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?
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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 - MemberNo 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.
And my photos are generally not shonky.
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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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