From one extreme to the other
I’ve recently had a good moan on the main site about people talking and taking photos on camera phones at gigs (as has, I’m pleased to say, marmiteboy on his blog).
It seems that the Royal Festival Hall in London has come up with its own way of tackling this. OK, it is the Royal Festival Hall which, as a seated venue has its own set of rules and conventions, but before the Imagined Village gig this week (Martin and Eliza Carthy, Billy Bragg, Sheila Chandra et. al.) we were solemnly informed that taking photos was dangerous for the performers.
Members of the audience snickered at this extremism but we all obeyed.
I wish making inane comments about the bass player’s hair was dangerous for the performers too.
Tags: 30-something angst, mindless minutiae, music = opinions