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Sep 2021
10:02am, 18 Sep 2021
11,004 posts
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Joopsy
A long overdue wedding anniversary present to see Duran Duran last night. They were still good and most importantly Mrs J enjoyed it.
It’s very rare I’d go to a big gig like that and especially one that attract people of, well, my age.
I go to tons of gigs where I am probably in the top 5% of oldest people there, I get into mosh pits and go daft with the kids, and I very rarely see a spot of bother or lack of respect to me or anyone else.
But go to a gig with a crowd made up of people 45+, especially at a weekend and it’s just awful. It’s like it’s a one off weekend away and people don’t know how to behave. I know, I should know better, it was a Friday night gig in Scarborough but the MO for most seemed to be.
1. Get to town early and get on the beer, no time tk waste
2. Ignore all the pre covid warnings and then stand at the front of the queue banging on about your rights and how you can’t find the app on your phone.
3. Get in and make sure you buy at least 8 pints to save queuing and then make sure everybody makes way for you.
4. Dodge the support and then decide that actually you’d like to be near the front and balls to everyone who’s been waiting patiently for two hours.
5. Once you’ve barged through and got your spot, make sure you then turn around and shout ‘Colin’ at least 50 times. Then call him and explain you’re in the crowd near the front.
6. Realising that the band are not about to come on decide it’s time for another drink so barge back out.
7. Shit music is starting, get back in and immediately hold your phone as high above your head as you can to record it.
8. Repeat for every song, but only the ones you know.
9. When they play a new song, get to the bar quick, new songs are always shit.
10. If you can’t make it to the bar, be sure to shout very loudly at Colin and then keep take some videos of the crowd and you and Colin gurning.
The kids are alright, it’s the old people who don’t know how to behave at gigs. (Not all old people obvs).
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Sep 2021
10:15am, 18 Sep 2021
3,088 posts
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fraggle
I tend to sing very loudly and off-key near peoples phones when they do that 
and you'll hate me, 'cos Ive seen my favourite band so many times I can't be bothered with support bands, so I'm one of those who just go to the front 10 mins before they come on. no barging though, just a polite 'excuse me, just trying to get to the moshpit' usually works (and it helps that I'm only 5'1" )
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Sep 2021
10:17am, 18 Sep 2021
7,363 posts
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Dooogs
I must be getting old - I'm trying to remember the last gig I went to that had a moshpit. I suspect stage-diving at Tindersticks or Low would look more like a cry for help...
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Sep 2021
10:19am, 18 Sep 2021
7,364 posts
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Dooogs
(the idea that The Yout' Of Today are better behaved than their forebears is definitely true, though. Not gig-related but 90% of rude, careless behaviour I see in public around here is from pensioners.)
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Sep 2021
10:20am, 18 Sep 2021
3,089 posts
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fraggle
well, its all a bit more tame these days as we're getting older
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Sep 2021
10:23am, 18 Sep 2021
7,368 posts
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Dooogs
Haha, we are - Elis James was talking was talking on R5 about getting excited about seeing Pavement next year. It's now 27 years since I saw them live.
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Sep 2021
10:25am, 18 Sep 2021
11,005 posts
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Joopsy
Not at all fragile, unless you’re trying to balance 14 pints and want to leave to go to the bar every 8 minutes.
An awful lot of my favourite bands have been found as support on toured of other people I’ve watched.
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Sep 2021
10:27am, 18 Sep 2021
3,249 posts
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Tom Tom
Oh Christ, Joopsy...I'm due to see them next year at the rescheduled Hyde Park gig (bucket list-was a huge Durannie as a child and still like them), I hope Colin and his missus aren't there!
Sort of reminded me of a Prodigy gig a few years ago. A woman with a huge designer handbag over her arm like Margaret Thatcher and an even bigger bouncer style boyfriend barged right up to the front just before the main act came on. She didn't appear to have any interest in the music, didn't like being jostled by the others dancing around her, just occasionally pouted into a selfie on her phone while her boyfriend barked at anyone with a beer to mind her bag...
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Sep 2021
10:32am, 18 Sep 2021
3,090 posts
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fraggle
My first gig was Duran Duran in 1981
don't drink hints, so thats not an issue, and have been know to 'accidentally' bump into someone who is
don't get me started about arseholes with backpacks.....
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Sep 2021
10:37am, 18 Sep 2021
3,250 posts
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Tom Tom
Haha...love a pint usually, but the beer at gigs is usually a bit questionable. Last one I had before the C word struck was at Norwich University...eggy, gassy and served in warm plastic 🤢
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