A MAN who is thoroughly enjoying the gig he is currently attending still, deep down inside, cannot wait for it to be over.
Oliver O’Connor was excited to purchase tickets to see London Grammar, ticked off the days until his favourite band performed, and is now subconsciously counting the minutes until the performance finishes.
He said: “It is, of course, a privilege to be within a mere few hundred metres of one of the greatest bands of our era. But it will also take me 50 minutes to get home after.
“I’m really looking forward to having enjoyed this. Right now, the beer is warm and expensive, the other concert goers are annoying and I’m the only one not filming it. The memories will be great, though.
“Really, a concert is a hostage situation. The artist knows which songs the audience wants to hear but keeps them until last, forcing us to stay and cheer until the very end.
“Then there’s the whole embarrassing bullshit of them pretending to go off stage, like a game of peekaboo, and only coming back when we applaud. If I did that in my job as a data services manager, I’d be sacked.”
A member of the band, speaking anonymously, said: “You think we’re enjoying it? The set-list is a to-do list for us. God, we dream of the day our career’s finally over.”
