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Originally Posted by Routine Builder
The thing is that having someone else's phone in your eyeline stops you from being fully there in the moment. Your enjoyment of a gig is being impacted by someone blocking your view of the stage constantly recording videos that are a) likely never going to be watched b) put on YouTube to be watched by 5 people because the sound and quality are so crappy. People take time off, spend money on tickets, travel and hotels to go to gigs and it's really f**king annoying to build up your hype for these gigs to be spoilt by people who refuse to acknowledge that the Manic Street Preachers are playing a gig in front of them, for them but instead focus watching them through a phone. Not all people who do this are as indiscreet, Emily Hyatt is able to do this without sticking their phone in people's faces. I also appreciate not everyone can attend these gigs for many unavoidable reasons, but it is a live show and that's the experience people are paying for. The tickets say Manic Street Preachers, not Manic Street Preachers hiding behind a dozen smart phones.
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Fair enough points, I really wasn’t meaning to sound dismissive of it sometimes being a genuine problem for some people who made the effort and spent the time and expense to go to gig(s).