Mobile phones and gigs

[malumbu]

Went to the ballet last night for this first time. Even at the ballet about a third of the audience sat down and immediately looked at their phone, and some spent all their time on this before the performance started, and during the interval. Thankfully nothing went off during the performance and nobody took pictures or videos

By chance this popped up in my e-mail today https://www.eventbrite.com/rally/london/mobile-phones-at-gigs/?utm_source=newsletter_london&utm_medium=em&utm_campaign=cnl_l_0301191&utm_source=Various+Marketing&utm_campaign=ceadbcf0e3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_03_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4076db5ea9-ceadbcf0e3-61674901

My regular readers will know how much I get peed off by those of you who post links with no context. Anyway this article gives for and against restricting mobile use at gigs. Fors include audience attachment to the gig and the chance to chat afterwards on social media and to share the experience.

Me? It gets on my proverbials and even more annoyed when people are live whatsapping their experience. But I am stuck in my own time warp. Over to you.

[cella]

"My regular readers"...?

[Nigello]

If you were a "regular reader" you may understand better that it is likely to be self-mockery, I think....!

[malumbu]

Also mocking others! (in a humorous way)

[cella]

Who knows - your posts are often batchy - as my Mum used to say.

[malumbu]

Ah another one. I thought that you had forgotten me. Strange way of flirting though....

[cella]

Delusional as well...

[singalto]

If we stick to the subject of this thread, I agree with how annoying mobile phones are when used during live performances. My sister and I went to a West End show: 7 young women arrived late (with glasses of wine)so we had to stand to let them through. They then all used their phones to text and in one case ring people to let them know they were at the theatre. I was livid.

[mancity68]

Hate it at gigs. Stood behind people already taller than me and they just stand there holding their phones in the air so I can see even less? I just ask them, often not very politely, to stop it. Or insist I stand in front of them. Not been clobbered yet but I'm sure it's inevitable....