You know you’re getting old when…
I still think I’m pretty cool, you know. OK, I might be on the wrong side of 30 and work in a boring office job, but as soon as the working day is done, on come the Converse trainers, the tight jeans and the skinny fit band t-shirt. I can talk with knowledge and passion about all the great new musical acts and fads, and have even been known to have the odd pint or two with some real live rock musicians. So why am I starting to feel so old and out of it when I go to gigs these days??
I was at a gig the other night – a Scottish rock band called Twin Atlantic – and was preparing myself for the usual fight to get to the bar, when I looked over and saw that the drinking area was almost completely empty. Just one couple and some bored-looking bar staff. Confused, I looked around to see if I could figure out why none of the gig-goers were drinking. Did Twin Atlantic have a large Muslim following? Was the venue full of pregnant women? Did it look like everyone was on call, checking their mobile roaming rates, shouting into their phones? Worse than that; almost everyone there was too young to drink. And obviously too young to drink. No borderline cases here. More than half the kids at this gig were under the age of 16!
That’s when it hit me. It’s not that I’m too old and out of it. It’s just that in comparison to the average age of the rest of the crowd, I’m a wrinkly old fart. I only went to my first gig when I was at university, having been banned from attending concerts by my hypocritical parents who rolled in smashed from a Jimi Hendrix show when I was about ten. These days'kids are attending gigs and festivals when they’re still in nappies. I suppose it’s cool that children are being exposed to good music from a young age, but it doesn’t half make me feel past it!
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