What Type Of Concert Person Are You ? (6 Viewers)

[bringbackrattles]

As Glastonbury is over for another year, it got me thinking about all the concerts I've attended over the years. I used to go with 2 mates every year to Monsters Of Rock at Donnington, had some great times there.
But we used to split up after hours of drinking and venture off on our own for a while, and meet up when the headline act came on at night. Some spectators would stand in one place for hours, others jump about wildly, and many would just get out of their face on drink and substances. So what type are you at gigs ?

 

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[Otis]

Depends. No drink or drugs, but when I saw Spiritualized live everyone just lay down on the floor, so I did that.

Sometimes I just sit and listen and sometimes I go where the music takes me.

Going to see Elbow next week, so I think that will be a just stand and watch thing.

 

[chiefdave]

If its a regular gig then I'm more often than not driving so not tempted to spend a fortune of watered down Carling or whatever rubbish they are selling.

If its a festival I'll have a few but not to the point that I miss half the gig passed out! I'm all about the planning for festivals. Get the times sorted for the acts I want to see then check out all the bands in any gaps of got to see who else is worth watching. These days with streaming its nice and easy, back in the day it would mean wandering from stage to stage until finding something decent.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Depends. No drink or drugs, but when I saw Spiritualized live everyone just lay down on the floor, so I did that.

Sometimes I just sit and listen and sometimes I go where the music takes me.

Going to see Elbow next week, so I think that will be a just stand and watch thing.

I recall going to see Lou Reed at Warwick Arts Centre some years back. It was the most boring concert I've ever been to, my mate fell asleep, and for an hour the crowd was in silence. That concert stays in the memory !

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Techno/house
Loved all the raves in ibiza

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Copeland is a real favourite of mine

 

[skybluetony176]

Been to loads of metal concerts in all shape and size venues from the Tick Tock in Coventry to see Saxon to Monsters of Rock with Metallica headlining.

To keep in with the OP my memories of MOR are trying to sleep on a banking because we got in from the night before and went straight to Donnington with no sleep. it was a funny day where one minute it was bright sunshine and the next raining so I got a combination of soaked and sunburnt. Then later on in the night just as Metallica started it started pissing down, then someone threw a bag of piss which hit my mate on the back of the head and covered him. This particular mate is sound but had an issue with the red mist when we were younger turning him into someone who nobody would ever beat in a fight and you would end up fighting him off whoever upset him before he killed them. Anyhow I looked at him wondering what was about to happen and he just said don’t worry Tony, I’m not even going to turn around because if I do and anyone is laughing whether they threw the bag or not I’m going to tear their head off and I really want to watch Metallica. That event was a turning point in his life.

Last concert I attended was RHCP’s at the Ricoh. Not long after that kids arrived and haven’t been to one since.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Been to loads of metal concerts in all shape and size venues from the Tick Tock in Coventry to see Saxon to Monsters of Rock with Metallica headlining.

To keep in with the OP my memories of MOR are trying to sleep on a banking because we got in from the night before and went straight to Donnington with no sleep. it was a funny day where one minute it was bright sunshine and the next raining so I got a combination of soaked and sunburnt. Then later on in the night just as Metallica started it started pissing down, then someone threw a bag of piss which hit my mate on the back of the head and covered him. This particular mate is sound but had an issue with the red mist when we were younger turning him into someone who nobody would ever beat in a fight and you would end up fighting him off whoever upset him before he killed them. Anyhow I looked at him wondering what was about to happen and he just said don’t worry Tony, I’m not even going to turn around because if I do and anyone is laughing whether they threw the bag or not I’m going to tear their head off and I really want to watch Metallica. That event was a turning point in his life.

Last concert I attended was RHCP’s at the Ricoh. Not long after that kids arrived and haven’t been to one since.

Glad someone else went to Monsters Of Rock ! I remember going once and it pissed it down for hours on end eventually turning it into a mudbath. Anyway the 3 of us were down the front waiting for the band to come on stage, when a group of lads decided to start pushing people over, resulting in a few landing head first and covered head to foot in slime. Bad mistake ! They tried it on us 3 and we turned it around and lobbed them down which brought huge cheers from those around us as they were looking for trouble. Found out they were from Southampton, but they got escorted out by security much to their embarrassment.
One and only time I've had trouble at a concert, mainly it's just great fun.

 

[Otis]

Copeland is a real favourite of mine

Aaron?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Aaron?

Is there another??

 

[Gazolba]

I haven't been to a concert in decades.
The last concert I saw was The Jags at a small club (Trax) in New York City in the mid-eighties.
Before that I saw Steppenwolf at the Bottom Line in New York City.
Everything depends on the location.
Trax was just a glorified bar with standing only and a stage on the side.
The Bottom Line was a club where you could sit at tables.
Further back I went to quite a few sit-down concerts at places like Carnegie Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Coventry Theatre, Royal Albert Hall etc.
The biggest concert I went to was The Doors and jefferson Airplane at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. That was 1968.
Ancient History now.

 

[bringbackrattles]

You seen Steppenwolf, The Doors, and Jefferson Airplane , bloody hell I'm envious ! I've just included in my new rockblock The Pusher and Love Her Madly both great tracks. So it's not how many concerts we've been to but who we've seen that counts. What a band CV you have !

