There's not really ever a day that goes by in the music industry when a story doesn't crop up that makes you smile, laugh, take a second look – or all three. While normally the story in question has something to with Kanye West singing on a plane or Lady Gaga transforming herself into a smoking mermaid (in hindsight, that's now expected), today's (September 21), came courtesy of an independent music shop in Dublin.

Opus ii has banned customers from playing Adele's 'Someone Like You' because, well, they've had enough of it. “Strictly NO Adele”, reads a sign on the shop window, presumably designed to stop wannabe musicians from tinkering the shop's ivories, as opposed to an outright ban on the singer herself.

Let's face it, no one likes to see amateur musicians with stars in their eyes murdering well-known songs, regardless of where it takes place in a music shop or not. But Opus ii's ban wouldn't have even come into place if it wasn't for the fact 'Someone Like You' has now earned the kind of public ubiquity only an internationally-acclaimed chart-topping single can. The type of ubiquity that means even your Grandma would probably try and bash it out if you put an old Casio in front of her.

From your local supermarket to your doctors, Adele's music is everywhere now, whether you like it or not, and while that's no bad thing, there does come a point when even the most die-hard Adele fan might be shopping in Tesco, hear 'Rolling In The Deep' and slam their 2-4-1 meal deal into the nearest person's face.

Adele performing 'Someone Like You'

We've all been there, haven't we? We've all heard that song we love – or hate – too many times in public and found ourselves dangerously close to doing something we might regret.

For me that moment came a few months ago on holiday in Italy. Picture the scene: a lovely outdoor restaurant (actually it was more like the owner's garden), a humid night, good food and wine, and Lady Gaga. Sadly the latter addition to the evening came uninvited courtesy of a wide-screen TV located not too far from my table that the owner decided to switch on halfway through dinner. While I've been a fan of Lady Gaga since she first arrived a few years ago, there are moments when it's good not being subjected to her current single at the time 'The Edge Of Glory' and then all of the videos from her back-catalogue. Like dinner. On Holiday.

Lady Gaga, 'The Edge Of Glory'

In that instance, I'd quite like to have been able to impose a ban on Lady Gaga like Opus ii have on Adele in Dublin.

While of course it's ludicrous to imagine ever obtaining that level of dictatorship, I can't be alone in wanting to be given a mute button. What song or artist would you like to see banned from public places? Would you like to throw Coldplay out in the cold or drown (out) Justin Bieber? Let us know...