Green Day
The Mrs Strump loves Green Day. I will happily go along to the gig and listen for the early stuff. But I draw the line at the recent gig at the Emirates.

We had booked very early, but I had recently popped my Achilles Tendon. After ringing them, the people at the concert had swapped our standing tickets to seated due to my accident and the cast on my ankle. The people around me saw my cast, and crutches, "how did you do that?", "does it hurt?" etc

To be honest, the 1st warm up band spent 30 minutes sucking up to "Landan". They performed some music. That is all.

Kaiser Chiefs next. It seemed most of the audience acknowledged them. They did their "Greatest hits". Pretty good, especially as he climbed the rigging.

As soon as Green Day came on, the 2 people next to me decided to dance, and one of them stood on my foot. 2 blokes, trying to be Alpha males, dancing and singing in the seats.

Twice they landed on my ankle, before deciding that after every song one of them needed either a piss, a beer or some food. I stood up about 60 times to let them by, in about 4 hours.

I think Green Day were good, but after the second stamp I spent the rest of the evening munching on pain killers that were prescribed for me. I would just like to say that seats, especially in the in the elevated areas are for sitting.

TL;DR - Old man breaks ankle, watches bands, annoyed at standing up.
(Strump striving for imperfection since, Tue 30 Jul 2013, 23:06, 2 replies)

See? Seats are for sitting in.
I'm glad someone understands. Maybe we should break the legs of everyone else, to make them understand?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 9:30, closed)

As a local, I got to listen to that gig
I was wondering what the howls of pain were.

Still, at least you weren't at the Coldplay gig there the year before. Having your whole house reverberate with all that whining should be classified as cruel and unusual punishment. Painkillers wouldn't have been enough.
( chthonic, Wed 31 Jul 2013, 14:43, closed)