I had to make my own escape from Same. I went with friends, intending to
take on some of that great food---but the all pervasive intensity of high
volume sound made any attempt at conversation (or deliberation about what we
might most enjoy by way of food) simply impossible. We had a glass of wine,
and SMS'd other friends to meet us at some other venue for breakfast!
Somehow organizers may be getting it wrong. Must we be subjected to
continuous 'crescendo' of Pop-style rendition? No chance for at least one
Set with guitar (possibly Fado with Sonia Sirsat), or a few minutes of
flute/tabla?
Or was I just there on the wrong evening? I would judge that a large portion
of the crowd included senior people; pensioners on holiday perhaps; they
were trying hard to enjoy themselves, but I don't think many of them were
succeeding.
At very least, for every twenty minutes of high volume might there be five
or six minutes of quiet; so that people can keep their wits together and
confer about what they want to share by way of eats? Increased sales figures
(for food, and maybe even for wine as well) should be a result. If we had
stayed for food we would surely have ordered for more vino.
