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Why do people get blind drunk at concerts?

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Menora · 17/04/2022 09:19

DD went to a large concert venue last night which she said was marred by women (she said many were over 40 - i.e. my age 🤣) getting so drunk they were falling down the stairs, spilling drinks on people and in one case, accidentally hurting someone in the row in front by falling on them. She said it was so cringy and embarrassing.

DD and her mates couldn’t afford to get drunk even if they wanted to as a bottle of wine was £32!

I did notice the same thing last time I went to a concert, the row behind us all got so blotto they had to leave before the end, one woman lost her shoes, her boyfriend stormed out with embarrassment and another slipped over on the steps when she spilt her drink and hurt herself and was carried out by security.

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Whatsonmymindgrapes · 17/04/2022 18:33

You and your daughter are ridiculous your Dd for complaining about people drinking at a Craig David concert and you for starting a thread about it. It didn’t even happy to you. Really strange.

RampantIvy · 17/04/2022 18:41

it's not 'messy drunk' but it's definitely 'up dancing and having a good time' drunk!

And there is nothing wrong with that, but to be so drunk that security has to escort you out is just so pointless and a waste of money. They might just as well have gone to the pub instead.

NomNomNominativeDeterminism · 17/04/2022 18:50

I went to a St Matthew Passion once where someone in the audience was absolutely mortal. That was unexpected.

KimikosNightmare · 17/04/2022 18:58

@luciatrope

You do you and I'll do me

Ha! The motto of the selfish and entitled. Their desperation for alcohol ruins a good night for other people. And it's not like tickets are cheap these days...

Agreed.
Forgotthespuds · 17/04/2022 19:03

These youngsters who cringe because someone is drunk at a concert ! ametuors. Used to be if you didn't come home covered in piss & beer did you even have a good time. Now your supposed to sit still, don't drink, don't dance don't sing along.
..

MurmuratingStarling · 17/04/2022 19:04

People don't get drunk at any concerts I've ever been to.

MurmuratingStarling · 17/04/2022 19:07

@Forgotthespuds

These youngsters who cringe because someone is drunk at a concert ! ametuors. Used to be if you didn't come home covered in piss & beer did you even have a good time. Now your supposed to sit still, don't drink, don't dance don't sing along. ..
What a load of absolute shit. You don't need to come home 'covered in piss and beer' to have had a good time. FFS! Hmm
MurmuratingStarling · 17/04/2022 19:08

@Neverendingdust

It drives me insane OP. Pissed up idiots (mostly tragic older people too) ruining concerts literally boils my blood to the point where I’ll tell staff members so they get removed from the venue.

I don’t ever buy cheap seats for this reason, we will always aim to be within first two or three rows or at the very worst just next to the stage, venue staff will intervene if you make a fuss.

Fine if such fools want to waste their money on tickets for something they won’t remember watching but I’ll be damned if I’m wasting my money on a show I remember being ruined by pathetic drunks.

This. ^
Forgotthespuds · 17/04/2022 19:11

@MurmuratingStarling - calm down duck it was clearly a lighthearted ' back in the day' dit.

LivingDeadGirlUK · 17/04/2022 19:18

Haha well times have changed, coming home from a gig, and complaining to my mum the other fans were too drunk and I was worried about a bit of beer on my jeans would have been really cringe...

KimikosNightmare · 17/04/2022 19:22

@LivingDeadGirlUK

Haha well times have changed, coming home from a gig, and complaining to my mum the other fans were too drunk and I was worried about a bit of beer on my jeans would have been really cringe...
Not half as cringe making as some of the posts on here.
PrincessPaws · 17/04/2022 19:27

@RampantIvy

it's not 'messy drunk' but it's definitely 'up dancing and having a good time' drunk!

And there is nothing wrong with that, but to be so drunk that security has to escort you out is just so pointless and a waste of money. They might just as well have gone to the pub instead.

I agree!
Badger1970 · 17/04/2022 19:31

We went to see Coldplay in Cardiff a few years ago. We were fairly close to the front, but ended up having a group of 6 push in front of us literally as the band came on stage.

