Standing at gigs - finally some sense!

I’m kind of stunned by the entitlement of this. Yes it’s unreasonable, of course. I need to sit down and I wouldn’t be able to see if you were in front of me.

I voted BU because it sounds like you’re booking seated tickets and complaining people are sitting whilst you stand. if you love standing, stand, in the standing section. I can’t stand for long periods of time due to my disability and it’s often difficult to book disabled seating (that’s another thread)..so I book seated, and will try enjoy the concert as much as the next person (waving arms, singing etc-I’m no prude) but when everyone who wants to stand books seated tickets to save a few bob and stands up in front of you all night long despite you politely explaining that you need to sit down and can’t see, then those selfish standers ruin it. I went to a biffy concert in January, paid for the best seats I could possibly afford in the seating section and got a lovely view of some drunk persons backside all night, despite asking many times nicely for them to sit down, explaining I was disabled-shocker- I was ignored. It just screams of entitlement “I’ll do what I want because I feel like it, sod everyone else”. Yes people book seating for a variety of reasons, and I get that standing usually gets sold out first, so if everyone on the rows around you is stood then fair enough but if they are not-don’t be that person blocking someone else’s view because you feel like being wavy. It’s not the etiquette and makes you a selfish person. Also, remember that just because someone’s seated doesn’t mean they’re a stick in the mud, you alluded to it yourself that you know that people may need to sit down, so perhaps think on that. If I’d had a £ for every time someone’s said “you don’t look disabled” (🙄), I’d be very rich. No wonder we have to adorn ourselves with sunflowers and blue badges! I think it’s fair to say a good solution to your problem would simply to be on ticket master on release day for your chosen concert and buy yourself some standing tickets so you can mosh/rave with everyone around you.

Fun sucker's? Really? Because they actually want to enjoy the band not have people singing badly and jumping around in front of them. It's you that is the fun sucker.

Yeah I have nimbus access cards, a blue badge, letters from doctors and everything

I’m with OP - the whole point of going to watch live music is to actually dance and sing and enjoy the band. Sadly as lots of bands now only seem to play arena style gigs and charge silly prices the standing tickets sell out quicker as they’re cheaper. I just wish they’d have proper designated seats for people that do genuinely wish to stay seated, for whatever reason they choose, and the tiered seats lower down that people would be made aware that people may stand up in.
I’ve stopped going to stadium/arena gigs now. Drives me mad that I people tutting or even worse talking through the whole set.
I’ve paid my money too!

Thinking back to mainly small informal venues and outdoor festivals in the 1970s-1990s, as I remember, people sat on the floor or the ground listening to live bands or singers. Sometimes people would dance at the sides or the back, or in the mosh pit if there was one, but you were mainly there to see and listen to the band. (Bigger venues that I remember usually had a higher stage, so you could see from further back.) With everyone sitting on the floor, you could see the band no matter where you sat. Standing in front of people sitting was considered selfish.

We danced at discos, or at events with recorded music.

I was really sad in the early 2000s when (in my experience) that generous spirit changed, and a few people would stand, making those behind them stand up so they could still see. Once that started, the change seemed to happen very quickly, and by about 2005 I accepted I’d only ever see a live band again if I was in the front row!

Totally with you on this op. Always try and get standing if possible but these always sell out first.
I try and avoid big arena concerts as much as possible and support live music at my smaller , local venues . Problem solved as many have no seating at all!

Totally agree it’s so strange to sit at a concert and watch as if it’s a movie. Fair enough if that’s what you want to do but don’t expect anyone else to. I am disabled so cannot book standing but would never ever get annoyed about people standing up and enjoying themselves at a music concert, I stand up when I can. I was at kylie years ago and woman behind me moaning that I was standing dancing. I’m not paying that money to sit down. There should be a section for people who do not want to or can’t stand at all and let the rest of the people be able to dance.

Or just accept that people will book tickets to the concert and enjoy it how THEY want to.

Don’t be a dickhead your whole life.

I don't think you can get that for plantar and dodgy knees. I imagine you have to have proof of disability not just the fact that standing for two hours hurts. Edited to apologise for quoting the wording poster.

Im bringing my daughter for her first gig to see him this week.

From what ive seen online it looks good fun.

But I neevr know what to do with myself at a gig im always so awkward!

You can get vertigo standing in the Hydro!

So your way of enjoying a gig is the only correct way to enjoy it, @CatRestaurant? How humble of you. So mature to call people ‘boring arseholes’ simply because they enjoy something a different way to you.

Is it really so hard to understand that it is perfectly possible to enjoy a gig just as much without standing up?

Haha yes I was literally coming here to say that - Saturday for me and we had seats. Not a single person seated.

I do think it’s partly down to who you’re seeing, most of the bands I would want to see have fans who would never choose to stay seated for the whole gig. But we saw Radiohead at the o2 and mostly sat down/danced in seats as it’s not such a mosh/dance vibe. I always try to book standing as I’m a people pleaser and would stay sat down if others around me did even though I would be furious!

If I was in a seated area I would expect people to sit its kinda in the description 😂

As I said the dreary people's alliance of the world is on here in force ... You dont' get extra brownie points becuae your teens "actually study music", they're still fun suckers if they don't want other people to enjoy the music by moving to it. As is traditional. It's not a new thing.

Is that his song for Liam?

There was a video clip last week from Coachella where Sabrina Carpenter brought on Madonna as a special guest to do Like a Prayer as a duet. The crowd was just a sea of stationary people holding phones up. I'm not even much of a Madonna fan but how could you not dance to that?

It doesn't matter. I was in the disabled area and can't stand for long periods. People were still standing in front of us. I just expected that would happen. I can appreciate that people are excited. I just vibed in my seat

Some of us will be joining you there and will applaud at the end of each song and may (quietly) sing along.

Wall of Death is the new mosh pit. Have a look on YT
Not for the feint of heart. You may be surprised that it's not something for young women unless physical injury is their thing.

I'll go in the boring arsehole section please. I was hoping that's what the accessible section was going to be, but it certainly wasn't the case 😅

yes if its on the ticket and made clear. That's a dream. Other younger acts like Raye or Olivia Rodrigo love the phones out. Different age tho

No. It;s a 'concert' which is a more boring sedate affair.