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People who "shussh" at gigs

My name is Mud

If you want absolute silence when watching a band play (like Sigur Ros tonight)...

...HIRE OUT THE BAND YOURSELF AND HAVE THEM PLAY IN YOUR LIVING ROOM AND STOP SHUSSHING TO EVERYBODY ELSE

ITS A FREE ****ING COUNTRY

/end rant

sorry, first rant on boards.ie methinks. Im also locked right now

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breadmonkey

Closing Doors wrote:

No actually it's people with attitudes like that, that need to be "neutered and/or be sterilised". Who are you to say which artists it's (not) ok to get excited over? For example, I can't stand the Arcade Fire, but I've never given anybody grief over liking them (which obviously a lot of people do). Just an opinion...but you know it's right.

Look, he was merely pointing out that Damien Rice is crap:p

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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)

My name is Mud

breadmonkey wrote:

To the OP: You are a bad person

im neither a talker or shussher. I just think that people who shushh are louder than the actual talker, and therefore more annoying at a gig.

I simple "shut the **** up you ignorant ****s, if you wanna talk go ouside" should suffice... its not school anymore:rolleyes:

gracehopper

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

Maccattack

My name is Mud wrote:

I simple "shut the **** up you ignorant ****s, if you wanna talk go ouside" should suffice... its not school anymore:rolleyes:

Well if youve ever been (or ever go in future) to a gig where people are talking and you hear someone yell out "SHUT THE FAR CUP YOU FAR KEN W@ NK€R"

well that'd be me.

My name is Mud

Maccattack wrote:

Well if youve ever been (or ever go in future) to a gig where people are talking and you hear someone yell out "SHUT THE FAR CUP YOU FAR KEN W@ NK€R"

well that'd be me.

cool...i'll sshussh to ya next time:D

Are you the same Maccattack from drummingireland.com?

Anto and Moe

I'm not a fan of the shusher. What about a similer problem: ever been at a gig like Metalica or Maiden or somesuch and a pit starts and next thing people, around the edge start giving you dirty looks?! That sort of concert is designed for mosh pits, not standing around looking angry at people.

Miguel_Sanchez

Closing Doors wrote:

No actually it's people with attitudes like that, that need to be "neutered and/or be sterilised". Who are you to say which artists it's (not) ok to get excited over? For example, I can't stand the Arcade Fire, but I've never given anybody grief over liking them (which obviously a lot of people do). Just an opinion...but you know it's right.

[going off-topic again]
Man oh man, it's always the people with bad taste in music who have no sense of humour isn't it?

They're also the easiest to bait.
[back on topic again]

Nothing to say really - you're damned if you shush, and you're damned if you don't (shush, that is).

the_syco

Metal gig: good luck in talking. At all.

"Quite" gig: who ever intoduces the band should ask the audience to "hush". When I say a "quite" gig, I mean a few local bands getting together (such as the "Open Zone" in Leixlip), and doing their thing. A quick "shush" at the start, and it ok.

IMO, if ye gotta talk, do so quitely. Its like talking loudly in a cinema. Only the think ignorant scumbags do it (oh, and you become a scumbag if you do it:p).

John

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.

Closing Doors

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

[going off-topic again]
Man oh man, it's always the people with bad taste in music who have no sense of humour isn't it?

They're also the easiest to bait.
[back on topic again]

Meh it just pisses me off when people incessantly drop jabs (I'll ignore the "bad taste in music" insult this time

) @ musicians (or even people in general) with no purpose except to put them down, regardless of whether they "deserve it".

Damien Rice rocks!