00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten concerts ruined
00:09by morons.
00:20For this list, we'll be looking at the worst thought out decisions and planning that messed
00:25up concerts, whether from the manager, audience members, or performers themselves.
00:31Catch any poorly planned or terribly executed concerts we missed?
00:35Please write about them in the comments!
00:58Number 10.
00:59Smash Mouth vs. B.R.E.A.D.
01:01You may be wondering, why was B.R.E.A.D. involved in a concert?
01:13Well the concert was being held at a food festival in Colorado, and unfortunately a
01:18vendor had decided to give out free loaves of bread.
01:21That's right, loaves.
01:23Drunk audience members started throwing slices of bread everywhere, and some landed on the
01:28stage.
01:29Smash Mouth's lead singer, Steve Harwell, went berserk right as the band was playing
01:34the introduction to All Star.
01:43While the band kept repeating itself, hoping for the song to start, Harwell shouted curses
01:48and threats at the bread throwers.
01:51Finally fed up, he headed down into the crowd, presumably to administer a beating to several
01:56audience members.
01:57Thankfully, however, he was stopped by event security.
02:11Number 9.
02:12Britney Spears Objects to Smoke
02:20At a concert in Vancouver, about 15 minutes into her set, Britney Spears suddenly walked
02:25off stage.
02:26The audience was left waiting in the dark, confused.
02:30Someone made an announcement that the show would begin again when the stage was cleared
02:34of smoke, and everyone was reminded that it is a non-smoking building.
02:44About half an hour passed, during which hockey intermission music played over the speakers
02:47presumably intended to be soothing, but apparently somewhat annoying.
02:52Spears returned and began to sing, but then, toward the end of a song, she abruptly left
02:57the stage again.
02:59When she came back for the last time, her parting advice to the frustrated audience
03:03was, don't smoke weed.
03:09Number 8.
03:11Nickelback vs. Rocks
03:13In 2002, while playing a set in Portugal, the band Nickelback was pelted with rocks
03:18and bottles from the crowd.
03:23No one really knows why, but given their behavior, it seems like most of the audience came to
03:28see a concert by a band they hated.
03:31After weathering two songs under this barrage of hard objects, lead singer Chad Kruger asked
03:36the crowd a pointed question.
03:41When he was answered with a bottle to the back of the head, Kruger and the rest of the
03:45band simply left the stage, though not without directing a couple of middle fingers towards
03:50the audience.
03:56Number 7.
03:57Justin Bieber Objects to Screams
04:00Normally, screams from the audience at a concert are a good thing, but maybe not so much when
04:05you're trying to deliver an impassioned speech about everyone's purpose in life.
04:15A little trite, perhaps, but hardly worth screaming at.
04:19However, Justin Bieber had to plead with the audience members to stop yelling and making
04:23noise during his talk at a concert in Manchester, England.
04:27When the screaming still didn't stop, Bieber angrily stormed off stage.
04:37Apparently this is not a new issue, as Bieber has told British fans in the past to shut
04:43up and be quiet and listen.
04:45Bieber did eventually return to perform, but claimed the Manchester audience couldn't
04:50handle him.
04:56Number 6.
04:57Limp Bizkit at Woodstock 99
05:00Let's start off by saying there were a lot of poor choices made by people involved in
05:05Woodstock 1999.
05:10No one band is to blame for the assaults, damage, and chaos that occurred.
05:15However, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit definitely made one of the worst decisions of the event
05:20when he told an already revved up crowd to start breaking things.
05:25Many people took him at his word, tearing apart sound towers and crowd surfing on the
05:29metal pieces.
05:36Medical tents were swamped with people who got injured in the mosh pit.
05:39By the time the band actually started playing break stuff, the crowd was way ahead of them.
05:50The festival later ended with riots and a huge fire.
05:53Number 5.
05:55Nirvana objects to crowd behavior
05:57For a 1992 concert in Buenos Aires, Nirvana hired an all-female band called Calamity Jane
06:03to be their opening act.
06:05The audience treated them horribly, shouting obscenities and throwing mud and rocks, until
06:10they left the stage in despair.
06:23At first, lead singer Kurt Cobain wanted to cancel the show, but instead, Nirvana decided
06:28to give the audience a taste of their own medicine.
06:37They played unfamiliar, experimental songs that hadn't been released yet.
06:41And to top it off, before every number, Kurt Cobain would play the introduction of Smells
06:46Like Teen Spirit, but then segue into a different song.
07:05Whether the crowd knew it or not, their rudeness led to one of the most unusual concerts Nirvana
07:10has ever given.
07:12Number 4.
07:13Guns N' Roses in Metallica in Montreal
07:16This disastrous concert began with Metallica's James Hetfield getting horribly burned by
07:21his own pyrotechnics and having to be rushed to the hospital.
07:34Then the audience had to wait over two hours for the famously unpunctual Guns N' Roses
07:39to show up.
07:40Unfortunately, frontman Axl Rose had been having vocal problems throughout the tour.
07:45But whether it was due to this or problems with feedback in the building, Guns N' Roses
07:50also left the stage after only a few songs.
08:03The audience went mad with rage, rioting and looting until they were finally subdued by
08:09police.
08:23Several people were injured and Guns N' Roses ended up being banned from Montreal's Olympic
08:27Stadium for life.
08:29Number 3.
08:302021 Astroworld Festival One of the worst things about this recent
08:35tragic event is that in hindsight it seems easily preventable.
08:39At 9 o'clock in the morning, a security breach let thousands of unregistered fans
08:44into the stadium.
08:55By the afternoon, there were hundreds of reported injuries and the Houston police described
09:00dangerous crowd conditions.
09:02Then when Travis Scott came on stage at 9 p.m., audience members made a mad rush toward
09:07the front, trampling everyone in their path.
09:18Because of all the lights and noise, Scott himself claims he was unaware of what was
09:22going on.
09:23By the time it was over, eight people were dead.
09:26Exactly who was responsible for this tragedy is hard to say, but clearly the event should
09:31have been stopped before that point.
09:45Number 2.
09:46Great White Concert Fire This is another tragic event where one can't
09:50help feeling amazed at the poor planning involved.
09:53In 2003, the band Great White was playing at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island.
09:58The club was a small, single-story wooden building.
10:01It had no sprinkler system and didn't have a license for pyrotechnics or firework displays.
10:06Just seconds into their first number, the road manager set off a pyrotechnic fire near
10:10the stage, which ignited soundproofing foam in the walls and ceiling.
10:16In a matter of minutes, it grew into a deadly blaze that claimed the lives of a hundred
10:31people and injured far more.
10:34Letting off fireworks in a small indoor space may seem unwise enough.
10:38However, it was revealed later that the club was also crowded beyond capacity and had no
10:43sprinkler system.
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11:07Number 1.
11:08Fire Festival As a fitting end to our list, this was a
11:12highly promoted concert series that just… didn't happen.
11:16Fire Festival was billed as a glamorous vacation on a remote island in the Bahamas, with lots
11:21of music, food, and fun.
11:31This was not exactly what the guests found when they arrived.
11:34First, their luggage was dumped out of a shipping crate in the dark.
11:38Next, they got a meal consisting of bread, cheese, and a small salad.
11:43There was a tent city for sleeping accommodations.
11:54No concerts ever occurred.
11:56The organizer, Billy McFarland, had scammed everyone who bought tickets.
12:00Not to mention hundreds of island workers who had devoted their time and money into
12:04preparing for the event.
12:06Some locals in Exuma who provided the festival with services are still owed more than $100,000
12:11by the festival's organizers.
12:12More like a dumpster fire than a festival.
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