Rules for concerts
 

This is too good a post to be allowed to get lost in the Non-SY fans wearing Goo tshirts thread that it was originally posted in:


Does anyone have any other rules that they would care to add?

(PS - Don't forget to click the link to the original post and rep Bytor Peltor)

There is theoretically a person-sized space between me and the person in front of me. This does not mean you get to squish in and stand there. Keep on walking, pal.

have fun. even when the concert is bad, you can still laugh at the band.

Oh, and loud talkers during quiet parts really need to just take it the fuck outside, already. Some of us want to listen to some goddamned music.
And if we can hear you during the loud parts as well, just don't ever leave your fucking house, OK?

Yeah, don't be "that guy." Because more often than not, "that guy" also sweats.

use deo! very important.

There is a good chance "that guy" has no shirt on as well.

don't push and elbow me when i'm up front so
you can squeeze in with me. get there early if
you want up front so badly.

making out at shows...people who seem to always find the exact center of the place where everyone can see them and all they do is swap spit. don't be those people.

If you feel like attending gigs just to voice your opinions on the bands, be prepared to have death-wishes on your vocal cords by people who are there to listen and not being listened to.

don't treat a gig like a fashion show.

And he's 6 and a half feet tall and you just want to strangle the life out of him.

if in a mosh pit, be a courteous mosher, help people up, and don't punch people, you'll get beat the fuck up and miss half of slayer's set, haha that guy was crying when they hauled him out "but but but, i didn't hear raining blood yet, nooooooooooo" dumbass

Keep your shirts/shoes on unless its an outside gig.
Tall guys get to the back.
No public displays of affection, save it till you get home.

Exactly.

Dont shout out fucking wiseass comments, If the band likes them, than youre most likely to get a songlist but if they dont its stupid.

don't eat anything to garlicky or messy during the show, at the Roundhouse in London they sell popcorn, pizza and these falafel filled pita bread things. Strange!

don't shout for freebird and/or the most famous song the band plays (don't shout for kool thing if seeing sonic youth, don't shout for creep if seeing radiohead, etc.).

shouting for obscure songs, even though you'll get stared down by everyone around you, is permisable.

if you are attending a cat power concert, do not get more drunk than chan, or there will be consequences

reminds me of when i went to ozzfest, some dude smashed his face in minutes into atreyu's set (yes, atreyu) at like 10:30 am and when the moshing wasn't particularly violent. they took him away in an ambulance...dude paid $100 to see 1 and a half bands.

warning warning, don't shout out Freak Scene at a Dinosaur Jr. show

Lou Barlow may get sardonic:rolleyes:

do not punch the lead singer in the face (even if it's not intended).

people will point at you and glare. :(

can't improve on that except maybe substitute the clause about not leaving the house for "just die a painful death, motherfucker"

hey, I am 6'1 and I will stand wherever the FUCK I want. That being said, there are responsabilities that come with it if you are taller than those around you.

rules-
1-protect the shorter people around you from the flailing feet and bodies of the crowdsurfers. (this can be a bitch because as the tallest in a group of people you get your head hit first if you do not duck. It HURTS.

2-If you are near the front, and you have people between you and the stage barrier, you must try to keep those people from getting crushed by the surge of the crowd.

3- I second the rule saying, unless you have not heard the band's new material, do not play their music before the show! Go in fresh!

4-when someone is passing around a joint, please be quick and discreet in hitting it and passing it along.

5-If you are at a band's show just so you can complain about how much they suck, or how they used to be good but they suck NOW, or how they are old, then go the fuck home. GO HOME!

6-(I have seen this happen) If you are near the front and people are crowdsurfing, do NOT grab their feet and wrench their ankles. MOVE ASIDE if they are bothering you.




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if you play in another band and/or are famous, try to stand either as far back as you can from the band or as close as possible. it's THEIR gig, don't steal their show.

Don't be a friend of the band out to punish anyone who looks slightly bored by your mate's music. For as long as it's only a bored face, there should be peace amongst humans.

don't know about this shit but @ sy concernts i always shout for death valley 69 even when they are taking requests and they never play it-- bastards!!

i shouted for psychic hearts when chan marshall was taking requests and everyone around me stared like if to say "pfft! can't you just tell her to play wonderwall?"

i always shout sy to play inhuman.

as an addendum to that: it's bad form to tell the guys selling t-shirts "yeah, I'm (with/work for/related to) [so & so]" in hopes of scoring free shit.

if you get recognized by them, then cool. otherwise shut yr pie hole.

thats discrimination

if you work on the "inside" of the music business (work for the label, are a journalist, are a producer, etc.), blend the fuck in. no one is going to think you are cool because of your job, chances are, people will try to maim you if they figure out what you do for a living.

Dont--Dont be dressed as a goth and go to a punk show.

Do-- Go to an emo concert as a suicide bomber

when you get your drink, you take a big first drink so you don't have to walk around the place with overflowing cups/glasses. likewise, cigarrettes are pointed YOUR way.

and don't leave that bottle/cup/glass over there, it's going to fall down.

i like this thread. Post more rules.

actually, it's gig etiquette to not buddy up with the merch guy, if it's not a question like "how much?" or "do you have it in x size?" then you don't ask the merch guy anything personal. the only exceptions are a) he/she starts a conversation with you or b) you actually know the merch guy by name and have seen him/her on the other side of the table.

if you have to rely on yr mother to give you a ride to the show in her minivan, ask her to drop you off a block away so that you can walk to the line.

otherwise, you will be laughed at.

(please note: this rule also applies to church busses)

I hear you man.

they should hang these rules up at the door.

too many people are clueless.

wrong & wrong & wrong. merch people are people not drones. treat them like persons, not vending machines.

last animal collective show we went we bought practically the whole merch table & told him we lived in the sticks & had no access to record stores. he gave us a free baggie (valued at $15) so we could carry all our shit.

btw, in this deerhoof show satomi herself was running the merch table before the show. how fucking cool is that? oh and @ les georges leningrad they were doing it themselves as well we hung out a bit they were awesome.

so anyway... i Do see your point though when there are hordes of people though, gets overwhelming.

when you go to see smaller bands, especially when they are on tour, PAY FOR YOUR FUCKING TICKET/DRINKS/MERCH; no matter how long you've been friends with anyone, if the band (or in specific cases, the promoter, bartender or merch guy) doesn't offer you to be on the guest list/free drinks/a promo of their album, you don't ask them for one yourself. support (real) indie bands.

(again, this one goes with what floatingslowly said above).

HAHAHAHA!

I'll be making my wife read that later. :p

another good call, and this one hits close to home.

You couldn't say anything actually, even in breaks in between songs, they're too loud.

I wish I could see them live.

Go Dinosaur!