Intro
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A recent Kings of Leon show took a nose dive, when pigeons began leaving their droppings all over the stage…including dangerously close to the bass player’s mouth. After just three songs, the band stopped playing and canceled the rest of the show.
OK, pigeon poop is pretty disgusting. But is it really a reason to end a show early? Rockers are supposed to be hardcore. But sometimes, the show just can’t go on. Find out what Mason and Marni think about bands that end their shows early.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Mason: Marni, have you ever been to a show that got kind of called early, like the lead singer had a fit and stormed off or something stopped working?
Marni: I have.
Mason: Have you?
Marni: Yeah, I have seen that before.
Mason: It’s a total bummer, right, I mean…
Marni: It is, because you go there expecting, you know, oh my God, I’m going to have this great, you know, at least an hour and a half. Come on, it’s like your favorite band, all this build up, and then, they just totally crap out on you. They need to carry on.
Mason: So speaking of crapped out, though, I mean the Kings of Leon thing, with this guy, the dude is singing, and he gets poop in his mouth. He gets bird poop.
Marni: The pigeons were pooping on them, yeah, and I understand it came very close to his mouth, probably got in his mouth. I can understand at that point maybe wanting to call it off, you know, but I don’t know. I mean unless it was like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and those things swarmed by him, I think they should man up and go on.
Mason: Well, yeah, let’s break it down. That is gross. Like, you get maybe a 10 minute break. You get to go have a couple drinks. Do a little rinse out. But then you get back on the stage, right?
Marni: And laugh about it. And I think people are gonna think more of you instead of just…you know, you gotta rally. But they didn’t, and I think that says a lot about them.
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Discussion
Mason and Marni have both been to shows that had to end early. They agree that it is a bummer when the musicians have to stop playing for some reason. It’s hard to be disappointed when you go to a concert full of expectations for a fun evening.
At a recent Kings of Leon show, the band members quit after pigeons tormented them for the first three songs. Mason and Marni agree that it’s gross to be pooped on by birds. But they think that the musicians should have manned up and found a way to keep playing.
Do you think Kings of Leon should have kept playing, or was it OK to end their show early? Have you ever quit something before you’d finished it? Why?
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