i'm trying, i really am, but i'm struggling to think of anything worse than that. Although i'm sure there must be a Bono incident of note.

suggests the dame was as shocked as anyone else by the 'our father' incident. you could hear a *pin drop* in the entire stadium by all accounts but yeah pretty damn awkward watching it live at home.

It's hard to think of more awkward things, but this is good...

My image!

Wasn't the was it a wave or was it a salute, as he rode, fuhrer style, in the back of his merc (it may have been another make) wasn't seen so good, either.
Or the tanked up Clapton and his Enoch invoking words?
EC and his "appreciative" words about Ray Charles, again involving refreshment?
Feet o' clay all the way.

and I can honestly say that Bowie 'doing' the Lord's Prayer was the most rock n' roll thing that happened all day. It was preposterous, pretentious, baffling, comical... and yet strangely brilliant.

... I found Bono's "Every time I click my fingers, a child dies" routine absolutely toe-curling, despite the undoubted heartbreaking seriousness of the message...

"You wouldn't want m' trahzers to fall dahn now would you?"

Or how to turn an awkward moment into a golden one.

Nuff said.

Didnt someone shout 'well stop clicking then' when Bono said his 'every time I click my fingers a child dies'?

At Live Aid asking for some of the money to go to American farmers.Playing songs keef and ronnie didn't know etc..pretty cringeworthy.

Glastonbury 2007.

Paolo Nutini.

'I Wanna Be Like You'.

Just awful.

"I went down to the crossroads...and this black bloke come over...Mojo? I'll give you mojo I said..."

I've never heard about this Lord's Prayer incident until now. I'm not sure whether I should be worrying that perhaps I used to know about it and my memory is failing or whether I should rejoice that I have been hitherto unexposed.
It's not really an awkward moment, more a display of knobheadedness, but some years back at a Jackson Browne gig at the Albert Hall a guy leaned out of one of the boxes and demanded loudly and repeatedly that we stand up to "show the man some respect".
We thought we'd done that in buying the tickets.

Edwyn was a hero of mine but he did a regular turn in a comedy show in the 90s - Vic n Bob or someone - and it was soooo cringey I could barely watch.

I think this was in the current issue but Bono trying to rip off the famous Bob Marley moment on when he stands on stage raising hands with { i'm not sure of their names here]Edward Seaga and Manley. Bono had David Trimble and John Hume on stage although it would have been impressive if he had Paisley and Adams
Whereas Bob was shot for his beliefs Bono just fucked off back across the border to count his money then shift it to Holland, wanker.

Where did you get that Stimpy? Excellent!

a) the gesture had precisely no effect as the violence between supporters of Manley and Seaga continued

b) is a fervour for change to be deplored in a White Irishman but to be applauded in a Black Jamaican?

Of course not Sheevmaster but whereas Marley lived that life Bono done this for the photo opportunity. He done an interview on the South Bank Show many years ago where he talked of how the troubles affected him deeply. Now this is clearlylshite as he lived in a nice middle class area in Dublin during this and has done nothing for Northern Ireland since. As someone who has lost friends here I fucking resent people espically rich rock stars using the situation here to further their career.
I dont give a fuck for his political work either way but when he uses dead peoples blood to make himself look like a peacemaker then fuck him

What a bloody idiot. And not only that, but the whole Queen's Jubilee Concert. The most vile example of utter crawly bumlick television I have ever seen.

Didn't Brian May look like an idiot, though?

...How about his "turn" in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"? Or "Brimstone and Treacle"...?

"Freejack " anyone ?

At the 1974 Reading Festival he forgot the words to his song and after rambling about how he'd never done this before and how terrible it was for him he decided to get the crowd to sing along to the chorus. Eventually we all joined in.
Then the lying twat turned it round in the press. In an interview (must have been the NME as I rarely read anything else) he boasted about how he'd got the hippies in the mud to sing along with him, conveniently having yet another memory lapse about the first embarrassing memory lapse.

blee

I think it was a BBC Saturday evening show hosted by Noel Edmonds and/or Mike Smith. They had Peely in a man-at-the-pub set up where he shared his thoughts about life in general. All I can say is that I hope John got a good fee for it because not only did it reek, it also blew chunks. Cringe!

were pretty embarassing weren't they? He with his todger out, she with her homage to the Bearskin hat - and all for world peace or art or something.

There was no coming back from this. What tune is the girl on stage dancing to?

Broadcast live in its entirety on BBC 2, as I remember. Couldn't have been much else on, as I watched large chunks of this. This was before the great man was released - there was another one after, which the BBC also showed. Nothing against the old boy, but I'm sure he would rather have more direct action to get him out of chokey.

Anyway, highlights (or rather those bits I can't erase from my tortured memory) include Eurythmics singing "Free Mandela" to Brand New Day, which happened to be their latest single; Lenny Henry doing a Michael Jackson 'parody'; Tony Hadley wrecking Harvest For The World as only he could; the high-powered duo of Ali McGraw and Philip Michael Thomas introducing Jonas Gwangwa; Meat Loaf introducing Salt 'n' Pepa; the bizarre use of Stevie Wonder; and Simple Minds doing Mandela Day. The late Eighties, eh? No wonder people re-appraise Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Read the full excruciation of doing such big gigs here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_Tribute

..but this makes me cringe...and I'm sympatetic too.

In the 70's pop music show "Get it Together", every week Roy perfomed his interpretation of a current pop hit.

He meant well and he gave it his all, but there was always some fundamental missing-of-the-point or bad judgement call that rendered the item both toe-curling and hilarious.

An example is the Chas & Dave song, "Gertcha". Roy and the backing singers were dressed as cockneys, in waistcoats and flat caps. The entire intro featured Roy with is head down, only bursting into life the moment the lyrics started. Promising start.

Those familiar with the song will know that the word "Gertcha" is a made-up word shouted by the songwriter's elderly relative when she wanted people to go away. Also worth noting here that the spelling of "Gertcha" is only a rough approximation of what the word sounds like. It was more like "goowerrchaah!".

What was *brilliant* was that Roy's arrangement featured him and the backing singers singing "Gertcha" like a newsreader would, being careful to pronounce the "t".
All done with the thumbs in the lapels, cockney sparrow dance. Does TV get any better than that? I don't think so.

...of the Brits 1989

One of the best night's TV I can remember...

Does anyone remember seeing Malcolm McLaren on Jonathan Ross (Ch4) c1985 when he was so out of it (chemically rather than alcohol I think) that the interview was a complete waste of time. Malcolm struggled to understand any of the questions and therefore, gave rambling answers before often giving up mid sentence.

doing his messianic pose surrounded by children (!)- Was it at the Brits?

B J Robinson interviewing (?) Annabel Lwin (of Bow Wow Wow) - hmm that went well!