 

[fellatio_Martinez]

I used to get steaming and then try to get near the front but now I've completely changed my approach.

I now get steaming and stay near the back closer to the bar. It's more relaxed unless you have a cokehead mate who continually talks in your ear for the whole concert which happened to me when I went to see Alice In Chains in May.

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

I like a few drinks and a bit of a dance , I hate people who spend more time taking photos and filming the gig rather then watching it live

 

[Otis]

Is there another??

Stuart.

 

[chiefdave]

Who else went to Phoenix Festival in Stratford? 96 was a brilliant line up, the traffic to get to the site not so brilliant.

 

[Malaka]

Done Monster of Rock Twice, Download Twice and the Heavy Metal Holocaust and the Phoenix Festival festival but it had Public Enemy, Body Count, Faith No More, Paradise Lost
Gonna see The Who on Saturday and have tickets for Elton John, Ozzy + Judas Priest, Primal Scream and Gary Numan

Bands I have seen often more than once include;

Black Sabbath
Metallica
Pantera
Slayer
UFO
Saxon
Rush
Iron Maiden
Body Count
Faith no More
Def Leppard
Budgie
Machinehead
Motorhead
Slade
Whitesnake
Blue Oyster Cult
ACDC
Queen
WASP
Queensryche
Status Quo
Elton John
George Michael
Oasis
Andrea Boccelli
Faithless
The Cult
Children of Bodom
Rush
The Sweet
Sham 69
The Undertones
Gary Numan
Aerosmith
Guns n Roses
Simple Minds
and don't tell anyone, I have seen Leo Sawyer

 

[lifeskyblue]

I haven't been to a concert in decades.
The last concert I saw was The Jags at a small club (Trax) in New York City in the mid-eighties.
Before that I saw Steppenwolf at the Bottom Line in New York City.
Everything depends on the location.
Trax was just a glorified bar with standing only and a stage on the side.
The Bottom Line was a club where you could sit at tables.
Further back I went to quite a few sit-down concerts at places like Carnegie Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Coventry Theatre, Royal Albert Hall etc.
The biggest concert I went to was The Doors and jefferson Airplane at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London. That was 1968.
Ancient History now.

Wow...wish I had seen Jefferson Airplane. My fav band back in the day.

Today I prefer smaller venues and bands/acts that are on the ‘way up’ or somehow overlooked. I loved Imelda May a few years back (when she was still in Rockabilly mode. Better than last year when she had started to believe her own hype). Also Stornaway who have recently broken up. And another band that have since broken were Karnataka whose ‘secrets of angels’ tour was superb


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[Adge]

Been to a few festivals but am trying to get tickets(like everyone else I guess) for Glastonbury next year. My sister is 40 and this is what she wants to do for her 40th.

 

[Gazolba]

You seen Steppenwolf, The Doors, and Jefferson Airplane , bloody hell I'm envious ! I've just included in my new rockblock The Pusher and Love Her Madly both great tracks. So it's not how many concerts we've been to but who we've seen that counts. What a band CV you have !

Steppenwolf were the best of those three because we were a lot closer to the stage. The Doors and Jefferson Airplane we were far away.
That wasn't everyone I've seen. I saw The Who a couple of times, Jimi Hendrix (Coventry Theater), Led Zeppelin (Locarno Balroom), Ginger Baker's Air Force (Birmingham Town Hall) , The Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa (Royal Albert Hall) and many other bands.
Can't even remember them all now.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Steppenwolf were the best of those three because we were a lot closer to the stage. The Doors and Jefferson Airplane we were far away.
That wasn't everyone I've seen. I saw The Who a couple of times, Jimi Hendrix (Coventry Theater), Led Zeppelin (Locarno Balroom), Ginger Baker's Air Force (Birmingham Town Hall) , The Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa (Royal Albert Hall) and many other bands.
Can't even remember them all now.

I reckon you have the most impressive CV of bands/acts seen I know. Respect !

 

[bringbackrattles]

And Malakas list is impressive too.

 

[clint van damme]

Who else went to Phoenix Festival in Stratford? 96 was a brilliant line up, the traffic to get to the site not so brilliant.

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that line up is incredible.

 

[Adge]

that line up is incredible.

Yes-first id heard of that when someone posted it in here. I missed the boat by a couple of years :emoji_disappointed:

 

[olderskyblue]

First festival was Reading in 1973. Me and a mate hitched down there, including getting a lift in a van where the driver kept pointing out all the places he'd had accidents..!! Great line up although pretty expensive... Many more since, including Download, but mostly Glastonbury. (I've also seen Leo Sayer, he was the support to Roxy Music on one of their tours.)

 

[oscillatewildly]

Who else went to Phoenix Festival in Stratford? 96 was a brilliant line up, the traffic to get to the site not so brilliant.

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Yes, I was there. Went to the first one in '93 as well.
Couldn't get the night off for Thursday tho - so missed Bowie :emoji_disappointed:
My brother and his ex abandoned the car at the roadside after queuing for a couple of hours to get in (along with few hundred others) and legged it across fields to get in to catch Bowies set.
First time I ever saw Neil Young. Seen him once more since, going to Hyde park next Friday.