At last! Mobile phones banned at gigs.

[darkandrew]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42851434

Absolutely agree with this; I've had more than enough of going to gigs and other events, and facing a sea of other peoples' mobile phone screens in front of me.

[T-Bay]

I really don’t understand why people are obsessed with filming everything in appalling resolution/sound whilst missing the live experience. 

[EBS_freak]

1 minute ago, T-Bay said:

I really don’t understand why people are obsessed with filming everything in appalling resolution/sound whilst missing the live experience. 

Its so you can prove to other people on social media that your life is better than theirs...? that's right isn't it?

[NancyJohnson]

I went to see Public Service Broadcasting last year and they do a thing before the show starts; they played a pre-recorded thing saying 'a few photos is fine, but no one really wants to watch your blurry, distorted camera phone footage.'  This met with a huge cheer. 

It was almost as if that statement simply ridiculed the proposed usage...I saw one or two people taking stills, but that was about it.

Edited January 28, 2018 by NancyJohnson

[PaulWarning]

17 minutes ago, darkandrew said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42851434

Absolutely agree with this; I've had more than enough of going to gigs and other events, and facing a sea of other peoples' mobile phone screens in front of me.

couldn't agree more, they need to ban flags at outdoor festivals as well,  I'd be bloody annoyed after paying hundreds of £'s out for someone  to be waving a great big flag in front of me.

But I do wonder at the logistics of taking phones off everybody, search everyone on the way in, take their phones and then make sure they get them back again, sounds a nightmare to me, might be better to say anyone filming will be thrown out, a few examples made will soon put a stop to it

[gs_triumph]

One of the best things I ever saw was someone filming gaslight anthem on an I pad - really!? - in Edinburgh.  Someone behind them reached forward under the I pad and slapped it back launching it through the air.  Needles to say a scuffle ensued but there was a massive cheer! 

[stingrayPete1977]

Has anyone that has filmed a whole gig on a phone ever watched it all back after? 

I wonder why they go, same as being totally off your face.

[Savethedaves]

I’m sure I saw Jack White was doing this on his upcoming tour as well. Anything to break the incessant need to capture and post. I’m sure bands could provide a live copy of the performance, professionally filmed at the end of the tour as an added way of generating some moolah lost through streaming.

[mcnach]

3 hours ago, darkandrew said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42851434

Absolutely agree with this; I've had more than enough of going to gigs and other events, and facing a sea of other peoples' mobile phone screens in front of me.

 

Although they do not bother me as much as other people... I don't get the obsession and I'd rather people refrained from constantly filming everything. However, the pouch thing, I'm not sure I like it... it seems an unnecessary extra that will definitely make money for someone, and I detest being treated like a child. My phone is with me most times and I'll bring it to the gig, but it stays in my pocket. I don't appreciate having to queue again for a stupid pouch thing and being treated like I'm in kindergarden.

There are behaviours that annoy me far more than telephones: people throwing their plastic beer glasses (not empty) above me and sometimes partially on me, people who feel the need to test their strength by pushing everybody around (it's very tempting to turn and show them that I'm probably a hell of a lot stronger than them), people who dance like they're alone and end up punching the bodies around them (again, so tempting to place a single well aimed fist... and see them drop to the ground... but I control myself, for now)... people 'crowdsurfing'... It used to be that there was an area where those activities would happen but you could easily avoid them without having to stay at the back. I find that more and more if you want to be close to the stage, you need to endure that. 

So... you want me to have that, and wear a sodding pouch for my mobile as if I were a 5 year old?

Is that how we really want to do things? 

 

 

[mcnach]

3 hours ago, PaulWarning said:

might be better to say anyone filming will be thrown out, a few examples made will soon put a stop to it

 

I agree.

The people being a nuisance are really a minority. Deal with them as it happens, rather than go the lazy way and create yet another half-baked rule. Because we don't have enough of those... 

[BigRedX]

I find it far easier to simply not take my phone with me when I go to big(ger) gigs. Since I'm not obsessed with recording every concert experience, I don't really need it with me. If it don't want to leave it with my coat in the cloakroom I'll need to find somewhere in my gig-going clothes to put it and TBH there isn't anywhere where it isn't going to be either a nuisance or a liability at a gig.

