Should Phones Be Banned At Gigs?

I'd much prefer to keep my phone at home when I go to a show, it's just too easy to lose or get stolen. But the catch is that we CAN'T! We have to use our phones to get INTO the venue. No paper tickets anymore. Can't print your ticket that has the barcode.

Iron maiden asked the put the phones away in Eddfest. But Few people did. They really got my nerves. İ came from all the way From Turkey to enjoy you and Iron maiden, paid all that money. They block my view because of stupid phones

People dont live the moment. They only want to put themselves in social media.

TooL was one of the first to enforce no phones now everyone is following. Just makes sense. Not sure how to stop meta glasses though.

I'm not much of a phone user at concerts (grab a quick photo as the show is starting, maybe a 20 second recording of a chorus I like) but I'll be at this show and I'm very excited. The amount of people just holding their phones recording for the entire show has always seemed crazy to me, and I swear it's gotten way worse in the last 2-3 years. Very excited to see the vibe at this Phoebe concert.

I can enjoy a show and also film it. Just film my favourite song to look back on if it's sentimental to me but mostly I dont film the whole thing. But ticket prices for gigs is soooo expensive and if you have to pay for travel too. I feel people want to have the recordings to relive the night after it's all done as you've saved up for months to be able to pay to see the show. You want a video memory for yourself.

Absolutely!

My sister and mom who love concerts are no longer able to go to them due to illness… but they love the vibe and to see a little of the shows. So I don’t film a whole show but just a little just to give them those fond memories.
I still dance etc. One venue I go to always lets you film the famous songs but they’re not always my favourite songs.
Sometimes you can get some official recordings but they are not from the angle I like. I think it depends on a lot on the song too.
Sometimes you can only see the show on someone else’s phone when you get the ‘7’ foot person who you don’t see in real life but appears in front of you at a concert. I think overall it’s a personal choice. I’ve seen you twice and didn’t use my phone as it wasn’t the right atmosphere but you were amazing.👍

bro, i saw you in Brighton last year (or maybe the year before) when you were on the guys shoulders ripping a fat solo you grabbed a dudes phone out of his hand and launched it across the venue and carried on going, laughed my ass off.

Personally I prefer to live in the moment. It’s distracting to see little screens bobbing about. I thinks it detracts from the live music experience. The concerts of my youth were events planned for weeks or months in advance, they were amazing spectacles meant to be savoured. I’ve never thought that a poorly shot grainy video would add to some already great musical memories. Phones have really killed the vibe.

Due some people recording a gig, I've seen lots of gigs that i either couldn't attend or was unaware of.
It's obviously not the same as being there but…

"I believe in a thing called: community!…" 🤘🤘 😛 😀😁

I’m in two minds myself about phones at concerts. I like to get a few pics if I’m near the front maybe a quick video maybe 10/20 seconds. Not many tho because I feel removed from the experience. I’s rather experience the show than view it through my phone. Saying that having the choice taken away from me would put me off going to a show.

I do wonder if more artists/venues recorded the gigs themselves and allowed you to purchase after, that most people would not use phones as much.

I like to watch back events I've been to, but if it was filmed professionally and accessible, I'd be all over that!

I agree no phones. The last gig I went to was a load of old men above a pub listening to a blues guitarist. I was the youngest and I was in my late forties then, I didn’t have a smartphone at the time and no one had a phone out it was a magic gig

We agree apart from new and up and coming bands where sharing their footage helps them grow!

I go to shows to see a band I like play live on stage, not to see the back of everyone's phone. At that point, it's a listening party, and I could buy the record and do that at home. Massively enjoyed seeing Bob Dylan (twice!) and he has the no phones policy with the Yonder packs. Honestly, phones ruin my live show experience.

She just trynna be Jack White 😝

Hell f-ing yes! I'm afraid until they do I refuse to pay good money to see my favourite artists.

Bad phone behaviour and people scream-singing along to every single song so the artist is completely drowned in bad singing the whole concert.

I am really looking forward to both things getting out of fashion.