Awkward Concert Moments (Official Thread)

[kbi the crowing]

Share your awkward concert moments.




On the Epitaph tour last fall, Every Time I Die opened their set with "Roman Holiday" and during said song on the record, the band does a four count of not playing/feedback. So when the time came at the show for the pause to take place I screamed at the top of my lungs "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!"

Turns out when playing it live, they do an eight count, not a four. A guy in front of me turned around and shared another four count of extremely awkward eye contact with me. Luckily I never saw him after that.

[flks511]

Being at the Atticus show (to see Finch) with my friends (who were there to see blessthefall). They complained loudly that Finch's set was too long, and that blessthefall should come on soon. Whenever I would show any enthusiasm for Finch during their set, they would stare at me like, "What the hell are you doing." They were extremely pissed when I took off after Finch finished playing.

[Max_123]

ahh i can't remember what band was headlining, but this one time i went to a show to see a friends band and i guess it was a big show, and so during one of their songs they slow it down and are like "we want to see a really big circle pit, when i count to 3 everyone start moving" and so he does the count and there's only one kid who starts running around and everyone's just staring at him like they wanted to kill him hahaha

[DandonTRJ]

I went to see Emery play a show in Pittsburgh a couple years ago. Mayday Parade was one of the opening acts. I was fine with this, since A Lesson In Romantics is a kick-ass album. However, their presence at the show brought out a huge crowd of tarted-up 12-year-old girls, all of them wearing way too much make-up and way too little clothing [you're in a fucking training bra, put on a real shirt]. A group of them ended up behind me and my friend, proceeding to annoy the shit out of us with their chattiness and general stupidity. I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was when, during the show, one of the girls put their hand between my legs and grabbed my junk. The crowd was too packed for me to turn around and figure out which one did it, but there was no way that copped feel was an accident.

I got felt up by a fucking middle-school girl at an Emery show.

Oh, and once I sung the chorus of "A Whisper & A Clamor" too early at an Anberlin show.

But I think the Emery story beats that.

[Cøltøn]

When Thursday played Taste of Chaos here, and most people left after BMTH. It went from being completely packed to like 1/3 full. Awkward...

[friskycurtain]

Was at a Zebrahead/Authority Zero concert and one of the opening acts was Tokyo Rose. They were really bad live. So later in the concert Authority Zero finished their set and myself and a friend were yelling from our seats, "Tokyo Rose sucks! Authority Zero rules!" The singer of Tokyo Rose was sitting behind us. He had apparently decided to stick around after their set and since it was a small concert venue he went ahead and sat with everyone. My friend had turned around a one point, elbowed me, and was like "you know the leader singer is siting behind us." I turned around and oh shit he was. I just sat there embarrased and waited for the dude to get up and leave.

[roughroads]

At the Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/The All American Rejects show this summer, most people (with the exception of 13 year old fan girls) where their solely for Blink 182, so when Fall Out Boy performed at asked the crowd to cheer, not many people did. In-fact only about 4 or 5 guys in my section actually did. After the first time they cheered they came to the realization that they were the only ones, and right after when Pete Wentz coaxed the crowd to cheer louder, the 4 or 5 guys sat back down under the sea of watchful, judging eyes.
It wasn't awkward for me in particular, but I felt pretty bad for the 4 or 5 guy's. Also it was pretty awkward that the crowd's cheer got even smaller after Pete's attempted coaxing.

Edit: I have nothing against Fall Out Boy, it's just Blink 182 > Fall Out Boy

[kbi the crowing]

When Thursday played Taste of Chaos here, and most people left after BMTH. It went from being completely packed to like 1/3 full. Awkward...

I've heard this same scenario play out so many times and saw it with my own eyes at the show I mentioned in the first post
I guess BMTH fans really only care about BMTH?

[anthonydarko]

Last month at the Thursday/Dillinger Escape Plan show in St. Louis, I had a drunk chick give me what was basically a standing lapdance during Dillinger Escape Plan's performance. Afterwards, I saw her holding onto to her boyfriend. I walked quickly passed them just as a precaution.

[AFSjulian]

My junior year in high school I saw The Blood Brothers at The Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, OH. It was right around the time that Crimes came out and I hadn't had a chance to pick it up yet, nor did my best friend who I went with. About midway through the set they played "Love Rhymes w/ Hideous Car Wreck" and literally everyone in the crowd besides my friend and I clapped twice in the beginning. I remember getting a lot of disgusted glares from a lot of hip types around us. It was a little embarrassing, but I bought the album that night to ensure it would never happen again.

I also had several awkward moments playing in bands, mostly having to do with me falling down in front of crowds of people.

[warstory]

no major embarassments or anything
I am little girl tiny so there is always one person who feels like they need to protect me and make sure no one steps on my toe or gets anywhere near me. it's completely unnecessary but still a sweet gesture I suppose.
I always feel awkward because I feel like someones kid sister ruining their night while they're trying to see a band they like

[Jake Denning]

no major embarassments or anything
I am little girl tiny so there is always one person who feels like they need to protect me and make sure no one steps on my toe or gets anywhere near me. it's completely unnecessary but still a sweet gesture I suppose.
I always feel awkward because I feel like someones kid sister ruining their night while they're trying to see a band they like

awwwwwww :p

[cshadows2887]

Back in my nu-metal days I went to see Sevendust. We got up near the front because we got there early. Ill Nino was the opener and they were one of the worst things I've ever heard. Walls of out of tune white noise. And at one point they did the "We want to see everybody jumping." Since they sucked, my buddy and I did not jump, though almost everyone else around us did. So the singer then looks right at the two of us and says "I want to see EVERYBODY fucking jumping" and he was actually getting annoyed. So I crossed my arms and had a staring contest showdown with the singer of Ill Nino. Which lasted about a second before he gave it up and continued singing/rapping poorly. But still, the fuck?

[Illadelphia]

Unfortunately my first concert experience was NSYNC. My parents brought me and my friend and I was pretty excited. As soon as they came out we heard the entire place erupt in a high pitch scream. I looked around and realized we were the only dudes in the entire section (probably in the whole arena). I remember thinking , "Maybe NSYNC isn't as cool as I thought."

[cshadows2887]

Unfortunately my first concert experience was NSYNC. My parents brought me and my friend and I was pretty excited. As soon as they came out we heard the entire place erupt in a high pitch scream. I looked around and realized we were the only dudes in the entire section (probably in the whole arena). I remember thinking , "Maybe NSYNC isn't as cool as I thought."

Nothing wrong w/ NSYNC. They had a handful of really great songs.

[Illadelphia]

Nothing wrong w/ NSYNC. They had a handful of really great songs.
Haha, they were catchy, but I felt so out of place in that sea of girls. I still thought they had cooties.

[cshadows2887]

Haha, they were catchy, but I felt so out of place in that sea of girls. I still thought they had cooties.

Haha. Such a wasted opportunity.

[FallenAngel117]

i saw caliban in London this time last year and they were playing with Kreator. there was my bf, myself and one guy from like argentina who knew who they were an all the lame kreator fans were booing an throwing stuff back onto the stage an shit.. felt a little unnecessary to me :-(

[Max_123]

Haha, they were catchy, but I felt so out of place in that sea of girls. I still thought they had cooties.
hahaha this totally happened to me when i was like.....6 or 7 I went to see the Backstreet Boys :thumbup:

[tyramail]

i just feel awkward because i'm 21 and still go to shows where the majority are 14/15/16 year olds haha.

[andrewshungry]

Share your awkward concert moments.




On the Epitaph tour last fall, Every Time I Die opened their set with "Roman Holiday" and during said song on the record, the band does a four count of not playing/feedback. So when the time came at the show for the pause to take place I screamed at the top of my lungs "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!"

Turns out when playing it live, they do an eight count, not a four. A guy in front of me turned around and shared another four count of extremely awkward eye contact with me. Luckily I never saw him after that.

this made me laugh out loud

[FallenAngel117]

i just feel awkward because i'm 21 and still go to shows where the majority are 14/15/16 year olds haha.

i'm starting to notice that too and i'm only 19. when i was their age i didnt even know that half the stuff i listen to now existed :-0

[andrewshungry]

Unfortunately my first concert experience was NSYNC. My parents brought me and my friend and I was pretty excited. As soon as they came out we heard the entire place erupt in a high pitch scream. I looked around and realized we were the only dudes in the entire section (probably in the whole arena). I remember thinking , "Maybe NSYNC isn't as cool as I thought."

dude, they're fucking cool

i just feel awkward because i'm 21 and still go to shows where the majority are 14/15/16 year olds haha.

THIS. hahaha

[cshadows2887]

i just feel awkward because i'm 21 and still go to shows where the majority are 14/15/16 year olds haha.

At least you're female. I get these little girls moms eyeing me like I'm a stranger with candy and a broken-down van.

[tyramail]

i'm starting to notice that too and i'm only 19. when i was their age i didnt even know that half the stuff i listen to now existed :-0
hahah, i know what you mean. when i was 14 and 15, i was going to local shows, but i didn't really pay much attention to as much music as i do now.

At least you're female. I get these little girls moms eyeing me like I'm a stranger with candy and a broken-down van.
that is lame, i am sorry. sexist, double-standards suck haha.

[FallenAngel117]

At least you're female. I get these little girls moms eyeing me like I'm a stranger with candy and a broken-down van.

their mums go to concerts with them? :-|

[FallenAngel117]

hahah, i know what you mean. when i was 14 and 15, i was going to local shows, but i didn't really pay much attention to as much music as i do now.


that is lame, i am sorry. sexist, double-standards suck haha.

yeah i'm beginning to think that kids today are growing up too fast.. haha i live in a hole we have to travel 100kms just to get to the city to see concerts, hence why i never saw any at that age.. except i did go to Avril Lavigne lol

[cshadows2887]

their mums go to concerts with them? :-|

The really young ones (12, 13) yeah. I find myself going to a lot less of those kind of shows now just to avoid it.

[FallenAngel117]

The really young ones (12, 13) yeah. I find myself going to a lot less of those kind of shows now just to avoid it.

mmm.. that sucks. you shouldnt have to miss out on concerts with bands you like just because of some overprotective mums

[DandonTRJ]

no major embarassments or anything
I am little girl tiny so there is always one person who feels like they need to protect me and make sure no one steps on my toe or gets anywhere near me. it's completely unnecessary but still a sweet gesture I suppose.
I always feel awkward because I feel like someones kid sister ruining their night while they're trying to see a band they like
Hahaha, I was that "one person" for someone else last year at a Killswitch show, except I wasn't preemptive about it.

I met a cute little girl with pink hair before the show started who was there to see Every Time I Die, and while Dillinger Escape Plan was playing first, she was getting absolutely crushed between two meathead Killswitch fans in wifebeaters. I noticed her look of absolute misery during DEP's set [literally pinned between their fucking biceps], reached backward, grabbed her hand, pulled her forward, and threw her in front of me [up against the barricade -- I was front row before giving her my spot]. It made trying to stay steady in the crowd a huge bitch afterward, but I felt like I'd done my good deed for the day.

