Annoying Practices................

[C C Csiders]

Watching the BBCi coverage of "Radio 1's Big Weekend" last night, and it caused me to remember a practice that is surely one of the most annoying things EVER.

With the sole intention of getting themselves on "the tele'" these young women who insist on getting on their boyfriends* shoulders so that they can wave their hands in the air to some third-rate rock act. Why do they think other people have paid £60+ to attend Glastonbury/Reading/V etc. to look at their thong sticking halfway up their back, rather than watch the artistes perform their jingly-jangly popular music?

* in some cases it will be their boyfriends. However, I suspect in most cases it is a 23 year old virgin with lank greasy hair, who senses that this is his chance to get the nearest thing he will EVER, EVER have in his life to a sexual experience. By hoisting the young woman on to his shoulders he will (through a pair of tight jeans) be able to have her pi$$-flaps press against the nape of his neck whilst she girates to the sounds and waves her hands in the hope of catching the TV cameras. Thus, said young man will fill his lavatory-encrusted underwear with more fluids.


Any other annoying practices?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

People who go to gigs with the sole intention of filming it on their mobiles (or recording certain songs) or even worse phoning up their mates who were too slow to get tickets to say "Hey John, listen to this one, it's your favourite, hahaha" This for me is the modern equivalent of tw@ts holding up their Zippo lighters!

Also people who go to gigs and chat the whole way through get right on my top note too!

 

[SUFC_Al]

Also people who go to gigs and chat the whole way through get right on my top note too!

I've suffered this while seeing the Smashing Pumpkins a few years back, my brother's girlfriend was moaning at him the whole show and I could hear it over the frigging music....as it was though SP were **** that night :(

 

[Uncle Leo]

People at gigs who find it amusing to lob their pints of lager towards the stage, thus covering those in front of them in Carling or Fosters. Tossers.

 

[Cricko2]

People who pish on your feet when they cant be bothered to go to the loo..This Happened twice to me at Rolling Stones Concerts.:mad:

 

[Shrimper in India]

I've suffered this while seeing the Smashing Pumpkins a few years back, my brother's girlfriend was moaning at him the whole show and I could hear it over the frigging music....as it was though SP were **** that night :(

I couldn't agree more, I went to see Beth Orton a few years back, one of my favourite artists, and everyone was just gassing through the whole gig, soooooooooo inconsiderate. Same happened at Guillemots at Brixton earlier this year, surely one of the worst venues for an acoustic-y type band, sound was appalling.

In fact all these annoying habits should be banned at gigs, esp the girl on shoulders thing.

Anyone used to stagedive? I did as a teenager moshing to Rage Against the Machine!!

 

[SUFC_Al]

I couldn't agree more, I went to see Beth Orton a few years back, one of my favourite artists, and everyone was just gassing through the whole gig, soooooooooo inconsiderate. Same happened at Guillemots at Brixton earlier this year, surely one of the worst venues for an acoustic-y type band, sound was appalling.

In fact all these annoying habits should be banned at gigs, esp the girl on shoulders thing.

Anyone used to stagedive? I did as a teenager moshing to Rage Against the Machine!!

Ive not actually got on to the stage and dived off it but crowd-surfed loads and been in some pretty gnarly mosh-pits

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

People at gigs who find it amusing to lob their pints of lager towards the stage, thus covering those in front of them in Carling or Fosters. Tossers.

Don't ever come to a gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands then mate!
This is legendary Weegie gig behaviour (thing is you don't know if it's Carling/Fosters before or after it's been through someones bladder) :fury:

 

[SUFC_Al]

Don't ever come to a gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands then mate!
This is legendary Weegie gig behaviour (thing is you don't know if it's Carling/Fosters before or after it's been through someones bladder) :fury:

Beers cost over £3 for a CAN these days inside music venues so noway would I be throwing mine in to the crowd!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Beers cost over £3 for a CAN these days inside music venues so noway would I be throwing mine in to the crowd!

Glasgow ABC £2.50 500ml can of Red-Stripe, get in! :p

 

[Cricko2]

Glasgow ABC £2.50 500ml can of Red-Stripe, get in! :p

Tight ar$e :p

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Tight ar$e :p

Frugal, please!

Tsk...... :thump:

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Yea camera phones are a pain in the ****. I saw Guns n Roses a few years ago, there was some **** in front of me with a huge rucksack. Throughout the gig he was taking pics with his phone, fair enough, but then he would put his phone away and take his digital camera out of his ruck sack and take pics with that too! Not an easy task when limbs are flying everyhwre to the sound of "Paradise City".

The other thing is people talking throughout gigs, or people who go to get a round halfway through a bands set and try and balance 4 pints of beer on the way back.. Brixton academy is always full of numpties like that.

 

[class]

I got covered in beer when I went to see the Prodigy a few years back. At least, I hope it was beer......:guns:

 

[Slipperduke]

People who go to gigs with the sole intention of filming it on their mobiles (or recording certain songs) or even worse phoning up their mates who were too slow to get tickets to say "Hey John, listen to this one, it's your favourite, hahaha"

Christ, yes. It's no fun when you get the call either.

It sounds like 2,000 angry bumblebees shouting down the phone to you, with a boozy shout from a 'mate' to open up the performance.

Yeah, great. It's just like being there. Now please **** off.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I went to see Sting earlier this year and the bloke in the seat in front was rustling and munching his way through a bag of murray mints during the entire concert.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I went to see 'The Who' last year and they had replaced 50% of the band with ringers.

It just goes to show the contempt with which these big acts treat their fans.

 

[Slipperduke]

I went to see Badly Drawn Boy and he was ****. That was annoying.

 

[GrimmRobes]

Also people who go to gigs and chat the whole way through get right on my top note too!

Precisely the reason I've stopped going to gigs in London (unless it's somewhere a bit more cultured like the RFH, Barbican or Spitz where folks genuinely go to listen). The Shepherds Bush Empire is always particularly bad for ***** talking all the way through. Belle & Sebastian in 1998 springs to mind - they used to play very quietly back then and I could scarcely hear them above the ****ers around me wittering on about total ****.

 

[SUFC_Al]

Precisely the reason I've stopped going to gigs in London (unless it's somewhere a bit more cultured like the RFH, Barbican or Spitz where folks genuinely go to listen). The Shepherds Bush Empire is always particularly bad for ***** talking all the way through. Belle & Sebastian in 1998 springs to mind - they used to play very quietly back then and I could scarcely hear them above the ****ers around me wittering on about total ****.

that's why I only go to metal/death metal concerts now, it's so loud and noisy you cant hear yourself think let alone talk