To want people who go to live music events to listen to the music?

[Imdunfer]

OK, venting here because I really could have done with a nice night out to relieve some stress and didn't get it.

Why do people go to live music shows if they want to talk, not l listen to the musicians?

Out at a small local all-seater theatre watching a band. The volume was up loud, so you had to either speak directly into someone's earhole or shout to be heard. Four women in the row in front were shouting a conversation constantly. Two sets of two people in the row behind were shouting intermittently.

AIBU to want people to STFU while the musicians are performing? And if you think I am, please explain why!

I don't think you are unreasonable at all. I think people have forgotten how to behave in public. I would have told the people in front to be quiet or reported rhem to the staff.

Things that are acceptable to say during a concert.
I am going for a drink
i am going the toilet
love/hate this song

having full blow conversations is not ok. Especially in a sit down event when you are definitely disturbing the people around you.

I absolutely hate it! Had a similar experience last night at a music event. Mannerless idiots!

The staff are all volunteers, I didn't feel that I could ask them. I have told people off before (and got a mouthful for doing it, even had one woman yell at me that her husband was allowed to talk as much as he liked because he'd just lost his mother) but last night I just couldn't take the extra aggro. We left instead.

It's so disrespectful to the musicians, as well as to the people around you who've paid to watch and hear them.

There was a thread last weekend about dancing in seated areas of venues where I got told I was boring for wanting to sit, sing and listen to a band and not spend the entire gig staring at peoples backs & arses @Imdunfer

I think that it's now more that people either don't know how to behave considerately or don't want to.
I saw a band at a local small venue a few weeks ago who are a nationally well known band who were introducing their new album but had it as an acoustic evening. Everyone was seated (and stayed seated) and listened to the music, old and new, while the lead singer talked between songs as he explained the stories behind the lyrics. It was a fabulous evening which was enjoyed by everyone and I didn't have to stare at an arse crack once.

I went to a quite expensive gig recently, the tickets were £140 each, standing. Don’t get me wrong I like a drink as much as the next person, unless the next person keeps pushing past to go to the bar and then back again and gets shit faced missing most of the performance of the person they’ve paid to see.

I tried an O2 all-standing bar-in-the-auditorium venue a couple of years back. Never again!

I had a situation where a man was up and down every 20 minutes either to get a pint or go to the toilet. This meant everyone had to get up to let him out. When I objected in the interval (he was still sat at the bar just before the 2nd half started)l to his wife she told me and everyone around that I was being nasty.

Not unreasonable at all. I love somewhere fairly dull, but we do get good bands, so lots of people go just for a night out if you see what I mean…and talk loudly all through it. It’s fucking irritating.

We always stand at concerts and accept being shoved /squashed!! Dd bought us seated tickets once. Never again. The couple sat in front spent most of it taking staged selfies or kissing. They weren't young uns either.. So wanted to shout get a bloody room!! Very distracting and just grim.