Although I had a fab night and loved every minute of it there were some downsides, firstly the couple behind me wouldnt stop talking all the way through P's piano set, I turned round to them and said I paid to see the man play not to hear you chat, cant you be quite for a couple of hours. Dont get me wrong they werent whispering to each other or even talking to one anothers ears they were shouting to be heard over him. Thank god I was in the gods too far from the stage, after I said it the girls next to me thanked me (quietly). The couple did actually apologise to me after so maybe I wasnt that harsh.

Secondly the peeps in front of me waited till dmsr video was over to decide they all wanted some pizza so off they trot to get pizza, then they wanted beer off they go to get beer! I looked around and they were quite a few people up and down for drinks or whatever.

My view is that Prince is a great performer, and a wonderful act to watch why cant people just show him some respect and actually listen to him play, I'm all for screaming, yelling, singing, dancing anything that shows your having a good time but acting like its a f***ing picnic and trying to talk over a performance is just madness show the man some respect please.

Ok rant over, I feel better for that, sorry if I have offended anyone, please remember this is just my point of view.

synthiarose04 said:

well done...seriously
thats happened to me loads of times, and most gigs I go to are tiny...like 2-300 people, so it's obvious to the band / artist
really pisses me off

With regards to the talking I definitely agree with you and well done for speaking up when many wouldn't.

But with regards to people getting up to get pizza/beer or whatever, so long as people have paid their admission fee then they should be allowed to enjoy the experience however they wish so long as it doesn't involve unreasonable behaviour.

Bear in mind that screaming, yelling, singing and dancing may be of annoyance to others around you even though both you and I see it as reasonable behaviour at a Prince concert (when the music invites it, of course).

Ultimately, the audience has paid to see a performance by Prince. He hasn't invited them into his house and ultimately, they owe him nothing. Personally, I just see it as their loss if they don't want to sit/dance/singalong to every single moment of the show.

So long as they're not aggressive or provoking, blocking someone's view by standing somewhere they shouldn't or, as you pointed out, talking loudly during a quieter moment, then I think just about anything goes and we should all accept that others want to enjoy the experience differently.

I don't understand the need for constant drinking. I'm not a big alcohol drinker, but I took one bottle of water in with me and a whisky & coke to get relaxed a bit. As I realised the water was going down fast I just started taking tiny sips when absolutely necessary because I didn't want to miss a second of the show. Alcohol makes me want to pee so badly straight away so any top-ups are a no-no.

Now at least I know the brand of water the venue sells (Buxton) so I can take some spare caps in with me when they take them away when you buy one for no logical reason.

It's crap that people have the right to go feed and water during the show. Jesus, it's Prince, and all some people can think about is stuffing their faces with second rate pizza and warm lager. I'm not saying that people should sit and worship him, it's just bad manners. They shouldn't sell stuff during the show. Simple. Actually, they should close the toilets too.

Nuff said.

synthiarose04 said:

nice one - no wonder we apparently live in nanny state. With the sort of people you describe there, that's why.....yep because they are so bloody stupid. I mean come on, pay over thirty quid + travel etc to have a good chat about Coronation Street. And then buy a 80p pizza for about £15 cos it's at the venue. We can only hope that idiots like this have paid £500 for Babs Streisand to have a chat about the floods. We have all had them next to us at some point - it seems the aftershows are suffering with the idiotsquad too as binge drinking Britain contributes to them as well.
Respect?? what in the UK?

Yup i saw that too, as soon as maceo started his funky little number i swear a fifth of the arena got up to go... mind you I went to the loo as well... y'know i think he puts in the slow numbers to give people a chance to chill out cos it might be too much for some, but not for me!

On another note, some fans are psychos! I had two (quite cute) Norweigan girls next to me (oh, if I wasn't already accompanied!) but one was going nuts, security resorted to physically throwing her back from the stage! (ooh we had good seats) She spent so much time begging to be let on stage, she missed half the gig; she implored me to lift her on my shoulders (Sorry! Having too much fun! Besides you're front row, girl!) I felt so sorry for her poor friend, I hugged her all through purple rain (the psycho, that is, to restrain her!)

But even she couldn't spoil my night, I've got energy, I love to dance but that was something else! Best fun I ever had with my clothes on! Apart from the Emporium in 95!

If anyone knows how to party I'm there fri 10th (block 102) and tues 14th (block101 and my birthday, yay!)

I will never understand people doing this sort of thing, but as some rightly pointed out above, some things are quite interesting in coronation street, I have not seen it for yrs, so i will look forward to the concert and catching up on all the old news

whats cornation street to do with anything,please dont bring it into the prince forum,i lunfortunatly like in the uk,i have to put up with boring fat women talking about soaps all day everyday,its the reason why obesity is such an issue here,they all drink there slimfat shakes and watch soaps and acant understand why they are fat heffers,they do everything but exercise,i come to this forum to hear about prince not fat women with tales of cornation street,they talk about cornation street because they cant fit throught there front doors,hence why tesco and sainsburys offer shopping delivered and put away in your kitchen,

vive la prince

Whitnail said:

Good for you i would have done the same thing,why people feel the need to drink alot at concerts i will never know as you are on a high anyway.People just dont have the same respect for prince like we do and they most likely got dragged along by someone who loves him and they dont.
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synthiarose04 said:

I had the same problem. 3 bloody Londoners behind me and my wife, shouting in high-pitched (they were guys) annoying tones.

I turned round and advised them to keep it down or there would be repurcussions in my broadest "I'm hard....don't mess" Scottish accent. Thankfully, the accent seems to put people off most of the time (outside Scotland anyway) because if I did follow it through and "Take the 3 of you'se outside" I may have bitten off more than I could chew
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