There's really no excuse. If it's a gig with a cover/ticket price I don't know why you would pay for the privilege of ruining someone else's night. Bars/clubs that have live music generally have more expensive, worse drinks and less attentive bartenders. If you just wanna drink and chat, you know, there are a lot of places for that. I just don't think people should see a gig as, primarily, a social experience. Of course you're gonna see your show buddies and shoot the shit, etc., but the reason to pay money to see music is to see music and not be annoyed by the people around you. The absolute worst, to my mind, is not people who talk throughout the entire gig (such a common and reprehensible type they are beneath comment) but people who talk loudly through songs they don't know/like/get and then become super enthusiastic when the performer plays a recognizable tune. One of the reasons I've turned more and more away from "song-based" sets over the years.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Pete Townshend solo in 1997 at a smallish venue (Chicago House of Blues), and there was constant chatter from most of the audience for most of the show. I was down front, and people were carrying on loud conversations about shit like what they did that day at work. The tickets were pricey for the time ($95), and all I could think was, "You paid $95 to talk about how Julie from accounting didn't get her reports in yesterday?" At one point, Pete was saying to his soundman that he couldn't hear his in-ear monitors, and added, "Of course, it's probably because of this fucking audience."
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
The odd thing was, people quieted down for probably the least-well-known tune of the night (a cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Christine's Tune").
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
There's a special place in hell reserved for earlier-billed acts who then talk all the way through the sets of later-billed acts. I witnessed this a few times over, at a recent open mike show. Admittedly, the acts were almost all crap, but the principle still stands!
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
haha, i don't think i go to those kind of shows where this would ever be an actual problem tbg
i think that "everyone should be getting this on the same level as me" thing is kinda hilarious tho
so what if a group of ppl want to go hear their favourite song and have a laugh while they're doing it
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
mfb otm
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
BECAUSE IT'S RUDE AND MAKES THOSE PEOPLE LOOK LIKE THEY WERE RAISED IN A BARN
i love that john cage quotation in one of his satie essays "there'll probably be some music, but we'll find a quiet place to talk"
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
i think we've all experienced the annoying chattering ppl at gigs/cinema/theatre/the bus/at work/in the street/next door/IN LIFE lex, and yes it can be annoying
the opposite of this annoys me more, tbh, when you're at really vibing gig and there's a serious group of ppl near you that aren't vibing at all. at prince/hop farm earlier this year we were surrounded by people like you lot who are there FOR THE MUSIC and not to have FUN totally ruined it for me and i don't think prince was best pleased
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
can we go back up to the harmonica story for a second, because that is unbelievablealso I tend to harmonize during shows, sorry everyone around me― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:55 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
also I tend to harmonize during shows, sorry everyone around me
― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:55 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
Guilty of this too. And I'm not a particularly great singer, so I'm especially sorry.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
people like you lot who are there FOR THE MUSIC and not to have FUN
Not as bad as the people who won't shut up, but still annoying.
― skip, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
the music IS the fun
though if you mean the people who stand stock still for a performer you're obviously meant to dance to, then i agree
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
I have to admit, my g/f (bless her) is one of these "talkie" people and she's been shushed a few times (I try to refrain from doing it myself, but y'know, there's a limit). She's not as big a music fan as me, so I think she genuinely doesn't realise she's disrupting things - one or two glasses of wine and she's a uninhibitedly babbling away.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
tsk
― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
There's a special place in hell reserved for earlier-billed acts who then talk all the way through the sets of later-billed acts.
Also later-billed acts who talk all over earlier-billed acts.
Don't mind people chatting if they're right at the back, but don't stand in the middle of the crowd blabbing. I mean, most of my social circle is made up of people who I met at gigs, but I have conversations with them before the bands, during changeover, and after, NOT while the music is playing.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
i just start chanting loudly SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP not at them specifically but at an angle to the air. they either get it or get wigged out by crazy guy and move.
lol felt like an ass for bringing my roommates to a pinback show way back, i was up front and could hear them in back.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
roommates otm
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like there is a fertile period during and just after college where you're enthusiastically inviting friends/roommates/gfs out to shows and then you realize it's not worth the trouble.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
i've found myself a small group of friends who enjoy shows as much/in the same modes as i do, it's kinda great.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
a new entry into BAD SHOW ETIQUETTE @ d'angelo last night
every so often this group of cunts in front of me would, like, light up a surreptitious fag and pass it round between them? crouching down to hide it? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CAN'T YOU GO TWO GODDAMN HOURS WITHOUT NICOTINE YOU DISGUSTING ADDICTS.
in line with my new ZERO TOLERANCE attitude to bullshit of all stripes i asked them to put it out the second time, and was backed up by the tiny fierce woman next to me AND the woman next to her. they tried to ignore us but one of the women said she WOULD get security if they didn't stub it out.
later on one of the boys got another fag out - with lightning speed my neighbour jabbed him in the ribs and said menacingly "i hope you're not thinking of lighting that"
i hope that at some point in their lives they get cigarettes stubbed out on their eyeballs
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
i had a similar experience at hawkwind before xmas, tho it was a 'special' cigarette, and tbh it probably would have been a better show if we were all high
― RejoicingShepherd (stevie), Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:30 (twelve years ago) link
haw, i was saying to my friends on the way out that if it had been a spliff i'd have been way more sympathetic and wouldn't have said a thing - i found the fact that it was just a normal roll-up way more offensive
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
i know, why risk it if its just for a ciggie??