Funny thing is, I've actually gone to shows with my kid sister, and I never protect her like that. She can look after her own damn self. :P

[if you're reading this thread HI ROSE <3]

[tyramail]

yeah i'm beginning to think that kids today are growing up too fast.. haha i live in a hole we have to travel 100kms just to get to the city to see concerts, hence why i never saw any at that age.. except i did go to Avril Lavigne lol
oh that is lame haha. well hopefully avril was worth it. the venue i used to go to was about 25 minutes away, i don't know how my friends and i talked our parents into dropping us off every weekend haha.

[warstory]

Hahaha, I was that "one person" for someone else last year at a Killswitch show, except I wasn't preemptive about it.

I met a cute little girl with pink hair before the show started who was there to see Every Time I Die, and while Dillinger Escape Plan was playing first, she was getting absolutely crushed between two meathead Killswitch fans in wifebeaters. I noticed her look of absolute misery during DEP's set [literally pinned between their fucking biceps], reached backward, grabbed her hand, pulled her forward, and threw her in front of me [up against the barricade -- I was front row before giving her my spot]. It made trying to stay steady in the crowd a huge bitch afterward, but I felt like I'd done my good deed for the day.

Funny thing is, I've actually gone to shows with my kid sister, and I never protect her like that. She can look after her own damn self. :P

[if you're reading this thread HI ROSE <3]

aw how sweet :D I bet she really appreciated you
:thumbup:

[warstory]

Unfortunately my first concert experience was NSYNC. My parents brought me and my friend and I was pretty excited. As soon as they came out we heard the entire place erupt in a high pitch scream. I looked around and realized we were the only dudes in the entire section (probably in the whole arena). I remember thinking , "Maybe NSYNC isn't as cool as I thought."
nsync was my first concert too, tbh.
i figure it was an awesome investment though because i can still fit in to the shirt that I bought there
my friends brother came with us but there really weren't many boys, if i remember correctly

[FallenAngel117]

oh that is lame haha. well hopefully avril was worth it. the venue i used to go to was about 25 minutes away, i don't know how my friends and i talked our parents into dropping us off every weekend haha.

at the time it was good.. dunno if i'd do it all again now though
wow closest thing we have is band jams at our local youth center every sunday. but that got stopped last year an i think its up an running again. the guy who organises it used to put on concerts there for us an my band used to play till our singer jumped ship coz she found a bf an couldnt handle standing on the other side of the room without screwing up coz of him

[cshadows2887]

mmm.. that sucks. you shouldnt have to miss out on concerts with bands you like just because of some overprotective mums

at the time it was good.. dunno if i'd do it all again now though
wow closest thing we have is band jams at our local youth center every sunday. but that got stopped last year an i think its up an running again. the guy who organises it used to put on concerts there for us an my band used to play till our singer jumped ship coz she found a bf an couldnt handle standing on the other side of the room without screwing up coz of him

Eh. It's not just that. Just those shows are always full of high-pitched screaming. And all the openers usually sound the same and shout MTV-approved stage banter like they just drank 8 redbulls. It gets tiresome eventually.

And btw, playing a song in front of someone you wrote it about can be nerve-wracking (from personal experience) but that's just ridiculous.

[FallenAngel117]

Eh. It's not just that. Just those shows are always full of high-pitched screaming. And all the openers usually sound the same and shout MTV-approved stage banter like they just drank 8 redbulls. It gets tiresome eventually.

And btw, playing a song in front of someone you wrote it about can be nerve-wracking (from personal experience) but that's just ridiculous.

fair enough.

nah this was just songs we'd written as a band. we then convinced him to join the band an they started going out. then they went all bizarre an couldnt keep off each other for more than 5 mins sorta thing and are still like than now (5 months later)

[cshadows2887]

fair enough.

nah this was just songs we'd written as a band. we then convinced him to join the band an they started going out. then they went all bizarre an couldnt keep off each other for more than 5 mins sorta thing and are still like than now (5 months later)

Please tell me you call him Yoko behind his back.

[FallenAngel117]

Please tell me you call him Yoko behind his back.

if i knew what you meant i would be very pleased to do so

[cshadows2887]

if i knew what you meant i would be very pleased to do so

Yoko Ono. Started dating John Lennon. The Beatles broke up. The world wept.

[FallenAngel117]

Yoko Ono. Started dating John Lennon. The Beatles broke up. The world wept.

ah fair enough. will do from now on haha

[wtfTouchMyBalls]

First story, let's go: I went to see Houston Calls and i love this band and the dudes in the band (never cared much for Jose). However, i mostly just stood there singing along with the songs. In my head, i am actually jumping around and having a good time, but most of the time i'm not. If it is a band i love i like to just watch their set. The singer looks to me and makes a comment about why i look so angry but i was having a great time so i laugh and say "no you guys are just great." Two years later i see them again and i am now jumping around, being crazy but i took a break during a new song and it happens again. Apparently i look mad AGAIN. No i'm just worn out but my fault, i know. i still love these dudes and miss them.

Second story: I won an AP.net contest to see The Higher, but i was there for sherwood and co. I was suppose to be on the guest list but i wasn't so i paid and went to the singer and said "hey i was supposed to get in free but i ended up spending merch money for entrance." i told him i planned on buying some Higher merch (complete lie). He helped me (cool dudes) but i never bought merch from them. that was awkward.

Third story: Jeremy from ADTR calls out many kids in the crowd to beat the shit out of them if they kept fighting.

lol sorry. tl;dr

[cshadows2887]

Third story: Jeremy from ADTR calls out many kids in the crowd to beat the shit out of them if they kept fighting.

I don't like them much, but I respect them a lot more if that's true.

[rising_tied]

Awkward? Im sure I had plenty, but the one I remember recently was Hardcore dancing at a local show.... And I kinda jumped or....IDK how to describe it, but I farted. And thought that it might been more than that. I walked over to where my girl was and was like... "Babe. I may have sharted, you ready to go?" lol. Me and her are very open so I didnt care about telling her, but the awkward stance immediately after the fart was very uncomfortable. and then I was pretty sure I didnt shart, so I went out on the floor again but still felt nervous just in case.. So i remained in an awkward stance till the last song

[Metal Now]

Oh my.

[softhands]

When Thursday played Taste of Chaos here, and most people left after BMTH. It went from being completely packed to like 1/3 full. Awkward...

same fucking thing happened here. I told Geoff I was sorry for my cities lack of good taste in music.

[Alex1410]

When I saw Frank Turner once, he sang the wrong verse in a song and had to listen to the crowd singing to work out where he was. He just laughed it off though and it wasn't very awkward, just funny!
I went to see The Bloodhound Gang when I was younger, the whole concert was awkward being on the front row having to dodge all the sick/spit from the band!

[FueledByRock]

blink tour this past October, Asher Roth was opening. He wanted everyone to get up out of their seats and act crazy, and I only saw one person actually listening to what he was saying. This was at MSG, which made it even more awkward and hilarious. Asher also had to pretend like people were paying attention to him.

[kearn1tm]

---THIS IS ESSAY LENGTH, Bitches---

One of the most embarrassing and awkward moments I've ever had a show was actually playing one. My band and I, back when we were trying to
actually make a go of performing music for a living (as opposed to now, when we all go to university and play on the weekends for fun around campus), were in this unofficial consortium of other local Pop Punk bands in the Toronto scene. This grouping was comprised of seven bands. We played together, when we'd finally catch a break and get an opening gig for a fairly well-known band, we'd get the others backstage, we shared venue information, etc.

One of the bands, Death Row Diamonds (I know, I know) always seemed to find the best venues for gigs - one's that actually paid enough to cover gas, had good acoustics and attracted crowds who bought merch. They were always generous and made sure to inform us of these places. Two days before April Fools, they inform us that there's a very nice apartment complex and live-in community that was looking for "youth-oriented music" to play called Arbor Manor. They were booked for April 1st but had to drop out due to prior commitments and asked if we would call them and try to set something up. The rate for an hour was quite impressive - $300. We were nearly salivating.

We call and are quickly booked for the show. When driving to the place, we noticed the large sign that read "bands needed for April Fools festivities." We neglected to read anything else on said sign or the kiosks that littered the driveway and parking structure. Arbor Manner looked like a series of interlocking mini-mansions, and needless to say, for four guys from lower (I cannot stress "lower" enough) working class families, this was the most luxurious place we'd ever been to. I asked our drummer James while driving "do you think a bunch of douchebags in girl jeans and eyeliner [we were 17 and it was 2005 and I looked damn sexy!] screaming about their ex's would be appropriate here?" His response, of course, was that "we're classy as fuck" and I didn't think about it again until the show.

So we walk in, meet the staff who find us a bit ghastly initially, but one of the directors continued to mention to the others that "my grandson loved that crazy Poison band when he was a kid and they all looked like women. They could be famous soon." We set up in this absolutely ravishing ballroom. We do a soundcheck to a crowd of two staff-members who followed us around everywhere we went (including "stealthily" coming out to the bathroom when one of us would go to ensure we weren't stealing toilet paper or "doing the dope"). They monitored us, which made our soundcheck infinitely less noisy than it normally be, as they were in their '60s and we certainly didn't want to inundate them with loud muck.

It's nearing the time for the gig and the audience pours in. Person-by-person they come and sit, and we notice a commonality between them - they're all elderly. After the initial novelty of being in such a lavish complex faded and our "clientele" were there to see a performance, we starting scanning the signs around the ballroom: "Arbor Manner: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's 3rd annual April Fool's Concert and Dance."

What do you do? We couldn't leave, we couldn't tell the directors, and Death Row Diamonds had lied about the "youth oriented music," which was evident when the lead director came on to announce us, saying "four [awkward pause] unconventional young fellas who have a knack for playing ballroom hits." They were expecting something vastly different than our sloppy, loud, obnoxious, angsty, 2-chord Pop Punk, which was, essentially, all we knew how to play (which isn't much different in 2010, truthfully).

We're in front of near-200 retired gents and gals and there's at least a good two minutes of awkward shifting, shuffling and blank staring from our part after the director announces us. Finally, one guy shouts "you guys are on," so I ran up to the mic and try to relate to them. "Uh, hi, hello everyone. Good to be here. [...pause, as I'm ad-libbing, and this is paraphrasing, for the record] I like you guys. You're great." I looked back at my bandmates for some help, and all they do is look at the ground collectively, throwing me to the wolves. "Okay, well, do you guys like...[stop to think of an older artist that's universally loved] Frank Sinatra? Huh?" I get a modest applause. Then I realize that I've just established in their minds an expectation to cover Sinatra, which posed a problem considering we barely knew how to play our own songs, let along the two Sinatra songs we knew, so to dig myself out of the hole, I continued "well, we like him too. He's cool. We're going to play our stuff though."

After that, we huddled and decided to play a 14 minute version of the "slow jam" song of ours and Daren (our clean vocalist) would do some improv with the lyrics and I would refrain from screaming during the chorus. That was going swimmingly until I forgot, out of habit, to not scream near the climax of this epic, elongated version of an already shitty song and just as we're nearing the end, I let loose on a very nicely mic'd room and the scream echoed throughout. It literally refused to die even moments after I let it out. We began to hear a series of boos until the director jumped back up (while we were still playing) and began telling jokes. We took that as our cue to leave.

So, yeah, it was an April Fools joke by Death Row Diamonds, but we still got the $300 for about fifteen minutes of work...and little did they know that their singing would DIE TWO APRIL FOOLS LATER. Joke's on them (that's not true, he didn't die, but...I don't know how to end this sentence).

