h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's not just jumping up and down, you know. It's more complicated than that. And yes, I call it dancing: it is an expression of the fealings the music provokes.

well i suppose it's better than epileptic fit style dancing.

It is. Infinitely better.

please excuse my earlier synicism. i'm not often in a situation where moshing is allowed. haven't been to a huge number of concerts and those i have been to (if they class as concerts) haven't had mosh pits.

Ah, right.

think Northern Ireland, and Ireland in general, doesn't attract the same big names as the rest of the UK. probably doesn't help that my taste in music includes bands with at least 1 dead member, likre Queen and the Beatles, so the chances ogf them having a concert are slim anyway. and this Queen tour doesn't make it to the whole island

I'm pretty lucky about that, as there are a lot of festivals around here in the summer.

lucky you! i think Slane is the closest and it's about 150 miles away in the Republic of Ireland. in Belfast, which is about 60 miles from me, there are concerts, but they're sometimes bands i hate or things like the Tweenies, or other kids tv characters.

Ah, right.

it's actually quite scary that you can go to see the Tweenies or Postman Pat in concert, but to see a someone like Queen or Robbie Williams would be more difficult.

Yeah, it's sad, really.

i'm sure if you;'re three years old seeing Postman Pat would be fun. but not when you're that bit older. you want to see someone a bit more grown up.

Unless you get to the age where it's nostalgic.

For mre I think nostalgia covers watching it on TV, but not going to a concert hall of theatre to see it. Never did that as a kid, so it'd have no effect on me as an aduilt, unless perhaps I was taking some kids, but even then, I'm not so sure.

Nah, adult dragging kiddies to concerts they'd have liked to go to themselves when they were younger is the saddest thing ever. The kiddies are borde and the adults WAY to excited.

Yup. it's ok if the kids want to go and enjoy it etc, but if it's just for the adults it very very sad.

The kids mostly don't want to go. They're jsut being used as an excuse.

How sad. I did go to see Toy Story 2 on ice a few months ago. It swas very good. Very well done. Went with a couple of cousins, and they enjoyed it too, so it was ok.

Ah, right.

but Toy Story's good. It's when you go to se Postman Pat or something actually from your own childhood that it gets worrying.