ozric tentacles were always sh*te live
The Nefilim at rock city. I loved the original neph but carl mcoy and extras was awful. Best bit of the gig... lots of dry ice, atmospheric lighting, lead singer struts into view wearing a beret and immediately met with a cry of "Freedom for tooting!"
Clawfinger at the wheatsheaf- like and even more s**t rage against the machine
lots of wanabe goth bands from the 90's
Green Day at the MEN a fortnight since. Music was (mostly) good, playing of the crowd by Billy-Joe was embarrassing, and the venue is so big I reckon the stage was in Manchester but I was sat somewhere in bl00dy Oldham. I've waited sodding years to see them live too. At least I now know that 'Arena' gigs are not for me.
Contrast that to Stiff Little Fingers at Holmfirth Picturedrome a month since. Intimate venue, myself and the stage were in the same postcode, and the pit at the front was full of bald 40-somethings having a great time knocking fook out of each other. Ace.
I have had the misfortune to see Mercury Rev supporting somebody twice now.
I saw them in 92 and they were ace, totally mental. Saw them again last year, they were dull as ****. Mirrors their output on record perfectly 
Well countless crap bands that were never going to be big, but if we are talking established stars it has to be another Sheffield Arena gig- Lenny Kravitz probably 1993 ish. Pretended to storm off stage in a huff with the audience (happened samepoint in the set every night ).
Girlfriend managed to actually fall asleep...
Status Quo, Newcastle City Hall, 1984-ish on one of their final tours. This particular one was their 'End of the Road' tour. Wish I'd kept driving.
Powercut half way through and then Francis was feeling a bit poorly. Whole thing was totally underwhelming but then I probably should have known that beforehand.
Actually the Stones were pretty average too I thought when I saw them at Wembley Arena (Voodoo Lounge?).
Bruce springsteen at the millennium stadium last year. the most boring 3 hours of my life. would have left but my father in law is a big fan. He didnt really play any of his hits either. Maybe if I was a fan i would have enjoyed it more.
Blink 182 @ NEC, 2 weeks before they broke up, clearly didn't want to be there, got to the end and they said "right, you shout a bit and we'll come back on for an encore and get it over with" bloody awful! sugar cult, who supported them however made up for it as they were excellent and blew Blink off the stage
Oh no worse than Bruce were Glasvegas supporting U2 at wembley in august. Lead singer an utter **** and clearly not interested in being there. Shame really as they are ine of the NME's current darlings and thought they would be good
The Kooks, about a year ago at Carling Academy Brum, not my idea, got ropped along, . . . awful, dreary crap music!
The best, The wedding Present about 1996 in alittle place up brum, manic jumping around, mental, ace!
I worked at a lot of crap gigs in the 80s, but the one that stands out is one that I actually wanted to go to. Gene Loves Jezebel, Bradford Uni, c1987.
I really like em on record but live they drove me to the pool table.
Couldn't leave as I was working on the stage crew (unload truck, chuck it all on stage; wait around for a day & a half; rip everything off stage & chuck it back in truck) and had to be around after the set
Happy mondays - glastonbury
Sultans of ping - after dark club
Creaming jesus (although i may have enjoyed it at the time)
coal chamber - abysmal
I never saw creaming jesus do a bad gig, they were always very chaotic affairs but that was half the fun 
Stereophonics @ Newcastle Arena, about 2002 I think. Totally lifeless, dull performance in a half filled echoey hall. Dire.
Smashing pumpkins @ MEN arena around '96/'97, pretty much the same comments as above.
Green Day @ Manchester Apollo '96. Last night of their tour. Great music, crap venue, no atmosphere and they only played for 30 minutes.
Simply Red, Gateshead Stadium, '92. Utter utter shite. Nuff said.
Bl**dy hell. 48 posts in and nobody has mentioned Spike Island. 
Went to see The Levellers at Band on the Wall (i think) in Manchester, one of the support acts were so appallingly bad i thought they were a local bunch dragged off the street at the last minute.
Apparently they were called the Manic Street Preachers.
So fekkin' bad i would hav thrown myself into the sea in embarrassment if i were in that band....
Kiss, their first gig at the Hammersmith Odeon, appalling and thank god for the support band which was Stray
Couldn't use half the special effects due to contravening the fire regs and the sound was crap too, just didn't work at all
Mansun - Dublin 2001'ish
their last but one gig ever, the next gig was in their hometown.
At the Dublin gig they just could not be arsed, there was about 60 people there and it was actually embarassing. people were slowly shifting back from the stage to the bar at the back. I'm sure they cut the gig short.
I loved Mansun and still think they had some great 'marmite' songs.
Ian Bown -cardiff uni, he is a legend but jaysus he cant sing, someone in the crowd got bored and 'spat' at brown. he had them dragged out of the gig, while being punched by everyone on the way!
