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Jeering when support act says its their last song

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? by Milton_Cubicle
i know its cruel, i do, i wouldnt like to be jeered, but come on some of them are just pure shit, can you imagine say 10 000 people wanting you to leave in a very loud fashion? i spose it'll teach them to get better/fade away into crappy forgotten band oblivion
Milton_Cubicle | 06 Feb '05, 13:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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If they put themselves on stage, they should be able to take a bit of abuse. If they're shit, they deserve it.
lanky | 6 Feb '05, 13:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*OR*
you could say to yourself ... im not a fan of this band, so il go do something else while i wait for a band i want to watch
soapy | 6 Feb '05, 13:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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exactly, better to bugger off or just stay quiet through the shit suport set then to abuse them. when they anounce their last song it shouldn't be jeers, it should just be silent *yes's* within your head that they're off after this one
anger_is_a_gift | 6 Feb '05, 14:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It's more annoying when the support band is good but people jeer them.

I went to see Franz Ferdinand with the Kills opening, a load of idiots in nike trainers and topman blazers were jeering for no reason at all.
RockNRollMassacre | 6 Feb '05, 15:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Maybe they liked the pretty lady.
I have gone further that jeering I have to admit after a few pints.
For example, shouting "Don't clap!" or "Try harder!" between songs.
I am suitably ashamed.
John_Brainlove | 6 Feb '05, 15:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Did anybody see Sonic Youth at the Shepherds Bush Empire last year?

The second support act was literally 40 minutes of white noise (don't ask me what the "band" was called). Some guy next to me just completely freaked out and started screaming "GET OF THE STAGE!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!", and I was inclined to agree with him.
Wiggles | 6 Feb '05, 16:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Ahahahahahaha...I think that could have been me at the SY gig. At the very least I was making my views on that band fairly forcefully. I think my high point/nadir in terms of heckling was whilst I was being subjected to Aconite Thrill (fuckinh hell, they're awful) a month or so ago. Confidence buoyed by one too many ales, I was pushed over the edge by the "singer's" request for a 'wall of death' in between songs. As soon as the last word had left his mouth I yelled "CUNT" at the top of my voice across a totally silent venue (OK so it's hardly a subtle dig but fuck it, it was satisfying). To make things better, everyone around me started laughing...in retrospect they were probably laughing at me rather than with me but I was passed caring.
loveless | 6 Feb '05, 17:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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wasn't it some japanese band that contributed to the ridiculous 40 minutes of white noise at the end of SY's set? I missed them, thankfully....

Jober | 7 Feb '05, 12:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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There were two japanese women on stage before SY, but I don't think they had anything to do with that 40 minute rendition of Expressway To Yr Skull. Not that I would know, I left after 20 minutes.

Wiggles | 7 Feb '05, 18:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Some of my favourite heckles came at the last gig I went to the paddingtons and five o'clock heros got the indignity of having futureheads lyrics being chanted at them between songs by two random scottish blokes. Which was rather bizarre for the rest of the audience, god knows what the bands thought.

The first support act got heckled by a couple of music snobs "play wonderwall" was my favourite, the band were a nirvana knock off band really so it was hardly suprising given the bands they were supporting but it wasn't very nice either.
smiggs | 6 Feb '05, 16:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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shout
"PLAY CREEP
CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP"
or, in classic style

"FREEBIRD! FREEBIRD!"
alcxxk | 6 Feb '05, 17:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"BUSTED WANNA BE'S!" is the best jeer i've heard at a gig. However this now a little redundant as busted no longer exist.
really_inspired_username | 6 Feb '05, 17:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the best heckle i ever heard was 'FUCK OFF!!' before planes mistaken for stars had even started playing. hahah.
wishpig | 6 Feb '05, 17:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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That band name makes me wanna do the same. It's the worst band name I've heard for a while. It's bollocks. It doesn't mean anything even though it seems like it should. Planes move fast. Stars move slow. Who the fuck would mistake a plane for a star? Some yokel might mistake one for a UFO or a comet or something at a push. But a star? What a fucking rubbish name. Fuck Off indeed.
John_Brainlove | 6 Feb '05, 17:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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cos their so far away that they dont appear to be moving?
a metaphor for alienation?

