worst ever festival sets

[hfuhruhurr]

Hawkwind - acoustic 2019 - absolutely awful complete with dancing girls

I'm tone deaf, but the rest of my family are pitch perfect - the result is that I can be at gigs and my son/daughter/wife demand that we leave because the singing is soooo bad. Black Sabbath at Download - my son simply couldn't bear being there, he loves the band but Ozzy was so far off and wrecking every song. I thought everything was lovely!!

Edited September 3, 2019 by hfuhruhurr

[rawrsomesauce]

7 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Libertines at Tramlines were shocking. Could tell Carl was the only one even remotely arsed. Had to actually pull Pete back on for an encore. Felt sorry for him by the end of it but they were garbage. 

I'd managed to block out the 20/25 minutes or so I'd seen of their Pyramid set in 2015 before buggering off to Jamie xx... it wasn't good. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

30 minutes ago, hfuhruhurr said:

Hawkwind - acoustic 2019 - absolutely awful complete with dancing girls

No view on the gig itself but haven't Hawkwind always had dancing girls?

[fatyeti24]

18 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Shakin' Stevens.

Yep.  Never forget.

17 hours ago, MrHew said:

Seahorses on the Other some time in the late 90s were really awful.

They were awful anytime in the 1990s.

 

For me it's some gang of shithouse chancers called The Rakes, on the Other in (I think) '09.  Seemingly given a semblance of a career by some tone deaf, coked up fuckwit AnR caught up in the landfill scene, they shamed themselves and everyone who turned up to witness.  I went along with friends of friends but accept my share of the guilt.  They should have hung them from the lighting rig, it would have been far more entertaining.

[Hugh Jass]

Not worst ever, but ELO was hardly one for the ages.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Didnt like the face that Thom pulled at the start of Radiohead's 1997 set 9.5/10

[Quark]

Rihanna at Wireless in 2012. Good lord but that wasn't good.

[Barney McGrew]

The Killers 200?, not their fault but where we were to the loudest thing I heard was my mate farting!

[danmarks]

2007 was just grim tho. Not just killers. Tho the sound was dire it seemed to struggle for most things to rise above the sound of rain and sadness

[Hugh Jass]

The only thing I heard in 2007 was rain hammering on my coat hood.

[danmarks]

And my soul dying. Especially after  a cow worming tablet and a lambburger thst had a spectacular revenge on me

[DickButkis]

Radiohead 2017. Half of it sounded like a modem starting up.

[Madyaker]

10 minutes ago, DickButkis said:

Radiohead 2017. Half of it sounded like a modem starting up.

That was an excellent set, the band were tight, in good form and Thoms voice help up pretty well for most of it. If you don't like the band you weren't going to enjoy it anyway.

[DickButkis]

5 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

That was an excellent set, the band were tight, in good form and Thoms voice help up pretty well for most of it. If you don't like the band you weren't going to enjoy it anyway.

I disagree his voice sounded strained and not up to standard if I’m honest. That may have been a factor.

[Madyaker]

@DickButkis 

Edited September 3, 2019 by Madyaker

[DickButkis]

2 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

@DickButkis 

Thanks for making my point for me.

[Madyaker]

Ok mate have a great night ?

[balti-pie]

I thought Radiohead were fairly bollocks in 2017 as well. Only saw the first 40 mins or so before legging it off to the Flaming Lips, though. 

[hfuhruhurr]

13 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

No view on the gig itself but haven't Hawkwind always had dancing girls?

They have, you'd have thought they'd figured it out by now. They also used to have all manner of costumed peeps on stage, I left the acoustic set too soon to find out if they'd turn up too.

[Amy Lawn]

I quite like Radiohead but their 2017 set was shite. Say it was for the fans down the front all you like, but if you don't play to the whole audience you've done a crap job.

[eFestivals]

6 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

I quite like Radiohead but their 2017 set was shite. Say it was for the fans down the front all you like, but if you don't play to the whole audience you've done a crap job.

</me hands getoffmylawn some body armour....>

[Avalon_Fields]

15 hours ago, hfuhruhurr said:

Hawkwind - acoustic 2019 - absolutely awful complete with dancing girls

I agree, it was dreadful, worst I saw in 2019.

[Avalon_Fields]

15 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

No view on the gig itself but haven't Hawkwind always had dancing girls?

No. They famously had a naked/near naked Stacia in the early 70’s but in the main over the last 40 odd years they haven’t I believe. Not when I’ve seen them anyway, as I confess I have on a few tours.

I do credit them for much of my love of live gigs, with Lemmy, Stacia and the Space Ritual tour back in the day at the Glasgow Apollo, and what for the time was a stunning light show. 

 

[Cooter]

On 9/2/2019 at 10:34 PM, stuartbert two hats said:

Shakin' Stevens.

Haha, christ yes! Playing through his new album to a huge crowd that wanted the singalong oldies. What a complete bellend.

Also, Rod Stewart, just so cringey and cheesy I found myself laugjimng out loud and almost in hysterics.

And I can't believe I'm saying it but Motorhead. One of my all time faves but so sad to see Lemmy quite literally on his way out. I've seen them many times before but this last time brought a tear to the eye. Rip Lem, you lived the life!

[e_p]

The charlatans this year were rubbish.  weak as f@ck