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How to get old people like me to go to music shows

» How to get old people like me to go to music shows

Mike Doughty has some ideas about what might get people over 30 to go to music shows.¹

immutableinscrutable:

If shows were at 7:30 pm sharp, adults might go.

If everybody got chairs, adults might go.

If everybody got treated with unceasing respect, and didn’t have to feel like they were uncooler than some snooty-kid hand-stamper, they might go.

If shows were shorter—two hours, from sit-down to paying the check, adults might go. (I hate saying this, because I love to play song after song after song)

If the headliner’s ACTUAL stage time were posted, more people might not feel going out was a dice-roll on how long they’d have to sit there waiting. I think, if opening acts were three songs long, people might actually become interested in opening acts, but it’s a terrible that people adjust to the fact that they’re usually being conned into sitting in a bar longer.

I’ve pretty much stopped going to shows for all the reasons listed above.

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1. Okay, so I’m not 30 yet, but I feel 70. ↩

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   Reblogging AGAIN because I’m going to another concert on Sunday and am not looking forward to how horrible it’s going to...

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   In this old post, Mike Doughty talked about getting the 35-50 year old music fan out to see live music. Go and read it...

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    hurts. Speaking as an old person who still loves music, I find standard practices

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    This is blood brilliant.

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    Um….. I have a lot to say about this that I’m not going to because very little of it is agreement (and a lot of it is...

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    I would not knowingly go to show with drink minimum. Or if I did, I would not purchase the minimum number of drinks… I...

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    Oh god, you know what is another thing...totally hate? The whole notion that it’s not...

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    Some of my older friends won’t go to my shows because I’m rarely able to tell them what time my band is actually going...

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