What should you not do at concerts?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 07:39 AM

I look forward to seeing the Mellstock Band next month. They never use a PA and so will be as loud as they blow their instruments, so consequently folks in the audience keep quiet!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 07:04 AM

I went to see Bellowhead at Derby last Saturday. Ear plugs were being sold at the venue!!!!!!! 50p a pair. My husband and I shared a pair!

However, our pleasure was spoilt by the people just in front of us who talked all the way through the concert. It wasn't the talking that upset me - it was the fact that the music was so loud that they had to put their heads together to talk while the music was playing. And I was trying to watch the band in between their heads. Why do people go to a concert and then talk to each other all the way through?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 01:41 PM

What???????

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 01:11 PM

Another thing you should do at concerts is take a cushion

Yes, my wife always does.

What I also find annoying is having booked front row of stacked seats, just before the concert starts there is suddenly a row of wheel chairs stuck right in front of you, without so much as a "would you mind". Fortunately the one in front of us when asked very kindly moved forward 12 inches or so.

This happened at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Room.
    very nearly disgusted of Tunbridge Wells,clearly in Tunbridge Wells, they still have respect for the upper classes,and recognise Bonzos blue blood and aristocratic demeanour, there is hope for civilisation

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 01:06 PM

That has nothing to do with it. The theatre should have made it clear on their website where wheelchairs are positioned, and it did not.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 12:54 PM

I expect those in the wheelchairs don't like it much either.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 10:56 AM

Another thing you should do at concerts is take a cushion

Yes, my wife always does.

What I also find annoying is having booked front row of stacked seats, just before the concert starts there is suddenly a row of wheel chairs stuck right in front of you, without so much as a "would you mind". Fortunately the one in front of us when asked very kindly moved forward 12 inches or so.

This happened at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Room.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 09:17 AM

:) Why young Doug !
You are allowed to dance if you are on stage performing...
Another thing you should do at concerts is take a cushion ..those village hall chairs are terrible ..Unless you have a fat arse.
How many here find the seats in village halls comfortable?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 03:16 AM

:D

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 02:40 AM

Things you should do at a concert..
Make sure that your knitting needles are sharp in case you need to defend yourself against those trying to de-hat you with a long stick.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 10:39 PM

Things you should do at a concert..
Take ear plugs ..just in case.
Take a long stick ..
This is for prodding the twat who is dancing standing etc in front of you
also for de hatting the twat who is dancing etc.
Take a crossbow
in case the twat in a hat is too far away for casual stick deployment.
If the act is of the sort that encourages annoying dancing make the best of it and next time choose the concets you attend with greater care.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,crazy little woman
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 12:01 PM

I think you meant 'sit BY yourself.'

They make bamboo knitting needles now, marketed specifically as silent when dropped, even on concrete.


;)

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 09:33 PM

Knittings okay if you are not bumping anybody. The way I do it, the people next to me would get haeartily sick, I'm sure, of feeling the motion as I wrap the yarn around the needle.

If you're gonna knit, sit my yourself. And don't drop a needle so it rolls with a gentle clang over a hard floor.

Be silent, hold still...usually.

JHW have you ever heard the version of Wild Rover done by the House Band? I consider it moving and thought-provoking.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: JHW
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 06:15 PM

leeneia Not everyone is being serious here and I'm often not. Its a throwaway?
I wouldn't do The Wild Rover at a concert

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 08:23 PM

Aha, another one, after the concert I've just been to tonight., i.e. if you are MC, do your homework! Check how people say their names before you go on stage and make an 'erse' o' it!
I have never heard so many mis-pronunciations of names all in one night in my life: the same band named 3 different ways, Natalie Haas became HAYS, and many of the generous sponsors were also mis-represented by an over-bubbly (new to the job?) MC - who just happens to have a rather unusual name herself! Perhaps she was getting back at all those people who have mis-proounced her name?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 04:08 PM

"Listen silently, hold still, and let everyone enjoy the sound of the music."

