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Seeing bands you really, really don't like for the sake of a friend
I'm seeing Plain White T's tonight because a good friend of mine really wanted to but really didn't want to go on his own. I'm going to do my best to contain my bile.
Help me through this difficult time by sharing similar tales
At Reading one year
my girlfriend really wanted to see The Darkness so I....went off and watched the Shins instead. No wonder I'm single now.
at Leeds in 2005
I was dragged to see Kasabian in the Carling Tent. Well I say 'dragged', I'd already been in there all afternoon watching Pretty Girls Make Graves, Mclusky and The Shins, but my mate insisted we stay to watch the aforementioned lad-rock neanderthals. Their biggest crime was just being so fucking boring.
The Darkness = not good
However, The Darkness >>>>>>>> The Shins
Do the math.
Kasabian in 2004
on the Carling trumpted them in 2005 on the NME mind.
Yes, I clearly meant
2004 rather than 2005. I've either been trying to suppress the memories or my brain is just puddled.
i have no similar stories
hahahahaha
a friend of mine went to see them on saturday because he had to review them, even though he hates them, and in the process missed out on seeing cowtown
I've seen Plain White T's
(not by choice, they were supporting another band my ex took me to see) and they were terrible.
Apart from that, I never go to see bands I don't like for the sake of a friend. Sorry!
I once almost had to go to a Meatloaf gig with a friend...
Managed to get out of it.
When I was 15 a friend of mine convinced a load of us to go and see the Spice Girls at Wembley. On the upside I got to go to Wembley. On the downside Cleopatra were the suppport...
COMIN' ATCHA!!!!
There is no way I'd have turned down going to see Meat Loaf!
It was the price as much as anything.
I would have quite enjoyed it as a spectacle. But it would have been £30 for a ticket plus the cost of getting from Bristol to Cardiff and would have worked out as £50 to see someone I wasn't arsed about...
fair point!
I saw
Ordinary boys, Dead 60s and Hard-fi ALL IN ONE NIGHT because my boyfriend wanted someone to go with. Must be love.
Hard-fi fans are incapable of love*
*I have absolutely nothing to back this statement up with if challenged.
I thought perhaps you'd spotted some sort of correlation
between sales of Hrad Fi albums and viagra. Oh well, carry on...
*Hard
ugh
HIM...
...oh the shame
dear god.
Beat this..
I love my missus, but I did'nt the night I had to go and see Jet with her.
JET people, JET
nearly 2hours of the same song over and over and over and over. I was driving as well which enhanced the badness factor by 100, at least if I had been pissed I may have forgotten it by now.
I have'nt..
I had a similar situation
and enjoyed Jet despite myself - I like Status Quo so it was good fun I thought. I did have cider to help though
I
think cider may have been the overriding factor that swung it...
I went and saw
take that cos of my girlfriend.
(I actually quite enjoyed it)
I broke up with my ex the day before a Tori Amos gig I'd promised to take her to
Worst weekend EVER.
I
was forced by an ex to go and see The Levellers in Brighton.
She's still waiting for the money for my ticket and travel from London.
editors
because a friend wanted to go and i said they could stay at my flat. this was about two years ago.
now, i've agreed to go and see editors again because my brother's coming to manchester and wants me to go. this will be the fifth time i've seen editors and i'm not entirely sure how it's happened.
The horror, the horror
I have a 'going to a gig for a loved one' story IN REVERSE:
I had tickets for a tiny, secret and uber exclusive radiohead gig in Oxford over 10 years ago. However, I had promised to take a girl I had a crush on to a fireworks display. I gave my ticket to my brother...
A month later she was going out - with my brother! There's a moral here people.
worst situation ever
<marriedcentric> I got tivkets to take my wife to prince last year, that's not the ba show, it was great! she couldn't go for whatever reason, so when she got offered tickets to another O2 she jumped at them! who was it for...?
Newton Faulkner
The Hoosiers
Mika
KT Turnstile
aaaaand...
James. Blunt.
Did I go? Fuck NO!
Athlete
Friends friend pulled out, she was desperate! It was horrific!
A recent shocker: Some friends had a spare ticket to see Milburn and it was free and I was getting picked up and dropped off from my doorstep so I thought, 'nothing to lose, better than spending a night in on my own.' I WAS WRONG. It was painful.
Yeah I'm a good friend
I went to see Hanson for my best mate and even worse . . . . HIM . . . twice. I refused to go a 3rd time though, they REALLY suck.
Oh and I went to see the Hooisers
in Brighton the other month with a friend. I agreed to go before I knew who they were. AWFUL.
^^
exact same story here. I paid £10 for it AND missed a good gig.:(
I'm never going to go to see bands for her again.
Interpol......
A friend who is a massive fan offered me a ticket and I went out of curiosity, what a boring 2 hours that was. Didn't have the heart to tell her i thought it was pish after as she loved it!
I had to go and see Titanic 6 TIMES in the cinema
Because my then fiancee was obsessed. That's a lot of Di Caprio.
On an unrelated topic - how does one post without hitting 'reply' - I don't like the way all my posts are indented - I want to be nice and parallel to the post above.
this should help:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/losninosdelparque/aguidetodis.jpg
awww
only joking ;)
I go to gig myself all the time
. Tell your mate to grow some balls.
He's not a regular gig-goer
Bless, I think he is really rather excited
Has he heard any of their songs bar "Hey, there Delilah"?
