Go to gig on your own? (starts at 8pm tonight)

indieJones

Need help quick. My friends have flaked out on me and I'm left with the option of missing a gig or going on my own (gettting tickets at the door so money not an issue).

Is it weird going to a gig on your own? You don't talk that much anyway but seems somehow socially awkward. I've got an indie taste in music and I'm finding as I get older it's harder and harder to find people to talk go with.

The gig starts in 45 minutes. Opinions please.

galwayrush

If you like the music, just go.

Mr. Presentable

Go!

Going alone to a gig makes you look a more "serious" music fan! Or a reviewer.

Mutz

No its not werid. go and you'll have a laugh. Have a few pints, but not too many because you'll be the drunk loner in the corner.

Enjjoy yourself!

whatsgoinon

go!! quickly get your coat.
i went to a gig in dublin by myself a few years back, really enjoyed it and didn't have to worry about wondering where my friends were. mind yourself coming home. have fun!

Sabre0001

Only gone to a couple of rock / metal gigs - Was at the back for one and it did feel a bit awkward...Depends on how independant you are.

Was at the front for another and it was grand - pushed around by crowd, in the action, etc

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Fvck, if I only ever did thigs with my friends, I'd never leave the house. Fecking corpses the bleeding lot of them. If I'd caught the message in time, I'd have offered to meet you in there, buy you a pint and so on.

You're not Taiwnaeese are you?

Dord

I do it all the time.

Go for it!

rejkin

i guess he/she went! good on them! wonder what gig it was

feylya

I've never understood that mentality. "I want to see this band but I can't cos none of my friends will go...". You're going to a noisy gig, you can't talk to your friends, what does it really matter? Besides, if you get lonely at the gig, you know 1 common interest that everyone there has! Strike up a conversation.

feylya

feylya wrote: »

I've never understood that mentality. "I want to see this band but I can't cos none of my friends will go...". You're going to a noisy gig, you can't talk to your friends, what does it really matter? Besides, if you get lonely at the gig, you know 1 common interest that everyone there has! Strike up a conversation.

Hell yeah. It always seems to be the same for me at festivals.
I usually give up trying to see where people are going to and just go on my own.

ronano

go!

my friend flaked out on me back in the day and i regret not going

princess-sprkle

I go to a load of gigs on my own because my friends have appaling taste in music. Its better than not going at all. Plus you might make new friends

L1011

I've built up a fair collection of 'new friends' (saying that makes me sound like a 6 year old, dunno why) due to going to gigs on my own because of my friends appalling taste in music. Nothing wrong/weird about it. Also means you can feck off home if its a bad gig and not have to hang around for people, etc.

Most gigs I attended I do so on my own, there's nothing weird about it and anyone that says so is a tosser.

phantom_lord

last time i went to a gig with my friends we didn't talk at all through the whole thing. don't get the big deal about it. people prob wont even notice.

mikemac

Go!

I don't go to gigs but I do attend Eircom League of Ireland games and none of my mates go.

BKtje

Have gone to 4 day music festival on my own before, camping and all.
A friend of mine went around the US for 7 months going from festival to festival on his own. Its not weird if you can talk to random people and have a laugh with em.

If you enjoy it, why not go?

Nightwish

I've done it plenty of times. I went to Eindhoven last year on my own just for a gig.

GhostInTheRuins

I do it all the time. Most of the gigs I go to I go on my own. Considering everyone there will have at least one thing in common it's easy enough to start a chat/have a pint before/after the gig with some randomers.

Xavi6

+1 for going on your tobler.

In recent months I've gone to see Muse and Interpol on my own and not a hope of me missing live acts like that just cause no one else would go.

TPD

Xavi6 wrote: »

+1 for going on your tobler.

Took me a second to get that. For shame.

The Walsho

Went to a gig on my own before, and actually much preferred it to going with friends, since I usually feel bad for dragging someone along to my "weird" gigs. If there's a confidence issue there sure a few pints would take care of that!

indieJones

And it was fine, the only mistake I made was going early (well at door opening time) because I needed to buy a ticket first. So there was actually a bit of awkward hanging round Whelans (it was for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, ironic!). Bumped into a friend of a friend who was on a date so didn't talk to them to much as could see they wanted some alone time.

Once the gig started everything was grand. Got talking to a few people very briefly, asked a guy about some vinyl he got signed and talked to Whelans photographer. The gig was great and I'm definitely glad I went. More people should do it and if you see another lone gigger, say hello.

Don't know if I'll get any stick tomorrow off mates for going alone, they know I'm a mad music head and this kind of behaviour is to be expected.


And to ikkiepoo2: Why would I be Taiwanese?

flanum

i go to the willie clancy week festival on my own every year and a fair few fleadhs durin the year as well. i can only think of a few gigs/festivals where ive actually gone with a crowd. ya usually end up meetin someone ya know at these things, if not it doesnt take too much to start an auld chat goin.

m83

Buckfast is your friend.

buckfast4me

I am? I dunno the guy

Dragan

I very specifically go to some gigs on my own.

Its a good way to make new friends and influence people.

ronano

Boards gig meetups like the film ones?

Howard the Duck

I was actually thinking about going to same gig alone but didn't but it was because i was hung over. I'm in the same situation with regards to my friends crap taste in music i had a few gig going friends but we've drifted apart as a result i don;t go to gigs much anymore only ever went to one by myself and that was the flaming lips last year.... it was ok but a bit weird. I think it depends a lot on your personality.

Terry

I went to Cork on my own for a gig when I was 17.
Didn't plan ahead and spent the night wandering the streets.

WindSock

indieJones wrote: »

Don't know if I'll get any stick tomorrow off mates for going alone, they know I'm a mad music head and this kind of behaviour is to be expected.

Well they shouldn't. They let you down in the first place. Tell them they missed the best gig ever

Mushy

Gone to Bristol and Belfast for gigs alone. Its fine. Met loads of cool people in Bristol, and we meet up for other gigs of the same band. Few drinks etc. A fine life. Very much so ok to go to gigs on your own, glad ya now realise it.

A-C-C#-D

This reminds me of a situation my brother was in a few years ago. He wanted to go see this small band from Sheffield in Whelans and even though it was around a tenner, he couldn't find anyone. So he went alone. Turned out the band was called The Arctic Monkeys.

Skinfull

if you do find yourself goin to a gig alone...or have a gig on the horizon and you cant find the company...check out the dublin gig goers meetup group...
http://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Gig-Goers/
bunch of people goin to a gig alone...together.

JangoFett

Doing things on your own ain't so bad! I do things alone all the time, cinema, gigs and even went to Australia on my own and had a ball!

jenny2hat

I'd go to a gig bymyself Don't see the big issue, you get talking to people in the cue anyway. I guess if you're shy it could be a problem. I fi saw someone looking all lonely I'd strike up a conversation with them.

Vertigo100

Sheesh it's a gig in your home town you have to go you might even meet someone you know. Looks like I'm going to 2 many Djs in Manchester on my own next month and I'm from Limerick. Gotta spend a night in Liverpool and Manchester. Sher I might make some new friends!

Spore

Old thread is old

PirateShampoo

Just go, if any hot chicks ask, you work for rolling stone magizine and following the band.



Sratch that, zombie thread fail.