Liz, I think you should name names, or at least close approximations (in the unlikely case of litigation) so's this sort of precious self importance is rightly ridiculed.
I'm as far from a one nation Tory as you could be, (did you hear Baldilocks and the three Blairs on bbcr4 on Friday?, Larf?) but on this issue of audience racket, I let the market decide. If there's magic in the music, you can hear the pin drop pretty quickly, and I say that from a perspective of a frequently talked over singer/musician.
Skipjack