Is this letter in today’s @IrishTimes correct? Are regulations limiting sound levels in venues like @3arenadublin ? https://t.co/Z18tLVlPio pic.twitter.com/MXG0aJ5BMQ
— Hugh Linehan (@hlinehan) January 26, 2017
Judith Goldberger writes:
…Or maybe MBV and their drummer are not popular or too noisy for the IT? Or they didn’t verify the sender….
Oh.
Sound Opinion? (Irish Times Letters)
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i noticed this at U2. I could hear everyone’s conversations around me as if i was just on a busy street. its annoying. thought it was just the stage setup (massive screen splitting the venue in two). it also happened at marley park and the marquee in cork. The prodigy should leave my ears ringing for days but again i could hear the people around me perfectly.
The Point Depot (nobody is paying me to advertise diddly) is designed to get people in and get people out efficiently. They also like to get a few bob at the bar if they can. That’s it. There is no concern for sound quality (never mind volume) and less concern for atmosphere. Obviously neither Black Sabbath nor Neil Young would be aware of this until they got here but I imagine they’re not too happy with being told there are restrictions on loudness. I know people live there, most would have moved in long after the establishment of The Point as a venue (another day’s debate) but short of playing in fields and stadiums, God help us, loud acts should be booked into venues that can take a bit of volume.
3 arena?
Not too far from the Aviva stadium.
Never heard of it. Is it near Lansdowne road?
Are drummers not allowed hold opinions?
They entitled to beat whatever drum they like. This is more fact than opinion. He’s even more entitled to fact.
You sound rather thin-skinned yourself.
Ba dum and indeed tish.
Nice
What do you call a person who hangs around with musicians?
a slut
Robbie Williams
Jim Carroll
His reasoning is pretty sound
Colm’s hearing is probably fckered from Kev’s wall of guitar soundscapes!
Wha’?
How come he begins “A chara”, but doesn’t end with “Is Mise” but “Yours, etc”? Standards are slipping in the Irish Times indeed… Or is the whole thing a wind up?
He missed out on the trip to the ‘ecstatic place’ , but his hearing was the winner.
In tomorrow’s Irish Times: Nick Pell complains that Fascist bands are being silenced by the PC brigade.
I hate people talking at gigs. Shut up and listen. As for gigs being too quiet, go to a decent gig in a decent venue. Also, try 20 years of roaring tinnitus!!!
Agreed… Muppets talking in the Olympia and Vicar street ruining so many gigs…
I was at the Biffy Clyro gig there recently and that was plenty loud. Dare I say it, too loud.
Also (IMO) people who continuously talk at gigs should be banned from all gigs for life. Is it just Ireland that it’s this bad???
banned from all gigs
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
I see what I did there, to their amusement
Biffy Clyro sound like a grunge band from Offaly
Biffo Clara?
I think you could be on to something there.
Some shagger ruined that John Cage gig in the NCH by munching crisps loudly behind me. Should be banned. Along with people taking video with mobile phones and (always one) tablets.
“Irish” Times screwed his name up. It’s Colm Ó Ciosóig. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_%C3%93_C%C3%ADos%C3%B3ig
In the Name of the Fada.
You should write them a letter and see if they print your name as Me Fein.
Well
Years ago I put in an Announcement and to sign it off it had a bitta personality and craic with a ” Sur’ ” in it
And they corrected the whole thing. And charged me a hundred n’fifty yoyos too
D”Examiner did no such thing
For half the money
And t’was the jobbie
Highlighted n’every ting
Indo the same, but poo location and over a ton
this would fix one problem:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/06/28/109259/
The 3 arena is the worst venue I’ve ever been to in terms of sound quality. You may as well be in a tin barn. A tin barn full of arseholes.
Worst indoor maybe.
The RDS outdoor is awful, they may as well be shouting off the Cliffs of Moher
Also : Saw MBV at roskilde in 07/08. The loudest thing I’ve ever experienced, thanks to Mr O’Coisóg. Saw them at the picnic the next year and the nanny state decibel limit ruined it.
There are restrictions on the dB level put in place to prevent hearing damage. And for good reason, I know plenty of people who need to leave the radio or tv on to sleep just to drown out the constant ringing from tinnitus.
Saying your ears should be ringing after a gig is like saying ‘the lighting was great, I couldn’t see properly for days!’.
You ain’t very rock n roll
If you judge a gig purely on how loud it is you’re a bit of a sap.
I said, YOU’RE A BIT OF A SAP.
If you judge a gig on how quiet it is, it shouldn’t be held in the first place.
I know this is gonna sound a little bit crazy but that’s us Leos, wild and impetuous – I’m going to imagine a gig where it’s not too quiet and not too loud, join me won’t you…
You’re one of those AR seholes who talk at gigs?
Ha, as if I’d have anyone to talk to…
Did I really write that? I meant A & R
This stuff has been going on for a while….
Apple iPod too loud for France
http://www.geek.com/apple/apple-ipod-too-loud-for-france-550503/
Went to the Dixie Chicks last year in the point. They smashed the $hit out if it with the sound so unsure why others aren’t.