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

indieJones · 09-03-2008 08:16PM #1

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 · 09-03-2008 08:18PM

If you like the music, just go.

Mr. Presentable · 09-03-2008 08:19PM

Go!

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

Mutz · 09-03-2008 08:20PM

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 · 09-03-2008 08:22PM

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 · 09-03-2008 08:22PM

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 · 09-03-2008 08:55PM

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 · 09-03-2008 09:05PM

I do it all the time.

Go for it!

rejkin · 09-03-2008 09:07PM

i guess he/she went! good on them!

wonder what gig it was

feylya · 09-03-2008 09:10PM

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.

09-03-2008 09:16PM

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 · 09-03-2008 09:22PM

go!

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

princess-sprkle · 09-03-2008 09:40PM

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 · 09-03-2008 09:42PM

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.

09-03-2008 09:45PM

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 · 09-03-2008 09:47PM

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 · 09-03-2008 09:47PM

Go!

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

BKtje · 09-03-2008 11:23PM

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 · 09-03-2008 11:28PM

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

GhostInTheRuins · 10-03-2008 12:37AM

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 · 10-03-2008 12:41AM

+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 · 10-03-2008 12:43AM

Xavi6 wrote: »

+1 for going on your tobler.

Took me a second to get that. For shame.

The Walsho · 10-03-2008 12:48AM

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 · 10-03-2008 01:02AM

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 · 10-03-2008 01:09AM

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 · 10-03-2008 01:26AM

Buckfast is your friend.

buckfast4me · 10-03-2008 02:31AM

I am? I dunno the guy

Dragan · 10-03-2008 12:39PM

I very specifically go to some gigs on my own.

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

ronano · 10-03-2008 12:43PM

Boards gig meetups like the film ones?

Howard the Duck · 10-03-2008 12:52PM

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 · 10-03-2008 01:14PM

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.

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

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