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Your most embarrassing gigs

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by medulla

Do you ever look back through your gig tickets (if you keep them) and ponder to yourself "what the fuck have i done?!?"?

Your lists below, with excuses if you feel the need to explain

Kid Rock (no excuse)

The Rasmus (i lie about an ex taking me, but there's no excuse)

Sugababes (ditto)

Kylie (the worst birthday present i've been bought)

Lostprophets (nuerous times - every one no excuse, apart from when they supported earthtone9)

Busted (given a free ticket...i was a student and thought free things was what it's all about!!)

medulla | 28 Feb '08, 11:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I just started a thread about liking Alphabeat

I have nothing to say here


two that spring to mind...

Bloodhound Gang (I can't remember any of it through far too much rum, if that makes it any better);
Embrace (twice. Once in Manchester - first gig, got offered £50 for my ticket, was stuck behind a long haired fat sweaty man all the way through. Great. Second time - in Norway. I was there already. Still not really an excuse).


i was thinking about when i saw the bloodhound gang

but i'm not ashamed, it was great :D


The Corrs (aged 11)

Loads of Ska-Punk (reel big fish, less than jake, capdown, spunge etc). Although I don't regret most of it Ska-punk gigs = FUN.

That's about it.


you should never regret capdown

as they are amazing


* were

:(


sad

indeed. And agreed - fucking amazing band!

Most ashamed of seeing 'Five' when I was 11


I'll spare you, but only because you've helped me alot

And because I don't know what a skank-off entails... vvv


skank

continually until one person dies from exhaustion (I would imagine as I've clearly just made it up)


No

please do, are they bad? Can we have a "skank-off" :D


ah

I grew up with ye wiles. I STILL listen to their album and eps. Mmm shuffle..


I went to Big Gay Out

But only because I won tickets through Faceparty.

I'm not going to redeem myself on this one am I?


^ i think i already slagged you for this

but then i've given you some ammo ^^

let's truce


hmmm.

house of love - when i should have goen and seen rapeman/dino jr/band of susans instead.

other than that... no really.

i saw gary moore in 85. which i suppose is pretty bad, but back then i liked 'rawk' music.

fgth - in 84 - could be embarrassing. but again i really liked FGTH.

WORSE gig, as in band ought to be embarrassed. was Chapterhouse. totally blown off the stage by their support act - The teenage Cranberries first UK mainland show. they were pretty darn good.


racked my brain

all i could come up with was a robbie williams gig but that was work so it doesn't really count plus basement jaxx were supporting which un-gays the situation "slightly"


i watched robbie williams

in the rain at Glasto 98.

BUT i was with my girlfriend and it was a festival so that also un-gays it


ah, but who was on at the same time

elsewhere on site?


at a guess

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/1998/stagebyday.shtml#newbands

it was kenickie or idlewild.

I'll take the gayness for missing idlewild before they went alt-country then!


That sounds wrong

I saw Robbie at Glasto '98 and saw Idlewild in the new bands tent.


Hard Fi

was in 2005 when i was 15 which makes it slightly better


Hard-Fi

in 2006 when I was 31, now that really isn't excusable is it..


manowar

i was 13


^

this should be applauded


it was 1986

so 'classic' line-up too


Manowar? Oh no

I've got that 'horses made of steel...' song in my head for the rest of the day now


Fratellis

October 2006.
I was....15.
Yeah, no excuses.


manowar

to the fratellis in 1 easy post. it couldn't happen anywhere else


excellent!

Games Workshop fan?


good gig, crap time

me and my mate took 2 girls to see Hellisforheroes supporting biffy way back ages ago.
got well pissed beforehand and then were thrown out of leeds cockpit before HIFH even played. not the best way to impress two foxy ladies
apparently the gig was ace tho. shame we were outside nursing the wounds we got from the bouncers throwing us down some steps. and also out bruised egos


i saw that

tour in manchester roadhouse, it was biffys proper first headline tour (well i think they were alternating who headlined each night) still good though, i didnt get thrown out mind.
ive seen plenty cringeworthy bands tho in my time, wacko jacko, bon jovi, aerosmith to say but a few gigs i never mention to anyone haha


Hmmm

I was dragged to see HIM twice (I'm a good friend, but I refused a 3rd time)

I agreed to see The Hoosiers before I knew who they were.

Hanson (again, I'm a GREAT friend)

PJ & Duncan - The Mizz Roadshow approx '93 . . . it's all part of our histories.


^ PJ & Duncan

man, that's gotta win!


we weren't allowed to stand up

we had to kneel! How mean is that? I wanted to get up and dance to 'Let's Get Ready to Rumble' sooooo bad.


HIM?????

Dear god. You have my deepest sympathies.


Been dragged to HIM too

Even apart from their unbearably shitty gothboyband music, they're by far the worst live band I've ever seen. And I've seen Blink 182 (they were in the same bill as Deftones) and The Rasmus (believe it or not, but once they put them in the same bill as Morrissey!?!?!)


Sum 41 about 7 years ago.

We went for Reel Big Fish, who were supporting, ok???? And shut up because they were really good. Sum 41 on the otherhand, were dire.


