[Closed] Concerts/gigs and bloody camera phones!!!!!

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AND STOP BLOODY TALKING

Ah, mate. I'm with you. Really pisses me off too. Some stupid tart had a bloody 7 inch tablet in front of us the other day.
JUST WATCH THE DAMN GIG!!!
Someone on here was saying they bought a camera "especially for gigs". JEEZ...

Yeah, absolutely pisses me off as well....

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/8308384@N06/8469826972/ ]Lee Scratch Perry[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/8308384@N06/ ]Slugwash[/url], on Flickr

... oh, hang on a moment ?? 😉

One of my favourite gig moments of recent times was when the singer from the Futurheads at an accoustic / acappella gig made a girl at the front cry because she wouldn't stop talking to her friends through the songs.

Bit mean, but she deserved it.

Or "sing" along under their breath, just loud enough to spoil things!
Or talk all the way through a song then have the cheek to clap and whistle when it finishes!

because she wouldn't stop talking to her friends through the songs.

They should have put on a more captivating performance then 😉

It drives me *ing mad!!! I'm off to see Johnny Marr tonight and its got to the point where you just expect it.

Mind you I had someone waving one right in front of my face at the last gig I was at. After much typically English tutting, huffing and loudly proclaiming 'oh FFS!!!', which he ignored, I forcefully explained to him, in words of less than 2 syllables, that if he didn't put it away it would be being inserted in a normally one-way orifice. Sideways!

I mean, who do they show the footage too? WTF thinks: Brilliant!!! Just what I've always wanted to see. Some shaky blurred footage of peoples heads, and someone apparently on a stage in the middle distance, while people around you scream. Thanks for taking the trouble to show me that. You *ing muppet!!! 🙄

Slugwash - you realise (even without the other screen in the shot) that that is a REALLY CRAP PHOTO??

you should buy a camera especially for gigs slugwash

Don't get me wrong grab the odd photo etc when he/she growls up to the front of the stage but ffs don't watch the entire show through your poxy phone! Arms should be raised in the air to aid bouncing around and not for holding a phone aloft!

[i] grab the odd photo[/i]

No! keep your tossy blackberipodhtcpeiceofshit in your pocket and enjoy the bloody gig!!

You've let me down wrightyson. I hope you know that.

I hate this too, used to be a rarity but now as Binners says you expect it.

But as someone who's usually too busy working or parenting to go to gigs, it is handy to be able to watch really shonky footage with terrible sound quality of my favourite bands playing live on YouTube.

Sorry dez 😳
I hereby decree to **** anyone seen removing any recording device from their pocket whilst at a gig as ordered by dezb!

The mrs actually shouted at someone last night "if you want a picture buy a ****ing poster from whsmiths"
Seriously showing her age with that one 😆

I mean, why bother going to gigs when I can enjoy every subtle nuance and detail of a performance like this...

Slugwash - you realise (even without the other screen in the shot) that that is a REALLY CRAP PHOTO??

Sorry, I was too busy chatting to other people to concentrate on what was happening on stage. Here's another one without a bloody smartphone or iPad in sight 😉

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/8308384@N06/8468729931/ ]043/365 - Lee Scratch Perry @ The Phoenix Exeter[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/8308384@N06/ ]Slugwash[/url], on Flickr

Brilliant. I feel like I was actually there. thanks for sharing. 😥

It's something I really hate too. Ruins the atmosphere and gets in your line of sight.
I don't mind people taking the odd photo so much, but videoing the whole thing!!!
I've come close to grabbing someone's phone and launching the thing across the room. 👿

If you really must film more than a few seconds worth - go and stand at the side out of peoples' way you selfish b******s!!!!

We were working on DSTL (Destination Star Trek London) last year and they had a section when the 5 Captains sat on stage and were interviewed by John Barrowman. We were give a finger wagging lecture by the client that under no circumstances were we to photograph this part of the event as the actors all own the rights to their countenance and if it's misused (read filmed or photographed) they will sue everyone out of existence......"Right I want everyone's name address and solicitor's details!"

