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Ok, I'll start off with Queen, who I saw in the mid to late 70's in the Castle Grounds and The Capitol Cinema. I know it was difficult to reproduce their sound live on stage but they really made a meal of it with Freddie's vocals being well off. Secondly Black Sabbath during the same period. The first gig I saw they were great, the second was beset with technical problems and was awful.
Happy Mondays, Glastonbury 1990. At the time they were my favourite band.
I was there for that. My last visit to Glastonbury. I wasn’t a big Happy Mondays fan but I was looking forward to seeing them. They were absolute garbage.Originally Posted by valleys caveman
The most disappointing band I’ve ever seen live is Public Image Ltd. I’ve seen them about seven or eight times in total and a couple of those shows have been excellent, but the gig at Cardiff’s Top Rank in 83 or 84 was dreadful and they were pathetic at the Tramshed a couple of years ago. That was especially annoying as I’d seen them in Bristol a few months beforehand and they were superb on that occasion.
I'm glad you said that about the Tramshed gig. I hadn't seen them before but went to that gig and swore I wouldn't bother again. Maybe I just them on a bad night.
Saw the Rolling Stones at Ashton Gate in 1982, they were very poor that day.
Also, I was more interested in watching the Pretenders than U2 at the National Stadium in 1987 and they just went through the motions.
Agree with you there Bob, the Stones were extremely poor that day. Best band on that day was the local reggae band that went on first.
I'd forgotten all about them, but thinking back, they were good weren't they - just looked it up and they were called Talisman.
The J Geils Band, who I was not expecting much from, were rubbish as well as I remember.
Agree with you as well regarding the J Geils Band. They came across as nothing but a slick American mainstream rock act, i.e extremely boring. They were riding in on the popularity of their biggie hit single 'Centrefold'. Thanks for finding out the name of the reggae band. They were a local Bristol band, if memory serves me well?
I was at both of those!
I thought that the Stones were good (although I was only 18 at the time - it was a lovely sunny day and the J Geils Band were the support)
It was the Rolling Stones for me too - but much later: The Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield in 1995.
I resented paying that much to watch them going through the motions. I also struggle with venues where you have to watch the big screen to see what's going on and where the atmosphere feels fake. There were a good few hundred die hard fans at the front but most of the audience were there so they could say in later years they had seen the Stones live. I was somewhere in between, but it felt a bit like Old Trafford when it's full of football tourists taking selfies.
Extreme at the Arms Park supporting Bryan Adams. Load of over-indulgent shite. Guitar solos, drum solos, vocal solos - they were the support slot and only had about 45 mins. Ended up going to the bar instead and they were the only reason I ad gone to that gig. Little Angels were superb though.
The Clash, November '77, Cardiff University. The 'Big' 3 music papers i.e. Sounds, NME & Meldoy Maker were bigging them up to being one of the best live bands in the world. They were fecking shite! Couldn't play their instruments and none of 'em could sing a tune.
Queen disappoint me when they're on the radio, never mind live. And the scabby ****ers played Sun City during the Apartheid years.
Queen!! The most over rated band of all time, without a shadow of a doubt. 'Rock' music for people that aren't really into rock music!!
They're just shite. Not one of their songs actually means anything.
Simple Minds - Milton Keynes Bowl 1986
Only went because my girlfriend was a fan
Truly awful self indulgent generic bilge - mind you they didn't disappoint me as I have always thought they were truly shite
Better support bands in Lloyd Cole and The Waterboys and Doctor and the Medics
Gene loves Jezebel at Cardiff Uni were shocking too
The Waterboys at Cardiff Uni is one of my favourite all time gigs, May '86. They were equally as mind blowing at the Glastonbury Festival a month later.
This was my 1st Simple Minds gig, 30 odd gigs later including Munich, Berlin & Prague I had a diff experienceagree about the Waterboys, they were excellent, I saw them another two time after the MK gig, in the port and the diff
Totally agree matey. Just listen to any of the 'lyrics' to any of their hits, shockingly poor and embarrassingly trite. The only half way decent song they ever recorded was 'You're My Best Friend' written in one of his rare forays into writing a song, by John Deacon, about his then girlfriend
Like Beethoven or Mozart then. Utterly meaningless music
Freddie Mercury being compared to Beethoven and Mozart-Did you really just do that?
Do you ever hear a song for the first time and think that it's brilliant and then a few months later realise that it's shit? I've got this rule with music, if a song instantly stimulates my senses and i have to play it again and again then it's probably crap. The ones that stay are the songs that i really like after the third or fourth time of listening.
Remember Amen Corner when they had just become famous. Think it was Stoneligh Club Portcawl. Fecking useless, with apologies to AFL who is a big City fan.
Not a band, but Leo Sayer.
My uni booked him before he was famous, then he had that hit single while dressed as a clown, so he tried to get out of the booking, saying the stage wasn't big enough.
He was booked for our Stoke campus, but there was a bigger stage at our Stafford site, wher I was based, so we went along - as well as 90% of the local under-25 population, it seemed.
There was a folky singer-songwriter as 1st warm-up, he was OK.
Then a three-piece called Strife who were really good. ( Ithink they were originally booked as the main act for our site, but had to play second fiddle once Leo was moved there)
Then after what seemed like an eternity, LS came on sang a few songs, and left after 20 minutes.
\Wanker.
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