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ATL will definitely attract a younger crowd.

 

ATL bringing a young crowd is basically why blink brought them on tour in the first place

 

Well that and probably because Jack and Alex haven't stopped hounding Mark to do so since 2009

 

At the Nashville show we had All American Rejects instead of ATL. There were still quite a nice mixture of the 25-30 and 15-24 demographic people. Also the lead singer seems like he's on a sugar rush and it's hilarious

 

That's called drugs.

 

S.K.I.T.T.L.E.S. are what he consumes.

 

I'm 27 and people my age last night were acting like they were in high school again. It was awful.

 

I didn't have ATL and the crowd was still obnoxious. People were throwing drinks, fighting and arguing left and right. I've actually never been in a rougher crowd then that one. As soon as the let the GA people in they rushed and started shoving but during A Day To Remember it got ten times worse. It seemed like there was a crowd surfer every 40 seconds. Maybe I was just naive thinking it wouldn't be that bad after the X Games where there wasn't even so much as a squeeze in the crowd despite ATL opening. It was so still I managed to record nearly the half the show. Haha.

 

I do always get the feeling Mark is stuck in the past but also kinda an insecure feeling. Why are the deep cuts they're introducing Dysentary Gary, Wishing Well, Not Now and Reckless Abandon? All Tom songs when they could add stuff like Going Away to College?

 

Maybe he just doesn't want to have to sing on all 24 songs they play every night

 

Yeah, that's exactly what I want to do when I'm at the concert. Forgetting my age and having fun with my friends. Sorry, bro.

 

When I saw blink in 2011, everyone around me was literally 12-14 years old.

 

Well if acting immature, obnoxious, spilling and pouring beer on people and not having consideration for others is your thing than I feel sorry for you.

 

I shouldn't have to keep telling people during the show to stop being an asshole. I had girl dancing on top of me and my girlfriend, I can't tell you how many times she kept spilling her beer on us. I said something to her and she said, I'm sorry not sorry. I said are you fucking kidding me right now. I completely lost my shit on her.

 

I heard this in Dan's voice and it's way funnier than it should have been.

 

Yea one thing I will say I hate at a show, and I know some people will be all like "u r suppozd 2 have fun hawhaw" is drunken idiots and crowd surfers. We were at the very front of the pit and I swear when blink started the encore there was an endless sea of crowd surfers. My fiancé got booted in the head by some huge dude because we're watching the show how the hell we supposed to know some giant guy is about to come crashing on our heads from behind? I had to spend most of the encore being her shield and tossing those guys to the guards. And drunken idiots ugh. I don't mean the ones that are just drunk that's ok, I'm talkin about the ones that start stuff, yell in your ear, slam into you because they think it's circle pit time when they're the only ones doing it, etc etc

 

I'm even more excited to know the crowds are still as rowdy as the 2009 reunion tour. I went to the Camden date and one of my friends got robbed at knifepoint for 40 dollars in the parking lot (on the way in to the show nonetheless) and my other friend got crowdkilled during Carousel and ended up with a nasty black eye. Some guy next to us brought in what appeared to be about a literal ounce of weed and smoked THE ENTIRE SHOW. He shared and gave us some for the road. It was intense. Blink crowds are quite wild. Especially in large venues like this. The 2013 small venue tour was pretty tame in comparison.

As bad as that sounds, it was possibly the best damn show experience of my life. This was the summer I graduated high school and this was our first ever out of town roadtrip to a show. It was a real breakthrough, once in a lifetime moment.

 

I mean yeah but you can't argue that there's more Tom-driven songs in the set than Mark ones

 

Skiba sounds awesome so I am ok with this. He killed Violence, Not Now, and I Miss You IMO even better then tom could ever hope to.

 

True. Not sure where I read or heard it but I remember Mark making a comment once saying he doesn't really like his voice

 

I had crowd surfers in the lawn, it was bad. Being drunk and tipsy is one thing because there's nothing wrong with feeling a little good and singing along. But some just feel the need to get wasted, someone actually went up to my buddy's gf and stole her food. My buddy actually ran after him.

 

Yeah I'm all for being slightly tipsy and having some fun. But belligerent drunk is annoying and takes others around you out of the fun

 

PS I feel like a grumpy old man saying these things lol

 

Not to mention how violent it can turn. Even if you're a well tempered and civil person it just gets to the point where you could just have a melt down and that's the last thing you want.

 

This has happened too many times lol. I remember at the reunion in 2009 in Cleveland a bunch of my friends went together and I bought their tickets and they paid me back. Some were 30 from the website and others were 35 from Ticketmaster in giant eagle. I handed out the tickets randomly. One guy who i had bought a 35 one for was belligerent and saw the 30 on one of the tickets and to this day thinks I over charged him and I spent the whole show Away from him because he kept trying to fight people in anger that I supposedly ripped him off