I stood at a concert

"So why not make a large, solely seated accessible area for everyone who wants it to use? Officially disabled people, people in poor health and older people could all use it and there would be no need to restrict access to it because it wouldn't be popular. If there was the occasional healthy person who wants to use it then that wouldn't be a problem because it wouldn't be seen as a perk and wouldn't get full."

Because it wouldn't get full, as you point out. And these concerts are a sell out. I'm sorry but the majority want to get up and dance and that is allowed and expected then that's what will happen. And it's what should happen.

If tall people stand in front of you in the standing section you can move .. you can’t just change seat.

i think if you want to stand and dance you should get a standing ticket, not buy a seated ticket then stand in front of someone for the whole show, it’s selfish.

if you want to stand up from your seat then at least make sure you aren’t blocking anyone’s view, especially someone who may have a problem with standing themselves for a long time, it’s just basic manners.

"Bon Jovi in concert in the 90s....that takes me back. teenage me saw them a few times, they were at their best then and everyone was up and dancing. 🎸 💃"

Them were the days. Amazing. The fireworks and huge wobbly things at the side of the stage. Nobody sat down the whole night. Amazing

Nothings changed. It's a concert, stand and dance with the rest of them!

I'll admit that my experience of large music gigs is almost non existent but it seems to me that the venues could sort this issue out so easily.

It's undeniably normal to stand up and dance at a music gig. Even if you don't go to them, that's clear from tv and social media.

What this thread shows is that very few people who go to these big gigs want to sit down. It's more that they have to sit or partially sit due to their health and/or age.

So why not make a large, solely seated accessible area for everyone who wants it to use? Officially disabled people, people in poor health and older people could all use it and there would be no need to restrict access to it because it wouldn't be popular. If there was the occasional healthy person who wants to use it then that wouldn't be a problem because it wouldn't be seen as a perk and wouldn't get full.

Bon Jovi in concert in the 90s....that takes me back. teenage me saw them a few times, they were at their best then and everyone was up and dancing. 🎸 💃

It doesn't seem as if the audience agree with you on that one...
go to about 3mins in, pretty much everyone standing..

Possinass
What if there isn't standing tickets? For example take that at the 02 in April.

Then it’s a seated gig and no one stands up. Surely that’s obvious?

Seriously?????
I can't imagine what gigs you go to.

My first concert was Bryan Adams in the late 90s, we were in the seated area and dancing along with pretty much everyone else. It's certainly not new!

Same with Spice girls, Taylor Swift, Take That, Steps, Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, The Hoosiers, Stereophonics, Oasis, Alanis Morrisette, Blondie, The Killers and many more

At every concert I have ever been to most people in the seated sections stand up for the majority of the concert. YANBU op.

We were standing over 3 decades ago @Borborygmus

Skunk Anansie and Bon Jovi. The stands were bouncing back in the 90s

I must admit it's several decades since I last went to a concert, but I don't recall ever seeing people standing in a seated area. Things have clearly changed!

so, they weren't sitting throughout?
You've posted multiple times on this thread ranting about how completely selfish anyone who stands at a concert is.
Unless it's your daughters, then it's okay?

This is literally the most ridiculous thing I have read on Mumsnet! Yep, I'm sure artists would love it if 80% of Wembley stadium (for example) got evicted and only the seated were left

Most people go to HEAR the artist and enjoy the atmosphere, the likelihood of seeing much in a 90,000 capacity stadium is slim. Unless you are next to the stage, the artists themselves are tiny figures in the distance, and most are watching the screens anyway

This actually causes fights at football games. I always mindful of people behind me but depends on the band. Not as selfish as sitting on someone’s shoulders at Glastonbury. That is really selfish,

"I meant they had seats that’s all. No one challenged me. You wouldn’t have the brains. Asswipe."

🤣🤣🤣 wtf is wrong with you?

Asswipe 🤣 fucking killing myself here. Are you actually the 12 year old kid?

😂 Go and have an early night now will you. Fool.

Yeah you said kids "god love em" can't go in the standing area so they "have to sit". Then rambled on about how disappointed they'd be if some "selfish person" stood in front of them at the Eras tour.

You were soon challenged about the fact everyone stood, kids included and said clearly. Yes, my kids were there. SEATED 🤣

Backtracked when I put a picture of lots of standing people and then got a bit mad.

Why?

In a minority of two 😂

what's that got to do with the price of fish? Nobody has suggested that seated tickets don't exist, just that it's normal to stand up and dance when you are in them?
You don't need live video footage of your daughters to prove that the biggest arena in Ireland does in fact have seats.
So....were your daughters sat stationary and unmoving in those seats for 4 hours or did they get up and dance?

Yep. My kids were there. No need for Google. Why is it weird?

Standing people in seated areas are why I no longer go to gigs.

In the period between 'able to stand at gigs' and 'full time wheelchair user' I needed a seated ticket. All those standing ruined my gig experiences, I stopped going.

I did start going again once I was a wheelchair user, but so many poorly organised gigs where wheelchair users were dumped in the crowd so we were a hazard to others, and ourselves AND couldn't see has put paid to that too.

Enjoy your gigs you standing, able bodied folks, but if you must stand, book a standing ticket? It isn't difficult, its quite a good system really... seats for sitting in, no seats for standing up.

Can you repost where someone said everyone was sitting at Taylor Swift please? Would like to see it. Pretty sure no one said it.

Would any of the sitters here actually go to find a staff member and complain that the person in front of them was standing dancing and blocking their view?

I am guessing not, because you know they'd laugh in your face. Because it's completely normal and accepted.

"um, have you SEEN the taylor swift concerts? that child would be up screaming and dancing themselves!"

Noooo, they were all sitting meekly at Dublin. Not a person stepped from their seat. Allegedly 🤣

A bit like FF and SS at Glasgow. Not