“For the Moments I Feel Faint”- Relient K
Friday night I attended a concert in Nashville, TN. It did not start out well! Not the concert, but the travel. What should have been a 15 minute drive turned into a 2 hour drive. We parked 15 blocks from the arena, and walked through the freezing cold. Apparently Nashville organizes don’t understand you can’t plan 2 concerts, a parade, and shut down the main road in Nashville (Broadway) all at the same time. Chaos!!!
If you’ve ever been to a concert with classical music, you know there are certain rules of etiquette. For example, it is rude to clap in between the different movements of a piece. You should wait until the end of the piece to clap.
Well, during Friday night’s concert (Tobymac, Relient K, etc) I noticed some rules of etiquette should be put in place for all other types of concerts as well:
- If you don’t know the band’s old songs, don’t claim to be their biggest fan. Sure you can sing-a-long with the latest radio hit, but you’re gonna look kinda weird when you’re stone faced because they’re playing a hit from 2002.
- Do NOT go nuts playing air guitar on lead solos. You couldn’t play it if you had a real guitar in your hand, so leave the riff to the real musician.
- If you’re going to get in the mosh pit and jump around, don’t come out crying if someone elbows you or steps on your foot.
- Act like your parents let you out of the house every once in awhile. There’s no need to scream randomly.
- If you wouldn’t scream when your parent says it, don’t scream when the artist says it. [Lead singer: "We went to Subway today..."] [You: "Yeah!!!!! I love Subway!!!! Woooohoooo!!!!"]
- If your tickets are on the floor, no sitting allowed.
- When it’s completely quiet and the artist is talking about children who are dying in Africa, don’t yell “I love you!”
- Wear clothes that fit…seriously.
- If you don’t have a cell phone to hold up during a slow song, don’t use your PSP instead.
- If you’re 6’4, don’t pick your hair into a fro before the concert. The people behind you won’t be too happy.
- Don’t try to act hardcore if your mom brought you to the concert in her mini-van.
- If you’re at a Christian concert and you want to raise your hands in worship, that’s fine. But it’s not worship if you only raise them cause the camera pans over to you.
- If you have a 4 month old baby, do not attach him to yourself with a harness, put earplugs in his ears, and stand in the mosh pit 5 feet from the stage (Yes, I saw this Friday night!)
- If you have a 3 year old, do not die his hair red and put it in a mohawk (Yes, I saw this Friday night…from the same family that had the baby!)