I traveled to Detroit this past weekend to check out the Swell Season, aka, Glen Hansard (above) and Marketa Irglova from last year's beloved indie musical Once, and I have to say that although the music was in fine form, I was a tad disappointed at the concert overall.
Some yahoos in the front wouldn't shut their yaps during a new song that Marketa sang solo at barely above a whisper. So when Glen -- Marketa's boyfriend, by the way -- came up to the mic next, he chided the talkers in the audience, even inviting them to leave for talking over Marketa's performance. End of story, right? Except that Hansard's comments about the talkers and rude concert-goers in general never ended. It's fine to take the yappers to task in a strongly worded comment or two, but it became too much when he punished the entire audience for the faults of a few, for rest of the night. It was so bad, I didn't think they'd come back out when the crowd cheered for an encore!
Although the offenders were wrong in chatting so incessantly and loudly as to garner the attention of the performers (and likely the annoyance of everyone around them), the last time I checked, a concert isn't exactly a library. But you've been warned, Dallas: When the Swell Season rolls into the Palladium Ballroom on Aug. 29, shut the eff up!
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