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As A Live music Supporter There Is No Greater Feeling Than Going To See Your Favourite Band Live On Stage, But Why Do So Many People Get Criticised For Going To See Their Favourite Band On A Regular Basis?

As an obsessive music fan, I love nothing more than going to watch my favourite bands when they play live. Over the years I’ve gone all over the UK to follow the bands that I are my favourites, and have even made the trip over to Ireland and mainland Europe a few times. On a number of occasions, I’ve actually bought tickets for a complete tour of around ten or twelve dates and had a great road trip with a friend to see them all.

There are many people who think that doing something like this is a bit strange, but I usually ask them if they assume it strange that someone would go and see a football team at every game they play, and as we all know, there are countless people all round the world who do exactly that. And only a handful of people question why they do it! To be honest, I don’t much care what other people think about it. There are many people have hobbies that hold no interest for me, so why do I deserve to be rebuked for doing something that I enjoy so much?

In any case, when my favourite band announces some dates, the first thing my friend and I do is to consult our diaries and assess our bank balances. Cold hard cash is always the biggest obstacle, as a decent road trip isn’t just about the cost of tickets, but fuel and accommodation costs too. If the tour seems financially viable, then holiday from work needs to be confirmed. And we do consider that for the purposes of going to a gig straight after finishing work and then make our way back home that evening, anything up to about two hours in transit each way is quite reasonable.

Then it’s a day of finding hotels wherever we have to use them, booking them online, checking out maps of the few venues that we aren’t already familiar with, and then we’re all set to to rock and roll – for real! As the gigs draw closer, the expectations rise.

I inevitably feel butterflies in my stomach before they arrive on stage, and this pleasure never diminishes no matter how many times I watch them. And before I get on my soapbox about artificial pop music, it’s wonderful watching a decent band, people who write all their own material, are all highly accomplished musicians and sound great live. They don’t have to use choreographed dance steps, banks of lighting, Laser eye beam effects and polytechnics – their music and their personalities are more than enough to keep the punters happy.

But for this band, budgets are limited, so when we can help them out by doing things like organising their merchandise sales or taking with us things we know they’ve left behind, it’s good to feel like we’re contributing to their crusade. It’s good to feel useful!

We’d really love for this band to be famous and for everyone to have heard of them, but worryingly they have a fair few fans who would rather they remained a well kept secret so that they carry on playing in small venues and can chat to fans after each show. But as I have pointed out to so many people, small venue concerts don’t pay the mortgage, fund dependable cars, finance the Laser eye surgery and elbow operation that two of the guys need or most importantly, leave them with any money to devote to promoting their music.

To return to something I commented on earlier, the music industry in 2011 is much more obsessed with making a fast buck and has virtually no interest in encouraging musicians with potential because they take years rather than days to become well known. It’s awful to think that countless talented musicians get out of the industry because they cannot survive financially, whilst the music business throws all of its money at the people who appear on television reality shows, spending millions on their ‘image’ – presumably cosmetic surgery, Laser eye treatment, bookings with stylists, famous choreographers and almost inevitably the infamous autotune. But, naturally, it’s all about the music!

I’m heading to Wembley Arena in a few days. But I’m going to watch the support act. I’ve paid nearly £30 just to enjoy three quarters of an hour of amazing music. I definitely won’t bother to stay and watch the main band, as I’ve seen them once before at a festival and they were fairly awful. Taking into account the vastness of Wembley, I think I’ll probably wish I’d already had my Laser eye surgery operation as unfortunately my eyesight has got quite bad, so it’s likely that the money I’ve spent will allow me a blurred view of some moving dots on stage, but it’s still vital to me that I turn up and support the musicians I love.
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