tell you what'd be funnier than "play another song you fucking faggots" - punching "mister jim" in the face
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes a man boasting about the size of his last turd is pretty funny
― sarahel, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i think ur wrong there
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
or just have a really low bar for "funny", whichever
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
a good heckle is shouting count-offs right before a band is getting ready to start a song like "1-2-3-4!" my friend got a band to "false start" two times in a row...that's stuck in your lizard brain as a musician, it's hard not to
― the dong remains the same (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://batmancomic.info/generate.php
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 9 February 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite heckle from another ILM thread was to shout "one more song!" after the band's first song
― 99. The Juggalo Teacher (dyao), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So can I safely conclude that the best way to get to the front of any show now is to take a $2000 camera lens with me?
The entire front row at the School Of Seven Bells show last night consisted of photographers (at maximum I counted 14). And I'm not counting folks with cameraphones either - these were all multi-thousand buck rigs with big lenses, etc. I've never seen that many photographers at a show before (outside of like of something like U2 or the Stones) and I had to wonder how many of them were actual music photographers and how many were there just to perv on the Deheza sisters.
Sure photojournalists gotta eat and all that, but why should I give up my place at the front just because you have a camera.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I make it a point to fart near photographers
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
then again when I'm at a show I fart near everyone
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Tori Amos gets a couple of girls ejected mid-song, presumably for talking (comes at 2'28"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H13XmvstA
Keith Jarrett bawls out a festival audience for taking photos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9mMABRM0c
― anagram, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
SHOREDITCH, LISTEN TO ME
LEARN. SOME. GODDAMN. MANNERS. STFU WHEN YOU'RE BEING SUNG TO. especially when the artist in question (glasser) (fucking awesome btw) prefaces a song with "this is a quiet one" and then has to look really awkward and embarrassed when NO ONE SHUTS UP. this was a sold-out ticket-only affair; everyone in the room had actively decided they wanted to check out glasser tonight. if they decided they didn't want to pay attention to her, the area is not exactly short of bars that they could have FUCKED THE FUCK OFF TO instead. fucking inane cunts! who the hell raised these people? that is what i want to know.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 11 October 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
outdoor show last summer and some sad bootlegging bastard sets up in front of me, stands on a MILK CRATE which he had brought to the show so he could videotape it.
i wasn't moving because it was a rare patch of shade and the place was packed shoulder to shoulder.
i brought to his attention that he was blocking my view and the view of many other people as well.
he made clear that he intended to stay where he was and we could all move if we wanted to see.
about four songs in a big mike tyson looking dude told him to pack the fuck up unless he had a press card.
he packed up and then turned and called me an asshole because i had been blasting off REALLY FUCKING LOUD two finger whistles right behind him all show.
we all clapped as he left.
feels good to get that off my chest. thanks ILM....
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
What's the etiquette when you see a headliner in the crowd before they go on? E.g. is it OK to take pictures with them?
― Asparagus Peee (Leee), Friday, 18 February 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
It okay to take pics if they're into it.. Always ask. If they are the slightest bit put off, then forget it. You don't what to fuck with there head space before they go on. But if they are out in the crowd, they have to expect some fanage...
― SeanWayne, Friday, 18 February 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I was amused by audience behaviour at a Dean-Wareham-plays-Galaxie-500 concert last week, where people were more or less shushing people for applauding too much between songs.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
probably b/c people are applauding too much for a cash-grab tour on the G500 name/reputation featuring only one of the original band members?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
In a combination of the most recent question and original thread purpose, I was at a Guillemots gig a few years ago where the singer started with a quiet solo song and the person next to me carried on talking so I gave her a look. She stopped and apologised, and it turned out she was the bassist.
I am generally in favour of asking people to stop talking but was recently at a (seated) show where the guy next to me reacted in such an over the top and angry way to a small bit of talking that he put me on edge and spoilt the show far more than those chatting.
― if, Friday, 18 February 2011 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I've completely given up on asking people not to talk at shows or movies or whatever, because the seething rage I've gotten in return is far more upsetting than just dealing with it.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I still have to give Bernard Butler credit all those years ago when he did a solo show in LA -- 1998 or so -- when he pretty much told all the music industry hacks at the bar to shut the hell up, to the mass applause of the audience. Said hacks then seethed about it via stories from friendly journalists to make it seem like Butler was the rude one.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw the Dan Deacon ensemble in Milwaukee, and if you've ever seen his show, you'd know they get some really bizarre opening acts. This time there was this collective of like 7 guys, all with these weird electronic instruments (and maybe one guy with a bass guitar) that played this long, droney junk for like 20 minutes at a pop. No rhythm or melody, just dense noise. Of course if you're at a Dan Deacon show you're expecting to see something weird but all you could think was "what the hell are they doing up there?" At the end of the second piece I shouted, "ONE MORE TIME!!" which got a laugh but the group ACTUALLY PLAYED ONE MORE becuause of it, and it sounded just like the other two!! I thought the audience was going to kill me!!
