Worst Live Act You Had to Sit Through
 

For me, I've been subjected to a myriad of unbelievably ****ty local and regional acts, so I won't bother you with an extensive list.

However these are the national acts that I've witnessed that either bored the shit out of me or made me cringe:

1. From First to Last (they opened for Bad Religion, a travesty)
2. As I Lay Dying
3. Poison the Well (I actually nodded out a few times.)


Your turn.

I've only been to two concerts in my life, both of them were at some club in Beale Street, the first time was to see Saliva, which I actually enjoyed, even though I think they're a horrible band, they were good showmen, and there was a drunk guy there who was hilarious.

The second time it was to see Senses Fail and it was the most unpleasant experience of my life, I didn't like their music to begin with but it was a small club and the loudness was excruciating. My ears were ringing and I got a sore throat. And I was just standing there, feeling totally helpless for like 3 hours.

In addition to that, there was the mosh pits and hardcore dancing, douchebags slamming into me, the ungodly smell of booze, cigarettes and vomit, gay guys hitting on me, a high concentration of emo scenesters and my ex stepdad who is a drunken assh*le.

The only thing that made it worthwhile was when my brother got thrown out for tossing a pair of granny panties at the lead singer. :laughing:

Haha boo boo, that is awesome.

I haven't been to any bad live shows myself, but that would be because the only concert I've ever seen is Bob Dylan and he was fantastic.

Poison the Well was very hard to sit through!


My top two:
1. Local deathcore band 'A'
2. Local deathcore band 'B'


UnderOATH was very hard to sit through, but it was cool to see Aaron Gillespie and watch the guitarists spit onto their audience members through sweaty beards.

I actually have a picture from that show too, I'm the one on the right in the hat.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...nd2520us21.jpg

This image describes my experience perfectly.

:(

From what I've heard from their fans, they're great live. But if you don't like them, then I guess that makes sense.

Haha.

"From what I've heard from their fans, they're great live."
Tautology of the year.

No, I don't like them, but even if I was a fan I wouldn't want to get spit on.
I'm not lying.
There was some nasty sweaty spitting going on.
A mixture of sweat and spit.
Not pleasant.

Edit: And it was purposeful, just to make that clear. Like some superiority complex.

Well, it's not like all bands are good live. Dragonforce has fans don't they?

And see, I'm not a fan of Sum 41 but I'd go see them play because they perform well.

A Rock Band Competition that was the opening for a Vancouver favorite The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. It was pretty brutal, I mean you could really only judge the vocals but god damn. I smoked a joint and had a beer right before and that couldn't even make it enjoyable.

Aside from friends' crappy high school punk bands when I was a teenager, the worst live act I've seen by far was Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band. At least those high school kids had the excuse of being... well... in high school. The music vets in Ringo's band had no excuse for sucking so hard.

Haha. That's the best picture ever.

no age


fcking dreadful

Good thing I didnt go see them then..


The teenagers were rubbish, but the frontman was hilarious, it was like watching the best car crash ever.


Many many local and indistinguishable hardcore and metal acts.

Warrior Soul Supporting Metallica in 1989. They were supposed to be the next big thing according to Metallica themselves. Fucking numptys.

Genital Deformities supporting Venom. Actually they were both atrocious so I haven't got a clue why I went.

Calvin Harris supporting Faithless a couple of years back. Bland disco Pop.

Saw Calvin Harris DJ a few months ago, he wasn't too bad when he wasn't playing his own songs.

Aside from some painfully bad bands that my mates are in;

Resist - Saw them supporting the Fall about four years ago. Gut-wrenchingly awful nu-metal-type garbage. I can only think they were on the bill as some sort of sick joke.

The Wombats - If you think they're bad in the studio, wait 'til you see them live. An ex-flatmate took me to a gig of theirs a couple of years back (note the use of the word 'ex').

Really? I thought they put on an excellent live show.

I think MGMT might be mine.

they gave me and a friend a migraine

and i guess the entire crowd too, by the way they stood bewildered for their entire set.

it was probably bad equipment or lack of a thorough sound check but man, noise rock is one thing but piercing guitar sounds for an hour and a bit is another.

i've heard that from so many people that MGMT were awful. all i've seen are videos of them and it looks like all they do is jump and clap.

mine would probably be the opener for a QOTSA concert a while ago that labeled themselves "The Vultures of Culture". fcking abysmal, every song was the same structure: garbage vocals and power chords with a cheesy Casio playing over top of everything. it was so bad that Josh Homme had to come out early and tell the crowd to shut up.

