Thread: Worst Gig you've been too!!

Originally Posted by waradmiral

Originally Posted by cheekyman

Don McLean - Adelaide 2011 - 2 decent songs the rest pure shit.

He's famous for 1 song. He's touring this year. I won't be going. American Pie is shit imo.

I agree with you 100%, except for one thing...........

he's famous for two songs, American Pie, and Vincent.

double post,....... f...ing computers

Originally Posted by palexxxx

Originally Posted by waradmiral

Originally Posted by cheekyman

Don McLean - Adelaide 2011 - 2 decent songs the rest pure shit.

He's famous for 1 song. He's touring this year. I won't be going. American Pie is shit imo.

I agree with you 100%, except for one thing...........

he's famous for two songs, American Pie, and Vincent.

problem is I bet 90% can't name the 2nd song so it ain't that famous. i couldnt fuckin remember the name of it

its a lovely song to hear now and then
and a fitting tribute to fantastic Vincent

Saw Bob Dylan in Adelaide twice in the 90's (I think) Walked out both times and went to the bar instead.

MC Hammer with Vanilla Ice, about 1990. My first concert. En Vogue was the opening act and I can remember people slagging off on them, as they were then unknown. "Who the fuck do they think they are, The Supremes?!" And not that they were ever that great, but certainly better careers than Hammer or Ice.

The Sweet at Huddersfield Town Hall sometime back in the 80's. "The Sweet" of this incarnation was just a very alcoholic Brian Connelly w/ a few session musos backing.

Prior to the gig we saw the band's manager banging on the windows of a BMW with an obviously drunk Connelly inside, refusing to wake up. This was outside the venue.
The band had to start playing without him for a few numbers before Brian eventually made it on stage, looking thoroughly bemused and he couldn't even remember the words to the songs. After a few more shambolic attempts at the "greatest hits" the band fucked offstage, leaving the poor addled bastard clinging to the mike stand, totally befuddled..
There was a near-riot after the "concert" with a lot of pissed off punters demanding their money back. Which had obviously been spent already on Brian's vodka rider..

Shittest gig evah, but looking back it was actually funny as fukc.

Hmmmmm.....

Adam And The Ants - Liverpool Royal Court.

You'd have to know a bit about the Ants and their history to appreciate how bad this was.....

The Ants in their day were pretty hard core.

They announced a tour and new album.

The opening gig of the tour was at Erics in Liverpool and we bought tickets to travel up from Cardiff. Gonna be big.... couldn't wait.

In the meantime the Ants released their second album which was a disappointment to start with, then they became famous.....the gig was switched to the Royal Court Theatre and by the time we arrived it was a mixed audience of punks and mothers with children. I was really rather bizarre combined with awful.

The new songs were met with squeals os delight and the old songs were met with..... you'd have to know the Ants and be there to get that part.

I never saw the Ants nor bought another new record again after that other than fulfilling the Ants gig in Cardiff which, as it was in a nightclub, was kids free and a very different occasion.

I did however continue to collect the Ants unreleased catalogue on bootleg which is still awesome stuff. All those great songs never released..... *sigh*

Hawkwind at Worthing town hall, sometime in the early 70's. The air was thick with insense, the stage was too small for all their gear and the dancer fell off after about five minutes. After the bass amp failed, we were treated to a forty minute percussion and synthesizer improvisation, with Nick Turner farting into the mike and yelling, " you are all welcome at my house!".

Aqua at Sparks Disco, Singapore - 1997/8?

Actually they were quite good. I take it back.

James Taylor in the early seventies at the University of Wisconsin. Boring and over long.
Pearl Jam in Bangkok sometime in the early nineties.

Oh yeah I went to see Slash 2 or 3 years ago here in Singapore. Actually he was headlining the second night of some Rock Weekend or something (Stone Temple Pilots were on the first night and they were good).
After a couple of Guns and Roses songs I left and went to Geylang instead.

Originally Posted by tdar

Saw Bob Dylan in Adelaide twice in the 90's (I think) Walked out both times and went to the bar instead.

Fuk, you beat me too it.

Bob fuking Dylan wins the most fuked up live artist award by a country mile. Cont came on stage, mumbled grumbled and destroyed every foking lyric he had ever written. Silly old cont is a sparrows fart away from a zimmer frame anyway.

Thing was, he didn't give a fuk , he said fok all to the punters mumbled his shit songs and walked off into the darkness.

Your a dead set cont Bob and fuk you too innit.

