Standing at gigs - finally some sense!

I'm seeing Louis tomorrow and have a floor ticket.
I gave up on seats partially because of this, I don't want to sit politely and clap at the end.
I'll be singing my heart out and jumping around.
He's absolutely amazing 👏 🤩

I hate it when people stand in the seated area, buy a standing ticket (which i often do), its ok near the end or for one or two songs but it really pisses me off if someone stands throughout. Actually i was at a MUSE gig where a group persistently stood and danced in the aisle/steps- Security removed them after a couple of warnings!
I've been to two gigs this month - one standing and one all seated. At the seated one people stood for the encore songs and were also permitted to go down to the edge of the stage, no one stood before then. It was excellent. Yes we danced, sang, clapped and waved our arms in our seats.
When my son was younger we always HAD to go seated and this is even more annoying if someone stands up. I once just asked if we could swap seats if they were going to stand throughout- fortunately they did. Unfortunate for the people behind though!

I suppose I'm just considerate of other people around me. So I wouldn't stand in a seated area and neither does anyone else.

Someone else said Birmingham seems to be quite strict and that's my closest big city so where I tend to go and they do tell people in seated areas to sit down if they stand.

I generally go to see old punk bands, so very loud and a bit raucous but no one stands in the seating areas. And, if they want to, they move to a space where they're not blocking anyone's view.

I just can't imagine intentionally blocking the view of someone who has bought a seated ticket as they generally have done so for a reason.

Lol!

I saw Evanescence at the Royal Festival Hall in 2018. That was all sitting and no one did any standing or dancing from what I recall. Totally different vibe to when I saw them in 2012, 2017 and 2022. No mosh pits though. 😆

‘The majority of people attending a concert enjoy standing and want to stand for the performance’

Your OP suggests otherwise.

I think if you’ve found you’re in the minority when choosing to do those things for a chunk of the gig when most others are seated, your assumption is incorrect and ‘you’re the asshole’.

It’d be best for venues to make their policy clear pre booking and for security to apply it.

Whatever the policy is there will be idiots. At gigs have witnessed and experienced violence from men and verbal abuse from men and a couple of times women. Spoiling things.

I went to see kneecap on Friday night. There was no one sitting ! Lively crowd, hands in the air and singing along for those who know Irish

Personally I think they should offer a choice of standing and seating areas when you book, then there is no excuse for standing in the seated area, and no excuse to moan about standing in the standing area.

My choice would be to sit but I am middle aged with bad feet.

This a million times. Why pay for a ticket? You could do all that in front of your tv at home , leaving other people to see and listen to the artist whose music they love and who they have paid through the nose to hear sing.

Because that is why most people go to a concert, to enjoy live music that has been rehearsed and soundchecked, not to listen to some drunk woman who is flailing her arms about as though she has been stung by wasps and is both mangling the lyrics and singing out of tune.

I told her not to swear at me ( I swear like a navvy but not at someone) she said or f’kin what ? Along with her finger again. I said …. Watch me stand up for the entirety of this concert, which I did. The rest of my row heard the whole ridiculous episode and stood up with me 🤣

@StacksOfSnacks
At the last few gigs Ive been to, the singers have sat down at times.
Ive been going to see some bands since the 1980s.

But in answer to your question - no I don't sit mute with my arms crossed. I do what my son refers to as ' dancing my head', I can sway in my seat, I sing but quietly as I dont want to ruin anyone else's evening.
There are many ways to enjoy music

People pay to see/hear the act not you waving your arms around and screeching fondly imagining you've got talent but probably not and not giving a shit. It's really disappointing.

Says the person who can’t seem to understand her behaviour yuks on people who can’t or doesn’t want you behave the same as you in the seating section of concerts.

I physically can’t shout and scream due to a severe lung disease. I also physically can’t stand up for more than a few mins at a time, the same physical disability stops me having my arms in the air too.

I’m going to my first concert in 20 years, accessible seating was impossible to get, standing was all that’s left for most of the dates which I can’t do. An extra date was added and I was very lucky and managed to get seated and I know realistically there will be people standing, I hope I do actually get to see some of the show, but a big part of me worries I’m gonna end up pissing off people around me or be accused as treating the concert like a David Attenborough documentary by people like you.

Better or worse depends on your own point of view and preferences though...

They put that on but very often if people do, they often object to it.

They supply seats as many wheelchairs have carers.
You would need to be early as the platform is generally flat and wheelchairs would be higher than the seats so if you're behind a wheelchair you may not see much.

Standards change, society hopefully evolves to get better. People sometimes try and keep it worse, but slowly they die off.

I think it very much depends on the concert. A classical one, remain seated.

Birmingham I have travelled to for concerts can be very OTT about dancing. Some poor souls were dancing in the aisle once and got ticked off. This was just after Covid and nobody I could see was complaining. I thought they needed to lighten up a bit.
Another concert there was Ronnie Wood. Everyone just stood up and danced. They couldn’t tell the whole place to sit down !

There have been concerts where it feels stifling to sit still. Unnatural. And one band I went to see complained ‘it is like a library in here’. I really hope the band knows about the no dancing rules.

One thing I do wish the officials would do at the venues is shut up talkers. During a quiet song. I had some woman rabbiting behind me once during a really slow, quiet song. So ignorant.

It is a balance. And I am not sure they entirely get it right.

Maybe they should put "please be aware the volume is loud at a concert" 😂

https://help.wembleystadium.com/support/solutions/articles/7000028419

This is a link to what you need. It asks that you have a nimbus card i think (similar to o2). There are proper seats but these are scattered about if i remember correctly and nothing stopping someone standing in the rows in front of them.

This is bizarre.
If you are sure that 95% stands, why do you start the thread? Just stand with everyone else.

However, there are different types of concerts and audiences, some are more sit down and it is very annoying when everyone stays seated and someone obtuse decides to perform "a proper gig goer", stand up and wave their hands around. It is soo attention seeking and looks dumb.

So I can't go to a gig with my DH or my DC?

So you choose an area on an incline so you can see, but to hell with a person seated behind you that now can’t see?