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
do you remember what they were called?
― sarahel, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Arcade Fire
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
who the fuck are theY?
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Just looked it up...they were called Teeth Mountain
The other opener was Future Islands and they were really good.
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it me or does anyone else want to deck people who spend entire shows screaming out the title of one song over and over in hopes the band plays it. It's usually less an honest attempt to get the band to play it and more to show off how 'hardcore' a fan they are...especially since most setlists are pre-determined.
When I saw Savatage in 2001 this asshole kept screamong "fuck this, play SIRENS" over and over until they finally played it halfway through the show. It's like he paid 30 dollars to hear one three minute song.
Also at Deicide last year this fan kept screaming for one song...problem was they'd played it already. Shouts of "THEY ALREADY FUCKING PLAYED IT" had little deterrence.
― sarah, palin and tall (San Te), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just about to complain about the exact same thing at the recent DC show. Some pervy guy immediately in front of me (I was 2nd row) was taking pictures of her every 15 seconds for the entire show. Snap, wait, admire the pic. Focus, snap, wait, admire. He must have taken 200+ photos.
― skip, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
I'd like to hear that fan at a Bal Sagoth gig.
"PLAY THE SPLENDOUR OF A THOUSAND SWORDS GLEAMING BENEATH THE BLAZON OF THE HYPERBOREAN EMPIRE PART THREE!!!"
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol I totally forgot about Bal-Sagoth. Fun stuff.
Yea death metal shows make it harder to shout requests for me. Like I would feel really mortified screaming "ENTRAILS RIPPED FROM A VIRGIN'S CUNT!"
― sarah, palin and tall (San Te), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, is that Regurgitator?
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
cannibal corpse
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
no hang on - there was a band that began with R who had brilliant Carcass meets Anal Cunt song titles... I forget their name. Like Regurgitator, but not?
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
AG - did you ever see the episode of Monkey Dust where the divorced Dad goes to see his son who has moved to Newcastle. He brings him a present of the latest Now! compilation, and the kid's reaction is: "Noo forty-two? I only listen'a Speed Metal. Yas got any Cannibal Corpse?".
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like he paid 30 dollars to hear one three minute song.
Lots of people do exactly this, sadly. I remember seeing a Smashing Pumpkins show during the Mellon Collie tour where a row of eight people in front of us sat on their asses, talking and bitching about how crappy it was for the entire show, stood up and cheered for "1979", and then promptly left.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought teeth mountain was a highly rhythmic everybody-plays-drums drone band? i actually really liked the stuff on their myspace.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 18 February 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm yeah looking them up it seems like there were drums. Still didn't find the music terribly distinctive or very good. I might have them confused with someone who opened at a different Dan Deacon show, who basically breathed into a microphone for like 15 minutes at once and modified his voice with random electronic shit
― frogbs, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
AG - did you ever see the episode of Monkey Dust where the divorced Dad goes to see his son who has moved to Newcastle. He brings him a present of the latest Now! compilation, and the kid's reaction is: "Noo forty-two? I only listen'a Speed Metal. Yas got any Cannibal Corpse?".― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin)
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin)
I dont even know what Monkey Dust is!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 18 February 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
teeth mountain were the judge judy dead cat people, right?
― sarahel, Friday, 18 February 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it me or does anyone else want to deck people who spend entire shows screaming out the title of one song over and over in hopes the band plays it.
I once read an interview with JAMC's Jim Reid complaining about how there was always some drunken idiot at Glasgow gigs shouting for "Vegetable Fuckin Man!" between songs. A few weeks later I was that drunken idiot :(
― AYE... MON THEN -----O----- (onimo), Monday, 21 February 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, Jim Reid? That was you, that was...
― Mark G, Monday, 21 February 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
last week this one freakin tiny girl pushed her way to the front at some show, in an small club, to take pictures of the band with her freakin IPAD
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
prob one of the most ridiculous things I've seen so far
I hate the worthless fucking life-failures who record an entire show on their little digital camera. They usually have to hold it up like a foot above their heads, so if you're standing behind them, you have to look at a little TV screen the entire show. I've seriously considered just slapping it from their hands and when they turn around just staring them down.
― harbl bosses (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
so not cool
― iatee, Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I've seriously considered just slapping it from their hands and when they turn around just going http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― harbl bosses (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
whiney imagine that but with an ipad
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
like there were people standing around recording the show on their iphones all weirded out by it
yeah but sometimes it's fun to see your show on youtube the next day.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
I would not feel the least bit guilty after "accidentally" knocking it out of her hands and stepping on it a few times.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
i rely on these ppl so i can see shows i was at on youtube the next day
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link