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 04:39 am (UTC)Then again, I have to confess to laughing at Angry Dave's <BODY> shirt (backprint: </BODY>) the first time I saw it.
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Date: 2003-09-18 04:49 am (UTC)Scratch my earlier comment about how cool I am. I'm a geek and proud. (Geek pride march, anyone?)
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Date: 2003-09-18 06:14 am (UTC)Shame that he doesn't have a matching baseball cap, though.
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Date: 2003-09-18 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-18 11:18 am (UTC)All of a sudden, _any_ shirt is fine, no matter what the gig.
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Date: 2003-09-18 11:23 am (UTC)Scrub that last comment and use this one instead:
I like your thinking: <head> and </head>. With a baseball cap you'd probably also need a cravat.
All of a sudden, _any_ shirt is fine, no matter what the gig.