This thread was inspired by a truly awful gig I was at in Cyprus Avenue in Cork on saturday night (which was probably made to appear even worse due to the fact that I had just seen Gillian Welch play a fantastic gig the previous night). Some friends asked me to come with them to see some local bands, which in fairness is always a gamble. Anyway, all three bands turned out to be angsty nu-metal types - eek! In fairness the second band, Levelhead were actually not bad. I don't like new metal but these guys actually could play, write decent songs, understood the importance of tone and were even a bit experimental in their sound, definitely the "Deftones" amidst the Linkin Park wannabes. I didn't like their music, but they definitly got my respect. The other two bands were very Spinal Tap, the first band called "poxy" appropriately enough featuring a guitarist who reminded me of Jack Black in that scene from "school of rock" where he ends up stage diving onto the floor.. in a bad way. No stage diving antics thankfully, but you get the idea. The final band of the evening called TewlveThirteen featured a singer who looked like the unholy love-child of The Incredible Hulk, Alice Cooper and Keanu Reeves. Funniest moment? When TwelveThirteens lead singer tells us in a strong east Cork accent about how the next song is about "my home village of Shanagarry and I wrote a song about it because I love it" then the band proceeds to to descend into an extremely heavy song with angsty, shouty, incoherent vocals totally indistinguishable from the last. OK it would be a lie to say I didn't enjoy the gig, it was very entertaining in a Spinal Tap way, but I enjoyed it for all the wrong reasons and couldn't hear properly for most of Sunday too. Well thats my worst gig in recent memory that I've sat all the way through, over to you folks. Whats the worst gig you have ever stayed all the way through?