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So I just got back from seeing the Arcade Fire at the Paramount Theatre here in Seattle. Like any show that the Arcade Fire puts on, it was full of energy on the stage. They played a pretty good set, did a Bowie cover, some fighting on stage (during laika with two band members), and just pretty good. All this is cool, accept for the two bitches sitting right in front of me who decided to stand during 90% of the show!!! This is on the second floor, where seats are!! Do people really need to dance, especially if the entire section around you is sitting down!! Oh the people around me, and myself told these girls off. They were ruining like 10 people's view, and they were like 'I'm not sitting down, you should be dancing!' Ugggg!!! I'm happy I've seen the Arcade Fire before (in a much smaller venue), so I didn't feel super cheated, but I can only think what others who are seeing for the first time, and then get to watch some ugly ass chicks try to dance to the music. It wasn't even good dancing either!!

But anywho, it was a good show. One cool thing they did was their 'funeral procession' down the steps, through the aisle, and out to the lobby where they just kept on playing for 15 minutes. All acoustic, just kinda humming and singing long notes. It was pretty cool.

no photos, since I was on the second floor.

Oh, and Wolf Parade was awesome!! I wish I could go see them tomorrow night, but I don't think I can do two shows in the middle of finishing a launch game

 

[Polari]

Seats are for squares. You can't stop the music.

 

[distantmantra]

You should've pushed them, then they'd learn their lesson as they plummeted to the floor below. Dancing at the Paramount is for the floor. Frankly, it's not even safe up in the mezzanine.

I'm really tempted to go to Wolf Parade tomorrow night, but I just got home from THE ABOSLUTELY AMAZING Death Cab for Cutie and Harvey Danger show, and I have to be up at 6am... I don't think my body could take another late night.

 

[Flynn]

Most musicians will take the alternate view, I recall Jack White complaining at a White Stripe show how nobody was dancing, or really even moving for that matter.

 

[Prospero]

Oh the people around me, and myself told these girls off. They were ruining like 10 people's view, and they were like 'I'm not sitting down, you should be dancing!' Ugggg!!!

And this is one of the reasons why I never go to rock concerts anymore, especially in arenas (the last show I went to was Bowie's tour for Reality, and I doubt I'll go to another unless those rumors of a Pink Floyd tour turn out to be true). Jazz and classical concerts have spoiled me for this kind of thing.

I don't know what's worse, actually--people who stand in their chairs or people who sing along to the greatest hits (usually loudly and off-key). I paid 80 dollars to hear the guy on the stage, not the guy standing next to me.

 

[Zilch]

If you want rock concerts to be like classical concerts, you're probably a douche bag. Just sayin'.

Arcade Fire's for dancing, sorry if you're too old or too cool to shake your butt.

 

[Matlock]

Loosen up, jeez.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Arcade Fire's for dancing, sorry if you're too old or too cool to shake your butt.

I'd agree with you,but they were dancing upstairs in the seated area no? go down to the floor if you are "young enough/cool enough to rock out"

 

[drohne]

people who need to dance vigorously and distractingly at shows should be shot. and i don't care whether the musicians want to see fans dancing. it's theoretically defensible to dance to some bands, but i don't think it has anything to do with the music for these people anyway -- they're just as likely to make spectacles of themselves by headbanging through a mercury rev set or voguing to the delgados. both actual, shameful occurrences.

 

[Brannon]

If there's a giant dancing area, and you choose to get a place in the smaller sitting area and decide to dance THERE, then yes I hope you shake an aneurism right into your brain and not die.

 

[Drozmight]

You should've just cut their heads off, then rode a lawn mower to the stage and battled the band.