I stood at a concert

I have also had concert tickets saying you must not stand in the seated areas and the ushers enforce you to sit down . It is very much is venue dependant

I went to a concert recently that the organisers said was seated only. About 3 people stood up to dance and the bouncers tried to throw them out. At which point the entire audience stood up! 😀

Most concert tickets (when actual tickets were still a thing) will say on the back “people may stand in front of you” if you go to concerts I think you have to accept that people will stand around you (unless it’s classical where most of the time people remain seated).

I can see both sides of this. So much depends on the band. I'm a great believer in standing up and dancing but unless it's one of those gigs where everyone is up from the off I go by what everyone else is doing and stand up when the people around me stand.
I think the general rule wherever is don't be an arsehole.Try not to block people's view if you can help it.

Apparently it is. It wasn't when I used to go regularly to non classical concerts.

Wasn’t their a mosh pit, why buy a seat if you can buy a standing ticket, or move forward to the mosh pit if you’re blocking someone?

The theatre show? Theatre is definitely seated

I'm going to a gig soon, seated but the tickets say 'please be aware people may stand'

Went to Wembley for Taylor, some stood all of it, some just for the more upbeat songs.

I'd never ask someone to sit, but I would ask the person behind me if they wanted me to sit if I saw they were sitting, but it'd likely make no difference if everyone else is standing

DP is tall, we always try to book end seats so he can lean into the aisle and if standing he would stand to one side slightly.

I was thinking exactly the opposite- when did standing in the seated area becme a thing?

I've seen, for example Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Scissor Sisters , Kaiser Chiefs, Belle and Sebastian in the seating area and people remained seated.

The last non classical concert I was at was The War on Drugs at whatever the big venue in Glasgow currently calls itself in the last couple of years. The seated area remained seated.

I thought seated meant seated, not stand up and dance. I went to see Mamma Mia and we were seated, my friend started dancing and was told to sit back down by the ushers. I wouldn't like it if I had a seat and people were standing. Buy standing if that's what you want.

It's years (and years) since I've been to a concert. I always got a standing ticket if I wanted to move (90% of the time.) If I had a seat, I sat. So did everyone else, except maybe for one or two favourites where everyone stood and went a bit mad. I had no idea anyone would think it was ok to block other people's view for an entire concert. Is that a thing?

I hate it. I book more expensive, tiered seating every time because I am very short and every SINGLE time some arsehole stands in front of me, phone over their head, dancing and jumping from side to side, and completely blocks my view. Ruins it.

If you want to stand, no worries! Get a standing ticket. If you want to sit get a seating ticket. Why are people confused by this?

’hey it’s a concert!’ Is such a shitty thing to say to do someone who likely can’t stand so got a seating ticket, and you’re likely blocking their view to something they likely spent £100s to attend.

I used to love live music. I’d go to concerts every week. Then I moved to London and relieved me of that joy. The audience really do make a difference.

I have been to loads as well and it really has been band dependant. I have seen Bruce Springsteen many times over the last 30 years and pretty much everyone stays seated for 80% of the concert (even when all of us were much younger) but by the end everyone is up and dancing once it got dark (no pun intended!)

if you go to the Hammersmith Apollo when the seats are upstairs and standing downstairs, people tend to stay seating for the most part until the end but even then not always.

bur somewhere like take that in an area where it is all seated, I can see anything goes as a result.

I'd definitely expect people to be standing for a Kings of Leon gig! It's completely normal for people with seats to stand for some or all of a concert, depending on the artist. If they are more acoustic then sitting, but poppier / rockier / dance artists I'd expect most people to stand.

It’s not always that easy. Often you’re assigned tickets by a website and if it’s a super competitive concert if you ask to be reallocated there might be nothing left for you.

YANBU. I go to a lot of concerts, all sorts, standing, seated etc etc. Some there are no standing areas so that isn't always an option. Likewise, if I'm working all day I have no chance of getting any sort of decent view at the O2/wembley if I'm in the standing section, by the time I arrive.

I think it is fair to expect others to stand at a pop/rock concert (not classical/orchestral music!). I always stand and generally find others around me do, sometimes not from the off. Having said that, if I don't want to (I have a bad back/knees), I do appreciate others will, and that might block my view.

Recently went to see Take That with a friend. No standing tickets were sold. They aren't my top band, and I was happy to sit for the most part. The ladies directly in front of us were stood, and were having the time of their lives, blocking our view. My friend was v upset and asked them to sit, which then caused an argument with them. I actually was slightly disappointed that I couldn't see properly, but tbh, they were having such fun, and I figured that that is what I do at other gigs, so I let them get on with it and accepted this happens.

My opinion is that if you go to that sort of event, you should be prepared to have others around you stand. It kills the atmosphere when people don't stand, and I've also discussed this with various band members over the years.

For me, the difference is I only have to stand for the main act. For Eras people were on their feet queuing from 7am, and no chance for a break either to sit or use the loos after 3:00 when you have access or you’ll lose your spot. At something like Eras when everyone is standing, having the person in front of you stand will only mean both of you have a more restricted view, because there’s no chance the whole block will sit unless stewards enforce it as sitting only. I’d support seated only blocks, but standing from your seats at pop concerts is normal.

I don't go to concerts because of people like the OP.

Serious main character syndrome going on here.

It depends on the day, the crowd but mostly the artist imho. I’ve mainly sat down for acts with older fans or if it’s not music to dance to. No one is sitting down for Liam Gallagher or Girls Aloud or acts like that though. I’ve never been in an arena for a gig where people do sit in seating the whole show - I’m really surprised how many people seem to be expecting this as a norm. I wouldn’t expect to sit for Kings of Leon but I’m not a massive fan so I would sit out the ones I don’t know and accept I’d be looking at people's backs.

I'm disabled, but not disabled "enough" not to sit in the standard seats. I can't stand for a whole gig. If you wanted to stand, you could have got standing tickets and not ruined someone else's view.

I go to lots, and I book in the standing section. If I had to book on the seated section I would only stand if I wasn’t going to obstruct someone else’s view

If I want to stand, which I prefer I book a standing ticket.
On the occasions when I've needed to book a seat (injury, with someone who can't stand, late pregnancy) I want to sit in my seat and see the thing I've paid to see not the back of someone who couldn't get a standing ticket.

Not sure how old you are but I am old. Used to go to lots of concerts when I was young and everyone stood who had seats from the start back then, now it doesn't seem to be a thing until near the end when etiquette seems to allow!!
I prefer to get standing tickets now if I go so I also have a chance of seeing the band as larger venues are so huge, seated tickets are miles away now as well 😞