Ive given up going to these high profile gigs as most of the artists fuk them up, many just don't care.

Rather go down the local and watch the lads punching out some nice blues and engaging us paying punters.

Yeh, that's where its at, not these has been's who do the walk around just before they foking die.

REM a few years ago, we were expecting a sing a long to all their great songs - but just had their new album.

Originally Posted by tdar

Saw Bob Dylan in Adelaide twice in the 90's (I think) Walked out both times and went to the bar instead.

must of been one of the same tours, saw the bastard in brisbane,hopeless,only played songs no one had heard of,wrote to management asking for money back, they refused.
people were walking out after 20 mins,pity though,saw him in rotterdam late 70's and he was good.
but the best thing was nick cave as a warm up, opening act, pure class.

Originally Posted by Gallowspole

the bald white feker went on a political rant between, during and after nearly all of their songs. Most of the audience were too stoned and/or pissed to give a shit.

Didn't he go on to become a environment minister in the Australian govt?

The few that spring to mind.

Thin Lizzy just after Whisky in The Jar had become a huge hit at the Top Hat Spennymoor (obviously playing dates booked prior to the hit).

Eddie & The Hot Rods in France mid 70's total waste of money. They were blown off stage by the local support band - Telephone.

Jethro Tull MSG New York 79/80. Needed binoculars to see the stage - could have been anyone. Never went to a stadium style concert again.

Soft Machine France mid 70's. Music was fine but the concert hugely disappointing. The band formed a circle on the stage playing to/for themselves. It was if the audience was intruding
I could have been at home all comfortable listening to a CD

Originally Posted by xanax

Originally Posted by Bobcock

In the meantime the Ants released their second album which was a disappointment to start with, then they became famous.....the gig was switched to the Royal Court Theatre and by the time we arrived it was a mixed audience of punks and mothers with children. I was really rather bizarre combined with awful.

*

so you only liked them while they were relatively unknown, as soon as they were popular, successful and on the telly you lost interest. Mothers with kids, how 'awful' for you, some fan then!

Crap. The original Ants (who sans Adam fucked off with Malcolm McClaren to become Bow Wow Wow) were the biggest cult band in the UK at that time.
After the line-up change they did an amazing U-turn becoming a mainstream pop band, alienating a massive fanbase of punks, whilst becoming a teenie-pop phenomenon.
Saw them live in both incarnations, and to be honest they were always a very good live act.

As I said, he'd need to know a bit about the Ants to understand the story.....

He clearly didn't....but I guess he realises that because he deleted his tirade..... Kudos for that I guess.....

Bryan Ferry in Bangkok about 10yrs back.

Never said one word all night, playing two hits in a 90 minute set and didn't smile once.

New Order at Finsbury Park - Vocals are shot badly, he shouldn't do gigs like that when people have paid good money.

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Hmmmmm.....

Adam And The Ants - Liverpool Royal Court.

You'd have to know a bit about the Ants and their history to appreciate how bad this was.....

The Ants in their day were pretty hard core.

They announced a tour and new album.

The opening gig of the tour was at Erics in Liverpool and we bought tickets to travel up from Cardiff. Gonna be big.... couldn't wait.

In the meantime the Ants released their second album which was a disappointment to start with, then they became famous.....the gig was switched to the Royal Court Theatre and by the time we arrived it was a mixed audience of punks and mothers with children. I was really rather bizarre combined with awful.

The new songs were met with squeals os delight and the old songs were met with..... you'd have to know the Ants and be there to get that part.

I never saw the Ants nor bought another new record again after that other than fulfilling the Ants gig in Cardiff which, as it was in a nightclub, was kids free and a very different occasion.

I did however continue to collect the Ants unreleased catalogue on bootleg which is still awesome stuff. All those great songs never released..... *sigh*

was the gig at the old top rank in queen street?

Originally Posted by Bobcock

Yeah.... nightclub was probably the wrong description, but it was over 18's only.... officially (cos I would have been 16).... certainly not a mum's and kids crowd. Fair bit of fighting as I remember as was common then.

Saw many of my early gigs there, Stranglers, Clash, TRB, SLF, Skids, Slits and many more.... Sophia Gardens was another that came along a while later when the bands became too big for the Rank.

Even saw Crass at Barry Town Hall.... lush it was....

brings back memory's,though a bit hazy!! seen most of those bands too,with the ruts,uk subs etc ..clash at sophia gardens.....and crass at the memo was fucking blast