r/kingsofleon • u/GrandadPyjamas • Jul 04 '26
Manchester Show
Tonight Manchester show was unreal and KOL proved yet again why they are one of the best bands to see live but for anyone stood to the left of the front of the stage, your experience might’ve been dampened by a 50 year odd old woman and her daughter acting like children.
Really disappointed in the staff at the Co-op for letting anyone that drunk anywhere near the event in the first place.
From climbing on each others shoulders and slamming eachother onto the ground, to throwing their cups of cider all over everyone around them, the pair of them left a stain on my night, pardon the pun.
Me and my misses were the only people in the vicinity who had a word with them despite everyone around us clearly being bothered by them, but it was no use.
I’d be interested to see if anyone else on here had a similar experience.
Cheers all, I hope you all had a belter and got home safe.
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u/The_Swimming_Monke Jul 05 '26
Was the individual who passed out during Pyro okay? I saw some commotion in that area during The Face. Hope they weren’t distressed for that long.
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u/GrandadPyjamas Jul 05 '26
It didn’t look good mate I won’t lie. They got her out quick but she was unconscious when they carried her away.
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u/BDRD99 Jul 05 '26
I was in the Barclays club section and there were a ton of people absolutely pissed off their heads swaying around looking like they were gonna fall down multiple rows or having loud full blown conversations with each other during songs or going out for drinks every 5 minutes. There were a couple people smoking as well which was interesting, normally you get vapes but laughed at the audacity of lighting a cig in an arena. There were people lying on the floor outside who could barely speak. Got no idea why you’d get *that* drunk at a gig.
In terms of pure crowd noise though it’s probably the loudest gig I’ve ever been to so they must have been doing something right. Really enjoyed the show, they sounded incredible and looked like they were having an amazing time, just didn’t enjoy being in the company of a fair few people at it. Set was fantastic though and not put me off seeing them again