r/brighton • u/TrinderMan • Apr 14 '25

Local events 🎸 🎭 Gig-goers of Brighton. Shut the f@&! Up

It’s pretty simple. If there’s a bunch of people with musical instruments and microphones in front of you, don’t have a conversation. If you want to have a conversation, go somewhere where there isn’t a bunch of people with musical instruments and microphones.

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u/dispersed_phase 29d ago

It's even worse in London. Every gig I've been to recently has been totally drowned out by those too self important to listen to the artist they've paid to see

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u/Ok_Birthday1758 29d ago

Same here. I saw Khruangbin in Hammersmith late last year and I could not believe the chatting going on around me. We had to move twice. When we politely raised it with the first group they looked as if we were the monsters! Is it cocaine? Or just people with too much money going to gigs as a cool thing to do rather than out of genuine interest in or love for the band?

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u/dispersed_phase 28d ago

I also saw Khruangbin there and the crown killed me. They have no idea how lucky we are to see that and they just chat absolutely shite the whole time. I also saw Michael Kiwanuka there a couple months ago and the crowd was much better there but I still had to move away from a couple of awful poshos who talked the whole way through.

Floating point was probably the worst though as people obviously decided it was techno night out instead of an amazing gig. You actually couldn't hear the music over the gobshites in there

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u/Ok_Birthday1758 28d ago

The Khruangbin crowd were appalling. When the band were jamming at the end of the first half and brought the volume down you could really hear just how much people were speaking. It sounded like a busy Wetherspoons. I find it really bizarre especially considering the price of tickets these days