Oasis

I was 13. It was 1995. It was acceptable.


im gonna stick up for the Fratelli's here

I saw them at reading festival in 2006 in a packed Carling tent and they were pretty good.
Id hadnt really heard much of them at the time. Before that (now VERY annoying) chelsea dagger song came out.

Think now they would be shit.


I saw Oasis at Maine Road in 1996

It was a good gig.


coldplay

it was the final nail in the coffin for a band that I used to like.

I also regret seeing counting crows twice. Once was fine... but twice was pushing it.


I've seen Counting Crows twice

I enjoyed them both times. Ok, I wouldn't go again.


Foo Fighters about 3 years ago

ummm, System of a down 3 yrs ago also.
My excuse: I was 14!


Nickelback

TWICE
.....

when I was 13+14

.....

with my mum and dad

......

we were seated

I win
x


nowt wrong with seeing System,

they made some good albums!


album: singular


S/T and Toxicity

Both good


I saw System...

With Dillinger Escape Plan supporting. How can that be a bad thing?


Her that does

the Dawson's Creek theme music. Kill me now.


yeah

but she used to be in frou frou and they were pretty good, right?


do you mean Imogen Heap?

because she didn't do the Dawson's Creek theme


And

Imogen Heap is actuallu quite good.


A.R.E. Weapons

at the Underworld a couple of years ago. Still flagellating myself for that one.

I endured Mika at the Shepherd's Bush Empire last year, but that was for the benefit of my girlfriend so that one doesnt count. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


papa roach

and

Hed(pe) in Birmingham.

I missed the trin home as well and had to stay with my friends crazy girlfriends aunt, not fun.

I was only 16 at the time though, that's gotta count for something.


Hed (pe)! :D

HEY BARTENDER!


i was gonna say Hed(PE) too

no excuse for me, they were playing my student union (Swansea) OPM supported (worst band i have ever seen),

I drank a load of JD and had a good time though


Rod Stewart

supported by Status Quo, Wembly Stadium, 1991. Age 16, invited by my Dad. Couldn't refuse. The 'Quo were pretty good actually.


The Quo

are fucking awesome!


Five For Fighting

I was young and I thought he was cool. I thought I was cool.
The only redeeming factor is that it was in Chicago. Which actually is cool.


lol, i used to think he was cool in my younger days also

sadly now he just sounds like a James Blunt type to me


i've seen...

King, U2, Hothouse Flowers, The Waterboys and many more bands that I probably wouldn't want to see again but I'm not really embarrassed by any of them.

Oh, except for maybe Stereophonics and Embrace, that's pretty embarrassing...


Primal Scream

at The Shepherds Bush Empire, someone persuaded me to go. I mainly hated them but it was when the crowd went mental to Rocks that I knew I was in the wrong place. Went to the Bush Ranger pub around the corner and sulked until my friends came out.


jethro tull

the strawbs twice
the automatic
mcr i got dragged (there good live) i tihnk i win


Did the Waterboys play 'Too Close to Heaven'?

OK they're not that great as a band, but that song is amazing.


Worst I can think of is

Limp Bizkit's Finsbury Park thing a few years back. In my defence, the earlier acts were generally pretty good, and the cost was nothing. We left before the end.


Dead or Alive

Back in about 1986. They mimed.

And Dennis Waterman in 1983 with my Mom (The 'Little Britain' 'can i sing the theme tune' guy). He was pretty rubbish.


Papa roach

though i only went as head (PE) were supporting, and they were great!!


The Glitterati,

is mostly all.


my word i'm not with it today

head(PE)?!?!??"!"?£$!£$?!


<3


:)


shamefully, my first ever gig was Coldplay

Chris Martin burst into a rendition of 'We Are The Cheeky Girls' at one point. It's a minor miracle I persevered with music to be honest


You would all be embarrassed by admitting you went to an RHCP gig

but i'm not. I fucking loved them at the time and it was probably the best day of my life up until that point. I adored them more than anything else. The adoration is gone now, but I can still appreciate it.

It was at murrayfield stadium and I was sat at the opposite end from where they were playing. I was ecstatic when we managed to sneak into standing, and although I was still about a mile away from Frusciante, i couldn't have been happier.


^this

Agreed completely (although it was London Docklands Arena for me)


A1

at a school anti-drugs roadsow type thing. this probably doesnt count as a gig so
feeder- but it wernt that bad so watever really.


The Crash Test Dummies @ Rock City

They played "mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm" and all the others!

What do I win?


i like that song


Jimmy Eat World

In... about... 2004? I didn't enjoy it though.


I've excuses for mine:

Tori Amos - because it was a present for my girlfriend of four years (with whom I split up the day before)

Lostprophets - I had to drive a friend to see them for his birthday.

Reef - this was my first ever gig and... oh there's no use, I've no excuse, I really liked them. I was only 11.

Oh god there's more... Cast, Feeder LOADS of times, I even went to see Eminem instead of Hefner at Reading once. I think I saw NoWaySis once too.


tori amos

is cool as fuck