck him and his floppy fringe :)

Posted on Fri, 5 December 2003 at 21:58

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