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So busy recording life they’re at risk of missing it

Tory Maguire

by Tory Maguire

28 Apr 05:58am

Filed under: Entertainment, Society, Technology

43 comments

My Nana had this funny habit when she travelled that we used to tease her about - she’d sometimes spend more time in the gift shop searching for the perfect post card than actually looking at the sights.

If a tree falls in the woods and I haven't recorded it on my Blackberry…

She wasn’t just searching for an experience, she wanted a perfect way to remember it. But at least she actually had the experience. The other night I watched a whole load of people, who’d spent a whole load of money for an experience, let it completely pass them by while they went in search of a low-resolution, tinny-sounding memory.

It was at the Spandau Ballet concert in Sydney, where laid out in front of me was a sea of well-dressed professionals so busy videoing on their Blackberries and iPhones they forgot to have any fun.

I don’t know if you’ve ever watched video of a rock concert shot on a mobile phone, but generally the vision consists of a small square of bright light in the middle of the screen, and if you’re lucky a couple of vaguely human-shaped forms make the odd appearance.

The sound is terrible, mostly dominated by the screaming and clapping of the people in the crowd closest to the person filming.

Now you can buy a good quality DVD of Spandau Ballet’s recent concert tour for about $25. What these people were doing was paying many hundreds of dollars for the chance to stand stock still and quiet amid a whole lot of other people who were actually enjoying themselves.

There was one couple in front of us who were both filming, on their matching Blackberries. And it wasn’t just a couple of songs. It was the whole show.

Maybe they were planning on splicing it into a his and hers version, or thought recording the same thing at the same time would render it in stereo.

It’s a very strange impulse. It’s like people need proof their lives are actually happening.

Talking about it yesterday with Colgo, he told me he’d seen Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan on the weekend, who’d singled out a guy in the audience who was filming the show on his phone.

Tiernan said the phone-obsessed audience member was the kind of guy who’d like to watch someone else shag his girlfriend instead of do it himself.

As well as humiliating this audience member, Tiernan probably did him a big favour by reminding him that dodgy phone video does not a memory make. Belly laughs and ringing ears and a sore throat from singing along are what make doing something worthwhile.

The only souvenir I took from the excellent Spandau Ballet concert (Tears for Fears were also still brilliant) was a pair of sore knees for 24 hours afterward, a product of two and a half hours of bad dancing and a bit of jumping up and down on the concrete floor of the Entertainment Centre.

Although I did use my phone once, to take the pic above, just in case you didn’t believe my tale!

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    • melli says:

      07:49am | 28/04/10

      Great article..you have touched on something that i have tossed over in my head again and again. I went to the Sydney Spandau Ballet concert on Sunday night. Yes it was a huge night for me! I was grounded 1 week before their concert in 1985 when i was 16 ( i had bought my ticket and all) and spent the night of the concert sobbing on my bed. Then came a lifetime love…their music never left my record player,tape deck and now ipod.
      I felt very torn the day after the concert when i reviewed the few photos and few minutes video footage i had taken. Should i have taken more? At the concert i felt that when i did for a few seconds hold my camera up i was missing out on truly experiencing them.
      Plus its hard to take photos when you are non stop dancing..i have the blisters to prove it!

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    • Red says:

      08:15am | 28/04/10

      It’s the same with travel, Tory.

      You can go to the most beautiful place in the world - wherever that is for you, be it natural or man made - and drink it in. And I guarantee there’ll be other people there looking at it through their viewfinders.

      They’re so fixated on taking a perfect photo of the scene that they forget to stop and just enjoy it.

      People wondered why I came back from 3 months in Europe with “only” 2 36-exposure film rolls (1999) and a bunch of postcards. While others spent ages trying to get a photo, I wandered around enjoying the sights, or spent 50c on a postcard done by a professional photographer whose skill i could never match.

      A photo may trigger a memory of something beautiful, but it can never replace that memory. I’m not sure if the reason is that people think they need to validate themselves by “proving” to their friends that they were there, by showing them a photo of a landmark, sight, or concert (along with tens of thousands of others), but they’re certainly selling themsevles short.

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    • Deebo says:

      09:03am | 28/04/10

      I totally agree Red, this made me think of travellers. My husband is all for spending hours behind a camera while I nag him about putting it away to actually enjoy the experience while he’s there. A thousand tourists vying for the best vantage point to get the right snap at an attraction can really take away from the enjoyment the attraction is there to provide. Let’s commit the sights and sounds to memory before going for the camera or video.

