AIBU to ask who is the worst performer/group you've seen live?

[Weston14]

Following on from a (very late-to-the-party) discussion about this year's Glasto with some friends over dinner tonight, where we all decided Lauryn Hill was an absolute let down, who is the worst performer or group you've ever seen live? Especially thinking of people you really liked who let you down here, not just "was dragged to see Take That with DSis and they were shite"

If you're not much of a music fan I suppose this stretches to comedians, actors, poets...anyone who gets up on stage and does a turn.

Oasis

The Stone Roses headlining Reading festival late 90s, Ian Brown was so out of tune the crowd were singing along out of tune to take the piss. It was their last gig i believe.

Oysterbabe Totally agree - I was at Reading the year the Chillis headlined and it was pretty clear they were there for the $$$ - the endless riffing did not go down well! God I sound negative - promise I've been to lots of good gigs too

Lol Owlpoorly - if only I'd gone to Knebworth in '96!!

Maroon 5, his voice sounded weak but I went to see The Killers and they were excellent.

@NoShitHemlock agree re 21 Pilots. These days I even find all their music 'samey' when on the radio (although by radio I mean if a music station is on the telly - unlikely - or on Spotify. The only radio station I choose to listen to - damn you public transport and no choice - is Classic FM).

I'm trying to think who I didn't like.

Jesus even Cliff Richard was ok (about 20 yr ago when I treated the Mammy!!)

I am pleased to say that the concerts I have been to have either been as brilliant as I expected - Pink -, mimed as expected - Britney -, or purely for the nostalgia and not expected to be excellent singers - Spice Girls.

@cantfindname For me it was Michel Roux Jr. was a massive fan until I found out he pockets the tips left for his workers at his restaurants a couple years ago. Put me right off him.

Surprised that Ardal O'Hanlan is on the list - I saw him do stand up just as Father Ted was taking off and he was hilarious

We saw Ardal O’Hanlon earlier this year and he was great - very relaxed performance.

Another one saying oasis. 2005 ish, hampden Park, they couldn't have looked more bored. Audience were unimpressed. Real letdown unfortunately.

Not quite the same, but I used to love Shakespeare's Sister and had tickets to their concert in Cardiff, back in the day, but had to give them away. Heard them singing recently on the Graham Norton Show and they sounded terrible. They have completely gone off the boil.

When I was a kid I loved the Dick Emery Show. We went to see him in pantomime and queued afterwards to get his autograph and he was horrible. He was being rude to people and shouting at the queue to hurry up. His autograph went straight in the bin.

I’ve been loads of shit gigs but the most disappointing was smashing pumpkins at Brixton academy - maybe 5 years or so ago?? SUCH a big fan of the original band and billy corgan just played what seemed like hours of tripe. Gap between expectation and reality...

Not exactly the worst, definitely most bizarre therefore rating it as worst in now my and DHs opinion.
Given tickets to a Brazil dance show at saddlers wells. Immediately noticed very high number of very camp audience members in reception (DH oblivious to this),turned out to he erotic gay male dance show of men in tight budgie smugglers suggestively gyrating with NO interval.
Had been given excellent mid row tickets 5 rows from front making it impossible to leave. Certainly an experience!!😯

Meatloaf about 8 years ago, singing like he did for all those years has completely ruined his voice.

We went to see Ross Noble last year here in Perth and he was beyond shite. Not funny at all and kept going on non funny tangents. Saw Michael Mcintyre about 6 months ago and he was amazing

Um...Badly Drawn Boy at Eden Festival in Scotland, a small and very lovely hippy festival. It was pissing with rain and he had tumbled from popularity and was now having to do bread and butter work at smaller gigs. He was pissed off about being there and made no bones about it. What a rude, miserable bastard...he insulted the people that had turned out see him, other performers, Scotland in general...and the good natured audience were stunned. A few people heckled him. It was a very strange and sad experience.
He was being followed straight after by, of all people, Mr Motivator...who he had referred to as a cunt.
Mr Motivator bounded on stage and said, “Right well...I think we all know who the cunt is!” before launching straight into his routine which went down a storm! He was fantastic! Ha ha!

Also Simon Amstell in Edinburgh. He had an anxiety attack, forgot his material and just basically fell apart. I felt terrible for him actually.

Van Morrison in Brighton many years ago, some unknown protégé of his did more of the set than he did. He was such a grumpy sod too.

Hairy Bikers live tour. Saw the first one about 5 years ago and it was excellent, walked out this year as it was juvenile, repetative and boring.

Spooky - I was reading through the thread thinking 'now who was a bad performer' and yes, it was Van Morrison as well. At the Albert Hall. Had really been looking forward to it but Van kept looking at his watch (!) and stayed on stage for around 50 minutes only.

The support act weren't great either.

As a contrast - one of the best gigs ever was David Bowie at Milton Keynes class act.

I saw the Happy Mondays about 20 years ago. Shaun Ryder was 'in a bad place' and came on for the legal minimum of 20 minutes before telling us all to go guck ourselves and storming off

Fuck. Go fuck ourselves. Autocucumber.

Deep Purple, without a doubt.

@TheBitterBoy Can't have been late 90s, they split in 1995?