incessant talkers

[eyes713]

What is with all the rude people that consistantly run their mouths during shows? Does anyone else have this problem or do I emit some sort of pheromone that attracts people too stupid to realize that there is a band on the stage? A band that I presume they wanted to see live since they paid good money to get in the door in the first place! I for one, DID pay money to see the band. I don't go to the Club when I am not interested in the band that is playing. I also don't go to the Club to hear what my neighboring patrons ate for lunch, what they have to do the following day at work, the latest movie they saw, what kind of funny noise their car is making, etc. I don't care if you are trying to get laid.  Oh and I really don't care about your friend on the other end of the cell connection that is trying to hear the band that they didn't care enough to come see!
 
 Now normally, I can turn around and ask people to keep it down, they'll stop and I (along with everyone around me) can enjoy the show. Once in awhile there will be some drunk idiot that insists on being a bigger ass afterwards. Anyone that was at the MMW show can attest to that because there was a huge ass in the VIP section that night. I encountered a truely top of the line moron at the HIM show though. One that didn't take to kindly to me asking her to be quiet. She insisted that people talk at concerts all the time (here's a clue idiot, they don't talk while the artist is playing) and that I was too old to be at a show anyways. Funny. She then ruined HER evening by yelling at me and throwing drinks on me for the rest of the set. I know her evening was ruined because she surely couldn't hear what they played. Her anger at the nerve of someone over the age of thirty asking her to be quiet overtook her. Poor baby. Guess she will have to travel all the way to Finland to hear HIM now. Hopefully she won't run her mouth at the next one.
 
 So here is my advice to all of you incessant talkers...It is okay to talk between sets. It is even okay to turn to your buddy during a song to talk about how excited you are to be hearing your favorite song. It is okay to talk when the band asks you to. You should remember that the artist would appreciate it just as much as the patrons if you would shut up and listen.
 
 Please just think about the reason everyone is there before you start your conversation. If you listen to the show, you'll probably actually enjoy it!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I cannot for the life of me decide what would be less enjoyable: listening to HIM, or hearing the conversation of fans of a band as shitty as HIM.

[ggw]

I agree that the talkers have become more of a problem lately -- especially at the Black Cat.  I try to glare, but most of the gabbers are either too clueless or too inconsiderate to take notice.
 
 I have noticed that moving away from the bar area can be helpful, as there is a significant correlation between alcohol and blabbermouth.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Who are MMV and HIM?

[brennser]

in general I think they are everywhere - yet another example of the general erosion in manners and respect for others
 
 at the Andrew Bird show last week the chatter was particularly bad regardless of where in the room you stood
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I agree that the talkers have become more of a problem lately -- especially at the Black Cat.  I try to glare, but most of the gabbers are either too clueless or too inconsiderate to take notice.
 
 I have noticed that moving away from the bar area can be helpful, as there is a significant correlation between alcohol and blabbermouth.

[ratioci nation]

I can say it is not a DC thing, the Long Winters apologized for interrupting the many conversations at their show last week.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  Who are MMV?

Medicines for Malaria Venture!! they rock!!

[Bags]

Originally posted by eyes713:
  She then ruined HER evening by yelling at me and throwing drinks on me for the rest of the set.

You should have *really* ruined her evening by having her thrown out.  I'd think throwing drinks at you would have been sufficient cause.

[thirsty moore]

Originally posted by brennser:
  in general I think they are everywhere - yet another example of the general erosion in manners and respect for others

Seriously.  Remember that Beethoven gig we saw?  Standing room only, and the fops and dandies were silent!

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
  Who are MMV and HIM?

I don't know who MMV are, but HIM is a shitty, latently-homoerotic goth band from Finland or someplace like that. They've been around for like 10 years but only have any US popularity/recognition whatsoever because Bam Margera of Jackass likes them.
 
 You can't judge a book by it's cover, but sometimes you can judge a band by it's fans.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Who is Jackass?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by eyes713:
 [QB] there was a huge ass in the VIP section that night.

Heh... it sounds like perhaps this person took "VIP" a little too much to heart!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Oh, and rereading this, it's MMW not MMV.
 
 Medeski, Martin, and Wood?

[yinzer]

i haven't read any scholarly writing on the subject, but i bet there is a strong correlation between the increased use of mobile phones in the U.S. and the ever-increasing level of jibber jabber at a show.  generations of people think it's fine and dandy to prattle on about any old shit they want(usually at an absurdly high volume).
 
 maybe the club should make people endure some nonsense like movie theaters play before a film reminding patrons to shut the hell up and refrain from using their cell phones.

[ggw]

There was this really wasted dude in a Swingin' Utters jacket in front of me last night who held his cell phone up in the air for most of the night.  
 
 Somehow, I got the sense that he wasn't really calling someone else, but that he was trying to record parts of the show on his phone.  Thankfully, he was more "entertainingly" wasted than "annoyingly" wasted.
 
 
 

Originally posted by jdr:
  i haven't read any scholarly writing on the subject, but i bet there is a strong correlation between the increased use of mobile phones in the U.S. and the ever-increasing level of jibber jabber at a show.  generations of people think it's fine and dandy to prattle on about any old shit they want(usually at an absurdly high volume).
 
 maybe the club should make people endure some nonsense like movie theaters play before a film reminding patrons to shut the hell up and refrain from using their cell phones.