Oasis Yesterday

Yesterday, we (Paul, Jodie, Steve and I) went to see Oasis in Heaton Park. Luckily, it wasn't as muddy as we thought it would be. It was the third show at this location and it'd been raining most of the weekend. I specifically went out and bought cheap shoes in preparation for having to throw them out from all the mud afterwards. But didn't need to so now I have a new pair of shoes! lol

Musically, Oasis were excellent - as were one of the support acts, Kasabian, who I also love. The sound was really good so that helped but they were also both on top form. I wish I could say the same for the fans though. What I'm about to tell you will probably put all you off from ever visiting England again, lol. But here it goes.

English Oasis fans (they don't do this in the US) are seemingly incapable of using a toilet at a concert. I realize a lot of them are so drunk that they can't make it to the porta-potties or wait in the lines for their turn. Especially when you're near the front and it takes half an hour to get through the crowd. You know what it's like when you break the seal! So many of them wind up (cringe) peeing in their empty beer cups. This itself is crude but we haven't reached the worst part yet. For some inexplicable and downright disgusting reason, they then decide that instead of just dumping the urine onto the ground (which is gross but what else are you going to do with it at that point)..... that throwing it into the crowd is a much better solution for getting rid of it.

It's bad enough when they start off throwing their beer into the crowd. The idiocy of this is abounding and what possesses people to waste the money they spent on their beer by throwing it on other people is beyond me. But to then progress to throwing your urine on dozens of people.... I swear, if I ever get my hands on someone who does this, they will live to regret it. But I promise this kind of dispicable behavior only happens at concerts so just don't go a large, popular concert over here and you'll be fine!

That was the worst of the day. We also had to walk about a mile to the location because they only had one entrance to the park open which was about a mile from the stage setup. And then on the way home, stopping at the Subway drive through because the store was closed, a bunch of Oasis fans on foot decided they could cut in front of us because we were in a car.

I hate people. Well, I hate Oasis fans but there are times I hate people in general too.

The only saving grace of the whole day was the music.

On another note, Paul and Jodie told us that Aoife has entered into her terrible two's a bit early and is throwing horrible tantrums if she doesn't get her way. At the food store, she tries to knock everything over and if you try to pick her up, she drops to her knees and screams bloody murder. Paul then asked if we could babysit at the end of June and Steve said "Not if she's behaving like that!" LOL