Sorry, I'm aware that yelling is not appreciated, but this is a really cool idea.
There's hardly anything more annoying at gigs than those dunces in front of you recording some ultra-shitty video that nobody ever looks at.
Those small screens are a real distraction and phones also don't really serve as substitutes for lighters used, when Led Zeppelin started with Stairway to Heaven.
A rant about this specific song is reserved for another comment.
Au contraire. The people on either side having a conversation about their weekend dinner party whilst Lisa Gerrard does a quiet solo piece are infinitely more annoying than any camera phone. Or a lady with big hair in the first 3 rows sitting on someone's shoulders and blocking out half the stage for half the crowd.
Why not ask people not to talk disruptively and disallow people from sitting on someone's shoulders in addition to the phone ban?
Then the usher has to be willing to do something.
Then the person and their friends have to be adult enough not to start harassing you for it.
And if they try to assault you, you need to be able to defend yourself and your date/friends.
That's why most people do nothing and concerts get worse.
I've been to triple-digit number of gigs and that has never happened. Not once. Perhaps it's peculiar to the UK but still.
For example, a lot of concerts at SAP Arena are literally called "Zero Enforcement" where ushers are disallowed to intervene in any inter-patron situation outside of medical emergency.
It ends up being a Lord of the Flies situation where the fittest do (or stop) what they want.
It's BS - people just have a hard-on for punishing new social behaviours in others, that they don't partake in themselves. The old disruptions are 'well, what can you do?', while the new disruption are all 'think of the children!'
Otherwise, they would be trying to accomodate cell phone users, and arrange things so their behaviour was less disruptive to others, rather than fighting them outright. Cell phone usage at concerts is the equivalent of taping, and people have set up dedicated taping sections at music events in the past.
If people are openly bored at your shows then it's probably time to reevaluate how you're running things, rather than getting into shouting matches on Twitter.
From my observations (lived 100m from a stage bar for a few years), 90% of the shows don't. But then an odd artist shows up and they're too cool to have an opening act and they actually start on time and boom you've missed half the show. :(
When? The tickets usually don't say "oh yeah, the show scheduled for 20:00 actually starts 22:13".
I remember finding it really fascinating and strange, and now such a thing is so normal. I completely agree that no one ever watches those videos, but it appears that capturing the experience has become in many cases more important than the experience itself.
I needed one or two in situ pictures of me doing computer stuff from past times and I had almost nothing I could pull out.
"For those looking to do some social media postings, let us help you with that. Our official tour photographer will be posting photos and videos after the show at jackwhiteiii.com and the new Jack White Live Instagram account @officialjackwhitelive. Repost our photos & videos as much as you want and enjoy a phone-free, 100% human experience.”
So you won't only get your memento, you'll get it professionally produced and in much better quality, without being a pain to all those who really hate that.
That the media is freely distributable is a nice touch too.
Sometimes, the best memories you have are the ones that you can't perfectly recall. You get to keep it as perfect as you'd like to remember it.
Sometimes, the best memories you have are the ones that you can't perfectly recall. You get to keep it as perfect as you'd like to remember it.
Thank you for this comment. I can't quite explain it, but it touched something deep down inside
While I agree with your comment I do watch a lot of these. In electronic music "IDs" are a big thing and it's a big culture around identifying new tracks DJs play, which you mostly get from these kind of clips.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Praha_(Radiohead_video...
But here's the rub (or actually a very good thing):
"Radiohead contributed their own audio masters of the show."
That's really amazing, but also indicates (not necessarily, I grant that. The article doesn't say) that the project was actually planned and that the band and audience were in for it from the start.
But in any case I really thank you for the links.
It's great when shit like that gets real. And probably not only the fans that were at the gig, but a ton of other people will have a pleasurable experience with the result (and respect that band even more).
> The group allowed a show in Prague in August last year to be filmed from a variety of angles throughout, and then provided soundboard masters for the film’s soundtrack.
> And for a final and unhoped-for touch, Radiohead themselves accept to join this project by providing their audio mixes.
I perform with a couple groups you've never heard of, and I hate seeing cell phones at performances. I'm just trying to perform, not be discovered.