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Worst Gig of 2007

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  Posted by Hue_&_Cry (U1148595) on Monday, 10th December 2007

  How about a worst gig guide to 2007?
  
  You can include gigs you thought would be great cause you saw the band/solo artist sometime ago, and thought they were great, but now sadly arn't.
  
  You can include gig's other half's or friends got you to see. You can include nights out's and went to a gig on the spur of the moment, then wished you hadn't.
  
  Or tickets you were bought by a loved one & couldn't throw away.
  
  Sorry about over use of smiley's childish I know!!
  
  Cheers now
  
  Hue & Cry

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  Posted by Mr_Stew (U10478358) on Monday, 10th December 2007

  The Field Day festival in August was the worst gig i've been to in over 20 years of gig going.
  
  Poor sound, no booze and rubbish overpriced food made it the festival from hell for an old duffer like me. Especially as they confiscated all our drink upon entry.
  
  Every band you tried to watch had the sound from the other stage blasting over the top.
  
  Good line-up though.

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  Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Tuesday, 11th December 2007

  Not a gig I went to this year, but one I feel I should confess to, from around 1997 when I was a youthful and foolish 22 year old.
  
  I can barely bring myself to type this and as I force myself to do so, I cringe with every key-stroke.
  
  At Christmas in 1997, a "mate" of mine bought another mate and I tickets to go and see... God this is tough..., to see, Louise, (the "talented" one from Eternal when she'd gone solo), in concert at St George's Hall in Bradford. Ooof, that hurt. To this day I still do not know why or what possessed him to do this.
  
  Perhaps unsurprisingly, there were several reasons why this was the worst gig I've ever been to.
  
  Firstly, the gig was dreadful just generally.
  Secondly, we were up with the gods so we had a really poor view of the ever-so-easy-on-the-eye Louise whilst having to endure her music.
  Thirdly, we looked slightly out of place as we were the only people who appeared to have come without parental supervision.
  Fourthly, the support act were three sisters from Manchester called "Cleopatra", and the only thing I can recall about them was one of their god-awful lyrics which they repeated regularly, "Cleopatra - comin' attcha". Genius.
  
  Finally and perhaps most telling of all, my mate who'd bought the tickets as a Christmas "present" for us didn't buy himself one, so he didn't have to endure the evening. Some friend, eh?
  
  Can anyone top that for worst / most embarrassing gig ever, (even if it was 10 years ago)?

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  Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 11th December 2007

  Worst gig this year - The Hours. They get the prize due to the imbalance of fawning press hype vs the actual piss-poor sound, performance & tunes delivered.
  
  

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  Posted by steve_swift (U2177659) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  There's some interesting stories emanating from Ian McNabb's gigs in Liverpool and Leeds last week. A friend of mine reports that at the Cockpit he was somewhat worse for wear to the extent that an audience member took over on vocals for a couple of numbers.

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  Posted by David Jennings (U983176) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  Worst gig of the year? I was there and, people, I suffered for you.
  
  Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and a bunch of other liberal all-stars, doing a gig in aid of Greenpeace, a worthy cause, from a boat in the Thames just as the sun was setting, back in March.
  
  It should have been quite an event on paper, but it was freezing cold, late to start, badly lit, hard to hear, accompanied by the most facile headache-inducing light 'show' and with those awful 'countdown to oblivion' anti-nuke lyrics that make you wish that someone would just go ahead and press the button, to put you out of your misery. (Alternatively, and less drastically, you could just leave and get a pint instead.)
  
  I'm not convinced Eno was even there. I think he just phoned in an ambient soundscape from Notting Hill.

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  Posted by ncgirl (U1915388) on Monday, 17th December 2007

  In terms of all round chavity and skankiness I have to go with the Arctic Monkeys at Lancashire County Cricket Ground. The queue for the toilets in time terms was 45 minutes (at least). The queue for the bar in time terms was however less. If you put this into the appropriate drinking equation, you can therefore see how problems arose. I was subjected to the humilation of having to go somewhere, which was not a designated toilet and I was not the only one.
  
  Given this and the throwing around of dubiously filled bottles, the stench of the yellow stuff was rife around the whole ground. On top of this there were "lads" fighting wherever you stood (even the near the back).
  
  It felt like an endurance test and I was most shocked not to receive some kind of medal at the end of it.
  
  Actually, does this qualify as dufferdom?

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  Posted by Pete_inthehills (U1342784) on Tuesday, 18th December 2007

  ooohhh, I saw the Lemonheads at the Lemon tree in Aberdeen. They didn't seem to care about playing their tunes and mucked around a lot.
  
  But what made it doubly worse was the fact that the Lemon tree closed down two weeks ago. My worst gig of the year was also my last there.
  
  Disappointing really 'cos Aberdeen doesn't really have any other venues of that size.
  
  pete
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  Posted by Hue_&_Cry (U1148595) on Tuesday, 18th December 2007

  Thank you ncgirl for 'painting pictures with words' as Mark & Lard used to say.
  
  But I must really give you a big smiley for giving me the words 'chavity and skankiness'
  
  I have added them to my online dictionary. I 'get' chavity as in chav but what does skankiness mean please? So for my ignorance and all that.

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  Posted by Hue_&_Cry (U1148595) on Tuesday, 18th December 2007

  God I wish I knew what this post said.
  
  Somebody must have felt really upset about a gig.
  
  Are we ever going to see it please Mods?
  
  Can you felt tip over the naughty words or something?

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  Posted by ncgirl (U1915388) on Wednesday, 19th December 2007

  Skankiness is basically unclean/unhygienic looking people behaving in such a manner as to upset people in their immediate surroundings. They don't like paying for stuff either. Hope this helps!

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  Posted by MJ_Shropshire (U7883547) on Thursday, 20th December 2007

  A colleague of mine uses the word 'Skank' to mean dirty - bur where does this leave the 'Rockefeller skank1?
  
  Worst gig: probably Sleeper, foerall Louise Wener's gorgeousness.

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