So I saw Leftfield last night at the Academy – very good,new stuff complemented the older material.

But annoyingly I found myself watching other members of the audience and “their ways”

1. First track of the night- a new track from the new album. Must have been 20 phones up in the air videoing…very distracting.
2. This sparked off a 50 something year old women (age irrelevant), shouting w@nkers/put your f’ckin phones down etc. to all of them constantly through the first said track. For me, double distracting.
3. 6.5″ guy(height was relevant)going to the bar 3 times during gig to buy 3 pints of beer on each visit(pi5s served in O2’s in my opinion), barging through & back to the front with the 3 pints…can’t anyone go 1-2 hours without a drink?
4. Girl 5.2″ blonde bob (height and hairstyle irrelevant)constantly talking and walking around within 20 yards ALL through the gig.

gig etiquette. maybe I’m getting old, miserable & intolerant.

maybe I’m getting old, miserable & intolerant.

Apart from that. How was the gig?

Shouldn’t you have too been ripped to the tits on drink and drugs and ‘having it’ to notice? If not I fear you may have wasted your evening.

The phone thing is bloody annoying. I go to gigs to see the band, not a sea of brightly glowing 5″ screens with wee pictures of the band.

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I’m off to see Leftfield tomorrow night and my plan is to be

ripped to the tits on drink and drugs and ‘having it’

I agree on the talking thing. I went to see Bonobo in Birmingham last year and the amount of people gossiping was ridiculous (too much cheap Charlie perhaps?) At one point I turn round to a bloke and told him to either shut up or **** off. His girlfriend told me I was being rude. I replied that they were being rude by ruining a gig I had paid good money to see and if they wanted to waste their own ticket money they could do it somewhere else.

I took a tall person to a gig at the Brizzle Academy recently. It was his first time there whereas I’ve been loads. I had an email asking me not to bring him again. Too awkward and clumsy and generally getting in everyone’s way. Jeez. I don’t fancy telling him. 😐

EDIT: LOLz at Rockhopper’s vid. That was at the start of the gig. 😀

Do you see Leftfield to listen or watch or do you go to dance. I must be getting old.

Shouldn’t you have too been ripped to the tits on drink and drugs and ‘having it’ to notice? If not I fear you may have wasted your evening.

This.. Perhaps Leftfield have gone a bit over the OP’s head!? 😯

Do what we do at the Academy- go upstairs with the old people & watch from the balcony. Good view, room to move around, not quite so loud 🙂

What is it with big venues and shit beer? We went to the Hippodrome for some comedy a few weeks ago and all that was on offer was Magners or Carling.

gig etiquette. maybe I’m getting old, miserable & intolerant.

It is quite apparent that you’ve reached an age where you’d be happier listening to Leftfield, sat at home, under candlelight, with a can of Skol. Followed by a good cup of tea before bed.

What is it with big venues and shit beer?

I don’t think they need a range of real ales to draw the crowds in. The bands do that. Once you’re there, you’ve no choice. Lightly flavoured alcoholic soda water, or nothing. That’ll be £4.50 please 🙂

Very good point.

Yeah, the academy serves shite!

Never been tio the Hippodrome. Never going either. 😀

At least Colston Hall serves Bath Ales now – but they fleece you for them. Thekla has a great selection of beers. Darwin Deez tickets just came up for there, so I might well go.

I took a tall person to a gig

How was the view from between my legs?

the picturedome in Holmfirth serves Timothy Taylor, i was drunk,…best band in the world were playing too..

good night.

How was the view from between my legs?

Can’t remember. I was too busy warning everyone to give you lots of space.

well i had a great time there, but then i was down the front where there was much more room, dancing like a loon and grinning at all the other, lovely people dancing their legs off. i thought the crowd etiquette was superb. it was bloody hot though

except for one really grumpy bloke, stood on the stairs complaining that people wanted to walk past….was that you?

The only way is to get down the front at gigs these days. So you can’t see all the dicks with their phones and away from the gabbering idiots who can’t shut the f up.
So many people seem to go to gigs just to tell/show other people they were there. And other reasons I don’t understand.
It certainly isn’t for the music.
Baffling, why you’d waste money on a ticket then talk all the way through. Baffling how you’d have no consideration for other people who have paid to see the band.
😕

Big Jeff to the thread please! You don’t see him waving his phone around or spilling his pint on you.

6.5″ guy

Tom Thumb?

You’re going to the wrong kind of gigs mate, go see Slayer the next time they tour and you’ll find a refreshing lack of such behaviour, mainly because anyone attempting to do so within 50 metres of the stage is immediately flattened by the hundred or so loons running round in a circle.

You are getting old miserable and intolerant but I have to agree with you
Groups of young lasses these days don’t seem to be present in the moment at all yapping on all the way through stuff
bah where’s me slippers

1. It’s better than lighters and getting your hair set on fire.

2. Tell her to shut up.
🙂

3. Nowt you can do, it’s a gig.
Thirsty work innit?

4. They should be shot.
Last Billy Bragg gig ruined by uninterested partners chatting loudly all the way through.
Until someone asked them politely to shut up.

They should be flogged.
Or escorted to a nearby pub, at gunpoint.

What kind of volume do these gigs have??!! How the hell can you hear gossip over the noise of the band?

I saw Leftfield back in the day, probably the loudest gig I’ve ever been to, not sure how you’d hold a conversation!

I’m hoping the system at The Forum is cranked up to 11 tonight. It’s not a proper night if you can hear the next day.

Agree with most of the OP’s points but the carrying beer thing is just something to be tolerated- an eternal problem that will never be solved but you can’t really expect people not to drink at a gig

Maybe I was going to a different type of gig when I was young – I can’t imagine trying to talk over the volume of the music. Some bands needed earplugs even to stand at the back.

I saw Leftfield at Glastonbury in 2000. The main thing I noticed was the stench of weed in the air… I think there was a higher % of dope than oxygen!

I remember the days when feet sticking to the floor from the amount of beer down there was a ‘good thing’. These days I’m a bit more like the OP and I’d prefer a comfy chair 🙂

Hiding from the bottles of piss and sand flying overhead at Metallica at Donnington in 1995 was ‘fun’. Even better when my mate was hit by a flying slice of watermelon.

I knew I was getting old when I put earplugs in when I went to see Motorhead a few years ago. Unlike when I was a student, I had to be able to hear when I went to work the next day…

Going to see the antics of people like Iggy Pop and Ozzy make me realise it’s my own choice to get old and grumpy!

4. Girl 5.2″ blonde bob (height and hairstyle irrelevant)constantly talking and walking around within 20 yards ALL through the gig.

If it was possible to either have a conversation or be pissed off by somebody else talking the music wasn’t loud enough for a leftfield gig, I’d expect to feel the base vibrating every part of me to the point where I felt my ear drums were going to explode while dancing. What was everyone else there for?

Remember having seats at one gig and the row in front stood up and had to be told to fu***ng sit down .If they want to stand go in the standing area ?

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The Forum was rammed last night and if people were chatting it wasn’t bothering me. I was too busy down the front dancing like a dad for the entire show.