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Originally Posted by Misty_Day
Hi all 
My partner and I will be attending the Vancouver show on 18/11/14, we are travelling all the way from New Zealand to see Fleetwood Mac!!! it will be our first time seeing them as they cancelled their Oceania leg of the tour last year when John fell ill. I just got my tickets this morning and can not even attempt to explain how excited I am to both see my favourite band in the world for the first time and visit both Canada and America for the first time too!!!  I am wanting to ask other people who have attended a past FM show what proper floor etiquette is? I'm seated in row 20 on the floor and I was curious if people mind if you go up further just for one song or a good photo? I would love to run to the front and just stay glued to the stage for the entire night of course! lol but I know people paid A LOT of money to get up to the front and it's not really fair to have a couple of kids cutting in and blocking their view....I just want to know if it's totally inappropriate to go up just for a bit, because I have seen some posts from other people who have just gone for it lol but I don't want to get yelled at by someone or worse escorted out by security and miss the concert!!!!
p.s: my seats are on the left, who usually occupies the left hand side of the stage? |
First, CONGRATS on getting tickets! It was so unfortunate last year that they canceled that entire leg of shows.
As for your question, I had floor seats last year for Fleetwood Mac in the middle of June and here's what I've learned from that experience:
- People usually never sit when they have floor seats, even though there is a chair there
- It isn't worth it if you're short in height - unless you make an investment to wear heels and would be comfortable standing in them all night
- People will get mad at you for standing, depending on who is around you that night (and if you stay standing it may be worse) Just pray you don't have people like that around you. When I went, there was a rather large man and I think his wife that sat next to my mom, and didn't like the fact that when the lights went down, and the beginning of Second Hand News started, that they realized they'd have to be standing the whole time. Some people don't peruse the internet watching tour videos like I do to get a sense of the atmosphere at these things.
As for rushing the stage, I personally have never done this, and I rarely go to concerts, but as I've read about others on here, it may be best to do it right when the lights go down, and sprint your way up there, depending on how tight or not venue security is.
Hope this helps!