Bands you've never really liked but went to see to please your other half/mates.

[MackneyHackem]

Radiohead at the very top of the O2.

I dislike Radiohead and I’m scared of heights. £150 well spent.

 

[Seaham Towny]

Academy 2?

Think so

 

[SPUFF]

Roxy music / or Bryan ferry and whatever it was at the sage.

Absolutely awful.

The darkness at the O2 , surprisingly good and very enjoyable.

‘Stumbled’ across darkness at a festival n remain best band ive seen live.

 

[zwartekat]

Not mates/bird, but took my daughter to see Steps about the year 2000. As dreadful as you'd expect.

Are you sure it wasn't Pulp?

 

[EchoMan]

Take That
Barry Manilow
Donny Osmond
Il Divo
Michael Ball
Dolly Parton and
The Lighthouse Family

Do I win?

 

[Dinsdale]

Elbow at the SECC in the snow last year for the wife. One road open out of the north east, got to Glasgow and the gig was delayed 48 hours onto a Monday night. Spent £250 on extra hotel rooms to watch a less than half full gig from miles away, and they did the shittest set I've ever heard. I don't mind some of their stuff by it was all dirge they trotted out. Even Mrs D said it was shit.

 

[What A Waster]

Alanis Morissette to keep an ex girlfriend happy..

Isn't that ironic?

 

[Chal]

Kanye West a few years ago.
I quite like his first album and a couple other songs so didn't think it would be too bad. He was woeful live. I think he ended up getting arrested at Tup Tup Palace

 

[Arkle]

The Whitest Boy Alive. Turned out to be The Drabbest Band On Earth. Shakatak with male vocals. The woman I went with didn't enjoy them either!

 

[PTID]

Simply Red at Metro Arena around 2004/5 , with lass was seeing at time, hate Mick Hucknalls whiney voice

 

[Lord Alfred]

Take That
Barry Manilow
Donny Osmond
Il Divo
Michael Ball
Dolly Parton and
The Lighthouse Family

Do I win?

Without a shadow of a doubt

 

[Sebastien]

Reel Big Fish at Newcastle Uni.

Utter bouncy shite from start to finish. One of the clots in the band had the nerve to keep giving it the 'rock' sign with his hand most of the gig.

 

[Raby Mackem]

Kiss 83/84 City Hall, my partner at the time liked them.
Westlife, Maybe 03/04 Metro Arena, the daughter wanted to see them

 

[Some Random Guy]

Take That
Barry Manilow
Donny Osmond
Il Divo
Michael Ball
Dolly Parton and
The Lighthouse Family

Do I win?

Christ, its like a list of music "women of a certain age" enjoy.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Took me missus to see Neil Diamond at Hampden for her 40th a few years ago.

He's not someone I'd say I'm a big fan of and wouldn't have went otherwise but he was surprisingly good.

 

[Boy]

Think so

Went with mate from work.
I hadn’t heard anything by them but it was great seeing an emerging band in a small venue.
Mind you I identified most of the songs they were ripping off as they played them
Gary Numan 1980 great show.
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals 2006 boring.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

The wife had tickets to see Avril Lavigne with our two nieces, then ended up twisting her ankle on the afternoon of the gig.

End result. I was at the Avril Lavigne gig, in the seats with two excitable teens. Luckily it was a train home so I could have a few beers to make it bearable.

It's not like her music wasnt enjoyable or that she wasn't good too look at, but f*** me is she irritating

 

[Deleted User 11453]

Is your other half @dangermows ?

I was more into these bands:

Snap
Level 42
Hue and cry
2unlimited
Technotronic
Erasure
Kitchens of distinction

But my mates thought that they were shite.

Took me missus to see Neil Diamond at Hampden for her 40th a few years ago.

He's not someone I'd say I'm a big fan of and wouldn't have went otherwise but he was surprisingly good.

You were ‘surprised’ that Neil diamond was ‘good’???

 

[Lambchops]

I was more into these bands:

Snap
Level 42
Hue and cry
2unlimited
Technotronic
Erasure
Kitchens of distinction

But my mates thought that they were shite.


You were ‘surprised’ that Neil diamond was ‘good’???

Your mates were right

 

[The Rat]

Foreigner at The Apollo, Manchester for me last year. Went there thinking it would be a bit tedious but from John Parr opening with an acoustic set, followed by the excellent Joanne Shaw Taylor and through to Foreigner themselves it was a very enjoyable evening......Great musicians and seemed to have a real rapport with their audience.

Radiohead

like couple songs but they were going on like it was the best moment of their lives