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EDIT (don't know what year it is!!)

When I went to see JLS, loads of us used them instead of lighters. It was quite a nice effect. And much safer.

I took mine to Bieber but the battery was flat by the time he came on 😥

Remind me to stay away from JLS concerts...

Are those freaks actually filming a [i]screen[/i] in rogerthecat's pic? That's even more bizarre.

Everyone else has paid just as much as you did to be there and has the right to enjoy it how they like. Grow up and be a bit more accommodating you selfish old gits. No wonder the world is as messed up as it is today with folk like this about.

I wouldn't have thought you'd need a reminder DezzieBee. 🙂

But yes, I can report there were plenty of idiots getting those fantastic images at Gaslight Ahthem in Brizzle last night. ****in eejits. 😐

Everyone else has paid just as much as you did to be there and has the right to enjoy it how they like.

So there's no problem with the jakeys who like to get trolleyed and puke all over the place during the gig then?

[i]Everyone else has paid just as much as you did to be there and has the right to enjoy it how they like[/i]

So my enjoyment doesn't involve ruining the experience for them in any way, but they're ok to wave some electronic device in front of other people's view of the band? IDIOT!

whatnobeer - Member
Everyone else has paid just as much as you did to be there and has the right to enjoy it how they like. Grow up and be a bit more accommodating you selfish old gits. No wonder the world is as messed up as it is today with folk like this about.

Not when it infringes on my enjoyment. It's just another sign of the vacuousness of modern culture, where talking about having been to event is more important than attending the event. Hence the need to document instead of experience.

EDIT - High 5 DezB

DezB - Member
Remind me to stay away from JLS concerts...
Are those freaks actually filming a screen in rogerthecat's pic? That's even more bizarre.

Yep, the entire 30 mins of the interviews. Freaks they may be but they were the nicest, politest and most friendly freaks at any event like this I've worked on. Live long & prosper.

Recently, at the my only gig in recent years, I nearly KILLED people for this.

I was pretty excited about going to see Purity Ring, was introduce to the album by someone so had no idea which were singles (I do now, I had no choice but to watch them performed through other people phones), and had the misfortune to be stood near a bunch of students, one of which had only gone along it would seem to prevent there being a break in his ongoing description of himself and his 'qualities' to his friends. I was not alone in willing him to drop dead, with a little help if needed. Then I decided it was a fault with me that it prevented me from enjoying part of the concert, and tried to ignore them and focus on the quite wonderful thing before.

In retrospect I wish I'd asked them to shut the **** up, or go stand at the back.

deadlydarcy - Member
When I went to see JLS, loads of us used them instead of lighters. It was quite a nice effect. And much safer.

Sorry, its nothing personal, but I don't wantthe crowd at a JLS gig to be safer. I've actually often thought, the few times I have by accident witnessed the JLS (which I had believed until then might an STD of somekind, still not convinced it isn't) that their act might be greatly improved by more flames.

I've seen people recording and photographing gigs with iPads 😯

I think phones are just more annoying, I've always taken quick snaps during gigs but you didn't used to get the glowing screen or standing-with-arms-aloft-forever thing- you basically just got a hand sticking out occasionally (I usually snapped from point of view) I've got some gig snaps that I really like but it didn't take anything out of my gig or anyone else's to get them. The quality's terrible but they mean something to me. But then, you go on youtube to find a band and you have to wade through a thousand 10 seconds long unwatchable unlistenable phone vids, even if you like it yourself why share?

But at least there's a little point to it, standing and talking drives me nuts. Especially for a quiet band!

We could all start taking truly random electrical objects with us to gigs. It'd be quite amusing to whip a toaster out of your bag and place it directly in front of the face of the stroker with his mobile in the air. Right! Thats my plan sorted for later. Maybe a kettle....

It's ok, I won't take such nasty sentiments 🙁 personally.

Aye, but there's load of them doing, they're the majority. Thats just how people feel t enjoy them selves as gigs these days. Maybe you're the ones that should stay at home and watch in the comfort of your living room without other people around to spoil your fun.

