Concerts

Why the charade? We know you are going to 'encore', why else would the curtain sill be up and houselights still down?. You know you are going to 'encore' too. You have to know since half of your set list is in the 'encore'. Still you insist on walking off-stage and waiting until your hidden applause-0-meter redlines.

Look, buddy, we bought the damn ticket and probably a t-shirt or 2. You shouldn't require anything more from us to hear your entire set, leastwise thunderous applause when you've only played new songs so far and I came to hear the songs I can sing along to.

Because at the end of the day, good troubadour, we aren't cheering because you rocked the house, or changed our lives, we are cheering because if we don't you might not play Istanbul. We aren't begging for more, we're begging for what came for in the first place.