poor crowd behaviour at gigs
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- hans_glib
I was at the Lil' Band O' Gold gig last night at the Shepherd's Bush Empire and was really struck (not to say pissed off with the way many people just talked all the way through the performance. The same thing happened at another gig I went to a couple of months back where Paul Frick had to get up from his piano and ask the crowd to shut up and listen.
WTF? I know I'm old an' all, but is this normal crowd behaviour these days? If so, why bother to go if you aren't there to listen/watch/enjoy/mosh the performance. Stay in your shitty pubs ffs and let me hear the band.
They just didn't seem at all interested in the gig - it's almost like they just wanted to be part of the scene, so they could say "Oh yah, I totally went to that gig it was sooo cooool" on Facebook or whatever young people do these days. And on quieter numbers all you could hear was the constant inane chatter of these imbeciles.
I know this isn't really the forum for this topic, but as this is the only place I'm in touch with you young whippersnappers I'm interested in your reaction (if you're not too busy chatting)
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- fadein110
If the performance was good people would get sucked in and shut up.
- fair enough, butif the performance isn't up to your standards why stay?hans_glib
- have a beer and a chatfadein11
- because you paid for itanimatedgif
- it's so fucking selfish tho - i haven't paid to hear your conversation. go to the bar and chat there.hans_glib
- GeorgesII0
- were you the guy constantly sucking face with the cute blonde?hans_glib
- nah, don't do concerts anymoreGeorgesII
- I did that all through a U2 gig. I have no idea who she is to this day. Bunch of Americans just staring at me and Bono about ten feat away singing his little heart out.Dillinger
- ten yards away singing his little heart out !.Dillinger
- hahhahaahaha @ taking an ipad to a concertMiguex
- mydo0
I think we're getting old.
- faxion0
Yes we are getting old, but this aint a one off. It happens everywhere.
Truly disrespectful. Why bother paying an arm and a leg to go to a gig if you aint even interested?
Youngens eh?
- pressplay0
yeah, I noticed the same... recently went to a concert with really quiet parts and I got totally distracted by some guy chatting up a girl. They were standing only a few meters away from the stage and weren’t even noticing the performance... that was not only ignorant and impolite towards the performer and the people that actually wanted to listen, it was also stupid because they couldn‘t talk properly (they were standing pretty much in front of the PA) and had to yell into each others ears... I got so annoyed that I walked up to them and told them to please be quiet or to go to the bar in the back...
- pizzafire0
this happens at a lot of shows i go to now days ... and it's not just the kids. i've seen older people (ok, not that much older than myself. let's say in their 40s) doing the same.
even if it is near the bar ... when you get more than 10 people chatting it up, and it's a more quiet tune, then it's pretty annoying even if you aren't near them.
i've been known to hush people with a "shhhhhh!" and a finger to my mouth. always love the look i get in return. assholes.
- meffid0
I picked up in that bar and then went to the park to fuck her. She ended up rolling in dog shit.
- pressplay0
I think dailymotion wont embed but anyway... this is how you should deal with those people:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video…- oh god, wow - !
That's - er - a bit of a shock.mikotondria3
- oh god, wow - !
- adumbratesly0
Was a Bif Naked show last week - all acoustic, tiny venue, intimate, endearing. Midway through a song, one of the audience barked at an insipid, hipster conversationalist (is yuppie still a derisive term these days?) "shut. the fuck. up. it's a love song, you cunt..." Cheers/applause soon followed... =)
- Fax_Benson0
"Festival-goers hoping acts won't distract from camera phone use"
- cunticle0
was at a small venue in hong kong for a jose gonzales, stupid fucks, mostly expats, kept talking loudly throughout like it was a cafe. still, the show was great!
- omg0
it's a social event. As a singer, you're job is to sing. Not to be the attention whore. you're seriously trying to fight the entire crowd, when you're the one with the mic and speakers? Good music will calm the crowd.
- horseshitFax_Benson
- bullshitGeorgesII
- i'd say it's a music event first. social event second.pizzafire
- omg so stupidbrandelec
- wow.ItTango
- microkorg0
A few years back at a gig through in Glasgow there was a group of students arsing about behind me and the lass I was at the gig with. It was an acoustic gig so their fuckin about was really annoying.
Completely out of character for me I turned around and told them to 'shut the fuck up'. There was about 5 or 6 of them. As I turned back round to watch the gig I realised what I had just did was maybe stupid and expected some backlash ....
.... but nope, they did as requested and zipped-it!
They must've thought I must be a bit of a mentalist to challenge a bunch of them like that so shooshed. Haha.
- stoplying0
Saw Fleet Foxes in NY last month and they're a relatively quiet band all things considered. People talked through almost every song, took pictures of each other, posted to Facebook on their phones, did everything BUT watch the band. Sadly this will get worse before it gets better. Unless maybe....Thom Yorke does something about it.
- mg330
That's how nearly every small-scale show is in the US. Unless you're playing music that's knocking people over, you'll get so much talking at a show.
On a similar note to adumbratesly's comment - I have a live recording of some Sigur Ros show, and throughout the first few songs even after the general crowd clapping stopped at the beginning of songs, some guy is just going WHHHHHEEEEEEWWWWW!!!!!!!! YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
It's all the funnier because he was much closer to the mic that was recording the show, so it sounds like this super loud voice, and then tons of softer voices going SHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
- hehe - another good part from my experience was the talker, in a brawl, was gonna lose... =)adumbratesly
- i_monk0
Lame act = loud crowd
- mg330
stoplying,
That behaviour is something I'm occasionally guilty of (mostly excessive picture taking) but in the past couple of years I've gotten annoyed by others doing it to the point that I don't do any of that. I'm not talking about the Facebook "holy shit I'm at such and such concert!" - I can't stand stuff like that.
But the thing that is super annoying are people taking cell phone photos constantly, especially from far back in the crowd. Great! shitty photo, no zoom.... the memory in your brain is far better than a crap photo at that point.