Annoying Concert Behavior

[SaraBananaBear]

Why would any woman WANT someone to pull their wig off! You have to have a mirror to get those things on correctly, and then when it's off your real hair looks a fright. Apparently Nutini fans are a little Nutini.

Hahaha, my real hair most definitely looked like a fright (never heard that phrase before, will start using it all the time now), it was horrible.

"Looked a fright" is an old-fashioned phrase, Sara, don't use it unless you want to sound like an old person. Like us. 

Yes, he's right. It's something my grandmother used to say. Maybe you can start a trend in Sweden using old southern American idioms. If anyone can make it cool, a wig wearing, beautiful Swedish young woman can.

You're too kind Fully, too kind! I will most definitely make it cool here. I'll say that if the coolest people north of Atlanta uses it, then all Swedes should too!

[SaraBananaBear]

Why would any woman WANT someone to pull their wig off! You have to have a mirror to get those things on correctly, and then when it's off your real hair looks a fright. Apparently Nutini fans are a little Nutini.

Hahaha, my real hair most definitely looked like a fright (never heard that phrase before, will start using it all the time now), it was horrible.

"Looked a fright" is an old-fashioned phrase, Sara, don't use it unless you want to sound like an old person. Like us. 

What is this words mean?

Bork, bork, bork?

[Ruckus]

My top two most annoying would be:

A very drunk woman at a The Tallest Man On Earth concert. My cousin and I had been queuing to get to the rail, but a few songs in this woman elbowed her way to the front and pushed in front of me. I was kind of okay with this, since I could see really well anyway, but then she started to wave her arms around and kept accidentally (I hope) hitting me. A couple next to me got really concerned and kept asking if I was okay and tried to get the woman to stop hitting me. Eventually I asked her to please stop hitting me, which she eventually did. Instead she started shouting at Kristian, commenting on every song and repeatedly asked him to "play a good one" instead. This was a really small stage and she also kept trying to climb up on stage to high five him. Then during Like The Wheel (really beautiful slow song) her phone started ringing and she actually took the call and started talking really loudly. That's when the couple next to had enough and escorted her out. 

During the MMJ set at Latitude festival some Paolo Nutini fans (he was playing after MMJ) were harassing my friends and me. Carl and Tom were on stage doing whatever needs to be done to their instruments before playing, so my friends and I went: woooo hey Carl and Tom! At this point the PN fans started making fun of us for "shounting at the stage guys". When the show started they kept pushing and poking me in the back and kept saying they were annoyed that we wouldn't just stand still. I also had on a big wig for fun and one guy kept pulling at it a little. Eventually he just pulled it off completely and tossed it around to his friends. I'm normally a very nice and calm person, but I turned around and had a serious talk with him. There might have been some slight shouting involved. I got my wig back and the guy's girlfriend came to apologize saying how he hadn't realized I didn't want anyone to pull my wig off and that they were really sorry.

So, don't get too drunk, steal people's spots, yell at the person performing or answer telephone calls and most definitely don't pull anyone's wig off (even if they haven't specifically told you they don't want you to pull it off). 

You are too kind Sara.  I woulda punched these Pablo Nutella turd burglars in the bork bork.  And yes, don't ever say "looked a fright" unless you are ready to explain how tough the 1930s were.

[Fully]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

[nuggets]

[Rizzos Girl]

Oh, talkers during shows.....Shug and I were seeing Wilco at RR last summer for a 2-night run.  We were next to a group of people that seemed pretty cool at first.  During the show, one of the women stood by Shug (I was on the other side of him) and kept talking to him and touching his shoulder during songs.  He politely told her to please not talk during songs, but between songs was okay.  She then would keep apologizing to him during songs, hence still talking.  She wanted him to stop holding my hand so he could cup his ears to hear the sound better.  We finally realized that she must have been hitting on him in a weird way or something. She was being so disrespectful and annoying that Shug finally went off on her as she wasn't getting the message.   I finally switched spots with him. The behavior stopped, except when her group decided to leave early during the encore, she came up and whispered in my ear "fuck you."  If my left ACL wasn't completely torn in half, I would have ran after her and yanked her long hair out of her f@#*ing head.  Most of the encore was spent dealing with this psycho and I wish we could go back in time and re-live that moment differently.  Having cool/like people around ya means so much at a concert.....

