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There's been loads of great ones over the years, but also a few shockers!
Mine would have to be Edinbugh Playhouse 86. Don't think any of the band actually wanted to be there, and their indifference to the edinburgh audience was plain to see. It didn't help matters with 7 of the ten songs played being new to the majority of the audience! Cracking recording though 
Friday 12th October 2001. The 3rd night at Brixton Academy.
I had done half the annual export of Colombia in Glasgow on the Sunday and Monday.
Missed my flight home on the Tuesday morning but was in no fit state to be going through check in and all that rubbish anyway so got the train home. About 8 hours going stir crazy 
Dragged myself along to Brixton on the Wednesday and Thursday but had to pretty much give away my spare tickets to mates cos nobody really wanted to go.
Friday I went on my own and a scumbag tout gave me about £10 for my spare.
I was fucked and the week had cost me a fortune.
And they played the same fuckin' set for the third night in a row. 
another vote for wembley. dishonourable mention for sheffield city hall and newcastle mayfair
Finsbury park 2002. A good day out spoiled by having to leave the pub and go stand in a muddy park to watch NO play in broad daylight. Manchester Appolo '05 was also decidedly average but that may have been cos I was knackered.
Despite being a guest of Pinnacle Records and drinking free Pernod all night, I would have to say Wembley Arena in 1987 was an absolute shocker!
Impossible to see anything (and not just because of the Pernod I may add!), and a horrible souless venue.
Dave Legge wrote: Friday 12th October 2001. The 3rd night at Brixton Academy.
Arf. This was one gig too far I think. My ex-wife was knackered and didn't fancy going that night after 6 gigs in the previous 8 days so she had her Mum round for tea whilst I went to the gig. Bless.
I walked out halfway through to phone her up and tell her how bored I was!
Mind, Baker did play EGG before New Order came on, and Hooky did give us Age of Consent (and maybe DNE? I forget).
Vancouver 2001 is the worst gig I shall ever attend by anyone. Ever. Pissed down with rain. No alcohol. And New Order came on at 4.30. We left the second the band finished. Probably should've gone earlier.
Yes. Unfortunately the only time I've had a chance to see New Order was the Vancouver '01 date. Waited my whole life to see them live. It was a rainy, miserable day and they played between The Roots and Outkast - so the vast majority of the young crowd in the field were there for hip-hop and out comes a middle-aged pasty English indie band. The older fans that were there to see New Order all seemed to be sitting down in the bleachers far away.
I remember BLT sounding particularly awful. And at one point Hooky called the crowd 'you Americans' which Canadians don't take lightly and some started booing him for that.
The actual gig wasnt that bad, it was just dissapointing as it is/was probably the only chance I had of seeing them live. Just wish it could have been better.
Hmmm... I'm gonna beg to differ. Wembley 1987 was one of my fave gigs; particularly memorable for a bloke virtually jumping over my head to run up the aisle on the intro of Blue Monday, and another one bursting into tears when LWTUA started. The whole place lighting up like a Queen video during 'Face Up' was hilarious too, as was the crowd lobbing a large quantity of warm plastic bottles of Hofmeister at Bobby Gillespie.
Low gigs are definitely third night at Brixton, 2001. The sound was just rubbish. For me also, I didnt think much of Hyde Park last year either; things were technically going wrong regularly (No EGG!) and Barney fucked up the vocal intro to BM again.
as i've only been to three and two were fantastic, that leaves the hammerstein ballroom gig in 2005. never have i seen such a comatose audience. i had a decent enough time though, so i wouldn't call it bad.
erm...well...I can't think of one that I walked away from saying it was shit....
Dallas in 1993 was ended abruptly by a curfew...
so we missed out on Blue Monday...
but that would make it a highlight for Digi...
AgentWood wrote: as i've only been to three and two were fantastic, that leaves the hammerstein ballroom gig in 2005. never have i seen such a comatose audience. i had a decent enough time though, so i wouldn't call it bad.
i'm beginning to wonder if i was at the same show in nyc. From what i experience, the crowd was anything but comatose. Perhaps, it was my peeps.
ghost rider wrote:
AgentWood wrote: as i've only been to three and two were fantastic, that leaves the hammerstein ballroom gig in 2005. never have i seen such a comatose audience. i had a decent enough time though, so i wouldn't call it bad.
i'm beginning to wonder if i was at the same show in nyc. From what i experience, the crowd was anything but comatose. Perhaps, it was my peeps.
Agent Wood is right, or perhaps you were near us!
Newcastle Mayfair in 86, they just rolled onto stage about 10 played as if they couldnt be bothered and rolled off the stage by about 11.
Burnsie wrote: Newcastle Mayfair in 86, they just rolled onto stage about 10 played as if they couldnt be bothered and rolled off the stage by about 11.
It was even worse the next night! Thankfully Glasgow and Dundee were belters though.
ghost rider wrote: i'm beginning to wonder if i was at the same show in nyc. From what i experience, the crowd was anything but comatose. Perhaps, it was my peeps.
There is documented video evidence to suggest the contrary. 
I thought about that when I was buying the tickets funnily enough...! I've seen a few bands play there and I've come away disappointed every time.
I've always enjoyed a night out at Brixton, shame they couldn't play there again.
Dublin '93.
Even though it was great to have them back, you almost wished they hadn't bothered.
I'd say Hollywood Bowl - 93
The sound seemed very off. I remember everyone around chanting "louder...Louder"
Will
will henry wrote: I'd say Hollywood Bowl - 93
The sound seemed very off. I remember everyone around chanting "louder...Louder"
Will
I agree, I was there for that one too. Even worse than that though was San Francisco '93, a concert that lasted a whole 30 mins. I thought I was at a Morrisey gig. 
They actually played for a longer time at the Area One festival in Mountain View in 2001...a gig I'll always remember as the time that halfway through, Barney appeared to point to me in the audience and said something to the effect of "We have so much in our career to thank that man for." At which point I realized I was sitting two seats away from Arthur Baker. 
Rasputin wrote:
will henry wrote: I'd say Hollywood Bowl - 93
The sound seemed very off. I remember everyone around chanting "louder...Louder"
Will
I agree, I was there for that one too. Even worse than that though was San Francisco '93, a concert that lasted a whole 30 mins.
The recording proves otherwise! It's over an hour long. Maybe you forgot the time?
No Tim, you have the recording from Mountain View...
the poster before you was speaking of a secret gig...one that didn't get recorded...
