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Maybe it'd be reasonable if the show actually started at the posted time, rather than first spending multiple hours on horrible-to-mediocre opening acts and bre
by Nullabillity 9y ago
Maybe it'd be reasonable if the show actually started at the posted time, rather than first spending multiple hours on horrible-to-mediocre opening acts and breaks.
If people are openly bored at your shows then it's probably time to reevaluate how you're running things, rather than getting into shouting matches on Twitter.
- ChrisRR 9y agoHe's talking about people recording the gig on their phone, not playing angry birds.
- jonnycomputer 9y agopersonally i don't think Jack cares that its being recorded. he wants an audience.
- Nullabillity 9y agoBut this policy hurts both.
- disantlor 9y agojust show up later? the person you're trying to see was one of those opening acts once
- Nullabillity 9y ago> just show up later? When? The tickets usually don't say "oh yeah, the show scheduled for 20:00 actually starts 22:13".
- monksy 9y agoOr that the opening act starts at 22:40.
- disantlor 9y agoi dont know, an hour, two hours late? what do you expect, push notifications when the headlining band is tuning their instruments? show up an hour or two late and at worst see a little bit more of the opening band or a little less of the main act.
- ascorbic 9y agoAsking the venue usually works. IME a quick tweet on the day will get the stage times.
- ascorbic 9y agoI wasn't being sarcastic. I'm serious. Ask the venue and they'll usually tell you.
- hashkb 9y agoYou go in late. Shows never start at posted times. That's always how it's always worked and always will.
- robotresearcher 9y agoBecause no one buys drinks after the show starts. Small venues survive on drink sales. They want you there for a couple of hours beforehand.
- bluntfang 9y agoit's not some stupid trick to get money. artists just really suck at time management.
- robotresearcher 9y agoIt's a business model, not a stupid trick. And artists show up on time like anyone else, when they need to.
- rollcat 9y ago> Shows never start at posted times. From my observations (lived 100m from a stage bar for a few years), 90% of the shows don't. But then an odd artist shows up and they're too cool to have an opening act and they actually start on time and boom you've missed half the show. :(