{"id":83150,"date":"2023-09-11T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=83150"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:18:05","slug":"rowetta-hits-out-at-folk-singer-in-very-heated-debate-over-gig-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/lifestyle\/rowetta-hits-out-at-folk-singer-in-very-heated-debate-over-gig-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowetta hits out at folk singer in VERY heated debate over gig rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Happy Mondays star Rowetta slams singer in a heated debate over whether musicians should be able to enforce &#8216;gig rules&#8217; which ban the audience from singing along or talking<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rowetta hit out at Lucy May Walker on Good Morning Britain in a debate today\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0X Factor and Happy Mondays star Rowetta reassures fans after sparking concern with post<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A musician has slammed another artist&#8217;s enforcing of &#8216;gig rules&#8217; &#8211; discouraging singing and talking along during the performance &#8211;\u00a0 claiming that she &#8216;should be a teacher or a prison officer&#8217; instead.<\/p>\n<p>In a heated debate on Good Morning Britain, Rowetta &#8211; best known for her work with the Happy Mondays &#8211; told Lucy May Walker that it&#8217;s not fair to ask paid audiences not to enjoy themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To have a set of rules for a gig when they&#8217;re paying &#8211; I think that&#8217;s really awful, honestly\u00a0 &#8211; you should be a teacher or a prison officer,&#8217; the 90s star told the programme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you don&#8217;t love being on stage with people watching you, stay in your bedroom, sing there and stream it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because you have got a good voice but you obviously haven&#8217;t got the personality&#8230; you haven&#8217;t got that thing where you connect with the audience.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75286619-12503825-In_a_heated_debate_on_Good_Morning_Britain_Rowetta_best_known_fo-a-24_1694425509682.jpg\" height=\"585\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In a heated debate on Good Morning Britain , Rowetta &#8211; best known for her work with the Happy Mondays &#8211; told Lucy May Walker (pictured) that it&#8217;s not fair to ask paid audiences not to enjoy themselves<\/p>\n<p>Folk pop performer Lucy, who is currently on tour, recently shared a set of &#8216;guidelines&#8217; for enjoying her show.<\/p>\n<p>In a poster shared on X &#8211; formerly known as Twitter &#8211;\u00a0the singer explained that &#8216;the audience can either make or break a show&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just one person can ruin it for everybody else,&#8217; she added. &#8216;Here are some guidelines for you to follow (so that person isn&#8217;t you!).&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions include keeping quiet until intervals, not using flash when taking photos, &#8216;reading the room&#8217; before singing along, and trying to wait until the end of a tune before leaving the room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For this tour that I&#8217;m on right now it&#8217;s acoustic, solo acoustic,&#8217; she told Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m playing tiny rooms from 30 to 60 capacity &#8211; and I&#8217;m a folk-pop singer songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve done a little set of rules&#8230; for this tour in particular and I don&#8217;t think these rules should be for every single gig, of course these rules can&#8217;t be for arenas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But for my kind of genre of music, I think people should listen to the music &#8211; that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re there, no?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288397-12503825-Suggestions_include_keeping_quiet_until_intervals_not_using_flas-a-26_1694425525761.jpg\" height=\"840\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Suggestions include keeping quiet until intervals, not using flash when taking photos, &#8216;reading the room&#8217; before singing along and trying to wait until the end of a tune before leaving the room<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/11\/75286619-12503825-Speaking_on_the_show_Rowetta_57_pictured_pointed_out_that_not_al-a-42_1694429878053.jpg\" height=\"571\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the show Rowetta, 57, (pictured) pointed out that not all crowds are able to control their noise levels<\/p>\n<p>Lucy added that there are some songs which are particularly emotional, that she doesn&#8217;t believe should be interrupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said:\u00a0&#8216;Imagine if I&#8217;m singing a song about baby loss and there&#8217;s someone chatting through it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t think anyone in their right mind can say &#8220;oh well they&#8217;re allowed to have fun&#8221;&#8230; If you&#8217;re there to socialise with your friends then why not go to the pub?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rowetta, 57, pointed out that not all crowds are able to control their noise levels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I sing at funerals, I sing for people with learning disabilities, people with Tourette&#8217;s, children &#8211; they talk,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re disruptive, they don&#8217;t always listen&#8230; but they&#8217;re loving the night, they&#8217;re loving my voice and they&#8217;re loving the connection we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;How can you charge fans and then tell them to shut up? You&#8217;re\u00a0singing for yourself, you should be singing to the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re in the wrong game if you don&#8217;t like people talking and enjoying themselves.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75289007-12503825-The_Reach_Out_hitmaker_went_as_far_as_to_say_that_Lucy_won_t_be_-m-47_1694426129509.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Reach Out hitmaker went as far as to say that Lucy won&#8217;t be performing live for as long as she has &#8211; 40 years &#8211; due to her attitude. Rowetta pictured with Shaun Ryder in 1990<\/p>\n<p>The Reach Out hitmaker went as far as to say that Lucy won&#8217;t be performing live for as long as she has &#8211; 40 years &#8211; due to her attitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve done working men&#8217;s clubs where it&#8217;s racist graffiti,&#8217; she recalled. &#8216;When I walk in, I&#8217;m terrified &#8211; and it&#8217;s a real big challenge, you want them to love you and you hope so but you cant just trust in it,\u00a0 but I do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With racist graffiti and an audience that don&#8217;t know me, I&#8217;ve walked in and then when you start to sing and they go &#8220;ooh&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But Lucy was adamant that &#8216;just because you&#8217;ve bought a ticket to see a show doesn&#8217;t mean you can act however you want&#8217;, adding that she ended up writing her guidelines after being tired of calling people out on stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why buy tickets to talk through the whole set,&#8217; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers on X &#8211; formerly known as Twitter &#8211; had mixed reactions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288073-12503825-image-a-27_1694425536906.jpg\" height=\"122\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288069-12503825-image-a-28_1694425549105.jpg\" height=\"138\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288069-12503825-image-a-30_1694425583610.jpg\" height=\"99\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288069-12503825-image-a-36_1694425682827.jpg\" height=\"113\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/11\/10\/75288071-12503825-xxxxx-a-31_1694425618430.jpg\" height=\"117\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Viewers on X &#8211; formerly known as Twitter &#8211; had mixed reactions. While many agreed with Rowetta, they felt she needed to &#8216;calm down&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While many agreed with Rowetta, they felt she needed to &#8216;calm down&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Blimey, I wasn&#8217;t expecting that!&#8217; one person wrote. &#8216;I thought [Lucy] handled it really well and Rowetta came across as rude&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I get Rowetta&#8217;s point but at least give Lucy a chance to speak,&#8217; another added. &#8216;Shouting over her did you no favours.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What is the point of a debate if Rowetta will not let Lucy speak? &#8216; one questioned. &#8216;It&#8217;s an intimate venue big difference to Glastonbury so there should be a little etiquette in that situation.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rowetta first rose to prominence in the 90s with the Happy Mondays, before having a second rush at fame when she appeared on the X Factor.<\/p>\n<p>The star was branded &#8216;amazing but barking bloody mad&#8217; by Simon Cowell, before finishing the competition in fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>Rowetta, who still performs with the Happy Mondays, toured with them in 2015 to mark the 25th anniversary of the album Pills &#8216;n&#8217; Thrills and Bellyaches.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12503825\/Happy-Mondays-star-Rowetta-slams-singer-heated-debate-musicians-able-enforce-gig-rules-ban-audience-singing-talking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Mondays star Rowetta slams singer in a heated debate over whether musicians should be able to enforce &#8216;gig rules&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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