We could all start taking truly random electrical objects with us to gigs. It'd be quite amusing to whip a toaster out of your bag and place it directly in front of the face of the stroker with his mobile in the air. Right! Thats my plan sorted for later. Maybe a kettle....

Hmmm, wonder if security would let my slow cooker through.

I took mine to Bieber but the battery was flat by the time he came on

unklehomered - Member

In retrospect I wish I'd asked them to shut the * up, or go stand at the back.

I just tell 'em to shut it. 2 things here... one is that it's usually just thoughtlessness/ignorance rather than malice so when you tell them to shut it, they generally do. The other is that everyone else around you is thinking the same thing, so it's not as if you'll be left standing there like a plum. (I remember at a Divine Comedy gig I went to, 2 very loud eejits in the crowd... another feller says "Shut up or * off" to them... They decided to argue back and started getting in his face, suddenly about 50% of the entire audience turned on them. Surprisingly violent bunch, your Divine Comedy fans.)

Or, they could just be waving one of these during the appropriate song, instead of a Zippo, now nobody smokes anymore who owns a lighter?

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Northwind - we had the same at an I am Kloot gig last year. Some pissed up girl in front of us who spent the whole gig talking at her boyfriend: "so she said to trisha...... blah, blah, blah......then bazz said to Sharon......blah, blah, blah" .

My missus had had enough and told her to shut the * up! So she turns rounds and starts with the "who do you think you are, talking to me like that" routine,. At which point just about everyone around us shouted in unison "yeah, shut the * up, you daft bint!"

At that point, she flounced out! Result! 😀

get yourselves in the mosh pit . . .s orted not an issue

No pit last night at biffy, three rows from the front and couldn't believe it! Never seen so many women at a gig, and wondered if that was the reason?

Jack White took a professional photographer on tour with him who published the photos on a website and we could download for free. Still didn't stop everyone but it was an improvement.

At a Bjork concert the audience were asked not to take photos and enjoy the show. As far as I could tell everyone respected it. Mind you, it was quite a small, intimate venue so they would have stood out quite a bit.

Slugwash - you realise (even without the other screen in the shot) that that is a REALLY CRAP PHOTO??

to be fair to Slugwash, I was at that gig, The Upsetter is so old that he could have died at any given moment, so taking photo's was kind of relevant on the night IMO.. the photo's were bound to come out a bit squiffy cos he was so ferlipping stoned he was bending reality.. (Lee that is, not Slugwash)

As it was, the ageing singer shimmied and cavorted and leapt about like a madman all evening 😀

This [i]is[/i] a crap photo btw

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I was at that gig, The Upsetter is so old that he could have died at any given moment

He was so late joining the rest of his band onstage that I thought he'd popped his clogs whilst the support act was still on.

he was so ferlipping stoned he was bending reality.. (Lee that is, not Slugwash)

This must of been the first gig I was unstoned cold sober at since Black Sabbath at the Brighton Centre when I was fourteen.

Last time I went to a gig that wasn't a couple of folk singers in the corner of a pub, the air was full of cigarette smoke and I was the same age as most of the audience. So in my defence (waving a smart phone around, not taking bad pictures) I was just trying to get down and blend in with the rest of the audience. 8)

(Yunki, working in Exmouth first Thursday in April. An afternoon Woodbury ride if not too wet?)

Back in't day bands were so much louder that it was pointless trying to have a conversation.

Having seen 100s of bands in the last 33years one thing has become apparent - POP celebrity worship is on the up and bands being able to entertain a crowd is very much on the wane.

I'm looking at you Stereophonics

I generally 'bump' into people who hold up phones in the hope they'll drop them...

wrightyson - Member
No pit last night at biffy, three rows from the front and couldn't believe it! Never seen so many women at a gig, and wondered if that was the reason?

😆

I went to see Scroobius Pip recently and he complained about this too. He basically said that he wanted to get all the photography out of the way before he started and so he did a series of poses for us all so we could take our pictures, imagining that he was full flight into his set.. Very funny 😀

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Theres the 3 song rule for official photographers - perhaps thats the way to go?

