The Ten Biggest Concert Buzzkills: An Illustrated Guide

Mar 4, 2013 at 5:35 am

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All illustrations by Noah Van Sciver
As vastly different as our tastes are when it comes to music, there's one thing we can all agree on, and that's our distaste for and subsequent amusement/bemusement/resentment with certain individuals who insist on behaving badly at shows. You know who we're talking about. The Talker (universally loathed by everyone), and there's The Setlist Adviser, The Overserved, The Show-off, The Director. Not that we're judging here or anything. God knows we've all broken at least one of these supposed rules of rock. Have you? Check out our field guide of the ten biggest concert buzz killers to find out. Oh, and after you peruse the original list here, be sure to check out the five newest killers that have just been added to the lineup.

See Also: -The Top Ten Ways to Piss Off Your Bartender

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Noah Van Sciver

10. The Show-off I think we can all agree that extroversion, as a trait, is a very important part of our existence, right? Without it, of course, we'd all be soulless drones, completely content to watch sitcoms and keep to ourselves. But this is more than that. These individuals aren't just there for the show -- they are the show. The attire of these bashful blokes varies dramatically depending on the person and the show, but generally it ranges from weirdos wearing life-sized stuffed animal getups and looking like liberated outcasts from a furry convention to others wearing, well, nothing, except for duct tape, a spirit hood and maybe the occasional body paint.

See also: The five new buzzkillers that have been added to the original lineup