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[exsequar]

I has a quick question about concert etiquette, and I figured I'd ask the experts.

Tomorrow is the first real small club show I'll have ever gone to. (EMPIRES YAAAAY!!!!) My only other concert experiences have been: a big amphitheater with assigned seats (Fall Out Boy's HCT), a MASSIVE arena again with seats (MCR), and Warped. A couple other small shows but none where I even thought about waiting in line or getting barrier.

SO! My question is this. I've seen a lot of you bitch about people in pits who have handbags. Well - how do you avoid having a handbag? I need to have on me my keys, my wallet, phone, and ipod, plus for this particular show i have pictures that I'd like the Empires boys to sign that I don't want to get bent. Sooo.. how do you NOT have a bag? I am puzzled. Help!

Also, any other general tips would be awesome. Attire, how shows run... I am just clueless. I feel like this one will be pretty low key (it's at two in the afternoon (no not nine)) but I also need to be prepared for HUSHIES!!!!!!! twice next week.

(OMG I'M SO FUCKING EXCITEDDDDD.)

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[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm finding this whole discussion really interesting. I don't know if it's an Atlantic divide thing, but I always take a bag, everyone I know takes a bag, and everyone at the shows seem to have bags. The unofficial rule here seems to be this: if you take a backpack (or any other sort of bag that rests on your back), you are an arsehole and will be hated on by everyone (I don't generally actually want to punch people IRL, but I almost did when a dude wore one to see the Pumpkins). Ditto for the sort of bags that go over your shoulder and sort of rest under your arm. I don't know what you guys call them, but everyone here wears the sort of bag that you wear the strap diagonally across your chest so that the bag rests somewhere around your hip and you can shove it in front or behind you depending on how packed the place is. I certainly wouldn't take my iPod in with me, or anything else I wouldn't want to get stolen.

Re: attire- comfortable sneakers, jeans, t-shirt, hoodie is pretty much usual for most gigs. I vaguely second whoever said no band shirts, but that's more personal opinion than general etiquette, I think. I also wouldn't wear a shirt for a band closely linked to whoever I was going to see. I wore an Empires shirt to Oxegen without really giving it too much thought, and then was surprised to find myself relieved we weren't on Jon's side of the stage, because I suddenly felt weird at the idea of him seeing me wandering around with his BFFs band written across my chest.

Also, if it's busy, your pics will get a little crushed, because in my experience mostly everything does. If you can leave them in your car and go and get them, that's probably a good idea.