Talking at Gigs

[Gareth]

Lets be honest its not really a gig if you can hear people talking
A real gig should be so loud that the only way to communicate with the person beside you is by sign language.Your ears should bleed and your head should pain after it and as for the so called quiet slow song type moments
thats the time to go to the bar!
At a real gig asking someone to be quiet should automatically lead to your front teeth being knocked out
I blame it all on pop idol!
if its to noisey for you buy the cd and sit in a dark room all day

That post would contain more sense written backwards or then again if you
didn't write it at all. Its not about musical preference, its about enjoying what you paid to come and see. You clearly like your music loud. Don't know what age you are nor does it matter, but if you think gigs are about ear bleeds then so be it, we don't have to worry about you at quieter gigs, nor will you be going to any I suspect? At a real gig??? G0b****e

[hoops1]

Your obviously used to the no noise/ atmosphere at Shels matches
Just let yourself go.Go on try singing at a gig or match its fun
trust me

[REVIP]

but worst was at bob dylan this idiot young fella kept putting his bird up on his shoulders

Went to Dylan's Sunday night gig by getting tickets off eBay. I'm almost as old as Sir Hamish, so have long memories of Dylan.

Went out for a pee during the set (too many pints beforehand) and there were hundreds of people in their twenties standing around in the bar areas talking.

The set only lasted an hour and a half - so it's not as though they were out for a breather. Why buy tickets for a gig like that when you aren't even going to watch what's going on onstage? If you want to talk and have music in the background, you can do that in Tesco's!

[klein4]

I thought it was a great irreverent post from hoops1. sums up what goin to gigs is about. enjoyin yourself. some "artists" take it way too seriously.I heard christy moore has turned his gigs into extended tantrums in an attempt to be taken "seriously". (altho different rules apply for dylan. noisy ****s!)

[Gareth]

Your obviously used to the no noise/ atmosphere at Shels matches
Just let yourself go.Go on try singing at a gig or match its fun
trust me

At least you are original eh!! By the way we were talking about TALKING at a gig....

[hamish]

Went to Dylan's Sunday night gig by getting tickets off eBay. I'm almost as old as Sir Hamish, so have long memories of Dylan.

Went out for a pee during the set (too many pints beforehand) and there were hundreds of people in their twenties standing around in the bar areas talking.

The set only lasted an hour and a half - so it's not as though they were out for a breather. Why buy tickets for a gig like that when you aren't even going to watch what's going on onstage? If you want to talk and have music in the background, you can do that in Tesco's!

Yeah, did the same at Bob Dylan too. First time I EVER did that during a gig - I was fairly disappointed by him this time TBH but maybe that's just me. Only went out for a drag for two songs and went back in again. There were loads talking and smoking outside the front of The Point even though it was biting cold. Had a good laugh with a few Corky Boys in fact.

BTW amigos, when I first started to go to gigs, no matter what type of music, my ears would be ringing for a while afterwards. I notice this does not happen now.

Do sound engineers have a new filtering system so that high frequencies are not hammered into people's heads nowadays???

and NO - I'm not deaf now in case anyone starts slagging.

Revip -you're only a young lad.

I thought it was a great irreverent post from hoops1. sums up what goin to gigs is about. enjoyin yourself. some "artists" take it way too seriously.I heard christy moore has turned his gigs into extended tantrums in an attempt to be taken "seriously". (altho different rules apply for dylan. noisy ****s!)

Yeah, I remember when he was with Planxty and he said, "We'll dedicate this song to the b.ollocks over there with the twelve inch mouth"
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TBF, I saw him solo as well and the amount of talking during his gigs completely overwhelmed him and he lost it then too. Steve Earl has another way.Whenever anyone calls out a song for him to play, he says something like, "I know what song I'll play next, it's my job man" but he doesn't come across as narky when he says it.

[hamish]

Jaysus, it's happened again - that's another time two quotes I made ended up in the same post - is it happening automatically 'cos I haven't a clue how to do multiple quotes in a post.

[paul_oshea]

all i can say is ye are going ot the wrong sort of gigs.

never ever have i come across it and even if i did i wouldnt hear it cos the music is too loud to only hear the music!

\m/

bad taste in music, you are gonig to have to put up with this where the guys playing cant keep the fans entertained and/or the music is too slow and crap and boring to keep people going.

\m/ again. nuff said. 'tallica boys would keep those muppets shut.

