I've just opened
a packet of Haribo Tangfastics - anyone want one? There are lots to choose from.

Question: Best and worst bands you've ever seen and why.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:06, 90 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yes please.
Really enjoyed the EODM at Bristol a few months ago; Best? George Clinton/Paliament/Funkadelic at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Great venue, awesome band.

Edit: first time was with Lili Haydn, Awesome musician - www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDIUGW_hZVQ
Last time was with 5 lead guitarists, multi layered solos and beyond..
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

Worst: Dillinger Escape Plan
fucking dreadful noise. no talent whatsoever. I led the booing at the SOAD gig that they supported at Brixton Academy.

Best: Probably have to be Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, somewhere in Bristol. The man has such an incredible voice and such presence. I was literally speechless afterwards.

Honorable mentions for worst band ever: Reeko - local Exeter punk scene. Fucking shite
Starsailor - seriously fucking dull.
The Upper Room - middle of the road shit, but pranced about like they were guns and roses.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

no thanks - just scoffed all the biscuits
best band: ooo, perhaps soundgarden? REM surprised me by being good

Worst: some awful band in a pub in cardiff the other week, they had a really good name, too. Smashing Pumpkins at Glasto were disapointing, especially since they are one of my favouritist bands, ever
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:11, Reply)

That would fucking surprise me too.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

I'm not a fan
but they were very entertaining
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

I found that with Primal Scream

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

they're a good bunch of blokes
and Bobby Gillespie has excellent taste in music. I'm not a fan of their band but I like the cut of their collective jib.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:22, Reply)

they put on a storming rock and roll show
at 1:30am, in the rain.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:23, Reply)

Excellent.
I was at a party with Gillespie once and he looked like a drowned rat. I also once saw him in my local, where he looked like a drowned and partially decomposed rat.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

excellent stuff
did he have his rocks on?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:32, Reply)

I'm guessing
That by that time of the night, he'd have got his rocks off. Honey.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:36, Reply)

He didn't look like he even had
socks on.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Best:
AC/DC, the Stooges or NY hip hop crew called the Arsonists who were truly incredible. Motorhead's 30th Anniversary show was also brilliant as was every one of the 8 million shows by Thee Hypnotics I went to in the 80s. Gaye Bykers on Acid were excellent at Treworgey too. Also Ozric Tentacles offshoot The Ullulators at Barton Stacey airfield fee festival 89 or 90; they played two nights on the trot and were incredible (and v different) both nights.

Worst: Hmmmm - possibly Tortoise. I think that's the only gig I've walked out of 15 minutes in. They were totally fucking awful.


EDIT what the fuck am I talking about - best ever was Hawkwind at the Treworgey Tree Fayre 89: it's available on DVD if anyone cares. However I was 15 and chock full of LSD at the time so my recollections are more than a little misty-eyed.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:11, Reply)

I didn't know the Ozrics had dissolved into a breakaway band
I thought they'd just split up. Are these Ullulators worth checking out then?

Also, re Hawkwind: you lucky, lucky bastard.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:30, Reply)

Best: Radiohead
I don't think enough superlatives justifies them live. Really such an imaginative and technically amazing band and seeing them live only underlines that.

Worst: I must apologise to many /offtopic folk, but the Foo Fighters really don't do it for me. Bland, uninspired dirge with 1 or 2 hits thrown in. They also sounded terrible, and yer man from Nirvana has a rather high opinion of himself.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Foo Fighters do put out a lot of dross
their best stuff was on the first couple of albums IMO.

