The biggest knobhead I've ever seen on stage

[salem]

Honorable mention to Snoop Dogg in Bristol, 2014. He wasn't a dick as such, but I've never seen an act be their own tribute act before. The gig sold out and tickets were changing hands for a lot of cash. He then did a set that was like some terrible greatest hits pastiche of what he used to be, like a Snoop tribute act playing a cruise liner. Many walked out.

I saw Snoop around that time and he was pretty good, but I was pretty smashed so could have just been that.

I saw Wu-Tang well past their prime and it was like you describe, just quick snippets of each song played with a few members half heartedly singing along like a bad karoke session. Really disappointing.

 

[pesh]

Mike Read. He was hosting an evening with Chevy Chase, it was a bizarre trainwreck right from the beginning, but the highlight was towards the end when he asked the audience if Chevy had any famous catchphrases, and someone shouted out ‘Mike Read you’ve always been a cunt!’ The entire audience fell about, Mike stormed off and left Chevy there not knowing what the fuck was going on.
It was ace tbf

 

[Calamity1971]

what's his name from red dwarf, craig charles?

He came to our secondary school in knowsley when he was the Liverpool poet. Arrogant bellend.

 

[Shechemite]

Went to some of the ‘Marxism’ events in my teens.

Plenty of knobheads to choose from there

 

[braindancer]

that sounds like quite a funny spoof of a flash DJ-AV set tbh (and a shit night out though)
did he play any good tunes?

He played Fela Kuti's Zombie - that's all I can remember. It's a long tune which allowed a lot of time for dicking about.

I think your interpretation is generous

 

[Reno]

Badly Drawn Boy (at the Windmill, Brixton). He was pissed and paranoid and spent most of a very short set ranting at the audience.

I once saw him in San Francisco and he went on for far too long. Eventually people just had to go home, it was a Sunday and he played to an emptying auditorium, jumping on peoples tables. He wasn't unpleasant but he was definitely off his head.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

John Martyn with Danny Thompson on upright bass, and maybe there was a drummer, was amazing, (Live at Leeds 1975) On his own a year or so later surrounded by 1970s electronics that he couldn't quite make work turned him into a knob.

 

[keybored]

Sweeney Todd

Proper wrong 'un.

 

[hash tag]

Elvis Costello. I was never a fan to be fair and took a girlfriend to see him. Once up on stage he played a succession of numbers much faster than intended in a manner
that said I just want out of her as soon as possible. Took said girlfriend to see Meatloaf as well, she was a big fan of his. We walked out after 15 minutes. It was like
a big rock star trying to be cabaret star or vice a versa trying to appeal to all the women in their stiletto's, with blue rinses and sparkly designer handbags. I have never been
to a gig where the audiance was so far removed from the average rock crowd and he played to that crowd

 

[The Octagon]

Mike Read. He was hosting an evening with Chevy Chase, it was a bizarre trainwreck right from the beginning, but the highlight was towards the end when he asked the audience if Chevy had any famous catchphrases, and someone shouted out ‘Mike Read you’ve always been a cunt!’ The entire audience fell about, Mike stormed off and left Chevy there not knowing what the fuck was going on.
It was ace tbf

Impressive story mainly for the fact that Chevy Chase was on stage and managed not to be the biggest twat there.

 

[skyscraper101]

I walked out of a KD Lang concert once. She wasn't being a twat so much, just the music was shite.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I saw U2 in 1985 and even as an impressionable youth at my first ever stadium gig and a bit of a fan at the time, i still thought - "fucking hell - bono is a bit of nob".

And another vote for lou reed - he clearly could not be arsed - mumbling, half hearted and only there to pick up his fee.

Beth from portishead annoyed me at glastonbury in 1998 when she arrived late and pissed and regaled us with what a great time she'd just had watching england in the world cup whilst we'd all been standing in the rain and mud waiting for them to show up (this was before they showed the footie on the big screens) .

 

[Griff]

Really can't think of one apart from Zodiac Mindwarp, but being a knobhead in a good way if that makese sense.

Same goes for Gene October.

 

[maomao]

Beth from portishead annoyed me at glastonbury in 1998 when she arrived late and pissed

I'm glad it was shit. I was gutted for years because I passed out in the mud a couple of hundred yards from the stage.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Any cunt with MC* in front of their (stage)name.





