Crowds that sing along at gigs

[sojourner]

me too - a gig is the one place where I'm likely to lose my temper with people

me three - talking, and taking fucking pictures

singing I don't mind - in fact, if it weren't for the crowd, Pogues gigs would have been lyricless cos Shane never remembered the friggin words

 

[MightyAphrodite]

or Mr Brightside (which I did sing along to last night)

me too - a gig is the one place where I'm likely to lose my temper with people

yep ^ that does tend to get annoying, the talkers i mean, but by all means feel free to sing along (if you know the words of course ...)

 

[El Jefe]

as has been side, it depends. It can be moving (rarely) or irritating (mostly). But on the whole i tend to avoid the kind of troglodyte bands made for the whole singalong thing anyway (i'm looking at you, Oasis, you clueless shits)

 

[twistedAM]

But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me

 

[MightyAphrodite]

as has been side, it depends. It can be moving (rarely) or irritating (mostly). But on the whole i tend to avoid the kind of troglodyte bands made for the whole singalong thing anyway (i'm looking at you, Oasis, you clueless shits)

but...but...the last bit...

'sooooooooooo......... Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as she's walking on byyyyyyyyyy
My soullllllllllllllllllllll slides away, but don't look back in anger, don't look back in angerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I heard you sayyyyyyyyyy

At least not todayyyyyyyyyyy.'

*waves lighter*

But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me

you will pay

for your day

on pleasure island sir

 

[Tank Girl]

yep ^ that does tend to get annoying, the talkers i mean, but by all means feel free to sing along (if you know the words of course ...)

I've got no problem with singing and jumping around and all that. it's the talkers and people going back and forwards to the bar and then expecting to get back down the front with four pints in their hands that really fuck me off.

 

[billy_bob]

People who clap along will be first against the wall when I'm made Chief Dictator

Can I be Chief Executioner?

If they can manage to at least do it IN TIME FOR ONCE I'll consider aiming straight for the heart. Otherwise it's intestinal slow punctures all round.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

me too - a gig is the one place where I'm likely to lose my temper with people

I have actually resorted to violence to shut some fuckers up - obviously this followed a very polite request to STFU or die!

 

[Tank Girl]

tbf, I think it might be more that I have problems with underworld's audience, as both times I've seen them I've got very ragey with people.

 

[El Jefe]

tbf, I think it might be more that I have problems with underworld's audience, as both times I've seen them I've got very ragey with people.

sure that's just not because monotonous joyless music itself was pissing you off?

 

[billy_bob]

You don't really know about sing-along trauma till you've been at a Levellers gig* listening to 8,000 identically-dressed folks singing "there's only one way of life - and that's your own" in unison.

*I submit in my defence that this was an anti-racist festival at which they happened to be playing. I didn't pay 'em anything.

 

[foo]

i like singing along with crowds who sing along at gigs. i don't always get the words right, but i still like doing it. it's fun.

sorry if it annoys people (well i'm not really)

 

[Callie]

I went to see the Matthew Herbert Big Band late last year and sung along, I couldn't help myself. When I wasn't singing I was grinning like a loon cos it was brilliant. When they did The Audience everyone got up and sung along and danced - well i say everyone, it just seemed that way, there were probably a few people that didn't.

 

[Lionman]

I dunno, I think clapping/dancing/whopping/hollering is fine as long as it's appropriate. I wouldn't go to see Ulrich Schnauss & get all clappy but I would expect that kind of behaviour at a Geno Washington show. I think it all depends on who you're seeing really.

As for gig chatters... they can fuck right off. I don't get the obsession with filming/(b)logging everything either, I'd rather have the memories than a rubbish 30 second clip that has distorted sound & is too dark to see.

 

[ouchmonkey]

Feckin misers! What about bands that stop and let the crowd sing for them? Do you still get annoyed then?

That's the absolute worst. and it's nearly always anthemic indie rock types. stop it. sing your damn song you twat. you look like bono and that's not good

 

[bluestreak]

Singing along is worst at an Oasis gig with the lowest common denominator point being reached during Wonderwall (I salvaged what was left of my dignity and left...)

