LtS, kids dancing is fine. I don't think anyone would object to that - everyone I've seen has been thoroughly amused by the kids who do it (there always seems to be one or two).

What I do object to is what happened during one concert at Broadstairs (note: evening concert, fairly expensive tickets, finishing past 10pm). A few kids whose parents were watching the concert were running up and down the central aisle. Then they started playing tag up and down the aisle, and shouting while they did it, as kids will do when they get excited. These kids had no interest in the music. Their parents had paid to see the gig, but so had everyone else, and none of us wanted these kids shouting in the aisles when we were trying to listen to the music.

Kids learning to behave is the responsibility of the parents. Their *parents* have the responsibility for telling them that dancing is good, but running up and down and shouting during the performance is bad. If the parents don't do that, the event staff have the responsibility for slinging said kids (and preferably parents too) out on their ear until their parents *have* taught them how to behave.

If the event is something organised specifically for kids, or something held on a bandstand somewhere public that's expected to draw a large family crowd, then fair enough. But at an evening concert with expensive tickets where most of the audience will be adults, I think it's fair to say that kids should either be there for the music or shouldn't be there at all. A concert is not a creche.

Graham.