Xavier Rudd

Last night I went to a concert at the Paard van Troje in The Hague at the urging of my friend Martin. Martin is always on top of great music and keeps me in the loop so I was happy to oblige.

Anyway last night was Xavier Rudd from Australia. He had an amazing set up with percussion instruments, guitars, didgeridoo (3), and some other noise making things. He also had a drummer on stage with him for about half the show it was pretty great and you could tell from his songs and style he was speaking about a much bigger issues in the world, Martin later told me he was an enviromental activist & Surfer. His quieter songs reminded me of Paul Simon. I was very impressed and will be looking out for him in future.

Anyway I just wanted to put this out there and ask the question to the few hundred Cloggies that attended, 'why do you feel the need to chat and talk all the way through the gig?'
I can think of better uses for paying money for a ticket and to have a musician from the other side of the world come in and you chit chat like he is just the background music for your conversations, and it is bloody annoying! I hate to say it that it was not just this gig but every gig I have ever attended in Holland that I have been in the audience that people feel it is alright to chat their way through the shows. It is rude and shows a complete lack of respect to the artist and musicians on stage. Grrrr!

Anyway if you want to hear more and perhaps missed his songs last night due to the extreme rudeness visit his My Space for some tunes http://www.myspace.com/xavierrudd