Reminder: Ed solo shows taping/camera policy

utd_red_666 · September 2012

Did anyone else notice the film camera at the back of the Stalls for both Hammersmith gigs, is this normal for Eddie gigs? I don't recall seeing a camera at the Manchester gig... I didn't see whether it was actually recording during the shows, what are the chances of this being released on DVD?

Given to... · October 2012

Yeah. No cameras and no loud mouth d-bags ruining the show.
:twisted:

Nevertoolate · October 2012

Given to... wrote:

Yeah. No cameras and no loud mouth d-bags ruining the show.
:twisted:

TOTALLY AGREEEEE!!!!! lets be rid of the "Silence assassins" or what is it Eddie calls them?

Hope the show I go to is fantastic and memorable!!! Sure will bring some tissues and little make up on... plan on letting the tears roll!!!

Red Mosquito75 · October 2012

traciejurczak wrote:

I do not understand how or why anyone would question his wishes. If you do not respect the man how could you possibly respect the music?

Well put

I'llridethewave · October 2012

Dear Loud mouth d-bags aka "Thieves of Silence,"

Please don't show up at Kiva Auditorium on Election night.

Much obliged,
CO Traveler

curly · November 2012

great quote....

stargirl69 wrote:

Why is there not a far harsher penalty for this complete disregard for an artists wishes? I witnessed the same at Chris Cornell in Glasgow,there were notices all over the venue about no filming or cameras yet selfish ignorant people still openly did it.
The security were very tight in the area I was sitting in though,many people were told to stop or they would be escorted out of the venue,it worked,people put their cameras away.Faced with being put out and missing the gig people would choose to put the cameras away.A removal policy should be de rigueur for such behaviour.

As for the set threads,I have never heard nor read anything so ridiculous and irritating.Wankers that spend all their time at the gig updating their egobook and twatters as to what is being played so that the locked out masses can 'feel' as if they are actually there all takes away from the fact it is a gig for the people that got tickets.Not for the people that didn't.
It seems no event is sacred from the pollution that is today's instant society of letting everyone know exactly what you are doing at exactly the time you are doing it.

I loved the days when a gig was a gig with bars closed during a set and no cameras being shoved in the air to gain a grainy picture,are people's memories so poor these days that they can't hold the wonder of what they saw and heard inside as treasures rather than outside as ego strokes.

curly · November 2012

MsNelly....You are so so dead on here....
i hate to offend anyone here...but i couldn't agree with you more...
My feelings is how can people possiblly enjoy the show spending their entire time worrying/holding their phone/camera....i know you have some ligit reasons (some do) but, damn,...every other person...
Don't get me wrong...its awesome seeing the footage sometime later...but is it really necessary??

What blows my mind is i've met so many people who film/photo like this and the majority i meet say the same thing...
"I cant wait to show everyone at the office what i got to do last night"...."there going to b so jealous"
Sorry to vent here ya"ll,.. but come on...seriously...
"look at how cool i am!!!" "look what i get to do and you dont"...

Unfortuneatly...and sadly...there are so many people whom are just like that...
I just don't get it???

Again, very sorry to offend anyone if i am...just venting cause no one respects the bands wish's or privacy..

MsNelly wrote:

big mick wrote:

WHO WANTS TO WATCH A SHOW THROUGH A PHONE SCREEN ANYWAY, ITS SAD!!!!

I know right? It's so sad!!! So sad. At my last PJ gig I was on the rail up the front, and at one stage I let this little thing take my spot on the rail so she could see the boys, and you know what she did?? She just stood there filming with her phone (or camera, I can't remember) . . . didn't bother to put the phone away so she could actually clap eyes on the boys with her own blessed sense of sight, no she just looked at that screen the whole time!!! So sad!!!! I don't think I've ever taken a photo at a PJ concert (although fuck I wish I had for some! My outfit in '95 would have been awesome) I'm always too bloody excited and drinking it all in. When I'm really hanging to look at my heroes' faces (which yah, probably happens more than it should) there's like a gazzilion photos online, that are going to be a lot better than the crappy photos I took while waving my arm around in the dark. I can understand wanting to take a few photos of your night (especially of yourself and your mates) but I really don't get documenting the whole thing while you're there, for what? To watch later? To show to people? I'm sure there are some people with really valid reasons for filming (i.e. they promised to film as much as possible for a friend who couldn't make it, or they want to share the gig over youtube with fans who can't make it, or they're a techie-type-geek and love cameras and shit) but every second fucking person is engaging with a concert through a fucking camera these days!!! IT'S SO SAD! SO NAFF! C'mon people, live a little. You can't take your photos with you when you die, but I reckon you can probably take your experiences, and your memories

big mick · July 2013

A DVD release of these shows would be s good idea or some boots, but I don't want to listen to the audience shouting

AndyVanSlyke · July 2013

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I sure hope the pit doesn't look like this...

