I've got my Helen Love t-shirt on
Sep. 18th, 2003 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaWell, actually, of course I haven't. I don't own a Helen Love t-shirt. But rest assured that, mentally, I'm always wearing one.
I'm just wondering about the etiquette of wearing t-shirts by one band to the gig of another. It's always seemed to me to be overkill to go to see Band A wearing a Band A shirt. It smacks faintly of the obsessive.
My usual choice of what to to wear to gigs is combats (for the pockets), some sort of top, and a long-sleeved t-shirt - the last means you don't get cold on the way home, but it can be unobtrusively tied round your waist when you're bounding about. I own around four long-sleeved shirts, one plain, one with a hazchem warning on it, and two assorted flavours of NMA. So around 50% of the time at gigs I'm wearing an NMA shirt... Yes, this does mean I sometimes go to NMA gigs wearing an NMA shirt - however I have a Good Reason and thus it's not obsessive in the slightest :)
So - is it rude to turn up advertising a completely irrelevant band ? I don't think so. Though you do get some strange mixtures, sometimes.
Black coat, white shoes, black hat, cadillac.
Guess who I'm going to see this evening ?
I'm just wondering about the etiquette of wearing t-shirts by one band to the gig of another. It's always seemed to me to be overkill to go to see Band A wearing a Band A shirt. It smacks faintly of the obsessive.
My usual choice of what to to wear to gigs is combats (for the pockets), some sort of top, and a long-sleeved t-shirt - the last means you don't get cold on the way home, but it can be unobtrusively tied round your waist when you're bounding about. I own around four long-sleeved shirts, one plain, one with a hazchem warning on it, and two assorted flavours of NMA. So around 50% of the time at gigs I'm wearing an NMA shirt... Yes, this does mean I sometimes go to NMA gigs wearing an NMA shirt - however I have a Good Reason and thus it's not obsessive in the slightest :)
So - is it rude to turn up advertising a completely irrelevant band ? I don't think so. Though you do get some strange mixtures, sometimes.
Black coat, white shoes, black hat, cadillac.
Guess who I'm going to see this evening ?
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Date: 2003-09-18 01:54 am (UTC)I know what you mean about the obsessive look of wearing a band t-shirt to their gig.
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Date: 2003-09-18 01:56 am (UTC)Yup. *boing*
For reasons of mutual convenience, you win a ginger biscuit :)
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Date: 2003-09-18 03:09 am (UTC)Guess who I'm going to see this evening ?
ZZ Top was what sprung to my mind. You'd look great in a beard.
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Date: 2003-09-18 03:13 am (UTC)It's been tried. (By
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Date: 2003-09-18 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-18 07:11 am (UTC)Tell me all you know... NOW!
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Date: 2003-09-18 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-18 07:38 am (UTC)I initially got all excited and read it as you saying in surprise "but aren't they touring now?".
Ah well. One day :)
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Date: 2003-09-18 08:02 am (UTC)