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Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
sasred - 07.08.2006, 03:54A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
If you think this should be in 'Fairground' instead, Michi, feel free to move it. :D Been a couple of requests for this one now...Jo Joe did the original on the old official forum, here's what I hope is a fitting revival.
List your concert mishaps and advice to avoid them in future, to help out your fellow fans.
I'll start:
When attending outdoor gigs in the UK, be sure to have a supply of bin liners (trash bags) on hand to cover your belongings, and be sure to wear clothing you don't mind being seen in soaking wet. :top
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
redorro - 07.08.2006, 06:04
I'm the sort of person who doesn't wear make-up much at all, except for those special occasions. And we here, all know that Simply Red gigs are special occasions.
Unlike me, don't apply the make-up, so you look like a clown with rich blue eye shadow and bright red cheeks. :shock: :shock:
I'll also buy something new to wear, which I think is special, only to put it on, on the night and feel like complete dag.
See Pat for 'What Not To Wear'. :D
Pat
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
sasred - 07.08.2006, 06:30
*laughs* Nice ones, Pat!!
Just got sent these by one of my gigging companions:
1. For the outdoor concerts in the UK and the "potential inclement weather" (a quote from the back of a ticket) you also need the latest 'Tesco' shopping bag look stuck on your head to go with your black bin liner outfit.
2. Be stubborn and resiliant towards drunken women who eventually pass out into mud pools during 'Fairground'.
3. Beware of big 'no sense of humour' and power crazy security guards (especially when you are carrying a very small digital camera). I know they don't always look it but they seem to think they are legal minds on 'copyright' laws.
4. For indoor concerts such as the Liverpool Big Top arena dress lightly (ie. no clothes) as all through the evening you will have access to a sauna - it must be a Simply Red freebie!
5. In outdoor concerts use large trees to hide from those big 'no sense of humour' security guards while you try to 'stake out' the venue. Climb one for a better view if needed.
6. If there is a Stately Home by the venue pretend to be interested in it while chatting with the polite and cultured National Trust staff while trying to work out the best way of 'legging' it down to the front of the stage. Become a member of the National Trust if this helps in any way.
7. Take part in a aerobic training regimen for at least 6 months for the preparation for the 1 minute run down to the stage - it will be worth it! Try to find yourself an oxygen tank and mask as you may need it afterwards. Maybe to ensure a faster time try some steroids??
I almost died laughing. These all hit home. Some of them hit harder than others. :wink: :D
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
DIANAD1 - 07.08.2006, 20:08Wandering London Late at night!
Oh I posted this already to your picture topic Shannon but I'll write it up here again. Last year when I was over in the UK to catch a few SR shows, I got stuck outside of a train station that was closed all night for cleaning!!!
It was in London at the Euston Station after the 1st RAH show I saw. It was Sunday Night/Monday Morning & the station was totally closed it down for cleaning. Usually they will keep it open overnight but Sunday is the exception. Had to roam the streets around the station for 5 hours until it opened in the morning. Very few buses or taxis drove by the station at that time of the night & even if I got on one & asked the drivers to take me somewhere else, I figured no matter were I went nothing would be open at that time of the night.
No hotels were around the station. Not much around the station but closed stores and people homes. Nothing was open no stores, restaurants, parks, not even the after hours bars since it was Sunday Night. I was a bit nervous, scared, hungry, thirsty and very tired and it was so quite cold that night too. The station was near a Mental Hospital so I saw quite a few strange people walking around and one guy kept following me & my friend around asking us all sort of personal questions that got creeper by the minute. We had to keep walking and eventually run to get rid of him.
And there was nowhere to sit except the bus stop in front to the station that had a broken bench. Nowhere to get a bite to eat! Nowhere to go to pee!!! So we had to keep on walking until 5:00AM when the train station opened just to kill the time. It was an unnerving experience. Let’s just say that even for SR, I don’t want to do that again!!! Next time I’ll book a hotel room in advance no matter how much it costs just to avoid this from happening again.
And I'll suggest to all SR fans, make sure you have a nice place to stay after the show if you go to a SR concert that is not close to your home. It so much better to have a place to go to after the show lie down on a nice cozy bed feeling warm & safe and dreaming about the concert instead of roaming the streets wondering if you’ll be attacked by a wacko!! Even if you can only get a cheap hotel, it’s better than getting stuck in the streets overnight! :roll:
SMILES :D
DIANAD
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
sasred - 08.08.2006, 04:04
Good post, Diana, and one to learn from, definitely. I'll amend that with just one suggestion, pointed out to me this summer:
Make sure you have transportation TO said hotel arranged in advance, particularly if you're doing the outdoor gigs in remote locations. If it weren't for my guardian angels dropping Sarah in my lap at Petworth, we would have been thumbing rides back to Hassocks at insane o'clock in the morning. Probably with little results. (None of the cab companies I attempted to reach that day would return calls.)
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
sasred - 09.08.2006, 20:47
Additions from my offline friend:
8. For people who are seated and complaining when you are dancing in front of them say you have a rare mental disorder where you must move at all times to music or you will become quickly homocidal. That should do the trick!
9. Before the concert become suspicious of the security guard at the backstage entrance when he insists the band and crew have not arrived yet when stuck right behind his head are 3 giant size brightly coloured double-decker buses (plus music from the soundcheck going on).
10. Finally for the lucky ones some of the concerts such as at Leeds Castle had additional artists in the middle of the performance (a bit like those dancers in the Cuba DVD) - a male stripper! Wasn't that considerate of Mick Hucknall to add this surprise bonus act - I guess he wanted to give the audience their money's worth. (Next time do you think we could have a Brad Pitt lookalike instead).
Heh heh heh. :devil
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
redorro - 13.10.2006, 04:56
Now here's a subject that might go well on the official site.
Pat
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
sasred - 13.10.2006, 05:04
True dat. Shall we? :D
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
simplymichi - 13.10.2006, 15:33
Of course, of course, of course!!!
Re: A Simply Red Gig Goer's Guide to Potential Hazards
Bomb Jack - 31.01.2007, 20:05
sasred wrote: 8. For people who are seated and complaining when you are dancing in front of them say you have a rare mental disorder where you must move at all times to music or you will become quickly homocidal. That should do the trick!
I don't have a problem with the Homicidal bit, provided you sit your ass down and we can sort it out later :lol:
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