Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Yobs@gigs

Megan Fitzgerald mfitzgerald@michelswarren.com.au
Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:29:09 +1000


Excuse me?
How dare you say that.

-----Original Message-----
From: alistair king [mailto:alistairking@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 4:23 PM
To: loulou@zip.com.au; powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Yobs@gigs


Hm yes and Ive noticed that it helps if you are a chick and you wear low-cut

tops too. Not mentioning any names. . .grrrr. . megan. . . grrr. . .


>From: lou <loulou@zip.com.au>
>To: <POWDERWORKS@cs.colorado.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Yobs@gigs
>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:00:13 +1000
>
>hey martin,
>
>what did you want to know about our loverly yobs? :)
>ooooh they're loverly.
>
>they're usually too drunk.
>
>they're usually loud, and useless, and rough.
>
>oh, and full of themselves.
>
>they hunt in packs.
>
>if you were from the UK you'd probably call them 'lads'.
>
>and yet, somehow, they can be an integral part of the Oils gig. not sure if
>it's a good part or a bad part, but a part nonetheless.
>
>they usually like to congregate and try and push in right in front of
>Peter, and sometimes they'll target a smaller/female person in the front
>row to try and shove out of the way.
>
>they just looooooove to wave their hand about a la Peter, and shout out
>either OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILS and/or whichever song they really, really
>thought was tops about a decade ago.
>
>a lot.
>
>no, really, a lot.
>
>sometimes not very coherently either.
>
>they usually think that the Oils are absolutely GROUSE, man! and yet, won't
>hesitate to lob a beer can at the band. ahhh the eternal dichotomy...(John
>Montgomery, please note use of polysyllabic word).
>
>I have noticed, however, that if you're a girl, and you smile and sing
>along, so they notice that you, too, must be an Oils fan, and gosh, it's a
>girl and she's not telling me to get out of her face, they can be made into
>happy drunk people who won't try and push you out of their way. sometimes
>they even protect you from the yobs behind them! it can work! not all the
>time, but it's worth trying. it's like diversion therapy. unfortunately a
>side effect may be that they think you like them. boys, I don't know if you
>want to try this method ;)
>
>please note that yobs are not an exclusively Oils phenomena.
>style and colour vary from gig to gig. no rain cheques.
>
>later!
>lou
>
>
>At 09:34 AM 10/1/01 -0400, Martin Bradburn wrote:
> >Lou wrote: "some yobs came along to be utter gits, although a couple of
> >them had tatty
> >and vaguely amusing/disconcerting wigs to break the monotony that is
> >Yobs@Gigs."
> >
> >I'm interested in this phenomenon. A friend of mine mentioned it after
> >he visited a couple of years ago an
> >attended Rockalong at Warrawong. Could you elaborate Lou, Krusty?  Not
> >this specific incident but
> >yobs at Oils in general.
> >-- Martin
> >
>
>
>http://www.geocities.com/matt_finish_site/
>
>http://www.geocities.com/loubottle/
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