people passing out at gigs
This has happened twice lately at gigs I've been at.
First time was watching Godspeed at The Forum, they had just gone on and this guy a few rows in front of me completely lost the ability to function. He was fine one minute then gone, and no one could hold him up as he was like a dead weight, even though he was a little guy, and his eyes were open but glazed over. He needed two guys to hold him up and drag him to the back.
Then it happened again last night, also at The Forum, watching the Mark Lanegan Band. We were behind the sound-desk so it was hardly a packed area and there were a group of 5 or 6 people next to us. It's nearing the last 30 mins of the gig and I look round and the bloke who'd been standing next to me the whole time (not even drinking) just passes out. None of his friends knew what the fuck was going on as he was just leaning into them but steadily going further over to the point he was going to fall over. He was a big lad and it took a few of them to keep him standing, but again the eyes were wide open but glazed over and he'd lost all ability to stand.
What is this phenomenon? Is it simply to do with heat / claustrophobia? Bad drugs maybe? How do I know it's not going to happen to me next time I'm at a show?
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Probably just from standing still for a while without tensing their calf muscles to get the blood to flow up the legs easier
Thick twats
I passed out seeing NoFX when I was 13
because I had no money to buy dinner in London and didn't have time to eat it before I went. My mates were unsympathetic - why hadn't I told anyone I hadn't eaten. To be fair I did and no one cared.
To be fair again I was a massive fanny at that age.
Haven't seen many recently-graduated military men at gigs, if I'm honest.
Fucking hell.
I've done this.
Bloc Party at Reading 2004. I was just hot and it was VERY busy.
I have a series of very odd fainting events including in a packed restaurant where I went and sat outside and everyone, *everyone* started at me through the window :(
i didn't see it but i was talking to a mate at swans in manchester
the other week and he said he saw 3 or 4 people get carried out after gira asked the venue to leave the air conditioning off during the gig
i didn't see any though, did you?
suspicious
no i didn't
the guy who it was is a huge swans fan and i'm inclined to believe words he says. who knows though
It could be heat
It could be dodgy drugs. Well weird. dont think I've ever seen it at a proper gig before. I panic and get a bit frigthened when people pass out. a man keeled over at canary wharf jazz festival this summer and we thought he was dead (the people round him were giving CPR and his wife was screaming.) Paramedics came and turned out he was twatted form drinking in the sun all day and his screaming wife was equally moroculous but for whatever reason had not KO-ed.
heat
great film
There were a couple at Tallest Man On Earth
Kristian stopped the gig for them to be carried out. Bloody lightweights passing out at a folk gig.
I passed out during Tool at Ozzfest 2002
I think I just got too excited.
I think I love this post.
it sounded really funny
I wish I'd been able to witness it. Apparently I just went really pale and unresponsive and the people next to me were shouting to my friend 'what drugs have you given him you bastard?!' then I just fell. So yeah, I'd built that moment up for SO long only to see Tool play half a fucking song.
I was pretty over excited as well.
It was pretty cool at the front though if I remember rightly. I'd been waiting years to see them at that point. I saw them again 2 days later haha.
yeah, I remember just being in total awe
having to watch Ozzy Osbourne after that incident was torturous.
I watched Sabbath from the hill, smoking a spliff and drinking red wine.
I was living the dream.
For me, Disturbed was the most torturous part of that day.
did they play that year?
Oh, did you go to Milton Keynes? Think that was 2001.
happened to me a couple of years ago
at a gig at the cockpit in leeds. Not really had any booze, had eaten recently, wasn't particularly hot. My shoulder was aching, and then it starting hurting a bit, then a bit more, then a bit more then OHMYFUCKINGGODTHISREALLYFUCKINGHURTSJESUS then blammo. Had a similar thing at a wedding reception a couple of months ago, just sat down rather than falling over though.
Last night it wasn't that hot and it wasn't like the guy was in the mosh pit. There was loads of room between people. I felt bad for his mates, one minute everything was fine and the next their gig was over...
