Just get out.

[Davey Gaga]

Have you ever had any incidents at gigs or concerts where you just want to be able to throw out some of the other people?

I went to The Dykeenies the other night and it was infested with children; 13 year-olds and under. All of them were drunk. Even I didn't drink until I was 16 - the whole place was a shambles. I ended up babysitting a little girl for the majority of the night because she was absolutely out of her face, had lost her friends and insisted on using us to get in (it was an over 14s gig, she was 13). She was fairly pleasant but just wouldn't leave us alone. The rest of the children at that gig looked as though it was their first time out without mum and dad...the 12 year-olds were pro-creating, the bouncers had to throw some toddlers out for being pissed, the children all insisted on going everywhere together and thus moved everyone else out of the way in a fully-packed room...

I also hate it when you're at the barrier at gigs and people behind you insist on squeezing their hands in. They have no chance of squeezing the rest of their heafing bodies in there but that hand is enough to make you flip. It's even worse when the guy behind you gets a boner as a result of either [1] being gay or [2] being massaged by the jumping up and down. I hooked the dirty bastard because he started to thrust.

 

[Bambi]

Oh my god, when I went to see James in December there was a small group of idiots stood in front of us and the lad turned round trying to get his mates down to him (bear in mind - I'm at the front of a packed fucking Gmex) and he was literally in front of me turned facing our way and was hand signally shouting his mates name over and over, I snapped in the end and I was like DUDE, DROP IT, THEY WONT GET THROUGH THE CROWD AND I AINT MOVING YOU GO BACK THERE FOOL. So he did

Fucks me RIGHT off, I almost wish there was seating so people couldn't barge past you like that, I'm fucking small I cant defend my spot that well, although Tbf, I think I scared the shit out of him when I started yelling hahaha

Wankers

 

[Davey Gaga]

I've become pretty good at giving myself a space roughly proportioniate to my arm span, I deliberately throw my arms around everywhere and, to avoid being hit, people have to move. It's a gig, so you get away with hitting them, but they still don't want hit, so they move.

 

[Bambi]

There's no such thing as arm space where I was...both times actually, I was guilty of elbowing and standing on people, that's why it irritates the shit out of me when fuckers try to squeeze past when there's CLEARLY no room

 

[Prince Oberyn Martel]

Metallica on Saturday. We were right up to the barrier (lass INSISTED on queing up for 3 fucking hours) but at somepoint some dude behind me was worming his way through people to get closer. Eventually he got beside me and managed to force me out of the way for a second. I tried to re-claim my spot but he wasn't having any of it and I couldn't quite move him because it was so crampt.

He later turned around and said "Dude, your elbow keeps smacking me in the face" and I'm like "Yeah no shit"

 

[Amizon]

When I went to see Avril Lavigne last May with my best mate, there was this big fat guy with a United shirt pushing everyone forward. Ugh, I hated him and still do! Mind you, there were about at least ten people that had to be taken out of the concert who were standing because they were either bladdered or hit their heads on the metal barrier. But still, seeing Avril at the M.E.N. Arena was topppppp.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

Ugh we went to see Hilltop Hoods live at the end of last year and I was so angry at how inconsiderate the guys were.

They could see that I was a girl, that I was small and that their big oaf like selves could crush me easily. Didn't stop them from bulldozing me over though.

I was enjoying the music, but the atmosphere was shit.

I don't understand people who like to mosh. <_< It's gross. People sweat all over you, drop glass bottles on the floor, smoke in your face, spill drinks on you. That is not 'living'. That is just fucking up my outfit and lungs thanks. <_<

I just wanted to listen to the band, not be pestered by feral people.

I had no option though. I didn't realise until we got there that we were going to be in a mosh and that there was only a mosh. <_<

 

[Amizon]

Now I think about it, I recall a Hoosiers concert in November 2008 when some guy threw a water bottle at the leading vocalist. But he carried on singing as if nothing was wrong! I had to commend him, but I really wanted to know who the guy was that threw the bottle. I hope he got threw out.

 

[Valvalis]

I don't have much trouble getting pushed around at GA shows since I'm pretty tall and always try to get there early to be on the front rail, but one time I was at a Foo Fighters show where there were a lot of hardcore fans, and when the opening act, Crushdown, came on, a lot of people started booing them and making fun of the band members. They were a very local Florida band, I don't know if they ever even played anywhere out of the state, and so they really could have used some support, but these a-holes had to keep heckling them the whole time. I really wish all those people could have been kicked out. I mean, you could tell from the looks on the band's faces that they were disappointed--after the show while I was waiting outside to try to meet the Foo Fighters, Crushdown walked out the gate right through the crowd of people waiting, and no one stopped them for autographs or to talk to them or anything, and they were kind of just hanging their heads and not looking at anyone. I felt so bad for them--they weren't even bad, they were really good, and I ended up buying their CD online a few days later after I got home. But it just makes me so angry, because these people really cared about what they were doing, they put a lot of effort into rehearsing and performing and recording their music, and people had to go and crap on them. Even if you don't like the music a local band is playing at a concert, you should still be polite enough to keep it to yourself. A lot of local bands can just barely afford to do what they do, they have regular crappy day jobs like everyone else to pay the bills, and a lot of them are really nice, down to earth people. I've gotten to meet a few local bands, and I know if you're not popular you want to talk to as many people as you can at the shows to promote yourself, but a couple of them even went so far as to dedicate a couple songs to me, give me free CDs even though they needed the money, and offer to listen to some stuff that I had tried recording myself. Another band guy who gave me his email address at a concert has been my pen pal for almost 9 years, at one point the only friend I had to talk to. So my point is, you really can't just crap on local bands just because they're not the one you're there to see. And anyone who does has my vote for being kicked out of a concert with no questions asked.