Cellphones and camera chest level (if at all)

Please!!

AndyVanSlyke · July 2013

Also Kat, thanks for keeping this a sticky! I know there's no way to control this in an arena but i hope we can set a standard as 10club members!!

ratmando · August 2013

Kat wrote:

No cameras of any kind. Just enjoy the show; I hope you have a great time.

This policy is such a kindness to me and people like me, and the absolute demand for Ed.to allow each of us to truly understand a unique experience. At 49, I admit That when I would go see queen and feel, and mot just hear or sort of see them at Boston garden, it was like being transported out of daily drudgery. Nothing could be more thrilling than having Freddie mercury take an entire group of a few thousand close friends into his tears, his own quiver of passion, and dangle us before Oberon himself.

I hadn't felt that so succinctly as I had when Glen Hansard blended souls and sounds . The thunder of Arc played out in multiple mammoth swells of ebb and tide as if we, the audience, became the spirits in magnificent raging tunnels of life. You can't snapshot, video, or otherwise try go enter that audio painting. I will cherish each second as if if we're my first of last. It was lives, madness and love. fearlessly played a universal sole in minutes. Why ruin that with YouTube or histograms'

jw234911 · September 2013

I got video of the DC solo show and my computer crashed about two weeks ago the video was on there hope I can get it fixed to get the video off of there . Yea snuck my. In at the show but th dvd came out

pickupyourwill · November 2013

I get what you all are saying about the distraction of the cell phones in the air. Its annoying. I for one am broke and have no cell phone of my own therefore no huge dependence on one either. It is annoying to constantly see people's addiction and dependency on it 24/7.

moretonbayfig · February 2014

During the recent Perth shows was great to see a couple of verbal reminders from the stage about the camera policy. It was also great to see the ushers telling people to stop filming/taking photographs. What wasn't so great was to be sitting in an aisle seat both nights and have ushers have to reach across my eye-line several times to give warnings to people further down my row. I had to pause my rocking in the free world to ask an usher to please move his arm from my face.
Please, if you have an ounce of respect for Ed, respect his simple request and let others enjoy the show.

-Emma- · February 2014

In 2011 when I saw Eddie's show once, I did sneak in my DSLR and took a couple of photos during Hard Sun and when the concert was over, but I wish that I hadn't.

I went to 8 shows on Eddie's latest tour here and the security was definitely stricter with photography & recording this time around. I didn't use my camera at all and was glad that I never did. In Perth (I think) when the verbal warning was given at the start of the show by one of Eddie's crew, she asked that we respect Ed, so I did just that at each and every show

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I still saw a lot of people videoing and taking photos though. At the last Perth show, the couple in front of me were videoing loads of the songs at the same time on their iphones...you're not going to get a great quality video from 15 rows back on an iphone! Surely they could have shared their files, instead of both videoing the same song too. #-o I felt like tapping them on the shoulders and asking them to stop, but I didn't and security never saw them.

E.K · March 2014

The potty mouthed, white coated woman at the beginning of the EV Australian shows telling us not to take photos or record was hilarious ... the C word was even used last Tuesday night in Brisbane. It still didn't stop a guy in my row recording for most of the night. /:)

bethwalker1987 · May 2014

Respect always pays! Bigtime! Makes you a "Betterman"

Brain of Trey · September 2014

NM

gb277849 · February 2015

I was a drunken jackass at night one of Tulsa. Damn glad it wasn't recorded. Great shows both nights though!

HughFreakingDillon · February 2015

videotaping at a show just takes away from the experience, in my opinion. audiotaping, not so much. but I'm getting sick and tired of telling people to put down their fucking glowing screen so I can see the act. I was second row for Cornell on his most recent solo tour. The dude right in front of me IN ROW 1 was recording on his phone the entire show until I told him to stop. he even had the nerve to ask me why. Really? you want to try to enjoy the show with a glowing white light in your eyes the entire time? luckily, it wasn't an issue the rest of the show. I just don't get it.

live your life. stop recording it.

Reminder: Ed solo shows taping/camera policy

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