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Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Scunner on December 04, 2011, 17:51:10 PM: As a follow on to Rimms' topic :)

I have to say Radiohead - my friend had 2 tickets for Birmingham NEC and no way to get there and I had a car and no tickets (and no great desire to have any either). They wew *exactly* like the records - they may as well have mimed it was so accurate. Not what I had been used to at all. Rubbish!
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Rimms on December 04, 2011, 18:10:57 PM: Dexys Midnight Runners and ashamed to admit it, Kajagoogoo
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Scunner on December 04, 2011, 18:12:44 PM: How dare you! Kajagoogoo are Leighton Buzzard's finest! Erm, after the Barron Knights perhaps...
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Rimms on December 04, 2011, 18:16:21 PM: The Barron Knights, my Grandad loved them and here they are :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD-LAX0DxL4
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Steve (redding43) on December 04, 2011, 18:17:23 PM: Long ago, outside a chip shop in walthamstow......
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: patrice on December 04, 2011, 18:40:47 PM: Meatloaf.....more swearing than singing :-\
Frankie Goes To Hollywood ....great at miming rubbish :(
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: johnboy1967 on December 04, 2011, 22:22:09 PM: quote:
Originally posted by patrice

Meatloaf.....more swearing than singing :-\
Frankie Goes To Hollywood ....great at miming rubbish :(
Saw holly Johnson last august, not a mime in sight and he was amasingly good...! Boy George was pants and Paul young wasted...
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: Julesp on December 04, 2011, 23:05:13 PM: Never been a gig person But did see Black Lace at Butlins once :-\
Just as bad live as on their albums,but also just as fun!
Agadoo anyone?
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: valleyboy on December 05, 2011, 08:30:19 AM: Bitter sweet for me, the Pogues, I really looked forward to it as I really liked them at the time, but Shane McGowan was so wasted he slurred his way through the first 2 songs then propped himself up at the side of the stage swigging a bottle of vodka and arguing with the rest of the band, the remaining band member's stood up to the mark and like troopers carried it off, but would have liked to hear more of Shane !!
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: janmack on December 05, 2011, 10:08:49 AM: Radiohead...so dull I kept nodding off.
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Post by: Eric on December 05, 2011, 10:39:23 AM: Saw The Stones in 2006 at the Millenium Stadium. The 1st half of the concert was dire playing songs no one had heard of and the sound system atrocious. At the break many people left the stadium and went home. We thought about it but stayed. The 2nd half was far better with songs everyone knew and the sound engineers woke up and sorted the sound out. Overall it was average and far less than we expected.
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: tonyb on December 05, 2011, 15:44:35 PM: Eric, I may have been at that show,didn't they leave the roof on. As a lifelong Stones fan,I'm surpised Jagger stood for the sound- did they actually do a sound check,I wander.They were brilliant at Twickenham on the same tour, The Bigger Bang,I think.Worse live band in the world - Yes, for exactly the same reasons as others have stated- musically perfect, could have listened to the Topographic Oceans album at home. Instead, I queued overnight, months in advance & then nodded off in the Birmingham Hippodrome.
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Post by: Eric on December 05, 2011, 16:19:22 PM: Thats correct Tony, they did leave the roof closed. I doubt if they did a meaningful sound check at all.
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Post by: mike A on December 15, 2011, 00:22:47 AM: Saw the Incredible string band a few years ago at the Sidmouth folk festival, they were so bad they emptied the arena after their third song, I pity those that payed to see them
8)
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: suehugh on December 15, 2011, 13:27:38 PM: I think it depends whether you see the band live, prior to listening to a studio performance.If you listen to a record or dvd first, most bands can rarely replicate the perfect studio production.
My last live band was Cream in the last century.
Hugh
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: welshbrickie on December 20, 2011, 17:39:48 PM: does dennis davy and his daughter count???mind you the more you drank the better they got
Title: Worst Live Bands
Post by: jonuzumlu on December 20, 2011, 20:00:49 PM: Oh dear -THE STRING BAND were great favourites of mine years ago. I saw them live several times. Eccentric performances but truly INCREDIBLE:D 8)