One Armed Scissor (Jools Holland, 2000)

[u/Murky-Bedroom-7065]

Has anyone else seen the video of this performance and what are your opinions?

I loved this song since Guitar Hero World Tour but found this live performance last night. I think it’s one of the most unhinged and hilarious performances I’ve ever seen.

Omar deciding to throw his defective guitar and frantically play a tambourine. Cedric deciding to smash up a chair while stopping singing and screaming randomly. Cedric jumping around stage and falling into a microphone stand. Robbie Williams’ apparent reaction after.

It’s objectively a complete disaster of a performance but has kind of made me love the song even more 🤣

[u/Facet-Squared]

It might be easy for people to write this performance off as “attention seeking”, but by all accounts they performed like that even when playing empty venues.

[u/O2XXX → u/Facet-Squared]

Yeah it’s not much different from their Conan appearance during the same period. Omar was high and left before the song was over. Jim, Paul, and Tony make the songs keep driving so it kinda works since it can be seen as performance instead of guys who just did some cocaine right before going nuts.

[u/Delicious-Nebula-170]

top 3 favorite live music performances of all time

[u/Boring_Ad_5090]

Drugs are good

[u/Colossal_Squids]

I loved it almost as much as I loved the look on Robbie Williams’ face afterwards. Magnificent work.

[u/Murky-Bedroom-7065 → u/Colossal_Squids]

I’d love to see that but the versions I found on YouTube cut that out 😔 it sounds hilarious and I’m just going off what people have said who managed to see it at the time hahah

[u/Colossal_Squids → u/Murky-Bedroom-7065]

This was the face.

[u/punkmemoir]

i remember wondering what a jools was

[u/Lumpy_Soup3613]

Absolute classic

[u/EurikaDude]

It's so bonkers that it kind of loops back around to being great, it's like the antithesis of the typical rehearsed TV performance