So i thought I had it all covered in terms of twattery at gigs, but no. Last night at Breeders, somebody was playing Tetris. On their phone. While the band were playing! She put it away during Cannonball. Then got it out again.
WHY. BOTHER?
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Sounds right stupid
but begs the question why were you watching her and not the band?
It was hard not to notice it
when her bloody phone was lit up in my face!
Fair play
I've been to gigs before when my friends have complained about someone 10 feet away doing something admittedly annoying and just wondered why the fuck they were even paying attention to it
It's because...
... you can't help noticing when someone in your immediate vicinity is doing something so fucking stupid and annoying. It's human nature. Slipknot were right, people = shit.
Was she any good...
at tetris?
she
waited ages for the straight 4-blocker, but it never ever came.
You should have accidentally knocked into them
and made them drop their phone.
Or accidentally snatched it from them,
punched them in the face, stamped repeatedly on said phone until it was dust and then said (John Belushi in 'Animal House' stylee) "Sorry". It alaways works, trust me.
THat would also work.
Maybe a coup de grace would be stuffing the broken sharps of phone into their mouth after.
coup de grace
= french lawnmower
^POTD
:D
Hahaha :D
This...
FTW!
I dunno
tetris is pretty fucking addictive.
You're not even in the ballpark ...
... of the family who I saw at Springsteen's Wembley Stadium gig in '85 who spread out a tablecloth and had a picnic right in the middle of the crowd while Brooce was giving it his best shot. Dad was reading the Daily Mirror. I swear I am not making this up.
:D
wasn't there a case in America when someone sued a venue because he set up a fold out chair at an Aerosmith gig and got hurt?
I'm not sure if this is the reason, but.........
London gig audiences by and large are a fucking shower.
I imagine it may be due to the profusion of guestlist/industry freebies/corporate entertainment tickets flying about that ensure that at some gigs damn near 1/3rd of the audience don't seem to have any interest in the band whatsoever.
^this
in bristol if you are to close to the back the sound of people talking threatens to overpower the quieter songs. Please, shut the fuck up you taking cunts.
^this
but at 65dos in Manchester, on Tuesday, in Club Academy (tiny) there were people near the front just casually chatting through Radio Protector. Wtf. Why?
My sister is the best at gigs. She full on tells people to shut up. Or hits them and shit. It is actually a bit frightening.
They played at the club academy?!
I thought it was academy 2!
It was meant to be
got moved downstairs 'cause not enough tix were sold.
Yeah
I blame the media.
I was talking about this
after the gig with my friends, there seems to be more and more apathy at gigs these days. I remember when I started going to see bands and it would really be an event, something like The Breeders would be mad down the front. Last night there were about 5 people jumping up and down and even then people told them to stop it. Urgh.
you're just old
one might say there's more apathy towards other things too
this makes me think of football - the idea of the corporate supporter taking up a large bunch of the seats meaning a lot of those that are termed "true fans" (a rather vague term at the very least) can't get tickets so have to watch the football at home
apply this to music, delete as appropriate
see wimbledon
when they play mondays (due to rain) the volume normally doubles because the let the public fill it rather than lots of corporate seats...
people jumping about???
isnt that more annoying? they arent paying attention either!
Depends whose playing
If its John Cooper Clarke then it would be a bit annoying. But if it's Prodigy or Chemical Bros it's acceptable in my book.
I don't think it's a London thing
It's a bugbear of mine, but it's Web 2.0. Everyone goes to stuff not because they're interested in it, but because they want to have something in their facebook status that says "I AM COOLER THAN YOU"
Look at me I took a bullshit video on my phone! You can't see anything and all the noise is just bass going duntissssshbuhuihhndgqygdqldu;q and the guy next to me going "Woo!", but aren't I cool? VALIDATE ME UNIVERSE
Look at me photos on facebook! This is me at a gig. Of course I wasn't interested because I am a vacuous corpse just interesed in looking cool BECAUSE I AM SO IMPORTANT I HAVE A BLOG AND PEOPLE READ ABOUT ME AND ALL THE VACUOUS BULLSHIT I DO
LOOK AT ME I'M SHOUTING FOR OBSCURE SONG NAMES MID SET - I LOOKED THEM UP ON AMAZON ON MY BLACKBERRY JUST NOW. REHEARSED SET LIST? NEVER HEARD OF IT! PLAY MY SONG! ME ME ME! NOW NOW NOW!
TYPING IN CAPS IS FUN!
It's fucking brilliant
I MEAN IT'S FUCKING BRILLIANT!
ANGRY MEN UNITE
ME LIKEY YOU!
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there's
a guy at work who does the whole shit video/shit photo thing. 'Oh look muse at wembley'. AND I HAVE TO GRIN AND BARE IT BECAUSE HE'S MORE SENIOR THAN ME.
no more though as I leave today.
woo.
it's like
i never understand why people spend about 3/4 of a show filming it with their 2megapixel camera phone: the result will be a grainy clip with heads in the way and it will sound totally shit, because the mic on your Nokia is cheap and there will be chants of "woooo" from the drunk beside you throughout. Furthermore, when you put this video on youtube, everyone watching will most likely think the same.
Use your memory and leave filming up to the pros!
I hate people who film the songs at a gig.
But I was guilty of doing this at Mars Volta for two reasons.
1- I was Drunk
2- I got bored.
Bored at a Mars Volta show?
Surely not!
:D
9/10
:)
^
nail hit on head.
I completetely agree.
Why stand watching a gig watching it on a tiny little screen? WHEN THE BAND ARE PERFORMING LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!
Worse is
people who seem to think it's the perfect time to take photos of each other! Yeah, let's pay £20 to stand and take sweet couple-y photos of us becacuse LOOK! WE WENT TO A GIG!
