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To hate it when people shout/scream/wail during applause?

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veraaloe · 20/03/2018 23:35

I'm not sure if this is me being unjust and picky or is it something that annoys others too.

Why on earth do people feel the need to scream and shout "woooooo" "eyyyy" as loud as they can during an applause. It's so vulgar.

I was at a concert the other night at the RAH and the girl nearby screamed at every ovation; leaving my ears sore.

I've also noticed that there is a common theme amongst those who do so. This must be considered uncouth?

OP posts:
UrsulaPandress · 21/03/2018 07:57

But if you are already clapping at full volume and the star of the show comes on to take a bow, you need to up your appreciation levels.

gabsdot · 21/03/2018 08:01

Sometimes you get carried away. I'll admit to screaming during. Westlife concert once and I was in my 30s.

PanGalaticGargleBlaster · 21/03/2018 08:02

Personally I think people who whoops, clap and applause when their flight lands should be shot at the bottom of the airplane steps.

SomethingNarstyInTheWoodshed · 21/03/2018 08:07

There really is no need. None whatsoever.

It’s like football crowds roaring and wailing for a whole game. Or those terrible Saturday evening singing type programmes. Screaming and shouting and hooting all the way through.

It makes me very uncomfortable.

Clandestino · 21/03/2018 08:33

@PanGalaticGargleBlaster - I wouldn't even give those the courtesy of the airplane steps, the nobility of the gesture would be completely lost to their vulgar peasant brains.
Just open the airplane door and dump them on the runway.

Rumpledfaceskin · 21/03/2018 08:35

How often does one go to concerts? I go about once a decade if that, so it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

ShatnersWig · 21/03/2018 08:37

It's becoming an epidemic. It's all because of things like the X Factor where they are driven into a stupid frenzy and give people huge cheers and applause and stand up mid song simply because the singer changed fucking key! Seriously. People now go to see musicals in theatres are rewarding what are perfectly average performances as if they were watching the greatest actors who ever lived. Decent applause and even "Bravo" is sufficient. Half of them have no idea if what they are watching is any good.

Clandestino · 21/03/2018 08:39

@RowenaDedalus, hope it was a gentle tinkling laugh while your head was tilted to your right.

lucysnowe · 21/03/2018 08:40

Gosh yes I always whoop (at the end) and hate it when the applause finishes eg before a final bow so try and keep it going as long as possible (perhaps annoyingly!). Having been on the other side of applause (performing) I know what it's like to sing your heart out only to be met with dispiriting clapping, and how amazing it is to get a whoop :)

Fekko · 21/03/2018 08:40

I 'hooray' at the Opera. Lots of people do!

Lethaldrizzle · 21/03/2018 08:40

Its a show of exuberant, spontaneous appreciation. I love it when the audience does it and have rarely been to a concert where they don't do it. I hear there are some great box sets on Netflix. You could just stay in and watch them.

ShatnersWig · 21/03/2018 08:42

lucysnowe I work in theatre. That's the nature of the beast. Some audiences will be more responsive than others. Sometimes you're slightly off your game.

MotherOfWurzel · 21/03/2018 08:43

What?

So you expect to go and see a performance by a singer or a rock band, and at the end everyone just claps as though theyre welcoming the key note speaker at a IT Solutions Conference?

sinceyouask · 21/03/2018 08:45

Vulgar? Grin

When I went to my MA graduation, we were graduating alongside the nursing degree course. Their whooping and cheering one another was commented on by the speaker who said it was wonderful and showed just how much passion and joy and mutual support there was in the room. And he was right.

ShatnersWig · 21/03/2018 08:45

Lethal But that's just it, a lot of the time is isn't spontaneous; they watch X Factor and think that behaviour translates to the theatre and you just go mad at the end of every song, regardless of the song or the actual performance. If you've just seen the most phenomenal seven-minute incredible high octane up tempo all singing all dancing number, fair enough. But a tender, quiet love duet doesn't need the same response.

LimonViola · 21/03/2018 08:47

Personally I think people who whoops, clap and applause when their flight lands should be shot at the bottom of the airplane steps.

That happens!? 😂

Exactly, Mother.

It really depends on the show. I don't mind anyone making noise at the appropriate times (during applause) as long as they're quiet during the bits where you're supposed to be listening.

I have been known to give a small whoop during a standing ovation of a piano concerto because I felt so overcome with emotion and wanted to show my appreciation and enthusiasm. Did it hurt anyone? No. This kind of stuffy 'there are invisible rules nobody talks about but everyone looks down on you for breaking' is the sort of elitist crap that makes people mistakenly think art forms like classical or opera are for the middle and above classes only.

MotherOfWurzel · 21/03/2018 08:49

@lucysnowe yanbu! I was once at a concert by a quite well known band in my small city that is not on the concert circuit really. Anyway, the band finished and everyone clapped and cheered but then it started petering out and people started making moves to leave BEFORE THE ENCORE Blush. The band hadn't even played their biggest hit. I felt it my duty to revive the applause lest we got blacklisted and nobody good ever came again Grin

sinceyouask · 21/03/2018 08:50

Oh, and I have yelled and whooped and screamed and generally made a massive appreciative noise at every gig I've ever been to, along with tens of thousands of others. Would I do it at a piano recital, probably not (not least because I don't go to them!) but it's really not out of place at most gigs, is it?

LimonViola · 21/03/2018 08:51

Also I've never seen anyone 'wail', except for in films during a funeral scene.

House4 · 21/03/2018 08:55

Oh dear I’m going to have to really up my game at the next opera I go to and whoop louder now I know it annoys people!
I also love a good clap at the end of a flight ... but only because it embarrasses my OH ... so funny !
Chill out everyone and 👏 👏 whoop whoop at this thread !

LimonViola · 21/03/2018 09:01

House4 I'm at the royal Albert hall for a few nights next week, I'll make sure to make as much noise as possible safe in the knowledge it'll be distasteful to prigs around me 😂

Tringley · 21/03/2018 09:06

I did it recently at a circus. It was their main matinee show and due to weather conditions including some snow there was a tiny audience. Maybe about 10-15% full. I felt awful for the performers so every time they finished a bit and waited for applause, I clapped and whooped and stomped. For the most part applause is a social behaviour where people copy the crowd and half-hearted applause stays half-hearted whereas one person getting enthusiastic seems to gee on others. It was pretty exhausting.

flowerslemonade · 21/03/2018 09:09

I whistle, is that acceptable? Shock

thanksjaneshusbandatcaresouth · 21/03/2018 09:11

Audiences have always roared approval at the end of classical performances.

If you go to Listen Again, OP, you can catch footage of the Du Pre debut Elgar performance. There is a wonderful wonderful sound at the end.

Have a listen and tell me if you dislike that.

Is it more artificial sounds not really conveying emotion that you dislike?

I like to shout “bravo” at primary school concerts :). It is a fun word.

thanksjaneshusbandatcaresouth · 21/03/2018 09:12

“It was pretty exhausting.”

You did good work.