Whats the worst gig you've seen?

[dmpoole]

The year is 1976, the venue is Bingley Hall Stafford which is a cow shed and the band are The Rolling Stones. I'd been waiting ages for this gig and I'd even been offered £100 for my ticket. There were banners all around saying "The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World" and I couldn't wait.
We entered the cow shed with the sound of soul music blasting in our ears. The support act came on which were an all black soul band which I think were called the Trammps but I could be way off. The thing is we had another hour of soul music.
The interval music was all soul music.
The Stones then hit the stage with I think Jumping Jack Flash and I was rockin'. They then went into all their slow soul type stuff for about 30 minutes and then the stage was given to Billy Preston for 10 minutes. They continued until the hour was nearly up with slow soulful stuff and then ended with (I think) Brown Sugar. There was no encore and we left to the sounds of soul music once again. A total of two rock n roll songs all night on a bill that was supposed to be dedicated to "The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World".
To say I was upset was an understatement and to think I could have sold my ticket for £100.

(just like to say I grew up on soul music but I didn't expect it on this night)

Whats your worst gig?

[huwg]

a choice of :-
The Cult (87 - Electric tour)
Living Colour (92? - Times Up tour)

[TarPot]

I saw Living Colour when Stain was released and thought they were amazing.
I saw The Cult on the Ceremony tour, they were toilet.

I saw The Brian Jonestown Massacre the other week after seeing them in the film DiG! They were truly awful. Avoid.

[frozendexter]

I saw Embrace the other week in Sherwood forest, one word, ****E. The sound mix was crap so you could hardly make out the words.

Most entertaing part of the gig was a fight on the car park afterwards.

Saw Madness last year at the same place, awesome!

[TJNewton]

Slade, without Noddy Holder, Xmas Extravaganza. They even made support band Dr. and the Medics look good. Dave Hill is a right t****r!

[sbowler]

REM mcalpine stadium, mid eighties. Awesome.

[signs]

Originally Posted by dmpoole

The year is 1976, the venue is Bingley Hall Stafford which is a cow shed and the band are The Rolling Stones. I'd been waiting ages for this gig and I'd even been offered £100 for my ticket. There were banners all around saying "The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World" and I couldn't wait.
We entered the cow shed with the sound of soul music blasting in our ears. The support act came on which were an all black soul band which I think were called the Trammps but I could be way off. The thing is we had another hour of soul music.
The interval music was all soul music.
The Stones then hit the stage with I think Jumping Jack Flash and I was rockin'. They then went into all their slow soul type stuff for about 30 minutes and then the stage was given to Billy Preston for 10 minutes. They continued until the hour was nearly up with slow soulful stuff and then ended with (I think) Brown Sugar. There was no encore and we left to the sounds of soul music once again. A total of two rock n roll songs all night on a bill that was supposed to be dedicated to "The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World".
To say I was upset was an understatement and to think I could have sold my ticket for £100.

(just like to say I grew up on soul music but I didn't expect it on this night)

Whats your worst gig?

i saw rainbow there in the 80's.. and i would say calling it a cow shed is mild

[signs]

the lemon heads, rock city ...dando forgot his words ,sh*t
saying that, soul asylum (the support) were great :smashin

[unique]

apart from bands i really couldn't stand, the rolling stones at hampden in glasgow was awful. free tickets, but we were right at the back of the stadium, and the stage was setup at one end (when i saw u2 the stage was in the middle, so the furthest seats werent that far back, altho i was front row anyways) and we were at the far end, with no speakers so all the sound was bouncing about and echoing, plus the screens looked out of synch and the stones looked like ants. in fact it could have been anyone on stage for all we could see. i was closer to the stage at live 8!

i saw the lemonheads at queen margaret student union in glasgow, small club sized gig in the mid 90s and they were really great, no support either thank god. having to put up with a glaswedgian student grunge band would just have been too much. i just stood behind the soundesk, which whilst at the back, was only a few feet from the stage, the place was so small. saw evan outside before the gig too. he was suffering from food poisoning after eating some dodgy chicken (welcome to glasgow!) but still did a great show. funnily enough a few years later i bumped into him again in minneapolis outside first avenue, he was hiding from some japanese tourists/fans across the street. i wouldn'tve known who it was if they hadn't told me

[signs]

Originally Posted by unique

saw evan outside before the gig too. he was suffering from (heroin) food poisoning after eating some dodgy chicken (welcome to glasgow!) but still did a great show. funnily enough a few years later i bumped into him again in minneapolis outside first avenue, he was hiding from some japanese tourists/fans across the street. i wouldn'tve known who it was if they hadn't told me

[unique]

Originally Posted by signs

LOL, probably!

that reminds me of the story about when pete docherty came to edinburgh a couple of months back when he was doing the tour of uk jails and police stations as well as a couple of normal venues, anyways there was an article in the evening news that said he left his hotel to cross the street to the newsagents and persuaded the young asian guy who worked there to drive him in his car to buy heroin, and the guy actually took him, but he didn't know anyone who sold drugs (so why go in the bloody car with a nutter! you may as well have taken osama bin liner wearing a t shirt saying "i hate bush and blair" if you wanted to get arrested)

[JohnG]

Soft Cell many many years ago at Rock City in Nottingham, and before anyone says anything, the only reason I was there was because my mate's band were supporting them
The tape machine that Soft Cell used with most of their music on broke down and eventually everyone started jeering them. Marc Almond then burst into tears on stage and the whole thing just deteriorated from then !

[karkus30]

There are three that claim equal ammounts of awfulness..


Primal Scream at the T&C leeds........awful acoustics, Bobby kept stopping 'cos people were shouting at him and was bursting into fits of rage and announcing they would walk off stage, the smoke was so dense you got high just breathing and the enterance was full of smack heads shooting up in plain sight of everyone or just lying comatose on the floor........

The Thrills at Middlesbrough......the venue did'nt seem to know when exactly the gig was supposed to start so they left people outside for about an hour and a half, when we finally got in the band were totalled and could hardly play, the guitarist did'nt even seem to know what song he was playing or where the audience were.......

and finally.....Snow Patrol at Newcastle Uni, couldn't see a thing and in the end I couldn't care anyway as it was so boring, girls swooning over their one average single was about all I could take....why did I book the tickets..oh yeah thats when I actually believed Q magazine were genuine critics, not music industry patsies.......ho,ho anyone for that 5 star Razorlight album to go with the 5 star Muse album.

[Simon6776]

David Lee Roth - Hammersmith, probably about 10 years ago. Played a whole load of new stuff no one liked, and was just plain boring.

Didn't go myself, but I would have thought that Queen + Paul Rodgers in the tent at Wembley (2005) was a contender, judging by the reports from the gig.

[cheeseywang]

Robert Cray @ Hammersmith Odeon Jan '91 I think. I'd been really looking forward to this, so when the lights went down and the band came on stage me and my mate stood up cheering and... no one else did. They all remained seated and clapped politely. Feeling a little foolish we sat down and the band started up. They were so quiet we could barely hear the music, far less the vocals. I turned to my mate and we started talking about how rubbish the sound was and the guy sitting in front of me turned round and asked us to stop talking. Is this a gig or a library?

It was a huge disappointment all round. Partly due to the undersized PA and partly due to our misconception of what the gig would be. I was expecting a rockin' soul/blues show but got a musical appreciation evening.

Still love his early albums though...