[yellowhouse]

Back in my nu-metal days I went to see Sevendust. We got up near the front because we got there early. Ill Nino was the opener and they were one of the worst things I've ever heard. Walls of out of tune white noise. And at one point they did the "We want to see everybody jumping." Since they sucked, my buddy and I did not jump, though almost everyone else around us did. So the singer then looks right at the two of us and says "I want to see EVERYBODY fucking jumping" and he was actually getting annoyed. So I crossed my arms and had a staring contest showdown with the singer of Ill Nino. Which lasted about a second before he gave it up and continued singing/rapping poorly. But still, the fuck?

Haha, that's amazing.

[brothaman]

Awkward? Im sure I had plenty, but the one I remember recently was Hardcore dancing at a local show.... And I kinda jumped or....IDK how to describe it, but I farted. And thought that it might been more than that. I walked over to where my girl was and was like... "Babe. I may have sharted, you ready to go?" lol. Me and her are very open so I didnt care about telling her, but the awkward stance immediately after the fart was very uncomfortable. and then I was pretty sure I didnt shart, so I went out on the floor again but still felt nervous just in case.. So i remained in an awkward stance till the last song

hahahahahahahahahahah

[kearn1tm]

Back in my nu-metal days I went to see Sevendust. We got up near the front because we got there early. Ill Nino was the opener and they were one of the worst things I've ever heard. Walls of out of tune white noise. And at one point they did the "We want to see everybody jumping." Since they sucked, my buddy and I did not jump, though almost everyone else around us did. So the singer then looks right at the two of us and says "I want to see EVERYBODY fucking jumping" and he was actually getting annoyed. So I crossed my arms and had a staring contest showdown with the singer of Ill Nino. Which lasted about a second before he gave it up and continued singing/rapping poorly. But still, the fuck?

Was this '03? I saw Sevendust, Ill Nino, Flaw and 10 Years play together as I was ending my Nu-Metal love and my scene affinity was flowing. The lead singer of Flaw saw my friend (we were up front at the club, but admittedly, only 100 or so kids showed up), decked out in "classic" scene style (tight jeans, two-sizes too small grey hoodie with a pink heart on it, swoop cut, chucks, eyeliner) and shouted "you're at the wrong show!" Immediately following this, he fell. Everyone chanted "you fucked up." It was great.

[arcarsenal72]

My favorite awkward concert moments are always the ones of drunk people who are just waaaaay too drunk. I was playing a show in December and there was one really enthusiastic dude in the crowd giving the ceramonious woooooooo between each song. Normally, that's par for the course, and actually appreciated... but then it got a little ugly.

The venue we were playing at was setup so that the band was on the floor right in front of the audience. We start a song about 3/4 of the way through our set, everybody is dancing, and about 45 seconds in, the drunk guy stumbles and takes out our lead singer/guitarist's amp. The room went completely silent. Who better to break the silence than my one friend who just yells loud as hell, "FAIL!" The lead singer/guitarist gave the guy a hand getting up. It was awkward, but absolutely hilarious. I'll never forget that.

[cshadows2887]

Was this '03? I saw Sevendust, Ill Nino, Flaw and 10 Years play together as I was ending my Nu-Metal love and my scene affinity was flowing. The lead singer of Flaw saw my friend (we were up front at the club, but admittedly, only 100 or so kids showed up), decked out in "classic" scene style (tight jeans, two-sizes too small grey hoodie with a pink heart on it, swoop cut, chucks, eyeliner) and shouted "you're at the wrong show!" Immediately following this, he fell. Everyone chanted "you fucked up." It was great.

Hahaha. That's awesome. I hate so much about the way those cock-rock bands carry themselves. Nice to see them forced into a little humility. But no, this was '05 I think. Element 80 or something equally awful opened up for them.

Adam Lazarra once called me out for being too dressed up at a TBS show. I had on a collared shirt and jeans because we were thinking about going to a bar after. Apparently there's a uniform for TBS shows.

[kearn1tm]

Hahaha. That's awesome. I hate so much about the way those cock-rock bands carry themselves. Nice to see them forced into a little humility. But no, this was '05 I think. Element 80 or something equally awful opened up for them.

Adam Lazarra once called me out for being too dressed up at a TBS show. I had on a collared shirt and jeans because we were thinking about going to a bar after. Apparently there's a uniform for TBS shows.

What? That's absurd. Also, since when is a collard shirt and jeans "dressed up?" What a douche.

[cshadows2887]

What? That's absurd. Also, since when is a collard shirt and jeans "dressed up?" What a douche.

Yeah. He introduced his sound guy, who I was standing in front of. And he looked right at me and was like "wow some people are really dressed up. you sure we're at a concert?" Naht comfortable.

[TheRxBandit]

Went to see ADTR, TDWP, Emarosa and Sky Eats Airplane in Des Moines last semester with a few friends. We were all having a good time, and I hadn't been to too many hardcore shows, so this was a fairly new experience for me. ADTR brought in a bunch of bros and wangsters (who left after their set, yelling that TDWP sucked).

During TDWP's set, my friend was moshing, just like everyone else. All these dudes were hardcore dancing, and my friend was just having a good time in the middle of it. I look over, and one of these random dudes grabs my friend and puts him in a chokehold and starts dragging him to the back of the concert hall. So me and my other buddy freak out, and take off through the pit for him. We start yelling at the dude, and my friend is literally gasping for air, so I'm close to trying to do SOMETHING physical (I'm scrawny as fuck, but adrenaline makes you stupid haha). The kid throws my friend to the ground and we're all like "what the fuck is your problem?" and the kid just says "dumbass kept running into me".

He was moshing and shit too, so I don't know why you expect to go to a hardcore show, mosh, and not get hit back. We stared awkwardly at those fuckers the rest of the show.

[hoser1689]

I use to book shows in a shitty redneck bar and usually by the end the "regulars" were pretty wrecked. Needless to say a drunk guy got up on stage during the last bands set he continued to play air guitar for about 10 seconds then he pissed himself and awkwardly walked off the stage. After the show was over and we were tearing down the gear he comes back and is basically just being a drunk fool. The singer of Lilu Dallas asked the drunk dude if he could stun him and the drunk dude said yes. Immediately after he gives him a half assed stone cold stunner and the dude passed out on the floor(the second part was not awkward however when he got on the stage it was awkward for everyone)

[ThePartialGlow]

When Wilco came to Dallas last time, Jeff Tweedy completely called a guy out in the audience for wearing some terribly ugly and gawdy shirt. I think he felt bad because he then proceeded to trade shirts with the dude. He played a couple songs in the ugly shirt, and then asked for his H&M shirt back.

[georgia7jq]

I was at an Escape The Fate show, and the first support were a local band, the lead singer had drunk about half his bottle of water, decided he was done with it, went to throw the bottle into the crowd. I was stood at the barrier, the bottle hit me right in the forehead. He throws like a little girl.

[bacon06]

During last year's Taking Back Sunday tour, Envy On the Coast opened in Milwaukee and had sound problems after only playing 2 or 3 songs and had to stop playing. Best opening band ever.

Also at that show, during TBS's encore of MakeDamnSure, I was in the pit and stumbled across a shoe. I picked it up and my buddy, who was in front of me, encouraged me to throw it, and so did another random guy next to him. I found it just before the quiet part before the breakdown, when the "you won't ever get too far from me" began. Since I had been jumping around for the last 10-15 minutes, I had my adrenaline going and really wasn't thinking clearly.

So, I started going along with the music and started building up anticipation for launch of this shoe and after the last "you won't ever get too far..." I got a two step run up and chucked the shoe as far as I could and it went all the way to banner on the back of the stage, nearly drilling one of the guitar players square in the head.

Not one of my finer moments.

[Thursdaysox]

I went to see the decemberists right after crane wife came out and was singing along with the first couple songs before I realized NO ONE ELSE was singing. At all. I guess hipsters are more of the listening / standing still type.

[xJesusFreakx]

---THIS IS ESSAY LENGTH, Bitches---

One of the most embarrassing and awkward moments I've ever had a show was actually playing one. My band and I, back when we were trying to
actually make a go of performing music for a living (as opposed to now, when we all go to university and play on the weekends for fun around campus), were in this unofficial consortium of other local Pop Punk bands in the Toronto scene. This grouping was comprised of seven bands. We played together, when we'd finally catch a break and get an opening gig for a fairly well-known band, we'd get the others backstage, we shared venue information, etc.

One of the bands, Death Row Diamonds (I know, I know) always seemed to find the best venues for gigs - one's that actually paid enough to cover gas, had good acoustics and attracted crowds who bought merch. They were always generous and made sure to inform us of these places. Two days before April Fools, they inform us that there's a very nice apartment complex and live-in community that was looking for "youth-oriented music" to play called Arbor Manor. They were booked for April 1st but had to drop out due to prior commitments and asked if we would call them and try to set something up. The rate for an hour was quite impressive - $300. We were nearly salivating.

We call and are quickly booked for the show. When driving to the place, we noticed the large sign that read "bands needed for April Fools festivities." We neglected to read anything else on said sign or the kiosks that littered the driveway and parking structure. Arbor Manner looked like a series of interlocking mini-mansions, and needless to say, for four guys from lower (I cannot stress "lower" enough) working class families, this was the most luxurious place we'd ever been to. I asked our drummer James while driving "do you think a bunch of douchebags in girl jeans and eyeliner [we were 17 and it was 2005 and I looked damn sexy!] screaming about their ex's would be appropriate here?" His response, of course, was that "we're classy as fuck" and I didn't think about it again until the show.

So we walk in, meet the staff who find us a bit ghastly initially, but one of the directors continued to mention to the others that "my grandson loved that crazy Poison band when he was a kid and they all looked like women. They could be famous soon." We set up in this absolutely ravishing ballroom. We do a soundcheck to a crowd of two staff-members who followed us around everywhere we went (including "stealthily" coming out to the bathroom when one of us would go to ensure we weren't stealing toilet paper or "doing the dope"). They monitored us, which made our soundcheck infinitely less noisy than it normally be, as they were in their '60s and we certainly didn't want to inundate them with loud muck.

It's nearing the time for the gig and the audience pours in. Person-by-person they come and sit, and we notice a commonality between them - they're all elderly. After the initial novelty of being in such a lavish complex faded and our "clientele" were there to see a performance, we starting scanning the signs around the ballroom: "Arbor Manner: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's 3rd annual April Fool's Concert and Dance."

What do you do? We couldn't leave, we couldn't tell the directors, and Death Row Diamonds had lied about the "youth oriented music," which was evident when the lead director came on to announce us, saying "four [awkward pause] unconventional young fellas who have a knack for playing ballroom hits." They were expecting something vastly different than our sloppy, loud, obnoxious, angsty, 2-chord Pop Punk, which was, essentially, all we knew how to play (which isn't much different in 2010, truthfully).

