threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
And?
The Worst Band You've Seen Live
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And?
Leaway2
Lycrist
- Location
- Manchester (Sale)
Billy Bragg at Manchester University. Dull.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
You are being too kind.....
Shortmember
Bickerton Cyclocross Racing Team groupie
Attending a live gig is an expensive way of finding out that it is only session musicians, and the skilful use of pitch correction software by recording studio engineers that make most of the bands sound good on CD.
Chromatic
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
They were crap in about 1978 at Gloucester Leisure Centre .
BigonaBianchi
Yes I can, Yes I am, Yes I did...Repeat.
- Location
- Iskele TRNC & Mordor UK
Agree about hawkwind...and motorhead....never did get either of those bands.
Depends what you listen to. Music made by proper musicians always sounds better live. Manufactured S***e always better on a CD. You pays your money...
Havent any of you had to take your children and their mates along to gigs when they are too young to go on the own? 2 hours of a boy band (OK one that played instruments) at high volume and you can't wait for them to get a bit older. The good thing aboout memories of tramas is you forget bits like the band's name.
Saw Bryan Ferry a couple of years back at Kew Gardens. Don't care much for him or Roxy music anyway (he was the females' choice when a buch of us chose which act in the series to see), but because of the ornamental trees that limit the view of the stage you really need the giant TVs. Anyway instead of showing the group, they showed graphics that would have looked like cobblers on an Old Gray Whistle Test 1972 - and when we complained, the organiser said this was at Brian Ferry's insistence and there was nothing they could do about it. Prat!
Saw Bryan Ferry a couple of years back at Kew Gardens. Don't care much for him or Roxy music anyway (he was the females' choice when a buch of us chose which act in the series to see), but because of the ornamental trees that limit the view of the stage you really need the giant TVs. Anyway instead of showing the group, they showed graphics that would have looked like cobblers on an Old Gray Whistle Test 1972 - and when we complained, the organiser said this was at Brian Ferry's insistence and there was nothing they could do about it. Prat!
ACS
Legendary Member
- Location
- Just below the snow line
The Sweet, 1973, in the Grand Hall, Kilmarnock. Not because the band were bad they never really got a chance to play before the bottles started flying. The lead singer (Connolly) took a bottle to the forehead which floored him and the band had it on their toes. No longer having anything to focus on the mob turned on each other.
I was about 14 and could see events unfolding from our seats on the balcony. Realising that when the local feds did arrive it would turn into a truncheon wielding melee because that was how the locals dealt with most of the local youth, we (about 8 of us) decided that the fire exit would be a smart option and got out PDQ and went over to the Wee Thack for a beer, as you do when you are 14 having just been to a concert. The upshot of the whole episode was the band went on to have a hit called ‘Ballroom Blitz’ a song written about the Kilmarnock riot.
I was about 14 and could see events unfolding from our seats on the balcony. Realising that when the local feds did arrive it would turn into a truncheon wielding melee because that was how the locals dealt with most of the local youth, we (about 8 of us) decided that the fire exit would be a smart option and got out PDQ and went over to the Wee Thack for a beer, as you do when you are 14 having just been to a concert. The upshot of the whole episode was the band went on to have a hit called ‘Ballroom Blitz’ a song written about the Kilmarnock riot.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
You ought to be more selective in who you listen to, live music is where it's really at!
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Livewire.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Worst gigs? Two choices here, with a third not far behind. In third place it would have to be Phil Collins at Knebworth, closely followed by the time I was dragged along to see Simply Red at Sheffield Arena. I was never a fan to be fair, but it took two or maybe three songs for the realisation to dawn that the small ginger object prancing up and down the elongated stage 500 feet below us was singing the same song over and over again, and it was shite.
But the most mind-numbingly awful gig in history, the one where I genuinely contemplated slamming my genitalia in the door jamb for diversion from the awfulness was Meatloaf. People have described him as a showman. I would describe him as a big fat American self-gratification artist.
But the most mind-numbingly awful gig in history, the one where I genuinely contemplated slamming my genitalia in the door jamb for diversion from the awfulness was Meatloaf. People have described him as a showman. I would describe him as a big fat American self-gratification artist.
Leaway2
Lycrist
- Location
- Manchester (Sale)
I forgot about Alexei Sayle at Manchester university. Not a music concert as such although I think he did "John got a new motor". Relying on swearing for laughs, #$@$%*g crap.
