When avant-garde classical weirdos Kronos Quartet play at the Auckland Arts Festival next year I will be there making my voice heard requesting they play Forbidden Fruit for voice, string quartet and turntables. It's a freaky, harrowing 10-minute tune written by mad saxophonist and songwriter John Zorn and is the standout track on the quartet's 1989 album Winter Was Hard.
Okay, so I won't be jeering and making requests, because it's not the done thing at those posh classical gigs. But I will be there, and it's the show that caught my eye in the programme for the festival in March.
I quite like weird stuff, but some people - many in fact - prefer something a little more accessible. And that's the problem with the arts festival programme. Basically, it needs to have a far wider reach and not be so hardcore artsy fartsy.
Yes, arts festivals are where you should be able to see the weird, wonderful, and worthy - which the AAF has well and truly covered, from the spectacular aerial stunts and Latin hip-hop of Urban to the fiery feud between four Maori brothers in new local play Hui.
But to make the festival a more exciting, entertaining and ultimately viable event, it needs to get a wider range of people along and put more bums on seats.