Top ten bands/acts you've seen live but wish you hadn't

Very similar to Clapton , I saw Nik Turner ( of Hawkwind , Space Ritual fame ) advertised at a local small place , brill i thought , a great night of Space rock by the God of Spack rock.

Hmmm never realised it was another of his persona's - Nik Turner's All Stars Blues outfit , enjoyable so not quite what the thread is about but not what I was expecting.

I've played Space Ritual so many times I think I know it backwards The Priest :-)

saw The Killers at the Leeds Festival, nothing special how they headlined i dont know

Billy Bragg. Party political 2-hour whine/snorefest. Seriously put me off going to gigs for 10 years.

Petrus .... the segue way between 10 Seconds of Forever and Brainstorm is the feckin greatest single piece of music EVER feckin recorded BAR NON!!! it shatters the mind it's that good , also when Time We Left This World Today segues into Master Of The Universe and the sheer power of MOTU is an experience everyone should have to by law listen to before they die -- BY LAW!!!! i say!!

Black Sabbath - awful racket.

Lynyrd Skynyrd had a bit of an "off" night when I saw them. Can't really say I wish I hadn't seen them, just very disappointed.

ThePriest - Orgone Accumulator does it for me :-)

Degs - I had a ticket to see Synyrd in Manchester but the same day I caught some horrendous bug that had me spewing up all over the place so I missed the gig :-(

Crass at Northampton Roadmenders

Trying to avoid being puked on by glued-up anarcho-punks and beaten up by sieg-heiling fascists.

There are several thousand more entertaining things I've done in my life

Skynyrd were ok, but very "loose" - not what I expected from such a famous guitar band. I remember Ronnie van Zant trying to pull them together on stage (literally) when they messed up a number. Maybe they'd had a drink

Forgotten about the eponymous and very well-named Crass Roger.....same when I saw them too.
That also brings to mind the amount of scrapping at another gig around the same time I went to...Sham 69.

All this talk of Crass & Sham 69 reminds me of another one to add to the list

3. Angelic Upstarts - Somewhere in Port Talbot - Skinhead scrapfest from start to finish...totally ruined the event for the rest of us...thanks you baldy headed clowns.

hahaha!!..ah yes The Upstarts...Mensi started a proper ruck when he started slagging off the local bikers.. "who killed liddle towers" kicking the pigs head about..wasnt boring

Focus, early 70's. They were the main band & played for 30 minutes then fecked off - no encore. Total rip off merchants.

Floyd many times when they were sort of resident at UFO in West End
Maynard Ferguson a jazz combo that latched onto the festival circuit in the late sixties. I think that was their name or is that a tractor?
Pretty Things .turned up 2 hours late played for about 20 minutes and fd off
Ray Charles at the Hammersmith Odeon. He was just too old and his big band and the raylettes carried the show in glitzy but disappointing fashion.

Took a new gf to see New Order one time in Edinburgh. The baztards turned up an hour late, played maybe 7/8 songs, the lights went down and they fecked off, off the stage, through the audience and out the door, without even playing an encore.

A really shiite night and I didn´t even get my oats.

Oasis at Wembley Arena. Liam just stood at the mike with his hands behind his back and whilst they sound ok it's too rigid and they could just be miming to the record - no point in seeing them live at all.

Tangerine Dream Free Trade Hall, cant remember year, thought the roadies were tuning up until I realised it was halfway through concert, should have taken something before to appreciate the dull monotony

Stone Roses Reading '96

To add insult they DID do an encore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9nAqD6Ffe4

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I was there. It was so bad I honestly thought the sound system was playing up when Brown started singing I wanna' be adored. Gutted.

wasn't there, but this has to make the top ten

(Kings of Leon)


www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOF1FJ7wGhw

What song was the drummer playing?

Neil Diamond.

As lively as The Tin Woodman with rigor mortis.

Happy Mondays - Town & Country club, Kentish Town.

Stereo MC's were the support and were brilliant.

Happy Mondays due on  at 10pm didn't appear on stage  until well after midnight.

When they did appear, it was immediately obvious that they were in no condition to play - absolute shambles of a gig