I didn't realize how absolutely insane her shows were until my friend in Chicago told me about her experience. Now I'm mildly mortified.
I'm going to be staying in Seattle the night before the show at a hotel across the street from the venue, and we had originally been planning to park my car at CenturyLink field around 8am and then wait outside the venue all day, but now I'm wondering if that's even early enough. My friend in Chicago said people camped out overnight. Then again, there are so many factors, and this show is on a Tuesday so it's an odd day, but still.
I am in a group of four— myself, my brother, and two girls. We ideally wanted to be close to the stage, so I was wondering how feasible this is and what it would take to get in and make it close to the front. Three of us have pre-sale tickets through Adventures In Wonderland, and the other girl has hers through Ticketmaster; not sure if that matters. I'm a 6'2" 23 year old male and my brother is a 6'3" 21 year old, but his girlfriend and my friend who are going are both petite 20 year old girls, so I'm wondering how that is going to fare. I'm not worried about being able to see since I'm so tall (and presumably taller than most the audience will be), but I'm wondering about them. As I said, we want to be close to the front.
The way you guys have described the pits at her concerts though reminds me of punk shows I've been to in the past, and the time I basically had to fight for my life during a Hole concert. It is awful and not fun and you barely can focus on the music because you're mostly just trying to stand up. That said, many of these experiences it seems have been told by younger women, and my friend in Chicago is a petite 5'1" female, so she ran into some trouble; I'm a pretty big guy though and so is my brother, so I don't get shoved around easily. I mean, a Hole concert is like the antithesis of a Lana Del Rey concert— at least I THOUGHT it was until I read horror stories on here.
