Do fish suffer from exposure to Uriah Heep?

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The vegetarian in me finds this to be a rather cruel experiment.

But having just this week (re)acquired Heep’s Live album, I can’t help but wonder if humans too suffer from exposure to Uriah Heep.

Do fish suffer from exposure to Uriah Heep?

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish researcher is to study fish in an aquarium while a rock group performs nearby, to see if the sound causes any ill-effects or distress.

Bands including aging rockers Uriah Heep will perform on Friday night to about 3,000 fans in a tent just a couple of dozen metres away from the aquarium.

“I will be looking for any abnormal behavior or activity,” said researcher Mikko Erkinaro.

The 500,000-liter tank is home to salmon, trout, pike and perch and other species common in Finland’s brackish coastal waters.

“It could be quite nasty to arrange such an aquarium and a performance venue (so close),” Erkinaro said, “especially when the (band) is a bit old-fashioned.”

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I think the researcher just wants good seats, just a dozen meters back, at a rock concert featuring Uriah Heep. Why else would he go through the trouble of setting up an aquarium at a live concert? It would be much easier to set up concert speakers in a lab and rock out. If he needs people and movement around just advertise a party at the university with beer and dancing.

His next experiment will probably be investigating fish stress at a stripper bar.

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I can hear it now: “Honest Honey, I thought the boys were just going out to look for some Striped Bass, not Stripped A**.”

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Wait, is the tank there anywya, or is he putting it up especially to perform this experiment? Because half a million litres is a pretty serious piece of kit to be carting around.