Me and Rizzo were at those Wilco shows too and I got into it grabbing seats with a total dick head who practically sat in my lap and wouldn't move over when I told him to make space for my husband who he knew I was with because he was in line behind me! We ended up moving but it ruined my whole night!  We had to watch him and his obnoxious friends all night.  I still get pissed thinking about it.

[SaraBananaBear]

My top two most annoying would be:

A very drunk woman at a The Tallest Man On Earth concert. My cousin and I had been queuing to get to the rail, but a few songs in this woman elbowed her way to the front and pushed in front of me. I was kind of okay with this, since I could see really well anyway, but then she started to wave her arms around and kept accidentally (I hope) hitting me. A couple next to me got really concerned and kept asking if I was okay and tried to get the woman to stop hitting me. Eventually I asked her to please stop hitting me, which she eventually did. Instead she started shouting at Kristian, commenting on every song and repeatedly asked him to "play a good one" instead. This was a really small stage and she also kept trying to climb up on stage to high five him. Then during Like The Wheel (really beautiful slow song) her phone started ringing and she actually took the call and started talking really loudly. That's when the couple next to had enough and escorted her out. 

During the MMJ set at Latitude festival some Paolo Nutini fans (he was playing after MMJ) were harassing my friends and me. Carl and Tom were on stage doing whatever needs to be done to their instruments before playing, so my friends and I went: woooo hey Carl and Tom! At this point the PN fans started making fun of us for "shounting at the stage guys". When the show started they kept pushing and poking me in the back and kept saying they were annoyed that we wouldn't just stand still. I also had on a big wig for fun and one guy kept pulling at it a little. Eventually he just pulled it off completely and tossed it around to his friends. I'm normally a very nice and calm person, but I turned around and had a serious talk with him. There might have been some slight shouting involved. I got my wig back and the guy's girlfriend came to apologize saying how he hadn't realized I didn't want anyone to pull my wig off and that they were really sorry.

So, don't get too drunk, steal people's spots, yell at the person performing or answer telephone calls and most definitely don't pull anyone's wig off (even if they haven't specifically told you they don't want you to pull it off). 

You are too kind Sara.  I woulda punched these Pablo Nutella turd burglars in the bork bork.  And yes, don't ever say "looked a fright" unless you are ready to explain how tough the 1930s were.

So many missed opportunities when it comes to name calling, I see that now...  Thanks for the support, next time I will toughen up and when I'm done with them they'll be the ones that look a fright!

[MrWhippy]

I LOVE this!  Any idea where this is from? 

The Birchmere in Alexandria specifically states that people have to be quiet and not talk when the show is going on, but I don't think I've seen that explicitly stated at any other venue.

On another subject of annoying audience behavior, I swear I am going to kill someone one day when they pull out their stupid phone in the middle of a movie and fiddle with it.  The glow of phones in a dark movie theater is so annoying, and you really can't get through a movie without checking your damn phone, really?

[SaraBananaBear]

On another subject of annoying audience behavior, I swear I am going to kill someone one day when they pull out their stupid phone in the middle of a movie and fiddle with it.  The glow of phones in a dark movie theater is so annoying, and you really can't get through a movie without checking your damn phone, really?

Yes! I get really annoyed by this as well. During one movie I went to a girl took a photo of herself (with flash) and uploaded it to Facebook!

[LD]

Oh, talkers during shows.....Shug and I were seeing Wilco at RR last summer for a 2-night run.  We were next to a group of people that seemed pretty cool at first.  During the show, one of the women stood by Shug (I was on the other side of him) and kept talking to him and touching his shoulder during songs.  He politely told her to please not talk during songs, but between songs was okay.  She then would keep apologizing to him during songs, hence still talking.  She wanted him to stop holding my hand so he could cup his ears to hear the sound better.  We finally realized that she must have been hitting on him in a weird way or something. She was being so disrespectful and annoying that Shug finally went off on her as she wasn't getting the message.   I finally switched spots with him. The behavior stopped, except when her group decided to leave early during the encore, she came up and whispered in my ear "fuck you."  If my left ACL wasn't completely torn in half, I would have ran after her and yanked her long hair out of her f@#*ing head.  Most of the encore was spent dealing with this psycho and I wish we could go back in time and re-live that moment differently.  Having cool/like people around ya means so much at a concert.....

