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adele asks fan to stop recording concert

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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.

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Cathy.C

Was at Whitney Houston and the tension was crazy with regards to not be allowed to record. A dozen messages were read over the loud speaker in an American accent telling people that if they removed phones from their pocket, they would be 'immediately removed from the building'. There were guys in the aisle of every row dressed in black with laser pointers staring intently at people throughout the gig. You'd swear she was just after receiving an assassination attempt. Was expecting to Kevin Costner in the wings any second. Kevin James gig was the same, and every single support act kept reinforcing that we mustn't take our phones out. 'Even white people' - hilarious. But it's more understandable for comedians I guess as you don't want knew material showing up online the night after your first gig.

Adele is not usually the worst when it comes to cameras tbf. There is tons of footage on YT from her gigs shot by fans and so it's clearly not something that either her, or her record company, are all that bothered about, unlike many other artists who have stuff pulled from YT within days of it appearing. Here's some highlights of her gig at the 3 from way back in the seats and you can see that many camera where held aloft throughout the gig and she didn't mind in the least. Camera on a fcuking tripod is taking the piss in fairness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRrFP6Ggi8

sheesh

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?

OOOOOOooooooooh!

She is perfectly entitled to tell to stop though

prinzeugen

How would you get a tripod in anyway? The security must be crap.

Dyr

Cathy.C wrote: »

Was at Whitney Houston and the tension was crazy with regards to not be allowed to record. A dozen messages were read over the loud speaker in an American accent telling people that if they removed phones from their pocket, they would be 'immediately removed from the building'. There were guys in the aisle of every row dressed in black with laser pointers staring intently at people throughout the gig. You'd swear she was just after receiving an assassination attempt. Was expecting to Kevin Costner in the wings any second. Kevin James gig was the same, and every single support act kept reinforcing that we mustn't take our phones out. 'Even white people' - hilarious. But it's more understandable for comedians I guess as you don't want knew material showing up online the night after your first gig.

Adele is not usually the worst when it comes to cameras tbf. There is tons of footage on YT from her gigs shot by fans and so it's clearly not something that either her, or her record company, are all that bothered about, unlike many other artists who have stuff pulled from YT within days of it appearing. Here's some highlights of her gig at the 3 from way back in the seats and you can see that many camera where held aloft throughout the gig and she didn't mind in the least. Camera on a fcuking tripod is taking the piss in fairness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRrFP6Ggi8

Nah that's just ripping the piss, I though all them lights were part of the stage show, they're twats with phones. I reckon most artists have given up complaining about it at this stage.

Bottom line here, if you're holding a phone up at a gig where people can see you then you're just a c**t.

Dyr

prinzeugen wrote: »

How would you get a tripod in anyway? The security must be crap.

Sure you have people showing up at gigs with f***king backpacks like they're going camping afterwards or something

Chain Smoker

Bambi wrote: »

Sure you have people showing up at gigs with f***king backpacks like they're going camping afterwards or something

Hmm, I initially thanked this but in Ireland it's a bit much to begrudge them when a fair number of those people for some gigs will be travelling from all over to Dublin for the day.

EDIT: assuming you're talking about the stuffed schoolbag type dealios, rather than a light backpack or a crazy hiking bag

LightsStillOn

Bambi wrote: »

Sure you have people showing up at gigs with f***king backpacks like they're going camping afterwards or something

Don't see any problem with this tbh. A lot of times, especially during a midweek show, you mightn't get a chance to get home first before the gig and will have the bag with you, and 9 times out of 10 it'll only have a few things in it so won't be sticking out a mile.

cursai

AnonoBoy wrote: »

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.

Freebird?

B.A._Baracus

Am suprised Adele even had to ask the fan :pac: because if she could see it while doing her bit on stage then where was security, the arena stewards etc. They're all told to not let anyone professionally record.

Debil

SteM wrote: »

You really don't see the difference between someone setting up a tripod to record a full show and people recording snippets of shows on their smartphones?

The comment I responded to didn't say anything about how long people were recording for so I wasn't responding to that. I don't know how long anyone was recording for. People with smartphones could have recorded the whole gig too for all I know.

As I said before, I can't see the difference between the act of recording on a smartphone, or on a camera with a tripod. If the artist has a problem with somebody not being in the moment, she should call everyone out on it. For me it's the same thing. Both as bad as each other.

It seems like a natural progression from holding a huge tablet in the air to be honest. Smartphones/tablets are acceptable, so maybe tripods/monopods will become normalized too.

One eyed Jack

Bambi wrote: »

Bottom line here, if you're holding a phone up at a gig where people can see you then you're just a c**t.

Reminded me of this guy:

Murrayboy

Watch the gig you paid for and don't piss everyone off with a big lighty up smartphone or iPad flashing in their faces. The tripod and camera is just a joke. How did they even get it in?

AnonoBoy

cursai wrote: »

Freebird?

No definitely not Freebird (although the might have had them too). Thinking back I'm pretty sure it was Sound Cellar.

AnonoBoy

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've never done it. Why bother? My crappy phone isn't going to record something properly and while I'm trying to record it I'm not concentrating on actually watching the show.

It's not about being high and mighty - it's more about actually enjoying the live performance y'know LIVE, which is what you pay for.

Dyr

AnonoBoy wrote: »

No definitely not Freebird (although the might have had them too). Thinking back I'm pretty sure it was Sound Cellar.

Soundcellar deffo did bootlegs back in the day...as did the place in the old abbey mall

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I think the only bootleg video like that I bought back in the day was Prodigy - Feile 96 or 97, purely because it was so good, quality was awful but at the time the gig just floored me and I wanted the memory of it....

It's a pity all gigs can't be video or audio recorded automatically, and then the artist decides whether to sell it or not the next few days after the gig....

Look at what NIN did on their tour a few years back, left 30 HD video camera's around the venue - got the fans to record their footage, used the soundboard recording and put it on YouTube for free, I think the Beastie Boys did similar also....

cowboyBuilder

I always kind of arrogantly assumed I would never do this that I would enjoy the moment and not miss being present by filming it.
But on Sunday I was so close to the mini stage for Bruce and couldn't resist capturing the moments he was on it.
I took a few snaps and maybe 10 sec video, but the rest I just enjoyed him being there (and touched him ! I will never wash my right hand again hahaha)

But as for filming entire songs, seems a bit pointless, its taking away from the experience.