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When Gigs Go Wrong: 50 Disastrous Live Shows

A selection of nightmare gigs from down the years...

  • Tuesday, September 02, 2008
  • filed in: Rock Pop
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Ranging from tame on-stage blunders to horrific tragedies, Gigwise unveils some of the most disastrous gigs of all time. Drunken rock stars, inter-band fighting, riots, fatal shootings, natural disasters and bottlings are just some of the misfortunes included in the list.

Photo credit: WENN / PR Photos / Shirlaine Forrest / press / Carsten Windhorst
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  • poor mcr dont throw piss at them

    ~ by jen 9/2/2008

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  • I wish MCR were showered i shit

    ~ by Spike 9/2/2008

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  • electrocute means death by electricity. this dude was shocked.

    ~ by ycagwyw 9/3/2008

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  • ^^ Yeah good point. Must read the dictionary more often...

    ~ by Beam Me Up 9/3/2008

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  • What about Kanye at Bonnaroo

    ~ by brettd 9/3/2008

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  • I love how like, everyone spells Brendon’s name wrong.

    ~ by LiarsTurnMeOn 9/3/2008

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  • ahah! nickelback! xD there were bottles and rocks everywhere man. big laugh! the leadsinger was probably high, cause he said do you want to listen to some rock n roll, or do you want to go home? hmm, since when nickelback is rock n roll??

    ~ by sonicnurse 9/3/2008

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  • Wherever... MCR Will RoCk On Forever!

    ~ by Carolina_MCR 9/3/2008

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  • oberst is a douche.

    ~ by no 9/3/2008

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  • poor mcr =( they dont deserve piss thrown at them!! =(

    ~ by vanessa 9/3/2008

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  • There was one famous incident that had been left out... the Ace Frehley electrocution, in Lakeland Florida 1976

    ~ by danney 9/4/2008

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  • I#8217;’m sorry to inform you that the objects thrown in the Nickleback concert in Portugal (Festival Ilha do Ermal) were stones and not bottles...

    ~ by Kordny 9/4/2008

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  • The Reading Festival sounds like it should be renamed The Bottled Piss Festival! WTF is wrong with all those people? And *spike* you can f*@! right off! My Chemical Romance is an awesome band, you should be showered in shit!

    ~ by Samantha 9/4/2008

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  • Poor Brendon :(

    ~ by Miranda. 9/4/2008

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  • You should include amy winehouse’s bestival performance in the top 50

    ~ by steve 9/8/2008

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  • What about Evan Dando getting bottled at Glastonbury, when everyone was waiting for Portishead? Or Nirvana at Reading and the broken ribs/punctured lung incident?

    ~ by Anon 9/10/2008

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  • Where was The Doors' famous sex act on stage by Morrison, afterwhich he faced indecencey charges.

    ~ by Mike H 10/25/2008

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  • GG Allin was a fuckin poser! Died 40 years too late!!

    ~ by Hawklord 1/1/2009

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  • What about The Who, Cincinnati '79? 11 people died. And Zeppelin's infamous Milan show in '71, cancelled halfway through because of fans battling cops-- a full-on riot?

    ~ by Joshua Mooney 1/2/2009

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  • Considering the gigs at which people actually died, this list is incomplete. How can you not put in The Who at Cincinnati '79? One of America's worst concert tragedies.

    ~ by Dave Swaney 1/3/2009

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  • Forgot The Who in Cincinatti...

    ~ by Jay 2/16/2009

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