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

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Dinahmo Sat 19-Sep-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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kittylester Sat 26-Sep-20 17:01:41

Oh, I just remembered that we saw Ginger Baker's Airforce- it/he was awful.

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phoenix Sat 26-Sep-20 17:36:20

Very weird gig, 70's, Fripp and Eno. We didn't even realised they'd started, just came on stage and started playing very odd music, with a totally inconsequential video running in the background confused

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phoenix Sat 26-Sep-20 17:42:10

P.S. Another John Martyn fan, never saw him live, but love the "Solid Air" album.

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JackyB Mon 28-Sep-20 09:20:11

I saw Kate Bush in the 70s in Mannheim. The music was probably fine, can't remember, but the whole concertt was choreographed to the nines and there was absolutely no audience interaction or even recognition that there was an audience there. She may as well have sent a videotape.

About the same time and at the same venue I saw Elton John. I went straight after work to get a good (free) parking space. As I passed the back of the Rosengarten Concert Hall, I saw him going down the steps to the back entrance. Just him with a small briefcase, arriving 2-3 hours before kick-off. He was, and, I think, is still, pretty conscientious.

In those days, he only had the Greatest Hits, and it was a rollicking evening. About 40 years later saw him again - still a great entertainer. By the later date I wasn't so interested in his music any more but it was such a good show, you couldn't help but enjoy it.

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