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Bad Music Gigs/Concerts that you've been to.

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kittylester Sun 20-Sept-20 08:10:06

Tons of very modern jazz with dh. grin

Also, we travelled miles and miles to see Tony William's Lifeline and we spent ages watching the stage being set up, changed, set up again. We even remarked that it was good to see a band taking such care over it. They didn't turn up.

Sadly, David Bowie at Milton Keynes bowl was dreadful as was the memorable time we went to see the Stones and a drunk threw up all over my shoes.

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Humbertbear Sun 20-Sept-20 08:08:24

Elton John at the 02. The stage was decorated in a way that made it difficult for us to see him. He didn’t perform but sat at the piano and sang to his cronies in the front few rows whom we could see were getting free drinks from a trolley. The audience was so bored that no one got up to dance or cheer.
It didn’t help that my cousin brought along a friend who suffered from vertigo and hadn’t realised we would be sitting near the top of the venue and my cousin couldn’t remember where she’d parked her car or the route home.

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JackyB Sun 20-Sept-20 08:01:58

I once thought I'd try a concert of modern music at an art gallery in Mannheim. I had played some modern stuff on the piano and some of it was OK. Open mind and all that. I must have been about 20.

Anyway, this was a chamber ensemble, all screeching away at odds with each other. I didn't go back after the interval.

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Dinahmo Sat 19-Sept-20 22:08:39

Usually on here we talk about the best concerts or films or whatever that we've seen. We were watching a recording of the Stones Concert in Hyde Park in 2013 which we thought was pretty good. I started thinking about various gigs that we'd been to over the years (partly prompted by the 50th anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix) and I realised that some of the ones I remembered the most were the worst ones.

So, I am wondering which were the worst ones that you've been to (and whether others agree or disagree)

To start off - Ike and Tina Turner at Hammersnith. I'd seen them before I met my OH and they were pretty good. But the concert that I'm referring to was after River Deep and so they were more famous. Two shows in one evening, we had tickets for the first. They were over 1/2 hour late in letting us in to the auditorium and the management kept trying to sell us ice creams. Nearly an hour before I & TT came on and they rattled through their playlist very quickly. A definite No No.

And I've just remebered the Beatles Christmas Show, again at Hammersmith. The girls started screaming as soon as they came on and I didn't hear any of the music. Extremely p.....d off!!

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