Birmingham gig
Anyone going to the Halcyon tour, you're in for a treat. Enjoy the band, they were great.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who was there tonight.
Disclaimer: I've seen Kingfishr in another city (my home city) and I've seen other bands in Birmingham Academy. Thoroughly enjoyed both. Apart from that I've been watching live music for 18+ years.
The Kingfishr crowd tonight in Birmingham was the worst crowd I've ever been part of. Ever. Genuinely. Borderline ruined it.
There were a lot of people and they made a lot of noise for the band which was great. But interpersonally, just dreadful. It's like everybody had main character syndrome! I don't expect to have a conversation with every, or any, person in a crowd in a gig, of course, but the whole crowd seemed so annoyed and *aggravated* by being in a crowd, I've never seen anything like it. Every interaction I had with another person it was them being agitated. Zero camaraderie, no sense of enjoying something collectively. Everyone just seemed annoyed that everyone else was in their way.
It really gave me a sad smile, the delicious irony when Eddie introduced Killeagh and said "it's hard to explain what hurling is to audiences outside Ireland, but this song is really just about being part of something bigger than yourself" and likened it to the community of Kingfishr fans...
And then a hundred phones went up to silently film the first minute of the song and ruin it for everyone behind you.
It all made me sad and I likely won't see Kingfishr again. I'll continue to be a fan from my home. Shame since I love live music and the last band before this I saw before this I'd been waiting 20 years to see and it was more than I ever hoped for. And the other time now I saw Kingfishr a few years ago in a smaller venue was joyous.
Was anyone else there tonight? What did you think?