Enrique Iglesias at the rodeo here in Houston. For the second time. Don't ask how I got roped into doing that twice. The only good part was at the end as he was leaving the arena in the standing in the back of a pick up truck, when this girl jumps the barrier and pulls a T-1000 on the tailgate, her feet dragging behind her in the dirt. And he was freaking out, like he didn't know whether to pull her into the truck, or stomp on her hand to make her let go.

Just tonight a band called "Black Saint Cartel" was one of the openers, that was tuff.

wow haha

my worse was the opening act for the first time i saw the queens also (2005). it was a band called 'throw rag', they sucked but not to the point of homme coming out to calm the crowd haha. no one in the band uses their real names but the guitar player used to be in sugar ray and i'm pretty sure it was the vocalist from buckcherry. either way they effing sucked.

i was extra pissed because initially it was supposed to be 'the eagles of deathmetal' opening the show but the singer couldn't leave the states at the time due to custody issues or something along those lines. turns out i caught the last show with mark lanegan in the band too.

Disturbed. Had to sit through them twice actually. They have some pretty good pyrotechnics but their performance overshadows that. They suck live.

Wow, a supergroup formed from members of Sugar Ray and Buckcherry sounds like just about the worst thing imaginable to me.

Hot girl: Hey you want to chill and go see DMB in a few weeks with me and my friend?
Me: Sure what the hell! Just give me your number.

never again...

Enter Shikari, i wanted to cry.

Art Brut, Bring Me The Horizon, Blink 182 and RHCP get honorable mentions.

I saw Art Brut in Aberdeen a last year. I don't have a lot of time their studio output, but thought they were great live. The singer (I forget the guy's name) knows how to put on a good show - he's got a very good, charismatic stage presence. Or at least he did when I saw him anyway.

The problem with this show was 90% of the stuff they played was from the new album - which is awfully dull. So every song just melted into one long snore. To me there was no charisma or presence, i just wanted them to get off so the DJ could come on. Shame really, i used to be quite fond of their debut.

I feel the same. I've seen live performances of songs on 'BBR&R' on youtube, and they're phenomenal. Knowing how much of an emphasis they put on the new stuff makes me reconsider wanting to see them.

When i saw them live he used the mic lead as a skipping rope. Yes. I haven't even heard the other albums apart from the debut though, they do seem like a one trick pony.

Sevendust is one of the first bands that pops into my head.

Whoever the hell opened for The Smashing Pumpkins when I saw them at The Fillmore would be another.

Back when I was into metal, I had to endure an unbelievable number of shitty generic metalcore bands in order to see bands I wanted to see.

Oh man, the singer from Buckcherry makes me want to punch a wall. I hate his vocals so much.

That must've been terrible.

Avenged Sevenfold - saw them when they opened for Metallica in Dublin a few years ago. Really, really not my type of music. They looked like they were just going through the motions anyway. It was a very boring 40 minutes.

Director - saw them at a festival in 2006. They were tipped as Ireland's hottest new indie band and they managed to get a mid-afternoon time-slot on the main stage where they just looked completely lost, not to mention sounding boring, generic and just goddamn awful.

That's the worst. I remember a few years ago I wanted to see this really good alternative acoustic hip hop group called LuiciDream and I had to endure 2 ****ty metalcore and 1 horrendous punk band. They didn't take the stage til like 11 pm and by then I had been up for 17 hours because I was working at a lumberyard and had to be up at like 5 am every morning so I was barley awake to enjoy what an awesome set they did.

I had to watch this pretentious Radiohead wannabe band to see maps & atlases and mewithoutYou.

Muse?


I kid I kid.

No much worse. They had this big screen in front of them so you couldn't actually see them and there was like pictures of nature projected onto it. If I wanted to watch it I would've had a sore neck for a week because I was in front and it was 2 inches from my nose. They didn't say hello, thanks or goodbye, assholes.

eh, the only real thing they have in common is the singing style, other than that they're really different in the musical sense


i know you were only joking, just throwing it out there

Sham69 at the Apollo. Pursey was drugged up to the eyeballs, the band were shit and failed to complete the set.
Pursey walked off the stage...seats were ripped out in disapproval and the travelling Sham Army complete with black cap sleeve 'Sham Army' t-shirts, brought it upon themselves to do the job of the security with disastrous results.

By far the worst gig I've ever seen and as a young teen the most frightening.
I also remember thinking it was brilliant too, but for all the wrong reasons.

I Am The Dream were hands down the worst act I've ever had to sit through.