[i]This is a crap photo btw[/i]

You're dead right. But at least we all know you went to the gig eh?

wrightyson - Member

No pit last night at biffy, three rows from the front and couldn't believe it! Never seen so many women at a gig, and wondered if that was the reason?

Ah! The 3 things that annoy me far more than cameraphone zombies...

1) People who go down the front before the start, then get brutally wedged and spend the next 5 songs running away.
2) People who go near the front, with no intention of ever having their feet so much as tap never mind leave the ground, but then form a shield wall and won't let anyone who wants to actually have fun through
and number 3) The boyfriend/girlfriend team down the front, where the girlfriend spends the entire time falling over, and the boyfriend spends the entire time "defending" her while getting pissed off at anyone who bumps into them.

Phone zombies might be annoying but at least they're not physically preventing other people from doing their thing. Rock bands in big venues always struggle with this I reckon.

I've come to the conclusion that the kind of people who do this are those who only do things or go to places so that they can tell others. Probably the same morons that post Facebook updates of where they're at whenever they get the chance. 🙄

Ha ha scrobius does that at all his gigs lol

Too busy getting busy down the front to get involved with cameras. Mind you the downside, I normally end up being puked on or get beer spilt on me 🙄

This seems to be the main problem. There now seems to be a generation that thinks that unless you take some shite camera-phone footage and post it immediately to Facebook, then it never actually happened.

Its like nobody possesses a memory or an imagination any more. They're just passively observing their own lives through a screen. In lo resolution. With bad sound. Sad 🙁

You're dead right. But at least we all know you went to the gig eh?

it's ****ing lee scratch perry.. a living legend.. that photo, however shit, my only ever gig photo, will be printed off for the sitting room wall..

I don't really get the mither though, some people get self-esteem from letting folk know they attended a gig, others get self-esteem from letting everyone know that they are too cool to take photo's..

I get mine from actually being cooler than everyone else.. 8)

If anyone would like to challenge this I will happily partake in a drunken dance off

It's bad enough at gigs, but (as a wedding photographer) what really gets my goat is the number of wedding guests who spend all day taking bad photos at weddings with their phones. This is especially galling when the officiant bans any photography in the church but turns a blind eye to the forest of arms waving their tablets about. I've had guests blocking the aisle to video the bride's entrance too. Gah!

I tried in vain last night to get it going. It just wasn't happening! Two yrs ago at biffy I got royally smacked in the face trying to mix it up with the young uns, loved it!

Some of us have been going to gigs for donkeys years, and like to have a permanent record of the gig. After 42 years of gig-going, there are many that I have virtually no memory of anymore.
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Jacob Valenzuala, Calexico.

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A few of my more recent photos.
I always try not to inconvenience others, I'm nearly always right at the front, and if there is a specific no photography request, like Goldfrapp at the O2 Academy, Bristol, or at St George's, Bristol, I obey it.

To be fair there's a massive difference between someone who knows what they're doing and knows how to use their (probably decent) kit and somebody waving an iPhone from 50m away.

It was obvious at that pope thing the other day as well, it seemed like the people without a camera or phone were outnumbered when the pope was out and about kissing babies.

BUMP!
Cos it's in the news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22113326

Saw Steve Mason last night and was able to stand right at the front, so the only screens I saw were the official photographers in the pit. Maybe that's the answer - always go to the front!

[i]"It's always good when people film it, you can go on YouTube and see it, and relive it, and see all the people in the comments talking about it - you can make more friends with that as well."[/i]

So... people who film gigs on there phones basically have no friends. It figures, I suppose! 😆

This is just the 'radio with pictures' generation's equivalent of bootlegging, isn't it?
Crap sound [b]and[/b] crap video.
Nobody else old enough to have smuggled a recording Walkman into a gig then?

Was at walking with dinosaurs yesterday, even though folks were warned I didn't see anyone being chucked out.

[i]Nobody else old enough to have smuggled a recording Walkman into a gig then?[/i]

Yeah, but funnily enough I didn't hold it up in front of anyones face!

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