This gives me flashbacks to the GA queue in Dublin 2009 and being corralled into tiny sections where there was insufficient space to sit down. Some of us took turns sitting down to rest our legs.
I had this for the Depeche Mode gig I went to a month ago., I arrived at 10:45 ish .
Temp well over 35, and the line I joined consisted of maybe 50 people, (There where 6 separate GA entrances, hence the low GA #'s)
At around 12:00 security ordered us to start making space and start standing "to make space" .
If eyebrows could make a sound it would have been a choir practice. Still 6 hours ahead of gates, and they where making us stand already. Oops.
All the fans looked at each other , shrugged, did as they where told and tried their best to comply!
All of that even though there was enough space for everyone and 100's more if we where sitting down.
Everyone toughened it out for an hour or so, but then the man with the hammer came round for most,
we all agreed that it was too ridiculous and , collectively decided to sit down again.
Security told us to stand yet again. Some people got up again, and after 10 minutes, sat down yet again bc why not.. . It was quite warm.
Needless to say. Security stopped asking. us to stand.
I don't see how they could force people to do so., and thankfully everyone in their right mind was in our queue and agreed.
Best GA experience for a stadium gig in my life actually. Everybody was chill. No line nazi, just a dude with a sharpie who wrote a number down but didn't set rules baerely spoke english. . And guess what. He didn't need security, he didn't need rowcalls,
And this amazing thing happened:
People stayed in line , the numbers got respected by every fan, no drama, no bullshit!
Its good to remember that it CAN work without one single person in control of everything. Sure put down numbers. It makes it easier to collectively look out for each other and line skippers. And also ditch the row calls... Stay in the actual fucking line. Line or bust.