I went to a Desi concert called Desi Beats 2008 featuring Atif Aslam.

[Shikra]

Looks like you and I were in the same concert. I opened a thread about it a few days ago and here are my thoughts on it, taken from This Thread.

@Shikra

Summary: This thread is to vent and complain about the concert. It was a very unorganized event (Boy, was I wrong for expecting organization from desis) and I absolutely hated it and will never ever go to a desi concert again.

**Details: **So that we don’t have to sit with the general public where everyone is dancing and blocking the view, we purchased the VIP tickets. Those did not really help because every Tom Dick and Harry went to the front and blocked the view of VIPs and VVIPs.

Things that pissed me off:

• No concept of line, whatsoever. There were 3 lines to begin with from different directions, and then when they started letting everyone go up one by one, the lines turned into a crowd.
• Didn’t matter what kind of ticket you had, you had to enter through the same entrance. Someone tell me why we paid more for the VIP tickets?
• No ushers or security, so people who had cheaper tickets were sitting on our seats (I asked them to get up and they did) and other people’s seats. That caused a few people to have fights. The funny thing is that the people who had taken the seats wrongfully were the ones to pick fights with the ones that had the tickets for those seats
• Songs sucked and so did the sound system
• Atif came at the end and acted all stuck-up and gay
• They had promised to bring Amanat Ali after Atif to sing one more song but they didn’t.
• People sitting in the front kept standing up to block the view of people sitting on rows behind them
• The organizers and the management was not available there to file any complaints

Things that entertained me:

• Finally security came (not enough though) and brought the people back from the front so that our view wouldn’t be blocked anymore.
• They kept them back as much as possible and in the process arrested a couple of dudes who were trying to be all macho with the security
• An aunty kept trying to go up on the escalator that was coming DOWN and since she was old and fat, for about 5 minutes, she literally kept climbing up but stayed at the SAME SPOT until people started whistling and then she had to come down.
• This boring dude Qailash Kher sang boring songs and people completely disliked them and every time he stopped, they kept yelling AATIF AATIF and he completely ignored them and kept going on.
• The dancer chicks were a little fat and watching the fat on their thighs and bellies jiggle kept me entertained.\

I think that’s it. Did anyone else from Houston go to the concert last night?