We're in front of near-200 retired gents and gals and there's at least a good two minutes of awkward shifting, shuffling and blank staring from our part after the director announces us. Finally, one guy shouts "you guys are on," so I ran up to the mic and try to relate to them. "Uh, hi, hello everyone. Good to be here. [...pause, as I'm ad-libbing, and this is paraphrasing, for the record] I like you guys. You're great." I looked back at my bandmates for some help, and all they do is look at the ground collectively, throwing me to the wolves. "Okay, well, do you guys like...[stop to think of an older artist that's universally loved] Frank Sinatra? Huh?" I get a modest applause. Then I realize that I've just established in their minds an expectation to cover Sinatra, which posed a problem considering we barely knew how to play our own songs, let along the two Sinatra songs we knew, so to dig myself out of the hole, I continued "well, we like him too. He's cool. We're going to play our stuff though."

After that, we huddled and decided to play a 14 minute version of the "slow jam" song of ours and Daren (our clean vocalist) would do some improv with the lyrics and I would refrain from screaming during the chorus. That was going swimmingly until I forgot, out of habit, to not scream near the climax of this epic, elongated version of an already shitty song and just as we're nearing the end, I let loose on a very nicely mic'd room and the scream echoed throughout. It literally refused to die even moments after I let it out. We began to hear a series of boos until the director jumped back up (while we were still playing) and began telling jokes. We took that as our cue to leave.

So, yeah, it was an April Fools joke by Death Row Diamonds, but we still got the $300 for about fifteen minutes of work...and little did they know that their singing would DIE TWO APRIL FOOLS LATER. Joke's on them (that's not true, he didn't die, but...I don't know how to end this sentence).

Ha, this is great. I totally snickered at your misfortune while reading this.

[billy_yo]

i went to the ETID/BMTH show last year. forget the fact that everyone left after BMTH. but during ETID's frist song someone throw a pair of glitter booty shorts on stage and once they finished the song. Keith decided he wants someone to come up on the stage and put these on. unfortunetly i was in the front of the crowd and the dude that ran up on the stage was my tech teacher form 2 years ago at my high school. The teacher got completely naked to try these shorts on. so at an every time i die show i saw one of my high school teacher's junk.

[golferpunk1]

At the Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/The All American Rejects show this summer, most people (with the acceptation of 13 year old fan girls) where their solely for Blink 182, so when Fall Out Boy performed at asked the crowd to cheer, not many people did. In-fact only about 4 or 5 guys in my section actually did. After the first time they cheered they came to the realization that they were the only ones, and right after when Pete Wentz coaxed the crowd to cheer louder, the 4 or 5 guys sat back down under the sea of watchful, judging eyes.
It wasn't awkward for me in particular, but I felt pretty bad for the 4 or 5 guy's. Also it was pretty awkward that the crowd's cheer got even smaller after Pete's attempted coaxing.

Edit: I have nothing against Fall Out Boy, it's just Blink 182 > Fall Out Boy

The fact that you think "acceptation" is a word and the context you used it in are way more funny than your story!

[kbi the crowing]

this made me laugh out loud

:bow:

---THIS IS ESSAY LENGTH, Bitches---

One of the most embarrassing and awkward moments I've ever had a show was actually playing one. My band and I, back when we were trying to
actually make a go of performing music for a living (as opposed to now, when we all go to university and play on the weekends for fun around campus), were in this unofficial consortium of other local Pop Punk bands in the Toronto scene. This grouping was comprised of seven bands. We played together, when we'd finally catch a break and get an opening gig for a fairly well-known band, we'd get the others backstage, we shared venue information, etc.

One of the bands, Death Row Diamonds (I know, I know) always seemed to find the best venues for gigs - one's that actually paid enough to cover gas, had good acoustics and attracted crowds who bought merch. They were always generous and made sure to inform us of these places. Two days before April Fools, they inform us that there's a very nice apartment complex and live-in community that was looking for "youth-oriented music" to play called Arbor Manor. They were booked for April 1st but had to drop out due to prior commitments and asked if we would call them and try to set something up. The rate for an hour was quite impressive - $300. We were nearly salivating.

We call and are quickly booked for the show. When driving to the place, we noticed the large sign that read "bands needed for April Fools festivities." We neglected to read anything else on said sign or the kiosks that littered the driveway and parking structure. Arbor Manner looked like a series of interlocking mini-mansions, and needless to say, for four guys from lower (I cannot stress "lower" enough) working class families, this was the most luxurious place we'd ever been to. I asked our drummer James while driving "do you think a bunch of douchebags in girl jeans and eyeliner [we were 17 and it was 2005 and I looked damn sexy!] screaming about their ex's would be appropriate here?" His response, of course, was that "we're classy as fuck" and I didn't think about it again until the show.

So we walk in, meet the staff who find us a bit ghastly initially, but one of the directors continued to mention to the others that "my grandson loved that crazy Poison band when he was a kid and they all looked like women. They could be famous soon." We set up in this absolutely ravishing ballroom. We do a soundcheck to a crowd of two staff-members who followed us around everywhere we went (including "stealthily" coming out to the bathroom when one of us would go to ensure we weren't stealing toilet paper or "doing the dope"). They monitored us, which made our soundcheck infinitely less noisy than it normally be, as they were in their '60s and we certainly didn't want to inundate them with loud muck.

It's nearing the time for the gig and the audience pours in. Person-by-person they come and sit, and we notice a commonality between them - they're all elderly. After the initial novelty of being in such a lavish complex faded and our "clientele" were there to see a performance, we starting scanning the signs around the ballroom: "Arbor Manner: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's 3rd annual April Fool's Concert and Dance."

What do you do? We couldn't leave, we couldn't tell the directors, and Death Row Diamonds had lied about the "youth oriented music," which was evident when the lead director came on to announce us, saying "four [awkward pause] unconventional young fellas who have a knack for playing ballroom hits." They were expecting something vastly different than our sloppy, loud, obnoxious, angsty, 2-chord Pop Punk, which was, essentially, all we knew how to play (which isn't much different in 2010, truthfully).

We're in front of near-200 retired gents and gals and there's at least a good two minutes of awkward shifting, shuffling and blank staring from our part after the director announces us. Finally, one guy shouts "you guys are on," so I ran up to the mic and try to relate to them. "Uh, hi, hello everyone. Good to be here. [...pause, as I'm ad-libbing, and this is paraphrasing, for the record] I like you guys. You're great." I looked back at my bandmates for some help, and all they do is look at the ground collectively, throwing me to the wolves. "Okay, well, do you guys like...[stop to think of an older artist that's universally loved] Frank Sinatra? Huh?" I get a modest applause. Then I realize that I've just established in their minds an expectation to cover Sinatra, which posed a problem considering we barely knew how to play our own songs, let along the two Sinatra songs we knew, so to dig myself out of the hole, I continued "well, we like him too. He's cool. We're going to play our stuff though."

After that, we huddled and decided to play a 14 minute version of the "slow jam" song of ours and Daren (our clean vocalist) would do some improv with the lyrics and I would refrain from screaming during the chorus. That was going swimmingly until I forgot, out of habit, to not scream near the climax of this epic, elongated version of an already shitty song and just as we're nearing the end, I let loose on a very nicely mic'd room and the scream echoed throughout. It literally refused to die even moments after I let it out. We began to hear a series of boos until the director jumped back up (while we were still playing) and began telling jokes. We took that as our cue to leave.

So, yeah, it was an April Fools joke by Death Row Diamonds, but we still got the $300 for about fifteen minutes of work...and little did they know that their singing would DIE TWO APRIL FOOLS LATER. Joke's on them (that's not true, he didn't die, but...I don't know how to end this sentence).

best april fools prank I've ever heard

i went to the ETID/BMTH show last year. forget the fact that everyone left after BMTH. but during ETID's frist song someone throw a pair of glitter booty shorts on stage and once they finished the song. Keith decided he wants someone to come up on the stage and put these on. unfortunetly i was in the front of the crowd and the dude that ran up on the stage was my tech teacher form 2 years ago at my high school. The teacher got completely naked to try these shorts on. so at an every time i die show i saw one of my high school teacher's junk.

that's kinda creepy
I bet ETID loved it

[kearn1tm]

Ha, this is great. I totally snickered at your misfortune while reading this.

It lives on in tape form. My sister would go to all of our gigs and tape them, and we hoped to edit them together to release something for the merch table. She has this debacle in its entirety. When she got married last year, instead of an indulgent, poorly-edited video montage of the bride and groom's cutesy home videos (which I expected), she played this during the reception.

[cshadows2887]

It lives on in tape form. My sister would go to all of our gigs and tape them, and we hoped to edit them together to release something for the merch table. She has this debacle in its entirety. When she got married last year, instead of an indulgent, poorly-edited video montage of the bride and groom's cutesy home videos (which I expected), she played this during the reception.

Knowing only this, I am officially declaring your sister awesome.

[SophGod]

Last month at the Thursday/Dillinger Escape Plan show in St. Louis, I had a drunk chick give me what was basically a standing lapdance during Dillinger Escape Plan's performance. Afterwards, I saw her holding onto to her boyfriend. I walked quickly passed them just as a precaution.

that chick was weird

[xJesusFreakx]

It lives on in tape form. My sister would go to all of our gigs and tape them, and we hoped to edit them together to release something for the merch table. She has this debacle in its entirety. When she got married last year, instead of an indulgent, poorly-edited video montage of the bride and groom's cutesy home videos (which I expected), she played this during the reception.

Oh, that makes it even better. You must have been honored to have your teenage angst and embarrassment incorporated into her wedding. Please tell me this is on YouTube.

[kearn1tm]

Knowing only this, I am officially declaring your sister awesome.

She's rad, but I will destroy her for that someday.

Oh, that makes it even better. You must have been honored to have your teenage angst and embarrassment incorporated into her wedding. Please tell me this is on YouTube.

Not at all, man. Never. No. She owns the sole copy, and that copy will never be distributed. Never.

[herestoyoufla]

yeah i'm beginning to think that kids today are growing up too fast.. haha i live in a hole we have to travel 100kms just to get to the city to see concerts, hence why i never saw any at that age.. except i did go to Avril Lavigne lol
I love avril lavigne.
She makes me so hot.

[fanberlinboy]

Eh. It's not just that. Just those shows are always full of high-pitched screaming. And all the openers usually sound the same and shout MTV-approved stage banter like they just drank 8 redbulls. It gets tiresome eventually.

And btw, playing a song in front of someone you wrote it about can be nerve-wracking (from personal experience) but that's just ridiculous.
Oh gosh, yes. My band will be playing a show on the 30th where it will appear that there were be two people coming who I wrote a song in the set mostly about haha.

Awkward? Im sure I had plenty, but the one I remember recently was Hardcore dancing at a local show.... And I kinda jumped or....IDK how to describe it, but I farted. And thought that it might been more than that. I walked over to where my girl was and was like... "Babe. I may have sharted, you ready to go?" lol. Me and her are very open so I didnt care about telling her, but the awkward stance immediately after the fart was very uncomfortable. and then I was pretty sure I didnt shart, so I went out on the floor again but still felt nervous just in case.. So i remained in an awkward stance till the last song
:lol:

[yaz06]

At the Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/The All American Rejects show this summer, most people (with the acceptation of 13 year old fan girls) where their solely for Blink 182, so when Fall Out Boy performed at asked the crowd to cheer, not many people did. In-fact only about 4 or 5 guys in my section actually did. After the first time they cheered they came to the realization that they were the only ones, and right after when Pete Wentz coaxed the crowd to cheer louder, the 4 or 5 guys sat back down under the sea of watchful, judging eyes.
It wasn't awkward for me in particular, but I felt pretty bad for the 4 or 5 guy's. Also it was pretty awkward that the crowd's cheer got even smaller after Pete's attempted coaxing.

