Rude Audience Members

[Lawrence]

a comment about people talking during a Paul Ubana Jones gig got me on to this

Why (oh why!) are audiences so bloody rude and annoying at concerts. Pretty much every show I go to I have to ask people around me to stop talking during the performances...(of course they are often shouting to be heard over the music )

At the Def leppard concert I was at recently, the 3 people directly in from of us persisted in taking photos of themselves...so we got repeated flashes in OUR eyes).

Every time there is a quiet song, at least 10 bozos shout and whistle during the performance, ruining the moment.

What makes audiences think they can ask the band to change there song list!!

At the CS&N concert, people were calling for Neil Young!!!

at the Chilli Peppers last time, when I complained to the group of noisy 20 somethings behind me the responded "havent you ever been to a concert before"

Please people, SHUT THE F#@% up and lets listen to the music.

while Im at it, why are people so rude and arrive late!!! I think the doors should be closed when the show starts...if your late ....sod off!!!

[Lawrence]

oh yeah and cell phones.....!

btw I meant to put this in the random section sorry!

[Clarky]

There's never any shortage of arseholes.

[rocklander]

carry a glass of water, or water bottle, and accidentally spill it on them so they have to head to the head to dry off...

[Basket Case]

It pisses me off too. Sometimes I wonder if people go to these events just so they can say they went. They obviously have no interest in the music.

Usually at concerts I can block idiots out, but what REALLY grinds my gonads is arse-wipes who go to comedy shows just to heckle. They always have single-digit IQs and have no chance of keeping up with the person everyone paid to see. But still, they carry on, long after most of us would have realised we were making a dick of ourselves and died of embarrassment.

Attention-seeking no-dick fuckwits!

[Crazy Horse]

It pisses me off too. Sometimes I wonder if people go to these events just so they can say they went. They obviously have no interest in the music.

Usually at concerts I can block idiots out, but what REALLY grinds my gonads is arse-wipes who go to comedy shows just to heckle. They always have single-digit IQs and have no chance of keeping up with the person everyone paid to see. But still, they carry on, long after most of us would have realised we were making a dick of ourselves and died of embarrassment.

Attention-seeking no-dick fuckwits!

DUDE! I experienced this exact thing at a comedy show earlier this year, starring (apparently) the 2006(?) Billy T award winner, some young dude. These fucking meatheads came in about 15 minutes into the performance, loudly took their seats (one in particular was really fucking loud and obnoxious, and a bit pissed but not so much that it was an excuse), and then proceeded to try and sort of get in on the joke every time the comedian got a laugh, or, especially, when it was anything involving sex or toilet humour or the like. Just fucking lame. I was furious - this fucking dick was the least funny person in the room but insisted on subjecting us all to his monolgue. Of course he was absolutely huge and muscly, and was used to people not telling him what they thought, and to my shame I wasn't going to risk a punch in the head for telling him he was an unfunny fuckstain. But I was REALLY close - I said loudly after a particularly crass heckle that he should put on his own show, loud enough for him to hear, but not directly to him. I think next time I'll just risk it, since most of the room would have wanted to deck him by the end so anything he put out he'd likely get back x five.

[Some Bozo]

Black Sabbath's solution was to turn up so loud that people couldn't hear themselves talk. And so metal was born \m/

[crushing day]

Billy Connolly is the best at responding to crowd idiots/talkers and late comers.

eg: "when your lights go off, and my lights come on, thats your signal to shut the fuck up!"

[foal30]

people may not go to concerts for the same reasons we do
whether this gives equal accreditation I do not know

but in an increasingly individualized society that people got to a concert for reasons that are non-musical fails to surprise me.

also, we when we build the concert hall, the actual mechanics of acoustics or sound reproduction are somewhat down the list from toilet access, punter numbers and merchandise space.

[Some Bozo]

Sat in front of pair of drunk retards at Kevin Bloody Wilson in wellington. They spent most of the time talking to each other as loud as possible about whatever meaningless bullshit was running through their minds. Eventually I asked them why the bothered buying a ticket if they just wanted to talk to themselves, they could do that at home for free.

[raz]

Billy Connolly is the best at responding to crowd idiots/talkers and late comers.

eg: "when your lights go off, and my lights come on, thats your signal to shut the fuck up!"

Connolly encourages hecklers. He reckons some of his best moments are the merciless heckler putdowns.

[Lawrence]

people may not go to concerts for the same reasons we do
whether this gives equal accreditation I do not know.

No definition of a free society is based on a right to destroy other peoples happiness.

[Jenesis]

It pisses me off too. Sometimes I wonder if people go to these events just so they can say they went. They obviously have no interest in the music.

Usually at concerts I can block idiots out, but what REALLY grinds my gonads is arse-wipes who go to comedy shows just to heckle. They always have single-digit IQs and have no chance of keeping up with the person everyone paid to see. But still, they carry on, long after most of us would have realised we were making a dick of ourselves and died of embarrassment.

Attention-seeking no-dick fuckwits!

DUDE! I experienced this exact thing at a comedy show earlier this year, starring (apparently) the 2006(?) Billy T award winner, some young dude. These fucking meatheads came in about 15 minutes into the performance, loudly took their seats (one in particular was really fucking loud and obnoxious, and a bit pissed but not so much that it was an excuse), and then proceeded to try and sort of get in on the joke every time the comedian got a laugh, or, especially, when it was anything involving sex or toilet humour or the like. Just fucking lame. I was furious - this fucking dick was the least funny person in the room but insisted on subjecting us all to his monolgue. Of course he was absolutely huge and muscly, and was used to people not telling him what they thought, and to my shame I wasn't going to risk a punch in the head for telling him he was an unfunny fuckstain. But I was REALLY close - I said loudly after a particularly crass heckle that he should put on his own show, loud enough for him to hear, but not directly to him. I think next time I'll just risk it, since most of the room would have wanted to deck him by the end so anything he put out he'd likely get back x five.

... and just hope he's not waiting for you in the carpark.

[Capt. Black]

Sat in front of pair of drunk retards at Kevin Bloody Wilson in wellington.

I thought he performed solo....

[Some Bozo]

Sat in front of pair of drunk retards at Kevin Bloody Wilson in wellington.

I thought he performed solo....

Hah. Actually it's quite an acheivement to stand out as a drunk retard in Kevin's audience.