What’s the bee in your bonnet when it comes to the performing arts? What’s the fly in your chardonnay? What gets your goat – or should we say your cow?

Our Sacred Cow column takes aim at an aspect of the arts that drives people crazy. So far we have seen passionate (and occasionally enraged) missives from Shamistha de Soysa railing against hyperbole in concert promotion, Phillip Scott trashing the musical detritus in the way we talk about great art, and saxophonist Jazmin Ealden decry the troubling lack of gender diversity in classical music.

Jonathan Biggins took aim at the tendency for the performing arts to hand out free tickets to anyone with a pulse, and Alex Raineri wonder why classical music lags behind social trends in its programming and performance traditions.

We know our readers are passionate, informed and opinionated, so we’re looking for your hottest takes on an issue that makes you hot under the collar.

If you’ve got an axe to grind, send us your name, contact details, and a couple of sentences on your ‘Sacred Cow’ for a chance to be published in an upcoming issue...