Worst Concert You've Ever Been To

[Ernest]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood at the Centre.

Sheer unadulterated filth and crap.

I wish I'd gone

 

[Bob!]

The Cure at the Top Rank in about 1980, the back-up was a 'film' they'd made.

All random coloured shapes. It was as exciting as watching one of those lava lamps.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

The Cure at the Top Rank in about 1980, the back-up was a 'film' they'd made.

All random coloured shapes. It was as exciting as watching one of those lava lamps.

Saw the same tour at Portsmouth Guildhall. They came on at 730 with most people still in the bar/pub, played an hour's worth of arty dirges with dodgy film as backdrop, a perfunctory encore, and buggered off.

Other choices:
- The Slits at the Top Rank (1978); how they ever managed to make the records sound half-decent is a mystery to me.
- John Martyn at Cambridge (1995); so pissed he couldn't even stand up.
- Jefferson Starship at Knebworth (1978); Grace Slick was drying out somewhere and they played live without her for the first time.
- An unnamed band supporting Ducks Deluxe at Worthing Assembly Rooms in 1975; their own composition 'Jonie is a Woman!!' haunts me to this day.

 

[Polish Count]

There was a Heineken sponsored 'festival' at Stanmer Park in the early 1990s...amazing that the Falmer NIMBY's didn't manage to block it given the noise pollution aspect

Anyway, I seem to remember that the bands on the bill ranged from the truly appalling Jesus Loves You [featuring Boy George] to the not-so-bad-at all Freak Power [fronted by Ashley Beadle, but with 'Our Norman' as the creative brains behind it]. The music wasn't all that bad as it happens, but given that it was sponsored by Heineken, all that was available was weak-as-piss Euro lager...and that's what makes it my worst concert ever.

All I wanted to be able to do was this...

 

[NMH]

Martha and the Muffins at the Top Rank Suite circa 1979.

Never was the term "one hit wonders" more apt.

That would be 'Echo Beach' then. Apparently you didn't invest (like I did) in their other 'outstanding' (not) ditty 'Cheesies and Gum' ?