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Dec 2018
11:18am, 5 Dec 2018
5,589 posts
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postieboy
It's alright if you like your own company, and I agree the freedom to come and go as you please is liberating. I prefer company when I go out though.
Haven't been to a gig by myself since Oasis in 2009 just before the Gallagher's fell out for the final time. I enjoyed it thoroughly, especially with Kasabian as the main support but I felt a bit lonely by myself.
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Dec 2018
11:29am, 5 Dec 2018
8,819 posts
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Joopsy
I do a lot on my own, I enjoy the pre gig company of others but I'm equally happy to watch it on my own rather than miss out.
I'm lucky that Mrs J is also happy to go on her own, she is a lover of Foo Fighters and RHCP, both of whom I think are ok but not enough to pay £60 to go and watch them so she will jump on a train to London and watch them without me.
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Dec 2018
11:31am, 5 Dec 2018
8,820 posts
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Joopsy
I am imagine the dickhead count at a Blur gig would be massive PB? I like them btw and not suggesting you and the Mrs are dickheads.
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Dec 2018
11:37am, 5 Dec 2018
37,144 posts
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McGoohan
I paid £50 to see Interpol but it was at least at the Royal Albert Hall. However to use Joopsy's count there was a very high dickhead count.
It was forty-something I think to see Arcade Fire and dickheads were much thinner on the ground.
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Dec 2018
11:56am, 5 Dec 2018
57 posts
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Groundhog
For the last 10 years the only gigs I have managed to go to are End of the Road Festival and a few of the All Tomorrow's Parties weekenders at Camber Sands and Butlins Minehead. I'm hoping this will change and I can get out more often now the kids are old enough to be left by themselves.
Having said that, my son is now in to rock music and has discovered Royal Blood. I would be very happy to take him.
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Dec 2018
12:05pm, 5 Dec 2018
5,590 posts
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postieboy
The dickhead count was worse for Oasis, Joospy, I swear all 70000 in Cardiff when I last saw them were covered in piss by the end. Certain bands and artists attract complete twats, the Brit Pop bands top of that list. The Liam Gallagher gig we went to a year ago was particularly ferel.
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Dec 2018
12:06pm, 5 Dec 2018
37,147 posts
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McGoohan
Ah, yes - I saw The Libertines at the reunion thing they did in Hyde Park. Thousands and thousands of idiots.
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Dec 2018
12:13pm, 5 Dec 2018
1,984 posts
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Fitz
I like going to gigs with friends and/or Mrs Fitz but if there's someone that I'm alone in liking, I'm quite happy to go on my own.
On prices, I tend to avoid BIG acts in BIG venues but I have heard of tickets getting very expensive. Fleetwood Mac's recently announced gigs spring to mind - I can't remember the numbers but IIRC it was big money.
The last BA in a BV I saw was U2 at O2. Ruinously expensive and the seats were not great, I vowed that day not to bother with them any more.
Again, gigs in general are getting more expensive, even in the small venues - acts make so little from recorded music so they fill their boots on gig prices.
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Dec 2018
12:18pm, 5 Dec 2018
784 posts
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Captain Malcolm Reynolds
The Wildhearts were superb on Monday. Loud, energetic, bouncy, sweary & sweaty. Gig was at a new small venue in Digbeth called The Mill which is in converted railway arches.
There were a fair few idiots there, but we were all in the the pit bouncing off each other. So kinda consensual idiocy.
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Dec 2018
1:46pm, 5 Dec 2018
8,821 posts
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Joopsy
Consensual idiocy is welcome!
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