    • Elphaba says:

      10:29am | 28/04/10

      A photo may trigger a memory of something beautiful, but it can never replace that memory.

      It will if you get Alzheimer’s…

    • KH says:

      08:45am | 28/04/10

      Its the digital era - like Red, I came back from a long trip to Europe in 1999, with just a few rolls of film - even now I can recall places I went then because I was enjoying being there!
      My hobby is photography, and on my last trip (2008) i came back with around hundreds of photos - admittedly a lot of them were bracketed for exposure so it was the same shot 4 times, but still, it was a little over the top!  Its the ease of digital - film cost money - I remember in Amsterdam it cost me the equivalent of $11 to buy a roll of 36 exposures - so I used it sparingly; now with digital its easy to look at the back of the camera and think, oh, I could do that better, and just take it again - of course you then end up with hundreds of unusable pictures because most people have an aversion to deleting them!
      But recording a concert does seem a little strange - the sound would be terrible, and the light from the stage overwhelming to the sensor….and yes, you would hear the people standing near you more than the music….....
      I make a concious effort now to keep the camera in the bag a lot of the time - I don’t want my memory of my holiday to be the camera, instead of where I went.

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    • James says:

      09:01am | 28/04/10

      Spandau Ballet?? You really are pushing the geek thing, aren’t you Tors?

      That said, I heartily agree with the main thrust of your piece and would add in my own frustration with parents filming their children. It seems constant and I think has the added problem of making the kids behave as though they are on camera all the time, rather than just growing and developing in their own way and in their own time.

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    • Tory Maguire

      Tory Maguire says:

      10:45am | 28/04/10

      James I was dragged there reluctantly, but am not ashamed to admit I loved every minute of it…

    • David C says:

      12:08pm | 28/04/10

      Spandau Ballet were awesome, as were Tears for Fears. I also had a “filmer” next to me although security threw him out.

    • Dave Sag says:

      09:18am | 28/04/10

      I’m a keen reader of science fiction and one thing that has become clear to me now that we actually live in the future (ie beyond 2000) is that not one single sci-fi writer predicted that concerts would be filled with people watching the live show through their phones.

      Last year I was lucky enough to see The Chemical Brothers live in Sydney and they made great use of this phenomena by shooting blue-green lasers out into the audience that, when reflected off the mobile phone’s LCD screens made them scintillate like little rainbows.  From my seats up in the bleachers it looks utterly amazing.  You’d not have been able to see it from down in the main dance-zone however so it felt like a little treat for me.

      I’m also one of those people who shoots photos at concerts.  I use my iPhone if my intention is to tweet that photo out to friends and followers - and I have picked up many hundreds of followers in twitter based on this style of up-to-the-second photo journalism that an iPhone and Twitter affords.  But I try to be discreet.  The people you describe, who attempt to film the entire show through their phones, are stupid, and by rights are breaching the copyright of the performers and breaking the terms and conditions of their ticket purchase.  I’ve seen people ejected for filming in gigs and sometimes that’s the right response.

      Here’s some pix
      The Pixies live in Melbourne - http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesag/sets/72157623674631992/
      The Flaming Lips in Sydney - http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesag/sets/72157621765154057/
      Grace Jones in Sydney - http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesag/sets/72157612513456968/

      Enjoy

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    • Zeta says:

      09:53am | 28/04/10

      Didn’t William Gibson talk about it in Pattern Recognition or Spook Country?

    • Sarah says:

      10:52am | 28/04/10

      “I’m also one of those people who shoots photos at concerts.  I use my iPhone if my intention is to tweet that photo out to friends”

      But… why? Why bother? Why not bask in the music without having to tell people about it? Do people (“followers”) really care? Serious question.

    • Zeta says:

      09:44am | 28/04/10

      There is something souless about the way footage comes out of those phone cameras. You could be filming the most beautiful thing in the world, but 5.0 mega pixels is going to make it look like either a dodgy celebrity sex tape or Rodney King being beaten.

      When I travel, which is rare, because I hate people, foreign people, other languages and strange climates - I take an old black and white camera my grandad left me when he died. It’s completely useless, and makes everything look like World War 1. Which is how I like to remember things. Washed out and covered in mud.

