Your Worst Music Concert

[Kingfisher101]

The Charlatans were terrible, everyone just started talking, we left after a bit.
A total waste of money.

 

[Threevok]

Mad Al & The Dandy Lions - Heolddu Leisure Centre - 1982

Even worse - I was in the band

 

[richardfm]

UB40 at the NEC in Birmingham years ago were disappointing. I enjoyed their first few albums but this was just flat.
Richie Blackmore at Wembley Empire Pool. He played a very short set, about half an hour and then f***ed off.
Numerous bands at festivals over the years

 

[Ian H]

Van Morrison on an off-day.

Also a Bournemouth Symphony orchestra performance of a piano concerto where the soloist got lost in the score (misunderstanding, I think, over the number of repeats of a phrase) and the orchestra clattered to a halt.

 

[Dave7]

Bob Dylan, Wembley Stadium. Absolutely dire, tedium beyond belief.

I saw him live (Liverpool Empire) late 60s. Sadly he got booed off.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Richie Blackmore's Rainbow c1976. Friends gave me a ticket on the condition I drove. I thought I'd get something out of it even if my tastes had moved on from Deep Purple. Very loud and extremely tedious.

 

[Threevok]

I saw him live (Liverpool Empire) late 60s. Sadly he got booed off.

A mate of mine fulfilled his lifelong dream to see Bob Dylan live - in Cardiff.

After ten minutes, he headed to the bar in disgust. Many followed.

He compared it to William Shatner singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

 

[Threevok]

and I nearly forgot - Mai Tai at Dollars in Merthyr Tydfil

Only two of the trio turned up - and they mimed!

Of course, this is run of the mill for today's Cowell Chuck-ups, but back then, that was a stoning offence

 

[richardfm]

Van Morrison on an off-day.

Also a Bournemouth Symphony orchestra performance of a piano concerto where the soloist got lost in the score (misunderstanding, I think, over the number of repeats of a phrase) and the orchestra clattered to a halt.

Oh yes, I forgot Van Morrison. The second time I saw him was in the hope that he couldn't be as bad as the first time. He was.

 

[MontyVeda]

The Levellers, 1992, Preston Guild Hall. I quite liked them up until that point, but every song sounded the same and I've never listened to them since.

The Unthanks, 2019, Morecambe. It was their back to basics acapella tour and whilst it was nice for 15 or 20 minutes, two whole sets were feckin' tedious. And the chairs weren't very comfy.

 

[T4tomo]

A lot of stadium gigs are a disappointment, because its hard to create and atmosphere in a huge arena where a good chunk of the audience is sat down. I say The Police (i think) at Twickenham years ago, it was OK but a bit Meh.

The issue is once a band make sit big, hey want to play big stadiums because it rakes in more money. but the atmos at small venue gig is always better.

I did take the OH to see Take That (yes I know ) at MK footy ground, and whilst the music is not really to my taste, it was actually a great atmosphere (mainly shrieking 50 -60 old women in the audience) but have to say Take That have cracked the "getting a good atmosphere at a large stadium formula". It has to be more than a gig, its a whole performance and light, set and sound show. Maybe a heady atmosphere of HRT drugs helps

 

[Alex321]

Bellowhead in the St David's centre in Cardiff.

They seemed to be playing to impress each other rather than to entertain the audience.

 

[markemark]

Cold Play. Never seen them but there can't be anything worse in humanity.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Van Morrison on an off-day.

He's had quite a few of those since the mid 70s.

 

[Paulus]

Gary Moore. Gloucester Leisure Centre. Tedious blues rock soloing and way too loud. That said, Meatloaf, Wishbone Ash, T'Pau, and X Ray Spex are all contenders, too!

I saw Gary Moore at the Hammersmith Odeon as it was then, in 1986 or there abouts, and I have to agree, way too loud.