to have had a word with this concert go-er?

[RingleaderOfTheTormentors]

I treated myself, Dad and sister to tickets to see an amazing blues/gospel guitarist and songwriter at an intimate acoustic gig in a small-ish venue.

Tickets and car parking came to £102.50

All through the show, sitting in the seat directly behind me was a VERY loud, very ignorant person who whooped and yelled and called out THROUGHOUT the show.

Let me just remind you: an intimate, ACOUSTIC one-man show. Costing over £100.

I have no problem with people showing appreciation at the beginning/end of songs, but this woman shouted out throughout the songs, kept shouting that she'd "seen him in London last night YEAH! WOO!"

One of the songs he did was Donovan's "halleluiah", which she sang along to. VERY LOUDLY. And very BADLY! Right. In. My. Ear.

She whooped and screamed throughout the show, and my blood began to boil that I could not hear the artist over this loudmouth behind me! Over £100 on tickets and I could hardly hear! I couldn't figure out why no-one was saying anything to her, as she really was VERY annoying.

The artist began a well-known, well-loved song, and people began to clap along. She was clapping too. Out of time! SO out of time that the artist stopped playing and laughed "wow, you got your own rhythm going on there" she just laughed and whooped some more, totally oblivious as to it being her he was addressing, saying she was putting him off.

So, WIBU to explain to her that she was putting him off? And speak to her again later when she started head banging (acoustic gig, remember?) and flicking me with her hair?

I've got de ja vu, have you asked this before?

Did she ANNOY you OP? lol. Shame on you for attributing hallelujah to Donovan. It's a Leonard Cohen song most famously covered by Jeff Buckley. Aside from that, I feel your pain. Annoying concert goers should be taken out and shot.

No, not here I haven't.
Wonder if someone from the London gig posted then, I did wonder how she'd got through two gigs alive TBH! :)

Shit, yeah, I KNEW it was Cohen!
Myfirst boyf when I was 14 made me listen to Donovan and Cohen, I gets them mixed up sometimes! :)

What did you say to her? How did she respond?

I do feel your pain. NU to have a quick word IMO.

How much were the tickets again?

Snort. I think they were £100.

Just joking OP, I've had similar experiences and a "quiet word" was the last thing on my mind. A big plank of wood with rusty nails in it, set about the head and shoulders was the first thing that came into MY mind. You were probably remarkably restrained.

I'd have lured her away at the interval and locked her in a cupboard.

HATE people like this!

How do you measure ignorance?

By the noise they make?

The first time I told her she was disturbing people. She said (loudly) "I don't care, I'm enjoying myself" I told her she was stopping other people enjoying THEMSELVES. She said "fuck you".

It's really hard to shame someone into shutting the fuck up though

Also she was just annoying and not actually having a shit

I'd have moved, you can't cure twats

The second time, as I turned around and noticed her swishing her hair all over my back, I realised she wouldn't be able to see that I wanted a quiet word, and I didn't want to disturb anyone else in the theatre, so I gently caught a handful of her hair, and used it to pull her ear down close to my mouth so I wouldn't have to yell and cause more annoyance for others. I asked her if she'd like me to throw her over the fucking balcony, told her she was a fucking DICK, and that she's better not try me again.
It seemed to do the trick.
Plus I got loads of "thankyou" nods and smiles from everyone on the way out.

I'm not the OP but I posted a similar AIBU about two weeks ago after the Eagles concert, maybe that's why it sounds familiar. Regrettably OP, you are neither BU nor are you alone - we live in a world full of rude, ignorant people Well, maybe not full but there are a lot of them or maybe they just follow me around. If moving is an option it's worth doing but often in a seated venue there isn't anywhere to move to. I'm still disappointed about the spoiled Eagles concert and have decided if I get the same when I go to see Dolly next week, THAT'S IT!!! No more big venues for me, it's not worth the money or the stress, let them have the whole place to themselves and I'll stay at home with a CD and glass of wine

It's kind of a risk you take, when going to gigs. Unless you have enough cash for a private gig, maybe stay at home with your CD player.
Sorry you had your night ruined.

I went to the ballet a couple of years ago and a family had hired a box - 2 parents and two very bored children. All the way through it was

queen it wasn't the eagles :)

It was somebody really GOOD! :D

YANBU.

whoever you saw was very unreasonable playing Hallelujah unless it was actually Leonard Cohen.

The world does not need another cover of Hallelujah.

I can relate to your annoyance so much OP.Last hear DD and I went to London to see a West End show we had long wanted to see.So rail tickets from the North plus best seats in the theatre.Not a cheap day out,but a real treat for us.It was almost completely ruined by a woman sat next to my DD who was with a large group who obviously loved this show so much they had been several times from the conversation we overheard as the show started.
This woman then proceeded to sing along to every single song,and clap and cheer.It is a lively ,feel good show but nevertheless we paid to see and hear the fantastic cast.She was out of tune and oblivious to the glares and shuffling people in front and behind.I'm normally forthright so can't believe in the interval I didn't ask her to keep quiet.Or ask the theatre staff if they could have a weird with her.So rude.
At a Beautiful South gig a couple of women yattered on throughout.Even through a great Paul Heaton acappella solo.Wanted to thump them.If they wanted to catch up on gossip they should have gone to the pub.

Did the venue have an usher or a manager you could have spoken with?

People are arseholes. Sad but true.

When I was a quite naiive and unwordly teenager I went to see the Rocky Horror Show in a theatre (ie not the film). I had not seen the film.

I was horrified by the party next to me screaming out random shit throughout the show and, I thought, being disrespectful to the actors.

Thank fuck I didn't say anything.

Unworldly. Probably unwordy as well though.

I'm annoyed I waited an hour and 40 minutes before I lost it enough to actually get her to stfu (and another guy FINALLY said something after I'd had my 2nd word, saying "you've just got to quieten down a bit, love")
Wish I'd told her from the start and not seethed for mst of the show!

I'll probably go completely OTT next time someone moves my trolley an inch in sainsburys to get to the pot noodles annoys me.

LauraChant Oh that reminds me of the big all night toga party that took place in our Student Union after finals. One of the entertainments was a screening of Rocky Horror Show which I had never seen and didn't know much about. I was struggling to follow the plot because I could barely hear due to the number of people joining in and shouting out the responses. However, I wasn't the only one confused and the audience seemed to be fairly evenly divided between those fans who knew all the responses and those of us who didn't know what the heck was going on and getting annoyed at the heckling. It started to get quite nasty! A friend put me right the next day.