Phones at concerts

Ingleby_Flash said:
A similar theme is people trying to photograph the cars in a GP race, jumping up every lap. You don’t capture the excitement, the cars look the same in practice, photograph them then if you must And then enjoy the race.

My point has always been - you can’t photograph an experience!
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Best quote I think I've ever read on here.
 
Zoophonic said:
Annoying things seen or heard at gigs.

1. People filming the set constantly and holding their phones and tablets up in front of you

2. Girls on the shoulders of their boyfriend/partners in front of you

3. 6 foot 8 giants who happen to choose to stand right in front of you

4. People who talk loudly constantly through the show even on the quieter numbers unrelated to the gig.

5. Beer chuckers

6. Pukers
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I've got the answer to this that I developed over many years of gig watching as a short youngster:

3. 6 foot 8 giants who happen to choose to stand right in front of you

You tap the tvvat on the left shoulder and as he swivels to his left you nip past him on the inside to the right, then when he looks back to the front you're ahead of him, but as you're shorter he hardly notices you as you are not blocking his view.
Works everytime, even all these decades later...
 
People too drunk to enjoy them selves and literally paralytic is my big big bear…

I like a drink at a concert but what’s the point of shelling out good coin if you’re either not gonna remember it or you get chucked out because your being a grad a dic.k

Had it at hardwick live which was full of them and Duran Duran at Newcastle arena.. there, the 2 guys tried fighting me because I wouldn’t let them touch my wife’s ass.. and I had great delight getting them turfed out.. 😂
 
xxlshirts_fit_all said:
People too drunk to enjoy them selves and literally paralytic is my big big bear…

I like a drink at a concert but what’s the point of shelling out good coin if you’re either not gonna remember it or you get chucked out because your being a grad a dic.k

Had it at hardwick live which was full of them and Duran Duran at Newcastle arena.. there, the 2 guys tried fighting me because I wouldn’t let them touch my wife’s ass.. and I had great delight getting them turfed out.. 😂
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Just exactly how big is your paralytic big big bear? I bet it's a right handful.
 
I’m all for just enjoying the experience, can’t be chewed to spend my night recording the event. Might get a few photos but never video any of it, my rationale is there’s enough other people recording for me to check YouTube should I want to ever watch it back.
 
I watched that Harry Styles concert at Radio 1’s big weekend last night on BBC1.

Obviously the crowd was almost all young women and teens. Every crowd shot it struck me every that single one of them was clutching at their phone trying to get a photo for that Instagram moment and likes.

I’ve finally realised this weekend that I’m getting old and I’m not 21 anymore ☹️
 
21 year olds are all social media obsessed, who’d wanna be 21 in that world!

Give me what I have, 36 with bad knees and a receding hairline anyday
 
Aet290204 said:
I watched that Harry Styles concert at Radio 1’s big weekend last night on BBC1.

Obviously the crowd was almost all young women and teens. Every crowd shot it struck me every that single one of them was clutching at their phone trying to get a photo for that Instagram moment and likes.

I’ve finally realised this weekend that I’m getting old and I’m not 21 anymore ☹️
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My daughter is going to see Harry Styles in a few weeks and I just know she’ll have her phone constantly recording.
 
People too drunk to enjoy them selves and literally paralytic is my big big bear…

I like a drink at a concert but what’s the point of shelling out good coin if you’re either not gonna remember it or you get chucked out because your being a grad a dic.k

Had it at hardwick live which was full of them and Duran Duran at Newcastle arena.. there, the 2 guys tried fighting me because I wouldn’t let them touch my wife’s ass.. and I had great delight getting them turfed out..
Rofesleg said:
Just exactly how big is your paralytic big big bear? I bet it's a right handful.
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🤪 dunno but me fingers are obv too fat to type…
 
Irritates the life out of me, phones at concerts. I went to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard, had my little girl with me, she was 10 at the time, I had a word with a bloke who was stood in front of us holding his phone and filming it, he’d actually squeezed in front of us. He reluctantly moved aside so she could see, I had thought about putting her on my shoulders but that ruins it for the people behind.
I was thinking, when the hell are you actually going to watch what you recorded? Why not be present and fully enjoy what you’d gone to see? I just don’t get it.
 
Last time I saw King Crimson at The Beacon in New York, they had big signs at the front of the stage before the start, advising people that they'd be on stage for photos at the end and anyone taking them during the show would be ejected. I didn't see anyone with a phone during the performance.
 
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