I'm aware certain DiSers who shall remain nameless to protect their identities actually quite like that song but I heard another of their songs and it really is fuck-awful generic charmless MOR shite.
He might be in for an unpleasant surprise...
He likes the album
The unpleasantness won't be surprising
Aww, ok....
forgiven. Why not tranq. yourself up before it? Or make an attempt at acquiring temporary tinnitus during the day?
Yes that's a good idea.
You get to concentrate more on the music anyway.
Serves you right for making him see Hole...
Soulfly with Limp Bizkit & Deftones
was probably one of the best line ups at the time, but in retrospect it's quite the antithesis.
jesus that must hurt
I went to see the towers of london in king's because of a friend. I actually left after 4 songs. It was too, too shite.
I saw Hole in 1999
I thought it was amazing at the time.
You should have gone.
she clearlty wanted to sex you.
NO!
but I forced people to see:
Modest Mouse, The Shins, of Montreal, Future Of The Left & Art Brut
Im a good friend
Usualy when my friends suggest a gig nowa days it's something like Efterklang! In fact the most obsured ticket I have ever recieved is for Muse at Wembely... and that was really good.
I've taken my Mum do see Muse 4 times!
I think they're pretty dull but she loves them
muse dull
Can't agree with you there, but they were better on the OOS tour, muse are up there with NIN in my favourite live acts.
Their albums, maybe
but they are a terrific live band, probably the best stadium rock acts we have right now
I went to see Filter
with my brother (we walked four songs in). That's twenty minutes I won't get back.
See also: Bush.
not so much this.
but i often drag friends along to gigs they aren't expecting/haven't heard. ie. the monosound night with Sam Isaac, Gossamar, Luke', Pencil Toes etc. like Literaly drove up to a friends house on the way to Hereford (like 2 hours from where i live) and called on him to come. they're good friends. they all enjoyed it too.
BSP
I drove up to Brum to some uni reunion and my mate "treated" me to their gig.
Incubus
in September. I really, really do hate them, but she had no one else to go with and as I am such an amazing friend, I accompanied her. She gave me sweeties though :)
I saw Keane twice
in, I guess, 2005.
When she said she wanted to see them supporting Travis I finally put my foot down and told her to piss off.
She was obsessed with Tom. They played the Buffalo Bar one night (tiny venue), and she caught him outside, and offered to be his stalker.
The poor boy looked petrified. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.
These days, if I want to see something others don't like, I don't try to talk anyone into it - I'll go alone. That way, I don't have to return tedious favours!
Haha
I saw Keane at Wireless in 2005 with my then-girlfriend, who really liked them. They were OK. Seeing Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright and Supergrass as well made it a decent afternoon overall, although I was also exposed to James Blunt covering "Where Is My Mind?", so it can't be counted as a complete success.
James Blunt covered...
my god, please say you just made that up.
*boils head*
I wish
It's absolutely true.
i find
having similar musical tastes is quite important in my best friends + gf. its why it sucks at uni i havent found anyone into good music. when musics so important to you how can you go out with someone u know likes crap music? i found it quite annoying the one time i did try it - she tried to make me see funeral for a friend. got out of it :)
i once
went to a snow patrol gig for a mate. i think it was the nicest thing i've ever done for anyone, ever.
Well the thing is
this particular Keane-loving friend had incredibly good taste in music as a general rule - she introduced me to excellent pixies and cure stuff that i'd never heard, amongst many others. I can't explain it... I think she just really really fancied him :0\
...
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/1958427
:D
I knew you'd post that. I started laughing at a gig the other day, simply because the first band's name reminded me of EOG. They were pretty rubbish, too.
my friend
thought it'd be a "fun" gig if we went to see The Thrills in 2004. It wasn't. I reversed the tables on him by dragging him to The Tears knowing full well he despises Brett Anderson.
I went with my girlfriend to see Gwen Stefani
but it turned out to be awesome!
Dragged to see Gallows
at The Great Escpape last year. We were both in cardigans and stood out like a pair of sore thumbs with all the rude boi types. I thought to myself "these are going to be the last band I ever get to see" when the singer started smashing up all the light fittings and everyone started beating each other up. Went to see Art Brut when he suggested Jack Penate afterwards.
Look at this photo.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Gwar-07.jpg
Just fucking look at it. Are you telling me that wouldn't be a great gig?
my step-brother
invited me to a Rooster gig for his birthday....they were fail. Luckily I met a very pretty young lady. but it didnt work out because she liked Rooster.
My housemate
asked me if I wanted to go see Sophie Ellis-Bextor with her. I'm considering it.
i would
shes a hottie
Taking my wee bro
to see Johnny Foreigner tonight. He won't like them... he likes Daniel Bedingfield.
Went to Wacken
Vans Warped Tour and Velvet Revolver whilst in Canada.
ugh, i hate these things
i can't even remember what they were called, some rockabilly punk thing (female singer/double bassist?) and i went with my friend out of the goodness of my heart, only to be squished and laughed at by punk kids. he's never made it up to me!
Tokyo Dragons
I really wanted to enjoy it even in an ironic way.
It was impossible.
In
return for a ticket to the Saturday night Old Trafford Arctic Monkeys gig (and I know many on here would claim this to be a terrible gig, but i loved it) my friend took me to see Reverand and the Makers, yet even this level of atrocity was surpassed by the Tings Tings, who were supporting.