Poll: What are the most annoying people in the audience

I couldn't tag this on to the old thread so I started a new one.

the screamers...who scream whenever the artist curses.
Like so:
"Fuck"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LIKE, OH MY GOD HE'S SO HOT FOR CURSING!"
fneh.
*S*

Loud talkers, people who scream at the band, hecklers, and people who pay money to see a show and then spend the entire time getting drunk and obnoxious.

Amen.
Obnoxious people SUCK.

ok.......after living thru it ar FRFF -last- year and now just finishing philly folk, i MUST say that ani fans are, like THE most dreadful audience.

then again, i think the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, per se, and i feel that their icon is a wack job, seeeeeeeeooooooo......

just my opinion.

Shell! I was at Philly Folk! And I totally agree 10010%. Ani fans are DOOM. I mean, we were sitting near the reserved section and they blocked the stage AND the screen. Ugh.

BTW, voted for Space Invaders (I am a small heckler and a tiny talker, sorry... although Ani deserved heckling, she was totally on something... "We need to do things for the better good!"). I'm sorry, but people who just sit down right on your tarp and don't say anything... especially people who sit between you and the rest of your group? Ugh.

Although, I'd also like to vote for smokers who sit right in front of you and purposely blow smoke back at you after you ask them nicely to stop smoking. Grrrrrrrrr....

you were at philly folk and you never answered my frum aboot if you were goin and for us to meet???

no love for me from the rai..........

*cries*

Hey now.. that's just not fair.
While I agree that ani fans are a bunch of freakin whackjobs.... you can't judge her based on her audience.

She's amazing.

Maybe she's not judging her on her audience...maybe she's judging her on her experience of her performances themselves. Who knows...I'm just saying...her opinion is valid based on her experiences of the artist and she stated it as an opinion. :)

Welll *thbbbbbbbbbbbbt* to you.
:D

Ewwwww. You soiled me!

Oh please, you were soiled before that. ;)

Shhhhh. I'm Good and Pure. Get with the program!

WHOA U AER??!!!?!?! OMG WTF I HAD NO IEDA!1111!!11!!1 LOL IMM SOO SORY!!11 OMG WTF

Loud

obnoxious

drunks

I went to see Paul Simon in Central park, me an three quarters of a million other people. It was the biggest crowd I was ever in. Most of the people were great accept for the one guy right next to me. He wouldn't stop talking. When I asked him to be quiet so I could hear he said, It's a free concert. What the hell did that have to do with anything?

I couldn't even move away easily because it was so crowded. I finally was able to percolate to out of earshot. I was surprised that somebody else didn't slug him.

This is actually about classical concerts.

Recall how annoying it is to have people talk during a folk/rock/whatever concert, when the music is generally loud enough to at least somewhat drown them out. Then apply that to a classical concert/recital/opera, where the audience is expected to be absolutely silent during the music, and the music isn't loud enough to drown out talkers. It drives me nuts when people talk during a concert. And some people seem to think that they can get away with whispering because it's "silent", but it's really not.

Grrr...

...and then the cell phone goes off. Not only that, but the jerk who failed to switch it off, answers. Now, that really distracts from listening to The Art of the Fugue!

Annoying things at classical concerts:

1. People who clap at the end of a movement of a symphony.

2. Cell phones.

3. People who are there just to be seen, who aren't seen again when the 2nd half begins.

4. And this is the REAL funny part. People who, instead of clapping at the end of a performance, start coughing. LOUDLY. So much you hear more coughing than clapping.
Some people have no choice but to do this, I understand that. But I always get the feeling that they're doing it just to make themselves look like good people.

Upside to #3: College students who obtain tickets stubs from those people at intermission so they can enjoy a free 2nd half of the show. Happens all the time at the New York Phil.

don't forget the little old ladies who always pick the quietest part of the piece to start unwrapping their candies.

*cringes*

YESS!!!

When I was performing in a chamber music concert most of those things happened! (we didn't have a cell phone problem in 1994 yet)

I was so nervous. I had to do a solo and someone coughed between one of the movements. I was sick and my professor was so afraid I would go into a coughing fit.

Luckily it happened after the show! *whew*

Speaking of Cell Phones. They are just as annoying in class as at a concert. In the beginning of the semester I hand out a sheet with my contact info and telling how the course is run. The last rule is "Cell Phones must be turned off. Violators will be beheaded."