― RejoicingShepherd (stevie), Saturday, 4 February 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
I think that's obvious - because cigarettes are now viewed as way more antisocial and therefore have more rebellious cache than spliffs.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Saturday, 4 February 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
Last show I went to someone came up to me to berate me for reading a book whilst the support band were playing. Maybe they were friends of the band or something. I just told them I could still hear the band, unfortunately.
― pandemic, Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really hoping you mean that you told dude that it was unfortunate that you could still hear the band.
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I did :)
― pandemic, Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
sweet :)
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
nothing was worse than listening to this kid ramble on prior to the Jay-Z/Kanye show on my b'day. I guess taht's the bummer with stadium shows, is having to listen to individual convos. But he wouldn't shut up. He loudly criticized a kid for wearing a Wiz Khalifa shirt to the show ("oh man, wear it to a Mac Miller show, not a JAY-Z show"), and then for about twenty minutes, started going on and on about how he hoped Jay-Z performed "99 Problems" because it was clearly the greatest Jay-Z song of all time (footnote: RONG).
Then he starts playing music on his cell phone (I was like whatev, show hasn't started yet), listening to stuff from Watch the Throne...and then goes "Man, hold on, I got some really old school Jay-Z here. don't think most fans remember this one, maybe some"...so I'm thinking dude is about to queue up his guest spot on "Hawaiian Sophie" or "In My Lifetime", and dude starts playing...."Encore". SPECIFICALLY the Linkin Park-Jay-Z mashup version. Dude was acting O.G. smug about having this song on his iPOD?
Then...he started rapping the opening to "99 Problems"...over...and over...and over behind me. Just the chorus. It was like Chinese water torture after a while because he'd stop for 5 minutes or so, then do it again.
About the time I was getting ready to turn around and throttle the kid, some dudes came up and said he and his friend were in their seats. He tried to argue that no, it was THEY that were in the wrong section, and that this was section 406 (it was 405), so all of us (including me) turned around and said NO IT ISN'T. and he whines loudly that the usher "put us over here", blaming her that he apparently couldn't see the giant "405" that was like 500 feet from his head).
I was so happy when he moved. but I also felt bad for who had to sit in front of him. I hope that when Jay actually did perform "99 Problems" that he had an inner ear problem for just the duration of the song.
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
*50 feet
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
looooooooooool
hmmm lex there were some dudes sharing a spliff up the back but they were stood out of the way and no-one, including staff seemingly said anything or had a problem. (they were kinda in the dark though, so maybe they didnt see them.) they werent acting like dicks about it though, which i think is more the issue.
show etiquette stickler for me: you at a packed show, dont dance like you are fucking flashdance. everyone should have a bit of room but dont start waving your arms and shit about like the room is empty. [was abt 15 yards away so it wasnt in my face but it was pissing off the lot next to me.]
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 4 February 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
old school Jay Z, encore, LOL
― pandemic, Saturday, 4 February 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean to be fair kid had to be like 16 but I mean this is the age of the internet, you should know how ignorant that sounds when you say that out loud!
I keep imagining that when "Hard Knock Life" came on he was thinking to himself "hmm this must be a b-side or something!"
― frogbs, stills, and nash (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 February 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
omg people smoking cigarettes, stay the fuck home
― adam, Monday, 6 February 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
not the people smoking
you
― adam, Monday, 6 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
nice poem
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 6 February 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yes its clearly the people that aren't engaged in disgusting habits that are detrimental to the health of those around them that should stay home, yes sir.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 February 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is why I try not to go to shows, bcz people are there
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, February 6, 2012 9:23 PM (1 hour ago)
engaging in disgusting habits that are detrimental to the health of those around them = humanity
― sarahell, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, then that obviously excuses you for being a disrespectful asshole in a public place.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
there are a lot of ways one can be a disrespectful asshole in a public place, as I'm sure others have told you, jon.
― sarahell, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― regal xenophobe (electricsound), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ smokers trying to justify their disgusting habit
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
had no idea people clandestinely smoke tobacco cigarettes in clubs, that is weird.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
i don't smoke
― regal xenophobe (electricsound), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
xp Shakey: I've experienced it every time I've gone to a show at the Regency Ballroom in SF. The weed smoke/smell is much much stronger though.
― sarahell, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
routinely smoked weed at larger clubs/venues when I used to go to those sorts of places - that was before the ban on smoking indoors tho, I guess.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
ont dance like you are fucking flashdance. everyone should have a bit of room but dont start waving your arms and shit about like the room is empty.
^^This is known as the Beatle Bob clause.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
i don't get why lex was so angry with the ppl smoking a cigarette
― jabba hands, Thursday, 9 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link