{"id":18743,"date":"2025-05-06T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/easing-the-pressure-of-getting-concert-selfies-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:37:23","slug":"easing-the-pressure-of-getting-concert-selfies-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/easing-the-pressure-of-getting-concert-selfies-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert Frazer <\/strong>and <strong>James Taylor<\/strong> respond to an article by Jason Okundaye  on phone-filming at gigs<\/p>\n<p>I confess that I was once one of the phone zombies whom Jason Okundaye rightfully criticises for obsessively recording concerts and performances (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/03\/music-phone-filming-at-gigs\">Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs, 3 May<\/a>). Eventually, however, I learned to put the phone away when I realised\u00a0that if I was just watching through a screen, then what was the point in paying for a ticket? I\u00a0may as well\u00a0have been sitting at a\u00a0computer at home.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the way to solve this is for concerts to have a \u201cphone window\u201d for a few minutes halfway through, where the band pauses and poses, and rattles off 30\u00a0seconds\u2019 worth of popular riffs so that everyone can get their selfies and TikToks to confirm their presence for the Facebook update.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/may\/06\/easing-the-pressure-of-getting-concert-selfies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e411afaa9cb42c9f7c9bef6b2a62c146d9f609cc\/0_550_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=efe5533bc6c2e93c00d4b030560ce3f3\" title=\"Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters\" \/>Robert Frazer and James Taylor respond to an article by Jason Okundaye  on phone-filming at gigs<br \/>\nI confess that I was once one of the phone zombies whom Jason Okundaye rightfully criticises for obsessively recording concerts and performances (Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs, 3 May). Eventually, however, I learned to put the phone away when I realised\u00a0that if I was just watching through a screen, then what was the point in paying for a ticket? I\u00a0may as well\u00a0have been sitting at a\u00a0computer at home.<br \/>\nPerhaps the way to solve this is for concerts to have a \u201cphone window\u201d for a few minutes halfway through, where the band pauses and poses, and rattles off 30\u00a0seconds\u2019 worth of popular riffs so that everyone can get their selfies and TikToks to confirm their presence for the Facebook update. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Frazer and James Taylor respond to an article by Jason Okundaye on phone-filming at gigs I confess that I was once one of the phone zombies whom Jason Okundaye rightfully criticises for obsessively recording concerts and performances (Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs, 3 May). Eventually, however, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/easing-the-pressure-of-getting-concert-selfies-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Easing the pressure of getting concert selfies | Letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}