adele asks fan to stop recording concert

Robsweezie

Where do you stand on filming at concerts? Was she in the right?

At a concert like that I'd be more watching it in the moment than filming.

whiskeyman

Ticket / concerts conditions usually say no recording devices allowed.
Sure lots of people take photos / clips, but I think that person actually had tripod / full on equipment with them?
If anything, it should have been the venue staff to enforce it and the act / show shouldn't have been disrupted.

ScumLord

I have a videographic memory and my penis is firewire compatible. If I record it with my eyes then it's my memories and she can't take that away from me.

DrumSteve

Robsweezie wrote: »

Where do you stand on filming at concerts? Was she in the right?

At a concert like that I'd be more watching it in the moment than filming.

She is dead right.

Why would you go to stand there and film the whole thing.

Ridiculous.

Fair enough get a few pics or whatever, nothing wrong with that.

razorblunt

100% agree, there's a special place in hell for folk standing there with an ipad too.

endacl

I've never seen phone footage of any concert that wasn't, at best, a bit sh1t.

Remember when people used to go got the shared immediacy of a unique experience? Not an Adele fan, but she's dead right.

Richard Hillman

I really hope that this starts to become a thing. There have been a few isolated moments of singers/actors telling people to stop but it won't stop until people get regularly shame by it.

Peregrine

Shouldn't be allowed.

As an aside, there's a special place in hell reserved for people who bring their iPads around to record things.

Edit: Agree with razorblunt..

Harry Palmr

People who pull out a phone to film should be removed and the phone destroyed.

bandwagonesque

Why that one fan? Doubt they were the only one.

No problem with it if they're recording for their own memories (though I'd rather enjoy the gig myself and not experience parts of it through a lense) and it was their favourite song or something. The quality you get on a phone at a concert is hardly going to be passed around and ruin your potential to sell it as a live DVD.

I think she just took a notion and now looks like a complete muppet.

Overrated too.

sheesh

she is perfectly entitled to do that.

guylikeme

Alot of high and mighty on here as if butter wouldn't melt.

Praytell ye holy lot, how many of you have never recorded a show/song you like?

endacl

Harry Palmr wrote: »

People who pull out a phone to film should be removed and the phone destroyed.

Other way round, I'd have thought...?

Staph

I absolutely hate when people whip out their phone/ipad and start recording a concert. What's wrong with just enjoying the performance?

markpb

Staph wrote: »

I absolutely hate when people whip out their phone/ipad and start recording a concert. What's wrong with just enjoying the performance?

What's wrong with them enjoying it the way they want to (as long as it's not impacting on you in an actual way)?

endacl

guylikeme wrote: »

Alot of high and mighty on here as if butter wouldn't melt.

Praytell ye holy lot, how many of you have never recorded a show/song you like?

No. Never. Have you ever had 'the moment', the bit you've been waiting for, ballsed up by some ignorant tool in the next row holding a palm sized rectangle of bright light up right in your line of sight?

Staph

Most concerts you go to, it's just a sea of phones and ipads being held up to record **** footage. I'm short, so it definitely impacts my enjoyment of the gig.

endacl

I'm 6'4", so it doesn't affect me that way. It does allow for a good angle to flick beer at the offending device though.

JP85

I was at a gig in the three arena and this lad had something like a Nokia 6230 taking a photo from miles back, i was using a decent smart phone in the dark, could only imagine what the image quality was like on his phone :cool:

AnonoBoy

Fair play to her.

I've noticed more bands these days mentioning phones and asking people to just enjoy the moment as opposed to trying to record it.

It really does spoil the gig for those around you if you've got a iPad held aloft over your big dumb head.

One eyed Jack

bandwagonesque wrote: »

Why that one fan? Doubt they were the only one.

No problem with it if they're recording for their own memories (though I'd rather enjoy the gig myself and not experience parts of it through a lense) and it was their favourite song or something. The quality you get on a phone at a concert is hardly going to be passed around and ruin your potential to sell it as a live DVD.

I think she just took a notion and now looks like a complete muppet.

Overrated too.

How is Adele a muppet, and some muppet standing for that length of time with an iPad or whatever in their hands, after paying that amount of money, to upload the video to YouTube for free, isn't a muppet? It's not as if they can claim they're the first person ever thought of recording people, recording people, with their iPads?

Clearly the people at the concert don't think she's overrated, so why would they not enjoy the atmosphere and get their money's worth? Then I never understood the idea of bootleg concerts back in the day either on cassette tape. They sounded like shìte!!

valoren

I can imagine the scene.

Never mind I'll find someone like youuuuuu.....I wish nothing but the best for.........'old up.....you fackin filmin me you geezah??.....turn 'orf that camera you fackin caaaaant!!.....

AnonoBoy

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Then I never understood the idea of bootleg concerts back in the day either on cassette tape. They sounded like shìte!!

There were ones that would run a feed off the sound desk which were decent.

I remember having a Jeff Buckley bootleg years ago though which was just recorded from the crowd. In the middle the bootlegger shushes two dudes talking because "I'm trying to facking record this lads!"

Toto Wolfcastle

I think the person had the camera on a tripod. That's a bit different to filming half a song on your phone.

SEPT 23 1989

Used to travel into town to buy my bootleg gig tapes on o connell bridge

You really needed to put the time in when you were into bands back then

One eyed Jack

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I think the person had the camera on a tripod. That's a bit different to filming half a song on your phone.

Did they really have a camera on a tripod? :pac:


That's just taking the mick altogether, like the people who used record films with HD-cams in the cinema and upload them to TPB to claim "first!!", awful quality that just turned me off the whole thing. I was better off buying legitimately than sifting through hours of shìte.

