MCE at Nathaniel Rateliff show

So last night, we went to see Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. They blew the doors off, as per usual. 10/10.

But there’s this group sitting in front of us. Guy with a handlebar mustache in a pink tropical shirt with ALL OF the energy. Next to him, wife in green dress. Next to them, shorter woman with long curly hair and tall skinny guy who has clearly been smoking weed before arriving.

Pink shirt proceeds to playfully gnaw on his wife’s shoulder a couple of times mid-convo. (WTF?) He is LOUD AF with the conversations with his group.

Finally, Nathaniel hits the stage. Pink shirt is in the aisles, dancing, throwing his hands up, just being so extra. And I’m all about enjoying the show (I was dancing like crazy and so was everyone else!), but he’s blocking the aisle and people have to keep dodging him as they walk down the aisle that he taking ALL of the space of.

Also, he cannot keep his hands off his poor wife’s ass. It’s like a chew toy for a dog – just a comforting reflex. Wife left halfway through, and I think I know why!

Towards the end, after Pink Shirt has had plenty of drinks and vapes (and loud conversations with the other couple about where wife went and if she’s coming back), bro just decides to GO BIG. (Hasn’t he already been going big this whole time? OH YES. But now it is time for extra big.)

Pink Shirt proceeds to dance up and down the aisles, spilling beer on people in front of him, TURNS HIS BACK TO THE STAGE (to the person that we all paid money to see, unlike, you know, him) and starts like fandom evangelizing to the other people in the audience? It was so weird!

Kids, the moral of the story is: if everyone paid money to see someone, then they’re probably the main character, not you. And it’s a shame that daddy didn’t come to your baseball games or whatever, but you don’t always need to be the center of attention.

Also, to the wife in the green dress: girl, blink twice if you need help getting out of that!