Not possible when the seats are as uncomfortable as those at Tunbridge Assembly Room Theatre!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 03:29 PM

Thanks Tattie - Much appreciated support for knitters, or knotters, or knickers or whatever it is :-)

Leeneia -

It's much easier to say what one SHOULD do at a concert, rather than SHOULD NOT. Listen silently, hold still, and let everyone enjoy the sound of the music.

I did ask - Honest - see the third post in the thread.

DtG

Anyone got a bad word about ear plugs yet?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 11:39 AM

I have no objection to knitting (or even knotting!) There are two ladies who knit regularly at our local folk club: I have pulled their legs about looking a bit like Madame Desfarges at the guillotine, but so far no performers' heads have rolled!

And there's "The Big Knit" every year at Dougie Maclean's "Perthshire Amber" Festival: the knitting is done in aid of the charity, Shelter, so who could object to that?
See: http://www.perthshireamber.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&Itemid=240

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 10:13 AM

You should not drink so much that you need to disturb members of the audience to go to the lavatory during the performance - bladder ailment sufferers excused of course!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 17 Nov 11 - 05:14 AM

I think it's OK to enjoy yourself as you like - but it's not OK if you're disturbing or upsetting other people and spoiling their enjoyment. Different people have different ways of enjoying a concert.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 09:30 AM

That or closet bodhran players, Ralphie...

Just hope they don't discover an ocean drum - like a double sided bodhran filled with ball bearings.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:53 AM

Go to watch a Brass Band sucking a Lemon .......... I'd love to try it though!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 06:27 AM

Jon. Maybe all audience members are closet Shakey Egg players...Now that's scarey!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 03:46 AM

Not sure I've noticed 9/8 clapping anywhere.

Anyway, I don't think it's usually too bad with tunes except when they try to make things go faster and faster.

I think songs can be harder. In the past, I've had people clapping along to the Sick Note. For me, the song only works if I can time it as the audience responds and you can't for example take a longer pause if the rhythm is being forced along by clapping.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 03:01 AM

I've never understood audiences that clap along to a song/tune...No problem with that. But why do they clap in a different time signature...All of them?!
It's as if they are in a different dimension..."You're playing in 4/4..We'll clap in 9/8...at a different tempo!"
Just strange to me.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 06:01 PM

Thanks, Chris.

JHW: What does the Wild Rover have to do with this?

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: JHW
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 05:18 PM

The Wild Rover

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 12:21 PM

What leeneia said!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 10:27 AM

It's much easier to say what one SHOULD do at a concert, rather than SHOULD NOT. Listen silently, hold still, and let everyone enjoy the sound of the music.

Clapping along (if any) should occur toward the end of the show, when energy has built up, especially if the band has inivited it.

If you want to dance, go behind the audience and do it safely.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 06:23 PM

Lizzie is the last person who would mock someone's dyslexia.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 10:49 AM

DtG, the saying is "Get knotted" or "get dog knotted" which somewhat indicates its origin.

Sorry, Bert. I have never even heard the phrase 'dog knotted' before. And around these parts (Lancashire) , certainly since my Mothers childhood days (1930s), 'Get Knotted' has never had any usage but as a mild rebuke. No-one I know has ever given it any sexual connotation. Not saying it never had but common local usage has removed any such intimation over the years.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 10:20 AM

If you are a member of the audience: don't be so drunk you can't remember any of it, you'll have wasted your ticket money.

If you're a performer: you can be as drunk as you like since you aren't being paid to remember what you did. (At least, that seems to be the principle some performers I've heard operate by).

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bert
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 10:16 AM

DtG, the saying is "Get knotted" or "get dog knotted" which somewhat indicates its origin.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 08:27 AM

As a Sound engineer for many a decade, If I get a 50/50 split of opinion between people at the front complaining that "It's too loud" and people at the back complaining "It's too quiet" I've probably got it about right.
Unless one brings another van with extra amps/speakers/additional cabling/delay lines etc. It's not an easy option to satisfy everyone. And believe me there are some people who will never be satisfied!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Howard Jones
Date: 14 Nov 11 - 07:51 AM

I feel that the volume is usually too high at concerts and that earplugs are a sensible defence against ear damage. Properly designed ones will protect you ears but still allow you to enjoy the music.