Me and Rizzo were at those Wilco shows too and I got into it grabbing seats with a total dick head who practically sat in my lap and wouldn't move over when I told him to make space for my husband who he knew I was with because he was in line behind me! We ended up moving but it ruined my whole night!  We had to watch him and his obnoxious friends all night.  I still get pissed thinking about it.

I hear ya!  I try not to think about missing most of the encore, but it's hard not to get angry too.  We were just trying to mind our own business and be cool for everyone else around us so they can enjoy the show like we wanted to.  We should have sat together--maybe next time !!!

[LeanneP]

On another subject of annoying audience behavior, I swear I am going to kill someone one day when they pull out their stupid phone in the middle of a movie and fiddle with it.  The glow of phones in a dark movie theater is so annoying, and you really can't get through a movie without checking your damn phone, really?

Yes! I get really annoyed by this as well. During one movie I went to a girl took a photo of herself (with flash) and uploaded it to Facebook!

I did take my phone out during the commercials before The Hobbit recently to take a still of a casino commercial. The government is pushing really hard to put a casino in my downtown, where my kids and I live, and putting commercials before movies in our town is one of the strategies.

I would NEVER, of course, fiddle frivolously with my phone during a movie. I do have to keep it on vibe tho since I live on-call, however. Clients take precedence over movies. I'd leave the theatre to answer the call, however.

[GO4IT]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

Geez, I thought I was old 

[nuggets]

I LOVE this!  Any idea where this is from? 

The Birchmere in Alexandria specifically states that people have to be quiet and not talk when the show is going on, but I don't think I've seen that explicitly stated at any other venue.

from a club called The Luminaire in london

[Fully]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

Geez, I thought I was old 

My soul is many many eons old. I keep messing up and I keep getting reincarnated until I get it right. It's a little like that movie Groundhog Day except with more Buddha.

[Shug]

Fully, are you sure our lives are not more like Defending Your Life?
Defending Your Life - Big Brain

[Fully]

Fully, are you sure our lives are not more like Defending Your Life?
Defending Your Life - Big Brain

Just 9 days. I haven't seen that movie in ages! Thanks for reminding me of it!

[GO4IT]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

Geez, I thought I was old 

My soul is many many eons old. I keep messing up and I keep getting reincarnated until I get it right. It's a little like that movie Groundhog Day except with more Buddha.

You're starting to sound like Jim, and I mean that in a good way.....

[Shug]

Why would any woman WANT someone to pull their wig off! You have to have a mirror to get those things on correctly, and then when it's off your real hair looks a fright. Apparently Nutini fans are a little Nutini.

Hahaha, my real hair most definitely looked like a fright (never heard that phrase before, will start using it all the time now), it was horrible.

"Looked a fright" is an old-fashioned phrase, Sara, don't use it unless you want to sound like an old person. Like us. 

or if you want to sound like Mick Jagger in '73! 

"...on Thursday night, she looked a fright..."

The Rolling Stones - Dance Little Sister (outtake)

[Fully]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

Geez, I thought I was old 

My soul is many many eons old. I keep messing up and I keep getting reincarnated until I get it right. It's a little like that movie Groundhog Day except with more Buddha.

You're starting to sound like Jim, and I mean that in a good way.....

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment although I promise you it's completely unintentional.

[GO4IT]

I'll have you know we made it through the Depression quite well in the South. We had plenty to eat because we grew it all on the farm and we had plenty of meat from all the cows and chickens we raised, young man.

Geez, I thought I was old 

My soul is many many eons old. I keep messing up and I keep getting reincarnated until I get it right. It's a little like that movie Groundhog Day except with more Buddha.

You're starting to sound like Jim, and I mean that in a good way.....

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment although I promise you it's completely unintentional.

Absolutely a compliment!

Jim always makes sense to me, even though I may have to think about it for a moment, just like his music sometimes takes a while before I get it.

If you're sounding like Jim you must be a high flying oracle or something.  We probably should tie a rope around your ankle to make sure you don't drift away into the ether.