Melbourne crowds boring
Published 1 year, 1 month ago in Entertainment.I remember going to watch live gigs years ago where quite often the crowd was louder than the band. But nowadays, Melburnians are more than happy just to tamely sit on their seats and give almost silent coos to their favourite acts.
My theory is that as time goes on, society is being over governed.
Drinking in public is banned in the city, the Mexican wave has been banned, taking photos in some public spaces is banned, the Ho Ho Ho is about to be taken out of Christmas and on and on it goes.
So what we have is a society that is subconciously too scared to do anything. You must think twice before doing anything at all because there’s probably a law against it.
People are worried at what others might think if they (shock horror) stand up at a concert and start dancing. It’s boringly pathetic.
Imagine what the band is thinking? They’ve come all this way after playing at overseas venues where the crowd goes bananas only to see a mass of silent punters sitting in their seats looking disinterested. They probably think we’re arrogant and stuck up.
It’s time the people regained their sense of fun and a bit more a care-free attitude.
We have allowed governments to turn us into ultra conservatives. We obey everything we’re told to do.
We are creating a society of followers. It’s extremely boring.
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Perhaps people don’t dance around and yell like hooligans when their favourite band is on because they respect the band, and they’d rather listen to and watch them than rather than have to worry about who’s “no touchy zone” their hand has accidentally grazed, or whether or not the friend that’s minding their bag is quietly resenting them, or indeed is minding their bag at all.
Some people are shy and self-conscious, and that’s not to say they can’t “cut loose and have a good time” - just that they might not want to do it by jerking their body around in an overcrowded, noisy room full of gawking strangers; all the while forcing themselves to pretend not to care what other people are thinking, just so they can fit some stereotype of being young and wild.
Or, my other theory, with enough alcohol, everyone will dance. The world needs more alcohol.
Seriously though, a lot of laws are in place for good reason - something as simple as “no feet on seats” of trains might seem over conservative, but all it takes is a doggy-doo shoe on a train seat to wreck someone’s first date or job interview. Someone could be earning several thousand dollars less per year thanks to a foot on a seat.
If everyone had consideration for others and common sense, we wouldn’t need so many rules. But unfortunately there’s always the bad egg who’ll abuse a privellige and get everyone banned from doing it, so unfortunately we need the rules.
The world doesn’t need more alcohol, if you need alcohol to make something seem great it is obviously crap in the first place.
People shouldn’t be afraid to let their hair down and have a good time, but naturally without drugs and/or alcohol ‘cos that isn’t a good time just an artificial one.
I agree the Mexican wave shouldn’t of be banned, for curiosity though Batigol10, in which public spaces are photo banned, apart from the obvious like changing rooms and schools.
Hmmm… I think alcohol and drugs exist for a reason - to undo all the social inhibition, shyness and awkwardness that school bullies conditioned into us as children. At the right times and in the right quantity, alcohol merely serves to put us shy folks on a par socially with the braying extroverts who were blessed with the good fortune of not being shy. Thereby allowing the quiet, awkward people to enjoy activites such as dancing that extroverts take for granted, should they choose to, of course.
Maybe people don’t get up and dance either because they can’t hear the music properly because it is too loud and distorted, and nothing like what you may hear on the recordings.
Viv, in theory you are not allowed to take photographs of infrastructure like railway stations, fuel depots, shipping wharves, power stations, freeways and so on. Big brother thinks that you may be taking the pictures home to work out the best places to plant bombs.
but are there actual laws?
There are laws under the anti-terrorism act which the federal police use and state police can use. People have been arrested for taking photos in some of the areas I mentioned, although due to publicity no actual charges were laid, just warnings given.
firstly, this argument was never intended to discuss alcohol. Melbourne crowds are boring. Go to any gig at the tennis centre etc and you’ll find everyone sitting down. It happened at Crowded House last Friday night and countless other gigs. Got back 10 or more years (INXS, U2 etc) and the crowds were up on their feet long before the band hit the stage.
I never said people should dance. Just stand up and give a passionate yell at the end of each song. That’s all.
Yeah with ya Bat. Went to see Paul Simon a few years back and every song was met with polite applause until he played Graceland - nearly an hour in - then suddenly everyone stood up and started dancing around. Simon commented something along the lines of “right , should we just play that again cause i was beginning to wonder if you guys had come to the right concert'’.
Having said that, go see a band at a pub venue and the crowds are more passionate. I think it has to do with the $200 plus price tags attached to Tennis Centre concerts. People want to hear what they’re paying for.
I just think the Tennis Centre is a sh!t place to go see a band. Much prefer the smaller ‘more intimate’ venues where you can dance properly and - shock horror - actually see the band live rather than watching the big screen.