A few photos from the Khaled concert last night

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Got home on the last metro train. ^^; Wide range of ages in the crowd, lots of flag-carrying North Africans, plus oddities like this little old Indian lady with a glass of wine in the mosh pit and - well - me. XD Chinese-Canadians represent eheh. I got the impression that a lot of the audience either didn't attend rock concerts often or didn't care how they worked; more likely the former than the latter, or else more people would've clapped for the encore instead of milling about confusedly and going "Is that it? He's not going to sing Aisha?" XD;;; The mood was adoring but sort of volatile. I was right up against stage right with this large group of university-age Algerians, and in approximate chronological order there were: flag-waving, yelling at the opening-set DJ for playing something abstractly d'n'b until he put on "Ya Rayah" instead, official camera crews wading around and blocking everyone's view, a fight centre front in which security intervened, this one guy kept macking on a girl next to me until he grabbed her hand and left two-thirds of the way through, more flag-waving, tossing flags onstage, Khaled tossing his towel offstage to the guy next to me (he strutted as you can well imagine), lighter-waving, getting up on people's shoulders and flag-waving, umbrella-waving and getting told off by security for it, taking photos of each other using the stage as a backdrop (including a blurry one of me XD), getting up onto the stage to take photos and getting kicked off by security, storming the stage to give Khaled hugs during the encore (eight or nine people in a row - security so v. not amused XD;), girl next to me accidentally knocking down speakers, girl crying, other people around me including towel boy and umbrella girl screaming at Khaled to get his attention so he would come shake crying girl's hand which he graciously did, yelling and throwing water bottles at security after the concert's end for refusing to give back the flags that had been thrown onstage. A real change from the stoners at the Herbaliser gig. XD











Wonder of wonders, I also used the movie-recording function on my camera: 30-second clip (7.8MB). No way of getting the flag-waving down in stills. XD