You were at an Oasis gig. You had no dignity. You could have stayed at home and fucked your dog on the front lawn and retained more dignity points.

 

[Voley]

Singing along's OK if you're seeing Madness or someone but then you're probably a pissed up squaddie forming a human pyramid and consequently find words a bit troublesome.

 

[Voley]

Karma Police is a good singalong, tbf.

 

[bluestreak]

I've got no problem with singing and jumping around and all that. it's the talkers and people going back and forwards to the bar and then expecting to get back down the front with four pints in their hands that really fuck me off.

ditto.

i mean, for fuck sake, you moron, you're walking into a mosh pit expecting people to move out the way just because you're carrying 4 pints of lukewarm overpriced carling that you've just spilt all over me. thanks fucko.

 

[Tank Girl]

at one of the underworld gigs I shouted "IF YOU WANT A FUCKING PINT, GO TO THE FUCKING PUB" at the person who just happened to be the final straw. then around me men manouevered their gf's out of my way in fear

 

[dodgepot]

i like singing along at some gigs - like a morrissey or girls aloud gig - and not at some other gigs - like, i dunno, joni mitchell or something.

people who stand chatting and drinking their pints expecting you not to bump into them when they are down near the front should be expelled. from life.

 

[Voley]

The Cocteau Twins are a good band to sing along to.

 

[salem]

Singing along is something I'm often guilty of. I'll realise I'm doing it and shut up but be back to my old tricks two verses along It doesn't really annoy me though (as long as it's done at appropriate times).

The phone in the air thing gets on my tits and I really don't get it. You can never make out the band and the sound is terrible quality (usually to an extent that it's impossible to tell what the song or even band is). The only reason I can possibly see for filiming is to prove you were there. I have a friend who insists on doing this at every fucking gig. I think it's some kind of compulsion for collecting that gets her though, she's a bit of a hoarder in general.

The thing that really really (and I mean REALLY) pisses me off is when you get a person/people who are just stand dead still. Everyone else around them is bouncing around and they just stand there. Often with a fucking bag on

 

[twistedAM]

You could have stayed at home and fucked your dog on the front lawn and retained more dignity points.

What? You get dignity points for doing things that Bono does?

 

[dilute micro]

This is the only time I think it's ever been okay.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

it's the talkers and people going back and forwards to the bar and then expecting to get back down the front with four pints in their hands that really fuck me off.

yeah thats fucked

i like singing along with crowds who sing along at gigs. i don't always get the words right, but i still like doing it. it's fun.

sorry if it annoys people (well i'm not really)

i dont really care if ppl remembher the words. its meant to be fun innit, concerts i mean,and if thats fun then thats ace.

 

[twistedAM]

i dont really care if ppl remembher the words. its meant to be fun innit, concerts i mean,and if thats fun then thats ace.

Yeah on "Seconds Before The Accident" you can hear people singing along. If I'd been there (which I should have been if I had, on a rare occasion, been able to get my shit together) I'd have probably been shouting along. In fact I can hear a mate doing that on the album.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Yeah on "Seconds Before The Accident" you can hear people singing along. If I'd been there (which I should have been if I had, on a rare occasion, been able to get my shit together) I'd have probably been shouting along. In fact I can hear a mate doing that on the album.

its part of the atmosphere innit.

ive been to one gig where people were sat in the back KNITTING

 

[twistedAM]

its part of the atmosphere innit.

ive been to one gig where people were sat in the back KNITTING

I saw that a BBQ during SXSW one year. Bloodshot Records bash. Might even have been her out of Handsome Family or some similar kook.

 

[teahead]

The Cocteau Twins are a good band to sing along to.

I'm going to get a kicking for this but, er, I confess this complaint comes out of a Pete Doherty gig. All these peeps Identifying with the guy
Yeah obviously he sings for all our sorrows, but tbh I was really more interested in listening to what he made out of his tunes. I'm not some kind of stuffy muso - yeah there are bands that demand it - but honest, it turned him into some kind of conductor to the troups. Took the edge off things.