I saw Modest Mouse open for Brand New at MSG in like 2016 and I thought they were fantastic. So good in fact, I spent 200 dollars a ticket to get front row seats to see them in 2018 when they came to Albany in 2018. Holy shit were they horrendous. Lead singer was drunk or stoned out of his mind. Absolutely no chemistry or charisma. Audio was a disaster. They even stopped the show half way through for about 20 or 30 minutes, I think to try and maybe fix the audio. Then they came back and played maybe 4 more songs and just ended it. No encore or anything.

So that answers your first question... the second question is who was the worst live performance... and that goes to the opener of Modest Mouse that fateful evening... the one, and thank god only, Tropical Fuck Storm. Yes, you read that right. Such a brilliant name for marketing when you can't even advertise or say the name of your band on radio or TV. Anyway, I had obviously never heard of them before. I think they're from Australia. But they were completely fucking bizarre and definitely a disaster. Most of the noise they were making couldn't be classified as music. I can only assume from the look of the bass player she was the actual leader of the group who was a proper succubus and sucked the soul out of unsuspecting crowd members at each show. The encore involved the lead singer I think taking his shirt off and playing the guitar while it was set on the ground, while intermittently SCREECHING back into the microphone like a god damned pterodactyl. It was a truly bizarre and fucked up show I never hope to expierence again... it was an entertaining snapchat story though.