[Marked Man]

i am normally a very placid character, but i was on the verge of knocking a girl out a a recent frames gig in the point. she spent the entire gig telling everybody around her that she was the frames biggest fan, but never actually shut up for long enough to hear them. we were on the balcony at the time and i seriously considered sending her crowd surfing. damn but i'm in a rage just thinking about her.

If she blocked out the Frames, you should be thanking her.

[Drumcondra Red]

If I go to a gig and feel like talking to my mate I will.

Damn right Docboy!!!

[anto1208]

If I go to a gig and feel like talking to my mate I will. Stand closer to the speakers if you're the sensitive sort.

stay at home and talk to your mate save your self 50 euro

i dont think people are complaining about people just chatting for a few mins but it when they talk all the way through and its worse at outdoor gigs because its not as loud .

[fosterdollar]

Lets be honest its not really a gig if you can hear people talking
A real gig should be so loud that the only way to communicate with the person beside you is by sign language.Your ears should bleed and your head should pain after it and as for the so called quiet slow song type moments
thats the time to go to the bar!
At a real gig asking someone to be quiet should automatically lead to your front teeth being knocked out
I blame it all on pop idol!
if its to noisey for you buy the cd and sit in a dark room all day

First sensible point.

As for talking at a BELLX1 gig for 'real fans', i'm not surprised. You may be a real fan but there's so many bandwagonners, what with their recent success, that half of the crowd were probbaly just there so they could boast about it to their friends later.

I wouldn't resent the talking as much as the fact that some of these knob jobs are at the gig in the first place.

[anto1208]

First sensible point.

As for talking at a BELLX1 gig for 'real fans', i'm not surprised. You may be a real fan but there's so many bandwagonners, what with their recent success, that half of the crowd were probbaly just there so they could boast about it to their friends later.

I wouldn't resent the talking as much as the fact that some of these knob jobs are at the gig in the first place.

going to a bellX1 gig is nothing to boast about , its like sayin gi went to see aslan ......

[Gareth]

Ok seeing as the band in question seems to be an issue, the same has happened for Doves, Whipping Boy, Ed Harcourt, Elbow, Weezer in the last few gigs I was at. Its irrelevent the band, it just seems that large portions of irish giggers talk over bands. And the "its not a real gig if you can hear talkers" is a thick statement. I rate bands like Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, Tom McRae, Pony Club, American Music Club, Josh Ritter etc and 200 people talking would contribute to ruining any of their gigs. If your a metal fan or dance great, and if the gigs you go to are louder than a chorus of talkers then you are not really the target audience of this thread?

And Bellx1 are much better than Aslan. Much much better. Flock is a solid enough album.

[anto1208]

ive told my mates to shut up again at the bob dylan gig in galway , he isnt a big fan so didnt know many of the songs bar the big hit s and kept talking i could see people around me getting ****ed off the only way to stop him was tellin ghim " ive paid 60 euro to listen to bob not you now shut the f*** up " worked a charm

[anto1208]

And Bellx1 are much better than Aslan. Much much better. Flock is a solid enough album.

i knew the second i posted that some one would think i was comparing them im not , just saying going to a bell x1 gig isnt something id boast about

[Lionel Ritchie]

all i can say is ye are going ot the wrong sort of gigs.

never ever have i come across it and even if i did i wouldnt hear it cos the music is too loud to only hear the music!

\m/

bad taste in music, you are gonig to have to put up with this where the guys playing cant keep the fans entertained and/or the music is too slow and crap and boring to keep people going.

\m/ again. nuff said. 'tallica boys would keep those muppets shut.

Actually they didn't. I'd the misfortune to end up behind a bunch of redneck, sunburned, drunken event junkies at the RDS show in 2004 and they spent half Metallicas set singing "whack for ma daddy oh" and "Ole Ole Ole". A pox on the cnuts. They hadn't a clue what 80 -90% of the material was.

You're either missing the point or are on the wind up Paul.

[paul_oshea]

me winding up....never

you must have been right at the back though Lionel, i was at the one the year before.

[Gareth]

i knew the second i posted that some one would think i was comparing them im not , just saying going to a bell x1 gig isnt something id boast about

Not in the habit of boasting about going to gigs, but I have no shame in saying I was at a Bellx1 gig. Each to their own really Anto. Each to their own

[anto1208]

Not in the habit of boasting about going to gigs, but I have no shame in saying I was at a Bellx1 gig. Each to their own really Anto. Each to their own

again i was nt having a go at them allthough i dont rate them , it was just the way it was posted about bragging about being at a bell X 1 gig to there friends .... it just the way it was say made me laugh