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Possibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.

When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.

What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?

(, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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my GF and her friends dragged me along, damn them all....
once went to an alternative music festival at a theatre in my home town.
A few of the performances where ok, even really liked on of them, but most of them where utter shite.
The one that really stood out was a Japanese woman with a synthesizer and a tall guy with ginger hair and a guitar.
They walked on stage and started tuning and hooking up their instruments. The guy started the performance by starting to wail away at the guitar, very dramaticly, like he was building up to do some seriously cool guitar playing.

and then came "the song"

The small Japanese woman started to shriek and scream into her microphone, tweaking, distorting and adding echoes to her howling and screeching with the synthesizer, making it even louder and more annoying. I couldn't tell if she was saying (or singing) anything, it all came out sounding like a mixture of cats being raped by elephants, seaguls attacking small children and nails against a blackboard.

The guy kept going at the guitar from different angles, producing noises I didn't know a guitar could make. some examples of what he did:
-dragging the guitar, face down, across the floor.
-rubbing it against his boddy.
-smashing it against the speakers.
-licking the strings with his tongue.
-twisting the tuning knobs while doing these other things.

they made ten minutes feel like an eternity.

idiots

the worst part was the group of the usual chin-rubbing wankers nodding like this was the best performance they had ever experienced.

Length & girth?
You know you like it baby!
(, Thu 29 Sep 2005, 12:00, Reply)

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