HecklesForget the drunk bloke at the back yelling incoherent nonsense. Sometimes a well placed heckle can raise a mediocre act to a brilliant night out.
Tell us your best heckles and, if you are brave, the retorts that put you back in your place like the maggot you are.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Apr 2006, 13:13)
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Godspeed You Black Emperor!Montreal-based post-rock miserablist collective Godspeed You Black Emperor! played a gig at the QM Union at Glasgow Uni a few years ago - 2002, I think it was. It was a sold-out gig, and the hall was mobbed, hot, smoky and sweaty. The band played a set-load of their trademark sombre orchestral cresendoing music (very nice it was too), and went off for a cup of tea and a sit down.
The crowd started calling for an encore and, sure enough, the band came back on stage and started preparing to play again. At this point, someone in the crowd started drunkenly bellowing the spoken-word monologue from the start of "Dead Flag Blues", instantly familiar to GYBE fans:
"The car is on fire!"
"and there's no driver at the wheel!"
"and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides!"
...and just as he drew breath to finish the verse with the ominous...
"and a dark wind blows"
*someone* preempted him with a sneaky
"and it's murder on the dancefloor!"
which got a laugh from the crowd, and I'm sure I saw a couple of members of the band grin, which is probably some kind of first.
No apologies for length, but apologies if the exclamation mark in GYBE's name isn't correctly placed for the era.
(, Fri 7 Apr 2006, 12:50, Reply)
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