They were pissed out of their minds...... they were trying to dance but kept falling over, which resulted in other people pushing them back again. This soon became a free for all because people were getting pissed off with them. In the end, DH narrowly avoided a fist coming his way because he pushed himself in front of our youngest DD so she didn't get hurt. There was no security in sight. In a tightly confined space, it was absolutely terrifying, and we ended up pushing our way out and finding an empty seated area thanks to a steward taking pity on us.

We spent the best part of £360 on the tickets, and even more for a hotel/parking to have the night ruined by a bunch of pissheads. It made me really really angry.

I8toys · 17/04/2022 19:46

Id have to be pissed to see Coldplay to be fair.

Lavenderlid · 17/04/2022 19:57

@Minikievs I thought your post was perfectly reasonable.
Unlike this one:
Pissed up idiots (mostly tragic older people too) ruining concerts literally boils my blood to the point where I’ll tell staff members so they get removed from the venue. (underlining mine, to point out the ageism).
Of course you shouldn't get so drunk you negatively affect other people.
I'd be quite keen if all tall people could stay at home too, or at least have different seats away from the short people's seats.

Mangogogogo · 17/04/2022 20:18

Once I spent a fortune for tickets to a punk festival with all my favourite bands and I got so off my tits i cannot remember a fucking thing. Came home fuming and 12 years later I’m still fuming. Every year they release a new line up and it has NEVER been as perfect as that year and I get fuming all over again.
So now I barely drink at gigs!

This is probably outing if anyone knows me but once I went to a gig with a badddd kidney infection, I was on some awful painkillers I was so away with the fairies I don’t even remember going and when I got home I knocked myself clean out on a door. But that one was an accident and I blame my doctor.

So yes, op, I look back at myself and cringeeee

User135644 · 17/04/2022 20:48

It's not just drink though is it? People coked off their heads as well (and whatever other drug of choice).

BigCheeseSandwich · 17/04/2022 21:03

The British drinking culture is really depressing. Especially when you go to events where there’s children and young people and there are drunk people stumbling around.

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Menora · 17/04/2022 21:07

@Whatsonmymindgrapes

You and your daughter are ridiculous your Dd for complaining about people drinking at a Craig David concert and you for starting a thread about it. It didn’t even happy to you. Really strange.
It happened last time I went to the O2 as I stated, a few months ago and same thing happened when DD went last night. She said one of the women fell over onto someone else, the person she fell onto got hurt. It doesn’t seem to be ‘ridiculous’ to be up top at 02 which is already very high and worry about someone falling on you.. does it? Hmm, strange
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User135644 · 17/04/2022 22:56

Problem is with the way we drink. In our culture we throw back beer/wine/gin etc and the drink takes over whether it's in a bar, a gig, a show, a sporting event etc.

We don't have a culture of moderation. "I'll just have one or two". It's often we'll drink until we're bladdered. The issue is what people do when reaching that point. Do they know their limits and stop or slow down? Do they go and get a soft drink/some food? Do they go home? In many cases, yes, but in other cases people once they reach that point will carry on and become unbearable.

Darbs76 · 17/04/2022 23:05

More fun that remembering seeing the concert? So many are so blind drunk they don’t even e remember going. It’s not fun for everyone else either

KimikosNightmare · 17/04/2022 23:14

I'm just back from seeing The War on Drugs at Edinburgh Corn Exchange.

I don't know what it was like right down at the front of the stage but I didn't see anyone being drunk and obnoxious.

Age range was say mid 20s to my age (over 60)

Possibly they are a band who attract people who enjoy and appreciate music rather than people who think a concert is an excuse to get pissed.

User135644 · 18/04/2022 18:18

@KimikosNightmare

I'm just back from seeing The War on Drugs at Edinburgh Corn Exchange.

I don't know what it was like right down at the front of the stage but I didn't see anyone being drunk and obnoxious.

Age range was say mid 20s to my age (over 60)

Possibly they are a band who attract people who enjoy and appreciate music rather than people who think a concert is an excuse to get pissed.

I want to see them, but yeah it's not that kind of singalong lets get pissed kind of act.
ISpyCobraKai · 18/04/2022 18:25

I saw/came across no drunk people at George Ezra or 5 Seconds of Summer last week.
Manchester for George, Glasgow for 5SOS.
The most I drank was water!

ToffeeNotCoffee · 21/04/2022 12:11

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