Comments on: 10 People You Meet At Gigs – But Don’t Want To.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:07:37 +0000

You forgot the security.

By: Albert K Reid

Albert K Reid — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:38:24 +0000

This was pretty cool!

By: Tuonela

Tuonela — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:17:54 +0000

You should add a number 11 to your article !

The lovers who just can’t stop to kiss in front of you like tow giants mussels while you try to enjoy the concert… Eeeeeuuuuurk !

By: Von

Von — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:45:41 +0000

Hey! Kasia! Get the hell off my lawn! Damn kids! And turn that don. It’s not music – That’s just noise.

Mumble grumble.

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:17:52 +0000

Here at DT we take pride in being above everyone else…

By: Kasia

Kasia — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:00:07 +0000

11. Downer
This guy goes to a concert and hates everyone and goes home and writes a blog about how the band was great, but all of the audience that he’s shared this awesome experience with totally sucked. This guy is probably going to grow up and yell at kids listening to their music from his front porch so he can still act like he’s above everyone else.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:48:00 +0000

You forgot to include “Drunk and stoned out of their mind and smells like ass, BO and booze”

And their cousin, the “Feeling the music” Dance into you, (make out into you at seated venues), completely unaware of anything because they’re stoned, people.

PS. it doesn’t take an audiophile to know what the difference between flange and reverb is.

By: Firecracker

Firecracker — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:53:56 +0000

I hate those fucking couples that stand with the boy behind the girl, firmly clamping the poor bitch around the waist and/or shoulders.

Let her go dickwad! what are you worried about!? she’s not going to take off her pants and run into the mosh pit! even if she would, fucking let her. it would be hilarious.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:59:05 +0000

Articles would be nice.

Just saying, like.

By: joewhitenoise

joewhitenoise — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:26:13 +0000

I always thought it was Shovey and Surfy McGinty.

Speaking of annoying ads, I can’t see what I am typig cos there is a massive ad across the comments box. My woerk PC is rubbish.

I still like going to gigs and I enjoyed this piece.

By: graham

graham — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:33:04 +0000

How rude. I speak only for myself and my point of view, I felt this was implicit.

That said, yes – the gigs I helped organise were ‘hypercool’. I believe very much in the communal power of music, so it goes hand in hand really.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:10:08 +0000

In addition to being the organiser of ad-free hypercool gigs, you speak for the masses I see. I hope you did some market research before you took to the pedestal.

Gigs are for 15 year olds and maybe their Dads.

By: graham

graham — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:39:34 +0000

On the one hand, you can find any number of events which have little to do with sponsership and everything to do with the cummunal spirit, if you go looking for them. I’ve organised some myself, here and there.

On the other, if you did a quick poll of the audience of a Friday night in the Evian megabowl of a, I don’t know, Joe Lean & The Jin Jang Jong gig, I’d warrant that most of them would care less about who’s selling what and to whom. People only go out for fun in the first place, which is more to the point.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:23:45 +0000

I just don’t bother with gigs. Drunk people flailing about and companies chancing their arm to rinse you of cash and shove sponsorship messages in your face – it’s a complete corruption of the communal spirit of music for profit.

The music is a sideshow to the payment for the tickets, the booking fee, the ridiculous cost of a can of Carling, the obligatory tee shirt…

It’s a ritual that’s no longer got anything to do with music.

By: Graham Clarke

Graham Clarke — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:57:45 +0000

I’ve scored in every area of the ten, through the years. Do I win anything?

By: skevimc

skevimc — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:22:32 +0000

Crap. I’m number 9. Shitty camera phone. Just taking some pictures. And I tried to record some sound as well. Yeah… I’ll do it again though. I’m certain.

I’m not a number 4 like fourstar. But I do notice the sound. But I usually assume it’s going to be all jacked up anyway. Heavy on the music, light on the voice.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:11:56 +0000

What about the idiots with flags at festivals? who takes a flag to a festival?

Idiots – that’s who.

By: Swineshead

Swineshead — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:10:16 +0000

I’ve got a flange pedal. It’s not a necessity, but reverb is built into most amps and pretty much is….

Nice article Monsieur Von.

By: Roszszsss

Roszszsss — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:43:49 +0000

The girl on her boyfriends shoulders who always stands directly in front of me. I hate her. And her boyfriend.

By: Vones

Vones — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:10:44 +0000

…gawd. There are TWO of them now.

By: fourstar

fourstar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:36:30 +0000

What I said

By: Interceptor

Interceptor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:28:48 +0000

In effect Vones, Flange is that whooshy, aeroplane-taking-off noise on ‘747 Strangers in the Night’ by Saxon, reverb (not to be confused with Tremolo, is just a bit of echo.

By: fourstar

fourstar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:10:22 +0000

“…reverb and flange and things…”

Actually, although they are similar (in that they are both manipulated repetitions of the initial track) they’re quite different in technique; whilst reverb is often an attempt to add a natural sounding atmosphere to a flat recording, a flange is the use of a deliberately short delay time to effect phase-shifting of the original input.

Sorry. I did say.

By: Vones

Vones — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:02:47 +0000

Theory confirmed! Gah – you’ll probably go on about reverb and flange and other things…

By: fourstar

fourstar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:58:40 +0000

Until about 10 days ago I did. Then we went on holiday to France and it was 35 degrees in the shade so it came off. I did used to be a BBC sound engineer though which is probably more to the point.

By: Vones

Vones — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:56:39 +0000

Do you have a beard 4*?

By: fourstar

fourstar — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:46:53 +0000

I am #4. Sorry about that.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:13:16 +0000

I think everyone at a gig is a dick then…

…and I have to say I’ve done everyone of the things listed in my time – all down to the Red Stripe.