Going to a concert in my own

[Shannith]

I'm going to a concert on my own tonight.

It's someone I loved as a angst filled teenager. I appear to be the only one I still know who felt this way 

Has anyone else done this? It's seated so I'm worried I'll look weird on my own.

Cinema, even theatre doesn't bother me at all but I've never gone to a gig alone. It's seems more joiny-inny somehow.

44 years old and got a knot in my stomach!

It'll be absolutely fine, nobody will even be looking at you just at the stage.

Been doing this for 11years now! None of my friends like the band I love do I've made a new bunch of gig-mates. There's always a few that will gather in a local pub beforehand so I just breeze in, buy a drink, and chat to anyone in a band t shirt. Soon you start recognising people and before you know it you're FB friends and going on holiday with them
Enjoy! And no one will even notice you're on your own once you're there

I've done this loads of times.
It's fine, if you feel like chatting you obviously have something in common, and if you don't, then that's fine too.

I've done this loads of times too. People always talk to you. You will be fine

I do, I have random taste in music 😁

Whats the gig?

Oh god. I don't want to chat to people.

That's what I'm worried about!

Sod it, I'm pretty sure anyone who knows me has worked out this is me in here.

It's Lloyd Cole, which is apparently niche in my demographic.

Yep. I went to see my favourite band on my own for the first time a couple of years ago. Having always taken someone else it was a total revelation just how much better it is to go on your own. No one talked to me and I could sing and dance at the top of my voice and no one rolled their eyes at me. Fabulous!

I do this :D
Have you tried joining a facebook fan group and seen who else is going? :)

You don't need to talk to anyone either, just do your own thing.
Remember, you never have to see these people again.

Ah, you'll be grand. Noone will talk to you unless you look like you want to be talked to. I saw Lloyd last year. He was fabulous, and his audience is full of solitary bookish types, in fact I saw one guy with a clip on light on, and read all the way through the gig!

I've done it, last time June this year. Love going alone, sing along no chatting. I love concerts by myself

Oh and enjoy yourself!!

I've done it loads of times, have fun.

@MsRinky excellent! I'm not quite reading light material yet but do have a sensible cardigan under my rock chick jacket.

And a brolly in my bag.

I love Lloyd. If he plays Long Way Down or Ice Cream Girl (not hopeful) I may faint do perhaps best if he doesn't.

@cheninblanc thank you!

I love Lloyd Cole

@FilledSoda hurrah! Sitting outside with a cigarette and Pepsi.

If I were a teenager it would be JD and coke and a Marlborough Red, but, old.

I do this all the time. I don’t want anyone there with me.

Ah op I love Lloyd Cole, hope he plays the good stuff! I am at a classical concert on my own tonight, it's fine

I do this a lot. I find that if you wear a band t-shirt people talk to you. If you don't wear a band t-shirt they don't tend to approach.
Have fun!

@clary and everyone else thank you for making me feel less like Billy no mates.

I'm not wearing a band T-shirt. I don't have one. Boo.

I actually know someone who went to his wedding. THEY DID NOT TELL ME THIS UNTIL AFTERWARDS.

Just dropped it casually into a "what did you get up to this weekend?" conversation.

I killed them obviously.

I went to see Lloyd Cole in my own last year OP. He was fab and still gorgeous!
Hope you have a great night.

@FilthyBiscuit I'm hoping our eyes will meet and he will realise he has been waiting for a 40+ mum all his life...

I've never seen him live but have spent untold hours entirely convinced he is signing about my life

Check out the Solo Armada OP, they're on social media. All people who go to gigs alone, they have badges they hand out so you can always spot others and approach knowing they're happy to chat.

(it's the interval here)

@clary me too. He is signing autographs after.

I'm going to have to get him to sign something. Wish I'd brought one of my original CD covers.

I normally have roughly 7,000 scraps of paper/sparkly notepads on me curtesy of DD but I cleaned my bag out this evening so if I got searched they didn't have to wade through them and half eaten sweets/fluff.