I've just been reading a discussion online about sitting/standing at concerts when you are in the seating area.

The subject is hotly debated and if I hadn't been to the Eagles in Perth about 6 years ago I'd have thought thousands of people sitting through a gig was laughable!

According to some (this relates to ACDC last night) a fair percentage of the crowd sat throughout the entire gig

I am no ACDC fan however, I'd never have thought it would have been like that.

Some people are saying it is just a Perth thing and that Robbie Williams (who slated the Perth gig to the Sydney crowd) and Pink were the same - thousands just sitting watching.

I've been to several Robbie gigs, Take That etc and have never sat through any of the.

If anyone told me to sit at a gig here I'd probably laugh at them and tell them to bugger off. Will wait and see what Tom Jones brings on Sunday!

Is this Australian wide or just Perth? Queue more slagging off Perth....... no doubt!

I would have walked out of them too!

They do enforce sitting in QLD too. I know when you go to the Entertainment Centre they force you to sit.

I think they do it for safety reasons, especially in venues where they are built for sitting as are many stadia and centres.

No idea myself(not a lot of help I know!)but I did hear a man on the radio who is in a wheelchair saying that he could not see anything at the AC/DC concert in Perth as everyone around him was standing.Sue.

Was there in December watching Green Day, in the standing section obviously (even after giving birth 6 days previous!) you couldn't pay me to have a seat at a gig.

Anyway no one in the seating section sat through it. Billie Joe told everyone to get on their effin feet and they did and stood all the way through. Was nice that no little Hitlers in tabards made them sit down.

Yep, they are very hot on it in Qld. The impression you get is that they want you to sit still and not actually enjoy yourself. Very odd being at rock concerts ere the entire audience is seated - and almost not daring to move. When I've talked to people about it at concerts they just accept the rule is if you go to a rock concert you sit down - they are amazed to hear that the opposite is true at home.

I've never heard of anyone sitting through an entire concert. What kind of concerts are we talking about here?

Try sitting at the Big Day Out; good luck with that!

Never known it to be enforced. I've been to the Entertainment Centre a few times, sometimes people were sitting, and most of the time they were up dancing. Never been moaned at for dancing in front of my seat. I don't remember anyone sitting at Robbie a few years back.

People used to sit at gigs in the UK, not noticed any difference here.

I like to be right at the front squashed up against the crowd jumping and dancing like a right mad person!

Sitting down is for the non-dancing types!

Em x

We went to see Boy George in Singapore and myself and several other middle-aged has-beens were shoved forcibly back into our seats by the security staff. Boy George was a bit bemused by all this and was telling people to dance. I actually saw grannies with their knitting (seriously!).

I quite like a comfy seat, being the senior bod I am now. I'm even one of the old sweats in the fire brigade - that's saying alot.

LMAO!

Is it just me that actually thinks that's quite cool? I mean older women happy and interested enough to go to a Boy George concert but know that jumping about is not for them and feeling that sitting doing nothing is a waste of knitting time? I think that's great.

Good for them, I say. Making good use of time.

errr... Sorry MP.. but jasus.. if they are happy to turn up to listen to an artist performing his act and feel the knit a jumper/scarf/socks then go for it I reckon!

Me? I went to the beach the other day to see the iron man contest and took my sewing machine.. the extention lead was a pain in the arse, but I managed.. that duvet cover is coming on a treat!

Em x

Well hurry up with my order, winter is nigh on here!