Edit: I have nothing against Fall Out Boy, it's just Blink 182 > Fall Out Boy

I saw that same show in Saskatoon, I think the night before the one in Winnipeg, but it was exactly the same thing. AAR and Fall Out Boy absolutely got no response from the crowd cause really, who would be there to see those two when Blink is playing??

[underdawg1119]

My high school band was playing our 2nd or 3rd show ever, and being the rambunctious 17 year old that I was, I had decided to put "FUCK NY" (arranged in the Yankees logo) on my kick drum in red duct tape. About 2 or 3 songs into the set, this older gentleman, decked out in Yankees paraphernalia, and visibly intoxicated, stumbles towards the stage, only to immediately see my kick drum. Naturally, in his drunken state, he becomes enraged, and begins yelling profanities at me and challenging me to fight him. We all just sort of ignored him and started the next song, and luckily when we got off stage, he was nowhere to be found.

[onelastdisaster]

At the Blink 182/Fall Out Boy/The All American Rejects show this summer, most people (with the acceptation of 13 year old fan girls) where their solely for Blink 182, so when Fall Out Boy performed at asked the crowd to cheer, not many people did. In-fact only about 4 or 5 guys in my section actually did. After the first time they cheered they came to the realization that they were the only ones, and right after when Pete Wentz coaxed the crowd to cheer louder, the 4 or 5 guys sat back down under the sea of watchful, judging eyes.
It wasn't awkward for me in particular, but I felt pretty bad for the 4 or 5 guy's. Also it was pretty awkward that the crowd's cheer got even smaller after Pete's attempted coaxing.

Edit: I have nothing against Fall Out Boy, it's just Blink 182 > Fall Out Boy

I went to this tour stop in Pittsburgh, when it was Blink, FOB, Panic, and this shitty ass band called Chester French. They opened the show and nobody really cared, everybody was obviously there for Blink and somewhat for FOB and Panic. So the Chester French guy is trying to get everybody pumped up, and he's screaming things like "YEAH PUT YOUR HANDS UP" and nobody did. Or "YEAH MAKE SOME NOISE" and nobody did. But the best thing is when he screamed "TAKE YOUR DICKS OUT!"

I've never heard an arena get so quiet so fast.
Best thing ever.

[Readyfuels]

I went and saw Anberlin play a radio show in Richmond back in April of last year. I unfortunately had to sit through Pop Evil and Framing Hanley before Anberlin played. I was right up front, probably 2nd/3rd row and during Pop Evil's ENTIRE set their guitarist was just staring at me while I stood there, bored out of my mind with my arms crossed. Didn't feel bad at all since they were terrible. Same thing happened during Framing Hanley. Oh well.

Another Anberlin related story. Saw them a year ago in Harrisonburg, VA. Front row. Tiny, tiny venue. Maybe 300-400 people. Christian (guitarist) jumped out on the speaker that was off from the stage or whatever and since the place was so tiny it was like right next to where me and my friend were. I'm guessing my friend was just really excited or something that he jumped out there because she put her hand up towards him and got pushed towards him since the crowd flipped out and pretty much long story short she ran her hand all the way up the inner part of his leg hahahah. Made talking to him afterwards SO FUCKING AWKARD oh my god haha

[dungeonwitch]

ok sorry, but who are BMTH?

[ace1112]

at warped in st. petes one of the bands went to make fun of the "wall of death" and had us do the "wall of hugs and kisses" me and my freinds seeing that there weren't any girls worth going for punched the person we came up to in the face in about 5 seconds there was no-one hugging

[caress me down]

Hahaha, I was that "one person" for someone else last year at a Killswitch show, except I wasn't preemptive about it.

I met a cute little girl with pink hair before the show started who was there to see Every Time I Die, and while Dillinger Escape Plan was playing first, she was getting absolutely crushed between two meathead Killswitch fans in wifebeaters. I noticed her look of absolute misery during DEP's set [literally pinned between their fucking biceps], reached backward, grabbed her hand, pulled her forward, and threw her in front of me [up against the barricade -- I was front row before giving her my spot]. It made trying to stay steady in the crowd a huge bitch afterward, but I felt like I'd done my good deed for the day.

Funny thing is, I've actually gone to shows with my kid sister, and I never protect her like that. She can look after her own damn self. :P

[if you're reading this thread HI ROSE <3]
One time at a Badfish concert I thought the reason I wasn't getting beat up too badly was because my crazy dancing got people to stay away. I found out later that the whole concert my brother danced behind me with his elbows up so anyone who anywhere near me would hit into his elbow. Brotherly love :-)

[klawansie7]

at MCS's commit this to memory show in december these two people in front of us were on a first date (i think?) and literally during the whole set of the opening band the dude kept trying to hold the chick's hand but she clearly didn't want to hold his so she crossed her arms and he was just kinda like "oh". so then when MCS came on and everyon rushed the stage i guess the chick didn't want to be smooshed or something so she just like walked away and the guy grabbed her arm and they had this weird eye connection thing and she basically dragged him with her off to the side.
extrememly awkward to witness.

[Readyfuels]

ok sorry, but who are BMTH?

Bring Me The Horizon

[marchofmarty]

Seeing Converge play at Sounds of the Underground right after GWAR's set and being one of like 10 people there to see them.

[anthonydarko]

that chick was weird
I actually thought she was just crazy or something until I saw her drinking something and then it all made sense to me.

[Wake Up]

The entire time watching Brand New's set on their last tour with Thrice.

[prefix-core]

Every time I've seen A Wilhelm Scream open for any band. Less Than Jake fans just were not meant to get as into a tech-heavy, anthemic melodic punk rock band, I guess. Shrug.

[Alex1410]

at warped in st. petes one of the bands went to make fun of the "wall of death" and had us do the "wall of hugs and kisses" me and my freinds seeing that there weren't any girls worth going for punched the person we came up to in the face in about 5 seconds there was no-one hugging

thats cool

[Deadbolt23]

The entire time watching Brand New's set on their last tour with Thrice.

Why is that?

[roughroads]

The fact that you think "acceptation" is a word and the context you used it in are way more funny than your story!

Oh shit, haha sorry I was going for Exception. So much fail!

[KingJohn_654]

At Straylight Run last October, John Nolan was talking in between songs, when my (male) friend yells "you're hot!" shortly after a random guy in the crowd yells "***!" then John Nolan laughed, said thanks, and asked the crowd why it's always the guys.

[IntoTheSun]

---THIS IS ESSAY LENGTH, Bitches---

One of the most embarrassing and awkward moments I've ever had a show was actually playing one. My band and I, back when we were trying to
actually make a go of performing music for a living (as opposed to now, when we all go to university and play on the weekends for fun around campus), were in this unofficial consortium of other local Pop Punk bands in the Toronto scene. This grouping was comprised of seven bands. We played together, when we'd finally catch a break and get an opening gig for a fairly well-known band, we'd get the others backstage, we shared venue information, etc.

One of the bands, Death Row Diamonds (I know, I know) always seemed to find the best venues for gigs - one's that actually paid enough to cover gas, had good acoustics and attracted crowds who bought merch. They were always generous and made sure to inform us of these places. Two days before April Fools, they inform us that there's a very nice apartment complex and live-in community that was looking for "youth-oriented music" to play called Arbor Manor. They were booked for April 1st but had to drop out due to prior commitments and asked if we would call them and try to set something up. The rate for an hour was quite impressive - $300. We were nearly salivating.

We call and are quickly booked for the show. When driving to the place, we noticed the large sign that read "bands needed for April Fools festivities." We neglected to read anything else on said sign or the kiosks that littered the driveway and parking structure. Arbor Manner looked like a series of interlocking mini-mansions, and needless to say, for four guys from lower (I cannot stress "lower" enough) working class families, this was the most luxurious place we'd ever been to. I asked our drummer James while driving "do you think a bunch of douchebags in girl jeans and eyeliner [we were 17 and it was 2005 and I looked damn sexy!] screaming about their ex's would be appropriate here?" His response, of course, was that "we're classy as fuck" and I didn't think about it again until the show.

So we walk in, meet the staff who find us a bit ghastly initially, but one of the directors continued to mention to the others that "my grandson loved that crazy Poison band when he was a kid and they all looked like women. They could be famous soon." We set up in this absolutely ravishing ballroom. We do a soundcheck to a crowd of two staff-members who followed us around everywhere we went (including "stealthily" coming out to the bathroom when one of us would go to ensure we weren't stealing toilet paper or "doing the dope"). They monitored us, which made our soundcheck infinitely less noisy than it normally be, as they were in their '60s and we certainly didn't want to inundate them with loud muck.

It's nearing the time for the gig and the audience pours in. Person-by-person they come and sit, and we notice a commonality between them - they're all elderly. After the initial novelty of being in such a lavish complex faded and our "clientele" were there to see a performance, we starting scanning the signs around the ballroom: "Arbor Manner: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's 3rd annual April Fool's Concert and Dance."

What do you do? We couldn't leave, we couldn't tell the directors, and Death Row Diamonds had lied about the "youth oriented music," which was evident when the lead director came on to announce us, saying "four [awkward pause] unconventional young fellas who have a knack for playing ballroom hits." They were expecting something vastly different than our sloppy, loud, obnoxious, angsty, 2-chord Pop Punk, which was, essentially, all we knew how to play (which isn't much different in 2010, truthfully).

We're in front of near-200 retired gents and gals and there's at least a good two minutes of awkward shifting, shuffling and blank staring from our part after the director announces us. Finally, one guy shouts "you guys are on," so I ran up to the mic and try to relate to them. "Uh, hi, hello everyone. Good to be here. [...pause, as I'm ad-libbing, and this is paraphrasing, for the record] I like you guys. You're great." I looked back at my bandmates for some help, and all they do is look at the ground collectively, throwing me to the wolves. "Okay, well, do you guys like...[stop to think of an older artist that's universally loved] Frank Sinatra? Huh?" I get a modest applause. Then I realize that I've just established in their minds an expectation to cover Sinatra, which posed a problem considering we barely knew how to play our own songs, let along the two Sinatra songs we knew, so to dig myself out of the hole, I continued "well, we like him too. He's cool. We're going to play our stuff though."

After that, we huddled and decided to play a 14 minute version of the "slow jam" song of ours and Daren (our clean vocalist) would do some improv with the lyrics and I would refrain from screaming during the chorus. That was going swimmingly until I forgot, out of habit, to not scream near the climax of this epic, elongated version of an already shitty song and just as we're nearing the end, I let loose on a very nicely mic'd room and the scream echoed throughout. It literally refused to die even moments after I let it out. We began to hear a series of boos until the director jumped back up (while we were still playing) and began telling jokes. We took that as our cue to leave.

So, yeah, it was an April Fools joke by Death Row Diamonds, but we still got the $300 for about fifteen minutes of work...and little did they know that their singing would DIE TWO APRIL FOOLS LATER. Joke's on them (that's not true, he didn't die, but...I don't know how to end this sentence).

