The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33814   Message #453876
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
02-May-01 - 11:56 AM
Thread Name: Help: dealing with hecklers
Subject: RE: Help: dealing with hecklers
friend of ours who shall remain nameless to protect the Guilty...

Anyway, he was a big guy, good voice, good guitar style, very quiet and well mannered. All the time he is doing nice laid back ballads at the folk club a drunken bloke at the back keeps shouting

'Give us The Wild Rover' 'Give us Dirty Old Town' and so forth.

The artist, who as I said had been ever so quiet and well mannered invited the drunk right up to the stage, put his arm around him and whispered gently in his ear 'If you don't F!"£ off I'm going to break your legs...'

We never saw the drunk again. Don't realy approve of violence but we knew our guest didn't mean it - and it was so funny at the time!

DtG