Bob Dylan demands a phone and smartwatch-free show
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I think it’s fair enough. People seem to be able to forget all respect for others where phone are concerned. I was at a play recently and the actors had to change the pacing of their performance several times due to phone interruptions.
Smart watches I’m not sure about, as I don’t have any experience. But my wife has a Fitbit and it doesn’t impact my life.
Smart watches I’m not sure about, as I don’t have any experience. But my wife has a Fitbit and it doesn’t impact my life.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Mobile phones should, like smoking, be banned in all enclosed public spaces. I'd also extend this ban to outdoor public spaces,
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Fair enough if he agrees to actually perform something that remotely sounds like one of his songs and promises to put his fucking harmonica in a yondra pouch.
And tbh, it's probably best if didn't do any singing as well and leave it some drunk blokes in the audience.
And tbh, it's probably best if didn't do any singing as well and leave it some drunk blokes in the audience.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It'd probably be better if Bob Dylan was put in a Yondr pouch.
PTK
Paul Kegan
You are so cruel! Fair, but cruel.
Dylan was "folk", then rock then country. I think that, in the 1970s, he should have gone punk and called himself Gob Dylan. Gob Dylan could then justify his poor public performances by stating that, as a punk, he did not care.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
PTK
Paul Kegan
Why do people need a pouch? Could they not simply keep their phone in a pocket? I suppose asking to people to put it in a pouch emphasises that they should not use their phones, and helps them resist temptation. Many people are odviously addicted to using their phones.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
I think it's going to be a bloody nightmare trying to get everyone's unlocked at once at the end.
No sea of phones seems obvious, little heavy handed tho.
Smartwatch seems daft, are they really a distraction that much? Certainly not to others. Great now I have no idea what time it is and cant prepare for the rush at the end to get my phone unlocked so I can leave.
No sea of phones seems obvious, little heavy handed tho.
Smartwatch seems daft, are they really a distraction that much? Certainly not to others. Great now I have no idea what time it is and cant prepare for the rush at the end to get my phone unlocked so I can leave.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Anyone using a phone at a concert is a massive twat by definition, so with him on that one.
Smart watches though… Eh? What’s he worried about, someone suddenly doing a Pilates session mid set
Smart watches though… Eh? What’s he worried about, someone suddenly doing a Pilates session mid set
Yossarian
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Seems fair enough to me - he's apparently been doing this for years, this is from 2017:
But the most weirdest of weird things was that Dylan issued a comprehensive cell phone ban and dispatched a surprisingly remorseless staff of IU sophomore volunteers to enforce it with the militant fire you usually only associate with students smuggling flasks of Mad Dog into football games (which actually doesn’t happen at IU, they’re just happy to have people there). These security people were ON IT. I tried to take a picture of the stage — just the stage, with nobody on it, with the house lights on — and two red-shirted valkyries descended on me like I’d just tried to jack Dylan’s trunk of bolo ties. In short, the ban worked — there was nary a telltale blue light in sight. It was impossibly odd to scan the crowd and see actual blackness, a bracingly strange moment of nostalgia, like being in a restaurant where people are smoking.
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But the most weirdest of weird things was that Dylan issued a comprehensive cell phone ban and dispatched a surprisingly remorseless staff of IU sophomore volunteers to enforce it with the militant fire you usually only associate with students smuggling flasks of Mad Dog into football games (which actually doesn’t happen at IU, they’re just happy to have people there). These security people were ON IT. I tried to take a picture of the stage — just the stage, with nobody on it, with the house lights on — and two red-shirted valkyries descended on me like I’d just tried to jack Dylan’s trunk of bolo ties. In short, the ban worked — there was nary a telltale blue light in sight. It was impossibly odd to scan the crowd and see actual blackness, a bracingly strange moment of nostalgia, like being in a restaurant where people are smoking.
Is Bob Dylan onto something with his militant no-phones policy?
Is Bob Dylan onto something with his militant no-phones policy?
