The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

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The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby Twizzle » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:50 pm

Maybe someone could start a new thread - "The worst concerts I have ever been to......"

/admin done :)
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Re: Best Concert

Postby moonbeam » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:26 pm

Great idea. Two I paid money for! Chuck Berry Royal Concert Hall-turned up late and punters had gone home! A so called "Drifters" act where they mimed to a backing tape. Or a Pete Doherty "event!" at Barrowland I was taken to by a "friend" in the music business! It wisnae the whisky he was on that night!! Three "bizarre" concerts. Any more? Must be dozens. I will never forgot that Eagles one as the punters kept shouting for Hotel California etc.We got I think four/five bars at most of that one.But they droned on and on with their "latest" album! Then they just sort of upped sticks and wandered off stage.
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Re: Best Concert

Postby Josef » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:54 pm

Yes, that is rather a good idea.

I have several suggestions, the first and foremost of which is U2 at Strathclyde University. I confess to actually having quite liked their records until I saw them live. If there's a more preening, prancing ninny than Bono in the world then I fortunately have never had the displeasure of encountering them before or since.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby Monument » Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:19 am

I walked out of a Big Audio Dynamite gig in the Ulster Hall. It was BAD!
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby banjo » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:50 pm

i had free tickets to a big audio dynamite gig in glasgow..........i gave them away. :)
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby Josef » Thu Apr 04, 2013 5:07 pm

Monument wrote:I walked out of a Big Audio Dynamite gig in the Ulster Hall. It was BAD!



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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby RDR » Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:00 pm

Uriah Heap, early 70's at the Apollo.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby DickyHart » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:35 pm

Eagle Eye Cherry at the Barrowlands.

there was about 120 peopele there and he was terrible, he then played his one hit and left. I couldnt leave as I was working there at the time.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby Mori » Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:03 pm

souxie and the bansheas, Apollo, 78 i think, waste of money, think the band was breaking up then, 3 or 4 tracks they sung and they were off, crowd booed continuously i remember.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby hungryjoe » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:18 pm

Rush at the SECC. I couldn't leave as my son was there and was only 17 at the time. It agitated me so much that I was subduing impulses to lash out and hit someone - anyone. By nature, I'm not a violent man so I walked out and stood in the rain until my son and friends came out. I mean my friends, not my son's.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby cargoeng » Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:44 am

Ocean Colour Scene, back in February this year. Not the band that made the concert bad, it was more the venue. The O2 ABC in Sauchiehall St, I've never been in (nor hope to re-visit) such a dive in all my adult life. I reckon the management oversold this gig, as it seemed to be dangerously overcrowded, and this was the reason I walked out early. Shame, as I've been a huge OCS fan for years.
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Re: The worst concerts I have ever been to.....

Postby Bridie » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:14 am

hungryjoe wrote:Rush at the SECC. I couldn't leave as my son was there and was only 17 at the time. It agitated me so much that I was subduing impulses to lash out and hit someone - anyone. By nature, I'm not a violent man so I walked out and stood in the rain until my son and friends came out. I mean my friends, not my son's.

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