Drunk Talking at Googie’s

It is now day number 9 of our 28 day, post-every-day-on-the-blog blogathon blogstravaganza from blogistan. The photo: a lovely shot of Pete by our new friend from Denmark, Miss Mary

This week at Googie’s Part two of our continuing saga of our regular Friday night engagement This show was well attended right from the get go. Thank you so much for heeding my call to come early. I can only suggest that again as now I want to make sure you get a seat right in the front. Why do I care about you so much? Let me count the ways.

When you come to a show, you are there to hear the band. You are into into having a good time and you want to be entertained. You bring your friends so they can have a good time. You enjoy sipping beverages and laughing and shrieking when Stefan knocks over the chairs or jumps up into someone’s laugh while wearing a top hat and tails. Blues music makes you want to dance so you dance. All these things and more: You are so wonderful to look at as we sing to you from the stage. You smell fabulous.

Enough pandering. Here’s the reason I’m writing about today: If you don’t sit in the front some drunken sorority girls from the bar downstairs will come up and sit right in front and talk for THE ENTIRE TIME WE’RE ON STAGE. Oh my god, is this frustrating. I’m in a tricky spot because I know that it sucks to be embarrassed and called out from the stage and yet I need to be able to correct the situation. We tried subtle hints but I will need to be direct in the future. This aggression will not stand. This is the last show I will allow to be compromised in this way!

Here’s what I want to say to them: “Ladies, I know you are having a good time and maybe be enjoying the music too. But for the love of God, and for the sake of me and I think for the sake of everyone else here, just please be more discrete. This is a room for listening and you may be disturbing everyone else. Listen, I don’t use a microphone in this room because I don’t need to. It sounds better, it is more immediate, more passionate, and more intimate. You can’t be talking at full volume right in front of my face when I’m singing a song. Talk to us! Holler at us! Laugh at us! Engage us! But don’t distract the attention of everyone to your business. The business is on stage. If you would trust us with your attention for more than 5 seconds, I assure you, you will be enthralled, entertained, and moved. Maybe you don’t know that this is what you are doing but you are making my job much harder. I am here to entertain and you are making it very very difficult.”

I assure you the diatribe in my head is much more vitriolic and contains imaginative uses of what is commonly considered to be foul language.

So, I need your help. How would you handle the situation? What would you do if there was a table of talky drunk girls talking over your performance? Please comment below.

Thanks.