*Scallywag excepted

 

[friedaweed]

Any cunt with MC* in front of their (stage)name.





*Scallywag excepted

Yeah I love the Bunnymen but McCuulloch can be a right smug cunt.

 

[DotCommunist]

Joe Pasquale in the panto. It was the year of the rugby world cup win. He sung swing low at one point.

 

[Favelado]

Joe Pasquale in the panto. It was the year of the rugby world cup win. He sung swing low at one point.

What was he doing in your front garden?

 

[Sprocket.]

Almost forgot but our young un reminds me of The Pretenders at the Top Rank Sheffield.
It was during the steelworkers 14 week total walkout over pay.
Chrissie (Katy Hopkins) Hynde asked if there were any striking steel workers in, a few shouts of yep turned her apoplectic. ‘You are all disgraceful, you should be ashamed and such like, lots of booing. Then she started on students being parasites and getting a free education from good honest taxpayers. I don’t know what she was on but quite a lot of us left.

 

[hash tag]

Blimey. I thought better of her than that

 

[Lurdan]

Has to be Roy Harper. Friend was a fan so saw him a few times but the one that stands out was the gig at the Rainbow to promote 'Valentine'. Harper was always something of a tool's tool. At this point he was into his anti-feminist period and there were a couple of songs in that vein on the album. He would commonly give spoken introductions to songs when he performed, sometimes quite lengthy ones, and his diatribes about feminism became fairly notorious.

However his piece de tool on this occasion lay elsewhere. On 'Valentine' he had included a version of 'Girl from the North Country' credited to 'traditional arranged Harper'. In interviews for the album he said that this was a traditional song which Bob Dylan had taken and copyrighted and that he was making a point about this kind of appropriation.

So at the end of the Rainbow gig he brings out an all star band for the last few numbers: Max Middleton, Ronnie Lane, Keith Moon. And who does the fearless warrior against musical appropriation have on guitar ? Jimmy fucking Page of course.

 

[friedaweed]

Has to be Roy Harper. Friend was a fan so saw him a few times but the one that stands out was the gig at the Rainbow to promote 'Valentine'. Harper was always something of a tool's tool. At this point he was into his anti-feminist period and there were a couple of songs in that vein on the album. He would commonly give spoken introductions to songs when he performed, sometimes quite lengthy ones, and his diatribes about feminism became fairly notorious.

However his piece de tool on this occasion lay elsewhere. On 'Valentine' he had included a version of 'Girl from the North Country' credited to 'traditional arranged Harper'. In interviews for the album he said that this was a traditional song which Bob Dylan had taken and copyrighted and that he was making a point about this kind of appropriation.

So at the end of the Rainbow gig he brings out an all star band for the last few numbers: Max Middleton, Ronnie Lane, Keith Moon. And who does the fearless warrior against musical appropriation have on guitar ? Jimmy fucking Page of course.

I suffered a Roy Harper gig ONCE.

 

[spanglechick]

Mike Leigh.

 

[Sweet FA]

Badly Drawn Boy (at the Windmill, Brixton). He was pissed and paranoid and spent most of a very short set ranting at the audience.

I once saw him in San Francisco and he went on for far too long. Eventually people just had to go home, it was a Sunday and he played to an emptying auditorium, jumping on peoples tables. He wasn't unpleasant but he was definitely off his head.

Saw BDB last year at a folk festival and he was excellent; sober, self-effacing, confessional - beautiful gig, great playing.

 

[Pickman's model]

i've been thinking to make sure over the past couple of days, and the answer is still niall o'flaherty formerly of the sultans of ping

 

[Sweet FA]

Can we have the stories to go with the names please?

 

[isvicthere?]

Maybe not a knobhead, but certainly the most unprofessional...

Bobby Womack, Manchester, mid-'80s.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I saw Terry Scott in a panto when I was young. He was a knob, and on stage, but not being a knob on stage. I didn't know at the time either. I know what I mean.

 

[Sweet FA]

Can we have the stories to go with the names please?

Maybe not a knobhead, but certainly the most unprofessional...

Bobby Womack, Manchester, mid-'80s.

Fucksake

 

[Sprocket.]

Can we have the stories to go with the names please?

Van Morrison Sheffield City Hall.
He never spoke to the crowd in fact he glowered on occasion.
We sat there I was thinking it’s cost six hours work to pay for this, he could at least look like he wants to be here.