Standing at gigs - finally some sense!

Was at YungBlud on Friday night and he was telling people to stand up, stand on seats, even get on shoulders. Thats how a concert should be in my opinion !

That’s mean. Some of us are capable of just enjoying music without the need to jig about.

Who decided concert etiquette had to be standing? It’s stupid and ableist. Just because a few obnoxious people don’t care about the people around them, everyone else has to struggle.

you are acting like it’s not fun to enjoy a concert while seated. Your way is not inherently better.

If you want to stand then book a standing ticket. If you book a ticket in a seated area then you remain seated because if you stand then people behind you can’t see.

I agree there should be a section for people who want to sit and only sit. Usually standing tickets are the hardest to get, if I end up in seated I want to stand up and dance! The show would be ruined for me if the person behind was sitting because I would have to sit too.

Its not that much different though. If you buy a seated ticket, then people who actually need to be seated are going to have their evening ruined by you standing and blocking them. It's a little thoughtless on your part OP.

So what are people like me supposed do @StacksOfSnacks ? I am ambulant disabled and can't stand for long. I can apply for Accessibility seating which is usually allocated and always in a back row which doesn't help when people stand and dance in front of me so that I can't see. If I ask people in front of me if they can sit I'm either ignored or told no even if I explain my disability.

I went to a big venue last week and actually saw less than 10% of the main act due to people standing and have made the decision not to go to any more gigs and will sell my remaining tickets. I'm gutted to sell my hard won MCR tickets but why do I want to pay £100+ per ticket to just look at people's backs and arses - it's grossly unfair.
So what do people like me have to do? How can I see the same gigs you do and in the same way?

They don't, because I don't flail my arms around and wail.

If you go on seated, then stay seated.

No

If the venue allows standing, then people will do that. Take it up with the venue if you don’t like it.

They don’t sit for the entire show but the vast majority they do. The big numbers everyone stands for do sure and certainly the encores usually but the vast majority people stay seated. But again that isn’t a hard fast rule. It does depend on artist/venue.

My millionth time seeing him, I've been a 1D fan since the beginning.
I'll definitely sob through Dark to Light.

The majority of people in the seated areas DONT ‘enjoy standing’ or want to ‘stand for the performance’.
We are forced to by selfish idiots who stand up us front of us dancing, waving their arms and screaming.
So people like you.
You (coll) stop me going to concerts with your selfish behaviour .
If you go on seated, then stay seated.

I’ve done many, many more. We have 8 booked for this year. Always in seated, and nobody sits for the entire show. Not ever in my 35 years of concert going have I seen the major of people sitting.

I couldn’t stand in a standing section for hours. I feel claustrophobic around a crowd of people standing. I’m short so get pushed around and stood on.

Setting aside abelism, ”Just buy a standing ticket” assumes everyone is average height and age.

Again, it’s not a generic rule. No one stands the whole way through a Bruce Springsteen concert for instance. The big numbers sure but most of it everyone stays seated.

I have been to many many concerts in many different venues and I have never been to single one where the seated tickets stand the whole way though. It is just the amount of standing vs seated is in debate

I always book standing. When I can’t and get seating , I stay seated. Plenty of people can’t stand for long periods and need a seat. It’s really rude to stand and block their view.

If I possibly can I now book back row stall seats so I can stand up as the spirit takes me!

Oh FFS. Not this thread again!

I'm also on the petite side. I always choose a standing ticket so I can be flexible if (when) someone tall inevitably stands in front of me at the last minute. It's really selfish to stand in a seated area, most of the people seated chose that ticket for a good reason and many have no option but to sit. If you are petite you can't move around to find a good spot if you have an allocated seat.

Concerts I’ve attended are full of people singing and dancing in the seated areas. It’s the minority that seem to want to sit and only tap their foot. I’m wondering if some people here have actually attended concerts because they don’t seem to realise what is the norm is. If they do go to concerts, which singers/bands are they seeing where the crowd is sitting still and not singing?

In the last few years I’ve seen Noah Kahan, Kings of Leon, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen, Bryan Adams, Luke Combs, Bruce Springsteen, Zach Bryan, Coldplay, Oasis, Olivia Rodrigo, lots more and most people were standing, singing and dancing at every one of them.

I always booked seated but no one actually sits as soon as the headline act comes on. People are so precious, you want to sit down watch it on your TV.

these debates come up on mumsnet from time to time

the standing with a seated ticket etiquette is very much artist/ venue dependant. Smaller venues where there is mostly standing vs seated upstairs , you usually don’t stand except at the end. Big stadiums it depends on artist and length of concert. There is no set rule but in everyone is seated it is very rude to stand and block everyone else

All sounds a bit performative to me. Buy a standing room ticket and be in the mosh pit, some people want to listen and sit. It’s not your place to decide that’s not ok.

I’ve seen them all live, from AC/DC, to the scorpions,to Bon Jovi to Bruce Springsteen and everything in between, we do at least 3 major gigs a year and travel globally to do it, and no one is screaming, so I wonder if you don’t know the meaning of the word, it’s a short sharp high pitched noise.