cant remember whether i like the band or not.

i got a bit drunk and shouted at tom vek
actually, i think i was shouting at my friends about tom vek
THREE BASSES! THREEEEEEEE BASSES!

and he just said
yeah
we've got three basses
you must be a musician or something.
which wasnt great for me.

my defining heckling moment was at a comedy night when i yelled "KEITH CHEGWIN'S PENIS" at some ginger (and very good) comedian.

noone can come back from taht one.
alcxxk | 6 Feb '05, 17:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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My favourite was LCD soundsystem at ATP. After a 45 minute+ soundcheck his mic broke in the first song and someone shouted "you should have soundchecked for longer" to which even Miserable James Murphy's face cracked into a grin.
John_Brainlove | 6 Feb '05, 17:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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my old housemate gave me and my mate a telling off for laughing loudly in between a support act's songs.
monpot | 6 Feb '05, 19:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I remember Funeral for a Friend supporting Iron Maiden. I also remember various people writing YOU'RE SHITE! on their bellies.
the_patient | 6 Feb '05, 19:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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When I saw The Duke Spirit supporting Razorlight, the fans were booing, getting disgruntled and eventually some male crowd members through well aimed bottles, of course not at Liela Moss. I wonder why?
Patricide | 6 Feb '05, 20:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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best time was seeing some shitty american band supporting Hundred Reasons and being on first, the point when most enter the venue, so moshing, as much as they pleaded for it, was never going to happen.
but yeah, my mate was absoltly brilliant, first some pissed guy infront dropped his jumper whilst 'slmadancing', mkaing my mate pick it up, hurl it at the lead singer and it slapped him, mid verse. genius.
then the prick lead singer goes at the end of the set " we're [shitty band name] and if anyone wants me il be getting PISSED at the bar. but i gota go now, as i need a shit". to which my mate, almost exactly as hes finished the sentece hurled "ID RATHER SHIT ON YOU" over a morgue liek crowd, which erupted it into laughter. best part of the whole gig.
team_cooper | 6 Feb '05, 21:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Play one the drummer knows" at the Mars Volta.

Best heckle ever
Judge_B | 7 Feb '05, 12:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Stars move far faster than planes, it's the perception of movement which is different.
where_is_the_music | 7 Feb '05, 12:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I've been heckled before. I did a gig a few years ago, and hit on the idea of playing the gig wearing beermats on my ears (they were speical promo beermats that had had the middle cut out of them, hence wearable over the ear). And yes, I was drunk. I actually said 'Anyone like my beermats?', to which Jon from mclusky shouted over the bemusement, 'You look like a TWAT!'

Cheers Jon. That's you off my Xmas card list.
grinner | 7 Feb '05, 13:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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this one band once had left a load of promo postcards around the club that had profile shots of all the band members on, so me and my mates carefully tore them up into individual band member segments, and stuck them onto our fingers, which we then waved at the band, who were rubish.
monpot | 7 Feb '05, 18:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Some of the band jeering at the support for RHCPs in manchester last year made RHCPs give the whole crowed a massive lecture on how we were not good enough human beings to have even had an opinion on that band and then continued to do the gig in a shitty a fasion as they could to get back at everyone. Most of which had watch the suport very politely even tho they were shit! I went from loving them to not that very night.
SMgem | 7 Feb '05, 19:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah, the intro sounds similar, at hyde park chicks on speed were given a dire reception by the audience the chili's did swear just once at the crowd for it and then played their hyde park set which didnt fail to impress. meh
anger_is_a_gift | 7 Feb '05, 19:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah they're the ones. I guess they just particularly hated the manchester crowed then! But I've seen them 4 times and the last time was truely dire and depressing. And no fancy pyros could make up for it!
SMgem | 7 Feb '05, 19:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply