Are you nervous before a concert?

Pauk

It depends on where I am and where the gig is.* If I need a lot of transport to get to the gig (like when I'm at home) I worry because Ive missed gigs because of cancelled trains etc. in the past.* I don't if it's close by (like when I'm at uni), because there's nothing to stop me getting there.

I used to get nervous all the time, but now I go to quite a few gigs it's more of a habit like going to the cinema or something.

JaneNY

Not nervous, just usually really, really excited. I love going to shows in general. Its like church for me (or what I think church should be, since I don't go to church). The noise, the crowd, the release. I love it. So its more like excited anticipation.

Diamond Marmalade

I get really really nervous before non-summertime concerts, but I think that has more to do with having to drive long distances and skip classes.
I get most nervous about general admission shows since I'm 5'2" and I'm constantly worried that I won't be able to see anything.

Jack_C_Gregory

I get very nervous before big stadium shows. I become very antsy and my buddy will be talking to me but I'm not really paying attention. I'm just kind of like, "yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. Great." But I'm calm once the show starts...well not calm like I'm just sitting there, but I'm not in a panic anymore. I guess my biggest fear is doing something goofy like tripping down the steps and breaking my nose and having people record it with there cell phones and then seeing the footage on youtube. Like I would hate this scenario: "Hey man, how was the show?" "It was cool...but this one guy...haha... he...you know what, I'll just show it to you on youtube. It's classic."

hodge

i only get nervous 9:55 on a saturday morning the day tickets go on sale at ticketmaster for a show that i know is gonna sell out like radiohead or nin

boxwine_in_hell

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

Nervous? No.


Excited? Yes.

Ha. This is exactly what I was going to say. Dude, relax and have a drink or 10. It's not like you're playing lead guitar or something.

Sian-of-the-dead

When I saw PJ at Wembley I was a bag of nerves the whole day, that was probably the worst I've ever been.
I'm going to see Down in Birmingham and Dublin in the next few weeks and I know I won't be able to eat before the shows and i'll get really nervous and talkative just before they take to the stage. It's stupid really, i've seen them before and i'm a gig vet but I've still got butterflies forming! Hmm... maybe it's just excitement, I don't know...

catefrances

im never nervous before a show cause in my mind that band is there for ME. no one else. just for me. though when i see rollins i do get butterflies.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Somebody else's concert? No. Why?

One of my own? Yeah, I nearly shit myself.

Odin

Not really. It's not like going to a sporting event where you don't know whether your team will win or lose. Even if the concert turns out to be disappointing, there should be at least a few good moments if it's a band you're really into.

prljmfan92502

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Yep! What i get nervous about is getting to the box office and my ten club tix are not there!! I labeled it- Pre PJ Concert Anxiety. As soon as the tix are in my hand i'm fine! It's crazy!

Byrnzie

I think I would have been nervous if I'd gone to see GG Allin, or The Butthole Surfers in their heydey - late eighties, early nineties.

Though, I think I was probably a bit nervous before seeing Pearl Jam at The Astoria. Mainly because there had been such a build up over the few weeks after getting my ticket.

Astird

BinFrog wrote:

I get very fidgety and restless about 30 mins before the scheduled start time. I just sit in my seat and look all around and can't sit still. I apologize to whomever I am sitting with, but I just can't pay attention. Once start time rolls around and the boys are late, I just keep in that edgy state until the lights hit.

On the 05 tour I saw two message board people I recognized (from a yahoo group) waving at me. I had never met them before but I knew them from their pictures, and they knew me. I just sort of nodded and smiled to them but didn't actually get up and wave and go over and say hi. I felt like an ass when one of them asked me a few days later online if I was ok. I think she said something to the effect of she thought I just didn't want to say hi because it was "real life". I told her I looked for her after the show but they were gone. I promised to say hi next time. Hah.

haha, no actually you posted on the board first and said something like hey what's up, why didn't you wave and then i was like oh no you didn't! after we stood in front of you and waved at you like idiots and you didn't even acknowledge us. shit son. it's all good B, i know where it's at. It's the fidgety state of mind, we've all been there.

BinFrog

MurphyJesus wrote:

haha, no actually you posted on the board first and said something like hey what's up, why didn't you wave and then i was like oh no you didn't! after we stood in front of you and waved at you like idiots and you didn't even acknowledge us. shit son. it's all good B, i know where it's at. It's the fidgety state of mind, we've all been there.

I'll be at Mansfield 1/2, MSG 1/2, Hartford. Find me and wave HARD!