going to shows by yourself

[GetYourWarOn]

i've never done it before but i'm tempted to sometimes

like for example how architecture in helsinki is playing tonight and i would've loved to have been there, but my friends aren't at all into this type of music

[iceygirl]

go

it builds character and maybe you will get laid

[pshabi]

I've done it. It's fun.

[camo]

I do it quite often because my closest mates are'nt into the same music that I am into.

Once the band come on, you'll forget about being on your own (y)

[Yorkshire~Rose]

Yeah go for it. I've never been to a show on my own (i would though) but i've been to the cinema on my own plenty - my friends/hubby don't like the same kind of films i do.

[trailerprincess]

I prefer going with other people as it's more social, but if it's a band I really wanted to see then I wouldn't not go just because I'd be on my billy.

[camo]

I prefer going with other people as it's more social, but if it's a band I really wanted to see then I wouldn't not go just because I'd be on my billy.

how does billy feel about that?

[trailerprincess]

how does billy feel about that?

He doesn't speak much :rolleyes:

[camo]

He doesn't speak much :rolleyes:

so it's pretty much like going by yourself anyways?

[na§tee]

my flatmates don't really like the same music as me. my ex-boyfriend did, but he didn't live here for the past few years. normally i would recruit the same other friend to go with me, or bribe another by paying for their tickets : ( it was so different at university. everyone would go together en masse. i dunny mind though, i quite like the experience of enjoying all this visual and aural pleasure on your ownsome.

infact, i am considering going to this (http://www.bebado.co.uk/) tomorrow night and i think i would prefer to go by myself and enjoy the drums. unless, you know, any of you guys can make the trip up. i'll buy you a cider.

[Documad]

You miss a lot if you only do things your friends want to do. I go to shows alone about 1/4 of the time. It's very comfortable to go to a standing show by yourself. When I go with friends, they're never aggressive enough to stay up front anyway. It sometimes feels a little strange if you've got an assigned seat and you're alone, but you can always bring a notebook and pretend you're a music critic. You also get much better seats as a solo. I was in fifth row for Sigur Ros because I was a solo. The next time, I brought a friend and I was in the 30th row.

I don't have a single friend who likes Radiohead. I was in second row for that, and I did grab a complete stranger's arm once when I got overexcited. But she was also alone and she understood. The other people in the row WERE music critics and they didn't even stand up. :rolleyes:

By the way, a few years ago, I went to shows by myself about half the time. Then my friends started realizing that you can be over 30 and see live music and they started wanting to come along.

[mikizee]

I didn't know people in the US knew about architecture in helsinki! i really dig em. there are so many great australian music acts that the rest of the world dont know about.

[bigblu89]

I've gone to shows, movies, and ballgames by myself.

[camo]

my flatmates don't really like the same music as me. my ex-boyfriend did, but he didn't live here for the past few years. normally i would recruit the same other friend to go with me, or bribe another by paying for their tickets : ( it was so different at university. everyone would go together en masse. i dunny mind though, i quite like the experience of enjoying all this visual and aural pleasure on your ownsome.

infact, i am considering going to this (http://www.bebado.co.uk/) tomorrow night and i think i would prefer to go by myself and enjoy the drums. unless, you know, any of you guys can make the trip up. i'll buy you a cider.

http://www.bebado.co.uk

bebado?

sounds like the lyrics to the scatman song!

[na§tee]

hahaha.
it means drunk in portugese.

[camo]

hahaha.
it means drunk in portugese.

ahh I see.

I've got the scatman song stuck in my head now :(

[MC Moot]

I don't like to go to movies by myself....it's no fun,I also get sad when I see people at the movies by themselves....but I went and saw Pearl Jam in Barcelona last year,alone ,and it was awesome,very trippy...can't quite explain it but it was like a natural high......(y)

[hpdrifter]

my flatmates don't really like the same music as me. my ex-boyfriend did, but he didn't live here for the past few years. normally i would recruit the same other friend to go with me, or bribe another by paying for their tickets : ( it was so different at university. everyone would go together en masse. i dunny mind though, i quite like the experience of enjoying all this visual and aural pleasure on your ownsome.

infact, i am considering going to this (http://www.bebado.co.uk/) tomorrow night and i think i would prefer to go by myself and enjoy the drums. unless, you know, any of you guys can make the trip up. i'll buy you a cider.

Is this the boy you've been trying to separate from for awhile? Did you do it?