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

It lives on in tape form. My sister would go to all of our gigs and tape them, and we hoped to edit them together to release something for the merch table. She has this debacle in its entirety. When she got married last year, instead of an indulgent, poorly-edited video montage of the bride and groom's cutesy home videos (which I expected), she played this during the reception.

Your sister is amazing.

[Wake Up]

Why is that?

It was awkward to be in an over energetic pit while Brand New, Jesse Lacey, was so disinterested in having any energy or connection with the crowd at all. I've seen Brand New before, but never like that.

[BigG1392]

A couple...

1) Being the only person who had probably heard of VersaEmerge attending the Love Drunk Tour (BLG/Cobra/ARTTM/The Maine/VE), I screamed the lyrics to the songs as loud as I could and pissed off everyone around me (mainly teen girls). I guess I was the only person in the whole venue pumped to see VE. Sierra noticed me and I got to meet her after the show, so it was definitely worth making a fool of myself.

2) At that same show, someone threw an extremely large bra with a large detailed penis drawn onto one of the cups at Gabe Saporta. He went on to show the drawing to everyone and explain it in detail. The parents of the teens were getting pissed, one even took her kids and left. Also the dude from The Maine was dropping the f-bomb like no other, also pissing off the parents. Awkward, once again.

3) I took one of my friends who has never really been to shows or anything to Warped Tour last year. There was a giant pit starting up during Underoath, and he was standing there texting in the middle completely unaware of what was going on. Needless to say, he got trucked and his phone went flying, never to be seen again. I laughed my ass off for days at that.

[kearn1tm]

3) I took one of my friends who has never really been to shows or anything to Warped Tour last year. There was a giant pit starting up during Underoath, and he was standing there texting in the middle completely unaware of what was going on. Needless to say, he got trucked and his phone went flying, never to be seen again. I laughed my ass off for days at that.

Pit Monkeys are assholes. You have your communal area to slamdance and look like a retard. Don't take it to the guys standing outside the pit. I generally don't have a problem with anything anyone does at shows for fun, but when that sense of fun involves infringing on another's space who is not willingly participating in such activities, it's lame.

[xJesusFreakx]

1) Being the only person who had probably heard of VersaEmerge attending the Love Drunk Tour (BLG/Cobra/ARTTM/The Maine/VE), I screamed the lyrics to the songs as loud as I could and pissed off everyone around me (mainly teen girls). I guess I was the only person in the whole venue pumped to see VE. Sierra noticed me and I got to meet her after the show, so it was definitely worth making a fool of myself.

That's cool. For a band at their level, it's probably pretty encouraging to see "fools" like you in the crowd, lol.

Pit Monkeys are assholes. You have your communal area to slamdance and look like a retard. Don't take it to the guys standing outside the pit. I generally don't have a problem with anything anyone does at shows for fun, but when that sense of fun involves infringing on another's space who is not willingly participating in such activities, it's lame.

Definitely. I'm all for fun at shows, but having a good time shouldn't be an excuse to be disrespectful like that.

I still want to see that video.

[Amour For Liars]

Im 6'5 and Im alway on the bar in the very front, so people yell and boo sometimes. But I deal with it.

I went to a Ludacris and Chingy concert when I was 10. I was probally one out of 6 white people at the whole venue. Someone threw a du rag and it landed on my head, like sat on the dome perfect. That was a bit akward.

And I thought one of the guys from I Set My Friends On Fire was actually a hot dog vender at warped when I saw him grabbing a bite. I didnt find out who it was til a friend told me. It would have been awkard if I cared.

[cshadows2887]

Pit Monkeys are assholes. You have your communal area to slamdance and look like a retard. Don't take it to the guys standing outside the pit. I generally don't have a problem with anything anyone does at shows for fun, but when that sense of fun involves infringing on another's space who is not willingly participating in such activities, it's lame.

I couldn't agree more. Especially the guys who make it a point to target girls trying to avoid the pit. There's a special circle of hell...

[xJesusFreakx]

Im 6'5 and Im alway on the bar in the very front, so people yell and boo sometimes. But I deal with it.

I went to a Ludacris and Chingy concert when I was 10. I was probally one out of 6 white people at the whole venue. Someone threw a du rag and it landed on my head, like sat on the dome perfect. That was a bit akward.

And I thought one of the guys from I Set My Friends On Fire was actually a hot dog vender at warped when I saw him grabbing a bite. I didnt find out who it was til a friend told me. It would have been awkard if I cared.

That's kind of amusing. I'm jealous.

[SophGod]

watching Buckcherry open for Avenged Sevenfold... I forget his name, but dude was fucked up. Kept saying the weirdest shit, like how when he was young all he wanted was some bitch to do a line off his cock. It was a wreck, and like 2 people in the crowd were into it.

[anthonydarko]

watching Buckcherry open for Avenged Sevenfold... I forget his name, but dude was fucked up. Kept saying the weirdest shit, like how when he was young all he wanted was some bitch to do a line off his cock. It was a wreck, and like 2 people in the crowd were into it.
I thought that lead singer was married or something like that.

[usernametaken]

At the first Taste of Chaos, my friend asked Bert from the Used for a hug and proceeded to spill beer all over him.

[rising_tied]

Pit Monkeys are assholes. You have your communal area to slamdance and look like a retard. Don't take it to the guys standing outside the pit. I generally don't have a problem with anything anyone does at shows for fun, but when that sense of fun involves infringing on another's space who is not willingly participating in such activities, it's lame.
I totally respect you for saying that. Alot of people are like, well then dont get so close. No. thats not how it works. Everyone goes to a show for a reason. To have fun. Whenever I see someone have no respect for those on the OUTSIDE of the pit and start swinging on them on purpose, I want to beat the shit out of them..

[BemisIsJesus]

I was at a Seether concert and this girl infront of me was crying, clearly on some very serious drugs, and was trying to grind with me. Tried to move away from her, but my friends where behind me and were pushing me into her. Once she left it was an amazing show though.

[MacyCakes]

Went to a random local "hardcore" show with some friends. There's like 30 kids there, a few of which took their shirts off and made us form a large circle for them to dance like idiots in. We quickly joined in doing a hardcore version of macarena, legit crab walking across the floor, and angsty robot dancing. While the crowd laughed, the attention quickly grew more on us than the band playing and their set turned into a comedy skit pretty much. Felt somewhat bad, but the band did suck, and that was a proven fact.

[rising_tied]

hardcore version of macarena,
Me and another friend started this shit a show once too haha. And a HxC chacha slide...

[wall e]

I feel like I have at least one embarassing moment at every concert I go to, but oh well, I'll never see the people around me again.

[wall e]

As for awkard band moments, when I went to see Forgive Durden perform Razia's Shadow in it's entirety in this really tiny venue, it was filled at the beginning. Some local bands opened for them, and it was almost empty by the time Forgive Durden got on, because all these kids were there just to see some local bands. I felt bad for FD, but it was still an amazing show, and definitely a very personal one.

[Deadbolt23]

I pass out at every show I attend. I think I have some sort of problem. Yesterday I went to Thrice, and about half way through the set, I just collapsed and had to be dragged out. It's pretty embarrassing. Especially when I'm on the front barrier, and have to be dragged over the barrier, right in front of the stage.

[marchofmarty]

I was at a Seether concert and this girl infront of me was crying, clearly on some very serious drugs, and was trying to grind with me. Tried to move away from her, but my friends where behind me and were pushing me into her. Once she left it was an amazing show though.

Must have been awkward being seen at a Seether show in general.

[aoftbsten]

I pass out at every show I attend. I think I have some sort of problem. Yesterday I went to Thrice, and about half way through the set, I just collapsed and had to be dragged out. It's pretty embarrassing. Especially when I'm on the front barrier, and have to be dragged over the barrier, right in front of the stage.

Dehydration perhaps? Or is it the booze?

[Cuddleworthy]

---THIS IS ESSAY LENGTH, Bitches---

One of the most embarrassing and awkward moments I've ever had a show was actually playing one. My band and I, back when we were trying to
actually make a go of performing music for a living (as opposed to now, when we all go to university and play on the weekends for fun around campus), were in this unofficial consortium of other local Pop Punk bands in the Toronto scene. This grouping was comprised of seven bands. We played together, when we'd finally catch a break and get an opening gig for a fairly well-known band, we'd get the others backstage, we shared venue information, etc.

One of the bands, Death Row Diamonds (I know, I know) always seemed to find the best venues for gigs - one's that actually paid enough to cover gas, had good acoustics and attracted crowds who bought merch. They were always generous and made sure to inform us of these places. Two days before April Fools, they inform us that there's a very nice apartment complex and live-in community that was looking for "youth-oriented music" to play called Arbor Manor. They were booked for April 1st but had to drop out due to prior commitments and asked if we would call them and try to set something up. The rate for an hour was quite impressive - $300. We were nearly salivating.

We call and are quickly booked for the show. When driving to the place, we noticed the large sign that read "bands needed for April Fools festivities." We neglected to read anything else on said sign or the kiosks that littered the driveway and parking structure. Arbor Manner looked like a series of interlocking mini-mansions, and needless to say, for four guys from lower (I cannot stress "lower" enough) working class families, this was the most luxurious place we'd ever been to. I asked our drummer James while driving "do you think a bunch of douchebags in girl jeans and eyeliner [we were 17 and it was 2005 and I looked damn sexy!] screaming about their ex's would be appropriate here?" His response, of course, was that "we're classy as fuck" and I didn't think about it again until the show.

So we walk in, meet the staff who find us a bit ghastly initially, but one of the directors continued to mention to the others that "my grandson loved that crazy Poison band when he was a kid and they all looked like women. They could be famous soon." We set up in this absolutely ravishing ballroom. We do a soundcheck to a crowd of two staff-members who followed us around everywhere we went (including "stealthily" coming out to the bathroom when one of us would go to ensure we weren't stealing toilet paper or "doing the dope"). They monitored us, which made our soundcheck infinitely less noisy than it normally be, as they were in their '60s and we certainly didn't want to inundate them with loud muck.

It's nearing the time for the gig and the audience pours in. Person-by-person they come and sit, and we notice a commonality between them - they're all elderly. After the initial novelty of being in such a lavish complex faded and our "clientele" were there to see a performance, we starting scanning the signs around the ballroom: "Arbor Manner: RETIREMENT COMMUNITY's 3rd annual April Fool's Concert and Dance."

What do you do? We couldn't leave, we couldn't tell the directors, and Death Row Diamonds had lied about the "youth oriented music," which was evident when the lead director came on to announce us, saying "four [awkward pause] unconventional young fellas who have a knack for playing ballroom hits." They were expecting something vastly different than our sloppy, loud, obnoxious, angsty, 2-chord Pop Punk, which was, essentially, all we knew how to play (which isn't much different in 2010, truthfully).

We're in front of near-200 retired gents and gals and there's at least a good two minutes of awkward shifting, shuffling and blank staring from our part after the director announces us. Finally, one guy shouts "you guys are on," so I ran up to the mic and try to relate to them. "Uh, hi, hello everyone. Good to be here. [...pause, as I'm ad-libbing, and this is paraphrasing, for the record] I like you guys. You're great." I looked back at my bandmates for some help, and all they do is look at the ground collectively, throwing me to the wolves. "Okay, well, do you guys like...[stop to think of an older artist that's universally loved] Frank Sinatra? Huh?" I get a modest applause. Then I realize that I've just established in their minds an expectation to cover Sinatra, which posed a problem considering we barely knew how to play our own songs, let along the two Sinatra songs we knew, so to dig myself out of the hole, I continued "well, we like him too. He's cool. We're going to play our stuff though."

