Wyatting

[Dubversion]

.. I have done this, i just didn't know there was a name for it

Anyone else want to fess up?

 

[foo]

'wyatting, which is either a fearless act of situationist cultural warfare or a nauseatingly snobbish prank, depending on who you ask'

 

[Dubversion]

i think it can be a 'prank' without being snobbish. For example, i'd be as likely to do it if i found a 20-minute grindcore track on a jukebox. Or even MORE likely.. so it's not about playing 'better' music. Just annoying music

 

[bluestreak]

heh, guilty here too.

but as anyone whose been to one of my dj nights will attest, i do it to myself as well.

 

[art of fact]

i indulged in a bit of enya followed by hand throw by venetian snares at my local scream pub the other day

snobbish is putting on Madness to be ironic

 

[William of Walworth]

snobbish is putting on Madness to be ironic

Why would anyone do that for that particular reason?

Madness must be about the most uncontentious choice of pub jukebox tune you can think of -- widely liked by all sorts. I don't know anyone who actively hates them**, and I can't think of people who'd only like them 'ironically' either.


**OK over familiarity/over playing might get a tad annoying ...

Far better candidates around for a Wyatting attack than them I'd have thought, with much more confusion/annoyance potential!

 

[Negativland]

I think the Brian Eno example is more interesting than playing something in-your-face and skronky because people seem to be most disturbed by its abscence and lack of agression, the gaps it leaves which are usually filled up with noise.

 

[Belushi]

Next time Im in a pub with one of those jukeboxes an entire Manowar album is going on

 

[Roadkill]

I don't know anyone who actively hates them**

You do.

Me

 

[Spandex]

Anyone else want to fess up?

***Hangs head in shame at putting Injected with a Poison by Pragga Khan on repeat for half an hour at a pub in Sidcup in 1993***

[evil chuckle]

 

[William of Walworth]

You do.

Me

OK, but I can think of far more widely unpopular bands than Madness ... which ws my point ...

 

[Divisive Cotton]

A Wyatting? How about some Can!

 

[art of fact]

Why would anyone do that for that particular reason?

Madness must be about the most uncontentious choice of pub jukebox tune you can think of -- widely liked by all sorts. I don't know anyone who actively hates them**, and I can't think of people who'd only like them 'ironically' either.


**OK over familiarity/over playing might get a tad annoying ...

Far better candidates around for a Wyatting attack than them I'd have thought, with much more confusion/annoyance potential!

ah its just a little joke its not about disliking madness its just the fact that every jukebox has madness on it pretty much and madness used to get played out at least 3 times at my old local on friday night... madness are surely the most jukebox played band of the last 25 years?

 

[killer b]

there's a 'best of punk' album in the jukebox of a pub near here... throbbing gristle's zyclon b gets at least 3 airings whenever i go in.

 

[northernhord]

I aint done it yet but I'm gonna, looks like much wicked fun can be had

 

[souljacker]

There's a greebo pub in Reading called the Rising Sun that for some bizarre reason has a Celine Dion album on its jukebox, hidden in with all your linkin park and marilyn manson nonsense.

I consider it a well spent few quid putting that album on everytime I go in there.

 

[Dj TAB]

Sounds like ace fun......with the advantage of creating more drinking space for you and your mates!

 

[editor]

In our local in Cardiff, the owner had put in a jukebox full of shiny pop-tastic shite and the only remotely punky thing we could find was Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner.

So that's all we played. All night, every night in the hope that he'd get the hint and install some decent tunes.

It backfired though as he ended up removing the entire jukebox after his bar staff were slowly driven mad.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7....

 

[gnoriac]

I remember some geezer in Alderley Edge (in the days before it became infested with Man U players) telling me how he'd got banned from one of the pubs there for playing the Captain Beaky single non-stop. Does that count as Wyatting?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

about 10 years ago some mates in stroud all worked in a pub together...they used to open the dukebox and we'd replace some of the CDs in there with our own...mostly 70 minute hard techno mixes etc...and play them all night

 

[William of Walworth]

In our local in Cardiff, the owner had put in a jukebox full of shiny pop-tastic shite and the only remotely punky thing we could find was Jonathan Richman's Roadrunner.

So that's all we played. All night, every night in the hope that he'd get the hint and install some decent tunes.

It backfired though as he ended up removing the entire jukebox after his bar staff were slowly driven mad.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7....

 

[oryx]

Me and some mates hit on the idea of putting on Leonard Cohen's 'One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong' on while a party was in full swing. This was about 1979. We never actually did it. This makes us a) sad bastards b) old sad bastards c) pre-Wyatters who got there first.

 

[flangelina]

Perhaps not quite the same thing, but there was one night when my mate was having a house party. He'd had a couple of tablets and we were well past dawn by this point. The DJ was long gone but my mate and a few of his friends were still dancing in the living room to a CD. Me and another friend agreed that they were all so fucked they would dance to absolutely anything. So we chucked out whatever dance mix CD there was in the machine, and whacked on ... Chas and Dave! To see people off their faces, shakin' their thang to Rabbit was fucking hilarious!