derbyshirepaul wrote:
... Downside? People insisting in trying to film the performance ... I don't see the value in going to a gig only to look at a phone!
At the Brixton Academy in October my partner was incredulous that so many people wanted to take photographs of an empty stage. 'Oh look, there's a bit of dry ice!' My astonishment was reserved more for the bewildering number of people who seemed unable to go for an hour and fifteen minutes without visiting the toilet, or the bar, or, given the close connection between these two activities, both. One woman I'm sure squeezed past us four times. I thought, This is 75 minutes, that's all, 75 minutes you've paid 45 of the Queen's pounds sterling for and that you've probably had months to get ready for. Can you really not get through that without a pee or a beer? Of course the performance in question happens to be by one of the most charismatic and moving artists on God's good earth, but the point would stand were it just Ed bloody Sheeran.