Gigs and Films You've Walked Out Of

[wigan white]

I left midway through an Elbow gig at the Apollo in 2006. To be fair I was only there to see Mew, who supported, but I stuck about to see Elbow perform for themselves (had previously seen them for about 20 minutes before Coldplay at the Reebok (that was a freebie)). They weren't up to much so after about 4 numbers I left. It was musical greyness.

In terms of headline acts: I left during the cocaine-riddled Beck in his 'Guero/The Information' days at the Apollo. Such utter bullshit. Faffing around between numbers, keyboardists becoming bassists, bassists becoming drummers, drummers going off for a pint, guitarists becoming flutists, flutists becoming handclappers... There was no flow. He thought he was Prince. It was fecking Bullshit. A couple of years earlier he'd played the Apollo, left the seats in, and just played, alone, with a mixture of guitars and an occasional backing beat from a machine of some sort. That was during his 'Sea Change' days. Far superior. Far less overheads. He should do it more often.

There was a tour, around 5 or 6 years ago, featuring Mastodon, Hatebreed, Slayer,Slipknot. Now, back then Mastodon were the 'next big thing' and had cancelled a UK headline tour of their own (where they would have played the Star and Garter) to open for this METAL PACKAGE. I was big into them having seen them in the small Rock City in Notts a few months earlier. I arrived at the MEN Arena at about 6:55pm and Hatebreed were already on. I'd missed them. Unbelievable Jeff! Hatebreed are thug monkeys in camo with little-to-no imagination or redeeming aspects, so we went for a pint and to look at how overpriced the Merch was. Slayer were OK - aging but could still play, it was the 'classic' line-up featuring Dave Lombardo on the kit - that was enough for me. Slipknot came on and thought they were 1973 Genesis. It was nu-metal panto. Angry panto. So terrible I can't put it into words. Revolving drum kits, pyrotechnics coming out of their arses (literally, probably, I can't directly recall). Left after about 3 songs. I have no idea how we got tickets but there's no way we paid the full whack, someone must have got us in for nowt. It was annoying, Mastodon's work for the evening was done before 7pm. They could have easily played their own gig somewhere in town later that night.

Can't think of many more although I'm sure there are many. Certainly can't think of leaving the cinema. I probably should have done with Storytelling though...

Sir, you clearly have no taste
Slipknot are amazing live and put on a hell of a show. (One of my fave bands to be honest).

[Beefheart]

Slipknot have one of the finest exponents of the Keg that I've ever seen. That guy must a Grade 8 Keggist.

[wigan white]

Slipknot have one of the finest exponents of the Keg that I've ever seen. That guy must a Grade 8 Keggist.

Kegging is the future

[Dr Hotdog]

I left midway through an Elbow gig at the Apollo in 2006. To be fair I was only there to see Mew, who supported, but I stuck about to see Elbow perform for themselves (had previously seen them for about 20 minutes before Coldplay at the Reebok (that was a freebie)). They weren't up to much so after about 4 numbers I left. It was musical greyness.

In terms of headline acts: I left during the cocaine-riddled Beck in his 'Guero/The Information' days at the Apollo. Such utter bullshit. Faffing around between numbers, keyboardists becoming bassists, bassists becoming drummers, drummers going off for a pint, guitarists becoming flutists, flutists becoming handclappers... There was no flow. He thought he was Prince. It was fecking Bullshit. A couple of years earlier he'd played the Apollo, left the seats in, and just played, alone, with a mixture of guitars and an occasional backing beat from a machine of some sort. That was during his 'Sea Change' days. Far superior. Far less overheads. He should do it more often.

There was a tour, around 5 or 6 years ago, featuring Mastodon, Hatebreed, Slayer,Slipknot. Now, back then Mastodon were the 'next big thing' and had cancelled a UK headline tour of their own (where they would have played the Star and Garter) to open for this METAL PACKAGE. I was big into them having seen them in the small Rock City in Notts a few months earlier. I arrived at the MEN Arena at about 6:55pm and Hatebreed were already on. I'd missed them. Unbelievable Jeff! Hatebreed are thug monkeys in camo with little-to-no imagination or redeeming aspects, so we went for a pint and to look at how overpriced the Merch was. Slayer were OK - aging but could still play, it was the 'classic' line-up featuring Dave Lombardo on the kit - that was enough for me. Slipknot came on and thought they were 1973 Genesis. It was nu-metal panto. Angry panto. So terrible I can't put it into words. Revolving drum kits, pyrotechnics coming out of their arses (literally, probably, I can't directly recall). Left after about 3 songs. I have no idea how we got tickets but there's no way we paid the full whack, someone must have got us in for nowt. It was annoying, Mastodon's work for the evening was done before 7pm. They could have easily played their own gig somewhere in town later that night.

