101 live music clichés you lap up like a dog/detest

[Subtle Mocking]

Rhythm Stick, obvs.

[CaledonianGonzo]

John Deacon was in the Blockheads?

[Don_Preston]

Steve Hanley was in the Blockheads?!

[easytarget]

Yeah, I fucking love when American acts come over and don't have the slightest clue about British geography. Like, if they play a gig in Boston or Philadelphia, chances are that the majority of the people there will be from that area and will support their sports team. Then they come here and say "So I was watching MANCHESTER UNITED earlier" and get booed out of the building.

Tricky needle to thread that, for Johnny American. Yer cities here have (typically) one major sports team (for most of the important sports), so you can pitch up at, say, San Francisco and be all "How bout them niners? How about them to the max?". People in cities 300 miles from Seattle fervently supported them in the Superbowl. Whereas in Manchester, there's City and United just within the 0161 and, as someone else said, fans from Leeds, Liverpool, Bolton, Sheffield, Wigan, Leigh, Itsgrimupnorth, may show up with hatred in their hearts for the most-local football team. It's a dense, complex, island.

I saw the opposite of this move in Seattle a couple of years ago, forum darlings Future of the Left did a show and slagged off Portland "We just played Portland - you know what they say - People from Porland are cunts". Seattle doesn't hate Portland - it really isn't the same as doing a show in Newcastle and attacking people from Sunderland[nb]Durham, Middlesbrourgh, That place where they hung that monkey, etc.[/nb]. Portland is lovely, they have amazing pastries. It fell a bit flat. I started thinking about pastries.

[easytarget]

Oh I've thought of a proper cliche
41. Leaning forward with one foot on the foldback amp.

Cliché? Yes. Awesome? Oh holy balls yes!

[holyzombiejesus]

48. Towards the end of the set, the band asking the soundman how long they have left and the audience shouting "an hour!!!!1!!"

[Jockice]

John Deacon was in the Blockheads?

That's his brother Joey you're thinking of.