The Best and The Worst Concert

  • Thread starter Thread starter Deleted member 16999
  • Start date Start date
Best, for various reasons;

Rory Gallagher - Hammersmith Odeon
Thin Lizzy - Dublin
Hawkwind - Guildford Civic Hall
Bad Company - Guildford Civic Hall
King King - Windlesham Village Hall
Nimmo Brothers - Cranleigh Arts Centre
Meat Loaf - Hammersmith Odeon
U.F.O. - Hammersmith Odeon
Sammy Hagar - Hammersmith Odeon
Santana - Royal Albert Hall ..............................


Worst ................. by far,

Dire Straits - Wembly Arena.
They were so note perfect I might just as well have listened to an album and not wasted two hours just trying to get out of the sodding car park!

Slime.
 
Best....... Runrig at the Coulston Hall Bristol 1990. My wife had been seriously ill and the tickets were a leap of faith purchase a couple of months before. She was not strong enough to stand so barely saw them, but still loved it.

Not really had a worst, perhaps turning up at the Glasgow Concert Hall for a Neil Diamond concert.... when the event was at the Armadillo.:o
 
The ones I enjoyed most were George Thorogood in Glasgow ,Stones in Rotterdam Smiths, Ian Brown in Shetland,Uriah Heep one of first gigs I went to at Hammersmith,Budgie at Woolwich poly most surprising was seeing Screaming Lord Sutch and George Melly at the Tram shed in Woolwich.

Probably the best was Santana (twice) at Hammersmith.

Funnily enough best and worse are the same Van Morrison at the Bishopstock Blues festival in Devon brilliant that night,saw him years latter in Aberdeen and he was awfull.

Second worse was Bowie ( Tin Machine) at Kilburn.
 
Best

The Clash (Caird Hall Dundee) 1980 - Awesome performance which included Joe Strummer kicking someone for gobbing at him
Bayshambles (Moshulu Aberdeen 2005 - Only really went to see Pete Doherty die on stage (which was possible at the time) - he was on top form and they were an unexpected delight
The Jam early 80s (Caird Hall Dundee)
Blink 182 Ford Arena, Tampa 2009
Bowie (Apollo Glasgow late 70s)

Worst

Without a doubt that was the Average White Band - 12 minute versions of half their songs - I actually fell asleep.
 
Last edited:
Slime said:
Best, for various reasons;

Rory Gallagher - Hammersmith Odeon
Thin Lizzy - Dublin
Hawkwind - Guildford Civic Hall
Bad Company - Guildford Civic Hall
King King - Windlesham Village Hall
Nimmo Brothers - Cranleigh Arts Centre
Meat Loaf - Hammersmith Odeon
U.F.O. - Hammersmith Odeon
Sammy Hagar - Hammersmith Odeon
Santana - Royal Albert Hall ..............................


Worst ................. by far,

Dire Straits - Wembly Arena.
They were so note perfect I might just as well have listened to an album and not wasted two hours just trying to get out of the sodding car park!

Slime.
Click to expand...

Used to have some great concerts at Guildford Civic. Have all my ticket somewhere. Will have to dig them out to remind me who I saw there.:o
 
Bests
Thin Lizzy ,mast 2 nights ever at Hammersmith (the Friday I was front row between Lynott and John Sykes - that is almost impossible to compete with)


honourable mentions :
several Melissa Etheridge gigs, if you can put with the rest of the audience being lesbians :)
Walk off the Earth
Any one of several Ian Dury and the Blockheads (prob most memorable of which was the midweek night before my A Level Maths exam, and they went on so long the Underground was shut)

worst
snowy white as the Dominion, I actually fell asleep !
 
sev112 said:
Bests
Thin Lizzy ,mast 2 nights ever at Hammersmith (the Friday I was front row between Lynott and John Sykes - that is almost impossible to compete with)


honourable mentions :
several Melissa Etheridge gigs, if you can put with the rest of the audience being lesbians :)
Walk off the Earth
Any one of several Ian Dury and the Blockheads (prob most memorable of which was the midweek night before my A Level Maths exam, and they went on so long the Underground was shut)

worst
snowy white as the Dominion, I actually fell asleep !
Click to expand...

Ha ha - Snowy was part of Thin Lizzy when i saw them
 
Rammstein, the o2
Slayer, Hammersmith odeon 1986
Discharge, Ipswich Manor ballroom
Flogging Molly

Worst:
Trivium at Norwich UEA. Great band but the sound was atrocious. I saw them in Ipswich a couple of years previuos and they were superb, sound was pin sharp'
 
MarkE said:
Rammstein, the o2
Slayer, Hammersmith odeon 1986
Discharge, Ipswich Manor ballroom
Flogging Molly

Worst:
Trivium at Norwich UEA. Great band but the sound was atrocious. I saw them in Ipswich a couple of years previuos and they were superb, sound was pin sharp'
Click to expand...

"well jeal" as the kids say these days. Would love to see Rammstein; Fantastics songs and any live clips I've ever seen look tremendous
 
Sorry lads I can worst hands down.

X-Factor Winners Wembley Arena 2003 - Mrs Shark made me go otherwise there would have been no practising for little sharks
Thankfully me and the poor guy sitting next to me in the same boat realised it took us 45 minutes just to get to the bar to get a drink for the ladies .... ;)
 
Best: Kiss unmasked & supported by Iron Maiden (Germany), closely followed by Earth Wind & Fire, what a stage show.

Worse: The Baron Knights 😂😂😂
 
Fish said:
Best: Kiss unmasked & supported by Iron Maiden (Germany), closely followed by Earth Wind & Fire, what a stage show.

Worse: The Baron Knights 
Click to expand...

I think regarding your worst, the phrase, you only have yourself to blame, springs to mind....
 
Best was Elvis Costello at West Runton on the Get Happy tour. Followed closely by Graham Parker and the Rumour the other week.Worst was Paul Welled at Warwick Castle in 2014.
 
Best concerts have been Thin Lizzy, Live & Dangerous Tour, Hammersmith Odeon
Pink Floyd, The Wall at Earls Court
Blue Oyster Cult, (playing a secret gig as "Soft White Underbelly") Dunstable Queensway Hall. (Now an Asda) Elbows on the stage :)

Worst gig

Siouxsie & The Banshees , Friars Aylesbury, She was half cut, the sound was awful and we all got covered in gob :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Mandofred
best worst cars
Replies
18
Views
2K
Norrin Radd
Norrin Radd
Dodger
What is the best and worst conditioned course you have played this yr?
2
Replies
27
Views
2K
viscount17
viscount17
Top