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

Assuming you mean Dua Lipa, you will likely be on the older side of the audience but who cares? You won't be the only 60 year olds there I bet.

Anyway, people go to listen to the music, watch the band and have a dance. You're likely to be invisible to most people as they don't care about you, you're a nobody lol.

So what if you do stand out? Youngsters often stand out at Springsteen concerts and the like.

I saw Pulp at the O2 earlier this month and while that’s not the same as going to a festival, you’re still just a music fan amongst loads of music fans of all ages. My only concern is that ai can’t stand for hours as I used to (late 60s)

Update: Just seen it’s a stadium tour. Ooh go and have a word with yourself! 😁

We’re not young either OP… see you there!! 🎉

Yeah, you’re way too old, OP. Hadn’t you heard that Dua Lipa fans routinely round up the over-50s in the crowd and ritually expel them from the arena with a fortissimo chorus of ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ and an honour guard of zimmer frames?

Honestly.

As a fellow 60+ year old, you're being daft! No one will give a fig how old you are.

I went to see a band last night. I'm 66, my friends is older, and there were a lot of people who were clearly older than us there.

Enjoy your gig. I like Dua Lipa as well.

That's the point though. At an Oasis gig you'll blend right in with all the many other people in their 60's. I don't think OP was suggesting she feels too old to go to gigs full stop, just that she might feel out of place at this particular gig because the average age of Dua Lipa fans is much younger.

OP, I don't think you should force yourself to go if you're going to feel uncomfortable or stressed about it. Its supposed to be fun afterall. But if you want to go, then you should. Yes, being completely honest, you and your DH will most likely be older than the majority of the crowd, but i'm sure you won't be the only ones. I don't think anyone will notice or care enough to comment on your age if that's what you're worried about.

Honestly I have been to many many concerts over the years, some involving recent young bands and some very established older bands. At every concert there have been people from 8 to 80! (Or maybe older but you get the idea)

now the spread of the bell curve of ages clearly adjusts to the band in question but I can assure you that no one will give you any second glance! I plan to keep going to concerts until my legs give out!

OP you are giving me 2nd hand embarrassment on your behalf. It's almost as bad as admitting you like clapping along to someone singing. So cringe.
Of course us oldies should be in bed by 9pm with our hot ovaltine,🙄
Sorry OP but i'm 63 and still go to all night parties at least once a month as do some other oldies I know. I'm rocking it out with azure hair and wearing my Doc Martens.
Go for the concert, dance and have a fab time🤘

I will stop going to stuff- all stuff- when I am dead.

Fuck that, OP!

Dua Lipa gigs will be largely seated. You'd be mad to not go just because of age.

Yes, there will be kids there but so what?

We went to a Drum & Bass gig last month - lots of youngsters but lots of old-skoolers too.

Guess who danced more 😁

!00% enough time when I'm dead to moan about anything and everything, youth of today etc, er...wait a minute...I'll be brown bread anyway so won't care.

Too old for music? No such thing lol

Humiliated?!

Just go op...no one will care

Get over yourself. No one will care that you are there. my late 60’s parents went to an underworld concert

Go for it , why not? You don’t stop liking music when you hit 40…I know someone that age who is going.

We were coming back from (a different) gig last night (full of oldies - we included - all really going for it) and there were loads of people who’d been to see her on the tube (I assume they’d been to see her as I kept seeing the same T-shirt). Lots of little girls (primary aged) with their mums too, so all ages.

Holy shit. So now people have to close their ears and senses to live music because of … AGE!

This kind of closed, closeted restrictive and disabling attitude and thinking is damaging to your own free spirit but shows how judgemental you are towards others quite frankly.

My question to you OP is what else in life have you not done or experienced due to your restrictive thinking because I feel very sorry at all that you have missed in life.

Get yourself there and stop it, just stop it right now!

I assume the bots churning out ageist claptrap are the same ones who create threads ostensibly from parents trying to find a university for their child where they won’t encounter any privately educated students ….

Don't be ridiculous. We are 66 and have been to Harry Styles, Sam Fender, Wet Leg and danced all night

Go for it! Live music is the best! I’m heading for 60 & into Yungblud at the moment, scrolling on the internet it appears there are tons of 50+ fan all planning on going to his concerts.

I think of my grandma at 65 & she looked like a little old lady, my mum at 80 looks younger than her mother at 65! Age is but a number.

Life is for living - do what makes you happy. Eat the cake, go to the concert 😂 😊

It sounds a bit like this is a convoluted way of saying you think you are more up to date than others your age. You saw Dua Lipa and enjoyed enough to buy tickets, but you think others your age will have been too fuddy duddy to do that? Or what?
Nobody cares. All gigs have a mix of ages. I’m off to Lana del Rey on Monday. On my own. I’m 60.

This title reminded me of when I was a teen and my parents, in their 40's, said they were too old to take me to a concert!

But no, if you want to go just do it. No one else will care.

@ripon432 Hope this legend gives you some inspiration. Go and enjoy yourself!

Again, kindly, this.

If anyone spares you a thought, it will be "Cool, older people here."

If they spare you an unkind thought, it says they are a shitty person. Not that you are out of place.