Help too old for concert

[ripon432]

my dh and I are in our 60,s and love live music ( all types)

we saw dis lipas set at Glastonbury on tv, thought she was good and dh got tickets for Wembley

He is keen to go , I think we are too old and will stand out.

I am sure it will be an amazing stadium show but I am getting stressed now about going

I am worried about being completely out of place and humiliated

Should I refuse to go , or go and have a good time regardless of what people think

Just Looking for advise please

Oh do behave, seriously? 🙄

How do you think you will be humiliated? Kindly, no one cares that much about you.

Go and enjoy her

Just go, who cares what anyone else thinks! And I'm sure everyone else will be focusing on the concert & not peoples ages

Oh give over, you're never to old.

Go you will have an amazing time. Noone will notice your age just fellow music fans.

Why do you think in a crowd as big as Wembley can hold do you think you will stand out, really OP why?

Why would you be humiliated i would presume people are doing their own thing there no offence to you both but why do you think they would care that much about you?

So basically you judge other people at events yourself?

No one is too old for a concert..

Currently everybody in London is thinking
It's bloody hot!
How am I going to pay my rent/mortgage?
Tube down again!

Nobody has the time or inclination to look at you in a huge stadium.

What is this utter nonsense I’m reading?

Cone on, @ripon432 - you’re making people in their 60s look stupid. Please stop it.

I am in my 60s. I saw Dua Lipa at Glastonbury. I would go without hesitation. Enjoy it!

I go to see my son’s hard core rock band . Im neatly sixty and no one cares !
Its great .
you’re all there to enjoy the same thing .

I really hope this isn’t some would-be clever dig at anyone over 30 who dares to leave the house?

Because it’s sickening if so.

Grow up.

We’re in our 60s and we are going to Wembley for Oasis next month. Then again, lots of us will be older I suppose

I go to gigs all the time and never really notice anyone else.

What makes you think people will be looking at you when they are all there to see the act?

He is keen to go , I think we are too old and will stand out.

Kindly, OP, ageism is bad enough when other people are doing it to us. It is somehow worse when we do it to ourselves.

I like the look of Dua Lipa, her gigs look lovely and bouncy. I don't think I'd fork out for a ticket, but if my DH got tickets and wanted to go for sure I'd go with him. Why not? (otoh when he wants to go to his 70s noodly-guitar-solo ageing rockers, i send him alone because that bores me to tears)

We go with our DC (mid 20s) to some of their gigs, and they come to some of ours. One of the bands we all went to see has majority young women fans, who during one song appear to throw underwear in the air. (they bring it with them ready for that song). They're a guitar band who do a good show and 66 year old DH is looking forward to their next gig.

Another ridiculous thread about being 'too old' to do something!!!

You do need to be careful OP, they'll name and shame you over the tannoy and ask you to leave.

I'm going to see Sparks next week...on my own. At 56, I may well be one of the younger people there. Don't care! It's a standing only venue so I hope to be near the front so that I can wave to Ron and Russell.

I go to gigs all the time and never really notice anyone else.

I do, i notice the cool other band t-shirts (carefully chosen to give the right vibe, i assume) or younger than the usual demographic rocking out (we go to a lot of Pink Floyd tribute gigs, LOVE seeing the under 40s there - and there are always loads - singing along. Often with their parents). I love to see older people in cool gear enjoying a gig. I enjoy seeing people who clearly love the band having an absolute blast.

The only people i wish would stay the fuck away from gigs are the constant chatterers.

Help too old to live. DH and I are in our 60s and love being alive. But are we too old? Should we just take the pills? I’m worried about being completely out of place and humiliated.

I go to quite a few gigs and there are always people of a variety of ages, no matter the genre! Go and enjoy!

I know.

I long for a thread where everyone replies with “Yeah, you’re well over the hill OP, better stay home with your knitting “.

I like to imagine the ensuing tantrum from the OP 😬😂

Good grief OP. The crowd there will too wrapped up with watching the gig etc to worry about anyone else around them. They won't notice you. Go and enjoy the music and atmosphere.

For what it's worth DH & I are both in our 60s and go to all kinds of gigs - not going to see Dua Lipa though.