People who "shussh" at gigs

ergo wrote:

seated gigs mid-week in Vicar St; these are the only ones around where it's guaranteed silence and respect in my opinion

Definitely. Went to see Josh Ritter there, absolutely fantastic, and everyone was there to appreciate his music. Vicar Street's a great venue, the bar(s) is(are) completely separate, if you want to have a drink and a chat you can do it without upsetting anyone else. Everywhere else, the bar is either in the venue (the Ambassador, Whelan's), or it's somewhere where there's nowhere to sit, you basically have to go back to the main venue (the Point, the Olympia to an extent)

I play and go to a lot of gigs around dublin and it is my understanding that if the artist is good enough and interesting enough to hold the attention of the crowd for the whole set then they wont have this problem of talkng,shushing etc... I myself have played gigs where there are people talkng the whole way through our set, so what can you do? I think from this point of view it's the responsibility of the band to interact with the crowd and put on a good show and floor the audience with a great performance, Some nights a band can do it and other nights they can't and that's the difference between pro's and amateurs. I'd like to point out to any frames fans that this isnt the first time Glen Hansard has had problems with the crowd talking throughout a gig,My friend was at a frames gig in vicar st a few years ago were hansard told the crowd if they came to have a chat they could step outside, on the flipside i have been at reasonably quiet acoustic gigs such as Bob Dylan, Rod y Gab, Tommy Emanuel, Tom Bresh and you could hear a pin drop in what were all fairly big venues, but then again these acts all have big loyal followings. I suppose the challenge as a young/upcoming musician is to capture the crowd and make the morons who usually talk stop talking, face forward and listen to you and at the end of the gig they'll run up and shake your hand and buy your demo

gracehopper wrote:

I play and go to a lot of gigs around dublin and it is my understanding that if the artist is good enough and interesting enough to hold the attention of the crowd for the whole set then they wont have this problem of talkng,shushing etc...

That's all well and good if you assume that the entire audience actually cares about music. Bands that are just breaking out into the big league attract a lot of people who just go to the gigs to say they were there. Sigur Rós was a prime example of that. The music is good enough and interesting enough to hold people's attention, it has been the previous five times they've played here and was this time. Only this time there were a load of knob ends who probably only went because they heard Chris Martin likes them.