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
My phone won't fit in a Yonder pouch...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Something has to be done about phones at gigs, but I'd prefer it was a bit less top-down and a bit more grassroots, ie. the people next to you in the crowd kicking you in the shins if you hold your phone up.
Saw Dylan 20 years ago and he was shite. Can only imagine how shite he is now.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
What you need is a 'watch'. It's like a smart watch, but for people who aren't cunts.
maomao
普費斯
I saw home thirty years ago and he was shite. I remember laughing out loud at just how bad it was.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
When we left the gig all my mate said was, 'and let's never speak of that again'.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It's not just concerts. Phones are used by massive twats everywhere. And the twats that do this are always the loud twats who think the world wants to hear them. I don't want to be sat in a restaurant and be forced to listen to some cunt hold a 10 minute conversation at 90dB.
The sooner a blanket ban in public spaces is brought in, the better it will be for society as a whole.
Plumdaff
joy in people
I'm going to come across as an old fart here (accurately) but a lot of young people have no idea how to attend live music. I've accompanied my tween daughter to several gigs recently (Lizzo, Olivia Rodrigo, and Melanie Martinez) and a significant majority of that demographic upwards to 30s seem to think a gig involves you standing perfectly still, phone aloft, watching your video of the performance (or your video of the video screen of the performance). I encourage my daughter to take a couple of pictures then enjoy the music, but even if you don't partake, the experience is really marred when most of the rest of the crowd is doing that. When it's a majority I don't see how the crowd can change it without pressure coming from the artists and venues.
Of course most of the old timers going to see Bob Dylan won't do that so it's probably not needed, and only a cantankerous git like him would enforce no phones.
Of course most of the old timers going to see Bob Dylan won't do that so it's probably not needed, and only a cantankerous git like him would enforce no phones.
hash tag
Reaching out
Fully agree. If people are on their phones, even taking picks, they are not experiencing the concert and it's bloody distracting for others.
Is that at the RAH in which case, it hadn't reached me yet.
hash tag
Reaching out
Barry manilow was all old timers and there would have been a riot had they tried to ban phones.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
There will be plenty of young people there for the retro vibe.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Loads of gigs use the yondr pouches, it’s not a major hassle. Haven’t seen the smart watch thing before but it makes sense, as folk use them (for non timekeeping purposes) all the time in cinemas, at least. And they’re bloody distracting. The numbers actually relying on them for health purposes will be tiny.
Watch the gig you’ve paid shitloads for, ffs.
Watch the gig you’ve paid shitloads for, ffs.
skyscraper101
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I'm not down with it. Banning smartphones is a dick move. Banning smartwatches is just ridiculous. Who does he think he is?
OK sure SOME people are annoying with phones at gigs but he's not exactly Taylor Swift or Coldplay. I can't imagine the vast majority of his - let's be honest - mostly ageing audience even want to be holding up their phones for any length of time. They're not exactly the tik tok generation.
IMO there's nothing wrong with grabbing a few seconds of video or some photos of a gig when you've shelled out loads of money for it. Not to mention the inconvenience of not being able to communicate with anyone not sat next to you for the entirety of the show. What if you want to whatsapp from the bar. Or check your train is on time? It's bollocks. I bet the gig will be terrible too.
OK sure SOME people are annoying with phones at gigs but he's not exactly Taylor Swift or Coldplay. I can't imagine the vast majority of his - let's be honest - mostly ageing audience even want to be holding up their phones for any length of time. They're not exactly the tik tok generation.
IMO there's nothing wrong with grabbing a few seconds of video or some photos of a gig when you've shelled out loads of money for it. Not to mention the inconvenience of not being able to communicate with anyone not sat next to you for the entirety of the show. What if you want to whatsapp from the bar. Or check your train is on time? It's bollocks. I bet the gig will be terrible too.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
In fairness, very few people attending a Dylan gig will be there for the music. They'll just want to say they were there.
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