XPost: alt.music.queen-adreena, uk.local.london 
 From: any.trace.of.rudeness.loobyloo@loobynet.com 
  
 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:39:31 -0000, John Rowland wrote: 
  
 > I was at a Queen Adreena gig last night, and I noticed a girl stood near me 
 > had her face glowing in the dark because she was checking her text messages 
 > halfway through a song. I looked around and there was another girl doing 
 > this on the other side of me. It happened repeatedly through the gig, all 
 > girls, I think nearly every girl in the audience checked her text messages 
 > during some song or other. How rude is that! Imagine being a singer putting 
 > your heart and soul into a performance, and every time you look up, several 
 > of the girls in the audience have glowing faces because they are checking 
 > their text messages. 
  
  
 Same thing happened when I went to see Bill Bryson in Edinburgh last year. 
 Dotted around the auditorium, all the way through his act, were the bright 
 lights of mobile phone screens.  I find it absolutely inexplicable that 
 someone should find texting more important than the gig you've paid to see. 
 I even find people using mobile phones down the pub a bit rude, as if your 
 conversation is never as important as a phone call that's going to come in. 
  
 Anyway, glad to see you picked a gig with the right ratio of girls to 
 middleaged men :) 
  
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