my first 'proper' rock concert experience is probably best summed up as 'ironic'... ?
coldplay performed at the Target Center's Arena on Tuesday evening... and f who's here to visit found tics for both of us last minute... i've not really got myself acquainted with their music but some of the tunes were familiar... and rather good... afterall, they seem to be the best-selling pop group at the moment...
yes, i came all the way to the USA to see a UK band perform here...!
the acoustics weren't brilliant in the arena that houses the NBA games... and many other musical events... what seemed perhaps a technical/engineering glitch was actually pretty tolerable from our seats which were located pretty high up but still had a decent view of the stage...
i was looking forward to the start of the show until 3 rather unruly behaved guys (probably just entered uni) came along and sat behind us... one of them was pretty 'high' on something... and they started to smoke... all was pretty tolerable despite their smoking and somewhat 'FRONTAL' behaviour -- (a neuropsychological term often used to refer to tendencies of disinhibition and inability to control ones tendencies for appropriate social contexts which are related to damage to the orbito-frontal lobes) -- of this one guy... until sometime during the performance,
1) he, being too hyper and excited, decided to stand on the top of the chairs in front of him... lost his balance and hit the guy in front of him before landing on the ground and then pissed that bloke off further with his pathetic attitude... (FYI: he could have had a really bad/fatal fall from that height if he was more frontal than he was!)
and then a little later,
2) that same twat decided to PEE onto the seats or wall near the back seats to relieve himself... whatever he did or wherever he aimed at... it was loud enough to be offended...
i was truly appalled by the disgusting behaviour... and decided to drag f down to the lower part of the area we were seated before f could try to get him to realise how disgusting he IS to no avail (given his mental state) and before we finally headed out during the last encore...
YUCK!!!!!
posted by ~overacuppa~ on Thursday, 22 September, 2005 at 17:05 hrssome experience :) teenage frats....well. I'm back home to chicken rice paradise...finally....
Posted by: Gor on Friday, 23 September, 2005 at 11:46 hrsyayee... i collected the parcel this morning! thanks for posting it!!!
should probably make chicken rice here too, someday... need to find the chilli sauce or learn to make it...=CP
Posted by: overacuppa on Tuesday, 27 September, 2005 at 11:45 hrsGosh, how cool that you got to see Coldplay. Blasted kids though, sorry they spoiled the evening. I've actually never attended a concert in the US before; I hope such things aren't a common occurence.
Posted by: monoceros on Wednesday, 28 September, 2005 at 04:26 hrsi hope not too! i wonder if they have open-air concerts like they do in the UK... i think it's much better... although i have yet been to Glastonbury!
Posted by: overacuppa on Wednesday, 28 September, 2005 at 17:20 hrsi understand this year's glastonbury was quite the mud fest... =)
but you've caught Coldplay too! now i'm not too big a fan anymore but their concerts certainly pique my interest...
Posted by: a l on Thursday, 29 September, 2005 at 21:15 hrs=C) i think glastonbury is known to be a mud fest! heee
hmm... i think Coldplay's tunes are a lot like REM... no?!
yikes... i really should make more of an effort to listen to the pop songs on radio...! hee
*Note: in case you were thinking of leaving a comment and the option isn't here anymore... it is because the comment section of each entry is closed after sometime to prevent malicious comments... if you are looking for the actual entry, type in the keyword(s) in the little box on the main page http://overacuppa.com where it says "fossicking pebbles & seashells" and press *search*... thank you for popping by and happy browsing!