I've got my Helen Love t-shirt on

[venta]

Well, 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 ?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I believe you. However, these two sentences:

so you always have to affect not to care.

and

I'm so, so glad I don't care about these things any more.

Possibly should have been written slightly further apart :)

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

Good point, well made. Though of course I don't care, because I'm so cool :)