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Anyone else find modern concerts a bit depressing?

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  • #92
    Capra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122595492#Comment_122595492

    yeah, I’m nearer to Cork than Dublin myself. It’s pretty barren down here in terms of gigs from any bands I’d be into. Dublin is so expensive to go to now it’s not really worth it.

    Speaking of legacy acts I wanted to see Pantera as they are playing 3 arena around my birthday. Standing tickets had dynamic pricing and they were almost €200 each. Considering they are an all time favourite band I’d love to see them but when the two founding and most important members are dead it’s hard to justify it. By the time accomodation and fuel/tolls/food is paid for that’s a €1000 trip for two people.

    My logic now is that there is no way Pantera at the 3 arena would have sold out this quickly 20 years ago when they were just after breaking up. So the odds are very high that the crowd is going to be mainly event junkies and people who don’t know the band at all. There aren’t that many serious Pantera fans in Ireland. I don’t even feel like I’m missing out on anything with these types of gigs anymore.



  • #93
    Capra
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    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_lLOvdt9EL/?igsh=cmc1bHducjQ4aHhs


    This just popped up on my instagram and perfectly illustrates how most big concerts now go in my recent experience anyway. 😂



  • #94
    mrk75
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122569867#Comment_122569867

    The pushing past thing has got worse in recent years….or maybe I'm more aware of it as I get older and krankier. Nearly every standing concert I seem to have a sign on me that only others can see that says "walk past this way".

    Bruce at the RDS last year was the worst. All night no matter how I moved…people going in and going out..groups of three and four…mental. Doesn't matter if you let them past to get it over with or stand your ground in the hope they try another route…they just bash on through.

    It's probably of a part with the talking etc…some people just have no manners. It's the age of "me, me, me"…



  • #95
    Morgans
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    Aren't gigs a thing to do now for a lot of people, where before it was more a collection of fans for the band?

    Its like when the rugby moved to Croke Park and you would still have people coming to their seats ten mins into the second half cos they needed pints.

    Everything is more corporate I guess.



  • #96
    Exclamation Marc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122592033#Comment_122592033

    Worst I ever had it was at Keane recently. Two lads in their late 30s seated in front of us wouldn't stop boozing and chatting about anything and everything from fantasy football to nights out and constantly on their phones with the screen bright enough to guide a ship around land.

    Once the two songs they clearly knew came on, they stopped talking and started filming. And then spent the next five minutes after each song sending a video to their mates about how great a gig it was and laughing about the message. Keane aren't exactly the loudest band either so you could hear everything. Thankfully there were a rake of seats near us that were empty that we moved in after about 30 minutes as I was losing my marbles. Absolute knuckledraggers.



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  • #97
    Stillill42
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    I hear you, lads. It's tough.



  • #98
    Capra
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    I saw Limp in 3Arena last night and I think they actually restored my faith quite a lot. For a band who got a lot of flak over the years I don’t think there is another band on the planet who can get a crowd going like that. It felt like a gig from 20 years ago in all the right ways. Very few people recording on their phones, because quite frankly if you took your phone out there was a good chance it was going to be knocked out of your hand in seconds. It was a wild time.

    I couldn’t get over how many people in their teens and early 20s were there. I think you need young people at concerts for the energy. People in their 40s and up just want to stand and listen which is understandable. Well done the young people.

    It’s also amazing that a band that could barely sell out the Olympia the last two times there were here can now sell out the 3Arena.



  • #99
    Stillill42
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122569867#Comment_122569867

    Late response but bizarro, @riddles. Had almost exactly the same experience at the very same gig! Except my couple carried on regardless, fecking INDIGNANT that I had the temerity to politely ask them to stfu. That's mad, isn't it? The same gig?



  • #100
    o1s1n
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123257347#Comment_123257347

    Pantera in the Three Arena a couple of weeks ago was like this. It was like being at a concert 20 years ago, incredible stuff. People just going absolutely mental to the music with no phones out.



  • #101
    jackiept
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    I thought only me that have so feelings… All the events, all the places become suchlike



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  • #102
    Wrongway1985
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123257420#Comment_123257420

    I was there I'm assuming it's specifically the audience response and such as come on there wasn't really any 20 year olds let alone teens at that, a lot of people out of gig hibernation since the turn of the millennium alright haha!

    Biohazard/LOA the Sunday of that weekend was off the chain albeit smaller venue and that.



  • #103
    Capra
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    no young people at Limp Bizkit or Pantera? There were tonnes of young people at Limp Bizkit. Did you not see all the young wans on stage with the band? There was a good mix but if you didn’t see a lot of people in their early 20s you are blind.



  • #104
    Rocket_GD
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123258012#Comment_123258012

    I wasn't even at the gig but passed on the bus at 17:15 and there were queues of teens and people in their 20's.

    Going standing to Teddy Swims tonight, I can imagine it'll be phone central, but I'll report back tomorrow.



  • #105
    Strumms
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    the event junkie thing is here to stay unfortunately. Some people get an immense kick out of being in the presence of X thousand other people..being able to talk about it, Instagram it, whatever.

    I remember being invited to see some punk / new wave band in the Village years ago… that memorable a night I forget the bands name……long story short, ten songs in im back at the bar by myself. Wasn’t for me. But I had enough respect to extract myself and let other enjoy themselves as opposed to just being a prick



  • #106
    Wrongway1985
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123258012#Comment_123258012

    Pantera clearly which the poster compares, I wasn't even at LB .



  • #107
    Hurrache
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123257347#Comment_123257347

    Less with the people in their 40s stuff 😀 My crowd at the latter end of that age group have been all upfront going nuts at the bunch of gigs we've been at!

    I think we keep the merch industry going as we know at this point, depending on the gig, that we need to change out of our wet tops at the end of a gig!



  • #108
    Capra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123260464#Comment_123260464

    I wish I changed out of my wet top at the end of the gig 😂 Dying sick with the last few days.



  • #109
    [Deleted User]
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    I was at limp bizkit, my mistake going back into the center of the crowd with two beers 5 mins before it started. Drownded a random woman beside me and myself. Crowd was fantastic, was on my arse once in the mosh pit but they picked me up straight away.

    Was a fantastic concert. Definitely one of the best i've been at in a while.

    I hate concerts where the music isn't upbeat and gets you going.

    Not sure i'll be going to anything else this year, maybe the offspring, iron maiden and disturbed.



  • #110
    Hurrache
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    I'm sorry I didn't go see them, mates couldn't go and I was a click away from buying a ticket and going alone.



  • #111
    Capra
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123265106#Comment_123265106

    you might as well have. I went with a friend and we only really talked before and afterwards. During the concert there was too much going on. Was just catching my breath between songs.



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