Before I did that one student not only didn't just leave his phone on, he answered it and started talking in class.

Ooooh, did you get to enforce that last rule? And what is your method of choice? Guillotine? Katana blade? Or just a simple axe? mmmm violence....

I vote spoon.

oO Check out my new weapon... weapon of choice.... Oo

There's a professor at my university who's regarded as a bit quirky. He brings a hammer to each lecture, and calls it the Cellinator. As far as I know, he hasn't had the opportunity to actually use it yet :D

That's awesome!!! :D

I haven't had many problems at classical concerts. The worst and funniest was one someone had a trouble with my friend Lauren.

We were sitting up in balcony for hte Mostly Mozart Festival at AF hall in Lincoln Center. Lauren took her shoes off and the woman next to me said; "Some people find your bare feet offensive."

Later that night we got home we came up with our snappy comebacks.

"You don't like our bare feet how about our lobster claws?"
"Some people do but I'm glad that you don't."

It's a close race between hecklers and loud, bad singers but the edge goes to hecklers. It's just so damned rude to interrupt someone while they're working.

I also hate the people who request tunes while you're playing. Wait until the song's over, for crying out loud. I also hate anyone who requests "In The Mood".

muahahahaa.

that's the first song I'll request at the first of your shows I go to after I return.

muahahahhahaha.

loud bad singers? do we know any of those? hmm.
okay that's a leetle harsh, she's not bad. she's just.. just. yah

I always *knew* you were evil. ;-)

How about people who come late then shout out a request of a song that the band already played?

what about the people who were there the whole time and do that anyway?

Didn't that happen at a Fruvous show once?

Once?

My mother hung me on a door once. Once.

In "Elbow" was disturbed by two men arguing over who was the bigger fan, in "The Mars Volta" had large rucksack in my face and when watching "Blur" had a man singing "parklife" as they performed "white noise" (which is a far superior song).


I sang along in "Blur" but tried to keep my distance from other audience members so as not to annoy them. I am a nice audience member but did talk throuh "Blink 182" and feel very contrite now.

Say three Hail Murrays and you will be absolved.

That's just scary.

No, this is scary:
Our Jian

I wonder if I can find the one I wrote for Mike, It never quite scanned right. Never found a good prayer for Dave.

did you ever finish the prayer? you're missing about half of it.

Wasn't he *Right* of Mike and *Left* of Murray?

stage right of mike and stage left of murray. i think gordon's writing from the audience's perspective, tho.

I was using the audience POV.

have done! Feel miles better! Will never do it again! Ha ha hee hee! Love Murray!

MmmmmmBlur

mmmmElbow

the drunks.

Like the guys who got into a barfight at the last night of the three-night Captain Tractor stand at the Druid. After the guys were escorted out by some of the biggest security guys in the city, Brock took a minute before the song to say, "look, new rule for tonight. If you're going to be an asshole, do it somewhere else."

I was really happy with how professional the band was about it though. They didn't even stop mid-song.

Mmmmmmmm Tractor - I'm so jealous.

If you're interested, I'll scan the set list so you can see what they played

Umm... or you could just, like, type it here.
:D

I'd rather scan it, it's three sets. And I haven't figured out what some of it means.

FRFF mainstage has an annoying pole that blocks the middle performer's view of the audience....

I guess that's an annoying audience pole.

GAH! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun! bad pun!

No, that would be if Frederick Chopin, Ignatz Paderewski, Lech Walesa, or Madame Curie were talking loudly while watching your performance.

Hate. Hatehatehatehate.
Other varieties of obnoxiousness and noisemaking are bad too, of course, but I personally find that people who try to sing along are most likely to get in the way of what I'm at the show to do: hear the performer. Someone talking on a cell phone, etc., usually sounds different enough from the music that you can separate the two. (Depending on how loudly the person is talking and how close they are to you, of course.) But loud, bad singing is much better at just drowning out what you're trying to hear. And, really, good singing isn't much of an improvement. No matter how well the audience sings, I'm still there to hear the performer. Please keep it down unless it's a sing-along.

Exception: Russell shows or other solo shows where a good harmony is missing. I have no problem with people who can carry a tune singing along in this case, and have been known to do so myself. (By the way, if any of you ever see me at such a show and are bothered by that, please say something. To me. When it's not too late to do something about it.)