After that, we huddled and decided to play a 14 minute version of the "slow jam" song of ours and Daren (our clean vocalist) would do some improv with the lyrics and I would refrain from screaming during the chorus. That was going swimmingly until I forgot, out of habit, to not scream near the climax of this epic, elongated version of an already shitty song and just as we're nearing the end, I let loose on a very nicely mic'd room and the scream echoed throughout. It literally refused to die even moments after I let it out. We began to hear a series of boos until the director jumped back up (while we were still playing) and began telling jokes. We took that as our cue to leave.

So, yeah, it was an April Fools joke by Death Row Diamonds, but we still got the $300 for about fifteen minutes of work...and little did they know that their singing would DIE TWO APRIL FOOLS LATER. Joke's on them (that's not true, he didn't die, but...I don't know how to end this sentence).

epic

[Deadbolt23]

Dehydration perhaps? Or is it the booze?

Definitely not alcohol. I don't drink at concerts.

[aoftbsten]

Definitely not alcohol. I don't drink at concerts.

Yea I don't drink at shows either. I find it rather pointless if you're paying money to go see your favorite artists and then you can't remember.

[terror_91]

Definitely not alcohol. I don't drink at concerts.

This used to happen to me a lot when I was smaller. The Academy is a hot place ;-) Make sure that you have eaten before hand and drink extra water throughout the day. That's what seemed to sort me out.

Yea I don't drink at shows either. I find it rather pointless if you're paying money to go see your favorite artists and then you can't remember.

Don't get ridiculously drunk then? I like to have a few pints before a show and often during the support bands if I don't know them.

[bacon06]

At a Streetlight Manifesto show, this band called Grand Buffet opened. They are two white guys who rap. During their set, the crowd wasn't really feeling them and started booing them. One of the guys in the band said "Thanks a lot, I'm gonna go backstage and kill myself. Now my kid will be a fucking orphan. I hope all your parents get cancer."

[Illadelphia]

At a Streetlight Manifesto show, this band called Grand Buffet opened. They are two white guys who rap. During their set, the crowd wasn't really feeling them and started booing them. One of the guys in the band said "Thanks a lot, I'm gonna go backstage and kill myself. Now my kid will be a fucking orphan. I hope all your parents get cancer."
What a sensitive guy.

[SophGod]

I thought that lead singer was married or something like that.

Probably is.

Same show, i was with my good friend and we had been talking to the dudes in front of us for most of the show, they were all pretty cool. Halfway during the Papa Roach set we were all bored and decided to start moshing our asses off, not really harming anyone or getting in anybodys way, and some fat ass black chick starts screaming at us. The funny thing is, she was pretty far away from the pit we started, so I have no idea what her problem was. pretty awkward/funny.

[atticus18244fss]

Definitely not alcohol. I don't drink at concerts.
Ha that shit isn't normal. You might wanna get that checked out.

[aoftbsten]

This used to happen to me a lot when I was smaller. The Academy is a hot place ;-) Make sure that you have eaten before hand and drink extra water throughout the day. That's what seemed to sort me out.



Don't get ridiculously drunk then? I like to have a few pints before a show and often during the support bands if I don't know them.

I meant to say I don't get drunk really. I'll have one or two pints before hand as well but I never understood why people get drunk at concerts.

On another note, trying to hydrate yourself before the show isn't always that great either, I always just having to pee really bad in the middle of a set.

[guitarpickheart]

I went to see Emery play a show in Pittsburgh a couple years ago. Mayday Parade was one of the opening acts. I was fine with this, since A Lesson In Romantics is a kick-ass album. However, their presence at the show brought out a huge crowd of tarted-up 12-year-old girls, all of them wearing way too much make-up and way too little clothing [you're in a fucking training bra, put on a real shirt]. A group of them ended up behind me and my friend, proceeding to annoy the shit out of us with their chattiness and general stupidity. I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was when, during the show, one of the girls put their hand between my legs and grabbed my junk. The crowd was too packed for me to turn around and figure out which one did it, but there was no way that copped feel was an accident.

I got felt up by a fucking middle-school girl at an Emery show.

Oh, and once I sung the chorus of "A Whisper & A Clamor" too early at an Anberlin show.

But I think the Emery story beats that.
Haha, how loud were you?

i'm starting to notice that too and i'm only 19. when i was their age i didnt even know that half the stuff i listen to now existed :-0
Every time I go to a show, everyone's much older than me.

[terror_91]

I meant to say I don't get drunk really. I'll have one or two pints before hand as well but I never understood why people get drunk at concerts.

On another note, trying to hydrate yourself before the show isn't always that great either, I always just having to pee really bad in the middle of a set.
Oh right ye. I completely agree. If I want to get really drunk then I won't do it for a gig, definitely. It seems such a waste of a ticket price to not remember any of the show.

You need to get your timing right :-p

[makeasound]

In November went to see All Time Low, I was about 10 years older and a foot taller than anyone else in the crowd. During We The Kings I was up front, but all the way off to the left. I don't remember how this came about but at one point Hunter yelled out "Who wants me to play the next song NAKED??" and all the little girls started shrieking. I made a weird face and started shaking my head no, and Travis saw me, pointed to me and goes "hey that girl over there doesn't want you to, she's shaking her head!" Hunter starts looking around and then Travis goes "that blonde one over to your left!". The entire crowd turned to look at me, and Hunter starts going like "why not, I look damn good naked!" and for lack of anything better to say I yelled back "you're not my type".

All of my friends who were there in other parts of the venue started texting me with "was that you?" and were teasing me the rest of the night. Mildly uncomfortable.

[DandonTRJ]

Haha, how loud were you?


Every time I go to a show, everyone's much older than me.
Loud, but I caught myself really quickly. I barely got the "c" in "clap" enunciated before I realized my mistake. This was on the first headlining tour Anberlin did after Cities came out (Jonezetta, Meg & Dia, and Bayside supporting), so I hadn't really gotten all the lyrics to the album down yet. Funny part is, I recorded the song on my digital camera and had it on YouTube for a while, so every time I watched the video, I was reminded of my failure. Eventually I just took it down, lol.

18 months later, I both knew better and got some way better footage. \o/

Ie2qD_jr_-Y

[guitarpickheart]

Loud, but I caught myself really quickly. I barely got the "c" in "clap" enunciated before I realized my mistake. This was on the first headlining tour Anberlin did after Cities came out (Jonezetta, Meg & Dia, and Bayside supporting), so I hadn't really gotten all the lyrics to the album down yet. Funny part is, I recorded the song on my digital camera and had it on YouTube for a while, so every time I watched the video, I was reminded of my failure. Eventually I just took it down, lol.
Lol, if I were yelling no one would've been able to hear me. I really don't think it's that bad, though.

[DandonTRJ]

At the first Taste of Chaos, my friend asked Bert from the Used for a hug and proceeded to spill beer all over him.
That probably made Bert cleaner, on whole.

[cshadows2887]

Loud, but I caught myself really quickly. I barely got the "c" in "clap" enunciated before I realized my mistake. This was on the first headlining tour Anberlin did after Cities came out (Jonezetta, Meg & Dia, and Bayside supporting), so I hadn't really gotten all the lyrics to the album down yet. Funny part is, I recorded the song on my digital camera and had it on YouTube for a while, so every time I watched the video, I was reminded of my failure. Eventually I just took it down, lol.

I saw them on the Boston date of that tour. One of those rare times you know you're seeing a band hit a peak. They looked legitimately surprised that the crowd was screaming every single word with them. Magical.

My obsession with Meg and Dia began that same night.

[warstory]

It lives on in tape form. My sister would go to all of our gigs and tape them, and we hoped to edit them together to release something for the merch table. She has this debacle in its entirety. When she got married last year, instead of an indulgent, poorly-edited video montage of the bride and groom's cutesy home videos (which I expected), she played this during the reception.
That just brought the story to a whole other level of hilarious

[ggolden91]

I was at a Between the Buried and Me show and He Is Legend was the co-headliner and barely anybody wanted to see them. Most of the pit died down, there was about 3-4 marines in the pit throughout the whole thing and once they announced that it was their last song the entire place erupted. It's almost like they wanted to fuck with us so they dragged the song on for like 10 minutes, stopping and starting plenty of times. Everyone kind of let out a sigh of relief when they got off the stage.

The same show a girl fell from so many people pushing her and as she was falling she grabbed onto my crotch to keep herself up. Her boyfriend looked at me and I kind of awkwardly shrugged it off and he just laughed about it, but it was still pretty damn awkward.

[newfoundLOVE]

I went to the Boys Like Girls show a few months ago because my friend could get us in for free. I didn't care much about Boys Like Girls and only knew about 3 songs. Anyway we went to the vip box, which at the venue is directly in front of the stage but 2 stories up so the whole time we had a great view of everyone, and I'm assuming they of us. When BLG came on I kind of just stood there looking pretty bored when they weren't playing a song I knew, just leaning against the railing, etc. At one point the lead singer made one of those "everyone sing louder/jump up" gestures and proceeded to point me out...pretty awkward. lol

Also at the same show, while waiting for our tickets, I was being really loud and making fun of the 13 year olds screaming for band members and these two guys went along with it and were laughing along. I then I said I really didn't give a fuck about VE or BLG when we got our tickets and they just looked at me. Turns out the two guys were in VE.

[ModusPwnens]

Awkward? Im sure I had plenty, but the one I remember recently was Hardcore dancing at a local show.... And I kinda jumped or....IDK how to describe it, but I farted. And thought that it might been more than that. I walked over to where my girl was and was like... "Babe. I may have sharted, you ready to go?" lol. Me and her are very open so I didnt care about telling her, but the awkward stance immediately after the fart was very uncomfortable. and then I was pretty sure I didnt shart, so I went out on the floor again but still felt nervous just in case.. So i remained in an awkward stance till the last song

Fucking glorious

[Star Slight]

A few years back I went to the Senses Fail/New Found Glory concert and it was filled with those hardcore/wigger kids. I dont know if its a common occurrence, but it was a bunch of fat white kids in fitted hats and basketball shorts who apparently love to slamdance. I think this would be the "hXc tough guy" on yourscenesucks.com

Anyway, there was this guy there with his girlfriend standing next to me and my friends and the doucher kids kept pushing into them intentionally. I think this was even during Bedlight for Blue eyes or whatever the fuck that band is called. So the kid with the girlfriend turns around and asks if the fat kids can stop, and they get into this huge argument. All of a sudden, and I shit you not, one of the fat kids jumps in the air and punches this kid in the face with a downward fist. It seriously looked like he was a trained MMA fighter. The girlfriend kid dropped and was bleeding everywhere, and his girlfriend was crying and screaming. All while I'm standing there trying not to get blood on my clothes.
The fat wigger kid looks over at me and gives me a head nod, and I just stand there in disbelief.

[denissuxx]

Last night.

I was third row at the front of Brand New/Thrice/Glassjaw. Before Brand New came on, I noticed some girls pushing more than was normal. They weren't there at the start of the show, so they'd clearly pushed past.

