Heartland

radiojamaica wrote: Nah, I loved the band when they released their first 2 albums and especially the first few times I saw them they were an excellent live band. But for me it began to go wrong around the time of the 3rd album (that also had some great moments) and they pumped up their sound for the live shows. Each time it got worse, but the press and public seemed to like it a lot. Last August I gave it another chance and ended up in disgust. It's over.

Are you still talking about Editors here ??

I was at a festival once and Peter Andre came on. Need I say more?

stufarq wrote:I was at a festival once and Peter Andre came on.

Now there's an image i need to get out of my head, stat!

Pixes in '90... More had just come out and i sorely regreted leaving my house for Black Francis and co...
Nick Cave 08ish? No Blixa - no point!

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:

radiojamaica wrote: Nah, I loved the band when they released their first 2 albums and especially the first few times I saw them they were an excellent live band. But for me it began to go wrong around the time of the 3rd album (that also had some great moments) and they pumped up their sound for the live shows. Each time it got worse, but the press and public seemed to like it a lot. Last August I gave it another chance and ended up in disgust. It's over.

Are you still talking about Editors here ??

You badboy you!

either Runrig or Nitzer Ebb

NickW wrote: Runrig

This.
I was pondering the question having seen a bazillion bands over the years & although I could cite some of the festival acts I've seen (ie Ruby Turner at Reading in 86 when she had to retreat from showers of mud clods & bottles of p!ss), I thought it ought to be a band I had actually intentionally bought tickets to see.
Echo & The Bunnymen were a close second. Ocean Rain *spits* tour at the Brighton Centre. Thank the skies The Primitives supported or it would have been a total write off.
But "the Scottish band". Oh my word. Bought tickets for my (then) GF's mum as it was her fave & off we went to Portsmouth Guildhall where this pompus bunch of rocksters tried to envoke the spirit of Loch Lomond & heather etc. to a crowd of southerners.
They came over as a bad plodding pub band who were simply too big to fit in a pub & I actually fell asleep half way through from sheer boredom.
It's a good job the seats were bolted down, otherwise one would have been launched from the balcony at said band.

Pista wrote: But "the Scottish band". Oh my word. Bought tickets for my (then) GF's mum as it was her fave & off we went to Portsmouth Guildhall where this pompus bunch of rocksters tried to envoke the spirit of Loch Lomond & heather etc. to a crowd of southerners.
They came over as a bad plodding pub band who were simply too big to fit in a pub & I actually fell asleep half way through from sheer boredom.
It's a good job the seats were bolted down, otherwise one would have been launched from the balcony at said band.

"The Scottish Band" are the distinctly non-goth Mrs L's fave band and I have taken great pleasure in reading your spot-on comments out to her verbatim.

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote: "The Scottish Band" are the distinctly non-goth Mrs L's fave band and I have taken great pleasure in reading your spot-on comments out to her verbatim.

Sofa for you tonight then

Oh hahahaha the mention of festival acts reminds me: Daphne & Celeste at Leeds fesival. To be fair the poor girls didn't stand a chance, but I have never seen so many bottles* thrown at a stage. It was how I imagine Agincourt must have been.

* and other missiles. I heard that at Reading the same year someone threw a wheelchair at them.

Haha found a youtube of them at Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

markfiend wrote:Haha found a youtube of them at Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

Not sure we should be laughing at people having bottles thrown at them.

Actually I am: of course we shouldn't.

I was more impressed by the "B O L L O C K S" signs.
But heck that stage was a mess wasn't it?

stufarq wrote:Not sure we should be laughing at people having bottles thrown at them.

Actually I am: of course we shouldn't.

I hadn't thought of it like that.

For me it was Balaam & the Angel supporting the cult in 87 at the Mayfair, Newcastle.
They were tosh. Looked like a bunch of students had stumbled on with a flute.
They re-appeared a few years later in bike jackets and riffs and on record were actually quite good.
Must have been a phase I guess.

Τhe Screaming dead in '98 were a realy poor afair, they had just reformed and they even released a cd later. Just bad.
Oh and the Godfathers. People say they are a good live band, could be a bad night but hell i got bored!
And last but not least the Cure on their 3rd visit to Greece, bored, uninspired,tired, i dunno,maybe the drugs didn't arrive on time. It was a major disappointment that's for sure.

Hah, I walked out of so many gigs to have a chat in the lounge or smoke area. Short attention span? (yes) Some were really poor, though.

I've never been a FotN fan, but I found their gig at WGT 2011(?) very boring and still don't see why everyone likes them so much and almost everyone at WGT stayed up for it (final main hall show around 3 o-clock). Before that Lacrimosa was on aka the Wizard Camping Rock Act. Ego too big for stage.

Clan of Xymox (2010ish) played like robots! Not in a cool goth way, but in an annoying way.

Kommunity FK (2011ish). Out of tune. Awful sound. They looked like corpses. (not in a cool goth way)

The Rolling Stones are horrible live. I went with a friend and they were awful. I never saw the big deal with them really.

I'll stick with the Goth/Alternative groups.

markfiend wrote:Haha found a youtube of them at Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnxies4Wtk

worst band not quite seen Deacon Blue @ Reading '88 I think, followed by not quite seeing a whole Meatloaf song

Sadly, a few of my friends have walked out of recent Sisters concerts never to return

I've always enjoyed the headline bands I've seen and I don't often pay much attention to the supports. However, having arrived unusually early to see The Prodigy in the MCR a few years back I was forced to endure Dizzee Rascal and what a bag of rancid badger bollocks he was. Utter bobbins.

Hands down - The Sisters of Mercy.

I went to THAT gig at the Astoria where the sound was just terrible. The gig was so bad, that the London Underground bought the Astoria & demolished it to ensure that no-one would suffer the same fate again.

sandy666 wrote:Hands down - The Sisters of Mercy.

I went to THAT gig at the Astoria where the sound was just terrible. The gig was so bad, that the London Underground bought the Astoria & demolished it to ensure that no-one would suffer the same fate again.

Recently I saw Leeds outfit Eagulls in Bristol....absolutely atrocious, not at all helped by an arse of a sound engineer who should have been shot...no bottom end missus, as they say, only excuciatingly loud badly eq'd reverb hell. I was gone after 2 songs....shame.