Well the best would either be Supervillains/Mad Caddies, Streetlight Manifesto or Bad Religion. I would have to say Streetlight though, I mean they are simply amazing live, and that combined with their new music coming out, makes for an amazing concert.
As for the worst, my friend tricked me into going to see a screamo band. Eww. It sounded like lynyrd skynyrd and norma jean had a retarded baby with fetal alcohol syndrome.
LOLOriginally Posted by gabetar
I can only imagine what that must have sounded like.
The best for me was Blue Öyster Cult at a pirate festival in Lake Charles, LA. It was a free show, but they didnt care. They rocked out for 2 hours and came back for an encore. I was lucky enough to be against the railing in front of the stage.
Worst for me was Bob Dylan last year in Austin. I really think he had a stroke on stage. I ended up leaving before his set was finished. Afterwards, I was talking with a friend that had seen him a few times before and was told that Dylan always sucked live.
Best:
Rage Against The Machine at Reading Festival 2008. Was an excellent set, they had the most epic opener. All 4 band members in orange guantanamo bay jumpsuits and black bags over their heads, spotlights glaring at them. Then they played Bombtrack with the bags still over their heads. Crazy stuff, best gig i've ever seen.
Muse in London: 2nd best live band i've seen. Flawless performance, excellent sound. I saw them pre-black holes & revelations which is a good thing for the most part cos I got to see songs which are often left out now like Muscle Museum (a favourite of mine).
Editors at Reading Festival (again). Me and a friend got pretty close to the front for this, they were really great. Put on a good show, and there was a hot girl not wearing much in front of me so I was pretty happy.
Worst:
I could list bands i've seen that I didn't like previously anyway... but that's not really fair. I'd think its pretty hard to enjoy a live show if you don't like the music. Every band i've seen as a fan of their music have been pretty good. We Are Scientists were slightly disappointing, but i'm not really sure why. Keith Murray's vocals were a bit off but it didn't ruin their performance. I'm still a big fan and was glad I saw them.
I've remembered a best and worst gig at the same time.
Slagsmalsklubben, who were the support band, for the support band - the headlining band I don't even remember their name. We turned up to see SMK play, which was totally awesome, a crowd of about 50 people if that, so we were at the front the whole time going wild.
After that the support band Late of The Pier came on and sucked epically, not even 20 people watched, everyone else either left or went to the bar - at which point we went home. Shortest, best and worst gig ever.
Really? We Are Scientists were amazing when I saw them a few weeks back. The on-stage banter between them was hilarious.
Like I said I am kinda nitpicking. They were by no means terrible, I just kinda expected them to be amazing, and they were only good. If you get what I mean.
They were pretty funny though, yeah. Just the musical performance wasn't what I expected it to be.
Yeah, I've heard he's really poor live too, to the extent people wonder why he bothers.
I've seen a few good gigs, but I think The Music at the Carling Academy in Bristol takes the biscuit; the band's style certainly lends itself to an excellent live performance, but I've never seen a band get the crowd on their side so easily and completely shatter them by the end. Met them after the gig too, and they're a nice bunch.
Second is probably the other time i saw The Music, this time at Cardiff Uni, but I'd probably plump either for Muse at Cardiff International Arena or Blood Red Shoes supporting Biffy Clyro (again at Cardiff Uni [I don't even study there])...
...which brings me onto the worst gig, which is between Biffy Clyro - who were boring as a stage presence and played their worst songs from their latest album - and Foo Fighters, who were just boring and for some reason insisted on screwing up their best songs with stupid witterings from Dave Grohl. Bit of a shame.
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