However I have little sympathy with someone who sits in front of the speakers and then complains it's too loud. I witnessed this at a festival this summer someone who had been sitting right at the at the front then complained about the sound being too loud.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 08:56 PM

You probably shouldn't make love; at least not unless you're in the back row, and you try not to make too much noise.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: paula t
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 07:00 PM

I think ear plugs are fine. I wouldn't take offence if someone was wearing them through our set, unless the wearing was preceeded by, "Oh no! Where are my ear plugs!"as we walked out on stage!

However I might have been offended by a lady we saw at a Mc'Fly concert a few years ago. She had improvised by stuffing extremely long wads of toilet paper into her ears and had obviously forgotten as she walked into the bar, shouting very loudly to her red faced young daughter.She had been on the front row and MUST have been noticed by the band, as the "earplugs were hanging down like very long ears!

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 05:43 PM

Enjoy yourself.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 11:33 AM

Oh - I have never heard 'screwing' refered to as knotting. Maybe a US/UK or regional thing? I think, and I could be wrong here, that Lizzie was refering to knottiing ropes (ref: knotting at shanty session)

Just out of interest.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 11:30 AM

You are right, Bert - I am not dyslexic but a genuine crap typist. I realy do have to work hard to make sure it is right! I am also quite sure that Lizzies comment was meant to be amusing and my reply was equaly tongue in cheek - Although the first pass was genenuinely as I typed it with no thought or preef rooding and I do hope that it made people realise that things (like wearing earplugs) are not always as they seem :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bert
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 08:47 AM

I don't think that Lizzie was getting at a spelling error, which was more likely to have been caused by 'fat fingering' and not dislexia.

I'm guessing that she was noticing a very amusing error, considering that knotting can also mean screwing. Ya can't let that one go without comment.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,Regular concert go-er
Date: 13 Nov 11 - 04:25 AM

I've just found this thread and it's very interesting, but I see that someone made a post laughing at someone else's spelling mistake. Has it occurred to Lizzie Cornish 1 that the poster may be dyslexic? It must be very hard to be brave enough to post under those circumstances and then have your post laughed at. Perhaps next time Lizzie Cornish 1 might think of that before sneering at someone else.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 02:13 PM

100.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 10:55 AM

Very true.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 10:40 AM

It is typical of bullies to do something bad to another person, then criticize the person for being "a complainer."

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 07:51 AM

It's only a very small number of people posting here making these disapproving comments, a very insignificant number indeed. The rest of us enjoy ourselves as we see fit.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 07:50 AM

provided they don't throw paper planes at the stage

Funny you should say that Mary. I was talking to Phil Brown a couple of weeks back - Amongst his many talents he used to 'front' a brass band called 'Loose Chippings'. Remember them? Anyway - They used to do a Battle of Britain medley and you just could not believe the amount of paper based air traffic it created at Fylde one year. Mainly Festival leaflets - Poor old Alan Bell was stood weeping in the corner - But the band loved it :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 07:46 AM

It is not offensive to me if people knit, crochet, do origami ( provided they don't throw paper planes at the stage) or wear earplugs at my gigs. Just don't rustle the newspaper too much.
Crisps are OK provided it is a Joseph Taylor song that I am singing. It all adds to the authentic atmosphere.
I have suffered enough with loud DJs who blast forth at full whack while we are packing up our PA from a ceilidh gig, so I always carry earplugs now and have a great deal of sympathy for folks who don't want to go prematurely deaf. Artists are at the mercy of the sound-man when it comes to volume at gigs - on stage we don't get to hear just how loud it is in the auditorium, so can't always ask to turn down the sound a few notches.
As for dancing in the aisles, I always remember a fabulous gig we did at the Gower festival where a large contingent of dancers got up and danced to all our tune sets. It's what the tunes were composed for , so it seemed quite appropriate for itchy feet to do the obvious thing. No-one complained and I was delighted.

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 07:11 AM

why and to whom is it offensive?

Exactly the question I have been asking, Howard. Not had an answer yet.

DtG

Subject: RE: What should you not do at concerts?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 07:10 AM

is there any basis for Ralphie's gramaphone record that seems to be stuck?