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    • BTS says:

      10:02am | 28/04/10

      If you haven’t seen the latest vision on ‘tube’, because you think ‘generally the vision consists of a small square of bright light in the middle of the screen, and if you’re lucky a couple of vaguely human-shaped forms make the odd appearance’, then you are missing out.  The vision these days has improved significantly.  The sound is still not there yet, but it’s obviously coming.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xkl0cjlIo&feature=related

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    • MIchael says:

      10:09am | 28/04/10

      Phone cameras at converts really piss me off. I once stood behind a kid at a Nine Inch Nails concert who was filming the whole thing and then sending each song off to a friend so he could post them on Youtube pretty much in real time. When I asked him to stop, he said he was doing it for the fans. If I could yell loud enough to be heard over the awesome music I would have told him that Trent Reznor was already doing that - he streams HD-quality footage of all his live shows directly to nin.com to avoid grainy low-res footage from making it to Youtube, but apparently it doesn’t work. Peaches has the right approach. At her recent gig at The Hi-Fi bar she politely asked the audience to please not film for just one song, saying that she wanted the audience’s complete attention and reminding them that they “are taking part in something bigger than Youtube, Facebook or Myspace” and that by worrying about getting footage they were missing out on being completely involved in the music and the concert experience. She then started literally walking on top of the audience and whenever someone pulled out their camera phone, she made her way over to them and gave them a hard and loud smack on the top of the head with her microphone. When one guy didn’t oblige she threatened to take his phone and smash it. She wasn’t being a diva or a bitch about it…that’s just Peaches.

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    • ABC says:

      01:17pm | 28/04/10

      Excellent work on her part!  I have a friend who recently went to Pink (why I have no idea - but then again she is going to Bon Jovi - so her taste is somewhat lacking!) who took a twice removed approach to the recording of her concert posterity.  She actually recorderd the performance as it was projected on from the whopping great big screen that was relaying the performance to the poor sods who bought tickets who were sitting in the back blocks almost in the next suburb.  So she was at a live performance, watching that live performance through a Blackberry that was recording the live performance as projected on a football field sized screen!!  (In fact that’s three times removed from the performance).  Just weird.  Cannot see the point of going actually.

    • Freddie says:

      10:18am | 28/04/10

      I smuggled a portable tape recorder into a Jethro Tull concert at the Hordern Pavillion (1973?). They were at their prime then. Sadly, the only DVDs of Jethro Tull available were made years later when they were paunchy, balding and anything but slick musically. BTW, the tape turned out bad.

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    • Ryan says:

      10:21am | 28/04/10

      It’s even worse when some mug is standing in front of you with their camera out and all you can see is their damn screen instead of the show you paid for. Usually when you’re in a mosh it’s nigh-impossible to move, so you’re stuck. It kills me!

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    • JFP says:

      08:21am | 29/04/10

      Totally agree.  The light from the screen is really distracting.
      Sometime happens at the movies too.

    • Elphaba says:

      10:24am | 28/04/10

      I agree Tors!  I saw the same thing at Green Day last year.  The little tweens next to me were snapping photo after photo of the concert, whilst I listened to the music.

      I could just imagine them splashing it all over their FaceSpace page the next day.

      “How was the concert?”
      “Yeah, it was good, check out my photos!”

      Travel is a bit different, I’m a bit of a happy snapper on holiday, but I don’t think it detracts from my experience.  I’ve ridden elephants in Indonesia and cycled in Vietnam - it’s all about balance.

      I always thought you couldn’t take cameras into gigs anyway…

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    • KH says:

      12:58pm | 28/04/10

      you mostly can’t take a camera, but you can take a phone!

    • Elphaba says:

      01:50pm | 28/04/10

      Yeah I know, but I’ve seen a lot of people with cameras in there.

      My fault for owning a larger, less-easy-to-smuggle-in one, I guess.  I could have gotten some great photos at Coldplay and Green Day last year…

      But I still had a good time.

    • jim says:

      10:39am | 28/04/10

      When I travel I take my entry level slr camera, because I can take good pictures, I take the time to measure the light exposure, aperature…etc and for macro shots I always manually adjust all my settings and focus.

      What I hate is, when others go out spending 3 grand on an SLR camera, do a course on how to use an SLR Camera (not a lesson about taking good shots, just on how to use a camera), go on a trip… return with photos they want you to sit down and look at whilst they waffle on about how good it was.

      Well the photos are poor, they used auto focus the whole way then placed it into the computer to do auto-correction to fix up all the ugly spots and you get an average looking photo and waffling.

      They know I take good shots, and ask for my opinion. How am I suppose to answer it?
      They’re poor, grainy, used ISO1600 because you don’t know how to use shutter speed, didn’t use a tripod, wrong lens…. go back on the holiday again and take the photos again.

      They ought to just enjoy their experience and keep it to themselves.

