Ich bin bei Andrew Scott und Phoebe Bridgers. Wenn Sie auf einem Auftritt sind, legen Sie Ihr Telefon weg
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/06/11/finn-mcredmond-im-with-andrew-scott-and-phoebe-bridgers-if-youre-at-a-gig-put-your-phone-away/
Von B8_B8_B8
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Tool have been taking peoples phones/cameras for over 20 years.
I’ll do what I want, thanks.
I was browsing YouTube last night, someone videoed an entire concert of about 2.5 hours. The picture quality was good but phones are crap at sound! Pointless watching really. Yet there it was with about 500,000 views
The concert was the previous night so it was certainly a popular upload
Was at Guns n Rose’s last night and the amount of people just watching the concert through their phones was ridiculous, just standing there like zombies, not reacting to the music or singing along, just standing there recording videos that they will never watch again, money well spent I guess 🙄
I think it’s fine to take a couple of picks and a video of a few seconds but having your phone up for the whole gig is pointless. You’re not in the moment and you’re probably blocking someone else’s view too
Gigs in Ireland are treated like a night at the pub for many. Chat loudly and/or head to the bar during any song that’s not a top 10 hit, then take photos and videos during any of the big hits for the ‚gram
The picture, recording and sound are always shit
No one wants to see your shitty concert pictures
When I was younger and video recording was new on phones, I recorded a few excerpts from gigs.. not whole songs, and certainly not whole gigs.
After doing this a few times, I realised I never once looked at the footage once it was recorded, like I suspect is the case for many people.
So I stopped. It’s pointless, and it’s definitely annoying to others. Depending on your height it can be hard enough to see over other people, and then add those same taller people adding holding their arms above their head with a bright screen on recording the gig.. beyond stupid.
I don’t get why people video it. The quality will be crap. Fair enough a photo or two with friends at the gig but the endless effort to put everything on social media is pathetic. So many people are so shallow these days. Getting a video of yourself at a gig is more important to people than just enjoying it and taking it in.
If you want to video a show, fine, hold the phone in front of your own face and block your own view.
To video a gig by holding your phone above your head and obstructing those behind you is pig-ignorant and lacking any manners or self-awareness. Should be called out every time.
You can bring your phone and use it but you need to pay double the face value cost of the ticket
The very annoying thing about this is when you’re at a gig and you accidentally knock into a person holding a phone which they nearly drop. .
I’m sorry for interrupting your Scorcese-esque shot but you’re at a fucking gig and you’re never going to watch that video again.
I don’t really think recording highlights is bad form or anything, I think it’s nice to capture those memories but I don’t agree with recording an entire concert or not putting the phone down to enjoy it, the beauty of those highlights is the spontaneity of it, deciding this is the right time to take a video of you and your mates or maybe it’s a song that means a lot to you makes sense to me at least
Even if they turned down the screen brightness at least, so that we all don’t have to see a sea of brightly lit screens instead of the show.
The Olympia policed it well at the Stewart Lee gig recently. The staff were on it and it was glorious.
Edit but to be fair it’s exactly the type of crowd who spend their days moaning about phones at gigs.
it’s fine to take the odd pic but for fucks sake
1. turn off your goddamned flash, it’s doing nothing and actually making your picture worse
2. turn the screen brightness down to the absolute minimum.
3. if you’re not close to the stage, don’t bother, your pics will be utter shite.
4. And ffs, landscape people, landscape!
I’ve gotten some great pics at gigs but choose the moments carefully and know the limitations of what a phone camera will do, it’s not a dslr and the zoom for the most part sucks ass.
If you’re videoing the thing, then shot to death with balls of your own shite should be the punishment.
It’s just exhausting. I haven’t been to a concert in years. I didn’t make a conscious defiant decision I WILL NOT GO TO A CONCERT UNTIL THERE IS A BAN ON SMARTPHONES, it’s just subconsciously i don’t want to be in that environment. My mind sees it as superficiality or something and I don’t want that feeling at a concert i wouldn’t enjoy it
I am mixed on it. With technology as it is, why don’t bigger bands just record and sell the recording? I remember many years ago The Who recorded the audio and filmed in Marlay Park for what just a routine gig for them. If they sell the recording at time of ticket purchase for an additional 5 euro, I bet the phones would stay put for most people.
I typically only record for a couple of songs and do 4K so I can listen back later. Also, it can be useful to focus on the guitar to then try to learn the way they play it later.
Brought my niece to Glasgow last year for a concert, it was a phone free event. The atmosphere was amazing, it was the best concert I’ve ever been to. My niece enjoyed it so much too, she said she wished all concerts were like that.
I guarantee no-one even looks back at the videos they take either. Such a waste of a life moment to record them.
Years ago, while recording video of a Little Green Cars concert, my partner said to me “do you want to remember the gig or remember filming the gig? The things on your phone are videos, not memories,” and I don’t think I’ve taken a minute’s video since
Why do you get to decide how other people have fun or what they do at a concert.
How much is this nepo baby paid for articles that, if they hadn’t already been written a thousand times over, could be written by a intoxicated AI also suffering from systems failure?
I mean for goodness sake, there are real things to talk about.
>I do not spend much time in the theatre, finding the medium too often boring and now simply too expensive.
Good to have such a cultural juggernaut weighing in on the issue.
I don’t know if anyone actually went to the effort of reading the article (or any of her articles) but it’s just conservative „kids these days“ reactionary bullshit. Like somebody put Jeremy Clarkson’s brain into a young woman’s head just to see what would happen.
And what would happen? Stuff like this:
>I was angry enough at the over-zealous lockdowns at the time: the curbs on freedom; the infantilisation of the entire electorate; the failure to believe anyone could possess their own capacity for risk management; the obvious (even then) effects it would have on schoolchildren. But now – though I would like to appoint a more obvious culprit – there is another thing to add to my list. This collapse in public decorum (you can use the ghastly word “etiquette” if you prefer) has followed the Covid-19 pandemic and attendant social confinement.
i think yeah having your phone out for the whole show is silly. but at the same time also i love watching live concerts on youtube from some audience members recording, and i do love to record a short moment myself but i make sure not to be recording for a prolonged period and usually throwing my hand up and still watching the show with my eyes, watching these back later and reliving the moment is so nice.
These brain dead cunts are ruining gigs
I do think it’s nice to be able to take some pics and videos as mementos, I know people say you never look at them after the night but I genuinely do. I always try get like a 10 second video of my favourite songs while enjoying the rest. I never used to think it was a big deal. However, being at concerts that attract a younger audience now has gotten insane. I basically had to watch Phoebe Bridgers last gig through a phone while I was there because of the sea of them in the crowd, people live-streaming the entire thing to social media. I was at a gig aimed at an older audience recently (like over 25s) and it was MUCH less apparent, and it surprised me how much I preferred it.
We went to The Pixies recently and the lack of phones was very noticeable. The average age at the concert was 55ish so the older demographic definitely made a difference
And Sudan