a good concert is:
- seeing the unknown opening act coming on stage, all looking like Jack Black at the beginning of School of Rock, only with less fashion-sense, and then enjoying the heck of out their songs, enough to buy their CD at the merch stand after
- watching from the front row even though you're generally cramped and bumped into, and not giving a rat's ass until the very last note has stopped resonating long ago
- very clearly feeling your hearing diminish like polar ice as each song goes by and thinking 'hey, those ear plugs might be a good idea', then completely forget about it instantaneously because the band just hit the killer part of a song
- not be able to stop smiling for minutes at a time. Seriously, where else in life does this happen?
- feeling close to strangers swaying next to you even though you won't talk to most, if any, of them
- feeling good about yourself for not spending your money on beer for once, then immediately blowing £30 on band merchandise, including a girl's tee-shirt you bought because you were paying too much attention to the Sienna Miller lookalike working the merch stand than to the garment she was handing to you. In a related note, anyone want a girl's medium Band of Horses tee?
- coming out of the place and calling up the friend you usually discuss music with, so you can share the joy. Cell phones really are a tremendous innovation for mankind
- seeing the unknown opening act coming on stage, all looking like Jack Black at the beginning of School of Rock, only with less fashion-sense, and then enjoying the heck of out their songs, enough to buy their CD at the merch stand after
- watching from the front row even though you're generally cramped and bumped into, and not giving a rat's ass until the very last note has stopped resonating long ago
- very clearly feeling your hearing diminish like polar ice as each song goes by and thinking 'hey, those ear plugs might be a good idea', then completely forget about it instantaneously because the band just hit the killer part of a song
- not be able to stop smiling for minutes at a time. Seriously, where else in life does this happen?
- feeling close to strangers swaying next to you even though you won't talk to most, if any, of them
- feeling good about yourself for not spending your money on beer for once, then immediately blowing £30 on band merchandise, including a girl's tee-shirt you bought because you were paying too much attention to the Sienna Miller lookalike working the merch stand than to the garment she was handing to you. In a related note, anyone want a girl's medium Band of Horses tee?
- coming out of the place and calling up the friend you usually discuss music with, so you can share the joy. Cell phones really are a tremendous innovation for mankind
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