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    • phuong says:

      10:58am | 28/04/10

      omg this is so true. i don’t think i remember JT and other concerts cos i over record and all i can remember is looking throught the screen… , Gaga wasn’t any better cos i made commentary throughout the night on facebook.

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    • Mark says:

      11:02am | 28/04/10

      finally ive found ppl that agree with me i hate it when everyone around me is watching the show via thier phone! Even at AC/DC in Feb it was happening, in fact the guy behind me had the nerve to ask me to move my hand when i raised it because it was blocking his recording! I cant repeat what i said to him, but to be sure he didnt ask again!

      Lets just ban all phones and recording devices from concerts! yeah i know it hard to police but something has to be done

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    • LittleMissPoppit says:

      11:11am | 28/04/10

      I went to Lady Gaga a few weeks back…Im not normlly a violent person, but no word of a lie EVERYBODY surrounding me was recording her on their mobiles. It pissed me off for two reasons 1: They had paid a heap of money to record a beautiful concert on a low resolution screen and 2: Because they all had their arms up in the air waving their phones around I couldnt see nearly as well! Put the phones away you douchebags!!!

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    • Safie says:

      11:24am | 28/04/10

      I agree! I’m practically fused to my iPhone, I have a DSLR and a compact digital camera; I really enjoy taking photos as a hobby… but for the most part I leave the cameras at home and the iPhone in my bag at concerts. There’s almost always someone with a press pass who will take a bunch of great photos if I want to look back at images of the show but the memories of the sound, audience interaction etc are the best parts that often a camera in the audience can’t capture well.
      Another thing that annoys me is people ringing me when they’re at a concert. FYI it only makes you seem as though you’re showing off and it’s almost completely impossible to decipher live songs over the phone.

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    • john mcjohn says:

      11:36am | 28/04/10

      I completely agree with the article.  Some sharing of pictures of important or intersting things is sometimes great, however posting 50 pictures on your facebook of you and your friends in various states of drunkeness in various pubs and nightclubs is simply narcissistic and completely uninteresting.  Whay anyone would want to spend half of their night out snapping pictures of nothing just so you can show how cool you are by putting them online beats me…

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    • living savvy says:

      11:37am | 28/04/10

      You see the same at events with parents watching their children perform, compete or just do kids stuff.  I am hopeless at remembering to take the camera with me to any event or occasion where my children are involved.  There is one small voice in my head that tells me “bad mummy – for not caring enough to bring a camera) but there is a competing voice and this is one that I choose to listen to ….”Good one, be in the moment, live & experience in real time, clap and support when I need to and be there so when my children look at me they see my face & shining eyes and not the lens of a camera”

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    • Scott Glennon says:

      11:42am | 28/04/10

      I film during concerts, not the event but my reaction and watch it when I get home. I realised that I didn’t really like Ashlee Simpson. Pink rocked and Elton John just made me cry.

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    • 80s Girl says:

      11:54am | 28/04/10

      OMG!  You read my mind!  My husband and I were at the Spandau Ballet concert on Sunday night in Sydney and the guy next to us videoed the whole thing…the wh ole thing!!!. He hardly moved or looked at the stage during the entire show. It was ridiculous!  My husband was so annoyed that he made sure he danced as enthusiastically as possible (complete with the unavoidable elbow jostling) and sang loudly along to all the songs (in his charming but rather annoying off key voice!) 

      I just hope that all the rampant video-ers enjoyed the watching the concert on their tv’s back at home as much as I enjoyed the real thing!

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    • Frankowitz says:

      11:56am | 28/04/10

      This concert phenomenon has been around for years. Cigarette lighters have been replaced by the glow of mobile screens for any rock ballard. It also makes me laugh when you see an increasing number of folk at parties too busy posing for facebook photos to actually enjoy the night.

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    • Andrew says:

      12:22pm | 28/04/10

      I love it when people jump on to facebook to tell you they are at dinner at some great place having some great wine. Jeez whoever they are having dinner with must be pretty boring or pretty insulted or both.

      BTW my wife and I went to T4F and SB in Adelaide. Hadn’t seen them for 204 years. They were Gold!

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    • Bee says:

      12:56pm | 28/04/10

      Completely agree Andrew. My husbad has friends who, at a party the other night, had the phone out all night and put up at least 5 facebook updates. If you are that desperate to let people know you were at a party then seriously, just wait until the next morning. I was sitting next to them trying to make conversation and they would keep saying “Oh sorry, just putting an update on facebook.” Then they got offended when I moved to talk to other people who would actually respond when I spoke to them!!

