Things To Shout Out At Gigs: S/D

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:

"More reverb!"

"Hot pants!"

Destroy:

"More"; "encore!" etc.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no i've got an embarassing one that i bring out to every strange girls gig. Motty: "hi we're the strange girls". me: "funny lookin girls you are!" (they aren't actually girls)

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"YOU SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!"

Ive played gigs where guys with long hair and black t-shirts have shouted out "Know any Hendrix?".

Sadly I didnt and still do not.

― gazza, Friday, 4 October 2002 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I so thought this would have been an Alang thread.

SMOKE ON THE WATER!

"reverb retard"

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"LOUDER!" It's simple and effective, especially if you increase your own volume throughout the performance. The speakers invariably explode and everyone goes home satisfied.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

haha the best one evah was when RickyT told Quickspace to "EMPLOY THE DELAY PEDAL!!" and they did!

― katie (katie), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Just posting that when I got the New Messages Alert!

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"stop now, you're not going to get any better" was one of my faves, I had a spell where I couldn't help being rude to bands (mainly cos they were shite)

My favourite was at Baxendale at new year though

baxendale Ponce: so has anyone made any new year resolutions

me while walking poast stage to toilet: yeah never to watch your shite band again.

― chris (chris), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I love you, Chris.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

In my defence, I must state that I was unusually inebriated at the time, having spent the entire afternoon before the gig at a work leaving do.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 4 October 2002 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I have actually tried hard to make "BETTE DAVIS EYES!" the "FREEBIRD!" of the alt.rock set. I have not succeeded.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"why are you playing for Wales when you could be playing for England"

― chris (chris), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"LINCOLN CATHEDRAL!"

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

the best times are when the band heckles the audience. jeff from the Butterflies of Love got the audience in Newcastle jumping by telling them that the audience in Sunderland were much wilder, heheh. jamie from our band also likes to tell the audience to shhhh during the quiet song, but no-one ever listens.

― katie (katie), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

once someone requested a REM song at a show by a band i was in (dunno why, do we look like a band that would play REM songs, i don't know)...he shouted "Don't go back to Rockville!". so i said, "ok i won't". (rim shot)
sorry i have probably told this "anecdote" here several times.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 4 October 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy all. Search nothing. Get your own band if you want people to pay attention to you ;)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

At Darren Emerson, after he stuck the Kid Kreme remix of Shakedown-At Night through the sampler for about 10 minutes doing the same riff my friend who never goes clubbing really was off his tits and screamed "JUST PLAY THE FUCKING TRACK OR YOU WON'T HAVE TIME FOR BLUE MONDAY".

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Does no one shout "wally" any more? Why did they ever do so anyway?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

At Reading 2001 I was watching a comedian in the Comedy Tent (duh). He had talked a bit about heckling, and his favourite heckle put-down, and had since moved on to another topic, I think it was "porn machines. you know, porn machines...oh what's the word...porn machine porn machines...computers" whens the band came on at the main stage, drowning him out with a big burst of guitar.

He considered this to be "a fuck of a heckle". As mentioned above, he already told us what he likes to say to hecklers, and invited us to join him.

This is why a tentfull of people shouted "Your mum still owes my dog fuck-money" at The Cult.

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Friday, 4 October 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I read that John S. Hall had a pre-King Missile band named "You Suck," and one of their songs was titled "Get the Fuck off the Stage" which I assume were so named to turn heckling into praise.

― Ernest P., Friday, 4 October 2002 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

when the band member yells 'How 'y'all feeling out there?!'

yell back 'INDIFFERENT'

― blueski, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

a friend of mine shouts always the same, no matter the style or the quality of the band on stage: PLAY QUICKER! and PLAY SOME SKA!
as you can imagine, depending on which band is on stage this can be quite surrealistic. and watching him do this at every show can go from unbearable to hilarious, depending on the feedback.

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"freebird!" is classic in the right situation. i shouted it at a bunch of christmas carolers and got big laughs.

the most annoying thing i ever heard at a show was this girl shouting at a mazzy star concert to "TURN UP THE VOCALS!!" when she repeatedly got shushed, she yelled "BUT WE LOVE YOU HOPE AND WE WANT TO HEAR YOU SING" YEH mee too so shut the fuck up beeyotch

