streamofthesky posted... Yeah. The two I went to were in concert/theater halls, and the audience was respectful and quiet during performances, applauding and such at the end of each song.
i guess it depends on what kind of music it is.
Had a chance to see Within Temptation one time, but it was a Wednesday night 2 hours away, and in some sort of mosh pit standing room only type venue w/ some death metal band as the lead-in, and I just said, "nope...not for me." It's a shame, I really do like WT's music. But I could tell I'd have a horrible time at such a concert.
Not even always that. WT are fairly strong on the production values where their concerts are concerned, & I have to say that every gig of theirs I've been to was as you describe for seating arrangements at least - though not with death metal for support acts, they do tend to lean more towards their own subgenre when picking support! Delain were their support act the last time I saw them with one, I think, and I managed to get a ticket for their joint concert with Evanescence in Leeds in April, so there's that. Anyway, I know acoustically that's a very different venue than the last one where I saw them, but even at the standing-room-only venues their sound is pretty damn good, to be frank. Their gigs aren't the sort where the sound is so distorted you can't tell what the lyrics are - in fact, they're very careful to make sure that's *not* the case. I've found Lacuna Coil are much the same way on tour - I've seen them in spaces with a capacity of 200, where I was just ten feet from Cristina on stage, and in spaces with capacity ten times that size, and their sound was amazing in both kinds of space. I've heard & seen festival recordings, too, and they aren't any less talented at managing the sound in that kind of space than in enclosed halls.
Honestly, I think it depends far more on the bands/artists, their sound crews, and the venue acoustics, than it ever does on the genre of their music. I've heard people play beautifully in twenty-person rooms who could barely be heard in 500-capacity spaces, and bands tear up a 2000-capacity space with over-miking who've taken my breath away in dark little low-ceilinged clubs. That's why I don't ever generalise about this stuff.
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