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    Worst Gig

    My worst gig in musical terms though it was a great day overall was The Verve at Slane in 98. I fell asleep during their act standing up with a freshly spraned ankle. Thats how boring they were.
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    Snow patrol in the Olympia last year...fooled into going...never again....awful awful band...

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    The Verve at Sland were absolute quality!!!

    Worst would probably have to be Snow Patrol supporting U2, in fact the sound was so bad in Croke Park that night, U2 too!!!
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    Whipping Boy last year. Quality band but terrible gig.
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    Nightmares on Wax in Dublin this year. ****e sound and a ****e MC let a really good band down

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    Possibly Transvision Vamp at Feile 91.
    Awful band anyway so my expectations were low but they were shocking. You could always tell by the way the drumkit was set up in their videos that these people hadn't a clue how to play any instruments...

    Actually -same festival -Happy Mondays were cack too. The Farm were better than them! -now that's bad.

    A few years back saw Damien Rice and yer wan with him who always sits like she's been speared to a tree and it was like having teeth pulled. It was just before that record came out and lots of his muso buddies were there gaping aghast at these wonderous soul struck ...um ...yokes. If he'd played one more song I'd have begged for death.
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    Aerosmith at the Point a few years ago and from yonks ago The Boomtown Rats at the RDS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie View Post
    Happy Mondays were cack too. The Farm were better than them! -now that's bad.
    Surely you jest Lionel? I mean the Mondays may have been cack, but it's still the Farm at the end of the day!

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    Quote Originally Posted by NeilMcD View Post
    Whipping Boy last year. Quality band but terrible gig.
    ouch! was meant to go but couldnt get tickets was it that bad?

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    Some of the bands served up at a few of the Feile's were utter scutter.

    I remember "M People" doing their damndest to "get down" with the kids in 94 (I think). Tragic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jebus View Post
    Surely you jest Lionel? I mean the Mondays may have been cack, but it's still the Farm at the end of the day!

    Serious as a heart attack.

    There was a lot of ropey performances that year. Van Morrison, Elvis Costelloe ....it was also The Pogues last gig with Shane McGowan -they fired him after it he was so out of it.

    Some excellent performances too -Steve Earle, The Golden Horde, The Wonderstuff and a man of the match winning show from Billy Bragg. Kirsty McColl came on as a guest with the latter two and the pogues of course. Lit the place up as only she could.
    " I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"

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    Busted in the Oddessy....only went to babysit 8 kids ranging from 4 to 16!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magicme View Post
    Busted in the Oddessy....only went to babysit 8 kids ranging from 4 to 16!
    I babysat my then 15 year old niece and her friend at a KORN concert in the RDS. I wore a pink shirt. Nightmare.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Paddyfield View Post
    I wore a pink shirt. Nightmare.
    In fairness, wearing a pink shirt anywhere would be a nightmare.
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    Radiohead in Marlay Park this year. ****e venue, ****e sound, ****e crowd. Greatest band in the world though. Just a terrible, terrible gig though

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    Dont go to many gigs anymore but I remember being really disappointed
    with Soundgarden in the RDS Simmonscourt back somewhere around 1995
    or so. I think White Zombie and Pennywise supported them.

    They were due to play Sunstroke the year before, along with RHCP, Ice Cube,
    Terrorvision .... iirc, but pulled out so I was really looking forward to seeing
    them. Alas after the gig, I remember wishing I hadnt bothered going.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Dont go to many gigs anymore but I remember being really disappointed
    with Soundgarden in the RDS Simmonscourt back somewhere around 1995
    or so.

    They were coming to the end of their existance at that stage. Would have loved to have seen them in their prime. Such a pity to see how far ornell has fallen. that Bond song is beyond an embarassment

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    Shaun Ryder in the Nerve centre Derry March 2006.

    Decent support band on then a DJ all of a sudden I noticed some fat bloke wondering about the back of the stage, then I realised it was Shaun Ryder absolutely rotten. He stumbled all over the dj's decks and started to get booed then he shouted something like "F*ck of Paddys" and got bottled of the stage.
    Aparently he been in Derry the whole week on the p*ss
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie View Post
    A few years back saw Damien Rice and yer wan with him who always sits like she's been speared to a tree and it was like having teeth pulled. It was just before that record came out and lots of his muso buddies were there gaping aghast at these wonderous soul struck ...um ...yokes. If he'd played one more song I'd have begged for death.
    I see what you mean Lionel, Unfortunatley I was myself not spared this spectacle. I have to say, Damien Rice has to be the most overblown, overated and overhyped piece of mind numbing crappola ever. I think myself he should just **** off and die along with the Frames and Bono.

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