[Closed] Now for the worst gig you have been to...

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).

****ing 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.

Another vote for Ian Brown here.

Black Rebel Motorcyle Club were horrendous a few years ago. Muddy dirge would be the best way to describe it.

Bl**dy hell. 48 posts in and nobody has mentioned Spike Island.

I saw the ting tings last year
talentless hype
I am 25 yrs older than their target audience though

China Crisis Oxford Poly 87 - more atmosphere in the toilets..

I saw Faithless in about 2002, they were awful. As Barry Bethel said, boring corporate dance music, with zero atmosphere.

I also agree with Mudhoney being ace, saw them last month with the Vaselines and it was an excellent gig.