Tears for Fears were a bit disappointing, was hoping for a lot more, hyped by the cancel and subsequent reschedule, but not really much of an atmosphere, weren’t on very long and not cheap either!
I fear mine is yet to come as I bought the good lady a pair of tickets to see George Ezra and she appears to have run out of friends...
T'pau at NEC cos my girlfriend at the time liked them...absolute f@cking drivel, also saw Dylan at the same venue in the same year and he was'nt much better, very disappointing. At the other end of the spectrum...Simple minds/The Cult/The Waterboys at MK bowl in 86', best gig i've ever attended
Guitar hero of mine, Peter Green, at the start of his comeback sometime around 2000 I think. He looked really uncomfortable on stage, never seemed to relax and his playing was lacklustre. Huge disappointment.
I went to the MK concert. Big Audio Dynamite were there with simple minds the day I went - I think it was two days as I can’t remember The Waterboys or The Cult? We were right at the front
Yeah ,long time ago but i think we went on the Saturday and BAD were on with them on the Sunday IIRC, June 86'.
Oasis at Knebworth. Knebworth itself was awesome, but they werent the best band performance. Thats goes to the Manics, The Charletons or Dreadzone. Oasis were ok. We saw them before they got famous in a small tent at Glasto, they were bloody tight that day. Everyone singing Hey Jude as we left was awesome. 500k people doing na na na nanana. Damned if I could find my car.
Saw them with Kasabian and thought they were dogshit. Bore me rigid the pair of them. I enjoyed Faithless at Brixton Academy "back in the day" and Stereophonics are always ace - Kelly Jones has the voice of an angel imo.
I saw him a few times with the Splinter group and once with another setup. Obviously most know his background with regard his health side. But I saw a mix of performances from him that mostly were very good but at times it was very obvious that the others in the group would carry him. Strange having at times a guy like him playing a few feet from you but he was in his head a million miles away in another place. Still a legend that I’m pleased I got to see home play live.
Years ago I saw Miles David at Hammersmith (I was going through a jazz phase). He spent the whole concert with his back to the audience… (It was also when he was working with rock guitarist and it was all a bit of a mess)
Back in 1979, a band called Bebop Deluxe had a couple of brilliant singles and an excellent album in the charts so, despite being penniless student, my friend Mark and I went to see them at the Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen. Bill Nelson, the bands brilliant lead guitarist came on to the stage, went up to the mic and announced that the band were going to play their new album in its entirety and nothing else. Trouble was, they had decided that they now wanted to be a punk band so none of their new stuff was remotely similar to the guitar-based rock the audience were expecting and, boy was it dull. There wasn’t even any chat between numbers, just the title of the next song. Mark and I lasted about half an hour before retiring to the pub, totally pissed off for wasting so much time and money.
Toesland at Fibbers in York - What a cock, he should have stuck to riding bikes. He can play the joanna though A controversial one. Springstein at the Wembley arena. Sounded as though he was pissed. Didn't recognise any of the songs We left at half time and went to the pub. Utter drivel.
Jeff Beck at Royal Albert Hall last year. Shortly into the set Jeff brought Johny Depp on and the show was rubbish from there on in with Jeff deferring to Depp and pretty much being his backing guitarist. Depp's singing and guitar playing were atrocious. This was my last JB gig - sad to have such a poor last memory of a guitar genius.
Wizzard………Christmas do. They were good for 40 mins. Then went off stage never to return, not even for an encore. And when Roy Wood was tackled by two women in the bar afterwards about it he just said to them (because I heard it word for word) “We were contracted to do 40 minutes, and so we did 40 minutes”. Another disappointing show was Midge Ure unplugged. Boring doesn’t begin to describe it.