But the most WTF! are they taking the p*ss was 'Gong' at the Beautiful Days festival this year, i honestly thought the actual band had cancelled and they had found some homeless people to invae the stage, the biggest pile of sh*te i have ever witnessed. i guess back in the 70's wacked off your head it would have made sense, but at a festival in 2009 it kinda took the p*Ss, honeslty i canot convey how bad they were!!!
Green Day LG Arena 27th Oct I mirror Sanity Assasins Comments the music was Good when they played a song all the way through, But the crowd participation stuff got in the way and was no flow to the gig,MInd you the Tshirt cannon was pretty cool. A shame as I saw them twice during American Idiot Tour had a great time (NIA and Milton Keynes).
Brian Harvey at the start of his solo 'career' at club Zeus in Chelmsford (don't ask).
**** awful. Only good part was seeing some one repeatedly flicking lit fag ends at his face until he stormed off
Easy! Depeche Mode! I won tickets off a radio station to see them at a theatre (John Cooper Clarke was compere and I really liked him). It was all seated and they were unbelievably dull.
I actually had my review of the gig published in the NME
ive seen ian brown live
another kings of leon here saw them during there last uk tour. they didnt hit a single bum note, played about 23 tunes but i felt like i was watching the telly.instantly forgetable.
maybee a bit harsh to say it was my worst though.
Ride at the Town & Country round about 1990 ish.
I have never seen or heard such utter, utter, utter shite
Editors at Brixton academy a few years ago, although I really quite like the band. Also babyshambles (the shame!) at Hammersmith, and even more shamefull Kaiser Chiefs at Brixton.
A night in crying whilst I ****ed into a sock would have been preferable to the last two
I have been to a lot of bad gigs but they were all with my old band and we were playing. Once the bassist and singer decided to have a fight on stage and then run off!At another gig the singer was part way through a mental breakdown and refused to look at the audience and he kept stopping singing and staring off into the distance. Another time the bass player decided to tell the audience he wanted to kill himself and then started putting cigarettes out on his arm. In the end a fight broke out with us and the landlord as he refused to pay and riot police had to be called. It was all proper rock and roll not like these young uns today. Now I think about it...Good Times!
Suede, Doncaster Dome, maybe 2000. Maybe lasted three songs, utterly awful. Had seen them before and they could be good, not that night.
Primal Scream - Cambridge a year or so ago....
Primal Scream - Nottingham 1982/3 (i think) - awful awful awful - got booed off - they were the support band - clearly didn't improve over the years!
Dare I say, Garry Glitter. Round '89 or '90. Girlschool supporting. Truly, truly, truly awful. He took a break half way through. We left.
Oasis @ Cardiff Millennium Stadium were pretty poor
I've seen the Blackout supporting several bands (they seem to be stalking me by supporting bands that I like) they are awful...
Jose Gonzales @ the Hall for cornwall - soooo boring (people in the crowd were shushing anyone who sounded like they were trying to enjoy themselves!
But by far the worst was De La Soul @ Exeter earlier this year, not sure if it was their fault or the promoters, but they were having technical problems all night with the support acts & by the time they came on there was only 20mins til the venue closed - so I drove 2hours to see 20mins of De La Soul.
Beck last year in southampton. Dullard.
And Live8. hideous day.
oasis at wembley arena about 7 years ago.
nothing else i`ve seen even comes close to how bad this lot were on that evening.
prior to that it was a carcass gig in worthing - there were about 8 peeople there and the lager was warm cans. i did get to have a few beers with the band after that helped rescue the evening tho.
Muse at Docklands Arena in 2003. It was full of kids (aged 12-16), and the venue had no atmosphere whatsoever. Someone chucked a bottle on stage and it hit Matt Bellamy square on the head. There was no encore.
I thought MGMT at the Astoria was awful at the time - they turned up late (1030), and not having listened to their album I wondered what this 60s hippy throwback carp was. It took me a couple of months to realise that actually it wasn't bad. Doh!
And some of the later Oasis gigs I went to (Hampshire Rose Bowl and one other) were dreadful. Full of scallies and wannabe mancs.
Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Reading, sometime in the eighties. Godawful, lasted three songs before the hail of mud and bottles drove him of the stage. Roadies had to cover the Doobie Bros kit with tarps to protect it, and shovel the crap off the stage after. Dreadful. 65DaysOfStatic, Oxford Academy, a year or so back. Had tickets for Asobi Seksu, but they got bumped onto support spot for 65Days. Dull, duller, dullest. I can't express how bored I was. Me and me mate walked out during the second 'song' and went to the pub down the road. First time I've done that in over thirty years of gig going. Asobi Seksu were good, mind, but having driven all the way to Oxford for a thirty minute gig I felt somewhat ripped off.
Chilli Peppers in Hyde Park a few years ago, they looked to be going through the motions and the noise police made sure that no-one could hear unless you put your ear to the speakers, was utter sh*te.
"The Enid" at (then) Kingston Polytechnic in 1977. Bunch of hippy sh1te.
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