To think you should not loudly eat crisps during Imogen Heap concert?

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DP and I went to see Imogen Heap at the roundhouse last night. She has not played live in years and was fantastic - a really experimental and varied show. She was amazing. She played two long medleys. The first was very quiet - unfortunately I was completely distracted throughout by a teenage boy cheerfully bopping his head and enjoying the music whilst LOUDLY CRUNCHING AND RUSTLING CRISPS!!!! AIBU to think this is vvvvvv unreasonable. He was rustling and rummaging in that bag like he needed to taste every last morsel of crisp. Other than that it was an amazing show but why crunch and rustle throughout a quiet piece of music?

Awful behaviour! Especially at Imogen Heap! Love her hope you still managed to enjoy x

Thank you @Cantgetausername87 she was a real star, one of the best live artists I have ever seen! I think it was filmed so hopefully you can watch too when released x

It's worse than Rolos at Sabrina Carpenter, but better than boiled fish at the LSO

Eating crisps noisily anywhere is very very unreasonable indeed.

So annoying!
I’m finding this sort of thoughtless behaviour more and more these days: group of men standing talking in loud normal voices right in front of me at a small gig recently; people behind me talking loudly and eating at part of show where quiet was essential…

I think they need to have an announcement at the beginning of concerts/gigs/shows reminding people of basic audience etiquette!

@LifeOnTheVeg selfish oafs!!!!!

Yeah I remember watching frou frou years and years ago I'm Brighton- she's incredible x

Yes!!!

Your title would have been perfectly reasonable if you had put a full stop after "crisps" and not written the rest.

Should have been Bombay mix

I have a coworker who eats crisps very noisily at his desk everyday. Everyday I sit hiding behind my desk seething at the noisy eating fantasising about punching him! I’m not usually a violent person but noisy eating anywhere makes me irrationally angry. If I was you I’d have said something to him!

Ooh I had no idea she was playing, v jealous OP even with the irritating crisp-eater.
Last time I "heard" her was watching the Cursed Child and had no idea she had written the music but it was so distinctive.
Also been obsessively watching a one-day-choir vid on Insta where the choir sang Hide and Seek to her - gutted to have missed that opportunity too.

@chillyputsomesockson normally I would definitely say something but I would have had to lean across DP to kick off, and DP was having a smashing time so didn’t want to spoil her enjoyment of the gig 😡😡 she also remonstrates with me when I tell people to not play tik toks aloud on the bus

I'd have lost my shit. My tolerance for inconsiderate people at events is at an all time low and I find I get the red mist I used to get as a very small child and just DO stuff I wouldn't normally dream of doing..

At Crufts one year there was a guy sat behind us, in the press area, though he was not a member of the press (no press card) who wasn't just clapping/cheering when his favoured breed entered the ring/moved.. he was jumping up, rattling the whole block of seats and ROARING super aggressively, like something you'd see at boxing or football, right into the ears of the people (me inc.) in the row in front.

Each time he did it you could see people flinching and cringing... third time round I turned around and yelled at him to sit down and shut the fuck up! He was SO loud that in the TV broadcast recording of the best in show, you can actually hear him roaring and those mics are set up specifically to avoid picking up crowd noise! (Thankfully it didn't pick me up swearing at him).

He did shut up, fortunately, and scuttled off early. The two photographers next to me thanked me as he'd ruined several shots by yelling in their ears.

So I fear I'd have removed crisp boys crisps from him and sat on them or something equally inappropriate.

@WiddlinDiddlin I applaud you! We saw Laurie Anderson at the Barbican a few years ago and heard someone a few stalls back scream ‘I HAVE ASKED YOU BEFORE, STOP FUCKING FILMING YOU ARE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE, I WILL TAKE YOUR FUCKING PHONE!’

The excessive filming ruins gigs for me. Not the odd photograph or even the odd very short video. The people who stand there, device aloft, filming great chunks of the concert.

Why do they do it? What is the fucking point?

You have my sympathy OP. At Imogen Heap of all concerts. People just can’t behave post-Covid.