Gigs you've walked out of?

Left after the encore at Neil Young last summer in Finsbury Park. Subsequently discovered he did another encore after! That probably doesn't count as it was done in innocence!

Other than that, left Radiohead in Victoria Park in autumn 2000 early as my wife was in the early stages of pregnancy and felt quite ill.

Packed up a tent at Glasto to the accompaniment of the Housemartins on stage.

Left Spiritualized early at Reading 98 to see Garbage. Should have stayed where I was!

Originally posted by Steve Waller Left after the encore at Neil Young last summer in Finsbury Park. Subsequently discovered he did another encore after! That probably doesn't count as it was done in innocence!Other than that, left Radiohead in Victoria Park in autumn 2000 early as my wife was in the early stages of pregnancy and felt quite ill.Packed up a tent at Glasto to the accompaniment of the Housemartins on stage. Left Spiritualized early at Reading 98 to see Garbage. Should have stayed where I was!

Walked out on Primal Scream many moons ago in a fit of pique, in the Ivy Ivy Ivy era. Next track was Loaded ! Apart from that, walked out on the Wedding Present through alcohol overindulgence, and missed part of The Fall's set at Warwick in 86. Only New Order miss was a tragedy - missed the encore at Bradford 84, a fine rendition of Thieves Like Us !

I didn't see Loop at Portsmouth Poly. Lush were the support band, and I was only interested in them, so I left before the main act came on.

I also left Reading 89 before those twats The Mission took to the stage. The fact that I managed to get my car through all those tents in the dark still amazes me.

Walked out of Depeche Mode after 4 songs (ironically during 'It's No Good'!) at the M.E.N arena - shite sound, shite venue and annoying audience, in all it was cheese - Dave Gahan should get back on the scag!!

Bored shitless at Spiritualized at Manchester Academy, really self-indulgent. One of my mates is a huge fan and was in agreement. I think we almost made an hour.

Didn't see much of Underworld supporting New Order at Ally Pally 98 as again the sound was terrible, all i could hear was bass which is a shame coz i really like em too. Seen em before and they were great.

Walked out on an Oasis gig about 5 years ago. Only went coz part of our group pulled out at the last moment, and I thought I'd give them a chance.

The audience was full of tossers and the show was fucking boring. No different to listening to the CD at home.

So I sat outside and got ridiculously stoned instead. Much more fun.

i remember some benefit gig for the miners i think at sheffield city hall a few years back...new order,billy bragg and cabaret voltaire i think...anyway new order came on first were o.k and then after billys second poem i thought enough is enough!!!!incidently new order were introduced by martin fry that night

i remember some benefit gig for the miners i think at sheffield city hall a few years back...new order,billy bragg and cabaret voltaire i think...anyway new order came on first were o.k and then after billys second poem i thought enough is enough!!!!incidently new order were introduced by martin fry that night

you said "walked out of" does it count if you are carried out on a strecher because you passed out through 40C heat/alcohol/an entire days moshing/an unwise combination of drugs? because i did that during the Happy Mondays at the Big Day Out one year, 2000 or 2001 if i recall.

but i was enjoying their set up until then.

Gary Clail at the Palace - my ears almost bled. :(

Amy xox

i walked out of reading 98

but don't worry, it was during garbage. saw monaco & new orders sets. (also saw uresi yatsura who rocked)

garbage took forever to get onstage after the massive set new order did & remember half the crowd leaving once the order had finished.

My brother-in-law gave my wife and I his tickets to Steely Dan in 1996(?), so we gave it a shot.

God, did that suck. Unbearable. Fagan and Becker very obviously collected the money in advance and didn't give a flying fukq. The band was made up of bright and shiny honors grads of the Musicians Institute of Technology...soulless, by-the-numbers lite Jazz 101 wank...like walking into a jazz band class rehearsal in high school. Hang on a second, my ears have begun to bleed...

