Heartland

....you never went to see?.
There's got to be someone you've been to see you're embarrassed by, well, now's the time to confess, just in time to have the p*ss ripped out of you by the unsympathetic HEARTLAND posse this weekend

I've got one, I'll tell you all later

And Derek, I said I'll tell them so shut it...........right

The Railway Children..... and it was on my birthday as well. Oh the shame

The Crapberries

Went to see them with my brother and his (now) wife. what a pile of crap.

I paid cash money to go and see The Strangliers post-Cornwall/Jet Black departure - kriste but I feel like a k*nt.

That's it people.............get it off your Chests.....you'll feel better for it

scotty wrote:And Derek, I said I'll tell them so shut it...........right

Haha, cannae wait

Me? well sh1t bands I wish I hadn't bothered going to see include...

Age of Chance, with their cycling gear, lol
That Petrol Emotion
Sleeper, yeah I know I know...
Sigue Sigue Sputnik, ach I suppose it was a laugh...when the backing tapes broke down, lol

and if we're counting (well known) support bands then there's...

Bon Jovi, who supported Kiss I think, before anyone had heard of them

more to come, I'm sure

Rolling Stones, 5 years ago.

Simple Minds, 6 months ago.

David Bowie, 1986 (glass spider tour)

Sweet, 15 years ago

I saw Wet Wet Wet once



In my defence Goodbye Mr Mackenzie were supporting

rian wrote: David Bowie, 1986 (glass spider tour)

That was 87 actually.
And very, very bad times for David indeed.

Blur in 95 was gawd awful. There were others of course but this one was my first very bad live experience.

Worst live experience ever : Kate Bush.
Coz I've never seen her onstage and probably never will.

Now I think about it, I did pay to see Marxman and Dub Syndicate - mind you, it was at Crystal Palace in July 93. The headliners sucked but the special guests were kind of fun...

Badlander wrote:

rian wrote: David Bowie, 1986 (glass spider tour)

That was 87 actually.
And very, very bad times for David indeed.

Thought I was 19, but I was 20 then... Had some great sex though...

scotty wrote:That's it people.............get it off your Chests.....you'll feel better for it

Strangely, thinking back, None (with the possible exception of The Stone Roses @ Reading (their last ever performance, where everyone had left except Ian Brown, who still couldn't sing - but I knew that - and kept telling everyone to "Take those f***ing flags down or we won't play anymore" and loads more flags went up and people cheered) (oh, hang on, would that count, I dindn't pay to go?)

But if we're talking support bands;

zera 1 (terrible U2 sound-a-likes)
The Shamen or PWEI way back in the late eighties/early nineties when they were both jingly-jangly bands. I can't remember who was supporting who on the bill, but the supporting band was terrible.
Tim Smith
Cathedral

I better stop, I've realised I'm going off on one

The Bluebells a truly dreadful experience
The Proclaimers, I still have nightmares
Magnum, this is why I drink so much

Tears For Fears, Southend Cliffs Pavilion around Everybody Wants To Rule The World. I went for a walk and came back at the end to pick up my girlfriend. Awful.

Ghost Dance were a bit iffy scotty

That's about it, apart from The Sisters at The Astoria this year of course...

Chris De Burgh (with my mum!! and he was quite good )

Nosferatu (but I was very very pished)

The Enid (utter utter pants. Tosh of the highest order! It was meant to be their final concert, but apparently it wasn't - mores the pity)

Status Quo (too ashamed to type any more..... )

Big in Japan Glesga keelies BIS - you don't remember them? Good!
My first ever gig, I was 14. In my defence I was getting into Siouxsie at the time and it was because my friend liked them.

Machinehead when I was 15 - Once again, dragged along by a friend. It was her birthday so... I only heard them for the first time in the car on the way there.

Perhaps worst of the lot, Placebo, just shortly after the BIS gig that was.
I can only hang my head in shame for that one, I have no idea what I was thinking.

ruffers wrote:
Ghost Dance were a bit iffy scotty

I'd love to had made my mind up on that score

I had to didn't I?

They were jolly good actually.

The m*****n - Newcastle City Hall 12th March 1990













.....seen loads of crap bands playing in pubs, but they don't count do they?

EvilBastard wrote:I paid cash money to go and see The Strangliers post-Cornwall/Jet Black departure - kriste but I feel like a k*nt.

Me too

mh wrote:

EvilBastard wrote:I paid cash money to go and see The Strangliers post-Cornwall/Jet Black departure - kriste but I feel like a k*nt.

Me too

Me tae anaw............twice................but there's worse to come

scotty wrote:Me tae anaw............twice................but there's worse to come

Nuthin' but nuthin' can beat that Lady in Red bloke and the Quorn.
Streamline if you are attending this weekends festivities, I am available for a counselling session

The Sputnik's at Clouds in Preston.
What made up for paying though was my pal Darren giving Degville a pasting on stage after he riled the crowd. The bouncers did nowt.

Steve Vai was an unpleasant experience.

Hom_Corleone wrote:Steve Vai was an unpleasant experience.

Brrrrrr.

I came that close to Whitesnake, and barely managed to get out of it with some fairly pathetic pleading excuses.