Worst gigs you've been to

[Northernhibee]

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That reminds me. Got couple of freebies to T I T P the year Noel Gallagher and the Stone Roses headlined (2012?). You were literally knee deep in mud and god knows what else. The weather was absolutely brutal. One of the tents flooded and had to be closed IIRC. I just remember wading through mud and whatever else, the closer you got to the stage the deeper it got, I gave up when it got up to my knees. I remember people just stopping mid stride and just standing there pissing and folk openly sniffing coke off the back of their hands with no ****s given. NG was brilliant but again the Stone Roses were howling. Won't ever got back to T I T P or TRNSMT, whatever its been reinvented as. Horrible experience and not enjoyable.

Funnily enough the best Glastonbury I ever had was 2016 where the weather was horrible on the run up to it - there were doubts if it could go ahead due to the amount of mud and standing water. The sun came out from day one which meant the mud dried to a thick, claggy, clay like cement which made walking hugely difficult (I lost eleven pounds over the five days in weight, some in our group lost over a stone) but as soon as it was due to dry to the point where you could walk on it rather than through it, there was a shower of rain for an hour or so which reset it back to the horrible state.

There are still some ********s at Glastonbury but a lot less and seen PJ Harvey play an incredible set on the Sunday, followed by LCD Soundsystem who blew everyone away. Billy Bragg the day after the Brexit referendum was on fire, Mercury Rev were outstanding - so much amazing music and comedy and even circus stuff. Watched the sun set on the Thursday at the stone circle, stayed up all night going from late night area to late night area, dancing to 80s cheese to reggae to hip hop, then head off to watch the sun rise then slept for two hours, grabbed a coffee and went to see James at half past ten in the morning. Great times.

I went to TRNSMT the following year as well as Glastonbury and hated every second of TRNSMT. Where Glasto has so much for you to do when you're not watching music, all there is at TRNSMT is awful food stalls, drinking and advertisements. No thought put into it at all and no wonder people make complete tits out of themselves. The crowd was ****ing dreadful for Radiohead as well.

[BarneyBreslin]

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Funnily enough the best Glastonbury I ever had was 2016 where the weather was horrible on the run up to it - there were doubts if it could go ahead due to the amount of mud and standing water. The sun came out from day one which meant the mud dried to a thick, claggy, clay like cement which made walking hugely difficult (I lost eleven pounds over the five days in weight, some in our group lost over a stone) but as soon as it was due to dry to the point where you could walk on it rather than through it, there was a shower of rain for an hour or so which reset it back to the horrible state.

There are still some ********s at Glastonbury but a lot less and seen PJ Harvey play an incredible set on the Sunday, followed by LCD Soundsystem who blew everyone away. Billy Bragg the day after the Brexit referendum was on fire, Mercury Rev were outstanding - so much amazing music and comedy and even circus stuff. Watched the sun set on the Thursday at the stone circle, stayed up all night going from late night area to late night area, dancing to 80s cheese to reggae to hip hop, then head off to watch the sun rise then slept for two hours, grabbed a coffee and went to see James at half past ten in the morning. Great times.

I went to TRNSMT the following year as well as Glastonbury and hated every second of TRNSMT. Where Glasto has so much for you to do when you're not watching music, all there is at TRNSMT is awful food stalls, drinking and advertisements. No thought put into it at all and no wonder people make complete tits out of themselves. The crowd was ****ing dreadful for Radiohead as well.

Loved 2016 Glastonbury despite the mud. Underworld Friday night, Mercury rev Saturday and LCD soundsystem Sunday were my three headliners. The joy in the field during LCD is something thy will live me for ever. It had been a tough 5 days but there was a real sense of togetherness for those 2 hours.

As for crap gigs, Primal Scream deserve a mention. Reckon I've seen them about 15 times. Half of which they were outstanding, the other half utter garbage.

Re the roses at Heaton Park, I was there on the Sunday and loved every second of it.

[Hermit Crab]

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Loved 2016 Glastonbury despite the mud. Underworld Friday night, Mercury rev Saturday and LCD soundsystem Sunday were my three headliners. The joy in the field during LCD is something thy will live me for ever. It had been a tough 5 days but there was a real sense of togetherness for those 2 hours.

As for crap gigs, Primal Scream deserve a mention. Reckon I've seen them about 15 times. Half of which they were outstanding, the other half utter garbage.

Re the roses at Heaton Park, I was there on the Sunday and loved every second of it.

Maybe they managed to sort the sound by then and maybe put a backing track/vocals over Ian Browns voice.

[Northernhibee]

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Maybe they managed to sort the sound by then and maybe put a backing track/vocals over Ian Browns voice.

When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I wrote about music freelance. I was once asked to review an Ian Brown gig and still haven't bettered "like someone's taught a Dyson how to yodel" to describe his vocals

[CropleyWasGod]

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Loved 2016 Glastonbury despite the mud. Underworld Friday night, Mercury rev Saturday and LCD soundsystem Sunday were my three headliners. The joy in the field during LCD is something thy will live me for ever. It had been a tough 5 days but there was a real sense of togetherness for those 2 hours.

As for crap gigs, Primal Scream deserve a mention. Reckon I've seen them about 15 times. Half of which they were outstanding, the other half utter garbage.

Re the roses at Heaton Park, I was there on the Sunday and loved every second of it.

I was at LCD in the mud. Hated it 😁

[Northernhibee]

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I was at LCD in the mud. Hated it 😁

Two weeks later at the last T in the Park they literally played to about 300-400 people. That was another death knell for T in the Park - booking Kraftwerk and not even filling King Tuts a third full for them, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds getting a couple of thousand tops, John Grant getting a couple of hundred people tops. If you're not a Courteeners, David Guetta or Rita Ora then it's not worth a stop on your tour for.

Richard Hawley was magical on the Friday at that Glastonbury. Someone lit a flare during 'Coles Corner' in the encore and rather than feeling laddish, it was beautiful. I was on the TV wearing my Christmas jumper during that set

[Green Man]

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Two weeks later at the last T in the Park they literally played to about 300-400 people. That was another death knell for T in the Park - booking Kraftwerk and not even filling King Tuts a third full for them, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds getting a couple of thousand tops, John Grant getting a couple of hundred people tops. If you're not a Courteeners, David Guetta or Rita Ora then it's not worth a stop on your tour for.

Richard Hawley was magical on the Friday at that Glastonbury. Someone lit a flare during 'Coles Corner' in the encore and rather than feeling laddish, it was beautiful. I was on the TV wearing my Christmas jumper during that set

I remember watching the TITP highlights that year and being shocked at just how small the crowd was for LCD. It was just a few rows.

[BarneyBreslin]

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I was at LCD in the mud. Hated it 😁

Different strokes for different folks I guess! I managed to rip the whole set of iplayer and still love watching it back.