When did people stop sitting at gigs?

Whooping, whistling, punching the air, standing on the arm-rests and generally adding our voice to the sound of the crowd this week involves …

… the creepy way Google eavesdrops our conversations

… the cleverly positioned “secret” on McCartney’s new album

… why a knackered piano made Keith Jarrett’s Cologne Concert a success

… Daryl Hannah, Mick McCarthy, Ray Manzarek: people who hated the way they were played in biopics

… Pectoralz? The Rain? Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem? Abandoned band names moratorium

… how movies are still revolve around white-hat heroes and black-hat villains

… “Festival Seating” and the days when suffering was part of the entertainment

… why Zappa thought bands exploited live audiences

… “Jackson Browne In Concert”: when going to gigs was like going to the movies

… plus Blink 182, Big Audio Dynamite and the days when the Marquee had two front rows of plastic seating.

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