Assholes at gigs

[nellyphant]

Being over 6' myself, I'm very self aware of blocking someones view behind me and on many an occasion have felt that I couldn't 'let myself go' and enjoy jumping around waving my hands about sort of thang (and no before anyone says, I wouldn't call it dancing or having a mild fit fo sorts!) but you just have to accept that people go in front of you purely to get nearer to the front through excitment (and in most cases have had a few drinks) not malice and just don't think about whats/who's going on around them.

I apprieciate that watching someone's back in a gig isn't what you went to see but it can be just something that happens. You've just gotta enjoy the vibe!

 

[Dhimmi]

Being tall does not make someone an arsehole . And if you couldn't see why the fuck didn't you move or are you so self centred you think the world revolves around you . Are you suggesting a system where at gigs small people stand at the front then there is a graduation of people depending on their height to the back so the gig audience would look like this


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Funnily enough I've experienced a similar scaled experience, back in the 80's at a Public Enemy gig at the Astoria. I was surprised that the audience was totally black bar my olive tone and Mrs.Me's alabaster hue, especially as PE were one of those "breakthrough acts".
Until I went to the toilet when the graduated composition of colour became clear, halfway up the hall it was fifty-fifty and at the back it was wholly white.
There's something ironically satisfying about making the whites stand at the back, maybe we should try it on buses?

 

[paolo]

I'm not proper tall (5' 11") but do sometimes try and shuffle a few people in front if they are shorter. Or at least not blatantly go in front of an "obvious" (shorter) just in front of me.

Just a bit of manners really.

 

[Gerry1time]

the only problem i've had with tall people at gigs recently was at a kid carpet gig in bristol, where some trendy fanboy gorrila stood right at the front with a 6' 6" frame and massive ginger afro right in front of kid carpet, and proceeded to wave his arms about and headbang throughout the gig. In a small venue, everyone was forced to watch him rather than KC. Twat.

Worst behaviour i saw was at portishead at ashton court festival when they were just about to come on, where a poncy posh barbour jacketed couple pushed their way to the front by carrying a tent down to the front over their heads saying 'excuse me, we need to pass this to security at the front'. Then when the bemused security took it off them, they just stood in a lot of people's way for the rest of the gig.

The people in front of me seemed to take revenge by burning holes in the back of the guy's barbour jacket with cigarettes during the show though.

 

[DalstonExpress]

If a gig's quiet enough that you can talk over it it's probably a shit gig IME.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

The only ones that really piss me off are the ones that think it's funny to push you into the mosh pit.

Yes , I've been in the pit for a while , I've moved out of it now so please don't push me back in.

To that 15 year old kid that kept pushing me back in at the Prodigy last year , I'm sorry - I didn't mean to gang up with my brother and push you in head first , you looked to go down rather badly but hey , what goes around comes around

 

[fishfingerer]

Hesitant stage divers.

 

[moose]

I've resigned myself to only seeing bands who wear hats or have big hair.

I hate people who wear high heels and frequently step back onto my feet. And camera phone wavers. And people who eat chips in the middle of the crowd. And people who smoke carelessly. And people who flick sweaty long hair on my mouth. Fuck it, I hate everyone.

 

[Kanda]

It's not a fucking cinema....

 

[Wolveryeti]

Being allowed to see at gigs is what tall people get for having shorter lifespans and more messed up skeletal structures later in life. FACT.

 

[nellyphant]

Funnily enough I've experienced a similar scaled experience, back in the 80's at a Public Enemy gig at the Astoria. I was surprised that the audience was totally black bar my olive tone and Mrs.Me's alabaster hue, especially as PE were one of those "breakthrough acts".
Until I went to the toilet when the graduated composition of colour became clear, halfway up the hall it was fifty-fifty and at the back it was wholly white.
There's something ironically satisfying about making the whites stand at the back, maybe we should try it on buses?

Luckily I live in the UK not S.Africa so I can sit on whichever seat is free on the bus!

My experience nowadays is that music spans across all creeds and colours and stereotypes of one another are rapidly being broken down from all sides. Recently the best gig I went to was Damien Marley of which there was no obvious segregation of colour, then again I was full of rum and had a few tokes on someones pipe and then I'm up at the front all 6' 2" of me gettin' down.

DapperDOnDamaja - Most of my family are tall (certainly the men in the family) and seem to live until about 96. I grant you that they all end up as nutty as fruitcakes and shrink but that what happens to us all when you get to a ripe old age

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I thought being an asshole was what rock 'n' roll was all about.

 

[arty]

If a gig's quiet enough that you can talk over it it's probably a shit gig IME.

/\what he said


I can't remember going to a gig where you could communicate in any way apart from yelling in someones ear or by sign language.


If you want to listen in silence with no tall people around you, buy the CD and listen to it at home ffs.

 

[baldrick]

some stupid twat behind me dancing like a mentalist with a bacardi breezer in his hand result: i get whacked in the back of the head with the bottle and a load of it goes down my back, i reach back to assess the damage and knock the bottle out of his hand. security see us about to exchange blows and he forces us to kiss and make up

apart from that, the usual panopoly of inconsiderate tall people/people with elbows/handbags/long hair/sweaty t-shirts that they like to push into my face. gigs are sometimes an exercise in patience for me

 

[perplexis]

<snip>Are you suggesting a system where at gigs small people stand at the front then there is a graduation of people depending on their height to the back so the gig audience would look like this


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That's a really good idea, and I have often thought it should be the law.
That, or have raked auditoria (like Brixton Academy, which is one of the best venues I know for visibility)...

 

[Major Tom]

If a gig's quiet enough that you can talk over it it's probably a shit gig IME.

There's always masses of people talking at jazz gigs for some reason.

Not sure why if its not deafeningly loud then its shite.

I go to quite a few accoustic gigs - its hard for them to be deafeningly loud IME.

I'd rather people who don;t want to hear the music just not go to the gig. Or go to a deafeningly loud one instead?

It's not all Rock you know

Anyway - arseholes at gigs. I find they are usually in greater concentration at stadium gigs which is why i don't go to them any more.

At a Bowie gig in 86 some twat standing next to me was trying to piss in a bottle and ended up pissing all over my leg instead.

Oh yeah - and Reading on a Sunday night when all the one dayers turn up pissing everywhere and burning plastic.