Dave Grohl is best as a drummer, as we can see from Them Crooked Vultures
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:15, Reply)

Them Crooked Vultures
album worth buying?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:17, Reply)

best album of last year probably
although Bigelf's Cheat the Gallows was also awesome, and the second Wolfmother album.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:22, Reply)

not aware of Bigelf
but the site has the lead singer in a top hat which is clearly win
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:27, Reply)

they have elements of Pink Floyd about them
and rockingness. the guy's voice might annoy some, but I love it.

listen to The Evils of Rock and Roll or Counting Sheep
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:28, Reply)

am doing so now
is good
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

thanks to Monty for recommending them to me
even though he'd not listened to them
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

this is perhaps where I shall come for more
music recommendation, especially now the BBC are being cunts
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:32, Reply)

provided you don't like U2
you will do well here
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:34, Reply)

i don't really
have an opinion on them, I think everyone else has enough opinion on them for me
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:37, Reply)

oh man! radiohead Glastonbury '97
yes, that's probably my favourite gig ever

I disagree on Foo Fighter, bloody love 'em. Also: Dave Grohl=HAWT
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:16, Reply)

Where as Radiohead at V in 96 maybe?
Biggest load of tosh I ever stood through.

If it wasn't for the fact I was double monged, I'd have gone to see someone else, as it was, I needed to stay with someone who would see me back to my tent.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:21, Reply)

really?
was that when they were being all neurotic about being popular? '97 was OK Computer, so they played lots of that
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I saw Lazy-o-eye
on the television at some festival or other and have to say 'bland, uninspired dirge' summed them up perfectly.

But then we all know you're tone deaf, Finners old boy.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

Curse you!
O.K. perhaps a bad performance from the ratty man, but still, what has been committed to record by Radiohead is anything but uninspired bland! Foo Fighters on the other hand...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 21:49, Reply)

Best and worst on the same lineup
Best - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Worst - Dirty pretty things - I can't describe just how awful they were.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:23, Reply)

it's funny
but I barely remember watching the Chillis. I remember them being really good, but couldn't say what about it

I can remember a screen with jellyfish on it behind them...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:24, Reply)

ooh, Tangfastics, definitely
worst band? easily The Killers - my missus dragged me to Berlin to see them this time last year. whoever the sound team was had the set-up for an outdoor concert in an indoor arena. that and they're just shit


best would probably be Red Hot Chilli Peppers at Murrayfield in 2004 - i was working there, but it was bloody fantastic.

combined with spending the couple of hours before they came on in the exec boxes watching england lose to france made a great day all round
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

Best: Texas - White on Blonde tour
Worst: The Smiles
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:26, Reply)

I quite fancy that bird from Texas

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

We've got to stop doing this...

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

after watching an episode of QI the other day
turns out I also quite fancy Sue Perkins
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

Have you seen her table manners
an utter disgrace.

I bet she's filthy in the sack too.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Is she not a rug-muncher?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:41, Reply)

Yeah she got a deodorant bottle stuck up her Mary once
and had to go to the hospital
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:43, Reply)

does that necessarily make her
a rug muncher? Or would it have to be men's deodorant to make it hetero?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:01, Reply)

I'd cure her
or at least give her my best shot
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:44, Reply)

My Dad
Was interviewed by her for Countryfile. He told her to stop being silly.
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:44, Reply)

her for Country the police because he's a paedo
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:48, Reply)

shh!

( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:51, Reply)

That's because she's hawt, or was... I've not seen her for a bit so can't comment
They were just really good and she can really really sing!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

still hot
matured nicely.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

i've seen them and her solo a couple of times
She's still fit but for a while she went double-denim for the ladies.
She's back to being fine again.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:32, Reply)

I concur
They have been going for ages, so that could explain the double denim look! The 80's wern't always kind!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

This was last year on her solo tour!
She knew what she was doing...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Best: Blur
Worst: Dandy Warhols
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:30, Reply)

Ah yes,,
The Dandy's were shit when I saw them.

Play song. Say nothing. Play song. Say nothing.

And on it went.

The oddest gig I saw was Jet, who, for reasons best known to themselves, played 'Are you gonna be my girl' first - that'll be 90% of their audience upping and leaving to go and see someone else the moment they'd finished their 'hit'.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Mm Tangfastics
Worst: Definitely Bring me the Horizon. Kerrang Tour last year. Dir En Grey and MSI who I was there for, were good, while BMTH were even worse than I thought they'd be.

