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Comment on Ron Sexsmith (and Anna Calvi), Meltdown, Royal Festival Hall by Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:31:23 +0000

Phil, are you saying that your and others’ enjoyment of the music would have been likely to have been impaired if the bass volumes had been modified to not become such a nuisance to myself and quite a few others? (Surely not, you’re referring only to the ‘disruption’ of the show, aren’t you?).

Neither I nor my three friends had any idea where the controlling sound technicians were based and frankly it never crossed my mind to even complain to anyone as these things are a total mystery to me and I just tend to accept them as ‘given’, ie impossible to change. Besides, I’m just not the type to shout out! That’s why I was so surprised when someone (not in my group, btw, and a fair way behind the front few rows) shouted to complain.

But I repeat, I see nothing at all wrong with this and neither would I have if I had been in your situation. After all, it only lasted a very short time, it’s not as if people went on and on about it – not that ‘disruptive’, surely?

So you’re stressing it was a minority interfering with the pleasure and well-being of the majority cuts no ice with me, I’m afraid, in fact it reminds me of the famous statement by De Tocqueville in the 1840′s, about the limitations of democracy: “the tyranny of the majority”!

Anyway, it seems last night’s Leamington gig had no such problems, thankfully – perhaps it’s a question of size of venue, height of hall etc. as we also had sound balance problems at the Barbican. Can you imagine how frustrating this has been, to look forward to such grand occasions, buy the most expensive tickets – and be disappointed to get a sub-standard sound?

Although someone at Ron’s site, a fan who used to run a recording studio and do location shoots, has said today that such issues are par for the course in certain places, due to bass notes being of very long wavelengths.

In which case, I still say, turn the blasted volume down – or at least warn people that they’ll face an impaired experience if they choose to sit in certain areas.

Comment on Ron Sexsmith (and Anna Calvi), Meltdown, Royal Festival Hall by Phil

Phil — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:05:49 +0000

This is a classic ethical dilemma! Should we place a higher premium on the intense feelings of a small number of people (I’m absolutely not doubting that, for you guys, this matter was a real pain), or the more moderate feelings of a greater number?

Your ‘others’ shoes’ point gets right to the heart of it: what I think I object to most strongly about shouting out and thereby disrupting the gig for a larger number of people – albeit not in such a severe way – is that your group (or any group, for that matter) did not (and of course could not, practically) check that you were speaking on behalf of a majority of the rest of the audience. The shouting out was a minority act. And anyway surely the intended outcome could’ve been achieved by walking up to the sound desk and having a quiet word with the technician?

Anyhow, I’m genuinely sorry for you and your friends that your enjoyment of the gig was impaired – I’m just lucky mine wasn’t in the same way. And however much we may disagree on gig-going protocol, sounds like we agree on one thing at least, a love for RS…