42 Of The Worst Concerts Ever These People Had The Dubious Pleasure Of Witnessing

"My brother's 5th grade band concert was just terrible. Absolute complete rubbish. I can't believe how amateur those kids were."

"I had the great displeasure of seeing Yoko Ono perform live. She was the closing act of a festival and I suspect they gave her that slot to clear out the park so they could start cleaning up. 20 min after she was supposed to go on she put on a video about how she had set up LEDs all over the world that blinked in random patterns and were apparently supposed to represent something about love. That lasted 20 or 30 min. Then she came on stage, started hitting a guitar with her earrings, then screaming wordlessly into a microphone while writhing on the ground. The crowd went from a few thousand people to a few dozen before she finished her first 'song.'"

Commenter said:
"50 Cent. We lived in a small Canadian town that was predominantly white and it was a big deal to a lot of people that he was coming. Show pretty much sold out.

Dude has four or five other rappers perform as opening acts and then a guy who looked like 50 Cent but didn't sound like him showed up and performed parts of songs for about 15 minutes and then walked off the stage. Literally 45 second parts of songs. It was amazing.

People speculated for months afterwards that it wasn't actually him and that he ran into issues at the border."

CahokiaGreatGeneral replied:
"Maybe that was 45 cent?"

GDBatDad said:
"Saw Blink 182 twice in two years. Set list was exactly the same, down to telling the exact same jokes about balls and stuff between the same songs.

Side note, in both cases I was there to see the other band they were playing with. Green day played a great show."

ciknay replied:
"Greenday are excellent performers in the purest form of the word. They play good music, know how to entertain a crowd and they do a lot of crowd interaction. They're just fun to experience."

"I went to see some band called Future Islands in Brixton, London. My mate’s girlfriend loved them and off the back of her recommendation we got tickets an hour before the gig with no idea about the music.

The sound was crap, and I don’t know if it was the venue or the band themselves. I didn’t hear a single song that I thought was good and I found myself bored.

Later during a break I was outside in the smoking area enjoying a beer. Random dude comes up to me and asks me what I thought of the show. I told him honestly that I’d found it pretty crap and was looking forward to leaving once the show was finished. He looked at me a little oddly then walked away. Friend’s girlfriend comes up to me.

'Wow, I can’t believe you were chatting with Samuel. What were you talking about?'

Turns out he was the lead singer."

"Drake. It sure if he’s gotten better over the last 3 years. But paid 400$ for floor seats 40 rows back from the front at a sold out show in Vancouver and the production was quite disappointing. He’s featured in a lot of songs so he would just stop singing and the stadium would hear Rihanna sing her piece like it was on an iPod. He also didn’t have ANY guest performers with him. Most expensive and worst show I’ve been to."

cleanutility said:
"Amy Winehouse Brixton 2007 or 2008. She was shockingly bad, absolutely off her face bless her."

Commenter replied:
"It’s almost as if the warning signs were already there."

gardano said:
"The one where my brother was playing in the orchestra, and in the middle of a Mozart Symphony, the conductor had a heart attack and died onstage."

criostoirsullivan replied:
"I assume the 1st violin stepped over him and kept conducing, right?"

gardano replied:
"Oh man that would have been truly metal!"

"Hellogoodbye performed at my college in 2008. It's a liberal arts school in the middle of Pennsyltucky, and the band showed up drunk, kept saying our town was a sh*thole, and repeatedly tried to cut their hour-long set short. They left the stage with a half hour left in their set, and the school's concert committee had to physically push the band back onto the stage. They put zero effort into the show and I lost whatever respect I had for them after having listened to Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn thousands of times in high school.

There was a girl who lived on my hall and she and her boyfriend were huge Hellogoodbye fans. They were so excited for the show, her boyfriend came in from out of town, and they left so disappointed."

Purpledranksoxguy said:
"Snoop Dogg 2010 Took him 4 hours to come out because he was watching the Lakers-Celtics finals. Then when it ended we walked outside and people were getting tear gassed."

Bizmark_86 replied:
"He did the same sh*t in my town too. Saw his plane flying in. Black Lear jet going super slow, 2 hours after he was supposed to be performing. It was an outdoor show, so bylaw is 11 cutoff, with exceptions if course. Apparently he didn't hit the stage until 1 am. Did 3 songs and just left the venue. There was a riot, and bunch of fights, a couple stabbings and a bunch of damage to surrounding businesses.

We don't have many outdoor shows anymore. And a very strict 11 pm close."

"I saw Bob Dylan in 2007. About halfway through his set we realized he wasn't just playing new songs we didn't know. He was playing all of his old hits, and they were unrecognizable."

"Panic at the Disco last summer. I went with my wife because I wanted to see Walk the Moon (who was great). Outdoor concert, pretty open, decent place.

So the lights go out for Panic to come out, and for the next hour or so all I heard was women screaming. It was like being at a Beatles concert in the 60's. I could barely hear the band playing, much less singing. At least they mostly shut up when they played Bohemian Rhapsody, which was pretty cool, but otherwise, it was a waste. If I had gone just to see them I would have been pissed."

Commenter said:
"Matisyahu.

He just paced around the stage for the first half of the show, stopped the set at some point to shout at someone in the crowd for smoking some weed, and then sat down on a speaker to finish the rest of his show. Like, he literally just sat on the speaker until he left."

atlacamayeh replied:
"I didn’t expect to see this here! His was also my worst concert experience. He seemed totally drained and just kind of danced around for a bit then ended his set early. Felt pretty bad for the guy."

"Lets see. I spent over 200 dollars on tickets to see Metallica for their St. Anger tour. Godsmack opened. Crushed it. Metallica came on and honestly it was like they were filing their taxes. I don't know. The music sounded good but their energy was just nonexistent. Maybe it was just me but they got completely outclassed by their opening act. We ended up leaving early."

"Rage Against the Machine - Lollapalooza 1994 at FDR Park in Philly, they were one of the bands I was waiting to see, but instead of playing their set, they decided this was the stop on the tour where they were going to make a political statement and came out on stage naked with duct tape over their mouths and the letters PMRC on their chests (which made it all the more odd because no one even talked about the PMRC anymore in '94), and just stood there with their d*cks dangling in the warm summer breeze for 20 minutes while a single note of guitar feedback on sustain hummed the whole time. Then the feedback stopped, and they walked off-stage and that was their whole set."

malleeman said:
"Showing my age here. The Beach Boys in Adelaide Australia (back in the 70s). Came on stage an hour late and the lot of them sounded absolutely horrible through the whole concert, those harmonies they were famous for were left back in the US.

I swear there must have been a lot of help when they created their albums, because live, they were terrible."

"I went to see Wu-Tang clan. Doors opened at 7, and I was there by 730. Show was supposed to start at 9. At 8 a DJ came on stage with his MacBook and played music 'to entertain us until the Wu is ready.' He played until almost 1am, and during this time he played six different versions of the song METHOD MAN."

"Slayer. Not cause the band sucked but because I was kicked in the b*tthole by a Native American guy with steel toed boots and a pony tail."

forestguy17 said:
"The one where I thought I was still young enough to go into the mosh pit and busted out both of my front teeth which ended up costing $3k to fix. (The band was Clutch.)"

Commenter replied:
"Losing teeth at a Clutch show kinda sounds like bucket list material though..."

"Smashmouth played a free outdoor concert 2 blocks from my house last summer. Just as I suspected they sounded absolutely terrible live. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Hoping they come back this summer."