Maroney & Peach Pits performances were great. It was the people there that completely ruined the experience. I have been to this venue before and it was not this bad. I was shoved, grabbed, touched MULTIPLE times during the concert. I have been to more concerts than I can count, but this wasn’t the usual expected kind of contact. People seemed to be drunk/high out of their minds before the show even really got started. While watching Peach Pit, a guy next to me took out a lighter and started lighting up a joint. He did not care about the other people around him and apparently there’s no security on the rail looking down at the people below. He continued to smoke and blow the smoke directly in my face for a long period of time. I am very much against weed and don’t want to inhale second hand smoke. I would think there would be a policy that this wouldn’t be allowed, but even the performing acts were talking about how he smelled like weed and for everyone to take a deep breath (which was ridiculous, to the people who don’t smoke we did not enjoy that ‘bit’). I ended up leaving early. Between the people and the weed I just couldn’t handle it anymore. I probably won’t be back to this venue unless someone starts to enforce the no smoking policy. There were also people next to me that left because of the weed and people as well. It was a very uncomfortable experience, which is sad because Peach Pits music has been one of my favorites for a long time, but there is beginning to be no concert etiquette and the venue is apparently a breeding ground that tolerates that behavior.
