Live gig audiences; stop clapping PLEASE!

[Brandane]

Is it just me who finds this really annoying? I'm not talking about a good cheer and clapping at the end of a song, but WHY do people insist on clapping in time all the way through a song?

Just been listening to Texas live on radio 2 with a live audience. You can hear the audience helpfully clapping all the way through the set. All it does is ruin the music being played. It's bad enough when you hear it on the radio, but if you are part of the audience then it is ten times worse because it is more intrusive. GONNAE NO' DAE THAT!!

 

[laurence]

better than constantly talking and heading back and forth to the bar

 

[Brandane]

better than constantly talking and heading back and forth to the bar

And don't start me on people who insist on filming the whole event with their phone!

 

[tiswas-steve]

Clapping all the way through a song is pants, worse of all is when then is a dramatic pause or a quite moment in a song live and some ars**wipe thinks its a cool thing to scream or cheer . Prime example of this is the track "Roads" on the Portishead live at NYC performance.

 

[tiswas-steve]

And don't start me on people who insist on filming the whole event with their phone!

Why do people do that ???
Don't make sense to me

 

[cosmicbike]

And don't start me on people who insist on filming the whole event with their phone!

Or those who really don't realize how stupid they look doing the same, with their IPad/tablet thingy...

 

[winjim]

Anything that drowns out Texas is fine by me.

 

[vernon]

Try a Richie Blackmore gig, the audience clap in time with every note played for the entire gig.

A large number of the audience also dress up in medieval garb.

It was the worst gig that I've ever attended.

 

[GaryA]

Because they are dumb happy-clappers learned from TV audiences

 

[TVC]

better than constantly talking and heading back and forth to the bar

My particular peeve. Two examples: Roger Waters in Hyde Park. Stupid bint gossiped to her mate through most of it. She could have gone to the pub and saved herself £80. Second, Glenn Tilbrook in an intimate room, one group would not shut updespite being shushed. Now if you want to talk through a live performance of Up the Junction you really should not be at a Tilbrook gig.

 

[Archie_tect]

If I pay to hear and see someone play and sing, that's what I want to do... not have to join in clapping and whooping with lunatics.

Then again I don't suppose Beethoven would've minded people joining in, since he couldn't hear them.

 

[Markymark]

Anything that drowns out Texas is fine by me.

Yeah, I reckon there were some people annoyed of all the Scottish warblerings drowning out the sound of some lovely clapping...

 

[User10119]

I saw this on fb. It made me covet...

 

[Longshot]

[QUOTE 3208942, member: 1314"]I hate being passive at a gig and nodding 'in respect' at 'musicianship'. I have to be part of it. I always head into the mosh-pit for shouting, shoving and cheering, and survive the evening with various degrees of success.
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This. 100%.

Mind you, I guess it depends what gig you're at. I can appreciate that at a Sir Cliff gig it may be different to the type of ones I have always attended.

 

[swee'pea99]

Sitting on the grass at Womad last weekend listening to Samantha Crain - singing solo with an acoustic guitar - and a woman a few yards behind me takes a call on her mobile. Making no effort to keep her voice down, she made the necessary arrangements with her doubtless equally stupid/selfish chum at t'other end, then launched into a full-volume conversation! I was that far from turning round and shouting 'Can you talk it up a bit, love, we can hardly hear you over the farkING SINGING!' But then she rang off.