Can't think of many more although I'm sure there are many. Certainly can't think of leaving the cinema. I probably should have done with Storytelling though...

Sir, you clearly have no taste
Slipknot are amazing live and put on a hell of a show. (One of my fave bands to be honest).

I saw them on the leap year day in 2000 at the Academy and that was great (I would have been about 18 at the time). I grew out of angsty metal a few years later but it was an enjoyable phase. I saw plenty of absolute bobbins back then. Fear Factory, System of a Down's first UK Tour, Deftones (who were massively upstaged by Linkin Park in support), Korn etc etc. All that nu-metal. All that Kerrang lunacy! One regret I do have is not going to Pantera at the Apollo. What was I thinking?

[wigan white]

I left midway through an Elbow gig at the Apollo in 2006. To be fair I was only there to see Mew, who supported, but I stuck about to see Elbow perform for themselves (had previously seen them for about 20 minutes before Coldplay at the Reebok (that was a freebie)). They weren't up to much so after about 4 numbers I left. It was musical greyness.

In terms of headline acts: I left during the cocaine-riddled Beck in his 'Guero/The Information' days at the Apollo. Such utter bullshit. Faffing around between numbers, keyboardists becoming bassists, bassists becoming drummers, drummers going off for a pint, guitarists becoming flutists, flutists becoming handclappers... There was no flow. He thought he was Prince. It was fecking Bullshit. A couple of years earlier he'd played the Apollo, left the seats in, and just played, alone, with a mixture of guitars and an occasional backing beat from a machine of some sort. That was during his 'Sea Change' days. Far superior. Far less overheads. He should do it more often.

There was a tour, around 5 or 6 years ago, featuring Mastodon, Hatebreed, Slayer,Slipknot. Now, back then Mastodon were the 'next big thing' and had cancelled a UK headline tour of their own (where they would have played the Star and Garter) to open for this METAL PACKAGE. I was big into them having seen them in the small Rock City in Notts a few months earlier. I arrived at the MEN Arena at about 6:55pm and Hatebreed were already on. I'd missed them. Unbelievable Jeff! Hatebreed are thug monkeys in camo with little-to-no imagination or redeeming aspects, so we went for a pint and to look at how overpriced the Merch was. Slayer were OK - aging but could still play, it was the 'classic' line-up featuring Dave Lombardo on the kit - that was enough for me. Slipknot came on and thought they were 1973 Genesis. It was nu-metal panto. Angry panto. So terrible I can't put it into words. Revolving drum kits, pyrotechnics coming out of their arses (literally, probably, I can't directly recall). Left after about 3 songs. I have no idea how we got tickets but there's no way we paid the full whack, someone must have got us in for nowt. It was annoying, Mastodon's work for the evening was done before 7pm. They could have easily played their own gig somewhere in town later that night.

Can't think of many more although I'm sure there are many. Certainly can't think of leaving the cinema. I probably should have done with Storytelling though...

Sir, you clearly have no taste
Slipknot are amazing live and put on a hell of a show. (One of my fave bands to be honest).

I saw them on the leap year day in 2000 at the Academy and that was great (I would have been about 18 at the time). I grew out of angsty metal a few years later but it was an enjoyable phase. I saw plenty of absolute bobbins back then. Fear Factory, System of a Down's first UK Tour, Deftones (who were massively upstaged by Linkin Park in support), Korn etc etc. All that nu-metal. All that Kerrang lunacy! One regret I do have is not going to Pantera at the Apollo. What was I thinking?

Probably been to the same gigs. Dont rate Fear Factory live or the Deftones in general. Unfortunately im 40 this year and still havent grown out of it

[Dujon]

I have not as yet walked out on a performance or a film. I have done though the next best thing. The first was a Liberace (seriously) performance at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. My then girlfriend, now wife, and her sister were keen to go and I was their escort. The second was a 'double header' presentation at our local drive-in cinema with the same two ladies. First up was 'Flash Dance' with which I persevered and the second was 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' of which I saw not a single frame. An escort, by definition, cannot leave the ladies unattended so I just drifted into sleep.

[TANGODANCER]

I have not as yet walked out on a performance or a film. I have done though the next best thing. The first was a Liberace (seriously) performance at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. My then girlfriend, now wife, and her sister were keen to go and I was their escort. The second was a 'double header' presentation at our local drive-in cinema with the same two ladies. First up was 'Flash Dance' with which I persevered and the second was 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' of which I saw not a single frame. An escort, by definition, cannot leave the ladies unattended so I just drifted into sleep.

