[Music] Videos taken at Concerts

[CHAPPERS]

I saw someone filming Suede at Bexhill with an iPad. Nearly launched my pint at him.

 

[Gabbafella]

I went to my first rave in 25 years back in November and was dreading a sea of phones and people not being in the moment ruining the atmosphere but I was pleasantly surprised.
You saw the odd photo or brief video being taken here and there but for the most part it was an event full of party goers having a great time and being there for the music, just like the good old days.
I took a couple of snaps myself and have looked at them a few times since, cracking event, going again this November, actually going on my own too as my brother dropped out so I'm hoping to meet a few randoms to have a laugh with.

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

I went to see Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London on Wednesday. They ban the use of cameras and put a big sticker over the lenses on phones. OK, it would have been easy to take the sticker off - but no one did. Everyone just lived the experience … which was superb.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

It's people talking in concerts I can't stand, they almost start shouting, probably just been talking in the pub for 2 hours before.

 

[London Irish]

Doesn’t bother me, live and let live

 

[Berty23]

A few years ago I was in Ibiza at a stag do and I can confirm the experience of night clubbing is VERY different now than in the 90s. Some tracks were just yoof videoing. Must be weird as a DJ.

Only a few weeks until the masters golf and mobile phones are banned. Look at the crowd and it now looks genuinely weird seeing a sports crowd where everyone is watching the action with their eyes without a filter of a phone.

That said I am in the live and let live crowd. I have no idea if people watch bits back or not. One of my daughter’s mates was trying to show me video of Taylor Swift from miles back and she seemed insulted when I said I had seen the official video stuff so no need to show me hers. “This one is better” “yes and someone shooting a football match on a phone is better than the broadcast on TV”

 

[boik]

It's people talking in concerts I can't stand, they almost start shouting, probably just been talking in the pub for 2 hours before.

Yep, people talking at gigs is far worse than people getting their phones out.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I went to see Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London on Wednesday. They ban the use of cameras and put a big sticker over the lenses on phones. OK, it would have been easy to take the sticker off - but no one did. Everyone just lived the experience … which was superb.

This is the same with many clubs in Berlin. If you are caught using a phone on a club night you’ll be escorted out. If it’s a gig they’ll ask you to delete the photos , or ask you to leave.

 

[Deadly Danson]

I normally take two or three 20 second videos at a gig as a personal reminder.
I'm afraid I got very cross on Saturday when every other supporter got their phone out immediately we got our penalty. Why can't people just enjoy the moment? It's absolutely not the same trying to hold a phone steady when we score when you should be going mad, punching the air, hugging your mates etc and generally losing it. However, each to their own and I really shouldn't let it bother me - I just think it's a shame that no one can do anything any more without it having to be recorded and posted on social media. I also think it made that moment quieter in the stadium.

 

[Sea Cider]

No different to the hordes of people filming Joao’s penalty at the Amex last week. You’re there to experience the occasion, why on earth do you want to watch it through a 2 inch screen to get a wobbly clip that will be infinitely inferior to the dozens of angles that will be available online within minutes of the game ending ?

I don’t get it

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Haha, excellent. Outed!

 

[BN9 BHA]

I saw New Oder last weekend and was accosted by a drunk work colleague who found me by shouting my name while walking through the crowd (I foolishly told him roughly where I was). he then proceeded to talk shit at me for about 5 songs (including True Faith, Blue Monday and Bizarre Love Triangle and a rare airing of vanishing Point). Given that the first few songs suffered because of sound problems (Transmission, Age of consent, crystal and Ceremony) The concert was not great.

One of the few times I wish I was ruder and had it in me to tell people to just get f***ed and leave me alone.

Vanishing Point, you should have done a vanishing act when that weirdo showed up.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

This sounds crap. Ruined a bunch of classics. If it’s the general public at least you can move away from them. As an aside, seeing New Order play True Faith live is one of life’s luxuries.

What a song this is, I appreciate New Order have many many great songs but this for me is their masterpiece.

 

[Peteinblack]

What a song this is, I appreciate New Order have many many great songs but this for me is their masterpiece.

Ah, and the brilliant, cool-as-**** bassist Peter Hook (my favourite bass guitarist ever, along with Jean-Jacques Burnel of the Stranglers).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The whole concert videoing thing is odd to me, I usually video 20 seconds or so of a song that means a lot to me and send it to someone who shares that meaning. I never watch them again though. My wife often watches videos she has taken on the way home but seemingly never again.

Clearly there are always loads of people videoing so do people actually watch their videos after the event?

There are some good things on youtube.
Me? Never.

 

[Peteinblack]

I despise people who either hold their phones aloft throughout a gig, or who have long loud conversations (or provide an unsolicited running commentary) with their mate(s). Selfish Twunts.

Why would you up to £100 (or more) to do this?

So many gigs I've been to have been spoilt by these w@nkers.

Watch the gig; listen to the gig; remember it; talk about it afterwards.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Almost never. That said I saw Doves in London recently and recorded the first part of The Cedar Room which was part of the encore as it’s one of my favourite songs ever and there was epic emotional energy between crowd and band with Jimi not being on stage.

I watched it back and it was terrible, mostly because I was shitfaced but also because the tall bloke IN A F***ING HAT in front was doing the same.

I wanted to show my daughter who loves her indie music but I’ve already trashed it.

That’ll learn me.

 

[Madafwo]

I used to film and photo gigs almost religiously, shared then with a few friends that couldn't be there or wanted a memento, in the end I packed it all in because I stopped enjoying the gig itself as I was more focused on getting the best shots possible.

You've paid a fair wedge to be there, wasting energy looking at it through your phone just seems daft to me to have a video you're unlikely to ever watch again.

Then again, I'm just a grumpy old git now.