Open letter to the guy at the Sigur Rós concert last night who was “whooting” at every quiet moment:
Why? Why do you feel the need to do that? Isn’t this music nice and mellow and surreal? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate for you to quietly listen like everybody else? Isn’t your girlfriend asking you to stop? Pleading with you that you are embarrassing her? Do you hear that “shooshing” noise? That’s directed at you. Everybody in this sold out concert hall is asking you to stop.
Let me explain something to you. The quiet parts in the songs are there for dramatic effect. They are as much a part of the song as the parts where there is a rocking drum beat. They are supposed to make the louder parts that much more cool. Remember that one song, where in the middle, the band quieted down to nothing and paused for a long time before jumping back into the song? That was cool, to be in this group of over a thousand people and be able to hear a pin drop. Well, it would have been cool if you hadn’t screamed out, “whoot!” during that part.
Please don’t come to the next Sigur Rós concert I attend. But, if you can’t stay away as you are probably a big fan of Sigur Rós and your moronic whooting is your way of showing it, save your whoots until the end of the songs when everyone is cheering and clapping. That’s the appropriate time for that, you fucking moron.