TJ Men in big puffed up furry outerwear is increasingly a sight in gig crowds, teamed – in full effect – with bare chest, face paint and wellies.
Seriously Shorts gives you 15-minute bursts (such as Peter Conrad on the Kardashians, which was OK, and Joe Dunthorne's 2012 sweet musings on how gig crowds can teach us how to live together).
If the act upstairs is worth seeing, as it was recently when Iggy Pop played there for a week, the post-gig crowd can look like a lineup of pop celebrity.
The Fed acted, despite the fact that inflation is non-existent and the job market is far softer than it looks, with temporary and part time and contract gigs crowding out real payroll jobs and wages flat.
Back at the gig, the crowd were baying for blood.
At his Alexandra Palace comeback gigs, the crowd was full of teenagers – who would have been about 10 the first time round – bellowing along to Sheila and Sticks N Stones: it suggests Treays's material will have a very long shelf-life.
Then there is the striker who celebrates scoring a first-minute goal against Arsenal by going to a Kasabian gig and crowd-surfing into the arms of a startled bouncer.
Grime gigs attract crowds of black youngsters who come as part of a crew or collective, and jump around with their hoods up, getting rowdy.
The library gigs drew crowds of mostly children and their parents.
With the customary seating usually shipped in for such events not deployed, the show had been presented more as a gig, with the crowd at liberty to take photos and film clips on their mobile phones.
There was none of the happy chaos that characterised Gossip's early London gigs, and the crowd were equally diffident.