[paul jones]

I've been to loads of gigs by myself....

here are some off the top of my memory computer machine

Moloko, when they played in a small club
Ben Folds Five when they played The Water Rats in Kings Cross
Beastie Boys when they played Brixton in '94
Kraftwerk at the Metro in Melbourne
BS2000 at the garage in London

I can't think of anymore right now as I'm hungry

[Rock]

I didn't know people in the US knew about architecture in helsinki! i really dig em. there are so many great australian music acts that the rest of the world dont know about.

They put on a great live show. One of my favorite shows ever, and I didn't even know who they were at the time.
I like them live better than their albums.

Anyways...I don't understand why it would matter. When I go to a movie or a show I don't carry conversations during the performance or during the movie, so having someone there is like, whatever. Someone there, cool. Someone not there, cool.

Ya should have gone homepiss.

[Otis Driftwood]

A bit of warning to all ye Glasgow bound solo concert goers so you don't get had:
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1452917.0.what_a_fly_move.php

[kll]

i used to go to shows by myself a lot and occasionally still do. i have never had a bad time with myself. :o

[yeahwho]

Sure yeah, aren't we all internet dorks?

[sound boy]

why not? ive done it many times, mainly because my friends are lame and dont wanna go.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

I've only gone to one show by myself (De La Soul), but I ended up meeting someone very cool there, and we hit it off. In my eyes concerts (even movies for that matter) just aren't events you go to by yourself. They're simply more fun with other people.

[ericlee]

When you go to a show by "yourself" it's not actually going alone.

Instead, you're going to a show with hundreds of friends that you never knew you had.

Think about it. You're going to go and see a band in which alot of people like and if you mingle with them a bit then your realize that you're not alone after all.

[Suavee-Bolo]

I went to a Lollapalooza with my sister-in-law and a friend of hers whom I wound up ditching because they were too boring for me.

I wound up bumping into some friends I kinda knew from high school which was about 4 years after. So I was kind of alone for that concert,

It sucked to my recolection.

[ScarySquirrel]

It seems to me that a lot of people seem to be afraid to do things by themselves anymore. People don't want to go to the movies by themselves, they don't want to go to concerts alone, I even know some people who seem to have problems getting groceries by themselves!

I say go to the shit by yourself. I saw Z-Trip and Cut Chemist by myself and both those shows were completely awesome. I had one hell of a time and I didn't need any suckers to share it with.

I guess I don't know what I'm getting at. Just go to the damn show.

[Medellia]

It seems to me that a lot of people seem to be afraid to do things by themselves anymore. People don't want to go to the movies by themselves, they don't want to go to concerts alone, I even know some people who seem to have problems getting groceries by themselves!

I say go to the shit by yourself. I saw Z-Trip and Cut Chemist by myself and both those shows were completely awesome. I had one hell of a time and I didn't need any suckers to share it with.

I guess I don't know what I'm getting at. Just go to the damn show.

Easier said than done for some people. I've never been to a concert by myself, though I have seen a few films alone, but only because the people I went with were in a different theater. I'm a small girl. I've been groped at shows, and had strange, usually harmless, but occasionally scary men hit on me at movies. And that's with other people around, surely you can see why I wouldn't want to go alone? That said, it's pretty sad if you don't have that problem, but don't go places by yourself because you can't have a good time without someone else around.

Also, there aren't very many good shows around here, and I'd have to travel quite a ways for most bands I want to see, so going with at least one other person means paying less for hotel and gas. ;)

[b-grrrlie]

I go to gigs alone most of the time, like 99%. Resently I've gotten loads of new friends, but usually I bump into them at gigs, I don't go there to meet them that often.

[banzai]

I've never been to a show alone, but I think I would have to make an exception for Architecture in Helsinki. Shame on you.

[Medellia]

Since you've seen Nathan Barley, then it's easy to see the sort of up-to-date sleaze of the male mind hahah

"Soon i'm going to be showing you my arghhh face"

"I've got a hunch, you like a munch"

"Going down south, south wiv me mouf"

"From tha lips to tha nips"

So good.
Heheh, I'm in Oklahoma, the sleazy dudes here are a totally different kind of sleaze.

And since I know you'll ask how I heard of Nathan Barley, my boyfriend is English, he suggested I check it out, so I watched it on youtube.(y)

[beastieangel01]

I went to see James Brown by myself. And I most definitely did not regret it.

I might go see Chromeo and Flosstradamus by myself tomorrow night. wee.

[mikizee]

I missed out on Gotye's tickets for his show, (which is apparently amazing). Luckily we had exchanged a couple of emails before, so I emailed him and he put me on the door!!!! What a fucking legend. But there was no +1, so I guess I'll be going by myself. Which scares me because I have never been to a show by myself before.