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My 7 year old son has developed a love for music this year from watching glasto on telly! He's started learning guitar, and we went to camper calling and saw a selection of different bands including reef). Royal Blood is his current favourite (he likes to rock!) and we are going to see them next saturday. It's an arena gig and we are seated and there is no minimum age limit. I'd like to take him to see some other bands, but keep finding smaller local venues have minimum age limits, which is understandable with licensing etc.
So I'm trying to find any other ways of getting to take him to see live music, not sure he'll be patient enough to wait until he's 14 to go to rock city. any ideas?
I would think festivals are your best bet. Some would even let him in free, at that age. But, I would be a bit selective about which festivals to take him too, as some would not be suitable for a seven year old!
So many local festivals these days - a lot of them one-dayers.
Great to hear of a nipper into music.
Sad thing about only being able to go to 'no age limit', seated gigs is they're usually at big venues (O2 for example) and ticket prices are so OTT for those places!
Lots of small free music fests up and down the country, but you may have to wait 'til summer!
I have a friend who is a guitarist and pro sound engineer and event producer. His tiny kids are going to be going to gigs as soon as they are able, his absolute golden rule is ear protection. You can’t spend too much money buying him some proper custom in-ear monitors which can be used as ear protection too.
developed a love for music this year from watching glasto on telly!
Take him to Glastonbury in 2019 then (if you can get tickets). My daughters (8) want to go after watching it on TV (and my going in 2015 too).
They are going to see Little Mix tonight.
Do the scouts do an equivalent to the Big Gig?
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Second newrobdog - get some ear protection for them. Especially the indoor events.
How about in-store gigs/signings? Rough Trade do them in Nottingham if that's where you are. HMV now and again too.
The Forestry Commision gigs are all ages and very family orietated for next summer. They do them up the road at Cannock Chase and others forest centres.
get him some earplugs too, some gigs are just too loud
You can’t spend too much money buying him some proper custom in-ear monitors which can be used as ear protection too.
You don’t need to spend a couple of hundred quid when certified foam or silicon protectors do the job, around £20 fo protectors that still allow the wearer to hear detail, which is what I wear.
Most venues have a minimum age of 14, however some don't. Upstairs at Brixton Academy is over nines although how they check I don't know. My boy has always been tall for his age so I managed to get him in to lots of venues with the 14 age limit when he was 12. To date we've seen Weezer, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Alvvays, Honey blood, Doe, Dinosaur Pile Up, The Decemberists and Foo Fighters. Comedy wise we've seen Dr John Cooper Clark and most recently Simon Day aka Brian Pern! Next year I'm taking my daughter (13) to see Alvvays at Camden Roundhouse.
O2 academy on Thursday night was 8+ bit it does change for each gig.
We've got kasabian at the nia in Brum next month and its 14 and over down in the standing. Our kiss have been gigging/festivalling since they were about 8. Music pisses all over the telly box and they both found new stuff to listen to via Spotify which helps their old dad out now again.
You don’t need to spend a couple of hundred quid when certified foam or silicon protectors do the job, around £20 fo protectors that still allow the wearer to hear detail, which is what I wear.
I’d rather wear something designed for the job which were a pleasure to use. Especially for kids, if they are learning electric instruments where they might be using monitors it’s just best to teach them best practice early on. If all you are doing is going to gigs the cheap ones might be fine but when playing you really need to invest more. You can destroy a kids (or adults) hearing in milliseconds with some bad feedback, it just isn’t worth the risk. I don’t think I’ve ever seen my mate not have his in ears in when he’s anywhere near a stage or mixing/monitor desk.