    • ChelseaLee says:

      01:27pm | 28/04/10

      Haha, I totally agree Andrew.

      ‘Katie Smith is having the most romantic dinner right now with her wonderful husband.’

      Romantic? Really??

      Stop worrying about missing out on the latest piece of gossip, and spend the moment with your wonderful husband - not the rest of your 3,759 so-called ‘friends’.

    • GaryQ says:

      12:26pm | 28/04/10

      I have a reasonable camera and some idea of how to use it - I take concert pics for 80s bands like Kids in the Kitchen and Uncanny X-Men etc . What amuses my the most is when someone is standing in the 5th row with a Canon Powershot and uses the flash! Yes, thats right - your 2cm lightbulb will do a better job of illuminating the scene than the 20,000w of stage lighting hanging from the cieling!

      Travel photography is different - unfortunately I have a memory whereby if I don’t have a photo of a place, I wasn’t there. Once I check out the pics though, all the memory are pinpoint accurate. I guess that makes me a Visual-something or other. I came back from 4 weeks in Thailand with 6800 photos

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    • Slimjim says:

      12:32pm | 28/04/10

      My wife and I went to watch a couple of stages of the Giro D’Italia when we were in Italy in ‘08. When the time came for the cyclists to ride by, she took the camera from me and said, “I’ll take the photos, this is your experience.”

      - That’s why I married her.

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    • Mat says:

      12:44pm | 28/04/10

      I know this much is true:  I think I love you Tory- i have been thinking the same thing for a while now! 
      To cut a long story short, I was at a Rage against the machine concert acouple of years ago and when they came out everyone in the mosh had their phones recording.  Then the mosh started and they had to put them away.
      Gold! Tory! Always believe in your soul!

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    • John in Alice says:

      12:59pm | 28/04/10

      Not nearly enough said!  Idiots with cameras and other recording devices at professionally produced entertainment are surely breaking copyright laws.  I do not frequent UTUBE, facebook or any of those conglomerations where about every depravity committed by man and captured digitally has at one time or another appeared on these sites.  None of these web sites seems able to monitor or control content, hence we have brutal bashings by proud offenders polluting the communications with their sick interests. Young people brag about how many thousands of “friends” they have on the internet - childish and unrealistic. They couldn’t possibly carry on any kind of relationship, write to each and every one and get to know them in this manner.  Our species continues to isolate themselves further from the real world in a growing illusion of self importance.  When disaster, whether man made or natural takes away these electronic toys humanity will enter another dark age for which they are poorly equipped to survive.

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    • Jason says:

      01:11pm | 28/04/10

      Good article!

      Reply

    • Simone says:

      01:29pm | 28/04/10

      This article brings back a great deal of suppressed rage from the ACDC concert in Adelaide.

      Reply

    • timbo says:

      02:05pm | 28/04/10

      I took my dslr to the ACDC concert ‘cos I felt that the pictures I took were MY special slices of the show that (probably) noone else has. I didn’t get in anyone’s way or ask people to move for me. I’ve loved that band for more years that I can count and I wanted a more or less permanent reminder of what I hope wasn’t their final aussie tour!

      Its this only time I done this and I dont think I’d do it for any other band ‘cos I had that nagging feeling each time I looked down the viewfinder that I was missing something elsewhere on stage and that feeling wasnt fun!!

      I check the FAQs for the concert and recording devices were permitted but you were not allowed to sell the pics (obviously), or setup massive tripod rigs/lenses that blocked other patrons view, etc. It probably a sensible thing - promoters cant stop people with phones anymore, etc but people who want to buy the tour programmes with the professional pics and the t-shirts will do so, so they’ll still get their mech money.

      If you want to spend $100+ looking at a concert down the barrel of a camera and potentially missing unique moments onstage, well, more power to you (just dont stand in my way).

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    • Helena says:

      02:57pm | 28/04/10

      I feel sorry for those people who spend hours watching a concert or holidaying from behind a lens, who’s going to watch all that footage anyway?? - my husband is the same and I’m left thinking just stop! and enjoy the moment!!

      - I always enjoy looking at the photos afterwards though! :p

      Reply

    • Julia says:

      06:12pm | 28/04/10

      I’m hoarse from screaming and singing at the Brisbane concert last night. I took the odd photo to send to my husband at home.

      But I was bitterly disappointed there was no holding the phone aloft in manner of lighter for the softer songs. I really wanted to see that.

      Reply
 
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