XPost: alt.music.queen-adreena, uk.local.london 
 From: froyen@gmail.com 
  
 LOL 
  
 Maybe you're right...still think it's mean though when a band is playing for 
 beer and door. 
  
  
 "Peter"  wrote in message 
 news:e6e2e.21761$XH5.21749@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk... 
 > Maybe its a comment on the quality of the music!  Much more civilised than 
 > throwing things! 
 > 
 > P 
 > 
 > 
 > "Vibeke Fr€yen"  wrote in message 
 > news:X%d2e.462034$PH1.453842@amsnews05.chello.com... 
 >> Hey! 
 >> 
 >> Yeah, that pisses me off as well. I usually switch my phone off during 
 >> concerts. I've usually spent a lot of money on getting there, and I don't 
 >> want to be disturbed by a telephone. 
 >> 
 >> Another thing are those girls who stand all the way at the front against 
 >> the podium (or even sitting on it in smaller concerts), with their back 
 >> turned to the stage and screaming at each other to be able to cerry a 
 >> conversation with all those booming speakers around them. 
 >> 
 >> Girls piss me off...and I'm one. Oh well, "only happy when it rains" :) 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> "Dave Newt"  wrote in message 
 >> news:3agkn0F69s90tU1@individual.net... 
 >>> loobyloo wrote: 
 >>>> 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 :) 
 >>> 
 >>> 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 
 >>> middle-aged men in the audience are busy checking what all the young 
 >>> women in the audience are doing! 
 >> 
 >> 
 > 
 > 
  
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