I almost passed out from having 3 tokes of a joint at a Mogwai gig one time, but that's the closest I've come. It's properly scary though, especially when it happens right next to you.
My brother half fainted during MBV at the Roundhouse a few years back
Think it was during the Holocaust section, so more noise induced than anything
I've heard about a few people fainting at Swans shows, which is not surprising. The only thing I can remember from the gig I saw at Koko a while back is a wall of noise.
Never passed out but been knocked out
A glancing elbow in THE PIT at Muse, Wembley Arena 04
That was you??!
a pit for muse?
da fuq
It sounds like a great idea.
I'll dig it, you can fill it in when they're inside. Deal?
They used to be good
Hard to fathom now I know.
Plus this was back in the days when people actually moshed rather than just instagramming the whole thing
My ex-gf passed out a couple of times at gigs.
She was just hot and dehydrated. It was really scary the first time as I didn't know what was going on but the second time I was like "Yeah it's cool". These are my United States of Whatever.
Someone puked on me during the dwarves at Reading '05
Die Antwoord was the worst
This girl was off her face and got dragged through the crowd whilst pulling her own hair out and trying to grab other peoples hair to yank out. Then whilst buying a t-shirt, this girl threw up all over the merch stand and I had to go get a bouncer to take her to an ambulance as she couldn't stand up.
Oddly enough I saw a girl faint last month at the forum
at the Bat for Lashes gig. Just went over with no warning etc. Fortunately was with friends who were happy to look after her. She did appear to be pretty off her face on something (unsure whether drink or drugs) beforehand, but still surprising.
Tom Vek in 2011
This really horrible girl was being really mouthy and shoving people out of the way so she could get near the front (30 minutes into the set) and got her way.... only to be dragged back out 5 minutes later... if you're going to force your way threw you could at least have the stamina to stick it out.
It's just blood circulation
I passed out at the doctors last week. I was getting some vaccinations, two injections. First one, fine, second one, ooh that hurt a little bit, ooh I feel a bit dizzy, yes thank you nurse I think I will go and lie down on that be....LA LA LA DI DE DUM DOO...oh hello nurse why are you shouting my name at me, and why am I lying on the floor with a chair on top of me? Oh I passed out. Thanks.
Why did they put a chair on top of you?
I must have passed out as I was getting up and took the chair over with me
my glasses were also half off my face and I was tangled up in the jacket I was simultaneously taking off as I stood up. Very confusing, I was having a lovely dream.
for a laugh
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A girl collapsed near me in the crowd at a recent Jessie Ware gig at Concorde 2 in Brighton. Luckily the guy next to her stopped her from hitting the floor. It was quite strange.
this has happened to me twice
once at a Pearl Jam concert and once at a Reef concert.
both times I was stone cold sober so think it had something to do with the heat/lack of oxygen or something. The same thing happened to me at yoga once (I never went back).
No pass outs, smoking area will be open from 21.17 to 21.21 by appointment only.
Well, that's what it seems like at the Kentish Town Forum anyway
Manic Millennium
(Manic Street Preachers, Year 2000, Millennium Stadium, huge shindig). We had been drinking booze since about midday, then stood right near the front bopping to the likes of SFA and Feeder and, erm, Shack. For some reason I hadn't had a soft drink for some time, people were saying they were avoiding it otherwise they would need a piss at the wrong time. During La Tristesse Durera (irony) I started feeling really wrong. I was dry retching and feeling like death. In an oddly lucky way a friend of mine also was feeling a bit wrong, his eyes were rolling into the back of his head and went white as a sheet. We all got out of there and I had the nicest two pints of orange Tango in my life. Back in the mix for the midnight countdown, carried on drinking til 6 am after that. Aged 17. Hardcore.
Had an ex who did this semi-regularly.
Used to get dirty looks from people who presumed I didn't care because I didn't panic or flip out ... Kinda just got used to dealing with it.
i have never seen this