idealistically it’s good to encourage people to watch support bands but when you’re an adult with a job and responsibilities i want to fucking decide what time to be there without bands trying to treat me like a baby.
find it a weirdly needy attitude that everyone MUST be there to cheer on the support band. i try to catch supports as much as possible but if i’ve looked them up and they’re shite, or i’m too busy to get there any earlier, then i’m not going to inconvenience myself.
also if you force everyone to get there early then people who have no interest in support bands will just talk through them. if i like the support then i’d rather these people fucked off until later.
aye exactly. lots of twats in the replies there suggesting they’re always the same anyway, which is clearly pish. maybe if the only gigs you ever go to are in various O2 Academys (also if they’re always the same then that defeats the purpose of their sentiment)
find a lot of promoters are good for posting them now but some are quite last minute. i get anxious at the idea of turning up too early and having to spend a good hour on my own like a lemon, and it is very offputting. really like how the Olympia Theatre in Dublin post the stage times on the actual website on the gig page so you’re not trying to find who the promoter is and search facebook and twitter.
most frustrating one was over the summer when i went to an all-dayer spread across two venues and they never posted the set times despite numerous requests from people. quite weird.
Bit abelist as well really not posting them if the information is available. Plenty of legit reasons why people might be unable to last a whole gig until the end if they turn up at doors.
yeah there are a lot of the gigs where they never bother to announce the support in advance, or else announce it like an hour before when they’re posting set times. find this very weird also.
being a promoter looks and sounds like hard work from seeing people i know do it but this is surely the absolute easiest part.
The other side of this is that at 34 years old, with a full time job and a family I am definitely not the kind of bitter old bastard any young, excitable support band wants watching them, arms folded, constantly checking the time, replying to work emails, looking generally pretty uninterested. Let me turn up five minutes before the headliner for everyone’s sake.
Also, day festivals, club nights. Missed many a club night because I only want to see one DJ, cba staying for the whole thing and they’ll only show the set times on a poster when you arrive in the club… If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky you’ll just have no idea who’s playing when.
depends, i know venues who have club nights on certain nights of the week so have early gigs on those nights, chuck the support bands on about 15 minutes after doors open and try and get the whole thing wrapped up by 10 so they can get everyone out and let the students in