Thoughts on the crowd in SLC?
Hi! I went to the SWS show in SLC and it was AMAZING, the band was fantastic and overall I had a great time. Sadly though, I felt like a lot of the people in the crowd were a bit hostile? (Although there were also some lovely people!) for example, there was a group of people standing in front of my friend and I, and they were very cliquey and standing in a circle with empty space in the middle and not letting other people get closer to see the show. Eventually there was a big empty space in front of them so my friend said excuse me and when they moved, we tried to slip through and stand in the empty spot. Well, that was a bad idea because one of the girls in the group moved to where we were trying to go and physically squished us then started saying hostile things to us. I apologized and told my friend we should move back to where we were, yet the girl kept telling us we were bad people and that this isn’t how you do concerts, and all I said back was “you don’t need to be mean, we are trying to move back”. After this, the whole group started calling us bitches and threatening violence. We did not want to engage with these people, but they kept saying bad things about us and gossiping to other people. I’m worried that I may have accidentally inconvenienced people when we tried to stand in that spot, but since we retreated when we realized there wasn’t room and apologized, I didn’t understand why these people were hostile. Additionally, during one of the openers, people around us kept telling the singer to take his shirt off even when he was visibly uncomfortable and trying to sing a song that was serious. Maybe this wasn’t a big deal, but overall I just wish people had a little more patience and respect for everyone, cause we are all just there to have a good time and enjoy the music! I asked my other friend who was standing on the other side of the venue if she experienced any of this, and she said there were also people making her uncomfortable where she was. It’s also possible that this was just because we were closer to the front, but I was just a bit disappointed. What do you guys think?