That's better. Fagan got up and walked around aimlessly, like friggin' Igor had escaped from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and was in search of his missing neck. He had an electric piano in front of him, but God knows if it was even plugged in. Walter Becker went on and on and on introducing the generic band of never-will-bes and his one suck-ass new track, Jack of Speed. Imagine my amusement when, like, six years later, they play that on the Grammys or somewhere and win best album.

Did I mention it sucked? The greatest danger was sitting among thousands of people who were apparently enjoying this shit...I told the missus, "We've got to get out of here." The audience were obviously stricken by some evil hypnotic ray which made them eat up this crap and smile while doing it. We passed our prime ticket stubs to two nice 30-something dykes trapped out on the lawn area and escaped.

The absolute best part of that whole night was hearing Beck's "Where It's At" on the radio in the parking lot. Best song Steely Dan ever did.

Originally posted by Steve Waller Left Spiritualized early at Reading 98 to see Garbage. Should have stayed where I was!

New order were on before Garbage.... why weren't you watching them??

You'll get a laugh outa this one ..Hewy fuqing Lewis and the News. What on earth was I ever doing there in the first place????

Eat Static. They didn't sound to bad actually but I'd stumbled across the gig by accident. I thought I knew a short cut to the uni bar and got lost. due to being unfamiliar with my surroundings;).As I say they were o.k. but I was on the prowl and the audience erm, wasn't very glamorous.

A friend of a friend's dad gave me a couple of tickets to see Eric Clapped out at sheffield about 5 years ago - lasted 3 songs before i had the good sense to leave

I saw New Order at Reading 98 of course, and then wandered over to see Spiritualized, before coming back for Garbage. Didn't miss New Order!!!!

I had to walk out on the first of the Brixton gigs last year :( only to the toilets mind (damn my copious pre gig beer consumption!!) I was bursting to go ever since Regret came on but just couldnt bear to walk out during that song.. and what did they go and play after that.. only bloody Ceremony!! aaarghhh... still managed to zip out at 60mph to 60mph ;)

Completely astonished and actually quite angry in a weird kinda way at the amount of people milling around the back and standing in the foyer on the stairs chatting away. I felt like saying what the 'effin hell you doing out here NewOrder are playing u fuckin fools!! Still i only missed 1 song and when i returned on Friday night i didnt make the same mistake twice ;)

After some heavy thinking i finally remembered the One gig i walked out: the Swans, somewhere in the eighties in the Amsterdam Paradiso...my god, not only was it terrible 'music', it was also so loud that it was unhealthy for one's eardrums!!:D Walking out of New Order gigs? No fucking way, man!Not in a million years.If i miss the last train,well, then i miss the last train!

Originally posted by LUIGI'S BIG BROTHER After some heavy thinking i finally remembered the One gig i walked out: the Swans, somewhere in the eighties in the Amsterdam Paradiso...my god, not only was it terrible 'music', it was also so loud that it was unhealthy for one's eardrums!!:DWalking out of New Order gigs? No fucking way, man!Not in a million years.If i miss the last train,well, then i miss the last train!

Unfortunatly the call of nature is mightier even than the call of NewOrder..

Originally posted by ShugZV > Originally posted by dave hibell> but don't worry, it was during garbage. saw monaco & new orders sets. (also saw uresi yatsura who rocked)> > garbage took forever to get onstage after the massive set new order did & remember half the crowd leaving once the order had finished.

Yeah remember that! apparently upto 20,000 people were said to have left after NO, and Shirley Manson comes on stage and says "How are we supposed to follow that?"

she sure did - they aslo put some lyrics of one of the order songs (was it temptation?) into one of their songs! didn't help frankly.

I left DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's big 7" scratch fest a couple years ago. Worst gig in terms of disappointment would have to be the Charlatans in 2000 here in Seattle. Fell asleep at the back because they fucking SUCK now. Oasis wanna be's. They are dreadful. That North Country Boy nonsense made my head hurt. Woke up when everything went quiet and new from previous reports the best was yet to come...Sprotson Green! Maybe 3 good songs the whole night and none of them were written after 92. Burgess deserves to be chewed up and spit out of the horrendous Hollywood life he's chosen. His music sucks and he's more annoying than Morrissey which is a big feat.