I was thinking of creating an anonymous ticketmaster account using public wifi since they block VPNs and just have them email me updates, but they required a phone number for the sign up so I scrapped that idea.
Edit: I decided to sign up for songkick as someone else here mentioned. It seems pretty polished and its entire purpose is concert discovery. It never asked for any unnecessary extra information either such as first and last name and phone number, just an email and a password and boom.
It’s more about being around people who enjoy the same music as you do.
Then it’s probably a culture thing. In Lithuania people don’t talk to strangers, even in the mentioned situation.
I think it also really depends on the type of music they’re playing and the crowd. If you’re on a rave or listen to rap, everyone talks to everyone. I don’t think that’s really different in other countries.