Your Most Disappointing Gig

bigjonny · March 28, 2015

Lowste said:
My first experience was in my younger days, I sneaked into the Moonstone (think it was called that) and I was the same come out with impaired hearing. And a fear of hairy a***d bikers

The Moonstone ! lol, in St.Johns precinct, Clayton square side. They used to put bands on in The Sportsman as well ( that was the other side it became Quinns in the 80's).Most disappointing gig , The Pierces at the uni. walked out after 4 songs.

Lowste · March 28, 2015

The moonstone decided my path in music
Love Rock and loved Punk

Thanks Moonstone

bring the ghost on · March 28, 2015

The worst
Pogues 2009 - you expect Shane to be wasted, but on this occasion he was singing a different song to the rest of the band and ended up falling off stage. Shame to see a genius in such a bad way. Luckily they were boss the next year.

Close runner up
Bob Dylan 2011 - really hard work. A lot of people pretending they 'got it' but it was like Dylan was sticking two fingers up to the crowd. I'll let him off though.

Prevenger17 · March 28, 2015

Blink 182 at the Point. I couldn't believe they were a professional band, they played horrifically.

ToffeeDoug · March 28, 2015

I don't think I have ever been to a gig that was a true bummer but I suppose there have been some where you were really looking forward to it and while it was ok, it was all a bit flat.....ZZ Top at Milton Keynes Bowl c.1990 for one. So choreographed to the split second it looked robotic and killed any sense of spontaneity.

pejic · March 28, 2015

Wilco at Shepherds Bush Empire in 1997. Jeff Tweedy famously stopped playing and announced that all of us in the audience were 'snotty Brits' or 'snobs' or something, because no one was getting into it. The lack of response was actually because he and his band were absolute tosh.

BlueLlama · March 28, 2015

Oasis at Knebworth. They were awful.Liam just stood there snarling and whining.

Fortunately The Prodigy and The Charlatans were ace and saved the day.

badger blue · March 28, 2015

DualityNSNO said:
But... isn't that a legendary gig, and also one of their last? I don't understand

The sound wasn't great, the wind and rain didn't help, also a good bit of sporadic fighting going on in the crowd. Think some lad got his ear bitten off! But over all it just wasn't a great day out, I wouldn't of been queens biggest fan, we were just going to any festivals/gigs that were around at the time.

DualityNSNO · March 28, 2015

badger blue said:
The sound wasn't great, the wind and rain didn't help, also a good bit of sporadic fighting going on in the crowd. Think some lad got his ear bitten off! But over all it just wasn't a great day out, I wouldn't of been queens biggest fan, we were just going to any festivals/gigs that were around at the time.

Fair enough really.

BLUENOWZ1878 · March 28, 2015

Van Morrison at Killyleagh Castle some years ago he was grumpier than usual, Jackson Browne owned the stage in comparison!
I have seen Van the Man five times twice he has been grumpy as hell not even interacting the audience.

Piijt · March 28, 2015

Elvis Costello at Erics back in the day, bloody awful.
Still going to see him at the Phil in June though

BLUENOWZ1878 · March 28, 2015

Piijt said:
Elvis Costello at Erics back in the day, bloody awful.
Still going to see him at the Phil in June though

Saw him at The Waterfront Hall Belfast last year great performance! you should enjoy it!

ste d' indica · March 28, 2015

Blue 1 said:
Prodigy at Glastonbury in '97. Was pathetically quiet and they got the arse with the crowd shouting "Turn it up" and stormed off for half an hour before coming back in a foul temper and were still quiet. [Poor language removed] off to watch Massive Attack, who were mint.

Primal Scream at Reading in '95. They were going through their Stones tribute act phase and butchered most of their best stuff. Got bored and spent their set wandering around the arena getting arseholed and setting fire to things.

You owe me a tent you 'kin pyromaniac!!