Worst ever performance at Reading & Leeds

[Buko]

Thought seeing as we had a best performance ever thread this might be a good idea.

Personally worst ever performance's i've ever seen is

BFMV (08) - Way over crowded, sound was awful, band looked bored and full of 12 year olds trying to start a circle pit every time they started playing a new song.

Thrice (10) - Never seen a band so bored & unhappy while playing to 40,000 people

The Offspring (11) - I'm a huge fan of The Offspring which meant my expectations were high yet they were so disappointing, they didn't seem to care & where very lazy.

[kaosmark2]

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[Tobieski]

Odd future at Reading last year were dreadful. Literally spent most of the set in the crowd and then got kicked off early, what a load of shite

[Yellow_Fellow]

OF were awesome, the crowd sucked s o m u c h though.

[hoils]

The Roses in 96. They had dancing girls, ffs.

[lightning1000]

Leeds

Rhcp 07

Radiohead 09

Arctic monkeys 09

Paramore 10

The darkness 04/razorlight 07

[lightning1000]

Oh actually add 30stm 11 to that list

[LondonTom]

OF were awesome, the crowd sucked s o m u c h though.

[luckysalt]

Incubus 2005. Even worse than their 2002 set which wasn't great, but 2005 was awful, BORING as fuck setlist didn't even play Certain Shade of Green. They really just couldn't be bothered at all that year, its up there as one of the worst festival performances i've ever seen at any fest.

[Andre91]

I forgot about Thrice, my god they were boring. Paramore weren't much good in 2010, 30STM put in an abortion of a set in 2011, and Crystal Castles were garbage this past year, I just don't get them at all.

[mrtourette]

Arctic Monkeys were dull as shit in '09 but RHCP in '07 was a real "what the fuck is this?" moment. Be Your Own Pet (2008) in the tent were a shambles but not in a good way, great band but they were clearly shitfaced and they'd already announced they were splitting. Vitually unlistenable.

[Spud001]

The Strokes (2011) Never been so bored during a headline performance in my life. The band were half an hour late and just didn't give a shit.

Glassjaw (2011) So so so disappointed by these. Dire setlist led to an extremely bored crowd.

The View (2011) Have no idea why I was there thinking about it.

[Benj]

Ian Brown circa 2009ish, perhaps the worst live music performance I've ever seen at Reading or Leeds or indeed the likes of O'neils etc...

Fucking embarassingly awful

[Benj]

Odd future at Reading last year were dreadful. Literally spent most of the set in the crowd and then got kicked off early, what a load of shite

[Bisque]

Incubus 2005. Even worse than their 2002 set which wasn't great, but 2005 was awful, BORING as fuck setlist didn't even play Certain Shade of Green.

Edited April 11, 2013 by Couchy

[Yellow_Fellow]

What was good about it? It's acts doing what they do, that give rap/hip hop a terrible live rep...just angry guys with appalling backing tracks shouting.

Edited April 11, 2013 by Yellow_Fellow

[mrtourette]

Yellow Fellow is a vehement defender of the hip hops.

[thetime]

Eminem first time aroud, the worst act ive ever witnesses live...Even worse than rhcp at v festival.

[LondonTom]

... they rapped. That's the act. They hip, they hop. Do you even like hip hop? Since WHEN has it had a terrible live rep?

Not even shouting, and the backing track is fab.

Edited April 11, 2013 by LondonTom

[Yellow_Fellow]

If you go to see a hip hop performance and get disappointed by lack of instruments you need a head check. It was Yonkers, check it out.

[kev1664]

Why do people go and see an act that they know they are going to dislike?

I make sure I do a little bit of revision on most bands, bith on record and live, before the fest, especially those that don't fall in the time slots that I have un-missables, then I will already know what to expect.

You still get the occasional bad performance ie paramore 2010, Ian brown 2009, arctics 2009, but it ain't as bad as setting yourself up for a fall, see 30stm as a prime example where most don't research then complain he doesn't sing.

[the wonderwhy]

Crystal Castles last year was a pile of poo.

[lightning1000]

Why do people go and see an act that they know they are going to dislike?

I make sure I do a little bit of revision on most bands, bith on record and live, before the fest, especially those that don't fall in the time slots that I have un-missables, then I will already know what to expect.

You still get the occasional bad performance ie paramore 2010, Ian brown 2009, arctics 2009, but it ain't as bad as setting yourself up for a fall, see 30stm as a prime example where most don't research then complain he doesn't sing.

[Benj]

In regards to 30stm, the only thing is seen live footage of was the rock am ring set that's on MTV, he sang nearly everything. At Leeds he sang about 3 lines of every song.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Blink 182 were awful by far the worst 'headline' set I've ever seen at Reading or anywhere else. Paramore before them were awful too. Damn my friends for having awful taste in music & subjecting me to that load of old shit.