Gig Positivities for Negative people

 

So after my pet peeves I thought I would tell you why I love attending gigs and attend as many as I can each year.

 

Gigs normally mean New album release. I love listening to new music from bands. I love having new favourites and new lyrics to relate to.

 

The build up / countdown

I am that annoying person that will countdown to any concert. I will also try and find out everything I can about support acts and  the order they have played songs at other gigs.

 

The atmosphere

Those last minutes before the main act comes on and everyone is waiting for the band they love to start playing.

 

Your favourite song.

The moment your favourite song is played or the song you and your friend relate to or love the most starts playing. I love that moment. I love how it is changed and how live music may change the meaning or feeling of a song.

 

New people.

Meeting other fans. I like interacting with other people about how far they have come or their favourite song. At the gig I have just attended myself and Rich saw someone we saw at another gig in Cardiff in November.

                                                                      New parts of the country.
Gigs take you all over the country to different towns and cities. It's like a mini adventure. The travel to get there listening to the back catalogue of their repertoire, then the build up to the gig.

                                                                     Merchandise.
The discovering of a new band. The support act. This means a new CD and a new band to listen to and love .

                                                            Songs you never knew.
Hearing the band play songs that you have never heard. I enjoy this as hearing them live gives them life. The bands meaning and emotion and it gives you something to go away and listen to and think of.

                                                             The instruments/ chords
Rich plays the guitar and he always gazes admiringly at the array of instruments he will never be able to afford. He also watches them play certain songs that he has been learning to see if he has been learning them correctly.

                                                       Being able to tick bands off your list.
I love looking back at all the bands I have seen live and how I loved the gigs and experiences. I think the venues and the set lists affect the experience you have. Kings of Leon have been one of my favourite gigs. That was held at the Milton Keynes Bowl. That venue claims to hold 60,000 people.


                                        There we have it. 10 reasons why I love gigs.

                                        Thanks again for reading my blog
                                                Until next time.
                                                  xoxo.

Gig Negativities for positive people

 

 

 

 

This blog post came to me earlier this week as I was standing in the 02 academy in Birmingham waiting for a gig to start. I don't normally like writing negative posts but this is just a pet peeves blog.

Everybody has their own and here are some of mine just for gigs.

 

Queues

So they normally start outside then they reappear at the bar, oh and the toilet and again at the merch stands. I'm not the most patient person but I understand there are a lot of people wanting the same service.

 

Tall people

Now I'm being picky but if you are particularly tall the middle of the stage near the front is not the best place for you to stand. I'm 5 foot 7 and still struggle to see over tall people at gigs.

 

Lighting

Blue lighting is my pet hate when trying to get photos of the band it just plays with my phone; it hates it. Although if I'm just watching it doesn't annoy me.

 

Natural lighting and white lighting are better for photos.

Other lighting that annoys me at the gig is 5 people around you that constantly have their phones out texting or replying to emails or whatever they may be doing.

 

Small venues like the one in Birmingham seem to amp up the volume of the crowd. This meant another of my pet peeves were amplified. Talking through the acts. Now I know they may only be a support act but I don't want to know who is seeing who, I'd  rather listen to the  band.

 

'That couple'

That one couple that forget they are in the middle of a room of people and act like they are in the privacy of their own room.

 

The Drunk

I don't mean don't drink. I mean the drunk that is out of control has knocked your drink into you twice and looks like they are going to spew and it's only the support act on stage.

 

The Old school fans.

They have known the band since they played their first gig. The new stuff is okay but don't you know any of their old stuff? You're missing out!

 

Merchandise

When you take it home and realise that after a week it has become a very expensive piece of house clothing. The date plastered over it means a year on you definitely can't wear it out.

 

Tickets

So instead of postage and packaging we now print off the tickets meaning my keepsakes are now A4 and don't pin nicely to a corkboard like they used to.

 

Lastly Seating.

If standing runs out I tend to get the worse seat in the house. Behind the stage, or up in the rafters, or just out of eye shot of the screens.

 

 

 

Do you have any pet peeves at gigs?

Any that are different to mine ?

 

I guess some of you are wondering why I attend gigs.

 Look out for my next post that explains just that!

 

thanks for reading.

 

until next time.

 

xoxo.