Can you play "way over there"?
Reading 2003 I think. The path to the arena was lined with tents, some of which had aspiring musicians doing their best to 'entertain' the crowds. At one such juncture, a chap in a deerstalker hat played his guitar. On our many trips to and from the tent, he would always be there strumming away enthusiastically. He was so reliable we used him as a kind of aural beacon at night to find our way back to the tent.

Sadly, he was shit.

On the last night, we staggered back towards our tent, listening for his tuneless twanging to point us in the right direction as usual. Alas, nothing! We eventually figured out the correct route using other landmarks, and upon walking past the fellow noticed he was sulking in front of a small fire, hat in his hands... and poking out of the fire was the smouldering neck of his guitar.

Vigilantes had silenced him. I felt quite sad.
( chart cat has an itch, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 3:05, 2 replies)

If only
they'd silenced the talentless cockwit near my tent at Latitude. His repertoire consisted of half-songs (he'd get halfway through the song, forget the rest, and start again) by Oasis. At 3am.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 9:58, closed)

i know how you feel
went to reading in 07 and there was a guy playing guitar that thought he was God's gift to music. He dreams were dashed when his guitar was duly smashed on a telegraph pole but the drunken mob on the last night :)
(neorockz :), Wed 10 Jun 2009, 17:29, closed)