― ron (ron), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"More drum rolls!"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Years ago I saw the Leaving Trains (who?) and shouted out "Fox on the Run"! and they played the opening bit. I saw Patti Smith open for Bob Dylan, and was right in the front. I thought it would be clever to yell out a paraphrase of one of her poems; "Hey Patti; have you seen Dylan's dog?" and she said back, directly to me the poem's next line "it got wings, it can fly", which was kinda cool.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Next to me at the Morrissey concert in Dublin, there was an annoying bloke who shouted 'Lucky Lisp' a hundred times in an annoying way then 'Lucky Lithp'a hundred times then later some other songs and it was like he didn't even want to hear these songs he just wanted to annoy Morrissey. Which he did. He also shouted 'I'd love to' a million times until Morrissey said something back then he shouted at his friend 'He doesn't remember'. Everyone hated him but he didn't realise or didn't care.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 4 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

A group of friends went to see some Japanese noise music of some kind, which consisted of three petite girls with laptops creating a cacophony. After about 15 minutes of this, my friend Elisha yelled out while pointing to one of them who appeared to be concentrating quite earnestly "Look, that one's on Napster trying to find a decent song!"

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 4 October 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I always shout "zero".

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

are you on a band called the freed unit?

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 4 October 2002 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew's laptop thing just made me gkkpfff my coffee up my nose

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Friday, 4 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone using the same heckle more than twice per gig should be shot. Anyone who shouts the same heckle at every single band they see play should probably be shot. (The person I'm thinking of should be given a nasty and contagious disease for a week before being shot so all his smug guestlist mates can suffer too. BAH. But anyway, apart from my personal bitterness, people who bleat the same unfunny thing three times between every song and in the middle of half of them are hugely annoying. I would have thought this obvious, but maybe it isn't, since they still exist and are - in that case, at least - unbruised and surrounded by fawning admirers.)

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's gone for "SHOW SOME SKIN!" or "GETCHER YAYAS OUT!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, once at a Fugazi concert a young man and I bonded...when someone yelled out "Freebird" and he and I both laughed. Granted, the heckler should have been taken out and executed for gross unoriginality.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"Play one the bassist knows!"

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 5 October 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

we always used to shout 'bigger than the beatles'
at support bands. we got the entire front 2 rows
at it for sharkboy supporting suede at manchester.

(sorry sharkboy.)

― piscesboy, Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm surprised no one's gone for "SHOW SOME SKIN!" or "GETCHER YAYAS OUT!"

This is why you must attend Terrastock, Dan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i love andrew's story, that's hilarious

― ron (ron), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock out with your cock out!"
"Pass out with your ass out!"
"Shut the fuck up and play!"
and any variety of strange yells like "yeeee"
or "woo wooo w w w wooo"
"aye aye"

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Clueless heckler: "Play some Skynyrd!"
M(ike) Doughty: "I'll take that under advisement."

Later during the show he suggested that audiences start calling out for "Thriller" instead of "Freebird."

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

"aye aye"

yuck.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, it is yuck because i pulled that one out of my ass.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The night I first saw Low some waste of oxygen in the audience kept yelling out "YEE-HAH!" during their set. This person needs to be destroyed in the most excruciatingly painful manner possible.

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Next time I find myself on a stage, I'm gonna make a habit of yelling "FREEBIRD!!!" at the audience, just to see what kind of response I get.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean, was that Patti Smith/Dylan show at that college in Connecticut? I was there! I got lost on the way and missed most of her set, though, drat the luck.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 5 October 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

"Reeling In The Years!"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"8th song on Electr-o-pura .. please?" .. Someone shouted that out twice at a show...

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"More Than A Feeling!"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Next time I find myself on a stage, I'm gonna make a habit of yelling "FREEBIRD!!!" at the audience, just to see what kind of response I get.
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), October 5th, 2002 3:22 PM.

I will do this. I am going to be on a stage tomorrow night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

VEGETABLE FUCKING MAAAAAAAAAAN!

(at a JAMC gig, after reading about how Jim Reid hated that some drunken twat always shouted that at JAMC gigs)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

at a The Locust show here, my friend yelled "Play 30 more!" we all laughed.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"dont call me, ill call you"

"what the fuck"

― kephm, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"DOES ANYONE IN THIS BITCH LIKE FORMALISM?"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of this thread has been devoted to heckling, but what are the best things to shout out to encourage a band that's rockin' its ass off? I'm partial to cheering them on by name, e.g., "ROCK ON, THE LOCUST!!"

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how shouting "REWIND" at a UK Garage DJ at the end of your favorite track will sometimes result in said track being played again immediately.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I meant "BO"!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(this is all second hand anyway)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't usually heckle - I like encouraging a band when "rocking it's ass off" while at the same time downplaying it. Stuff like : THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD! or THAT LAST SONG WAS QUITE NICE! usually catches people off guard.

