Moving seats at concerts...

[MrGongGong]

Sometimes when it's a small audience, the management invites you forward...there's not much you can do about that, however galling it is!

Its a bit bleak to do a gig where all the audience are in the distance, much better to have them where you can see them (to prevent escapees during my piece ).

[teamsaint]

M

Is it?
How is it compared to when you fly business class and find one of the 'plebs' has been upgraded?
Or you find that you have been paying tax for all these years and the chap who runs the big factory over the road pays none and spends most of his time on a tropical island drinking cocktails and splashing in the sea?

Is it also 'galling' when some folks sit in 'expensive' seats for free with comp tickets?

Yes , but they are always perfectly behaved....


Off topic slightly, but the atmosphere in the cheapest seats at the Mayflower when the WNO are performing is terrific.

[Krystal]

Some people seem to have issues with people who can afford stuff. It's good to know the atmosphere is "terrific" in the cheap seats, though. That's comforting.

[teamsaint]

Some people seem to have issues with people who can afford stuff. It's good to know the atmosphere is "terrific" in the cheap seats, though. That's comforting.

what exactly is your point?

is there one, apart from having a go at some unidentified people?

or is this just hand grenade time?

Is it me that has the issues, or is this general, off the peg trolling?

[MrGongGong]

Some people seem to have issues with people who can afford stuff. It's good to know the atmosphere is "terrific" in the cheap seats, though. That's comforting.

I think the issue is more that some folks who pay lots of money for things seem to resent the unwashed sharing in their experience.

[Nick Armstrong]

An allegedly persistent offender has apparently been banned from Vienna State Opera.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31160309

"...Police chased him through the theatre before handcuffing him.

The man - who has not been named and is known in local press as 'the phantom of the opera' - was eventually arrested in the Mahler Room following a chase through the aisles of the opera house. The "phantom"... spent several hours in jail. He is understood to have been banned from all future performances at the opera house."

I can think of a large number of people who need handcuffing in the opera house, jailing and banning, before that chap. A lot of them are 'opera directors' but there are quite a few singers too....

[Krystal]

I think the issue is more that some folks who pay lots of money for things seem to resent the unwashed sharing in their experience.

It's the idea of taking something that doesn't belong to you - i.e. a seat you haven't paid for. It's called theft. That's the issue. No doubt you're also in favour of pirating music and films. Yeah, I can see where this is going.

Get a good job, save up and pay for it like all the rest of us do. Or waste your time in life writing over 11,000 comments on a messageboard and then wonder why you don't have the 'readies' to pay for your seat. Resentment and contempt is a poor substitute, when you think about it.

Of course, if you feel entitled...........

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

general, off the peg trolling?

[Flosshilde]

It's called theft.

What exactly is being stolen?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What exactly is being stolen?

Someone's fragile sense of smug superiority, it seems.

[jean]

...So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee...So the last shall be first, and the first last...

[MrGongGong]

It's the idea of taking something that doesn't belong to you - i.e. a seat you haven't paid for. It's called theft. That's the issue. No doubt you're also in favour of pirating music and films. Yeah, I can see where this is going.

Erm NO it's no the same at all
The musicians (you know the ones who imagine and make the sound) aren't being deprived of anything.

I think the "resentment and contempt" is in your head my friend

If you 'pirate' my music i'll send someone round to 'have a wee word in your shell like'

Someone's fragile sense of smug superiority, it seems.

Quite

[Beef Oven!]

I think that once the gig is about to start, there's nothing wrong with switching to a better seat. No-one is losing out.

The only problem is that it's a tad unfair on those who have paid the premium - the felt-fair thang.

[gurnemanz]

Not quite the same thing, but last night at RFH a bloke was asked to move seats (ie out of the Hall) by stewards for refusing to stop his very effusive and expansive conducting along with Andris Nelsons in Bruckner 3.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not quite the same thing, but last night at RFH a bloke was asked to move seats (ie out of the Hall) by stewards for refusing to stop his very effusive and expansive conducting along with Andris Nelsons in Bruckner 3.