Band T-Shirt As Fashion Item

[MsD]

There's always a smattering of Adam Ant fans with the white stripe and/or hussar jacket at the gigs; mostly you can tell who's going as they're just glammed up and wearing a lot of black, and there are a fair amount of his gig t-shirts.

I don't think I have an Adam t-shirt. I have a tote bag.

Love my Massive Attack t-shirt, to think I almost lost it to a puddle. It's currently the only band tshirt I have, oh no hang on, there are the Chemical Brothers ones I can't fit into.

[Guy Profumo]

Back in the day I used to have a black tee from obscure Bristol goth band "Renegade Flight", featuring a white mask.

It was the fucking mutt's nuts.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I am currently wearing a Teenage Fanclub t-shirt which I bought at a gig. Not sure where this puts me on the scale of arriviste know-nowt bastards.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

I am currently wearing a Teenage Fanclub t-shirt which I bought at a gig. Not sure where this puts me on the scale of arriviste know-nowt bastards.

I bought a second hand 'Pop Kid' Senseless Things t-shirt from an Oxfam stall last week. I'm not sure what circumstances would see me wear it, but it is now an option.

[Patrick Thistle]

I am currently wearing a Teenage Fanclub t-shirt which I bought at a gig. Not sure where this puts me on the scale of arriviste know-nowt bastards.

Are you currently at a different band's gig?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Not right now, no.

[Jah Womble]

It would be like going to a Garbage gig dressed as a bin.

Or wearing a guinea-pig costume to see the Pet Shop Boys.

Actually, scrub that.

[Sporting]

I dread to think what you'd have worn for Southern Death Cult.

[Bored Of Education]

....or Anal Cunt, for that matter.

Someone once explained to me that they thought the whole band t-shirt ridiculous as it meant we were paying to give free advertising to the band. I had never thought of it like that before, it was an interesting idea but basically it is bollocks. I don't remember if she did or not but wearing clothes with big (or small, I suppose) branding all over is the same.

[Jah Womble]

I tend to think of the musicians I like as ‘artists’ as opposed to ‘businesses’, but there we are.

[Patrick Thistle]

TonIght's trip to TK Maxx included a sighting of a Jimi Hendrix Experience t-shirt for sale

[WOM]

This was surreal, but I bought an OMD shirt at the gig on Friday night. Mrs WOM asked me if I was going to wear it on Saturday. I laughed and said "The day after the show...are you mad?" She said "That's stupid. I mean, I know you don't wear one band's shirt to another band's show, but....".

So apparently this is more universally known than I'd thought.

[Furtho]

She said "That's stupid. I mean, I know you don't wear one band's shirt to another band's show, but....".

So apparently this is more universally known than I'd thought.

No, that’s what you do do.

Wearing the t-shirt the day after the gig is clearly trying far too hard, though, of course.

[RobM]

There was that great TV interview with that twat Lovejoy interviewing Martin Freeman while wearing a Ramones t-shirt.

Freeman challenging him to name 5 Ramones songs and Lovejoy squirming like the shallow dilletante arse he is when unable to name 1.

[Jah Womble]

I’m down with the ‘not wearing the shirt to work the day after the show’-policy. I recall a bunch of people at a dismal place where I worked ages ago all wearing the same design of Bryan Adams shirt a day or so after he’d played Wembley - and it frankly looked a bit sad (and not just because of the act involved). Arguably even more so, given that they’d gone as a works group.

The ‘having a problem with wearing another band’s shirt to a show’-thing is just ridiculous, though.

[Patrick Thistle]

Spotted in the wild yesterday: a very young looking lad (probably aged about 18 as the new intake of students have arrived) walking along the pavement wearing a Nirvana t-shirt.

He might be well into them and listens to them regularly on his spottytubeapp iWhatsit or whatever, but I felt like shouting 'fuck off, youth!' at him out of my car window.

[WOM]

One of the children I work with had a Tears for Fears t-shirt on last week. I made a comment (positive) about it, and she looked at me like I was a confused elderly person. I'm not even sure she knew they were a band.

[Bored Of Education]

Spotted in the wild yesterday: a very young looking lad (probably aged about 18 as the new intake of students have arrived) walking along the pavement wearing a Nirvana t-shirt.

He might be well into them and listens to them regularly on his spottytubeapp iWhatsit or whatever, but I felt like shouting 'fuck off, youth!' at him out of my car window.

A kid in our school had a guitar and started playing the opening chords to "Teen Spirit" so there may be some who know them. He wasn't wearing a t-shirt though.

[Jah Womble]

I saw a kid of about eight wearing a Nirvana ‘smiley’ shirt the other day. (The guy who was presumably his dad looked very straight so I’m guessing he wasn’t a Cobain fan foisting his tastes on his son. But I wouldn’t really know, would I?)

One of the children I work with had a Tears for Fears t-shirt on last week. I made a comment (positive) about it, and she looked at me like I was a confused elderly person. I'm not even sure she knew they were a band.

They weren’t - they were a duo.

[Sporting]

"Were" no; they're still doing gigs.

[Jah Womble]

I was merely appropriating your ‘were’.

[Gangster Octopus]

WOM's 'were'...

[Jah Womble]

Indeed, the ‘were’ of WOM. Duly noted.

’World waits wearily on Womble-vs-WOM ‘were’ word-war.’

There’s your headline.

[WOM]

I'd rather quibble over whether a duo are a band. Erasure would indicate 'yes'.

[WOM]

Anyway, I went with past-tense to reflect the entire event having taken place in the past. Saying "I'm not even sure she knew they are a band" sounds odd, whereas "I'm not even sure she knows the are a band" sounds fine.

So....stick that in your pipe and smoke it.