Nov 19 2008
in which I discover that there’s a reason I rarely attend rock concerts
And that is, I’m apparently an old woman or something. Elliot Minor were playing at UEA tonight with Anberlin and the Hot Melts (I missed the latter because I showed up late, oops), and I went mostly because I like “Parallel World” and I thought it would be fun. I like Anberlin more, but I didn’t even know they were supporting Elliot Minor until after I bought my ticket.
Anyway, it was fine–probably talk about it more later on my other blog–but the problem with me is, headbanging gives me a monstrous headache (so do strobelights, flashing or otherwise), I spent most of the time grumbling to myself about all the stupid kids (within reason–people kept shoving around and attempting to start a mosh pit, I guess, and throwing things up on stage, like a single shoe, shirts, and…a red bra–the band members weren’t too sure what to do with that one), and I wore earplugs the whole time.
Yeah. Old woman. I know. But I want to be an old woman with good hearing. Also really loud music is painful and not so good for headaches, and it’s not like I couldn’t hear it–I could hear it fine, my ears are still ringing a bit now even so, 45 minutes later. Besides, not exactly a lot of nuances to pick up on in a rock concert.
