I tend to see the same few bands multiple times a year. Consequently, I keep running into the same faces over and over. (Often these are the people I've been talking to on forums without realising we've exchanged greetings at gigs for years.) At a gig in York on Friday night I had to run a veritable gauntlet of friendly faces between the bar and the front of the stage. One guy called me by name and we chatted enthusiastically for five minutes before I realised who he was (he's very big and scary-looking
)
We never have to
plan these meetings. They just happen
One time we did plan a meeting, half the group found the wrong pub and we missed each other completely. (There is a photo of this group taken outside the venue after the failed meeting. I am walking past them in the background -- totally unaware.
Hold on, I had a point when I started this post...
Oh yes... meeting plans. Don't do it! Just let things happen naturally...
When it's a seated venue, we often swap seat numbers beforehand so we can find new faces and say hello. Then when you know a face, you can say your hellos in the bar next time
