I've always found this whole ordeal at the end of a concert hugely annoying. Like play another or leave but make up your mind for god's sake. But this post makes it sound fun. Maybe I should give encores another shot.
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I like it. I visit classical concerts more than pop ones, but there it definitely isn't automatic, but a light-hearted "artist's choice" response to a genuinely enthusiastic crowd after the approx. 3rd round of applause. Not a given. My favourite is still when the soloist did a jazz encore and the audience swapped from "no applause even between movements" classical mode to "applaud good solos" jazz mode.
I had a classical encore, a student orchestra doing the star wars theme as an encore. That was pretty epic.
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... and then there are bands that go like "That's all, thanks, bye." and that's really it.
There was a special episode of this comedy show in Germany. And they had planned a song for the encore. And they started playing it while people were about to leave. And there was a part in the song where the audience were supposed to sing along and shout "encore" and nobody shouted anything.
It was really depressing to watch.
sounds like fine German comedy to me
German humour is serious business.
I'm probably a grumpy old man at this point, but I'm so socially worn out after 45 minutes of the same band, my heart sinks when the lights come back up for another song.
If I still did drugs I'd probably sing a different song.
Me too, but then I would be the worn out old dude singing the wrong song at the end of the show.
I don’t exactly miss it, but it is nice to look back on feeling as if I was cool at some point in the past…
I was just at a small, niche concert where the conductor left and returned 5 times. When the rest of the band is still siting there it loses some of the trill.
Years ago, when DS9 was still new, my uncle made a corny joke when they killed off Jadzia Dax: The Trill is Gone.