Besides I'm at a gig, enjoying myself. I'm not going to answer your phone call, read your messages or comment on your Facebook post so there is absolutely no point in me having my phone on my person. If anything important comes up I'll deal with afterwards when I'm back home and I've finished having fun.

Edited January 28, 2018 by BigRedX

[arthurhenry]

I take an old analog phone to gigs and hold it up in the air. It doesn't half make my arm ache.

[stingrayPete1977]

12 hours ago, arthurhenry said:

I take an old analog phone to gigs and hold it up in the air. It doesn't half make my arm ache.

 

[Lozz196]

6 hours ago, T-Bay said:

I really don’t understand why people are obsessed with filming everything in appalling resolution/sound whilst missing the live experience. 

Agree, whatever has been filmed sounds pony when listening back, why not concentrate on hearing the good sound of the gig, and actually watch the bands.

Oops, showing my age there...........

[Cato]

It's a well known fact that viewing anything on a tiny screen makes it better.

[ambient]

I don't see how they can confiscate someone's phone? It's quite a responsibility having thousands of pounds worth of people's property. It only needs a few people to complain that their phone no longer works or is damaged.

[Dad3353]

24 minutes ago, ambient said:

I don't see how they can confiscate someone's phone?...

'They' probably can't, but entry may be refused if failing to comply.

[BigRedX]

35 minutes ago, ambient said:

I don't see how they can confiscate someone's phone? It's quite a responsibility having thousands of pounds worth of people's property. It only needs a few people to complain that their phone no longer works or is damaged.

They don't confiscate anyones phone. If you'd read the article in the OP you'd understand how it works.

[ambient]

They already ban people from filming and taking photos at the theatre and classical concerts, though they don't confiscate the phones. I'd personally be very reluctant to hand my phone over to someone, though it appears that they don't confiscate them. I'm of the opinion that if they don't want you to film then they ask, if you carry on then you accept that you may be asked to leave the venue, which is what happens at theatres and classical concerts.

Edited January 28, 2018 by ambient

[darkandrew]

25 minutes ago, ambient said:

I'm of the opinion that if they don't want you to film then they ask

Regardless of whether the band (or other artist) mind or not, standing at the front of an audience with your iPhone or iPad switched on and held in the way of everybody else's view is an incredibly selfish thing to do.

Edited January 28, 2018 by darkandrew

[ambient]

13 minutes ago, darkandrew said:

Regardless of whether the band (or other artist) mind or not, standing at the front of an audience with your iPhone or iPad switched on and held in the way of everybody else's view is an incredibly selfish thing to do.

I know, (you've slightly misquoted me there  ) if asked not to film and you cary on then you can't complain if you're asked to leave. I was at the Coliseum theatre in London in December, there was a couple who despite being asked 3 times not to film carried on, in the end they were escorted out. They were sat toward the front too, so I guess their tickets were easily over £60 each.

[LeftyP]

Quite a few years ago I was at a Glen Campbell concert.  The support act were the Gatlin Brothers and Larry Gatlin asked if anyone had a camera with them - this was long before the smartphone epidemic. People shuffled a bit until Larry said if people wanted to take photo's they should go to the front of the stage during the first song and snap away then put their cameras away for the rest of the show.  It worked a treat with the brothers posing for snaps while hey sang.  I agree that all the bright screens of the smartphones can ruin a great show.

[Frank Blank]

One of my few highly developed skills is spitting. I have become adept at landing hefty oysters of gob on screens rudely jutted into the offing between me and an artist I am trying to watch. It is hilarious because their initial reaction is to drop the now contaminated device but then this odd dance ensues passing the device from hand to hand trying to wave my noxious ejecta away.

[mcnach]

3 hours ago, ambient said:

I don't see how they can confiscate someone's phone? It's quite a responsibility having thousands of pounds worth of people's property. It only needs a few people to complain that their phone no longer works or is damaged.

 

They don't keep the phones. They put it in a pouch that they seal, and you keep it. Then you need to find someone from the venue so that they open it and you take your phone back and they keep the pouch. 

Can you imagine how much fun that must be?

[mcnach]

1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

One of my few highly developed skills is spitting. I have become adept at landing hefty oysters of gob on screens rudely jutted into the offing between me and an artist I am trying to watch. It is hilarious because their initial reaction is to drop the now contaminated device but then this odd dance ensues passing the device from hand to hand trying to wave my noxious ejecta away.

 

charming...