Gigs and Music Events

Good*. This pisses me off bigtime. Last week at Fontaines DC, I could barely see the stage for the first few songs because of the sea of phones. Seems to have got much worse post-lockdown too. Was this close >< to starting confiscating phones till the end of the night.

Also Grandaddy tonight doing Sophtware Slump at Palladium - very much looking forward to this one.

*but it won't be enforced in any way, so...

Who's that for? Reminds me of the days before camera phones when security would be stood at the front constantly telling people to put there cameras away.

Email from see tickets:

THIS SHOW HAS A STRICT NO PHOTO OR VIDEO RECORDING POLICY WHICH INCLUDES PHOTOS TAKEN ON MOBILE PHONES. ANYONE FOUND TAKING PHOTOS OR RECORDING THE SHOW ON ANY DEVICE, INCLUDING A MOBILE PHONE, WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

Never had that before. Interesting to see how this is enforced at the O2 arena. Lol

We had that when we saw Pucifer at the Roundhouse. Security were pretty good with stopping it and used lots of very bright narrow beam torches to ruin filming. I think that is an MJK thing although not watching the show via the smudged phone screen of some rando in front of me does appeal.

We have tickets for both nights - floor seating. Pre-show beverage?

It was the same A Perfect Circle a few years back at Wembley Arena, stewards were back and forth constantly early on before people gave up.

Email from see tickets:

THIS SHOW HAS A STRICT NO PHOTO OR VIDEO RECORDING POLICY WHICH INCLUDES PHOTOS TAKEN ON MOBILE PHONES. ANYONE FOUND TAKING PHOTOS OR RECORDING THE SHOW ON ANY DEVICE, INCLUDING A MOBILE PHONE, WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

Never had that before. Interesting to see how this is enforced at the O2 arena. Lol

I went last night to the NEC to see them, so epic. A bunch of people were kicked out for being on phones and can see people on twitter grumbling.

Last song they give you permission to film if thats your thing.

So loud, feels pointless filming to me as it will just be horribly distorted anyway, visuals are amazing though so get why people want to capture it, was an awesome set

Also the first "half" was an 1hr40 ( no idea how they do, Danny is 60 ffs) and a bunch of people left thinking that must be it but there was a shorter second half. They started 15minutes early as well which was annoying as was still waiting for a pint