The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113071 Message #2400177
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
29-Jul-08 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: Where have the audiences gone?
Subject: RE: Where have the audiences gone?
Theres nowt wrong with anything that has that elemaent of contact with the audience. Its when this performance business is carried out as a sort of neurotic alternative to being an ordinary human being that the trouble starts - and I suspect it afflicts every byway of every artform.
but you're not admitting it , are you?
I think the worse scenario (and most common) is the trad singer who doesn't realise that its actually harder to sing without accompaniment - harder to keep in key, harder to keep the story going, harder to get the punctuation and rhthym of the song going - can be done, but its harder.
Trad instrumental stuff is - well its a bit of a pain listening to beginners, isn't it. i'm not really sure one should be required to appreciate everything the the trad English scene has to offer.
i hope WAV puts a special section in his award scheme for the audiences that have kept their sense of humour. Gold medals all round.