I'm really angry today. Need more tea.
tea? pfft... tea-quila?
Not yet
boss is leaving today though which = free drinks in the office from 3pm. Cheers!
thats exactly what I think
I don't even bother taking photos. I have a friend that is obsessed with filming shows.. I really don't get it. And - she doesn't even put them up on you tube!!
it's nice to
look back at them in future and go 'ahhh, i remember that'.
I do record gigs
but I know how to get good sound quality out of a digital camera mic! SO IN UR FACE TWATASH!
O but I usualy only film one show and do like a video diary or something
for people interested :)
Gonna do it for some of my ATP eperiance
how?
..
Curve your hould around the mic but not too hard so's that it muffles all noise
but enough so the is a protective barrier from all the bass and treble
This drives me
fucking mad...
But at least the girl playing tetris wasn't calling someone, you can't blame her if she was bored, it happens occasionally...
what Tetris was it?
Tetris Cascades?
Tetrismania?
Or was she rocking the old-school monochrome Tetris?
What was her high-score?
Were the Breeders shit and past it?
dont see the problem
theyre hardly visually interesting.
i like playing games and listening to music. dont see why i shouldnt do it with live music if its not disturbing anyone else
but it obviously was
because the light on the phone was illuminating roastthemonaspit's face
lord help us..
.."I'm being illuminated in a public space! Someone, please, call the police!"
it's bloody annoying and distracting though.
It's like people in the cinema using their phone and beams of light are emitting from their palms.
Screens on phones are designed
to be seen in bright daylight. Therefore in the darkness of a gig they are VERY FUCKING BRIGHT.
Something designed to be seen in bright daylight?
never?!
Your point?
Or are you just trying to be sarcastic?
HAHAHA
Was it you
???
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"Why stand watching a gig watching it on a tiny little screen? WHEN THE BAND ARE PERFORMING LIVE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!"
Because they might want to watch it again?
Yes it will be alot worse quality and its not like they would phone record the whole gig. But i can understand why people would do that. Ive done it a couple of times for certain clips.
CUNT
Bums to that
Again? They won't have watched it the first time for fucking about with their phone while it was happening!
Seriously, you can't first-hand experience. If you want to 'watch' something 'again', stick to YouTube and get your phone out of my fucking way.
Nowt personal, though :-s
It's bloody disrespectful
You just don't get ...
... the whole concept of going to a gig, do you ? May be better to stay in the comfort of your bedroom with a nice cup of tea, some CDs and a Wii ?
I don't mind
people who take the odd picture - its when they take the same picture over and over again.
Its the same goddam band standing in the same spots taken from the same angle, whats the point??? All your pictures will be the same!!!!!
also annoying, but funny for me!
i rememeber the time at a super furries gig a while back, when a chinese gal squeezed past my mate at the exact moment 'the man dont give a fuck' breaks into the heavy bit.
a full plastic pint glass of beer slammed into his face! textbook.
whose face,
your mate's, or the chinese gal's? if it's the former, then what's the gal got to do with anything, and if it's the latter, she was a he?
i dont see why i should conform to your ideas of
what enjoying a gig is about.
THIS IS THE WORST! Someone told me....
They went to see Nada Surf at the Borderline a few months back and the support act was acoustic (he knew him, but I can't remember who it was...). Basically, this couple stood right at the front but were nodding along to something different.... They had shared headphones and were listening to their iPod...
If I was there I would have made an example of them.
I was at that gig.
Those people needed a shit-kicking.
And it was Pete Greenwood.
Yep... cheeeers
In fact, this guy who told me actually said something to them. Apparently Pete Greenwood said he didn't see them...
That is just so off-putting and disrespectful I can't even begin to believe it.
hah
The Crowd at Portishead was shocking last night. They basically talked through all the new songs (ie half the set). The guy infront of us basically filmed every other song on his camera, and then the rest of the time was ringing his mates!
get a life and watch the show you paid £35 to be at!!!
I saw..
...Franz Ferdinannd at ally pally a while back and the people in front of me were facing away from the stage and talking about Eastenders and the pprentice....
sounds
about right
Alexandra Palace
is a fucking travesty of a hole of a place.
I had to tell some stupid 'wanna-be-heard-laughed-at-and-at-the-centre-of-attention'
girls to shut the hell up when I saw Arcade Fire there last year....
Ally Pally..
...never again!!!
There were some
right cunts at that Arcade Fire gig.
I would've gotten my gameboy out
but i wouldn't play Tetris
totally concur
with all of this. I can't fucking stand it when people talk incessantly at gigs. And when you look to the stage and as well as goons taking photos for magazines and shit at the side of the stage, the whole front row of the audience looks like a fucking press conference.
I remember seeing Badly drawn boy years ago in london and throughout there was so much talking from one section of the audience (probably the bit near the bar). He asked them politely to be quiet but they were obviously too busy in conversation. He was like "oh you must be all the guest list cunts then" and proceeded to berate them to the rest of the audience throughout the gig. They left blissfully unaware.
goons, lmfao
I'm one of the goons, we're only allowed to photograph for the first three songs then take our leave. You'll get some who'll try to shoot for the entire gig and give the rest of us a bad name. But hey, if we get on your tits sorry, just think how boring things like DiS would be with no pictures and just the tired ramblings of people with a bone to pick ;)
is it really a new low?
i mean its not like she was stopping you from watching the band was she?
i wouldn't say new low
theres been worse fan behaviour
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4081073.stm
The Breeders and Tetris
Kind of go hand in hand. maybe she was just rolling back the years to those sunny days, trying to beat your big brother's top score at tetris with the sound of the Breeders cutting through the sunlight pouring into the living room...
:D
At a Mogwai gig at
Colchester Atrs Centre, Stuart Braithwaite stooped down during a quiet section and told