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Scalare wrote:
Nah, I'll just have them stay at home then, coz I don't feel like having to babysit them because else the 'hardcore fans' get irritated.
Maybe that's a good idea... Or just stand as far away from the stage as possible so your friends won't have to shout so hard when talking about their week's work (or whatever...)
I think there is a clear distinction between people who make comments every now and then and others who are discussing why they have to buy a new car and what it should be (or some similar silly thing...).
Well, that's not people like friends who are interested in the gathering, that's just people who are at the venue where the gathering happens to play
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Why do you even want to have a complete conversation if you have to shout from the top of your lungs? Isn't the music just an annoying factor in that case? So why do you come to the gig if not for the music?
When you are at the movies, you keep your mouth shut too, don't you? So why not at a concert? I don't see much diffirence between the two
Well, I think you should realize that the most important reason why people go to concerts is to have fun
Scalare wrote:
Anyway, perhaps it's not a good idea for TG to keep playing at these small venues all the times, because they'll always attract a lot of the local folk who often come with friends, and who are just interested in the music, not neccesarily fans, and who indeed as you say can't keep quiet all the time
. If you discount the fact that you can choose your venues more carefully, there's really nothing you can do about changing the dutchman...
That is true. A tour of small places and in weekends only, you get a lot of the locals that go to that place every weekend and it just happens there's a band playing that night. They don't care about the music, they just want to get drunk so they shout through the whole gig and with every beer their voice gets louder
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Yup, you'll always get those people
And the local venues ofcourse don't do anything about that because they know the people in question, they are there every week, and hey, for some bands it's fitting to have drunk people shout on the top of their lungs
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I'd rather have other venues too, where this 'problem' wouldn't happen. On the other hand, by touring these venues, it makes The Gathering more accessible to people who don't know them and thus get a larger fan base... And that is also a big part of touring of course
We just have to live with it unfortunatly...
Yup, that's really true. But well, I'd hate it if the gathering only played at venues like paradiso, but really that's I think where you should go if you want to go to a TG concert as a really hardcore fan and if you're very annoyed by local people blabbering while TG plays
Scalare wrote:
I think don quijote had a thing or two to say about that
Of course this is a pointless conversation, especially on the forum since only the 'real' fans come here and they do shut up.
But I know the band finds it very annoying too when people just babble through the more quiet parts and you hear more people talking then singing so we can ventilate our frustration about it too, I think
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Whehe yeah I know that is the case, though the gathering is the only band I know that values peace and quiet so much at their concerts
. Heck, bands like BZB or WC experience don't consider thheir concerts a success unless everybody is drunk, yelling and throwing glasses of beer at eachother
. Besides all that, no hint is as solid to a drunk local as a hint in his own language. So next time, Anneke, please dig deep into your roots and yell "Euj stelletje vèrkenskoppe! Kunde gullie nou eindelijk es oewe bek houwe? Mooi!"