Best: Well I'm hoping that Iron Maiden at Sonisphere this year will take this title
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Iron Maiden were fucking awesome last time I saw them at a festival
they will be awesome this time

Woo! Sonisphere!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:36, Reply)

hehe
yeah, saw Maiden & Anthrax a while back, was really good gig and Maiden have that cheesy but secretly quite like them quality of good old fun metal
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Given that
I have three times bought tickets for Maiden and 3 times been thwarted, I rather worry if I'm going to jinx the entire festival!
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:10, Reply)

you'd better fucking not!
*shakes fist*
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 19:20, Reply)

well
I certainly won't do it on purpose!
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 22:34, Reply)

Best band Eurythmics
In about 1988 at Wembley

Worst: Gary Moore at Hammersmith in 2009
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:36, Reply)

How did the surgery go?
Did it restore your hearing?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:37, Reply)

Both gigs were loud
but I do have long term hearing loss.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:40, Reply)

That's dreadful.
To think that for over a decade, the last thing you heard was Dave A. Stewart and Annie Lennox.

You have my sympathy.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:43, Reply)

I have poor taste in music
I would rather admit I was a paedo, than tell you lot some of the bands I have seen.

Nowadays I rely on Monty to tell me what to listen to.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:49, Reply)

Just change your radio station
And allow yourself to get exposed to all manner of wonderful new sounds!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:51, Reply)

Who knows,
maybe you'll tune into Vipros' hot shipping forecast beyatch....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:53, Reply)

it was some years ago
and at midnight

I failed to find out who it was at the time. Much less likely now.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 19:21, Reply)

I only listen to Radio 4
King of stations.

Except tonight. Fucking cunting Cunt Arthur Strong is on a fucking gain.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:53, Reply)

Stick with me, pal, I'll see you right

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:52, Reply)

Cheers,
I need to know where to go next with Tractor. Is there a similar band or newer Tractor CD to grab?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:58, Reply)

Dear Monty
I am currently obsessed by Mumford and Sons. What should I listen to next?

Yours sincerely
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:00, Reply)

trufax!
the sister of the bass player from Mumford and Sons is a very good friend of mine.

also, try Seth Lakeman if you haven't heard him already
other suggestions are: John Butler Trio, Dave Matthews Band, Ash Grunwald, Xavier Rudd.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 19:21, Reply)

Ooooh Seth Lakeman!
"I'll haunt you", possibly the best break up song EVAH! Creepy isn't in it. The first truly venomous folk song I've ever heard.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)

worst
Testament, shit band, shit sound, shit

Best - Oooh probably Metallica when they were still good on the justice for all tour

both - Fear Factory, dreadful dreadful albums but blindingly good live band!
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:38, Reply)

yeah, I'd second that...
they started the donnington 96 lineup and I have never heard a band so tight and focussed at 11am...

Actually, that was a good day all round - Korn's first UK gig (in place of Red Kross) and a great Sepultura gig (albeit without Max as Gloria's kid had died that week), the Kiss reunion and Ozzy (who, it has to be said, was a bit underwhelming). Hell, even Dog Eat Dog fitted in with the sunshine-and-beer atmosphere.
(Chad, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)

Ooh, sweeties!
Best: Metallica. I've seen them twice, just absolutely stunning.

Worst: Society 1 at Download 2005 were one of the worst, music was awful. Underoath at the same Festival, I got jump kicked by some little emo shit wearing boots, then at the end the band asked everyone to pray with them. Guns n Roses at Download 2006, don't think any explanation is needed there. Suicide Silence are also wank, my friend highly recommended them, and they were just boring.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:42, Reply)

Has
Anyone seen Hayseed Dixie? Might watch them next week, tickets still available...
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:46, Reply)

No but they're a good band, I'd go, personally.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:50, Reply)

Fuck it then,
I will. Summit to do innit?
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:52, Reply)

The banjo player is really fucking good.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:53, Reply)

It's the banjo that would make me go.

( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:01, Reply)

I've seen them
thoroughly entertaining
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:54, Reply)

Go,
You will have an awesome time, persuade friends to go with you, drink and get ready to get involved with some whoopin' and a hollerin'.
(Oil Slick, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 22:23, Reply)

Go.
You will not regret it. I've seen them a couple of times and they are just peachy. "I love the moonshiners daughter cos she makes me liquor all night". What's not to love?
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 9:45, Reply)

an awesome evening
Can't recommend it enough - 'tis a good laugh
(Chad, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:36, Reply)

i fucking hate those jellies with the suspect white foam shite on the back
fried eggs can go fuck their grannies
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:22, Reply)

Oooh
Fizzy cherries thanks.

Best live band - Big Country

Worst - Skindred. Seen them in support 3 times and they just get worse.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Big Country
Oh jeez yes. Saw them in about '86 or '87. Amazing.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:56, Reply)

Bring me a croissant. I can quite smugly boast a range of awesome gigs to choose from
Though I still kick myself to this day for not getting off my arse and going to see The Who before the God of Bass Guitar that was The Ox popped his clogs.

Still, seeing John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (with no less than Buddy Whittington on guitar and Peter Green's Splinter Group in support) was a real privelige, and in terms of putting on a great show, Emily Loizeau was fucking awesome. I was also lucky to catch one of Hooverphonic's last gigs before their singer quit and she sang a stripped-down arrangement of Inhaler so perfectly beautifully I thought I'd cry like the big shirter I am. And then the first time I saw Ian Siegal, his stage presence was sufficiently powerful to distract my attention from the hot Russian sisters I'd been talking to earlier that evening.

Think the best one might have to be Brian Wilson though. I know he looks like a frightened muppet on stage, but he and his band did manage a superb - nay, sublime rendition of the entire Pet Sounds album. And who else could get the entirety of the Festival Hall to its feet dancing to old surf songs?

Worst? Well, fuck me, I've played a lot of gig nights at my student union building so I've seen some real abominations. But if I had to pick a professional band...I saw Elbow shortly after they released their first album, mostly on my sister's recommendation. And after they'd played Anyday Now I found the rest of the show really kinda boring.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:27, Reply)

hmmm...a lot to choose from
I'd have to say that the best were:

The Cure, Glastonbury '95 - just amazing.

Kiss, Donnington 96 (the first time they'd had the original line-up and makeup in about 20 years) - ok the music's not great, Ace Frehley shouldn't do five minute solos as he's not good enough, but the spectacle was great and you could see why they were so huge in the 70s - the show was amazing.

I'd also rate Ozric Tentacles at the Town And Country in about 1997, but I was blitzed out of my mind at the time and don't remember that much.

Most disappointing? Chilli Peppers in 2005/6 - just didn't seem like they wanted to make the effort, went through the numbers and refused to play a lot of the older stuff people wanted to hear. Nice to be able to say I have seen them live, but kinda wish I hadn't bothered.

Worst band ever? Some experimental Japanese Thrash Metal band at Glasotnbury '95 - lineup was two drummers a bassist and no guitar. The blurb for the band proudly exclaimed that none of the members could play before they formed the band..it showed. I swear to god once set of lyrics being screamed against atnonal tub-thumping was "I can see my heart in the hippo"... yikes.
(Chad, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I wish...
I'd been able to get to Pink Floyd for the PULSE gig, or even to the Live 8 reunion. Now that the keyboard player is six feet under, the odds on them doing another Waters/Gilmour lineup gig is slim to none. Bugger.

Would also love to see Pearl Jam live, but I think that whilst they still rock, it's a shame I'll never see them in a small club - I also missed Nirvana playing Leeds Student Union by about 6 months and then Kurt died, so that's pretty much setting a pattern - miss a great gig, then either have to catch them when it's not quite the same, or when someone's died. Arse.
(Chad, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:35, Reply)