It struck me recently how a small gagdet-freak-addon to mobiles has changed music concerts.
A few years ago people used to go to music concerts and watch, listen and enjoy. Now they watch, listen and spend most of the time trying to get a half decent picture with the crappy camera built into their phone. Next time you go to a concert watch, you’ll see camera phones everywhere held aloft in peoples hands like a poor replacement for a lighter during the slow numbers.
It’s odd that such a desparate attempt to sell more phones has had such an effect on the way people act at an event. Seriously, look next time. It was plain to see on the Radio 1/Top of the Pops Christmas Party at Shepards Bush Empire, and the Cake concert I saw there.
