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Why do bands keep audiences waiting? Richard Witts addressed the question recently in Cambridge University's international multi-disciplinary academic journal Popular Music. His study is called I'm Waiting for the Band: Protraction and Provocation at Rock Concerts.

So they did a study to determine why bands take so long to start a concert. What? Was there nothing left to study? No tse-tse fly defecation trials? Lord, help us all.

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