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Boiled Dove:
That reminded me of one time I went to see Sonic Youth, I think it was on the Goo tour. Red Cross opened up for them. So bad we went out to smoke a few while they finished their set.

Radical AC:
I saw My Chemical Romance in the mid 2000s before that Black Parade album at Warped Tour.  Still the worst live act I have seen (I have been to my share of shitty house shows, but at least those are fun).  The raise your middle finger gimmick felt uncomfortably juvenile even when I was 18.  Gerard Way wore a bullet proof vest and sounded like an annoying prepubescent boy.  The whole thing was just weird and off.  The Offspring came on right after, so that was cool.

I also saw local band Scarf at the Treefort Music Festival.  Scarf was musically the worst thing I have ever seen.  It was a girl standing awkwardly to the side shrieking obscenities while a guy freaks out on an organ and the drunkest and least coordinated drummer I have ever seen bangs away on a tiny kit.  Scarf is what would happen if Bomb the Music Industry couldn't hold their liquor.  It is an indignant mother looking angrily back at the stage as she drags her small child out of the room.  Scarf makes me happy.

idontunderstand:
I was about to say Scarf sounds like a cool band.

Jimmy the Squid:
I saw Purity Ring at the Oxford Art Factory, a small venue in the extremely fashionable end of Sydney this year. They were fantastic but I had a terrible time because the crowd was a bunch of fucking children who've never been told "no". We must have been the oldest people there (at 26, 25 and 24) and I feel like while I really like Purity Ring for their lyrics, everyone else was there because all gigs at the Oxford Art Factory are dancey/club kind of stuff and all these fucking 18 year olds dressed like children wearing their parents' clothes were just there because they wanted to get incredibly drunk on shit beer (they were selling Fosters, which no one drinks in Australia except for Japanese business men) and dance like wankers. Maybe I'm too used to going to metal shows where you can just push annoying people out of the way but I had to make sure I didn't start a fucking fight by shoving away dickheads getting into my personal space.

I also went and saw Opeth recently. They were incredible but Katatonia were supporting. They were...OK? Just really boring. Technically proficient, all very obviously talented musicians but absolutely no stage presence and very little interaction with the audience.

A number of years ago I saw KoRn. I was 16 and I went with my highschool girlfriend. It was probably the worst show I've ever seen. No interaction with the audience on any level. They just got up, played their set and left. I may as well have listened to the CDs. Even then I knew they had fucked up but I couldn't put my finger on why.

TheEvilDog:
This wasn't the worst show in terms of music, but rather how it was set up. Saw the Fun Lovin' Criminals a couple of years ago, wasn't a huge concert, in fact it was in the school of music, and there was about 150-200 people. Great songs, the warm up act was good... But I wish I brought my sunglasses with me...to a darkened hall...in the middle of the building. Whichever bright spark they had brought with them hadn't counted on the venue being so intimate and kept blinding the audience every few minutes with a ridiculous set. Thankfully I'm not epileptic because the lights would have definitely induced a seizure otherwise. It was a great show, but a lot was taken away by those bloody lights.

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