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aidan
Very Busy Member
Posts:423
 | | 22 Apr 2008 1:03 PM |
| Posted By Binokular on 22 Apr 2008 6:30 AM
OK, people getting hurt isn't good, but you know, it's a gig, people do have a license to go a little bit nuts.
Agreed. But that includes talking, right? ;D Seriously, the gigs where people get disturbed by talking are most likely the over-serious, reverential, Mass-like ones where we must worship the singer-songer and their precious lyrics. No fun. Give me loud music and jumping around and excitement and let people chat if they want. | | | |
| Binokular
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Posts:1552
| | 23 Apr 2008 2:42 AM |
| Posted By aidan on 22 Apr 2008 1:03 PM
Agreed. But that includes talking, right? ;D
Seriously, the gigs where people get disturbed by talking are most likely the over-serious, reverential, Mass-like ones where we must worship the singer-songer and their precious lyrics. No fun. Give me loud music and jumping around and excitement and let people chat if they want.
Yeah, pretty much, though sometimes even loud gigs have quiet moments, and not all artists who play acoustically invoke a humorless po-faced atmosphere, theres no hard and fast rules, it just requires a bit of basic cop on and consideration, which some people lack, but you get that in all aspects of life, like people who park in disabled spaces or shout into their mobiles on public transport. | | | |
| PARTON
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| | 23 Apr 2008 3:11 AM |
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| starbelgrade
Very Busy Member
Posts:604
| | 23 Apr 2008 3:30 AM |
| I was at Sigor Ros' first Irish gig in the Music Centre - at the time, they'd an additional small bar in the same room as the stage & the volume was so low, you could hear people ordering drinks & the "ka-ching" of the cash register, even during the louder moments... my self & my brother were commenting on this fact, when the dude in front of me turned round & "shushed" us. I was NOT impressed.. I mean, there's incessant annoying chatting (which can be really annoying), but to expect people to not talk AT ALL during a gig is ridiculous.
Anyhow, the bro recognised him as the bass player from Red Neck Minifesto, so we started talking about his band - well slagging them off - until he moved off to another spot.. as Aidan put it, the "the over-serious, reverential, Mass-like ones" can be worse than the chatters.
(I wouldn't have minded so much, only the band's performance, though it was OK in general , was ruined by the drummer who - though he's improved these days - couldn't keep a beat & kept tryin the most ridiculously overcomplicated rolls which he f**ked up every single time). | | | |
| Protein biscuit
Very Busy Member
Posts:364
| | 02 May 2008 8:49 AM |
| It's essentially about manners as some have said and as an incidental character on The Simpson's once said "some people are just assholes."
On a completely extreme end of the scale a mate of mine went to see Bonnie Prince Billy in Vicar St. ages and ages ago. He was driving and wasn't drinking. He bought a 7-Up, poured it into his glass back at this seat and the amount of scorpy looks and "ssshhhs" he got was mental. That's f**ked up. | | | |
| Quint
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Posts:170
| | 07 May 2008 4:14 AM |
| Jesus, extreme end of the scale indeed.That's Seriously f**ked up. That wouldn't annoy me in the slightest. In fact, people speaking between songs is fine also as long as they shut the f**k up once the next song starts. Even the odd heckle - once it's genuinely funny and/or original (sadly, very rare in this country)- is ok too. The problem is the groups of idiots having conversations throughout the gig who are completely oblivious to the music. I found this on an NME.com article with fans giving feedback of the first Radiohead gig of the world tour in Florida. Looks like gig-chatter is not just an Irish thing.....
''Blogger Richard Rap was more conservative in his assessment of the show, however. "For an opening night, it was a very good set," he wrote. "Pacing needs a little reconsideration, however, with a disproportionate number of slower, quieter songs bunched together in the middle. But the sonics were very good considering the venue and the light show was cool, too.
"The beer-swilling audience talked throughout the set, and in the quieter portions of the show the babble was overpowering," he continued. "I'm an old fart, but I don't get it - it's one thing to make occasional comments but it's another to have an ongoing conversation during the performance."
http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/36442
I don't get it either, Richard.
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| dermot_trellis
Getting Into It Member
Posts:61
| | 07 May 2008 1:23 PM |
| | Definately.. There is a happy medium! It doesn't have to be a choice between either an oppressive Mass-like atmophere of reverential silence on one hand (which nobody should expect or desire at a rock/pop event), and between incessant high-volume chatter throughout the entire gig, oblivious to how much you're ruining somebody elses' evening. If you really have to keep up a conversation the whole way through the show, it's possible to do it in a considerate way. | | | |
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