Age - Two-Oh
B'day - 11 August
Schools - Rosyth Primary; Nan Chiau High School; Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Current)
Xx MUSE Live in Singapore: Good Show, Bad Crowd xX
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Alright peeps. Concert was held on the 16th of January 2006. I had Joseph go in the morning to queue first, for the sake of getting to the front row. I had lab in the morning, so yeah. Haha. Anyway, shouldn't have turned up so early. Take this handy concert-going tip from me. People will cut queue, regardless of how hard you stare at them. So, don't go uber early, but do have the courtesy to not cut queue. I have pictures of the perpetrators, but I've decided not to paste their ugly, swine-like faces all over soft.com or on my blog. Oh yes, a thing to keep in mind, Ms' will always ruin gigs. They ruined my experience. Oh yes, groupies (or groupie-wannabes) with placards will always be present. Lol.
Anyway, moving on. The gates opened at 7pm. Managed to get into the 2nd/3rd row of the centre-left side. It was probably the 2nd best spot to watch the concert from. The "spot-of-all-prime-spots" was obviously in-front of the extended platform where Matt would do his solo pieces. But unfortunately, the queue-cutters managed to root themselves there. The concert didn't start on time. Music was played to "entertain" the crowd. Sounds fun? Not exactly when you have Ms' start singing (horribly) and moshing (actually, shoving would be more appropriate). Don't take me wrong, moshing is fine, but shoving is a far cry from that.
The gig started at 8.40pm. This is when the real terror begins. The shoving (not moshing!) becomes extremely violent, I tell you. People in the front row, including Jo & I, were just totally squashed. Packed even tighter than sardines in a can. I can swear on this, I tell you. Nobody could breathe easy at all. Elbows were like everywhere. Less than 1 minute in, the shoving claimed it's first victim. Girls started passing out and people were like begging for help from the security guards. If you fall, you're dead meat. A huge number of people requested to get pulled out by the guards. I couldn't take it too. Jo asked to be pulled out by the end of the 2nd song and I "tapped out" near the end of the 3rd song. Got pulled over the fence. I wish I've stayed on, 'coz the conditions kinda stabilized after half an hour. It's alright, we all know who were responsible for the shoving. :)
Anyway, that was the bad part. After being pulled out, Jo and I found ourselves an OK spot at the left side of the crowd. Wasn't really in the mood after what has happened. Joseph had no problems losing control of himself though. It was pretty scary standing beside him. It's like he was totally possessed and the only one moshing into people within a 3 metre radius. Lol. Tried to enjoy as much as I could, and that's all I could do.
Oh yeah, I read that some twats (British slang for CCB) actually threw bottles at Matt, and one bottle actually hit him while he was riffing. Like what the Fuck?! Are they retarded? Fuck you little twits. If people knew who you were, you'd probably have thousands of bottles shoved down every single orifice of your body. You know how fortunate it is already for them to come down and play for a pathetic crowd of 6,500 people? Tickets to the 90,000 seater Wembley Stadium got sold out in less than 1 hour and I tell you, from all the overseas gig videos I've seen, the entire crowd behaved much more mature than you did. Don't fucking give them a reason to not come back at all. It's as if MUSE are so bloody desperate to play here. We're the desperate ones, not them! Fucking retards!