Well, at least you didn't walk out on Jennifer Beals. That would have been unforgivable..

[Dujon]

Perhaps, TANGO, but I was more interested in the incredibly fit doubles who did the dancing. *insert suitable perving emoticon here*

[Hoboh]

I walked out of Emmanuelle in Manchester!

(Only because I'd have missed the last bus home if I didn't )

Got all the best bits though

[LeverEnd]

I walked out of Emmanuelle in Manchester!

(Only because I'd have missed the last bus home if I didn't )

Got all the best bits though

Clean up job more like.

[Hoboh]

I walked out of Emmanuelle in Manchester!

(Only because I'd have missed the last bus home if I didn't )

Got all the best bits though

Clean up job more like.

I'll tell you sonny, T'was a hard night that was.

[LeverEnd]

Oooh! Bruno. Left that after about 20 mins. Of a first date. That was not a good choice. Excruciatingly bad.

Great pick! Who were you dating? Harry Carpenter?

My mate once took a woman on a first date to the cinema. She arranged a babysitter for her 2 young children, and he looked at the listings and went for the romantic comedy option.
Unfortunately it was About A Boy starring Hugh Grant, about a man who pretends he has a son and deliberately targets single mothers, because 'they are grateful'! He just sank back into his seat and toughed it out.

[Hoboh]

Oooh! Bruno. Left that after about 20 mins. Of a first date. That was not a good choice. Excruciatingly bad.

Great pick! Who were you dating? Harry Carpenter?

My mate once took a woman on a first date to the cinema. She arranged a babysitter for her 2 young children, and he looked at the listings and went for the romantic comedy option.
Unfortunately it was About A Boy starring Hugh Grant, about a man who pretends he has a son and deliberately targets single mothers, because 'they are grateful'! He just sank back into his seat and toughed it out.

She'd have had a better idea about his intentions watching the one above

[LeverEnd]

Probably a combination of the two. he's a pest of the highest order.

[Harry Genshaw]

Reminds me of a mate who was caught cheating on his girlfriend. After much crawling and a wooing he finally won her back. He took her to the cinema the following weekend and deciding they needed a laugh they opted for one of Eddie Murphy's stand up films, can't remember if it was Raw or Delirious but the first half hour is all about blokes playing away from home. He said it was excruciating

[TANGODANCER]

Posting this here just for interest, because it was a gig, and a Bolton town centre one at that:

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[Harry Genshaw]

Posting this here just for interest, because it was a gig, and a Bolton town centre one at that:

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Blimey! That was a stellar line up for 1 night at Bolton Odeon

A colleague who's just retired used to list various stars he saw in the 60s, usually in the kind of places you'd never get them to these days. Tina Turner at Leigh Miners Club & some such

[Dujon]

Not a bad bill, TANGO; but who the heck were the headliners The Walker Brothers? I can't say that I remember them, as I can't. Perhaps if I heard a song or two summat would come back. Then again I was living down here then so it's possible that, this being a country lacking in culture, their magnificent voices, superb song writing, and virtuosity and adaptability in using instruments such as electronic stringed instruments and sticks on taut pig skin may well have washed over the unwashed quite unnoticed.

[Worthy4England]

Not a bad bill, TANGO; but who the heck were the headliners The Walker Brothers? I can't say that I remember them, as I can't. Perhaps if I heard a song or two summat would come back. Then again I was living down here then so it's possible that, this being a country lacking in culture, their magnificent voices, superb song writing, and virtuosity and adaptability in using instruments such as electronic stringed instruments and sticks on taut pig skin may well have washed over the unwashed quite unnoticed.

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore?

[TANGODANCER]

Not a bad bill, TANGO; but who the heck were the headliners The Walker Brothers? I can't say that I remember them, as I can't. Perhaps if I heard a song or two summat would come back. Then again I was living down here then so it's possible that, this being a country lacking in culture, their magnificent voices, superb song writing, and virtuosity and adaptability in using instruments such as electronic stringed instruments and sticks on taut pig skin may well have washed over the unwashed quite unnoticed.

Google The Walker Brothers Dujon. Depite not being a gig man in the strict sense, I saw loads of people who were top stars in and around Bolton and Manchester. Ted Heath I saw at the Navada, Jack Parnall, Ray Ellington, Stan Kenton at Bolton Albert Hall, Tommy Cooper at Farnworth Monaco, Susan Maughan and lots of like artists at Talk of the North in Eccles, Carl Denver Trio at a basement club in the C.I.S building in Manchester, etc etc. The sixties and seventies were bonanza time for pop and band music.