I saw the Killjoys play once and there was this guy in the crowd who - I don't know if he was trying to be a dick or not - but was yelling stuff like "I LOVE YOUR PURPLE JACKETS AND MATCHING GUITAR STRAPS" & "YOUR HAIR IS NO NICELY STYLED". Weirdness.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Lawrence Welk!"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Take off, you knobs!" (yelled at proto-deathmetallers ISCARIOT, Satyricon, Portland, Oregon, August 1984)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"FAR AWAY!!!!"

(ahem. Pogues reference.)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Burt Reynolds" (Yelled by Paul Westerberg on his SNL appearance, causing the drummer to bust up laughing.)

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're going to yell shit, make it count. Don't yell something stupid every 15 seconds. That annoys the fuck out of me, whether I'm in the audience or playing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

People who constantly yell things every 15 seconds are easier to ignore from the stage. So yeah, it counts more if you save it up and use your shouting once or twice on something good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

At a Fluffy gig, many years ago:

"PLAY HYPERSONIC AND FUCK OFF!"

Also:

"GET 'EM ON FOR GOD'S SAKE"

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've yelled out "More Than A Feeling!" At my share of shows (local bands) and have gotten only two out of about 15 bands to attempt it.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite Fugazi moments, at a Fort Reno show in DC:

Dude in audience: "BANTER!!!"
Ian: "Banter? Banter? What sort of banter would you like sir? Am I bantering enough for you now?"

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Last year when some hobo started yelling out "freebird" to my friends and I when we played an open mic night we responded with a slowcore version acoustic stylee of the outfields "your love". the hobo actually loved it. so did the ladies.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

To the singer for the Legendary Shack Shakers: "We can see your pubes!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I shouted out "Billy Joel has a chip on his shoulder" at a JBC show .. long story, but it made sense & got some laughs at the time.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

there was once this ridiculous punk rock circus act or some such shit that came through and they went on last. well everyone was drunk and they really were ridiculous. like scuzzy "funny" "magic" stunts. no one was in the mood. one thespian rolled out a canvas and onto it poured a bunch of broken glass and tried to create some suspense for the moment he would walk on this glass barefoot. he explained that "some people say this is just 'ice' but it's not it's real glass" etc. well, this guy i was next to watching from above started heckling loudly. he started yelling repeatedly "that's just ice!" and "your ice is melting!" and "take a shit on it!" i was completely baked and it was the funniest shit i'd ever heard. i hope i get to laugh like that again sometime soon. i need it.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I like shouting encouragement, too. Usually the band's name, or the name of the song they just played. Or sometimes "LET'S ROCK!!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Meh" would be effective, but only if the entire audience was otherwise silent between songs, and it was uttered after three or four seconds.

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"You the man, Daddy. You the man, Daddy." yelled repeatedly by a portly fellow in the first row of the Philly Morrissey concert. Classic for causing Moz to look at me with a raised eyebrow and a perplexed "Who is this guy?" face.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine a well-placed "HO-OOOOH!" would be pretty encouraging, unless hollered at, say, Chan Marshall or C-Love. Could lead to a full-on "Hip-Hop Hooray" chant.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Are you made of paint?"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"STOOGES!"

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite Fugazi moments, at a Fort Reno show in DC:
Dude in audience: "BANTER!!!"
Ian: "Banter? Banter? What sort of banter would you like sir? Am I bantering enough for you now?"

that's a pretty dire comeback.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"GO ON SPACEMEN THREE, PLAY AGAIN!!!" is the best on-record heckle ever.

"Tabitha's Island!" heh heh but only the AJSAS will understand that.

The current thing to shout is "TAKE OFF YOUR HAT!!!"

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Play the good song!" is quite always fun.

― ___ (___), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

last night at the m0unt41n 604ts show i yelled out for "ignition (remix)." i don't think john heard me, but some people in the crowd laughed.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

OH SHIT I FORGOT TO YELL FREEBIRD AT THE AUDIENCE LAST NIGHT! I even thought about it while one of the opening acts was playing, but I guess I was too occupied with playing a show once I got up there to remember. Sorry, guys, maybe next time. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Play the good song!"

I was at the Fillmore with a largish crowd of friends, right in front of the stage when Luna were touring 'Days of Our Nights' back in '99. One of my friends, a culinary genius and now a oenologist but apparently somewhat devoid of a musical ear, drunkenly screamed, "Play that new song!" right after Luna had finished playing their cover of 'Season of the Witch'. Dean looked down puzzled and we had to escort my friend to the back 'cause she was laughing so hard at her own idiocy.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"So.... much..... rock.....!"

shouted by gygax! at m83

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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