Entertainment For Lively Minds
When The Audience Is More Entertaining Than The Act...
I went to see Queen + Paul Rodgers at the weekend - a brilliant show, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes their music. It was a sell-out show in an arena full of 10,000 people, with lights, pyrotechnics, everything. One of the biggest and most spectacular gigs I've ever been to.
But weirdly, I was equally entertained by the couple sitting next to me, who got unbelievably excited at various points in the show - the man was like a child who'd got up on Christmas morning to find that Santa had been and brought every toy in the world. It was slightly strange, but a wonderful thing to see, someone so obviously having such a brilliant time.
Which begs the question - have you ever been to a gig where what's happening in the crowd is just as, or even more, interesting than what's happening on the stage?
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As a twenty-one year old
As a twenty-one year old accompanying the Old Man to both of the recent Springsteen jaunts (Sessions and E Street), I must admit I did find some entertainment in what I perceived to be the 'Dad Dancing' on display around me.
I then quickly realised that my moves were no better. And, in fact, quite possibly worse.
To answer your question Andrew, "Yes".
Every single Glastonbury I've ever attended has been like that.
Not quite on topic
but whilst at a cricket match at Gloucester CC Ground (in Bristol), I spent far more time watching a very drunk man catch wasps...
...and eating them
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
SAHB are still playing gigs and when I went to see them a few months ago it was the first time in say 20 years that I felt like a youngster - it was quite an interesting experience!
Fields of the Nephilim
I went to see them squillions of years ago when they were as close to their 'pomp' as they ever got.
They were rubbish, as you'd expect, but the audience was fascinating. Some of them must have taken days to slap on that make-up and layer on that hairspray.
And as for the sheer amount of leggy Goth women - phwoar. (One of whom I am now going out with, although it took us 20 years to meet).