Dear Annoying Concert Goers:
Here are a few pointers to keep the people in front of you at the show from losing their shit, turning around, and belting you in the eyeball:
- Do not be a man screaming "I LOVE YOU JAMES" 15 times at full volume throughout the show. It was barely humourous the first time. The next 14 times were just...annoying.
- Do not sing at the top of your lungs when nobody else is. We paid money to listen to James Blunt, not you.
- Do not light up a cigarette and hold it below your waist (and out of your view) while dancing. You burn holes in people's pants, and that just isn't cool.
- There is plenty of space so there is no need to stand so close that you're practically ass-humping me. Move back 1/2 a step.
- As a super tall couple, please stand one in front of the other to canoodle, instead of side by side so your big siamese-esque heads aren't blocking half the stage for the rest of us.
- Do not bring a giant, knit, hippy purse full of your crap and flail it around so it hits the ass of the people in front of you 200 times. Leave that shit at home. You're at a 2-hour freakin' concert, you don't need the kitchen sink with you.
- Draft beer is a bad idea at a crowded concert. Stick to bottles so it doesn't spill on me.
Thanks!
15 Comments:
At March 14, 2006 12:47 PM, Heather B. said…
Where was the concert at?
At March 14, 2006 1:10 PM, Kathryn Is So Over said…
I really was gonna throttle that bitch and/or punch her in the eyeball if she touched my ass or arm one more time, or sang louder than James one more time. It takes a lot to make me angry, and she was pushing every last limit and grating every last nerve.
At March 14, 2006 2:21 PM, Anonymous said…
How on Earth can you leave out:
Do not hold your camera phone up for 50% of the concert taking grainy pictures or video footage. It is effing annoying and really, I don't care how big of a fan you are, what loser goes home and saves those pics to cherish forever and ever, or shows his friends that wow, she really DID see Coldplay!
After being 6 rows from the stage at Coldplay and having the show damn near ruined by the two 19 year olds so cracked out that one of them kept wandering off only to be called by her friend yelling "WHERE ARE YOU?!", continuously spilling beer on the seats in front of them, damn near lezzing out during the "emo" songs (ok, that part was cool), and best of all, watching one take a prescription pill bottle from her purse and dump the contents into her friends eager pudgy hands, I have decided I'm too old for live pop music.
At March 14, 2006 2:24 PM, Michelle at Hey Love Designs said…
All I gotta say is any concert I've been to recently I swear it was a big ol high school party. Hopefully you didn't have to experience a bunch of 16 years olds being obnoxious and taking advantage of not being around mom and dad. Dude, this drunk girl passed out at the last Jack Johnson concert and her friends didn't care!
At March 14, 2006 2:24 PM, DC Cookie said…
ACK!!! You're right! Flash photography is SO lame! The pictures barely turn out anyway. IDIOTS!
At March 14, 2006 2:25 PM, DC Cookie said…
Thankfully this show was at the 9:30 club, so everyone had to be 21 and over...
At March 14, 2006 2:27 PM, Kathryn Is So Over said…
I forgot how angry I was about the assholes taking flash photos. Poor James was blinking and squinting. Jerks.
At March 14, 2006 3:12 PM, DC Cookie said…
Ack! Maybe that's why the kids behind us were so annoying. I just figured they were drunk.
At March 14, 2006 3:23 PM, Phil said…
I fear I am truly becoming an old man because I've grown to despise going to concerts that are 'general admission' shows.
Whereas I use to love to get close to the action, now it is all I can do to prevent myself from killing the person you describe.
Now, I prefer to hang back by the sound-board, where everyone is in front of me, and only the sound mixer behind me.
At March 14, 2006 3:33 PM, Anonymous said…
Wait, Coldplay has songs that aren't emo?
At March 14, 2006 3:42 PM, DC Cookie said…
H&J - say hi next time!!
At March 14, 2006 3:54 PM, Anonymous said…
but it was nice
At March 14, 2006 4:58 PM, Drunken Chud said…
man, you just described everything i like to do at concerts. i mean, it's not "spilling" beer, it's "sharing".
At March 15, 2006 9:57 AM, DC Cookie said…
Click here, Page 31.
At March 15, 2006 8:11 PM, Drunken Chud said…
nice cookie.
Post a Comment
<< Home