One looked like Paris Hilton, but attractive, and her brunette friend was quite good looking too, but they looked about 14 and just screamed 'cheap whore'. You know the type. I was talking to a really attractive Australian girl in the meantime, and she made a face, clearly annoyed at the little girls pushing. Soooo.. I turned around and said directly to the girl, in a serious/confident/smug way "you're not going to push in front of me". She replied to me "fine, I'll just bum you all night". It was just incredibly awkward, as she looked 14... and was about 2 foot shorter than me. AND, the Australian girl heard it. Awwwwwwwwwkward.

Funniest thing? My friend hooked up with her at the end of the evening. Won't be letting him forget that for a while, hahahah

[ModusPwnens]

Last night.

I was third row at the front of Brand New/Thrice/Glassjaw. Before Brand New came on, I noticed some girls pushing more than was normal. They weren't there at the start of the show, so they'd clearly pushed past.

One looked like Paris Hilton, but attractive, and her brunette friend was quite good looking too, but they looked about 14 and just screamed 'cheap whore'. You know the type. I was talking to a really attractive Australian girl in the meantime, and she made a face, clearly annoyed at the little girls pushing. Soooo.. I turned around and said directly to the girl, in a serious/confident/smug way "you're not going to push in front of me". She replied to me "fine, I'll just bum you all night". It was just incredibly awkward, as she looked 14... and was about 2 foot shorter than me. AND, the Australian girl heard it. Awwwwwwwwwkward.

Funniest thing? My friend hooked up with her at the end of the evening. Won't be letting him forget that for a while, hahahah

Is bum Australian slang? What does it mean?

[denissuxx]

Is bum Australian slang? What does it mean?

UK slang.

First entry, third definition - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bum

[ModusPwnens]

UK slang.

First entry, third definition - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bum

Why are scene girls so brutally sexual

[denissuxx]

Why are scene girls so brutally sexual

Haha, well, as I said, my friend hooked up with either her or her friend (wasn't there) by the end of the night.

[AbolitionOfMan]

Back in 2003 I saw Dashboard Confessional headline a tour for A Mark, A Mission... w/ Thrice, MXPX, and Vendetta Red. Carrabba got up on stage and within 1 minute of the first song someone in the crowd had audibly yelled "YOU SUCK!". He took great umbrage with this and stopped the band and started calling out the guy, calling him a pussy or something and telling him to come up on the stage to fight him. I understood being upset but come on, have a little bit thicker skin, especially when you are the headlining act and I'm sure that people have yelled that before to you. It was in very poor taste and really ruined a really good concert (save for Vendetta Red not being good).

[Nourez]

I once accidentally elbowed a girl right in the nose at a Green Day concert. She was with her boyfriend. He was not happy.

[caress me down]

Last night Anthony of Bayside took a dude's phone and talked to his mom. Not awkward, but pretty funny.

[rollerman4221]

At a Streetlight Manifesto show, this band called Grand Buffet opened. They are two white guys who rap. During their set, the crowd wasn't really feeling them and started booing them. One of the guys in the band said "Thanks a lot, I'm gonna go backstage and kill myself. Now my kid will be a fucking orphan. I hope all your parents get cancer."

I got to see those dudes twice because they opened for Girl Talk last year and I went to 2 shows, their amusing. The fat one poured a whole cup of jack and drank it on stage, I was in awe

Last night Anthony of Bayside took a dude's phone and talked to his mom. Not awkward, but pretty funny.

I bet the mom was like wtf

[caress me down]

I got to see those dudes twice because they opened for Girl Talk last year and I went to 2 shows, their amusing. The fat one poured a whole cup of jack and drank it on stage, I was in awe



I bet the mom was like wtf
After he talked to her he was like "Wow, you're fucked... she's pretty pissed." Then ten minutes after he talked to her he stopped his set and was like "I feel bad, you're mom's probably freaked out that a strange man answered your phone. You might wanna send her a text...."

[sarahsarahsarah]

Last November, I went to the OP Tour with Boys Like Girls Headlining. I wasn't there to see Boys Like Girls at all. So my friends and I take a bathroom break during the set before Boys Like Girls's set (Cobra Starship). At the venue, the backstage area is down the hallway opposite of the bathroom entrance/exit. So as I go to leave the bathroom, I hear a bunch of screaming, so, thinking I'm about to get knifed down, I scream too. Then a security guard flips a ship and forms a human blockade at the door, and as I look past him, wondering what the fuck I did to make him freak out, I see the lead singer from Boys Like Girls, giving me a look like "What the fuck is wrong with you?". Basically, everyone in the area thought I was a superfan ready to attack and rape the lead singer, including security, and security flipped a shit and like herded me back to the crowd pissed off as anything while my friends just stood in the bathroom laughing and the singer gave me weird looks. It was embarassing.

[caress me down]

Hahahahahaha. That's truly awkward

[sarahsarahsarah]

Oh yeah and then at Bamboozle last year, my friend and I were walking around and we were just stopping at a tent for a second to call someone, and the area was like empty except for us and this random guy. So my friend and I thought he looked really familiar so we spent like 5 minutes whispering trying to figure out who he was. Then I made like direct eye contact with the guy, and he nodded at me and we got really sketched out and walked away. About 5 minutes later, we realized it was the drummer from There for Tomorrow and that my friend had his signature HUGE on her hoodie, where he could definetly see it. That was pretty bad too.

[Goo]

no major embarassments or anything
I am little girl tiny so there is always one person who feels like they need to protect me and make sure no one steps on my toe or gets anywhere near me. it's completely unnecessary but still a sweet gesture I suppose.
I always feel awkward because I feel like someones kid sister ruining their night while they're trying to see a band they like

This is the same way for me every single concert go too. :P

[BigG1392]

So at Warped in Mountain View this year, my cousin and her friend decide to leave me at Motion City Soundtrack to go watch Whitechapel (Why anyone would leave MCS for Whitechapel still blows my mind). Anyways, after MCS finished I decided to go and find them. I show up in front of the stage and the crowd is just one massive mosh pit. I decide to push my way through. As I get closer to the front, I find this one little kid (looked about 9-10) crying his eyes out and there were people yelling at this one trashy looking girl. Basically what I got was that the girl and her boyfriend were just goofing off in the crowd and left the little boy to be trampled by the hxc dancers. When they asked the girl to take the boy out, she yelled "It's my brother, I can do whatever the fuck I want with him!" People like that just piss me off. A couple of guys picked up the boy and took him out while the girl just stayed in there... I wanted to see what happened but I look over and find my cousin on the far side of the crowd sitting on the ground clutching her leg. Picked her up and got her looked at, and basically she couldn't put any pressure on it for a couple of days. So we leave early and I miss The Swellers and Set Your Goals. Oh, and we also got there really late because she wouldn't wake up until 12.. so I missed VersaEmerge, Hey Monday, and most of Four Year Strong.. fun day. At least I have the Atlanta Warped to look forward to.

[cwya]

One time at a Badfish concert I thought the reason I wasn't getting beat up too badly was because my crazy dancing got people to stay away. I found out later that the whole concert my brother danced behind me with his elbows up so anyone who anywhere near me would hit into his elbow. Brotherly love :-)

I saw Badfish at this shitty club in my town. The crowd was a bunch of retards drunk off their asses. At that show, there were a shit ton of crowd surfers. As one passed over me, everyone else withdrew their hands just as his crotch/inner thigh area was nearing my head. I end up with this guy sitting on my shoulders for a few seconds, like he was a little kid I was holding up so he could see the stage. Luckily, the people around me picked him back up from my shoulders, but it was weird for a couple of seconds.

[prefix-core]

So we leave early and I miss The Swellers and Set Your Goals. Oh, and we also got there really late because she wouldn't wake up until 12.. so I missed VersaEmerge, Hey Monday, and most of Four Year Strong.. fun day. At least I have the Atlanta Warped to look forward to.

...And that is why I go to Warped Tour alone. I buy my own ticket and anybody who wants to meet up with me there can do so. Haha. After nearly missing the Dropkick Murphy's back in 1999 because my ride made me leave late, I said "never again."

[singmetosleep]

Texas In July played in Chambersburg, PA this past winter, I walked up to the vocalist and just said "sick set" he replied "thanks dude." I figured it was the end of the conversation, but he continued to stand behind for the next five minutes. Don't get me wrong that kid was nice as can be, but it was just odd.

[aradiantsunrise]

At an Armor for Sleep show in 2006 when they were playing The More You Talk the Less I Hear, I was singing along and mixed up the lyrics acidentally and I swear Ben noticed it and he smiled (I was standing right in front to his right). It was probably because of the face I made after messing up, haha.

And then at a Fall of Troy show in 2008, I met Thomas after the show and accidentally stepped on his foot. I wanted to bash my head against the wall afterwards. He never said anything about it which was good, ha.

[nolifesingedher]

Last year me and two of my friends saw Manchester Orchestra in some small club in Alabama and at one point this girl elbows past me and instead of continuing on she opted to stop midway through going past me. Her ass was grinding against my arm for what felt like forever. She was standing at an angle. I guess there was nowhere for her to go. It was really awkward for me. Every ounce of testerone in my body told me to enjoy it but I couldn't. She however didn't seem to mind.

[blissfulrain]

I always sing too early at least once every show. I always stop and look around. I think I did this during Have Faith In Me when I saw ADTR at the part where it's like silence before Jeremy starts singing. I started way too early and there were a bunch of bros next to me and they just high fived me and were like "we're just waiting for them to play 1958." I thought that was really weird.

Also, at the same show, I was next to a bunch of really obnoxious scene girls between Silverstein and August Burns Red. One turns to me, stomps on my foot, then looks at me and says "oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to. You okay." I just nodded and turned away. That was awkward.

Then at Bamboozle, Telle from the Word Alive was talking about their new record and went on to say that they finished recording it. Expecting the crowd to start cheering, I jumped up and like yelled "YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!" and basically only a couple of people clapped, and people were looking at me 'cus I looked like an idiot. However, my friend got separated from us during the set, and that was how he found us. As he said later, "I saw an idiot jumping up and down. Then I realized it was you." Thanks.

[Takk...Ros]

I went to a concert with my friend where the Maine was playing. It was mostly like 13 year old girls screaming for the lead singer, but there was this group of about ten college age guys in front of me at the barrier screaming the words like their lives depended on it. I couldn't help but start laughing and one turns around and starts yelling at me because they're his favorite band. It was pretty funny.

Also during this set I was just kind of standing there because I don't really care for the Maine. The guitarist throws his pick and it literally comes straight to me and catch it so it doesn't hit me in the face. The singer saw and was like "Oh hell no. This chick's been standing there bored as hell the whole time. Why don't you give it to a real fan? Fuck you."

And finally during this same set the singer says he loves us all and wishes he could fuck every single one of us when some dude in the back yells "Where the fuck is Chris Hanson when you need him?". Probably the funniest thing I ever witnessed.

I took my eight year old cousin to the Blink/FOB/Panic show because he loves those three bands (as do I) and while Panic was playing Brendon said something like "Who here likes to fuck?". Of course pretty much everyone starts going nuts including my cousin. Everyone started laughing. It was kind of adorable and hilarious more than awkward, but I thought I'd share. Also, trying to teach him to move on beat had everyone laughing hysterically as well.