Rothko

Sometimes if I'm at a concert, I'll take one or two photos just as mementos but I don't understand who just stand there and record the whole thing on a phone or iPad.

El Horseboxo

Gave up on concerts due to this. Nothing but cameras up in front of me. Why pay and then go view it through a 4 inch screen?

And I doubt many even bother to look back at the video or pictures. If you want to listen to the song again. Stick on the album. Or buy the dvd that I'm sure is released for the tour.

spurious

Do the people that film songs/concerts like this ever actually watch them?

Apart from the dreadful camera shaking and moving, there is almost always some off key wailing close to where the filming took place, ruining the whole thing.

I would much rather watch professionally filmed artist-released film versions of concerts.

Tasden

The worst I saw was when two teenagers kissed for practically the entire gig but the girl held her phone up the whole time to record it!
It's adele's concert so she can ask them to stop if she likes, i dont see the problem. But the people attending concerts paid to be there so if they want to record it just let them at it imo.

AnonoBoy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Used to travel into town to buy my bootleg gig tapes on o connell bridge

You really needed to put the time in when you were into bands back then

Was it Sound Cellar that used to have gigs on cassette the next day?

I remember going into a basement music shop somewhere in Dublin and they had all the good gigs from bands had been through town recently.

everlast75

could have been worse.. like oul Christy swearing buckets and telling the fans to shut up for the audacity to sing along...

Depp

its such an odd phenomenon lately, so many people seem to live their lives through their phonescreens, recording everything

AnonoBoy

Depp wrote: »

its such an odd phenomenon lately, so many people seem to live their lives through their phonescreens, recording everything

That cloud isn't going to fill itself up with incorrectly framed shakey out of focus recordings that nobody's interested in ever watching you know.

marklazarcovic

its annoying as fcuk to be out having a great time,with friends,family etc when there is always one watching it through a phone screen missing everything and excluding themselves from that moment that wont ever be repeated... i fcking hate it.

mikeym

Adele is a very nice lady.

Ask anyone that went to her show in Dublin.

foggy_lad

What ever happened to people being sprayed with water at concerts to cool them down? Surely if this practice was brought back there would be less people filming the concerts on iPads?

arybvtcw0eolkf

I'll admit to have done it in the past, but I also think its really silly too ~ and if you're in a standing area then its totally inappropriate.

Last one I done was at a Korn/Slipknot concert and only three songs which I really liked, the recordings turned out great and I'd watch them regularly.

I've photos and video of concerts I've attended way back as far as 1982 (no video back then obviously).

Right, I've mentioned Korn & Slipknot so you can guess the last gig I'd be seen at is an Adele gig ~ I detest her music but all that said she's right too.

If you've ever been to a Christy Moore gig you'll know what a cranky bollox is!.

rubadub

Suas11 wrote: »

Sometimes if I'm at a concert, I'll take one or two photos just as mementos but I don't understand who just stand there and record the whole thing on a phone or iPad.

I do the same, it reminds me of where I was in the venue which can bring memories back, I make sure not to block peoples view, often take it between songs. Almost always I will find a far better quality video on youtube within days, closer to the stage and better sound etc, why miss out on the actual gig when some idiot will do it for you, and a better job.

RayCon

Hopefully enough people will ask Adele to stop recording music.

bodhrandude

I would normally film one or two few minute clips of an act I would be reviewing for my blog just so I could embed them to emphasise some of my points but thats about it. I once recorded the complete audio of the Aphex Twin gig at Forbidden Fruit but the purpose was to upload to the Aphex Twin forum in We Are the Music Makers.

Debil

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I think the person had the camera on a tripod. That's a bit different to filming half a song on your phone.

Is this really worse than holding a smartphone/ipad though? It's still the same phenomenon I guess. Maybe it looks a little funnier to see due to it being more uncommon, slightly less so if it was a monopod.

I can understand an artist taking an issue with it if they think it will be a pirate DVD or something. I don't understand why you would focus on one person in a sea of thousands if your problem is somebody not experiencing the moment for themselves though.

Ol' Donie

RayCon wrote: »

Hopefully enough people will ask Adele to stop recording music.

Brilliant.

LightsStillOn

Never been one for recording gigs, can't see the point of it to be honest. But on the other side of things I've never been annoyed by someone recording either. Though the gigs I usually go to don't tend to be the standing around and singing along type, so if someone has a phone out chances are it'll get knocked out of their hand once the dancing and pushing starts!

CarrickMcJoe

Was at a Michael Winslow comedy gig (the impressionist cop in Po;ice Academy), he took a phone off someone recording, licked the screen and shoved it down his trousers giving it a good rub, handed it back and told the guy to stop recording.

J Mysterio

endacl wrote: »

I'm 6'4", so it doesn't affect me that way. It does allow for a good angle to flick beer at the offending device though.

Aaah. The avatar. There is logic.

irishguitarlad

Dont like her music but I think she is dead right.

Maireadio

guylikeme wrote: »

Alot of high and mighty on here as if butter wouldn't melt.

Praytell ye holy lot, how many of you have never recorded a show/song you like?

I never have, and I wouldn't think I'm that rare either. My recording would be poor quality, why would I bother? I'd rather immerse myself fully. I don't even take photos at gigs, what's the point? They're never good anyway.

HS3

Im old school. Turn off the outside world, enjoy the gig. It's what you paid for.

endacl

HS3 wrote: »

Im old school. Turn off the outside world, enjoy the gig. It's what you paid for.

Or, if you'd rather watch crap phone footage, stay at home and save yourself the price of the ticket. Some other tool will have it uploaded later that night.

HS3

endacl wrote: »

Or, if you'd rather watch crap phone footage, stay at home and save yourself the price of the ticket. Some other tool will have it uploaded later that night.

I agree completely