Non - worst ever concert

An ex took me to a Robbie Williams gig (don’t judge me it was in the doing anything to impress stage at the beginning) (me not her before anyone cracks that one)….

Anyway… he seemed to have indulged a little in life’s illegal and probably some legal as well pleasures. Suffice to say 80% of the gig constituted him holding the microphone at us singing while he nodded his head. First gig I’ve been to where I’ve sang for an hour longer than the person I’ve paid to see.

imagine going to football and Jaiden Anthony giving you the ball to take a corner while he sat with a can of Stella cheering you on….
 
Neil Dawson said:
An ex took me to a Robbie Williams gig (don’t judge me it was in the doing anything to impress stage at the beginning) (me not her before anyone cracks that one)….

Anyway… he seemed to have indulged a little in life’s illegal and probably some legal as well pleasures. Suffice to say 80% of the gig constituted him holding the microphone at us singing while he nodded his head. First gig I’ve been to where I’ve sang for an hour longer than the person I’ve paid to see.

imagine going to football and Jaiden Anthony giving you the ball to take a corner while he sat with a can of Stella cheering you on….
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Did you know the words Neil?
 
I saw Paul Heaton support Madness at the BIC. He couldn't remember any of the words to his own songs, couldn't work the iPad that they were on and then couldn't see it without his glasses. It had been a while since he'd played live and I think there was some stage fright there too.

A few weeks later I saw him with Jacqui Abbott and they were brilliant.
 
My mate had a penchant for indie/folky stuff - Frank Turner, Beans on Toast, Will Varley, that kind of thing.

He phones me up and says "do you want to come and see Emily Autumn? She plays the violin." I wasn't fussed but with a name like that and knowing his tastes I thought it'd be nice to go along and sit supping a few ales while tapping my foot to some folk fiddle.

Sadly my mate also had a hugely alt/goth tendency in his teens. Emily Autumn is an almost goth/bulesque-lite performer who plays metal with electric violin solos. The majority of the audience were gothed up try-hard teenagers being escorted by their parents.

Worse still, he convinced me to go to the afterparty at nearby cyber-goth club "Slimelight" in Islington. Even worse still, being the late 00s I was dressed in classic, slightly vintage-y indie getup of jeans and a tshirt. In a cybergoth club full of people approaching 10 years younger than me.

And even even worse still, turns out there was no afterparty.

He still owes me BIG time for that night!
 
afcb_rednblack said:
…or the worst concert that turned out to be the best concert…or t’other way around.
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That's easy Muse. "Plug in baby" on repeat on every alternative medium was my introduction. Didn't really think much of it the first time I heard it and grew to detest it over time.

Went to see Muse (long story) expecting this whiney soppy emo-fest and was blown away by a proper rock band. Easily my biggest and quickest turnaround on a band.
 
Marc Almond at the college at Wallisdown in the 1980's was.......dull.
Although Ghostdance supporting were great.

Worst supports - Travis supporting Beth Orton at the Wedgewood Rooms in Southsea - dull and bloody worthy - still can't believe they got to be successful.
The Libertines - overrated "junkie as tortured artist" crap.
 
afcblady said:
I once saw Ian Drury in Bournemouth probably about 40 years ago and the support act was a group I had never heard of, Roxy Music, they were superb. Yesterday I bought tickets for my daughter and I to see Roxy Music again in Manchester can’t wait
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That's weird. Roxy pre dated Dury by some years. By the time Dury toured Roxy were a big name. I saw Dury at the winter gardens and think the support was Humphrey Ocean although I may be wrong. Am artist now, one good single called 'Whoops a Daisy'.
 
I recall the Golden Earring gig. They weren't good. Why choose LS as support? During Radar Love the drummer would finish his solo, climb on the kit and leap off. Which he did. Then the kit fell apart and rolled all over the stage.
 
I'm showing my age again but we had Chicken Shack at Oxford Poly, as it was then. They were booked, I think, for forty minutes and tried to come off after thirty and were sent back on again for the remainder of their time. A lot of very boring 12 bar blues followed. I also saw the Beach Boys live and they were not good.
 
Ginger Baker's Air Force at the Winter Gardens sometime in the early seventies. Band turned up an hour late, Baker obviously out of his skull on something. Spent about twenty minutes tuning up. Someone from the audience shouted "get on with it" - Ginger's reply was to give the V sign with his drumsticks. Played for about 40 minutes (half of which was drum solos) then stumbled off home. But the man was a legend at the time and I suppose legends get away with behaving like that...
 
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