Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker asks fans to stop talking during support acts’ sets

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Big Thief frontwoman Adrianne Lenker has asked fans in a video message to stop talking through their support acts’ sets.The Brooklyn band are currently out on a North American headline tour in support of their fifth studio album, ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’, which came out in February via 4AD.Canadian musician and producer Kara-Lis Coverdale is currently opening for Big Thief at the ongoing concerts, per Stereogum.Earlier this week, Lenker took to Instagram to share a video message in which she outlined her “feelings r.e talking during openers and attention/creating respectful show environment in general”.“Hello, friends.

Hello. This has been on my mind for a few days now. Actually, I should say this has been on my mind for a lot longer than that,” she began.“It’s really come forward in the last few days that: when music is happening in a room, there’s a performer on stage playing and doing their craft, when you enter into that space, try to be mindful of what’s happening and pay attention and don’t talk.“And if you want to talk and greet people and socialise, you can totally do that.

But just when you do it in the room where a performance is going on, other people who are there to listen don’t have any say at all in what’s happening.

And then suddenly the space is loud.”A post shared by adrianne lenker (@adriannelenker)Lenker went on to say that a sense of “real magic” is created in venues when there is silence from the audience: “Sometimes I have this feeling like, ‘If only the room were quiet, this could just be so incredible’.“Like, people are missing so much.