Exit Stage Left: Gigs You Walked Out From (3 Viewers)

[Frank Discussions]

Boris. Tuneless, boring, leather trousers.
International Noise Conspiracy. Thought I was going to see an evolution of the Refused, instead got a band who thought they were The Rolling Stones. Also leather trousers.

I guess I don’t like “we’re a rock band” bands.

 

[Flux]

Can Laois handle two festivals??
strange mix of acts...

Some i'd pay a few quid for but a load I'd need to be paid a lot of money to stand and watch. I don't even drink anymore. Yeah it's a funny one.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Some i'd pay a few quid for but a load I'd need to be paid a lot of money to stand and watch. I don't even drink anymore. Yeah it's a funny one.

almost if they had put the cream on for a one-day event it'd be pretty good

 

[egg_]

Also leather trousers

I was in Austria 2 years ago and almost* bought a pair of lederhosen ... suppose it's not the same as leather trousers though

* didn't buy them cos I looked at the price tag and they were 200 quid

 

[xsteox]

Fear Factory in Ambassador.I wasn't really feeling like going anyway, but, the support, Janus stark were so unbearably awful. I couldn't be in the same room as that rubbish.

 

[rettucs]

a slight twist on this.

I once left an A Place to Bury Strangers gig early to go see a lad I know play upstairs in Whelans.

THE APTBS gig was great while he was playing Oasis fucking cover versions.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

u2 at pairc ui chaoimh around 87/88

awful crapola

 

[bogmanfan]

Another refugee from the Chili Peppers here. Left the Phoenix Park after the Pixies' set. Also bailed early on Arcade Fire in Marlay Park, again after the Pixies finished.

Had to leave loads of gigs early to get the last bus. Missed the end of Do Make Say Think in Whelan's - they were class

 

[Frank Discussions]

I was in Austria 2 years ago and almost* bought a pair of lederhosen ... suppose it's not the same as leather trousers though

* didn't buy them cos I looked at the price tag and they were 200 quid

200 quid for lederhosen sounds right, that’s some serious leather.

 

[ernesto]

200 quid for lederhosen sounds right, that’s some serious leather.

€100 a leg!

 

[Frank Discussions]

€100 a leg!

Assuming they are strapless lederhosen, with straps I’d wager €85 a leg.

 

[Cormcolash]

Green Day at RKH. Got on guest list just to see Rancid basically, they were great. Lasted about 7 songs of Green Day, then went Fuck It. As I was leaving, they were just starting to butcher Longview/Welcome to Paradise. 5 minute guitar solo in the middle with Billie Joe talking shit over it.

 

[seanc]

In the other thread I think I said Bruce Springsteen solo was the best gig or whatever.
It wouldn't be now, but it was at the time.

Tickets sold out in 80 seconds or something. We had spares because one of our group wrangled a back stage pass. The spare tickets went to guys who left during the second song. "It's just him singing and talking". That was a bluesy harmonica and stomp board version of Reason To Believe.

We were appalled. Betrayed, even. There was plenty of other people who'd have taken those tickets.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I’ve seen RHCP three times and hated them each time. I left during the second song the last time, went to Slane to see Queens of the Stone Age and PJ Harvey. Was back on O’Connell St in Eddie Rockets by 10, magic.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Surprised at the big crap gigs some of youse have been to.

At Sunstroke 1993 RHCP were supposed to headline but cancelled and FNM played instead. Phew! I dodged a bullet there. First gig and never went to a big outdoor gig after that.

 

[taubstumm]

there was a very weird gig in marlay park in 2005 or so, where sonic youth supported the chemical brothers. place was barely half full, it was on a weekday. sonic youth came on at probably 6pm or so, played a decent enough set, then I left. I cycled to and from the gig, I remember being home by a bit after 8pm and thinking that it was a strange feeling to have just seen sonic youth and also still have a whole evening ahead of me. I think I might have made a dinner and watched a movie.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I did the same at that Marley Park gig, except I left and went to the pub. Some band who used to be mocked mercilessly on thumped played before Sonic Youth. I wasn't going to go to that, it was expensive to see Sonic Youth play a support set in a field but a friend had Thurston’s email address and shamelessly asked if four of us could go on the guest list and it worked! Kim played trumpet on PCH

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

"It's just him singing and talking".

what did they expect?

 

[egg_]

what did they expect?

Indeed. What does any singer do only sing?

 

[pete]

what did they expect?

an e-street band?