I don't even know how to TW this so I'll just TL;DR: he was slipping the women he was interviewing strong diuretics then deliberately taking them far away from a toilet to humiliate them.

I've been trying to avoid sites that do the predatory "accept cookies or pay" thing but it feels like most sites do it now. There's just no way it can be legal.

Then there's Gaga, throwing away her third glittery stick/crutch of the night as part of the dance routine.

Yeah.

I was also mad because I have an amazing light up cane and it would have been so helpful for navigating the darker parts of the venue but I was terrified of losing it so I brought my cheap backup.

I'm usually pretty good at switching the little SJW in my brain off but I couldn't help but remember agonising over whether or not I'd even be allowed in because the venue site said "no walking canes" and that they'd be confiscated.

Turns out they meant in the pit but NOWHERE clarified that.

It's obviously not her fault or anything but I was one of the very very few people with a mobility aid that I could see and it felt a little gross after my actual struggle to get to the show.

I've done far more Rammstein shows than I care to admit (I am a pyro addict) and I have to say... Gaga may have them beat. It's a different energy, definitely. Rammstein is pure awe. Gaga was like... a party mixed with a show? Like the crowd were part of the band.

Honestly the closest I can get to Gaga's crowd energy was when Slayer played the opening riff of Angel of Death on their farewell tour and a lad who looked like Bob from Accounting activated some like of ancestral memory, dropped the TWO (2) pints he was holding and ripped his shirt open.

That being said you can't really beat the feel of being crammed in the basement of some bar with a few dozen dudes in leather going apeshit at some French guy in a balaclava literally hanging off the rafters, making noises that can only be described as "varied"

Extreme music will always be my life.

We've worked out that I've seen over 1000 metal bands live now. I've been doing this since I was far too young to have been allowed to do it.

I've been at some crazy, fun shows.

Gaga was something else.

Like I fucking love blastbeats and headbanging and curdled milk vocals but I'm also on this planet to have a good time.

I had this thought while watching a bunch of big beardy guys sobbing to Amenra the other week while the singer faced the back wall and howled with anguish.

Sometimes... I like music that is made by people who seem to enjoy playing and listening to it?

I'm sorry but metal just don't have the fans like she does. I've never heard a crowd go this hard.

[Gaga executing a flawless on-stage costume and wig change with 30+ dancers, not once missing a beat of the key-change on her headset mic while her band just go absolutely buckwild behind a wall of pyro]

Me, turning to my partner: "Man can you imagine this shit set to Pig Destroyer?"

Bit of a side note but The Darkness 1 had one of my favourite ever depictions of hell: infinite World War 1. An immesurable labyrinth of trenches. Undying enemy soldiers always pushing towards you. The scale and futility of it was, at the time, mind-blowing.

And THIS time, I got assistance from the plane to the lift, which was broken. So I got out of the chair, slowly climbed the stairs and they brought me a different chair???

God help any disabled person who needs a connecting flight, I've given up.